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By Joseph Quigley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Haliburton County is readying to stay at home after an order from Premier Doug Ford Jan. 12 due to rising COVID-19 rates province-wide. The provincial government issued a state of emergency and stay-at-home order, which will remain in effect for 28 days, demanding people keep put except for critical trips such as grocery shopping, medical appointments, or essential work. Anyone who can work at home must also now do so. The move comes in response to projections from medical officials which foretell the health system Haliburton rink returns being overwhelmed within weeks. Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge Dysart et al announced the opening of its District Health unit acting medical outdoor rink Jan. 11, with young and old officer of health, Dr. Ian Gemmill, said alike enjoying the space. However, due to Jan. 13 the order was critical to control COVID protocols, distancing is required from the virus. people outside your household and hockey is “Maybe it should have been put into disallowed. effect sooner, but these are decisions that are difficult to make and I don’t Kai Clendening enjoys skating at the outdoor fault anybody for this,” he said. rink in Haliburton, which opened this week “Without it, we would be in very with COVID protocols. Photo by Joseph serious condition four weeks from now Quigley. … The most important thing is sending the right message to the public. This is serious.” Outdoor gatherings will be limited Drugs and property crime go hand-in-hand to five people with limited exceptions. The province also indicated it will put HIGHLANDER INVESTIGATES Dysart et al Mayor Andrea Roberts she is now witnessing. happened to be driving by and saw the large “It’s disconcerting. I have not seen that a temporary moratorium on residential evictions. By Lisa Gervais police presence. She knew something was type of thing in Haliburton County before,” up. she said. Most local construction can continue. On the night of Dec. 9, 2020, two masked Roberts said in her opinion, drug-related Haliburton Highlands OPP detachment For example, residential builds that suspects entered the Haliburton Highland crime in Haliburton County “has most commander, Liane Spong, said when it had footing permits and had started Pharmacy on Highland Street. Brandishing definitely gone up.” comes to drug-related theft, “It’s about construction before Jan. 12 can go on. a firearm, they demanded, and received, She also thinks thieves are becoming more availability. It’s about quick cash. It’s School children when they return will narcotics. They then fled the scene. brazen. about feeding that addiction. It’s all very have to wear masks in Grades 1-3 and The OPP Tactics and Rescue Unit, Canine, She said people with drug problems interrelated. We try to tackle it with a multi- outdoors at school. Emergency Response Unit and Forensic are not new to the County, but what is faceted approach and hit it all.” Identification Services all swarmed the site. Continued ‘OPP’ on page 2 disturbing is the organized crime element Continued ‘Thieves’ on page 15 2 TheHighlander Thursday January 14 2021 | Issue 473 Highlander news

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OPSEU has purchased the former Frost Centre for $3.2 million. File photo. OPSEU plans ‘to breathe new life’ into Frost Centre By Lisa Gervais Eduardo Almeida, said preserving the integrity of the site is of the utmost The Ontario Public Service Employees importance to the union. Union (OPSEU) has purchased the Leslie “We’ve got a huge opportunity but also M. Frost Centre in Algonquin Highlands. a real duty here,” he said. “A duty to OPSEU announced its acquisition of the preserve the property’s integrity, respect land and buildings, for $3.2 million, in a the environment and be good to neighbours Jan. 8 press release, saying, “Haliburton’s working closely with the rural community historic Frost Centre is set for new life and in Haliburton County. a major lift as OPSEU/SEFPOs newest “We look forward to joining our member resource and training centre.” community partners to reinvigorate the OPSEU represents 170,000 front-line Frost Centre,” Almeida added. public sector workers. He said they knew the centre’s history It said the centre, which has long remained and its true value and are committed to unused, will now serve as a training site for breathing new life and purpose into the members of the union and their families. property, to serve its members and the “The property is an absolute gem,” said broader community. OPSEU president Warren Thomas. “From Algonquin Highlands Mayor Carol training forest rangers in the 1920s to Moffatt said she received a call from training our members and leaders in the Thomas Dec. 7. 2020s, this property will serve OPSEU/ She said, “The revitalization of the historic SEFPOs hardworking members so that they property as an educational facility will can continue to support our province, its provide many employment opportunities PROFESSIONALS NORTH. people and its economy.” INDEPENDENTLY OWNED & OPERATED BROKERAGE across a range of fields. Located on the shores of St. Nora Lake, “President Thomas and I spoke of the the Frost Centre used to be a world- many opportunities for collaboration and A trusted agent with renowned location for forest fire training. partnership between the facility and the More recently, the Ontario government more than 20 years experience! community at large; and I look forward to decided to permanently close its doors. helping broker some local connections.” Direct: 705-935-0011 [email protected] Union vice-president and treasurer, Not intended to solicit propertiesalready listed for sale 4 TheHighlander Thursday January 14 2021 | Issue 473 Highlander news County projects 3.86 per cent levy increase By Joseph Quigley Fund, the main provincial assistance grant Local Journalism Initiative Reporter to municipalities. But he added COVID- associated funding from those governments The County’s 2021 budget started with a - such as $287,000 from the province under projection of a 3.86 per cent property levy the Safe Restart Agreement - has helped. increase due to cost pressures ranging from “Without the safe restart money and infrastructure to insurance to shoreline the COVID money that the federal and bylaw enforcement. provincial governments have provided Council did its first line-by-line review of us, this would be a very different-looking the budget Jan. 11 and expects to pass the budget,” Rutter said. “While we will final version in February or March. talk about some funding reductions, the CAO Mike Rutter said several cost government has certainly come through for pressures, as well as service-level us in other ways.” enhancements, have led to the increase. Staff plan to have council review the “We do know this is a very challenging budget over the next few regular meetings, year and that may result in more changes until the council is comfortable approving than we’ve seen in the past. Staff it. understand our work is not necessarily Coun. Carol Moffatt said she hopes that done,” Rutter said. “A 3.86 per cent format does not overtly hasten the process increase is a challenge in the current and council questions the budget. economic climate, there’s no doubt.” “It would be very easy to just not ask a Staff identified several new expenses lot of questions,” Moffatt said. “We haven’t contributing to the increase, including had a lot of questions today; I’m hoping $88,000 for a new shoreline preservation because our wheels are all turning with this bylaw officer, a $77,892 increase in first look.” insurance costs, $66,000 for a development Coun. Andrea Roberts attributed the lack charges study, a $50,000 increase in the of questions to staff and council being insurance deductible, $50,000 more for aligned. physician recruitment, a provincially “This is the third budget that this council mandated $46,344 increase in the municipal has gone through together. So much is transfer to the health unit and a $33,725 from council direction from our strategic increase to employee benefits. plan for this term,” Roberts said. “It goes Rutter also said there is some pressure to show how staff and council are working with reduced funding from upper-level in tandem … I think we’re really close and governments, such as a $36,200 reduction I think we’re going to just be fine-tuning in the Ontario Municipal Partnership some things.” The County is budgeting for a 3.86 per cent property levy increase. File photo.

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Thursday January 14 2021 | Issue 473 TheHighlander 5 Highlander news Dysart sewer questions pause road projects By Joseph Quigley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Dysart council agreed to pause any major road projects within Haliburton village until it makes decisions on future sewer line expansion. Staff presented its proposed slate of road resurfacing projects for 2021 at a special budget meeting Jan. 11. The slate is not finalized but featured more than 30 kilometres of roads receiving surface treatment for $1.5 million in total. Included in the list were several roads within Haliburton village, including parts of Highland Street, Mountain Street, Park Street and Pine Avenue. But Coun. John Smith said such work should be delayed, given the possibility of future sewer line work. “The ghost of my dad is going to say, ‘my God, don’t resurface those roads and then go out in a year or two and tear it up,’” Smith said. “People will think we got nothing but money.” Dysart delayed road resurfacing in Haliburton village until it decides on whether to expand the sewer line. Photo by Joseph Quigley. Dysart’s service delivery review presented last September proposed long-term planning should have a full investigation into the the road budget to contract prep work for in-house at areas like Kennisis Lake Road. on the sewer system and an expanded line. sewer.” resurfacing projects. “We have all sorts of good intentions to Council has yet to make any decisions on Council directed staff to adjust the project Council agreed to a figure – potentially get this work done, but it all boils down to the idea. list to remove roads within the village that in the $50,000-$100,000 range, based on limitations,” director of public works Rob Mayor Andrea Roberts said regular could be in included in a sewer expansion. staff recommendation – for more brushing Camelon said. “We only have so many maintenance could continue in the and ditching, a needed step in some areas to people.” meantime. convert roads from gravel to hardtop. Council asked staff to bring back an exact “We’re still patching, we’re still fixing More funding for roads Smith questioned staff’s struggles to figure they would like to contract some of potholes,” Roberts said. “But we really Council also agreed to put more dollars into get planned brushing and ditching done the workload.

