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News - Christmas arrived early
for the Major Atom AA Kingston Canadians hockey team when Lord
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The hockey players’ faces lit up with excitement as they filed into the change room and eyed the cup
for the first time. With oohs and aahs, the youngsters rushed in to touch the historic cup and search for the names of their favourite teams and players.
As part of their continued com-
mitment to kids’ community hockey in Canada, Scotiabank provided the players with the unforgettable sur-prise, allowing each player to touch and have their photo taken with the Stanley Cup. Scotiabank supports
over 5,000 teams across Canada, seven in Kingston including the Major Atom AA Kingston Canadi-ans. The team of 10-11 year olds
Major Atom AA Kingston Canadians receive surprise visit from the Stanley Cup
Excitement fills a change room at the INIVISTA Centre as Major Atom AA Kings-ton Canadians players received a face-to-face experience with the Stanley Cup on
Dec. 17. Right: Defenseman Liam MacFarland has his photo taken with the Stan-ley Cup. Photos/Rob Mooy
Continued on page 10
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By Bill HutchinsReporter
News – Kingston Transit reached a ridership milestone in 2014.
As of mid-December the bus service pro-vided four million passenger trips this year, far exceeding the expectations of transit officials.
“That’s amazing growth for us,” said Sheila Kidd, the city’s director of transportation.
Officials had forecasted ridership to grow by five per cent since launching an express
route between the west end and the downtown, but they were surprised to attract 12 per cent growth between 2013 and 2014. Each ride that’s counted does not include bus transfers.
“It means that the service expansion that we did and the express service is truly starting to serve the needs of the transit commuter in this town,” said Kidd.
The express route has fewer stops than tra-ditional routes, but includes stops near major commercial and park-and-ride areas and other places central to neighbourhoods.
The city invested millions of dollars to provide the first phase of enhanced service in 2013, launching 10 new buses, hiring extra drivers and installing or upgrading dozens of bus shelters.
Two of the express stop locations, Centre 70 and Kingston Gospel Temple, were also turned into free park-and-ride spaces in the existing parking lots. In addition, the city offers free bus rides to all high school students in Grades 9 to 11.
“Four million rides on public transit in one year represents a significant number of vehicle trips taken off of Kingston roadways. It reduces congestion and the demand for parking spaces,” added transit manager Jeremy DaCosta.
The surge in passenger trips compares to 3.3 million annual rides taken on the bus just five years ago.
At the same time, sales of the monthly Transpass and adult monthly passes have also increased.
The second phase of Kingston Transit’s service expansion rolls out in May 2015 and includes two more express routes, a number of route changes and realignments.
One new express route will serve pas-sengers between the city’s east end and the downtown, including stops in the St. Law-rence Business Park, Greenwood Park, Ride-au Town Centre, Highway 15, the Royal Mil-itary College, downtown, Queen’s University and Kingston General Hospital.
The other express route, serving central Kingston, will strengthen the availability of service along Gardiners Road, Bath Road, downtown, to the King’s Crossing Centre and
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Each express route will offer 15-minute service during peak commuting times, and 30 minute waits during off-peak hours.
While Kidd expects transit ridership will continue to grow, she doesn’t think it will match the startling percentage of increases linked to the west end express bus. “The west end was the big one. That’s the greatest per-centage of people who are travelling in,” she explained.
However, an earlier report to council noted the rapid transit expansion has not been with-out its growing pains.
Riders have complained about changes made to local routes that connect to the ex-press service, longer gaps between express bus stops, and additional bus transfers that didn’t exist before.
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By Bill HutchinsReporter
News – Kingston’s new council is folding its hand when it comes to wanting a privately-operated casino.
At the first working meeting of their term, councillors slammed the door on welcoming legalized gambling in the Limestone City. They approved a motion telling the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG) the city “does not support locating a casino in Kingston.”
“This motion is very simple. Very direct,” said Mayor Bryan Paterson, who brought the issue back to council Dec. 16.
He says it’s time to put the city’s recent casino referendum into political action. “It’s been a very divisive issue but at the end of the day the people have spoken.”
In the referendum, 67 per cent of Kington voters rejected the question of hosting a ca-sino, while 33 per cent supported it. The bal-lot resulted in 23,607 voters saying ‘no’ to the casino question compared with 11,580 voters who said ‘yes.’
A staff information report pointed out the casino referendum results are not legally valid since overall voter turnout failed to reach the province’s minimum required level of 50 per
cent. Instead, local voter turnout in the Oct. 27 election was slightly below 40 per cent.
“There is a majority that did not vote. The results are not binding,” said city clerk John Bolognone, noting that point has to be made clear under provincial referendum rules.
But politicians say it doesn’t matter.“It’s not legally binding but it is politically
binding,” said Mayor Paterson.Councillors treated the referendum outcome
as a strong enough indication that a majority of Kingston residents want to keep a commer-cial casino out of the city limits.
“It was a two-to-one margin of victory for the ‘no’ side,” observed Coun. Peter Stroud.
Coun. Rob Hutchison amended the may-or’s motion to add clarity, saying copies of it should also be sent to Ontario’s main politi-cal party leaders, including Premier Kathleen Wynne, and the city’s economic development agency, KEDCO, to ensure any activity sur-rounding casino discussions will cease. “The OLG is in charge of the implementation, but it’s the province that’s in charge (overall).”
It’s unclear if the OLG will abide by the non-binding vote, although the gaming cor-poration has previously indicated it will not force a casino on any community that doesn’t want one.
The motion, which was approved unani-
mously, reverses the last council’s 7-6 vote to pursue a casino as part of the OLG’s casino modernization plan.
Private companies are now being sought to own and operate provincial gambling facili-ties, including the Thousand Islands Casino. There was earlier concern that Kingston’s
push for a casino could jeopardize jobs and economic investment in Gananoque, heighten-ing tensions between the two communities.
Kingston’s mayor says his motion should signal an end to the divisiveness. “This is sim-ply a statement to close the loop on the casino file.”
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News – Wouldn’t it be convenient to track the location of Kingston snow plows from your own cell phone?
City officials say it would not only give resi-dents up-to-the-minute information and updates about road and sidewalk conditions, but could reduce the num-ber of public complaints that council-lors field during and after a big snow-fall.
