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Muskoka’s nursing shortage
Nurses Dorothea Tait and Jan Venturelli monitor some equipment in the obstetrics department at the South Muskoka Memorial Hospital Site.
By Sandy Lockhart
Muskoka has a shortage of nurses and it’s only going to get worse
in the next five to 10 years.
“There is absolutely a need in the community,” says Jean
Broere, project manager of Muskoka Cares. According to statistics
compiled by Muskoka Cares, a collective with interest in
health care, there is a vacancy rate of 15 per cent for Registered
Practical Nurses (RPN) and seven per cent for Registered Nurses
(RN) in Muskoka.
The overall vacancy for health service
professionals in Muskoka, according to
the survey was six per cent.
“That is probably average for the
province,” says Broere, but Muskoka’s
nursing vacancies were high.
To help deal with this shortage, the
Muskoka Cares project applied in
December for $500,000 in funding for a
three-year project to implement several
strategies to recruit and retain health care
staff.
“We need to start working now so we
can fix the problem for the future,” she
says, explaining that some strategies can
be done without funding.
In 2009, Muskoka Cares surveyed 23
health care organizations to gather the
vacancy rate and other information to
help Muskoka recruit and retain health
care staff.
“We did not include physicians and
family health teams as we already know
there is a shortage of physicians,” Broere
says. “We needed to know exactly what
was needed.”
Broere believes recruiting more health
care staff would improve the quality of
health care.
“If we have enough health care staff to
fill all positions, the workload goes down,
absenteeism improves and people are able
to spend more time with the patients,”
she says. “Now when there is a shortage
of staff, they are tired and need a break.”
Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare has
17 vacant nursing positions in the hospitals
as of January 2010. Robert Hughes,
acting chief human resources officer for
the hospitals, breaks it down into four
full-time, seven part-time, two temporary
full-time, two part-time and two
casual positions.
Hughes says nurses working in parttime
positions have scheduled part-time
hours but can pick up extra shifts and
calls to work full-time hours.
With the hospital’s debt recovery plan,
some layoffs are planned.
“We hope we are able to mitigate job
loss through our vacancies,” says Hughes,
explaining if nursing positions are cut,
those nurses could move into current
vacancies. “I don’t think we will ever eat
up all our vacancies.”
Bev McFarlane, chief nursing officer
for Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare, says
if the hospital nurses didn’t have to work
so many overtime hours, there would be
less burnout.
“A lot of our nurses really have an obligation
to patients and say yes when they
would rather not,” she says of them being
called in to work overtime. McFarlane
would like overtime to be the exception,
not the rule. Filling these vacant positions
would also save the hospitals
money, as it would have to pay less overtime.
She says attracting nurses is about
recruitment and retention.
“We don’t want them all to retire at
55,” says McFarlane. “We want their
expertise and knowledge. How do you
structure it so they are able to work past
their first retirement opportunity?”
Muskoka Cares is the result of eight
organizations with interest in the health
care field in Muskoka. When recognizing
the shortage of healthcare staff, they
joined together and applied for funding
for a one-year pilot project to look at
Muskoka’s situation. The Muskoka Cares
Steering Committee is made up of representatives
from Georgian College’s
Muskoka Campus, Muskoka Algonquin
Healthcare Corporation, North Simcoe
Muskoka Local Health Integration Network,
North Simcoe Muskoka Workforce
Labour Board, Northern Ontario
School of Medicine, Nipissing University’s
Muskoka Campus, Ontario Ministry
of Training, Colleges and Universities
and the District of Municipality of
Muskoka.
Muskoka’s 23 healthcare organizations
employ 1,326 healthcare employees with
about one third employed in acute care,
one third in nursing homes and one third
in community care and retirement
homes. According to research findings,
half of the positions were assisting positions
(personal support workers, guest
attendants, unregulated care providers).
The other half were RNs (27 per cent),
RPNs (13 per cent), allied professionals
(10 per cent) and nurse practitioners
(two per cent).
Broere says they found that only 43
per cent of the positions were full time,
40 were part time and 17 per cent were
temporary casual. Fifteen per cent of the
employees held two or more healthcare
jobs.
While the whole province of Ontario
and even all of Canada is facing a
growing undersupply of healthcare
employees, Muskoka will face the prob-
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Photograph: Don MacTavish

lem even sooner. The median age of
Muskoka’s population is 45 compared to
39 for the rest of the province, and 20 per
cent of Muskoka’s population is 65 and
over compared to the rest of Ontario at
14 per cent.
“Within five years, we are looking at
losing a large number of staff. The same
thing as throughout Ontario, but we just
see it a little sooner here,” Broere says.