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DYSART BUDGET NEWS losses due to COVID-19. The municipality they’re going to drive. So, until you do that come up that are a benefit to the overall Art attractions get boost also provides the gallery with an annual some enforcement, it is not going to change community,” Clarke said. Dysart is providing more support to the arts, $50,000 grant. driving habits,” she said. giving extra dollars to the Rails End Gallery McKechnie said a study was not needed and Haliburton Sculpture Forest. and there is enough local knowledge about Levy going up During a Jan. 11 budget meeting, council Speeding study dropped roads with problem speeding. After starting the process at a zero per cent agreed to provide $12,500 – including Council considered a $47,000 study on levy rate increase, the draft budget now $5,000 in in-kind maintenance – to the speed limits in the municipality but opted stands at an approximately 1.2 per cent sculpture forest and $6,250 for hydro against including it in this year’s budget. New economic increase. expenses to the Rails End Gallery. The study would have gathered data development reserve Other add-ons contributing to the increase The sculpture forest sought the figure as across the municipality to recommend included $2,500 for Haliburton Lake an ongoing contribution, but councillors speed limit changes. Director of public Dysart plans to spend $10,000 to begin a Beach, $5,000 to repair the eavestrough opted to keep it to one year for now. works Rob Camelon noted the frequent new economic development reserve. at the Haliburton Curling Club, $5,000 “This year is fine, and maybe the end of requests to adjust speed limits on certain Mayor Andrea Roberts said good to start a pullover at County Road 10 and this council (term), but we shouldn’t burden roads. opportunities can come in the middle of approximately $50,000 for brushing and the next council,” Coun. Walt McKechnie But councillors questioned the idea. Coun. the year without any dollars available to ditching roads. said. Nancy Wood-Roberts said if anything, support them. She said the reserve is a way Council will review the draft budget Coun. Larry Clarke, who serves on the the money should be spent on police they could do so more easily. again at a future meeting. (Dysart budget gallery board, said it should only need the enforcement. “It’s important to have a bit of money news compiled by Joseph Quigley, Local amount for this year, given its revenue “People are going to drive however fast there to be able to address these one-offs Journalism Initiative Reporter).

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STAFF conditions that required a special sort Thomas said they will train their members In time, OPSEU and its deep pockets will PUBLISHER of owner. For example, they have to and leaders in the 2020s and beyond. be able to restore the Frost Centre to its Simon Payn | [email protected] respect the existing trail system, heritage Locals will remember the shock, former glory. Those halls and classrooms designations and easements. disappointment and anger that accompanied will be filled again. New memories will be EDITORIAL It would appear OPSEU is on board. In the closure more than 16 years ago. made. Lisa Gervais their press release about the purchase, they Knowing today that the centre will again One can only imagine that Leslie M. Frost Editor | [email protected] referenced the history of the Frost Centre. be used for its intended purpose - that of a is smiling down upon this newest chapter Joseph Quigley President Smokey Thomas acknowledged training facility - has to ease some of that of his namesake property and that his vision Reporter | [email protected] its legacy of training forest rangers in the angst. will continue to be carried out. 1920s and other educational and research Further knowing that OPSEU respects the WRITERS Carolyn Allder, Jack Brezina, Lisa Harrison, Hannah Sadlier, Kirk Winter COVID CORNER SALES Dawn Poissant | [email protected] Rob McCaig | [email protected] Vaccination victory Michele Guite | [email protected] “Zhang, we have to release the sequence,” How mRNA vaccines work. Unlike many administration of Eddie Holmes said. vaccines, messenger RNA vaccines do not the vaccine. 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Kevin K. Pepper sent in this photo of a New Year’s Day sunrise on Salerno Lake in the Highlands. LETTERS if you had turned in the wallet. You could Laurie Scott. and hoped to stay under the radar. If Next time do have the cash and the tickets and the gift There are a few choice adjectives to apply Premier Ford had ordered you home as cards but the rest was invaluable to you, but to the revelation that our ex-minister of soon as he knew – or better – ordered you the right thing priceless for me. You have cost me so much finance felt it was his privilege to take a not to go, I would give him full credit. Dear editor, money getting stuff replaced, money which secretive Caribbean vacation during this Premier Ford, you did neither – until Well, New Year’s Eve Day 2020, the last I don’t have. You have no idea how violated pandemic, with the full knowledge of the your hand was forced. Maybe I’ll add day of the crappiest year of my life, ended I feel and how disappointed I am in you for premier of Ontario. ‘Hypocritical’ is the ‘disgusting’ to my adjectival epithets. on a terrible note. not turning it in. You could have taken what most printable one I can come up with. You two didn’t just destroy your own I lost my wallet. Right outside the door you wanted and given the rest back. Why Your vacation was “pre-planned.” credibility. While many of us try to of Foodland about 9:15 in the morning. I did you not do the right thing? Ever heard Geez, what a great excuse! Not like us convince the doubters and the cranks that realized it maybe five minutes later and of Karma, I truly believe in it. I hope you little people – we don’t plan to travel at the challenge of this virus is real, that we went rushing back. Surely someone found it grow a conscience and decide next time to Christmas to see our families or have a need to act responsibly, your words and and turned it in. Not a chance I would be so do the right thing. vacation somewhere warm. My wife and I actions undercut us too. The scofflaws can lucky. Went and asked inside, phoned radio could not see our grandchildren and we lost say “Look! Even Premier Ford and Minister station to have it announced, cause our little M. Lawrence a hefty deposit on a Mexican trip booked Phillips don’t believe in the Coronavirus! town is great that way, but no honest person Haliburton before COVID but we understood why it It’s all a hoax! Let’s go have some barbecue turned it in. had to be so. But not you, Mr. Phillips! at Adamson’s to celebrate!” Well, this is my message to the person Why you and your wife had “a pre-planned Please, do not insult us any further with who found it and decided to keep it. You Hypocritical, disgusting vacation,” I’m going to add ‘contemptible’ spurious apologies. If you hadn’t been must have needed the cash more than me. to my list. caught at your gambit, we, the citizens You must have needed the lottery tickets and contemptible The fake Twitter posts and staged photo- who actually attempt to follow provincial ops to cover your tracks - there’s a nice guidelines, would have been none the wiser. more than me. I hope you win. I hope that Dear editor, times get better for you if you do win. touch. The fact you were doing Zoom And all of the front-line workers who have It would have been so much easier for me I am sharing this letter to Premier Doug meetings, means sweet diddley squat. You soldiered valiantly, stoically through this Ford and MPP Rod Phillips, copied to MPP travelled to a luxurious vacation destination Continued on page 10 10 TheHighlander Thursday January 14 2021 | Issue 473 Editorial opinion Keep your seat belts fastened It was Dec. 26 and I was enjoying the winter. The regular Joes were toeing the that dentists and veterinarians had offered the Trump afterglow that follows Christmas. Most of it line and so, no doubt were our elected and their services … they are experienced administration’s had been spent online, Zooming with family appointed leaders. at sticking needles into living beings … exit from the and friends and, while it wasn’t as socially One could almost feel the weight being I realized things might not be going as White House. I rich as previous Christmases, it was as good lifted off one’s shoulders as, with each smoothly as we had hoped. hesitate to say it as it gets in these troubling times. I tried to passing day, we were one step closer to Then the reports of politicians and senior all culminated push negative thoughts out of my mind … a new president in Washington. I could civil servants flying off unannounced with the mob After all, while the province had tightened envision the bags being packed at the White to destinations far from their homes attack on the By Jack Brezina its COVID restrictions, at least the vaccines House as the president and his staff made started to emerge. At first, the thought Capitol, a dark were here and being rolled out. Even over arrangements to quietly slip away so the crossed my mind, these were just a few stain on the the holiday break, thousands of arms were new administration could move in with no errant individuals, but the numbers grew, country so many thought was a shining being jabbed and people were acquiring impediments or issues blocking the way. encompassing people we entrust with beacon of hope, because, even as these protection from the pandemic that was Needless to say, the reverie did not leading and doing so by setting an example. words are penned, I fear there is more to stalking our land. last much past Boxing Day. That period When the dust settled, and it isn’t over come. The post-Christmas glow was enhanced between Christmas and New Years is yet apparently, it was a wonder that any So much for the post Christmas glow, by the knowledge that just about everyone usually an easy-going time to take the governing happened in that period of time which was likely tryptophan induced was following the rules. Mask wearing foot off the gas and just coast through a with so many of them out of the country. anyway. I should never have taken off the seemed to be increasing, people were taking relaxing week. But then it became known As for the circus in D.C., the talking heads seat belt and dreamed of a quieter transition care when passing others in the stores, that perhaps the vaccines weren’t getting on the news networks barely had a chance into the New Year. But I have to think that hand sanitization stations appeared to be out quite as briskly as I had imagined. The to wolf down their second piece of pumpkin 2021, despite its rocky start, has to be better everywhere and everyone was staying close logistics of distributing the precious cargo pie before being whisked back to their than the last 12 months. Let’s hope so. to home. No unnecessary trips, no escapes was a tangled mess as was organizing the marks in front of the cameras to enumerate to warmer climes for a brief respite from people to stick it in our arms. When I heard the growing pandemonium surrounding