Modern GPS technology is being tested in a couple of public works ve-hicles this winter to see if it has user-friendly applications for residents who are wondering when a snow plow is coming through their neighbourhood or whether they have a clear route home.
“We are working on a more thor-ough communications plan to explain what we do, service limitations and expectations,” public works director Damon Wells told a recent committee meeting.
While GPS technology certainly isn’t new, it is one of the emerging tools that some councillors would eventually like to see adopted as part of Kingston’s revamped public rela-tions strategy. Many believe the city needs to overhaul its PR to better ex-plain the availability of tax-funded services to residents.
Coun. Peter Stroud applauds staff’s ability to keep up with the increasing workload on front-line municipal ser-vices, particularly those involved in winter plowing, but he says public in-formation and education are “crucial” elements to improve the service.
As an example, Coun. Stroud ques-tioned a recent public notice that the city had posted in a local newspaper. The notice suggested public works crews first drive street snow plows and then press sidewalk plows into service following a storm. In fact, both side-walk and street plows are operating at the same time – a policy that’s been in place since 2008.
“I’m not sure how that got in,” Wells said of the somewhat mislead-ing ad that appeared on the city-funded information page.
The environment, infrastructure and transportation committee also heard the city’s commercial-free 24-hour ra-dio station (106.3 FM) often uses out-dated information to relay information to residents.
Wells agrees the city’s corporate communications strategy needs im-provement. “We haven’t really done a good job of that in the past.”
He says the city must also make better use of social media to “fully en-gage” the public.
As for placing GPS technology in snow plows or even transit buses, offi-
cials say it’s still in the early stages of testing. Wells told councillors that public works
currently uses a 10 year old GPS device, but it lacks the ability to transmit instant data about a truck’s location or route. Instead, information collected during a snow plow driver’s shift can only be uploaded into a
computer after the vehicle has returned to the public works yard.
The department is currently testing two dif-ferent GPS devices in some of its trucks with remote transmission capabilities. “We want to see how they work for us in the winter, what the costs are and their capabilities.”
Chief administrator Gerard Hunt told councillors that a revised corporate commu-nications strategy is currently in the works, but he cautioned enhanced services such as seeing plows ‘live on line’ with GPS cannot be implemented quickly. “That’s going to take some time to get there.”
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In Our Opinion
Editorial - These days, it seems like for every person who is offended by the term “Merry Christmas”, there is someone who is equally offended by “Happy Holi-days.”
Tell someone “Merry Christmas” and you run the risk of people thinking you’re a closed-minded bigot who is wilfully blind to the fact that people celebrate things other than Christmas at this time of year. Tell someone “Happy Holidays” and you’re accused of waging a “war on Christmas” with your overly politically correct, gotta please everyone attitude.
Every day, millions of people all over the world are murdered, oppressed, abused, starved, tortured and stricken with poverty and disease. Just south of the border, so close to home, we have police killing civilians because of the colour of their skin and getting away with it. Why do we choose to spend energy getting angry over people not sending others a friendly greeting the proper way?
This holiday season, let’s try and save our wrath for those who truly deserve it. Not only will this perhaps inspire us to give a bit more to those in need, but it could also encourage forgiveness and acceptance among friends, family members and ac-quaintances.
There is a reason so many cultures have a tradition of holding celebrations at this time of year. It’s cold and dark outside and we all need some cheering up; whether that comes from stringing lights on a Christmas tree, lighting a menorah or gathering around the Festivus poll to air your grievances, it’s all good!
Most of us at The Heritage/Gazette celebrate Christmas, but if someone wishes us a Happy Hanukkah, Happy Holidays or a Joyous Kwanzaa, let’s hope that we are all able to appreciate the greeting for what is: a kind gesture of goodwill.
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I know it isn’t quite the New Year just yet, but Christmas always makes me a bit reflective. For most of the year, time seems to pass so quickly, but at Christmas I always feel like everything slows down a bit (after you finish shopping). Ev-eryone gets at least a couple of days off work and that time is typically spent with family and friends, eat-ing good food, enjoying some fes-tive beverages and catching up.
In my case, this year feels a bit strange. As I mentioned earlier in the year, my parents moved from my childhood home in April. I’ve spent every Christmas I can remember in that house. Santa came down that chimney for many years and wrote me letters that looked suspiciously like they were written by my father in that house. I opened presents by
our big tree, then opened my stock-ing that hung on the brick fireplace while watching the Disney Christ-mas Day parade (a family tradition). While Christmas became less magi-cal when I learned the truth about Santa, I always looked forward to these traditions in that house.
While I am still looking for-ward to the holidays and spending time with my family, I am feeling a bit nostalgic for the comfort that comes with the house I grew up in. No matter how much my mom decorates the new house, it isn’t the same and I am not looking forward to that. I guess it is time to move on and create new memories and new feelings of home, but that is easier said than done.
I am also reflecting on the rest of the year that has passed and feeling happy and sad all at the same time. I am happy to still be working in a job that I love and working to build experience for my career and I’m happy that Korey is doing the same at Queen’s. But at the same time I am thinking about loved ones that were lost this year and the memo-
ries I shared with them. As Korey and I wrote Christmas cards togeth-er, I hated not being able to send cards to people who were around last Christmas, but aren’t now.
As we age, these experiences be-come more frequent, but they cer-tainly aren’t any easier to deal with. My only solution is to cherish those that are still with me and focus on spending time with those I love and care for. I know they won’t be around forever, but my memories of the time I spent with them will stay with me.
On a more positive note, I am looking forward to the New Year and progressing in positive ways. I am not a big believer in New Year’s resolutions so I probably won’t make any, and I am not a huge par-tier so I probably won’t be celebrat-ing the New Year in an elaborate fashion, but I am perfectly fine with that. Just give me some champagne and a spot on the couch with Korey and the cat and I’m happy. So on that note, Merry Christmas every-one and I hope the New Year brings happiness and positivity your way.