The survey also found that 48 per cent
of Muskoka’s healthcare staff could retire
within 10 years. According to the report,
over half of Muskoka’s workforce was 45
or older, and 27 per cent would likely be
retired or semi-retired within five years.
Originally the steering committee
thought there would be a shortage of personal
support workers but the study
found the vacancy rate for personal
support workers was just three per cent.
“Georgian College offered the personal
support worker program at the local
Muskoka campus” Broere says. “It
worked and filled the gap.”
The Muskoka Cares survey found
most of Muskoka’s health care organizations
have had the most success recruiting
locally, but had little success recruiting
from outside Muskoka.
Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare management
wants to structure things at the
hospital so staff members are able to
work past their first retirement opportunity.
They’ve also brought in a lot of training
opportunities and help nurses to gain
experience and training in their chosen
area.
Through the Ministry of Health and
Long-Term Care’s Nursing Secretariat,
there is a program in place to fund new
graduate nurses working in the hospitals.
“We like to place them with senior
experienced nurses,” McFarlane says.
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“We take full advantage of it every year.”
About 80 per cent of the students that
start here through the introductory program
end up staying in Muskoka. “It is
our most successful recruitment tool,”
says McFarlane.
Hughes notes that Muskoka has some
seasonal staff who work here only in the
summer.
“We have nurses who take off for the
winter and fill in for sumer. We have that
in Muskoka and we are able to capitalize
on it,” he says.
The fact that the hospitals are in
Muskoka is a recruitment tool, he says.
“We want that branding.”
Many new staff decide to move to
Nurse loves living in Muskoka
Myles Sutherland was happy to leave
the city and move to Huntsville to work
as a nurse.
He joined Huntsville District
Memorial Hospital about two years ago
and says it was a great move for he and
his family.
“We had two young kids and we just
wanted to move out of the city,” he says.
They had always vacationed in
Muskoka and thought about relocating
to the area. Finding their dream home
was the thing that convinced them to
make the move.
Sutherland had run his own business
in central Ontario. He was conducting
clinical trials, dealing with employees
and with the stress of being selfemployed,
was ready for a change.
When the right home became available
just north of Huntsville, Sutherland
and his wife bought it and moved
north.
“I put in my resume (at Muskoka
Algonquin Healthcare) at 3:30 p.m.
and by 5:30 p.m. they called for an
interview.
Bev Lawson, a nurse at the South Muskoka Memorial Hospital Site, rolls
an IV tower down the hall.
“They had a position here as a float
nurse, in ER, ICU and surgical,” he
says, explaining that it sounded like an
interesting job.
He took the job and his wife, also in
the medical field, got a job in the hospital
in the ultrasound department.
Sutherland really likes the variety that
his job offers.
“You never know what comes
through the door and I always get to be
where I’m needed. I may sit beside a
dying person and talk to them or an
ambulance may bring someone in on a
stretcher. You just start doing what you
were trained to do.”
He always knew he wanted to be a
nurse.
“My mom was a nurse and then I did
a co-op in high school and it sold me,”
he says. “Nursing opens doors to a lot of
things. It is very broad. That is what I
liked.”
Sutherland is enjoying working in the
hospital and living in Muskoka.
“We love it,” he says. “I really enjoy
the people and the small community.”
Muskoka because they want to change
their lifestyle to avoid the hustle and bustle
of major cities.
“A lot want the closeness to nature,”
says McFarlane. “It’s the kids who went
to summer camp here or went to
Algonquin park. They made a conscious
decision to choose this area.”
To recruit and retain staff, the Muskoka
Cares group has applied to the Ministry
of Food, Agriculture and Rural
Affairs through the Rural Economic
Development Program, which is
devoted to improving access to health
care in rural communities. They hope to
hear a response in the next few months.
The Muskoka Cares group would like
to make high school students more aware
of health care opportunities by promoting
those careers through the schools and
to the public in general. They also found
that accommodation was an issue and
would like to be able offer some sort of
accommodation support to new health
care recruits. Some financial education
supports would also be put in place.
To support employees who want to
further their education, a peer mentoring
program will be explored. A youth
internship program is also proposed.
Marketing and recruitment tools, such
as a video, logo and website may be
created to help encourage employees to
come to work and live in Muskoka.
Expanded training opportunities for students,
partnership training proposals and
workplace learning with improved access
to technology are all part of the plan.
The Muskoka Cares project will unite
resources and employers in Muskoka
and will support the retention and
recruitment of all health care occupations,
according to the report.
Broere stresses that the competition is
tough and Muskoka must work hard to
recruit new health care professionals and
retain the ones who are already here.