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Continued on page 10 People who have never lived on water mail, a wasteful expense showing Laurie on is happening to it, especially when our nightmare, why they haven’t even got their before, or had it pointed out to them, don’t a fun outing to Kawartha Dairy with Doug government is under corporate leadership. promised pay raise. Health care workers know. Ford, decimator in chief, on the front page, As Scott is not mentioning it, to give are reportedly three-and-a-half times So, what’s the big deal? it’s a natural and again on the back page. a voice to nature I am including what more likely to be infected and they keep occurrence that no matter what people do it In that ‘newsletter’ there was not one word the Environmental Defence organization showing up for work. If they’re lucky, they will show up somewhere. about the environment, wetlands, nature, says on the subject. “On Dec. 8, the might have a ‘pre-planned’ staycation. You or the impact of the Ontario legislation the provincial government passed a law making gentlemen should get down on your knees Don Outram regressives passed Dec. 8 that weakens big changes to the way Conservation in public and beg their forgiveness. Tory Hill conservation authorities, destroys wetlands Authorities operate, handing major and opens them up for developers. They do environmental planning decisions over Douglas Rodger not seem to realize the ecological function to the government - and their developer Highlands East Scott sidesteps or the health benefits of nature. Not all friends. But these huge and damaging enterprise enhances our ‘quality of life’. In changes were just the latest in a long string environmental questions fact, the complicity of Scott through her of attacks on Ontario’s environment, such Blue-green algae smiling silence is just one of the reasons as reduced protection for endangered Dear editor, why Ontario’s environmental protections species, planning an unnecessary highway Dear editor, How fitting that MPP Laurie Scott are dissolving as we speak. through farmland and a portion of the I keep reading letters to the editor and completely ignored your question about the Our elected officials were entrusted to Greenbelt, weakening climate action plans write-ups on lake health and the Shoreline environment (in reference to Schedule 6) be the caretakers of the environment for and approving developments on protected By-Law about blue-green algae. It’s during your interview in the Jan. 7 issue. the people of Ontario, and to ensure an wetlands. For eight members of the making it look like this algae is new to the How typical of the regressive equitable quality of life for all residents. Greenbelt Council, including Chair David Highlands. conservatives to pretend we live in a plastic Government is not the playpen of the Crombie, the latest attack was the last Well, it’s not. My father first pointed it bubble where the environment is merely a corporate sector. The protection of our straw, and they resigned from the council out to me in the early 1950s as it grew thing to be used, manipulated, monetized wildlands, wetlands and waterways need to en masse earlier this month. I know a lot of in our pond and along Farquhar Creek and capitalized upon, hence, is not a real be enshrined in the constitution, to protect people feel the same way. So, what’s next near Wilberforce. Wherever the water is entity. If you pretend it isn’t there, it doesn’t them from self-interested parties whether for Ontario’s environment?” stagnant, come mid-August it shows up exist. elected or otherwise. Destroying these along the shoreline in places. Like the costly, four-page, colour protections and stealing public lands are S. McCormick Since then, I’ve seen it in many waterways newsletter full of photos from Scott, sent betrayals of trust. People care about the City of Kawartha Lakes throughout the county and elsewhere. to taxpayers last month through the postal environment; we deserve to know what