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RCHA Club: Dec. 26 TGIF 5:30 - 8:00 Teagan & Damien. No Cov-er. Great young duo playing popu-lar covers. Dec. 26 Fri 8:30 Start Kingstown New Mississip-pi. Original blues and roots boogie band. Very danceable. $3 Cover Dec. 27 Sat. 8:30 Start Hat Trick Music from the 60s to today, lots of fun! $5 Cover. Dec. 31 Wed 8:30 Start New Year’s Eve House Party Ring In The New Year! Great views of the Down-town Fireworks. No Cover Every Sunday at RCHA Club: 8 p.m. start Folk Sundays with Jon McLurg Sign up is at 7:30 p.m. An open stage for folk and acoustic-based music. There is no electric amplification. It starts at 8. Each performer plays 3 songs. At the end of the evening there is an in-formal jam. On evenings with smaller crowds we will just have a song circle rather than an open stage format. Every Thursday at RCHA Club 7:00 p.m. Bluegrass Jam. All Wel-come whether you come toplay or just listen.
Sing the Psalms with Sir John A. - On Sir John A.’s birthday, come and sing the classic Scottish metri-cal psalms on which he was raised. Sunday January 11, 5-6 p.m. St. Andrew’s Church, Princess at Clergy. Free. Followed by demon-stration of Scottish country danc-ing and Scottish nibbles. Ample free parking along streets and in city lot on Queen Street. www.standrewskingston.org.
Friday Night Baha’i Fireside – Jan
9 Discussion: Baha’u’llah’s teach-ing “Should the lamp of religion be obscured, chaos and confusion will ensue, and the lights of fair-ness, of justice, of tranquility and peace cease to shine” Friday, Jan. 9 at 7 pm at 99 York St. All are welcome. Further info:[email protected] 613-634-0767
Canadian Blood Services holiday hours: Please note that on Wednes-day, Dec. 24 and Dec. 31 the per-manent clinic will be open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 25 the permanent clinic will be closed. The permanent clinic will be open on Friday, Dec. 26. 850 Gardiners Road, Unit B.
What to look forward to with Kingston Newcomers: NO Canasta 1 January; NO Pub Night 2 Janu-ary and Regular Meeting 13 Janu-ary. The Kingston Newcomers club is an organization that brings new-comers and persons that have had a life change together socially, in or-der to give them an opportunity to meet, find out about the area and to form a support network. At any ac-tivity group you will hear members say that joining Newcomers was the best thing they did!! We meet the 2nd Tuesday of each month (September to June) at 7 pm in the upstairs lounge of the Gordon F. Tompkins Funeral Home. Located at 435 Davis Drive. Info: newcom-ers.kingston @gmail.com Come check us out, we look forward to meeting YOU! We welcome your ideas, experience and enthusiasm - as this club is membership run and all input is important.
Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 560: Wednesday, Dec. 31st...........New Years’ Eve at the 560 Legion consists of “Dinner and Showman’s Karaoke Dance” 40 dollars per per-son at 6:30 PM or “Showman’s Ka-raoke Dance” 15 dollars per person 9:00 PM; party favors, champagne
and late light lunch are included. Thursday, Jan. 1st, 2015.............Happy New Year New Years’ Day Levee will see Showman’s Kara-oke the day-after- the-night-before for your entertainment purpos-es. NO CHARGE. EVERYONE WELCOME. SEE YOU THERE. Friday, Jan. 2 - Karaoke will be entertaining from 8 to 12; small cover applies for non members and guests. Everyone is welcome.
Kingston Women’s Connection presents ‘Changes for the New Year’ Tuesday, Jan.13,2015@7:30pm Gibson Hall,990 Sydenham Rd,Kingston,Ontario Jewellery from ‘Silpadas’ presented by Tru-dy Loney. Speaker/vocalist-Linda Chapman tells of ‘Changes in her Life-when she received alterations that were free of charge’ Reserve with:Marlyn 613 384 9460 or e-mai l : judycobham@sympat ico .ca Cost:$8.00 includes dessert/coffee,etc.
Scottish Country Dancing – come and try - classes start on Tuesday, January 6th at 7 pm. Excellent ex-ercise for body and brain – dancing in groups. Wear soft-soled shoes.www.rscdskingston.org 613-382-8682
Rideau Trail Club Hike Sunday Janu-ary 4 Cataraqui Trail Level 1, moder-ate pace. Distance dependent on con-ditions. Hwy 15 to Chaffey’s Lock. Depart from the Canadian Tire Park-ing Lot along Bath Road at 9 am. Gas $4. Leader: John 613-382-4778.
King’s Town Trekkers Sunday after-noon walk Jan. 11 from the Holiday Inn - Register at 1;30 - Walk starts 2 pm (5 and 10 K routes).
Simply Paradise Dance Every Sun-day 6pm-10pm at the 560 Legion, 734 Montreal Street, Kingston $10.00 admission includes munchies, prizes and a delicious meal. Dance the night
away to a magnificent selection of music by Superior Sound. Singles or Couples ages 40-90 all welcome. The dance celebrated its 25th anniversary in April 2010. Contact: Shirley Skin-ner 613/634-1607. The schedule for some KFL&A Pub-lic Health programs and services will be modified over the next couple of weeks owing to the holiday season. KFL&A Public Health offices in Cloyne, Napanee, and Sharbot Lake will be closed from Monday, Decem-ber 22, 2014 through Friday, January 2, 2015 and will reopen on Monday, January 5, 2015. KFL&A Public Health’s office in Kingston, at 221 Portsmouth Avenue, will be open and closed as follows during the holidays:Monday, Dec. 22, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 24, closed Thursday, Dec. 25, closed, Friday, Dec. 26, closed, Monday, Dec. 29, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 30, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Wednes-day, Dec. 31, closed, Thursday, Jan. 1, closed, Friday, Jan. 2, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The Immunization Clinic and Travel Clinic will be closed De-cember 23, 2014 through January 5, 2015. Regular clinic hours will resume Tuesday, Jan. 6. The Sexual Health Clinic will be closed Dec. 23, through Jan. 1. The clinic will reopen on Friday, Jan. 2.
Singles Only Club of Kingston - Sun-day, Dec. 28, 3 p.m. Walk at Lemoine Point. Meet in the north parking lot.Sunday, Dec. 28, 4 p.m. Join the walkers and play pool at RAXX. Free when there is a lady playing. Sunday, December 28, 2014 05:00 p.m. Dinner at RAXX. Wednesday, Dec. 31, New Year’s Eve Dance at The Ports. Buf-fet included. Tickets are $25 and can be picked at The Ports, Yonge Street south of King. Band is “Overrated” and they play classic rock. Put on a few sparkles and dance like it is 1960 something.