“There are recruiting campaigns in the
areas that surround us,” she says. In the
next two years the Royal Victoria Hospital
in Barrie will be hiring 1,300 healthcare
staff including 700 nurses. Simcoe
County is opening 140 new long-term
care beds, North Bay will be hiring 300
more nurses and Peterborough Regional
Healthcare Centre will be hiring 652 staff
including 458 nurses.
“While waiting for the funding, work
will still be going on behind the scenes,”
she says. “A strong healthcare supply is
part of the foundation of a health community.”
Myles Sutherland moved to Muskoka and took a position as a nurse at
the Huntsville District Memorial Hospital
Photograph: Don MacTavish
Photograph: Sandy Lockhart

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Board game is a blast for boomers
By Sandy Lockhart
Several weekends of playing games
at the cottage to pass the time led Barb
Lawson to make her own.
After about two years of research
and preparation, About Us Boomer +
Edition is now available to the public.
“It was a combination of things,”
says the Sparrow Lake cottager and
owner of About Us Games. “It evolved
from a couple of weekends at the
cottage of inclement weather and
game playing.”
About Us Boomer + Edition is
designed for baby boomers and older
– those born between 1934 and 1964.
The information for the game was
gathered by an online survey of 1,700
boomers across Canada through the
research firm Harris/Decima.
“I felt we needed the research to
underpin the game,” says Lawson,
explaining that the research gives the
answers credibility.
Some of the questions are sure to be
great conversation starters. What per
cent of the boomer plus population
has searched the Internet for a former
partner or love interest? Which
boomer plus gender is more likely to
have accidentally worn two different
shoes at the same time? What percentage
of the boomer plus population has
been on a blind date that went well?
“I chose the types of questions that
would elicit laughter, stimulate conversation
and let people learn about each
other. It is all about having fun.”
Lawson came up with many of the
questions by focusing on main areas
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Barb Lawson developed her own board game for baby boomers. She
created the game after surveying 1,700 boomers from across Canada.
relating to the lives of the boomer
plus population such as beliefs,
experiences, preferences and thoughts
and opinions.
By Andrew Hind
How many times have you heard
someone say, “I should write a book
about my life?” And yet most would-be
writers never get beyond that stage.
Bracebridge resident Ken Veitch, a
man well-known for his passion of local
history, is one of the rare few who
followed through. The result, a selfpublished
volume called My Early Days
as a Boy in Ufford…and Stories People
Tell Me, is an engrossing, touching and
often humorous look at growing up in a
small Muskoka community in the 1940s
and ‘50s. Though intended merely as an
attempt to put in writing boyhood
recollections, the book also contains a
great deal of history related to Ufford.
“My mother died when I was three
and at the time my father was serving
overseas during World War Two, so I
was raised by my grandparents. Because
of that, I was subjected to a lot of oldtime
pioneer stories that I might not
otherwise have ever heard. That sparked
my interest in how Muskoka was settled
and developed,” Veitch says. “I was
always impressed with the amount of
“I developed questions in each area
that I thought would result in interesting
findings, elicit a giggle or stimulate
discussion etcetera,” she says.
work required to carve out a living in
this wilderness. The early settlers faced a
great deal of hardship, the kind of things
we can’t even imagine today.”
That interest in local history eventually
led Veitch to develop slide shows
about the early years of Bracebridge and
Muskoka. These demonstrations, in a
round about way, led to Veitch committing
his childhood recollections to paper.
“During my talks I always encouraged
people to write down their life stories.
They might not think what they have to
say is important, but one hundred years
from now their stories will be a window
into our life and times,” Veitch explains.
“Someone finally said to me, ‘Did you
write your own story down?’ and of
course I hadn’t. I figured I’d better start.
That was six years ago, and I just finished
the book this year.”
He acknowledges the book couldn’t
have been written without the support
of his wife, Sharon, and the assistance of
his siblings and members of the Ufford
community in adding details to the stories
he collected. Writing the book was,
for Veitch, an enjoyable and rewarding
Other questions came out through
test playing of the game.
“We looked at the survey results that
were more statistically interesting for
the game,” she says. “We chose what
was interesting to know about another
person or generation.”
She explains these are not questions
that you’d find the answers to in a
textbook.
“It is a fun and really lively game.
It really tells you something about
that age group, during that 30-year
period,” she says.
The game is a great is a great
icebreaker.
“You do tend to come out of it knowing
each other better and having had a
great time in the process,” she says.
One test group that played the game
for Lawson was a group of women who
had been friends for 30 years. They
reported back to Lawson that they
thought they already knew everything
about each other but the game had
brought out new things and given
them something new to talk about.
Planning for the game’s demographic,
Lawson made sure the game cards were
large print and a small package that can
be easily transported.
“We are at the age and stage in our
life, that we like to travel, whether it be
up to the cottage or across the country.”