9 TheHighlander Thursday October 15 2020 | Issue 461 GET THE HIGHLANDER ALL YEAR ROUND Stay in touch... even when you’re Editorial opinion away. Sign up at thehighlander.ca 8 LETTERS PHOTO OF THE WEEK TheHighlander Opposed to Bob Thursday October 8 2020 | Issue 460 Lake boat launch Editorial Dear editor, opinion As a cottager on Claude Brown Road, we are opposed to having a ramp built on the existing Crown Land. TheHighlander We can agree that some of the cottagers Published by The Highlander Newspaper Limited Winners and losers in COVID need a more convenient way to get their When it comes to the economics of a global From our SIMON PAYN | Publisher boats in and out of the lake. Publisher pandemic, there have clearly been some , folks were able simonthehighlander.ca for health and safety reasons. observations this year winners and losers in Haliburton County. People want space and they are willing to As evidenced in today’s front-page story, is likely to burst at to get their boats in and out of the lake EDITORIAL pay for it. some point. One of without a public ramp. So, this proposed the real estate profession has done well The majority of people are buying LISA GERVAIS | Editor under COVID-19. the challenges is, if ramp is one of convenience and putting a Editor cottages, we’re told. Some will turn them somone is buying now editorthehighlander.ca We talked to three local real estate into four-season homes upon retirement. new ramp at this location is a convenience professionals, including two with more well over the asking for some and a major inconvenience JOSEPH QUIGLEY | Reporter Fewer are selling up lock, stock and barrel price, or market value, Reporter than 30 years of experience in the industry. in the city and moving permanently if they for others. Why are we substituting one josephthehighlander.ca All said this past summer was their best on will they get their are still in the workforce. money back when they problem for another? Does that make CONTRIBUTING WRITERS record. That being said, we are also told that the The themes were pretty consistent: not have to sell in future? sense? Carolyn Allder, must haves for potential buyers include The better place for a ramp would be to Jack Breina, enough listings to meet the demand; So, while real estate Lisa arrison, Kirk Winter reliable Internet so there is an opportunity agents are celebrating find a place at the southeast end of the multiple showings and multiple offers; to work from the cottage. Realtors are record years, they do By Lisa Gervais lake. It is closer to Minden, so those who SALES properties selling above the asking price. investigating upload and download speeds. Not surprisingly, the clientele is coming have concerns about the future. are renting a boat for the day or visitors DAWN POISSANT | Sales No doubt this has been a boom not just for With federal and provincial governments Sales from the Greater Toronto Area, and other the County, but rural and regional Ontario. would have easier access to a ramp. Here dawnthehighlander.ca larger cities and towns. They simply want spending record amounts of money to are the reasons it would not work on Our neighbours in The City of Kawartha stimulate the economy, at some point there ROB MCCAIG | Sales to get away from the COVID hotspots, Lakes, Muskoka, and Bancroft are seeing Claude Brown Road: Sales whether just for a break, or permanently. will be a reckoning for taxpayers. robthehighlander.ca similar trends. People are also flocking to In addition, we know that small business 1. There is no room for turning around to There are stories such as Toronto condo rural properties, such as small acreages, owners desperately wanting to sell up is the backbone of the Haliburton County back in, especially for pontoon boats. ADMIN and hobby farms, outside of larger urban and Canadian economy. Sure, real estate is 2. If two or three boaters arrive at GLENDA MUMFORD and find a cottage they can convert to centres. four seasons. They are worn down by doing well, but what about the other small the same time, it will certainly hold Business Manager The last time Haliburton County saw this businesses in Haliburton County? experiences such as having to wait 20 type of real estate boom was between 2000 up traffic. Also, it will infringe on the adminthehighlander.ca minutes each time they want to take the Only time will tell. We hope many made nearby cottages, where young children are and 2007. enough money over the summer to sustain elevator down, or up, to access the out-of- The thing with booms is, after each one, playing. PRODUCTION doors. The city has set limits of a maximum them through a lean winter. We hope they there is a bust, or at least a correction in the will be around next spring when the virus 3. When you come down Claude Brown LYELCA RODRIGUES of three people in lifts, and 20-minute waits market. HAVE AN OPINION? Road it runs right into the cottage road will hopefully be under control and our Production Manager Local realtors acknowledge the bubble economy return to some semblance of lyelcathehighlander.ca where the ramp would have to be built normal. right on and off of the road. Would it April Martin sent in this photograph of her dog in the fall leaves. MEGAN BLAKEScost) of building the ramp in this location make sense to build a ramp off a road, shoreline, this will certainly affect the area Production isn’t viable. like Highway 35 where it infringes on the use the ramp, who will monitor that? where they are proposing. The shoreline is The mask question main road? In this case that is what would 5. Who is responsible for liability? As covered in trees, which means DISTRIBUTIONthey would that was what terminated the use of the Wilf and Sybil Longley happen here. have to be all cut down. WALT GRIFFIN I really tried to understand the objections ramp which we used for years. Minden Hills 4. For visitors, there is no place to park The previous assessment of your council that people have to wearing a mask during public health conditions improve. their vehicles. If the thought is that only 6. With the new bylaw that the council is this pandemic. I watched the protests in the should stand. The practicalityAudited (place Circulation and 8,871 The report also cautions about reducing laws, customs and people who own a cottage on the lake can considering, restricting any change in the larger centres and the ripple of the same restrictions too quickly, as we have seen (Jan 1 - June 30, 2017) sentiment through our own communities. understandings, Canadian Media Circulation Audit - Canadian in some jurisdiction on both sides of our society would Other than for the few with legitimate the border, requiring re-imposition of Community Newspapers Association medical issues, I just can’t wrap my head quickly unravel hormonal system linked to genetic changes. constraints as the pandemic resurges. into chaos. ENVIRONMENT HALIBURTON! around why some won’t comply with an It is also noted that those who object to Defence, says it doesn’tThe Highlander actually is a local, solve independently owned andPlastic operated is everywhere. It’s difficult to As part of the refurbish, remanufacture and recycle order that is, well, good for them. the restrictions have recourse to the courts, the plastic pollutionweekly problem: newspaper plastics for Haliburton County. Pleaserecycle, note the costlySome and of toxic the objectors to incinerate, appear andto have contract, we Submitted by Susan Hay strategies to create a closed-loop system, views expressed are those of the contributors and do not where governments would have to prove have established waste, will continue to pollute even if what is harmful to latchedwildlife, onto fish conspiracy and humans. theories … theories By Jack Brezina minimising resource inputs and necessarily reflWhen ect the viewsburned, of the paper they or its owners. Liability the need for the measures being imposed on a system of Oct. 19-25 is Waste Reduction Week. It’s collected is incinerated.for incorrectly displayed or placed advertisements isPlastic limited producersthat I often have find a amusing huge role for totheir play. outer- the population. Admittedly, this route could Send your letters to [email protected] pollution and carbon emissions. The linear government in which officials, elected a great time to talk about plastic waste, fringe silliness. Others have objected to the release dioxins andto correcting heavy the metals. error in future These issues or providing Governmentsadvertising are developing rules to force be long and any ruling could be delivered by the population at large, are given the economy uses a take, make and dispose credit to be applied at the advertiser’s discretion. Letters may infringement on what they loosely call their especially single use. pose a health risk to communities located them to redesign their products using less long after a crisis has passed. authority from the collective to govern … to a few additions to litter system. be Incinerationedited for clarity and lengthfacilities and are published at the editor’s civil rights. While there are near incinerators. plastic, to clean up the throwaway economy The government also has an obligation make this a pleasant and healthy place for Eight billion dollars of material is wasted discretion. All advertising and editorial content is © 2020 Interestingly, a recently-issued report commonly found in public spaces - such are require expensive power generators that they’ve created. to ensure the restrictions are imposed us to live, described in another document every year when single-use plastics and requireThe a Highlandercontinuous Newspaper Ltd. from the Royal Society of Canada entitled: equitably, taking into consideration as disposable masks and gloves - the vast cost millions, The Ontario Ministry of the Environment, as peace order and good government. not reused or recycled. Three million tons Reconciling Civil Liberties and Public marginalized communities, and that they majority is the same: unrecyclable take-out supply of waste to keep running. It’s a more ConservationHealth and in the Parks Response is shifting to COVID-19, Ontario’s The elected officials, in consultation with of single use plastics are produced every are reduced or withdrawn as soon as it is experts, are, as they should be, delivering food containers, lightweight food wrappers, demanding waste705-457-2900 management system Blue Bindeals program with just to onethat fullyas an areapaid of for concern. year, with less than 10 per cent recycled. 123 Maple Avenue, Box 1024 deemed safe to do so. on that responsibility. Even if it causes bags and single-use packaging. overall, one that makes the energy produced by manufacturersWhile expressing and producers some empathy instead for those As has been repeated from the beginning Wilkinson, federal minister Because Ontario doesn’t have a deposit- Haliburton, Ontario K0M 1S0 us a little discomfort, we should accept Jonathan from these facilities the most expensive of of municipalities.who feel their Many liberties environmental are being trampled, of this pandemic, we are all in this together. return system, it recycles less than half what the report concludes “rights are not trumps the directions with equanimity and of the environment and climate change, all energy sources. organizations have been calling for this Behind that simplistic declaration is the most other provinces do. That means about against the collective goal of public health.” understanding. recently announced a forthcoming ban Remember when Canada took back the approach, known as Extended Producer reality that Canadians, as a group, have And, finally, even if there were no 1.5 billion plastic bottles in landfills or as of waste from the Philippines It notes that politicians have an obligation chosen to live together in a co-operative and on: bags, straws, stir stix, cutlery, plastic 1,500 tonnes Responsibility (EPR). If done properly, EPR decrees on mask wearing or size of group litter yearly. If Ontario adopted a deposit $250 to burn one to enact rules with the least amount of congenial way. This does not mean we can’t take-out containers and rings on six-packs. in June 2019? It cost regulations hold companies accountable gatherings or social distancing or hand system, we could slash that number in half. disruption to society and they are also have our disagreements, but it does point to They’re hard to recycle and have been tonne of waste at the incineration facility and giveobliged them to anrevisit incentive the restrictions to reduce they and washing, it is just plain common sense to the first step towards zero But is recycling the best solution? One an implicit societal contract to which we all protect yourself and other members of your targeted as in Burnaby, B.C. or about $375,000 in redesignimpose the onproducts a regular and basis. packaging If they choose they to ton of recycled plastic saves 5,774 Kwh have committed. This contract is the reason, immediate circle and the community at plastic waste by 2030. This is a difficult taxpayers’ money. create.continue This is with key them, to shifting they must towards explain a theirlow for the most part, we stop at stop signs, pay time for restaurant owners to be hit with of energy, 16.3 barrels of oil, 98 million What about the health effects of so much reasons, or ease back on the restrictions as large by following these recommendations. (300 words max) energy, and 30 cubic yards of carbon, circular economy that conserves our taxes and help our neighbours. Without People lose nothing by wearing a mask, but BTUs of another complication, however we can’t use plastic in our daily lives? Many plastics resources and creates local green jobs. compliance with these and the many other landfill space. But since it costs less to they risk everything if they don’t. COVID to justify not addressing the single- absorb organic contaminants, such as There are alternatives to single use Thursday January 19 2017 | Issue 271 TheHighlander use plastic crisis. make a new bottle from virgin plastic, there the pesticide DDT and polychlorinated 5 plastic, but ideally, our society will move Editorial opinion To reflect and promote pride in the culture, Thursday February 9 2017 | Issue 274 Reader doesn’t think we’re ‘overrun’ by tourists | Issue 274 Dear editor, is little incentive to recycle plastic. here from around the world without costing Haliburton County a cent in advertising The Ouch! If I was about to book a week’s PHOTO OF THE WEEK Highlander The key to waste reduction of costs. vacation for my family in the Haliburton Short-term rentals offer a unique biphenyls (PCBs). These can pass through accommodation experience. In parts of Highlands, I would be looking elsewhere the Highlands where accommodations are Editorial after reading this paragraph in the people and landscape of The ighlands limited, short-term rentals fill a void. away from disposable products and Jan,12 Highlander regarding short-term rentals: From a retailer point of view, short-term 5 “So, it’s time for Dysart and the other rentals bring good fortune and prosperity. Not enough info to dismissopinion ranked ballots municipalities to do their homework, pick a For cottagers trying to pay their municipal D ear editor solution that works for them and hopefully taxes, short-term rentals are a blessing. , What about incineration? 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Many people rely on rental income Jim Milne Vito Buonsante, from Environmental various cottage associations. The paper to keep the family cottage in the family. The good old days weren’tHaliburton so bad should try to do a better job of balancing Dear Circular systems reuse, these special interest groups with the Andy Rickard editor, Minden businesses and people of Haliburton County The environment weighs heavily on everyone’s mind, however, there are many to go two blocks diapers because we. We w things we have ashed the baby Health care and the Internet prosperity. forgotten over the years of away kind filling ourdidn’t landfills. have We the driedthrow’s our clothes on a Dear editor, I can remember when we physician, even in the same building? mach line not in an energy-gobb bottles, sod ine burning up 220 vo Send your letters to [email protected] Why is there not a connection between a and beer returned milk solar power really did dry our clothes backli Much has been reported about high speed They would send themb backottles to to the the plant sto to lts ng in o . Wind and Internet. I thought hospitals and medical the hospitals, emergency departments, be washed and sterilized and re. ur early day and medical centres for accessing tests? same clothes from th s. 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But, we return on Sunday But back to one, two and then through. found cleats anywhere! d obv weather didn’t seemt, from to bethe helping kenne either. my then through technique doesn’t really hit it quite inc iously and I expect you all to keep quiet about the redulo Big fat white fl l, the us that she and soon the backyardakes of was carp snow, even if it’s piled could snow began to fall ledg fluffy whit es. up to the windo e. Then Lit eted in If you see my lovely wife, just smile, w tle Z added to my nod, and for Pete holiday! ’s sake, don’t mention the Thursday January 14 2021 | Issue 473 TheHighlander 11 Highlander news Minden council to continue landfilling at Scotch Line By Lisa Gervais external surface water so it will continue to appear even after capping. She said staff, Faced with a report that could see the the ministry and consultants’ GHD agree township spending thousands of dollars to it would be best to stop landfilling the deal with two continuing leachate seeps area and leave a buffer around the existing at the Scotch Line landfill, Coun. Jean surface water course. That would mean a Neville raised the prospect of starting to loss of 2.5 years capacity at the landfill. ship household waste offsite rather than However, there would still be 10-15 years pouring more money into the beleaguered of good capacity at the site, Stephen said. town dump. As for continued landfilling in the west, In a report to the Dec. 17 meeting, she said it needs final cover to reduce the manager of waste facilities, Tara Stephen impacts of the western leachate seep. updated council on the leachate outbreaks. If cover doesn’t work, she said the She said the “good news” is the source Ministry of the Environment and Climate The Scotch Line landfill. File photo. of the outbreak was actually surface water Change (MOECC) wants contingencies. flowing through the landfill, which means in the long run that we should be maybe material and excessively steep slopes. She said these include: installing a the township can focus on much simpler, starting a transfer consideration now.” He also wrote, “an alternative option for French drain and leachate collection sump more cost-effective solutions. She said Stephen said she wouldn’t recommend managing the leachate seeps is to finish ($50,000 to $100,000 and operating costs of in order to stop the rain and snow melt transferring household waste as it’s re-grading all slopes, apply final cover to $30,000-a-year; installing a reactive barrier flowing through garbage, the water needs “enormously” expensive. the entire landfill site and ship all waste off to treat groundwater before discharge to be “encouraged” to roll off the site. She She added a lot of the problems at Scotch site going forward. ($100,000 to $200,000 and operating costs said the site’s been graded which is helping. Line are historical, pre-dating current staff “Closing the landfill site would avoid of $1,000-a-year) or installing constructed However, the most important thing is to cap and council. the capital costs for closure in Phase 2 wetlands ($20,000 to $50,000-an-acre and it, where landfilling is done, with something She added they now have the tools and ($340,000) but would incur an approximate operating costs of $20,000-a-year). such as clay or an engineered alternative. resources and a good working relationship annual expenditure of $500,000 to ship At this point, Neville said, “it seems She said interim cover is needed where with the ministry. household waste offsite. Staff do not like we’re doing Band-aids and major landfilling is not complete. Director of public works, Travis Wilson, recommend site closure,” he said. reconstruction and if you think of With continued landfilling in the noted in a written report that staff had Council adopted the plan to be sent to the somebody’s body, we’re amputating this southeast, Stephen said it is impacted by successfully tackled two other major issues MOECC. and trying to bandage up that and I just see at the landfill: accumulated stockpiles of