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10 Kingston Heritage - Thursday, December 25, 2014
Kingston Heritage Editorial – With another festive season upon us, we should reflect on some of the naughty or nice be-haviour at Kingston city council in 2014, which, of course, was a transition year between the out-going council and the incoming one. It’s time to put a local spin on the classic Christmas poem, Twas the Night Before Christ-mas.
Twas the Night Before Coun-cil
Twas the night before Coun-cil and all through the place,
We wondered if Mark Gerre-tsen would really join the race.
He continued to insist that a second term was nothing new,
But all that changed with a long goodbye from Ted Hsu.
With Mark’s jump to federal politics, it was now open sea-son,
Six candidates joined the election, and for good reason.
And so the campaign got underway, mayoral debates be-gan,
Three councillors, three new-comers, all laid out their plans.
From the slow results on election night, there arose jubi-lation,
Voters were decisive, putting faith in Paterson nation.
Full-time at City Hall leav-ing his RMC teach?
He promised a smart city in his TelePrompter speech.
Bryan leads a council with seven newcomers all gleaming,
Knowing that they represent
a political house cleaning.But just around the corner
what should appear?The 2015 budget talks will
kick off the New Year.
Optimism abounds as the New Year quickly enters,
For this new group described as mostly left-of-centre.
Something more rapid than voting in the election,
This council did uphold the casino referendum rejection.
Now Integrity probe, now street permit parking, now Tett delay,
But at least we get another
reason to celebrate Sir John A.?
As Williamsville’s road work promised more housing in mid-town,
The city saved an old Broom factory from being torn down.
The old council wound up its term with another low tax rate,
While the new council prom-ised plenty out of the gate.
KEDCO plans, youth jobs, a chicken in every pot,
Give them credit for trying, whether you believe it or not.
Winter plowing, Marine
Museum, saving turtles, elec-tion probe,
Same topics dominate coun-cil agendas - new and old.
While faces have changed, October’s election still meant,
Voter turnout remained stuck below 40 per cent.
But as 2015 draws closer, there was cause for much fuss,
Kingston Transit reached 4 million rides on the bus.
And the goatee-trimmed mayor exclaimed front and straight,
My look and tone won’t re-flect City Hall portraits from 1868!
Seasonal thoughts at City Hall: ’Twas the Night Before Council
Major Atom AA Kingston Canadians receive surprise visit from the Stanley Cupwere given the honour because of their determination, teamwork and what they do off the ice, with their charity work in the com-munity.
“It was amazing,” said defenseman Liam MacFarland. “It was really exciting to touch the cup.”
Team-mate Cole Carter enjoyed seeing his favourite team, the Pittsburgh Penguins, recorded on the cup three times. “It really means a lot to me, it was fun to touch the same cup that has been held by some of hockey’s greatest players.”
The oldest trophy competed for by professional athletes in North America, the Stanley Cup was donated in 1892 by Sir Frederick Arthur Stanley, Lord Stanley of Preston and son of the Earl of Derby. The first team ever awarded the Stanley Cup was the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association in 1893.
Since 1915, when the two professional ice hockey organiza-tions, the National Hockey Association and Pacific Coast Hock-ey Association, reached an agreement in which their respective champions would face each other annually for the Stanley Cup. The championship has been won a combined 95 times by 18 ac-tive NHL teams and five defunct teams. The Montreal Canadiens hold the distinction of having won the cup a record 24 times, the last Canadian team to win the championship in 1993. Arch rivals, Toronto Maple Leafs, who last won the Cup in 1967, are a distant second with 13 wins. There are actually three Stanley Cups: the original bowl of the Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup, the authenticated Presentation Cup, and the Replica Cup on dis-play at the Hockey Hall of Fame, in Toronto.
It was a once in a life time experience that will not soon be forgotten by this talented young hockey team. Adam Nuttall said it best, “It was simply awesome.”
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Christmas is almost here! Are you looking for some great seasonal movies to watch with your family? Allow me to be of some assistance. Here are the top 10, according to yours truly...a professional watcher of movies for 31 years and count-ing.
10) Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966 cartoon) – In recent years, it seems the Jim Carey version has overtaken the original Grinch cartoon from the ‘60s in popularity, but I’m still par-tial to the classic.
9) National Lampoon’s Christ-mas Vacation – My husband, Steve, absolutely loves this movie. We put it on and he laughs and laughs until he cries. I’m of the opinion that it’s funny, but not quite THAT funny. Still, it made this list because of Steve. It’s always extra lovely to see the people you love happy at Christmas.
8) Die Hard - Yippee-ki-yay, ho, ho, ho. Definitely a Christmas mov-ie if I’ve ever seen one.
7) Frosty the Snowman (1969 version) – There have been quite a few not-so-great remakes and se-quel type things to Frosty the Snow-man over the decades, and I fail to understand why since the original more than stands the test of time. Plus, it has Jimmy Durante!
6) A Charlie Brown Christmas – Another great classic you can enjoy with the kids. It wouldn’t be Christ-mas without children’s voices sing-ing “Christmastime is Here” and that poor little tree.
5) Home Alone 1 and 2 – Confes-sion: When I was a kid, my cousin Ashley and I would watch Home Alone on pretty much a weekly ba-sis, all year round. As a result, I can
recite it word-for-word. I’m includ-ing the sequel as well, because it’s also very good…and because it’s my dream to spend Christmas in New York some day.
4) Miracle on 34th Street (1994 version) – Yes I know the original version of this movie is probably better and Dylan McDermott isn’t the greatest actor in the world, but this is the one I saw first. It will always hold a special place in my heart.
3) Love Actually - Love is beau-tiful. Love is exhilarating. Love is painful. Love...actually...is...all around. Steve and I first saw this movie at the theatre together years ago and continue to watch it every year.
2) A Christmas Carol (1951 ver-sion) – There are many versions of A Christmas Carol around, but this one is by far the best adaptation, in my humble opinion. Better still, though: read the Charles Dickens book. I used to read it almost ev-ery December, before I had a kid and lost the majority of my reading time.