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For news and COVID-19 updates check the Visit ontario.ca/coronavirus TheHighlander.ca Paid for by the Government of Ontario Thursday January 14 2021 | Issue 473 TheHighlander 13 Highlander business Horror decor: Zombie gnomes descend on Haliburton By Joseph Quigley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Haliburton’s newest business is bringing a unique product to the County: hordes of zombie gnomes. Casper and Sadie Revenant are the owners of RevenantFX Canada and recently moved to Highlands East The pair, originally from Newmarket, make handcrafted gnomes and other creatures with a horror theme, which they sell online. Casper Revenant said they have made the creatures since 2012. He added the business began unintentionally. “We made a few of the gnomes for family and friends. Maybe we could sell a few of them. We posted the pictures online; they went viral and we’ve just been doing it ever since.” The crafts range in price from $30-100. Besides gnomes, their wares also include accessories such as fairy doors and other creatures including squirrels, rabbits and a hybrid crocodile-penguin called a “crocopenguidill.” Their creations can also take topical themes; one recent gnome creation holds a sign asking passersby to return home “Anything with horror and decor involved, we kind of have our fingers in now,” he said. The concept came for their mutual RevenantFX, an online-based company that sells zombie gnomes, has moved to Highlands East. Photo submitted. interest in the genre. On Facebook, they name media that inspired them such as the and running. They said they came to the “It’s strangely enough been kind of good us - kind of due to (the gnomes’) nature - Walking Dead, Dawn of the Dead and 28 County out of love for cottage country. for us,” he said. “People are buying a lot you have to have a good sense of humour. Days Later. “There are space and forests, and where from artists online from Etsy.” So, we get to meet a lot of fun people,” “We’re both big fans of horror, horror better can you make gnomes?” Revenant The peculiar nature of the crafts makes Revenant said. “We’re really excited to be movies and zombie movies especially,” he said. them appealing, he said. He added they can up here and really excited to be part of this said. “So, the idea came – what can we do The business owner said Halloween is not always catch attention, whether positive or community.” with zombies and stuff? Gnomes just came even their busiest season, adding they have negative. The store is available via RevenantFX. about naturally.” lots of orders for gifts around Christmas. He The best part of the job is the people they com or etsy.com/ca/RevenantFX. The pair is still getting their workshop up further said the pandemic has had a positive get to meet, the artist said. impact on their store. “The people that buy the gnomes from Art student takes chance to give autoshop vintage facelift By Joseph Quigley Verhoeve said she has done a lot of Local Journalism Initiative Reporter different jobs in her career – from horse farming to greenhouse supervising – and is Despite not having any experience working a hairstylist by trade. But in the auto shop, on cars, integrated design student Sarah she saw a chance to apply the skills she is Verhoeve jumped on the opportunity to start learning in school – and gain some new at Louie’s Car Care. ones. The Haliburton School of Art + Design “I’m that type of person that wants to student joined the auto detailing shop try every job I can,” she said. “I saw an in December and plans to renovate the opportunity to learn new skills. It might be business situated at the former home of something I could do full time.” Stan’s Garage on County Road 118. The pandemic is impacting the business, She said she hopes to use her design skills but Lauricella said it is positive. Although to bring a fresh look to the shop, harkening they are working within COVID back to a 1950s vibe with a waiting room restrictions, the business is staying busy, more open to “gab.” versus last year when they shut down for “It would be cool if we could turn this into the winter due to a lack of customers. a new place to hang out when you get your “It’s been bringing us more business car detailed,” Verhoeve said. “I want to start than ever because people want their cars bringing in vintage car posters and neon all clean. After we clean their cars, we signs.” sanitize,” Lauricella said. The garage has changed since it moved The pair said they hope to complete their into the new spot two years ago, adding renovations and give the shop a new look more services, according to owner Louis by the end of the year. Lauricella. He said Verhoeve has picked up “We want it to be like Louie’s shop the trade fast. instead of Stan’s Garage,” Verhoeve said. “I’ve been teaching her all the stuff I “A new landmark and an easier flowing know. She does amazing work,” he said. Student Sarah Verhoeve joined Louie’s Car Care with a goal to give the auto shop a new business.” look. Photo by Joseph Quigley 14 TheHighlander Thursday January 14 2021 | Issue 473 Highlander arts Readers can expect sex, drugs and rock and roll By Lisa Gervais He said he’s written and recorded He credits the lake in part with finally about 260 songs at Grant Avenue Studio getting all of those stories down on paper. With a book cover depicting psychedelic in Hamilton (home of artists such as “I was canoeing across the lake one colours, a guitar-wielding, hat-wearing, Johnny Cash, Emmy-Lou Harris, Gordon morning and I wrote a couple of songs skeleton juggling dice and playing cards, Lightfoot, U2, Radio Head) “and too many and then sang them to some receptive ears all while smoking a stogie, you know you contemporary artists to list,” he said. on the other shore. I returned home and are in for an interesting read with Kennisis He said the book, entitled Cold Cold started writing this and I did not stop until I Lake resident John Leo Organ’s recently- Heart, is autobiographical, “with stories that finished on Jan. 1 of last year.” published book. only could have happened in the sixties, Organ published the book himself with Organ, who’s lived on the lake for five seventies, eighties. It’s your basic sex, help from Friesen Press. He also designed years, is a singer and songwriter who’s drugs, rock and roll that has been written in the covers, proof-read it and did rewrites. worked with many producers and artists. a way that it is an easy read for almost all “It took me three months to write it and He’s shared countless hours between ages; especially anybody who went through I then waited five months for friends, sessions gabbing and trading stories in the those wild decades … a lot of fun and former wives and girlfriends to return my studio and at people’s homes. humour, yet it is indeed a heart soul story.” legal name release forms,” he added. “I have been told, and urged by friends The last 100 pages are lyrics and the Organ thinks the book will appeal to and professionals for decades, to write some stories behind each song. He said the book people from 14 to 114 years old. of my exciting tales in a heady book and would be great for those trying to learn Cold Cold Heart is available at Masters I finally found the time,” Organ told The how to write songs and who are looking Bookstore on Highland Street in Haliburton. Highlander. John Leo Organ has written a book entitled for something different. The Haliburton Library also has copies. Cold Cold Heart. Photo submitted.

Straight out of the camera The Haliburton Highlands Camera Club has released winners from its straight out of camera contest. Members could take pictures of any subject but no post processing was allowed. The objective was to take the best shot using the optimal camera settings. Winners were: first advanced ‘watchful waiting’ by Amin Shivji; first intermediate ‘wasp on coneflower’ by Gordon Sheehan and first novice ‘spring snow’ by Lorry Brandon. The club continues to be active online and holds monthly meetings by Zoom. Visit highlandscameraclub.ca to view competition images and follow them on Facebook. (Lisa Gervais) Thursday January 14 2021 | Issue 473 TheHighlander 15 Highlander investigates

HIGHLANDER INVESTIGATES Thieves have been busy across the Highlands Continued from page 1 A long-time resident, he doesn’t think the Downtown Haliburton businesses have drug problem has gotten any worse over seen their fair share of break-ins over the the years, with the possible exception of past few years. But thieves have been busy opioid use. across the Highlands, police say. “And how the opioid crisis got started While the Dec. 9 incident was clearly is debatable but appears to have been related to drugs, OPP statistics indicate started by drug companies and doctors by that in nearly every major drug bust they mistake. And now they’re trying to shut made in Haliburton County in 2020, they that down but once that wheel gets rolling, also seized stolen items from businesses or it’s hard to stop. It’s pretty addictive stuff.” residences. Schell said the fact he doesn’t think the On Nov. 1, 2019, they had their problem has gotten any worse does not first big breakthrough after months of mean that there isn’t a drug problem in investigations, busting a major theft and Haliburton County. drug ring. However, “I don’t think the drug “We were able to have our teams go out problem we have in Haliburton County is and execute a number of warrants and a any worse than many, many other towns number of arrests, seized drugs, recovered such as ours. I’m not going to vilify skid steers, trailers, boats, snowmobiles Haliburton County as being the drug etcetera,” Spong said. capital of Ontario. I quite honestly feel Looking at the seized property summary that most retail business people around for Haliburton County for 2020, police here feel like we’re in one of the safest recovered 251 items, valued at $76,000 communities going. That’s how I feel as of Nov. 29, 2020. In 2019, by contrast, about it. I’m not worried about the lady they seized 118 items worth $39,000. who just came in the store here pulling a gun on me.” Haliburton Highlands OPP Constable Christopher Darling keeps an eye out for crime. Minden Hills councillor, Jennifer Photo by Lisa Gervais. Different perceptions Hughey, who witnessed a drug bust on CPAC group. the street she lives on in November 2020, Plan in the works Having said that, she noted that the about problem said she can see a link between residential Warden Liz Danielsen told The County has assumed responsibility, Luke Schell is president of the Haliburton property crime and drugs. Highlander that drug problems were not on behalf of its partner municipalities, Business Improvement Association (BIA). She said last summer, at the end of the part of the purview of Haliburton County to develop a Community Safety and He said with all of the break-ins over driveway of a suspected drug house, Council and that she had no internal Wellbeing Plan, as directed by the the past three years, it appears to him there was a yard sale and “when you see knowledge about the depth of a problem province. She said that it isn’t likely that that only one - at the pharmacy before seven bicycles lined up, you realize that that might exist within the county. the County would play a role in any Christmas - was definitely drug-related. the people who live in that house, there’s “Do we have a drug problem in police board yet to be established adding “He went in with a gun and demanded no need for all of those bicycles. Those Haliburton? I’d say there might be some however that, “once developed, the plan drugs … that’s a pretty easy one,” Schell bicycles have probably been stolen and issues but I don’t know the extent of that will provide a better opportunity for police said. were used to buy drugs, or the money for sure,” she said. “And saying that there to work with all of the agencies involved. As for the others, “how do we know that made from selling them are probably is a problem is rather subjective. Some When the [plan] is completed issues like they’re not using it (stolen items or cash) going to be used to buy drugs.” might think there’s a huge problem while drug problems in a rural community to buy food for their family? I don’t think Alex Smith emailed The Highlander in others might not, or that the police and like ours will be better dealt with by a we can just jump to the conclusion that it January of 2020 saying his Dysart et al agencies involved have things in hand. roundtable of the appropriate people.” has to do with drugs.” cottage has been broken into five times I’m sure they are all working very hard to Editor’s note: Today, The Highlander He added while an armed robbery in the over the past several years. He said he keep problems at a minimum as best they Investigates series continues with a focus downtown is naturally “concerning … filed police reports and had spoken to can.” on drugs and related property crime. We I don’t think that it is something that is Roberts. He’s pretty sure it has to do with Danielsen said policing is the mandate of kicked off the series Jan. 7 with ‘OPP going to happen a whole bunch of times in drugs. “The community needs to come the lower tier municipalities, and that the put dent in drug trade.’ In our Jan. Haliburton.” together to solve the problem,” he said. four mayors form the membership of the 21 edition, we will report on the court system.

Crime prevention tips Downtown Haliburton business break-ins • May 30, 2018 - The Source – Halco Electronics was the target of a break and from the OPP enter. Culprits made off with cellphones and other high-value items worth • Call 9-1-1 if you witness a crime in progress or a possible $10,000. crime in progress (e.g., break and enter) or a dangerous situation. • July 2-3, 2018 - The 4Cs Lily Ann Thrift Shop was broken into. Thieves took • Anonymously contact Crime Stoppers “See Something? Hear some jewelry and caused extensive damage. Something? Know Something? Contact Crime Stoppers” at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS) or by texting “Tip 201” with your message to 274637 (crimes). • Oct. 22, 2019 - Parkside Laundry in Haliburton was broken into. Cash stolen • Increase street visibility around your house so that neighbours and others can and $15,000 in damages. see if someone is in your yard or trying your door locks. • If your home is on a corner lot, your risk of burglary increases, so be sure to • Dec. 26, 2019 - Kozy Korner targeted with front door glass smashed and tip jar take additional security precautions. stolen. Thousands of dollars in damage. • Thieves prefer residents not to be home, so leave lights on, get your mail collected, and take other steps to make it look like someone is home. • Dec. 29, 2019 - Parkside Laundry broken into again. Someone tried to steal • Thieves like easy pickings, so target harden your home with outside lighting, from the change machine. good locks, alarms, and other home protection devices. • Reach out, volunteer, and participate in your community. • Dec. 9, 2020 - Armed robbery for narcotics at Haliburton Highland Pharmacy. • Get to know your neighbours. When you see something suspicious, don’t hesitate to call police – promptness promotes prevention. • Anticipate - observe - report - participate - prevent. Next week: The role of courts 16 TheHighlander Thursday January 14 2021 | Issue 473 2020 year in review JULY

Infractions over Highland Wood Families of residents of Highland Wood in Haliburton are criticizing management of the long-term care home after an inspection found they failed to comply with maintenance regulations for the facility’s roof. The Ontario Ministry of Long-Term Care completed an inspection Feb. 27, finding five regulatory infractions.

Man shot by police Investigators were examining the case of a 73-year-old man who died after an altercation with police in Haliburton County July 15. The Ontario Special Investigations Unit (SIU) announced it had assigned six investigators to the case. They reported the matter began when police attended a call at the Minden Valu-mart where the man assaulted an individual. The man left in a vehicle and police later tracked him to a residence on Indian Point Road in Dysart et al. “Outside the residence, there was an interaction with the man and two officers discharged their firearms,” the SIU said in a press release. “The man was struck. He was transported to hospital where he was pronounced deceased.”

New ER doctor A new full-time emergency department physician began working for the Haliburton A tornado ripped through Kinmount in August. File photo. Highlands Health Services (HHHS), while not uncover the body they expected to find opened in May 2019, losing in the initial another was in the works for the fall, HHHS AUGUST in a spot on family property. lottery process. But after going through a CEO and president Carolyn Plummer told months-long authorization, the store hoped the board during its annual general meeting Tornado in Kinmount Back to School to be ready to open to sell recreational July 16. On a day when the Haliburton The Trillium Lakelands District School cannabis by the Labour Day weekend. Highlands Health Services Foundation Environment Canada confirmed on Aug. 3 that an EF-2 tornado with a maximum wind Board was preparing for the school year should have been staging its annual Matt with 85 per cent of its students opting for Duchene Charity Golf Classic, the board speed of 190 km/h hit Kinmount. The storm left a swathe of devastation as it tore up in-person learning. Director of education, held its first-ever AGM via Zoom due to the Wesley Hahn, spoke to the board of trustees COVID-19 pandemic. trees, snapped Hydro poles, and damaged SEPTEMBER rooves and sheds. It closed a section of Aug. 18 about back-to-school plans. After the board received a 92 per cent response Highway 121 for several hours. AH surveys about STRs Missing man found dead rate for re-registration, Hahn reported that Algonquin Highlands council agreed to go The search for a missing man ended after 85 per cent across the district were choosing Cold case continues forward with a survey to figure out how Haliburton Highlands OPP found Robert in-person learning. Smith dead at Minden Lake July 26. OPP Hands coated in muck, Mike Mildon kept it will address short-term rentals. Council on digging into a six-foot hole, seven hours held a special meeting Aug. 31 to discuss said in a press release the 55-year-old Pot shop for Haliburton into a search for his long-missing relative options. They directed staff to work on Scarborough native’s body was found at Downtown Haliburton will soon have a Harold Heaven. The lead in Mildon’s a public engagement process and bring the north end of the lake by a resident near recreational cannabis store as Capturing search for answers on the Minden man back questions that could be posed to the their dock. Smith was last seen riding a Eden received retail authorization Aug. who disappeared 86-years-ago ended in community about how the municipality motorcycle that was found in an overflow 24. The medical cannabis clinic has been parking lot off Horseshoe Lake Road. disappointment Aug. 12. He and fellow should proceed. documentary filmmaker Jackson Rowe did working to sell retail cannabis since it

There was an incident at the Minden Valu-mart that led to a shooting in the County. File. Rainbow flags were stolen from a local business. File photo. Thursday January 14 2021 | Issue 473 TheHighlander 17 2020 year in review

New development wanting space outside of cities. It’s a trend Dysart et al council got its first look at that has seen realtors reporting record the site plan for a massive new retail summers with indications the fall will be development in Haliburton but were getting just as brisk. pushback on the municipal securities requirements. The municipal committee Speeding concerns of the whole reviewed a proposed Residents and visitors’ need for speed in development at 10 Hops Dr., along County Dysart et al was a topic of discussions at the Road 21, featuring a 10,000-square-foot Oct. 13 committee of the whole meeting. retail store, a restaurant with a drive-thru There was a request by taxpayers for and a gas bar. The tenants of the buildings warning signage on Loon Lake Road, and are undetermined. to lower the speed limit on Wigamog Road.