1) It’s a Wonderful Life – This is probably on my top five movies of all time list, Christmas or other-wise, so of course it’s number one here. Few things cheer me up like Jimmy Stewart in It’s a Wonderful Life…which is why you just might catch me watching it after a rough day at any time of year.
Honourable mentions:A Christmas Story – Oddly
enough, I have never seen this mov-ie, so it’s not on my top 10 list. But a lot of people love it, so I have a feeling I might get into some trou-ble if I don’t mention it.
The Sound of Music – I have no clue why this is considered a Christ-mas movie, but a lot of people seem to think it is one. Seriously, there’s not a single scene in it involving Christmas. The Godfather is more of a Christmas movie than The Sound of Music. Whatever the rea-son, I love this movie so I couldn’t not mention it.
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12 Kingston Heritage - Thursday, December 25, 2014
Heritage News – Many people are more generous around the holidays than at other times of year, but generosity is the raison d’être of the Community Foundation of Kingston and Area no matter what season is upon us.
On Dec. 11, CFKA announced their fall grant recipients for 2014. Community members gathered at the new Kingston Community Health Centre for the occasion and while some recipients had received grants before, many were new to the process.
“This is the thrill of being involved in the Community Foundation simply because everything we do goes towards building these grants and the community itself,” said CFKA acting president, Michael Bell.
The CFKA was established in 1995 and since then has awarded more than $8 million in grants, including 800 com-munity grants totaling $2 million. This year, the foundation gave out more than $107,000 in grants to 30 community or-ganizations.
Upon receiving the grant, each recipient was invited to briefly talk about their project and explain what the funds will be used for.
This year, the CFKA gave away many grants to food pro-grams throughout the area, like the South Frontenac Food Bank, Kingston Interval House, the Salvation Army hamper program and Good Times Diner soup kitchen. There were also many grants given to youth oriented programs like Queen’s Kaleidoscope, Easter Seals and the Boys and Girls Club.
Trish Van Heusen from the KCHC received a grant for a program called ‘Rising Artists’. The program started as a summer trial that offered arts classes to kids in the north end, but because of popularity Van Heusen applied to make it a weekly program.
“We will now run on weekends for 40 weeks throughout the year thanks to this grant,” explained Van Heusen. “The kids involved are all from this immediate neighborhood and they are all from families that wouldn’t normally be able to afford arts programming.”
The program received a $5,000 grant and will also be part-nering with the Loving Spoonful to provide cooking classes.
“Cooking can be very artistic, “ said Heusen. “Kids get empowered by making art and making their own food and that is what this program is all about. They are also making new friends and really learning the value of creative expres-sion.”
Van Heusen has seen a very positive response from both the kids and parents involved in the program and she hopes to continue to help them learn and grow.
“I love watching the kids and seeing the joy they get from this program. The excitement in infectious and I know they are really enjoying it.”
For more information about CFKA and how to apply for one of their spring grants, visit www.cfka.org
Community Foundation of Kingston and Area celebrates fall grant recipients
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Heritage News – Imagine your home, your country and the life you built being overtaken by civil war. Sadly, this is the situation many Syrian families are facing. Many have been forced to seek refuge in other countries, unsure of when or
even if they will be able to return to their homes.
As Reverend Dawn Clarke of Perth Road United Church watched the events in Syria intensify, she felt helpless. She wondered, like many of us, what she could do to help.
“I personally experienced really intense distress over the news,”
said Clarke. “It was upsetting me so much that I had to do something about it. I knew my contribution would have to be small, but I came up with the idea of sponsoring a refugee family and maybe helping give them a better life.”
In December of 2013, Clarke brought this idea to her own con-gregation in Perth Road. The 30-
plus members of the congregation were enthusiastic to help. She then contacted the Islamic Society in Kingston (ISK), wondering if they too would like to help and if they had a family in mind that needed sponsorship. The ISK immediately said yes to both requests and the two groups quickly found a family with a Kingston connection.
“My brother in law and his wife and three kids are currently living in a basement in Lebanon. They were in a life-threatening situation in Syria and they had no choice but to leave,” explained ISK member Yaser Al Mtawa. “We wanted to help them, but didn’t know how so when this opportunity came up we were so grateful.”
While the initial idea of sponsor-ing a family seemed fairly simple, the process is not. Despite the huge numbers of people fleeing Syria daily, the obstacles to sponsor-ship are formidable. The applica-tion form required by the Canadian government is 100 pages long, and sponsors must provide a guarantee of $35,000 for each family.
“I had no idea that the amount of money we needed to raise would be so high, but I wasn’t discour-aged,” said Clarke. “That amount covers food, housing, transporta-tion, clothing and all of the es-sentials for this family when they come over here. We are working really hard to raise the funds as soon as possible.”
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“We are getting to know the family through this process and that just gives us more motiva-tion,” noted Clarke. “The children are delightful and we’d really love to help them have a better life.”
The family is also grateful for the support. Al Mtawa speaks to them on a daily basis and even vis-ited them this past June.
“I witnessed their situation first-hand and that made it even more important for me,” said Al Mtawa. “When they found out about this fundraising campaign, they were so happy. They are dreaming of Canada and really counting the days.”
While the application has been submitted, Al Mtawa is unsure of how long the process will take. For now the focus is on raising more funds and encouraging more com-munity members to help if they can.
“I think that a lot of people feel exactly the way that I was feeling about a year ago,” said Clarke. “They want to help but don’t know how. There are so many families going through this hardship and we can help. It may be a small act, but I hope we can sponsor more fami-lies after this is successful and we can make a difference one family at a time.”
For more information about the fundraising campaign and to do-nate visit www.saveafamilyfrom-syria.org
Local church and mosque work together to help Syrian family come to Canada
The Al Jalem family were forced from their home in Syria and are cur-rently living in a basement in Lebanon.
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By Kate Kristiansen
Chestnuts roasting by the open fire commonly spark thoughts of the holiday season. These smooth, red-brown edible nuts taste good and are packed with healthy benefits.
Since she was a young girl, my friend Helen eats these as a snack year round—nibbling away on bags of fresh and sometimes roasted ones. She loves to crack the hard, chewy shell, eating the creamy white fleshy goodness inside.
Given their nutritional value, these morsels are hailed as a symbol of longevity and fertility by many North American nomads. Chestnuts drop from their deciduous trees in the fall, so are also a sign of harvest and abundance. Many other areas of the world also value their health benefits, such as China, Korea, Japan and the Mediterranean. Greeks deem that the chestnut is superior to the almond, hazelnut, and walnut. (My friend Helen is Greek, and she would agree.)
Unlike other nuts, chestnuts are low in fat and high in starch content. The fibre content of a chestnut is 3.1 g per 100 grams; this them a low glycemic index food, one that raises blood sugar slowly. Chestnuts are high in vitamin C, minerals, such as potassium, copper and magnesium, amino acids and antioxidants. They also provide 195 calories per 100 g serving, mostly coming from their carbohydrate content, according to Livestrong.com.
They can be crumbly in texture and mild and sweet to taste. They can be eaten boiled or roasted. I enjoy them in my annual holiday stuffing; I have seen them in soups, and ground down to flour for baking. In addition, they are high in essential fatty acids and the best part is they do not have gluten (the binding protein in grain, which can upset the small intestine.)
Chestnuts act as a tonic for mus-cles, nerves, and veins. Edible chest-nut leaves are recommended as a sedative on respiratory organs and can aid in treating bronchitis.
Many grocery stores sell chestnuts throughout the winter, or you can find them canned and bottled. When buy-ing chestnuts, look for smooth, shiny shells, which do not rattle inside their hull. Store in a cool, dry place, and after hulling keep them refrigerated.
The classic way to eat them is by roasting. Slice a thin line in the hull so they don’t split or burst in the oven or fire. Roast in a pan for approximately 25 minutes, until the hulls become darker. Do not eat un-til they are cool, despite how yummy they smell.
Raw chestnut can be unsafe and poisonous. Only eat sweet, edible chestnuts found in spiky pods, not Horse Chestnuts. Find the good ones, roast or boil them up and eat them like candy. Share and enjoy!
Happy Holidays.
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Heritage- An Ecumenical Ser-vice of Advent Lessons and Car-ols has been part of the island’s Christmas preparation for many years.This year’s service held at Sacred Heart of Mary Church in-cluded the Kingston Community Strings, a volunteer activity and project of the Kingston Symphony. The orchestra members, instru-ments at the ready were seated just below the sanctuary. Included in their numbers was Rev. Canon Chris Carr, pastor of the island’s Anglican parish. The ey were led by conductor Wayne Tisdale. Dur-ing the service the orchestra offered musical interludes which included a Catalan traditional carol, El Noi de La Mere; Wake ,Wake for Night is Flying and Come Thou Redeem-er ( both by J.S. Bach) and the Chorus from Judas Maccabeus (J. F. Handel). They also accompa-nied the Ecumenical Choir led by WI United Church organist Geneva Keyes in the singing of traditional Advent and seasonal hymns.
Fr. Raymond deSouza , Pastor at Sacred Heart Welcomed all who had come, introduced Wolfe Island United Church Pastor Rev. Mike Bohler and Rev. Gerry Moore dea-con at the Anglican Parish pointing out as well where Rev. Carr was seated.
The readings, 1st and 2nd from Isaiah and the 3rd from Zechariah were read by Margaret Pyke WI United, Jon de Tombe WI Anglican and Daniel White, Sacred Heart , the 4th from Luke was by Rev. Bohler, with Matthew’s Gospel read by Rev. Moore. Fr. de Souza deliv-ered the homily. He also offered the closing prayer and blessing.
It was a wonderful evening. The beautiful church with its marvellous acoustics was filled with excit-ing sound of the orchestra and the choir. Fr. De Souza in his thanks to all who participated, noting that the choir also comes together to sing at funerals. Appropriate in a community the size of ours.
A sense of peace was evident in the church and people left renewed through the Advent readings , prayers, music and song, looking forward to the joy that comes with Christmas.
2. *Two days later there followed a ”Christmas Evening Service” at the Wolfe Island United Church
And what an exciting evening it was as the Sunday School Children of the UC Parish presented: “A Christmas to Believe In.” The eve-ning included music and song ren-dered by island musicians Chris-topher Brown at the piano ,Tami Repath, violin and vocalist Vanessa Grant, along with the participation of an enthusiastic audience. Pastor
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along with him, he did just that and Emily, equally well prepared now “Believes in Christmas.”
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FYI Chris Brown is a Canadi-an musician, living on the Island. Tami regularly plays with local groups. Vanessa Grant, lawyer is freelance opera singer. Family spends as much time as possible at their island home.
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Enchanté
When great actors of the stage are men-tioned, we often think of those in their golden years. Vanessa Redgrave, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen and Patti Lupone come instantly to mind.
But one of the greatest stage actors of this generation will be in her thirties for about four more years, and she could easily pass for a much younger twenty-something. Ce-lia Keenan-Bolger blasted onto Broadway in 2005, garnering a Tony Award nomination for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical for her debut as Olive Ostrovsky in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. She won a Drama Desk Award and the Theatre World Award.
In the past few years, her skills and per-forming diversity have glowed wherever she’s set foot. In Peter and the Starcatcher (the back story to Peter Pan), she won the hearts of thousands in her role as Molly, the adven-turous girl for whom Peter would fall, if he could grow up. She won the Broadway.com
Audience Choice Award for the role and was again nominated for a Tony, this time for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play.
Last year, as emotionally pained Laura Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie, along-side other stage greats Cherry Jones, Zachary Quinto and Brian J. Smith, Keenan-Bolger again tugged at heart strings. She took a clas-sic role and made it her own, defining for years to come the young woman with a limp and a searing insecurity. She received another Tony nomination for her portrayal of the painfully shy girl. She won every other award for which she was nominated, including a Drama Desk Award and the Theatre World Award.
But it is her current work as “Mother” in The Oldest Boy that has taken everything to a new level and depth. The off-Broadway pro-duction at Lincoln Center’s Newhouse The-ater is a masterpiece in its own right, with a cast and crew that do it justice. It is probably the most aesthetically beautiful production I have ever seen.
Sitting with the stage phenom at Lincoln Center Theater after a recent matinee perfor-mance feels more like a late night metaphysi-cal chat.
In The Oldest Boy, the fourth wall, that psycho-emotional boundary between per-former and audience, is more a thin veil than solid wall.