Pride flags stolen Plans for Head Lake Park Police are investigating, and the community Dysart et al unveiled a vision for Head outraged, after a Haliburton business owner Lake Park Oct. 20 with a proposed master had his Pride flags stolen. Prettypaws Pet plan that would add a variety of new Boutique and Spa owner, Christopher features. Peterborough-based architectural O’Mara, offered a $1,000 reward for firm Basterfield and Associates was hired to information leading to the charging of oversee the plan’s creation and revealed its individuals seen on camera outside the draft to a group of municipal officials and business Sept. 6. O’Mara posted videos stakeholders. The plan envisions a massive Sept. 7 showing two people taking Pride transformation of the park and proposes flags but leaving Canadian flags. additions such as a splash pad, off-leash dog park, a new northern bridge and pathway Climate change plan approved improvements. Council approved a new Corporate Climate Change Mitigation Plan. County climate Student residence change co-ordinator Korey McKay is Dysart et al council is supporting in visiting all lower-tier townships to get principle a new student residence building approval for new plans for all of them, as at Glebe Park for the Haliburton School of Premier Doug Ford made a connectivity announcement in Minden. File photo. well as endorsements for the central County Art and Design. A delegation from Fleming plan. College presented to council Oct. 27 about Stray bullet shatters glass doors 12 initiatives for more inter-municipal progress on the development. It’s their first The Molenaar family came home recently partnerships. Their report follows months public presentation after months of closed- to an unpleasant surprise - something had of work and more than 100 interviews/ session discussions, according to Mayor smashed their glass patio doors. After workshops with councillors and staff. Andrea Roberts. canvassing their neighbours, the source was discovered: two loud gunshots heard Tourism gets funding earlier in the day. Police investigated The province announced Dec. 8 it is giving NOVEMBER but ultimately were unable to locate the the tourism organization representing culprit. Dan Molenaar said he couldn’t Haliburton Highlands to the Ottawa fathom the careless act in a fairly populated Valley region $350,000 in new funding Premier comes to Minden neighbourhood. to combat the effects of COVID-19. Premier Doug Ford announced $680 million Minister of Heritage, Sport, Tourism and for broadband and cellular connectivity Culture Industries, Lisa MacLeod, made across the province when he visited Minden DECEMBER the announcement for RTO 11. MPP for Nov. 4. But it is not clear how many of Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock, Laurie those dollars will come locally. Ford, Scott attended the online event. joined by other officials including MPP Service delivery review Laurie Scott and Minden Hills Mayor Brent Councillors from local townships met to digest a massive services delivery review Danielsen back as warden Devolin, announced the new funding at the The luck of the draw delivered the warden’s Minden library. He said it was part of the with 12 recommendations for more collaboration that could save upwards of chair to Algonquin Highlands deputy- 2020 budget introduced Nov. 5 and will go mayor Liz Danielsen Dec. 15 following towards “shovel-ready projects” to connect $1.18 million annually. Toronto-based consultant, StrategyCorp., presented a four-four tie vote between her and underserved communities. Minden Hills Mayor Brent Devolin. To A new Minden housing project was break the tie, the mayor of the township announced. File photo. YWCA gets donation with the highest weighted assessment, Peterborough-based philanthropists, Dysart’s Andrea Roberts, had to pick the David and Patricia Morton of the Morton winning name. “This is not fun,” Roberts OCTOBER Foundation, have made a $50,000 donation said, before drawing Danielsen’s name to the YWCA Haliburton County. The from an envelope containing both warden Minden gets housing YWCA made the announcement Nov. 5. candidates’ names on equal sized pieces of Minden is getting 30 new affordable paper. housing rental units thanks to a public- Snowbirds face winter travel dilemma private partnership between a long-time Local snowbirds Greg Freeman and Jeff Haliburton County back in lockdown cottager and the Kawartha Lakes Haliburton Papiez are preparing to travel to their Local businesses were bracing for Housing Corporation (KLH). Corporation Florida abode to escape winter’s chill. challenging times ahead as the province CEO, Hope Lee, made a presentation to In a normal year, they said they probably announced Dec. 21 it was plunging Minden Hills council’s Sept. 24 meeting. would have left already. But the pandemic Haliburton County and the rest of Ontario The private landowner is Bill Switzer. Tim has delayed their usual schedule and left into another lockdown. Premier Doug Welch, of Welch and Associates, joined them with challenging choices on how Ford said the restrictions would begin Dec. Lee. They are the development consultant safe it is to travel. The pair decided to 26. The move meant the end of indoor assisting with the project. make the trip and fly – citing the safety organized gatherings beyond households, precautions of their gated community. But no dine-in at restaurants and most retail Real estate booms other snowbirds are choosing to roost in limited to curbside pickup or delivery. 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Based on 2019 residential transactions sides. Source: CREA, RE/MAX VINCE DUCHENEBROKER Thursday January 14 2021 | Issue 473 TheHighlander 19 Highlander community Bingo! Canoe game a winner for local charities By Joseph Quigley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter CanoeFM is donating $50,988 to five local charities after record-breaking fundraising numbers from its radio bingo program in the past six months. Station manager, Roxanne Casey, said they raised more than $100,000 in that time, the highest total since it began. Half will go to CanoeFM, while the other half will be split amongst donation recipients, with $10,000 each going to Fuel for Warmth, the Central East Heat Bank and Minden Community Food Centre, and $10,494 each to the Abbey Retreat Centre and the Friends of the Haliburton County Public Library. Every Tuesday at 6 p.m., CanoeFM reads out bingo numbers, with cash prizes on the line. Casey said the pandemic has contributed to the event’s greater popularity, with the station selling 736 sheets this past week, more than double this time last year. “Radio bingo became almost like a household word,” Casey said. “It’s just become like a fun thing to do and you don’t Left: Volunteer receptionist Nicki Hagarty holds a radio bingo sheet at the CanoeFM office Jan. 8. The contest raised more than need to go anywhere to do it.” $100,000 in the past six months. Photo by Joseph Quigley. Right: CanoeFM’s radio bingo has attracted an array of new players, with The fundraising runs in six-month ticket sales doubling compared to this time last year. Photo by Roxanne Casey. intervals, based on the lottery licence. Fuel for Warmth executive director, commitment.” better,” Casey said. “People are not going The January-June 2020 period raised Joanne Barnes, said the donation is greatly Casey said the funding is also a boost anywhere. They’re still at home and it gives approximately $63,550, with half that going appreciated. on the radio side, allowing them to cover them something to do. Even once this is to Minden Community Food Centre. “I was so surprised to be given such a broadcasting expenses such as equipment over, I think it will still carry on. But Casey said with dollars rising, it made lovely donation of funds … It will certainly and licencing fees. However, the money is “We really appreciate people supporting sense to start sharing the wealth. allow us to assist more families in need,” disallowed for operational expenses. radio bingo.” “COVID hits people really hard, so we Barnes said. “I give my most sincere She said she expects the game to keep its Tickets are available at the station or felt it was really important to make sure thanks for the money, but also for the popularity. grocery and convenience stores throughout we were supporting those organizations,” trust of the community who recognize our “The next run will be as good, if not the County. Casey said. BUSINESS ADVISORIES | COVID-19 LOCAL BUSINESS ADJUSTMENTS & CLOSURES

Transat Travel – Operating remotely, contact by email: linda. available to our clients, using text/telephone 705-457-4673 and we are accepting essential workers only. Call 705-457-1027 for [email protected] or call 705-457-3290. email [email protected]. information. Cordell Carpet – Open for curb-side pickup. Monday to John Fountain Electronics – Hours of operation, Tuesday Riverview Furniture – Open offering curbside and delivery. Friday, 7.30 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. Saturday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Email through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 9.30 a.m. / half hour those Call or email 705-286-3167 or [email protected] [email protected] or call 705-457-2022 or cordellcarpet. mornings for curb-side pickup. Wintergreen Maple – Open by chance or appointment ca. Up River Trading Co. - uprivertrading.com is open for business (curbside) anytime your schedule allows. Call 705-286-3202. Algonquin Outfitters – Full details of operations can be found and we’re doing curbside pickup in Minden and Haliburton Subway Minden & Subway Haliburton – Open 7 days from 7 at algonquinoutfitters.com/covid-19-dec-28-2020 and for on request. Call us at 705-286-1015. Our cafe remains closed a.m. to 9 p.m. for takeout and remote order pickup only. Haliburton store at algonquinoutfitters.com/store-location/ during lockdown. haliburton. Offering curbside pickup and rentals as well as Glass Eagle Studios on Blairhampton Road - During the The Haliburton Real Estate Team – Is Business as (UN)Usual. lockdown we will be open to sell our honey. Call Tom at 705- online sales at algonquinoutfitters.com or call 1-705-457-3737 We’re here to help you buy or sell. Call Linda at 705-457-6508. for local service. 286-3628. County Automotive – Open by appointment only. The office is Outdoors Plus – Open but can only have one person in the Contact North – Haliburton – Take advantage of online closed to customers at this time. Drop off your vehicle only. Call workplace and skills training, high school, post-secondary store at a time. Currently keeping regular hours Mon-Fri 8 a.m.- 705-457-1411 or [email protected]. 6 p.m., Sat 8 a.m.-5 p.m., Sun 8 a.m -3 p.m. This can change programming with support from Contact North in Haliburton. quickly, call store to make sure we are available. 705-457-3113. Parker Pad & Printing – Open 8.30 a.m.– 3.30 p.m, Monday- Help available at 1-855-867-9528 or www.studyonline.ca. Friday. We can process all orders via phone, email and digital Tim Hortons – Minden and Haliburton are open for drive-thru WRD Cottage Rental Agency – Still taking bookings ad upload. Drop off/pick up location in front vestibule. 705-457- accepting cottage rentals for this 2021 Summer season. Call 705- and walk-in take out. 12597 Highway 35, Minden & 5003 CR 2458 or [email protected]. 21, Haliburton. 457-9434. Fleming CREW Employment Services – All in-person Walkers Heating & Cooling – Open for 24/7 emergency Buckley Electric – Open. Serving Haliburton County. Call 705- services suspended until further notice. Offering appointments 286-1134 or email [email protected]. service. Office closed to the public but we can be reached by virtually and by phone. Please call, email or visit website to book calling 705-457-2375 of by emailing [email protected]. Abbey Gardens Food Hub – In-store shopping available. Call/ appointment. 705-457-2020 or [email protected] shop on-line for curbside pick-up. Wednesday to Saturday 10 a. or [email protected]. John Francis Fuels – We continue to provide essential services m. – 6 p.m. 705-754-4769 or abbeygardens.ca/shop-online. but our office is closed. Contact us a 705-286-2738 or office@ Taylor Carpet One – Huntsville – Our showroom is closed but johnefrancisfuels.ca. Minden Hills Rent-All - Open by appointment for sales and we are still open for curbside, Mon to Sat 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Call service of Stihl and Cub Cadet products. Also the renting of 705-789-9259 or visit taylorcarpetonehuntsville.com. Studio Rose – Open. Our web site has many things for pick equipment and party products. Call 705-286-3047. up or shipping. Call 705-286-3383 or 705-754-5099 or at Country Rose Flowers & Garden – Accepting prepaid orders studiorosepottery.com. Kubota North – Open with curbside pick up and drop off. Call by phone for pickup or delivery. Open Mon-Sat 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. 705-645-1175. at 13513 Hwy 118 W Haliburton, ON 705-457-3774. Troy Optical – Open, please call for appointment. 705-286- 0727 or troyoptical.com. The Pregnancy Care & Family Support Centre – Remains Lakeview Motel – Open, however business not as usual and