The Oldest Boy opens with Mother walk-
ing onto stage, the house lights still on, sitting in a meditative posture, facing the audience. Mother looks into the eyes of audience mem-bers, acknowledges the awkwardness of the situation and turns herself around.
“I have a different relationship to this play,” says Keenan-Bolger. “The audience is the last character of the play. I look into people’s eyes and try to connect with them. What happens couldn’t be manufactured. In this play, that’s such a huge and important part of telling the story.”
She explains that she’s gotten more com-fortable with the process during the play’s run.
Celia Keenan-Bolger brings the bittersweet magic of Peter and the Starcatcher and the pain and sorrow of The Glass Menagerie to her new role as Mother in The Oldest Boy.
This, once again, is why I love off-Broad-way so much. So many more risks; so much depth. It’s a two hour spiritual dance (and literal ritual dance, at times) between Tibetan Buddhist culture, with its spirituality and rit-ual, and Western Culture: the value of ritual; the beauty of spirit; the confusion of rational-ity; the agony and joy of parenthood; the pain of letting go; knowing when to let go; the fool-ishness of parenting theories, which change
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A spiritual journey in theatrewith the seasons.
A monk sums up Western love in one sentence to Mother: “You confuse attachment with love. Love is not at-tachment.”
I can’t say enough good things about this play. Suffice to say that when I first saw it, I went back two days later to experience it again.
Celia Keenan-Bolger breaks hearts with her acting in this one. But every actor is strong. The rituals are mesmer-izing. The dance. The tea ceremonies. The excruciating joy of childbirth. The excruciating pain of letting go. The risk of feeling. Simply overwhelming.
“It’s a beautiful new play by Sarah Ruhl about a woman, who lives in the United States, married to a man from Nepal,” says Keenan-Bolger.”They have a three-year-old toddler, Tenzin. Her husband is Buddhist, and she is interested in Buddhism as well. Two monks come to her house and say that they believe that her child is the rein-carnation of a High Lama, a teacher. They want to take him back to India to educate him. She has to decide if this is even a legitimate claim and then has to come to terms with the decision of letting her child be taken away and educated as a Buddhist.”
Given the emotional depth of this production, I asked Celia what she’s learned about herself.
“I think what I learned about my-self.” She pauses. “I haven’t totally
answered this before. I think...” She pauses again. She’s thinking this one through.
“I do different things, like a play’s revival or a musical and that fulfills me.” She pauses again. Silence. She leans back and looks upward, then makes eye contact again.
“From the many roles I’ve had before, I’ve taken bits and pieces of things I’ve learned and put it all togeth-er in this one,” she says. “This was the first time I was on stage for the entire show. It felt like I had so many tools to do that. I realize how many amazing actors and actresses and directors I’ve learned from. As you work on stage, you really are building a body of work. Everything you do influences the next work you do.”
Celia Keenan-Bolger grew up in Detroit and has been performing since childhood. Her younger brother (An-drew) and sister (Maggie) are also the-atre professionals.
“I was the oldest of three and have loved theatre since I was very young,” she says. “I went to a community the-atre production of Sound of Music in Detroit and fell in love with it. I al-ways had a sort of talkative precocious side. And I have amazing parents. My mother is a teacher and dad is an urban planner. They had no stake in our be-ing in theatre. They really let us be our own people. It’s like what this play ad-dresses. I probably talked a lot and got up from the dinner table to tell stories. That was embraced by my family and
not shut down.”She started performing in children’s
theatre at a young age. “I never really stopped,” she says.She attended a performing arts
school in Detroit and then attended the University of Michigan for musical theatre.
“There is something amazing about theatre,” she says. “It’s hard to master it. I’ve been lucky enough to play a lot of different types of characters.”
The Oldest Boy is about attachment, love and letting go. It’s also a spiritual journey.
“I think when I first read this play many months ago, I had a very emo-tional reaction to it. It’s a strange ephemeral experience in this play. I dig deeper night after night. The writing and direction help to sustain an emo-tional response. I’m very curious about the questions this play is asking. They are very difficult to grapple with. The play has taken care of me. It’s not just about giving away your three year old. We all have things to let go of.”
In her preparation for her role, Keenan-Bolger went to a Buddhist re-treat in upstate New York.
“They said something so profound. True love is wanting what is best for someone else. That’s not how we’re conditioned to see love.”
She explains that at recent stu-dent matinees of The Oldest Boy she thought it might be at a level that was too adult in orientation.
“There are so many ways to keep
our brains occupied with screens and you don’t do interesting things with other people,” she says. “Theatre is one of the few places where we all come together and have this shared ex-perience. I really felt it at the student matinees. I thought it was a pretty adult play for Grade 8 and high school stu-dents, but their response has been so incredibly moving to me. I wonder if it just feels good to be in a space with a bunch of other people and get to talk about it when it’s over. Today, we are not called on to do that very often. I love going to a theatre. I always have. I’m not religious and have never gone to church, but I think theatre is like a religious experience. It’s that place where you watch people fail and over-come insurmountable odds. You also have this religious and ritual experi-ence of doing something over and over again. You don’t have that in any other part of life.”
I asked her how she was going to say goodbye to such a masterpiece of a production.
“It always happens; you get the post-show blues,” she says. “Saying goodbye is done in such a beautiful way in this play itself. There’s so much to talk about around attachment in this play, it gives me a different perspective on leaving it. You can really care about something and let it go. We invest a lot of our lives in something and then have to deal with it being over. The play is about learning to love something and not hold onto it.”
It brings to mind one of Keenan-Bolger’s lines as Molly in the last scene of Peter and the Starcatcher, where she’s explaining goodbyes to Peter Pan: “It’s supposed to hurt. That’s how you know it meant something.”
What’s next?“I’m working on a great piece by
Ethan Lipton,” she says. “I saw his No Place To Go and thought I would give anything to work with him. He’s writing a new piece, and I actually get to do something with my husband (ac-tor/producer John Ellison Conlee). We don’t get to work together, and now we are. It’s Ethan’s new play called Tu-macho. It’s a comedy and it’s wacky. It’s very different from [The Oldest Boy]. We’ve been doing readings and workshopping it.”
She pauses again. Her eyes widen and the corners of her lips reach up-ward. “And we also get to go on vaca-tion soon. We’re going to go to Turks and Caicos.”
Sounds like she’s returning to Nev-erland.
Keep your eyes open for Celia Keenan-Bolger. Don’t miss any chance to see her perform. The Oldest Boy closes on December 28, and it is worth every effort you can put into getting to Lincoln Center Theater in New York to see it.
For tickets to The Oldest Boy, go to www.lct.org.
Mark Bergin on Twitter @markaidanbergin
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Lifestyle - Was it really so long ago, on that special Christmas morning when everything was the same as other Christmas mornings, but so very differ-ent on looking back?
That special day, of course, didn’t al-low for special privileges. We still had early morning chores to do, we had to have a full breakfast, the kitchen had to be redded up, and we had to be fully dressed, and ready for church, all before we got near the Christmas tree propped in a corner of the kitchen.
The tree was always in the kitchen, even though the blasts from the old Findlay Oval, caused it to shed, and leave it with pretty scant branches by the time Christmas morning rolled around. Putting up the tree in the parlour, the smallest room in the old log house was never an option. As soon as the first blasts of winter hit Northcote, the room was closed up with a rolled braided rug shoved tight against the door to keep out the draft, and it would stay that way un-til the snow was gone. So there was the tree, propped in a corner by the icebox, anchored with wires into the wainscot-ing to keep it from falling over.
Finally, we had done the chores, had our breakfast, we were dressed for church, and Father moved over to the tree, sat down on the floor, and made a great pretense of not being able to ready the cards Santa had attached to each parcel. On other Christmas mornings, we were handed out stockings first. These weren’t the fancy red felt stock-ings you could buy at the Dime Store for ten cents...these were Father’s grey work socks, each with a name attached to the top. No, that morning, we were handed the parcels first. There were the usual hand-knit mitts, a small book...we always could count on a book...and a small toy. I remember mine as if it were handed to me yesterday...it was a small game of Chinese checkers. It looked very much like the very same game I
had seen in the Dime Store weeks be-fore. But I was thrilled. Especially when I found it wrapped inside my very first pair of long white stockings!!! Such luxury was simply beyond me! I had never owned a pair of white stock-ings before.
Finally, all that was left were the five stockings. As Father picked the first one up, he told us we were not to look inside until everyone had his stocking in his hand. It all sounded very myste-rious to me, but it added to the excite-ment. I knew for a fact there would be an orange in the toe. We always got an orange - our once-a-year orange!
When Father was sure we each had our stockings, he gave us the nod that we could dig into them. I couldn’t un-derstand why we all had to do it at once, the stockings were usually not too in-teresting, but that morning, Father and Mother seemed more excited that any of us five children.
The first thing we found was an envelope with our name on it. It was Mother’s writing, and the envelope was the kind we used back then - flimsy and blue lined. Well, let me tell you, when we ripped into the envelope, you could hear the yells in Renfrew. Inside each was a crisp $1 bill!
Not one of us had ever, in our entire lives, had a $1 bill! I had once been able to amass 33 cents tied in the corner of my hankie and thought I was rich be-
yond means. But a whole dollar in the form of a bill? Unheard of.
“Where did it come from?” I was the first to ask. And then Mother ex-plained it all to us. Uncle Lou, our rich uncle from New York, the one with the big black Buick. The uncle who wore pressed grey flannels. The uncle who put the terrazzo floor in the Waldorf Astoria, had sent Mother a $5 bill, and she was to have it changed at the bank in Renfrew, and each of us five children was to have a whole dollar in our stock-ing!
Mother laughed when she told us how she had to go into the bank with an American $5 bill, and change it into Canadian money...and how the teller had to know all about it. And I knew Moth-er would have told her about her rich brother in New York, and how good he was to all of us, all the way out there in Northcote.
Emerson, Ever-ett and Earl folded their dollars into small squares and squirreled them
away into their Sunday pants pock-ets. Audrey put hers in her shoe, which I thought was a silly place for a dollar bill, but then I knew she would likely show it off to her friend Iva at church. I knew mine would go into the little drawer of my wash-stand upstairs...not tied in the corner of my hanky. Oh no! It would be laid out flat under my pile of hankies, and I wouldn’t spend it on something foolish. The rest of what was in our stockings paled in comparison to our crisp $1 bills. In fact, by the time we were in the sleigh on the way to the Lutheran Church in Northcote,
I couldn’t remember a thing in my stocking, except of course the $1 bill. And the orange.
May I take this opportunity to wish all of you the most merriest of Christmases. And my prayer is that you will be surrounded by loved ones, and remember the true message in this joyous time of year.
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This Christmas was a different and memorable one for Mary
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Members of OPSEU Local 462 held their Fill the Ambulance toy drive at Toys R Us in Kingston on Satur-day, Dec. 13 for the Tree of Hope in support of Family and Chil-dren’s Services. Lynn Bates, Shawn Philips, Dave Doran, Shauna Dunn, Chelsea Aalders-Madigan, Jackie Kempenaar and Robbie McDonald are on hand to collect toys for chil-dren in need.
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Entertainment – If you’re going to take a TV show to the big screen you had better be prepared to raise the stakes somehow. You can’t just do another episode, and make it an hour-and-a-half long. Corner Gas: The Movie definitely raises the stakes.
This time in the town where nothing really hap-pens something is really happening. Dog River is bankrupt. The power is off and the water pump is broken. To top it off a huge donut and coffee chain is looking to buy the whole town so they can bulldoze it, and set up a distribution centre. If something isn’t done Dog River could be gone
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Corner Gas: The Movie is every-thing the original television show is but bigger, better and funnier. After five years I wasn’t sure they could still pull this off, but it was like they’d never left our favourite Saskatch-ewan town. They have the celebrity cameos, the characters’ crazy antics, the quick lines and everything else we love about the show. Even bet-ter is the clever way they take it to the next level with a real problem instead of something imagined by Hank. It’s the difference between being just another episode and making Corner Gas a feature film.
This cast is truly something special. Even after five years apart they don’t miss a beat. Their tim-ing, their delivery, their ability to play off each other is magic. Ev-eryone of them had me laughing out loud at one point or another. They’re brilliant and I sincerely hope this is not the last time I get to see them work together.
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