If you have updates on business hours and operations, please email them to [email protected]. They will be posted free of charge in the paper and online. To save space, please keep messages to 25 words. If you would like to place a larger ad to let people know you are open (or closed), please email [email protected]. 20 TheHighlander Thursday January 14 2021 | Issue 473 Highlander community Minden Pride gets new chair and plans for 2021 By Lisa Gervais community and continuing to build on the success achieved by Minden Pride over the Minden Pride has announced a new chair past fi ve years.” for 2021 and will discuss its future during a On behalf of the committee he thanked Zoom meeting scheduled for Jan. 21. Rankin for his leadership. Allan Guinan, in a Jan. 11 press release, To introduce Guinan and the rest of the said he has taken over the chair’s seat committee, and to bring the public up to from David Rankin, who will remain on date on its purpose, plan and activities the committee after for 2021 and beyond, serving in the top Minden Pride is hosting job for the past three I am passionate a virtual town hall. years. The Zoom meeting A cottager in about promoting will be on Thursday, Jan. Minden Hills for and engaging with 21 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. more than 16 years, Register by Tuesday, Jan. Guinan said he and the local LGBTQ2+ 19 at info@mindenpride. his husband have community and ca. built a new home and “We invite you to retired to the County. continuing to build on participate so we can hear He said he brings the success achieved from you: what are we many years of doing well, what could experience leading a by Minden Pride over we do better, and what successful Canadian would you like to see us do design agency and the past fi ve years.” going forward to support has been actively LGBTQ2+ and allies in involved in volunteer our comunity?” Guinan organizations at both Allan Guinan said. the provincial and Pride committee chair Minden Pride national levels. is a volunteer “I have been involved with Minden Pride driven, non profi t Haliburton County for two years,” Guinan said. “Initially as committee operating as part of volunteer coordinator and most recently as Haliburton County Community secretary and member of the management Cooperative Inc. HCCC Inc.) and is team. I am passionate about promoting comprised of residents and local business and engaging with the local LGBTQ2+ owners. New Minden Pride committee chair, Allan Guinan. Photo submitted. INFORMATION PAGE 7 Milne Street, PO Box 359 Minden ON K0M 2K0 Phone: 705-286-1260 Toll Free 1-844-277-1260 Fax: 705-286-4917 • www.mindenhills.ca @Township.Minden.Hills Minden Hills@twpmindenhills IN CASE OF EMERGENCY DIAL 911 AFTER-HOURS MUNICIPAL EMERGENCY DIAL 1-866-856-3247

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Council and Committee of the Whole Please continue to Requests for Tax Statements can be mailed to the Winter sand is now available at the meetings are currently being conducted observe social distancing following address, or placed in the Township drop upper parking lot of the S.G. Nesbitt virtually via web conference and Closed practices when you visit box labelled and located on the north wall of the Memorial Community Centre, by the Session meetings via teleconference, until a Minden Hills waste site. Administration building facing Pritchard Lane and the Skate Park. Please note this is for further notice. Meetings begin at 9:00 AM Leave 2m (6ft) between Municipal parking lot. It is accessed from the wheelchair Individual Use Only – No Commercial unless otherwise noted. yourself and others on entrance and is at the top of the first ramp. Users please. site. Thank you! The schedule of upcoming meetings are: Absolutely no cash is to be deposited in the drop box. Waste Reduction Tip January 14 – Budget Committee Meeting Notice – 2021 Budget Township of Minden Hills, PO Box 359, #7 Milne Street, Switching from sandwich bags to January 28 – Regular Council Meeting Deliberations Minden, ON K0M 2K0 reusable containers and jars can save you $60-$120 per year! Members of the Public are invited to The Council of the Please include your name, the property roll number, Go one step further by reusing pasta observe Council proceedings by joining a Corporation of the a mailing address, as well as an email address and/ and jam jars – they cost you nothing live-stream link available on the township Township of Minden Hills or phone number with your request. Requests will be extra and last for years. website at www.mindenhills.ca/council/ will commence the 2nd emailed if an email address is provided; otherwise the or by using the direct link provided in the round of its 2021 Budget statement will be mailed through Canada Post. notice. We encourage those wishing to deliberations during its Riverwalk Winter Usage & view the meeting to also download the Special Council Meeting Requests must be accompanied by a cheque for the Wetlands Boardwalk Update agenda, as it will not be displayed during the via web conference applicable fee of $10.00, for each property roll. streaming process. Meeting agendas can be scheduled for January The Boardwalk is currently closed until downloaded by visiting our website at 14, 2021. Requests will be processed in accordance with further notice. The Logger’s Crossing www.mindenhills.ca/council/. COVID19 safety protocols, so please allow a minimum Bridge is cleared of snow regularly but Trisha McKibbin, of two (2) weeks for processing. If your request does is not sanded or salted. Residents are Please note the live-stream link provided for CAO/Clerk not include all of the required information or fee, the advised to “Exercise Caution” when each meeting will only be activated while 705-286-1260 ext. 505 Township will not be held responsible for any delays in using pathways as they could develop Council is in session. [email protected] providing the requested information. slippery conditions. Thursday January 14 2021 | Issue 473 TheHighlander 21 Highlander classifi eds HOME & COTTAGE

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SALES CLERK Township of Algonquin Highlands requires a Applications are being accepted for Tax Administrator a full time sales clerk position at our The Township of Algonquin Highlands is seeking Haliburton store. Responsibilities applications from quali ed persons for the position of include customer service and Tax Administrator. Reporting to the Treasurer, the Tax PeacefullyAnne on Saturday, January Willis 9, 2021, at Pleasant Manor, in Administrator is responsible for all aspects Virgil, Ontario in her 91st year. Predeceased by her husband inventory control. Successful of the Municipal taxation functions including Goldwyn (2008). Beloved mother of Warren (Audrey) and Gail billing, collections and adjustments. (Pat). Grammy of Ryan, Shawn, Sarah, Rob, Tom, and extended candidates should have a good working family, Jenn, David and Grant. She was a cherished great- knowledge of lumber products and Visit our website at: www.algonquinhighlands.ca grandmother and will be lovingly remembered by her siblings for the full job description. Irene, Alice, Olga, Joyce, Ron, George and all of their families. She was predeceased by her sister Jean. Anne enjoyed country life good computer skills. in West Guilford and spending time with her best friend, Viola. Please submit your resume and cover letter by She will also be missed by her loving border collie, Sonny. Our Please submit resumes to 3:00 p.m. on Friday, January 29, 2021 to: family would like to acknowledge the staff at Pleasant Manor, for their excellent care and communication. Mom was always secure Emmerson Lumber Limited, Dawn Mugford-Guay, and happy. Arrangements have been entrusted with Essentials Human Resources Coordinator Cremation and Burial Services. Cremation has taken place and Attention Cleve Roberts, P.O. Box 150, Township of Algonquin Highlands a memorial service will be celebrated at a later date. Donations Haliburton, ON. K0M 1S0. Or e-mail 1123 North Shore Road can be given to the Canadian Diabetes Association. Online Algonquin Highlands, ON K0M 1J1 condolences may be shared on Anne's tribute page found at [email protected]. EssentialsNiagara.com Email: [email protected] Thursday January 14 2021 | Issue 473 TheHighlander 23 Highlander puzzles

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