The game is available online and
at the Muskoka Fireside Shop in
Gravenhurst. Lawson has plans to
develop other products and increase
the presence in the marketplace in
the future.
Boyhood memories form basis of new book
Ken Veitch has written a book
about growing up in Ufford.
Photograph: Sandy Lockhart
Photograph: Sandy Lockhart
experience, though he did find one
entry heart-wrenchingly difficult to
work on.
“It was really hard to write about my
mother because it was such a sad story,”
he says, referring to her long illness and
death during childbirth. “I was only
three at the time so I don’t remember
much about her or her death, but as I
wrote the story down it began to have
more meaning to me. It was really hard.”
That melancholy story aside, My
Early Days as a Boy in Ufford tends to
be a lighthearted read. This is partly
due to Veitch’s belief that people enjoy
history more when it’s entertaining,
but equally due to the humorous antics
of the cast of characters.
“Some of my ancestors sure enjoyed
life! They were real characters,” Veitch
laughs. “I enjoyed writing about their
shenanigans.”
Veitch self-published the book and,
recognizing the appeal would likely be
limited to people with ties to Ufford,
limited the print run to 100 copies.
They can be purchased at Reader’s
World in Bracebridge.

Muskoka Landowners change direction
By Sandy Lockhart
The Muskoka Landowners Association
claims it is prepared to work with
government to try to resolve issues
surrounding land rights but the group
is still exploring other options.
“We are changing direction but not
purpose,” said Brock Napier, director of
the Muskoka Landowners Association.
“We have been in touch with government
officials and town representatives.
We are trying to move forward in the
spirit of collaboration.”
About 60 people gathered for an information
session and first anniversary celebration
held at Bracebridge’s Riverside
Inn on Jan. 30.
The landowners presented a position
paper to the membership and explained
they will be presenting it to all municipal
and district politicians in Muskoka. The
first statement claims that the Provincial
Policy Statement provides direction and
is a guideline and not a mandatory
requirement.
According to the Ontario Ministry of
Municipal Affairs and Housing website,
“The Provincial Policy Statement provides
policy direction on matters of
provincial interest related to land use
planning and development.”
Vice President Deb Madill says of the
landowner’s policy paper. “It outlines
that the official plans and provincial
District chair Gord Adams cuts the
cake with Landowners president
Carey-Anne Oke-Cook.
policies do have flexibility and we’ve
gone over point by point explaining
what this flexibility is.”
The landowners association is
concerned about species at risk,
environmental protection and other
related government planning amendments
that could negatively impact the
value of their land.
Photograph: Sandy Lockhart
Napier say they are getting some
encouraging overtures from local
politicians.
“There were one or two that wanted
a better understanding of the
landowner position,” he says. “They’ve
come forward and we are getting
better co-operation.”
However, he would not say which
politicians were coming forward. “I can’t
say. It is not up to me to publicize their
names. I haven’t been given any direction
so I’d just as soon not say.”
At the meeting, members were encouraged
by the Muskoka Landowners Association
to get their Crown land patent
papers if they had not already done so.
“Find out what your original rights
and regulations were,” says Napier,
adding that the Ontario Landowners
Association is talking to a Crown
patents lawyer. “Under the original
Crown patents, the rights that were
granted deserve further exploration.
There has never been a test of the
Crown land patents.”
Of working with the staff and
politicians while exploring legal options,
Napier says, “We are just going in
different directions and trying to cover all
of our bases.”
Landowners were also encouraged by
the executive to mark their land with No
Trespassing signs because without such
signs or other notice, they say anyone can
lawfully enter most private property.
District chair Gord Adams attended
the meeting to see their one-page proposal.
“I was optimistic that there would
be some movement in their position, on
respect for the environment and
protection of the environment but the
way I read it, there isn’t,” he says.
He also wanted to show his face to
the members. “I’m not just a guy in a
suit. They have portrayed politicians
as guys in suits that don’t understand
real people.”
He then added, “It is much more
difficult to demonize the District of
Muskoka when someone from there is
sitting in the audience.”
Adams even joined Muskoka
Landowners Association president
Carey-Anne Oke-Cook for the cutting
of the anniversary cake. “I was asked,”
he says. “I have nothing against them.
They have concerns and I have a
responsibility to listen.”
The association previously gained
notoriety by closing snowmobile trails to
bring attention to their cause. It worked
last year and brought a quick end to the
District of Muskoka’s proposed tree cutting
bylaw. More recently, members of
the association began closing trails in
opposition to proposed amendments to
District and municipal Official Plans.
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WHAT’S UP MUSKOKA
EDITORIAL
Cautious?
Following the district council meeting that
resulted in the rejection of a tree-cutting bylaw last
March, Muskoka Landowners Association president
Carey-Anne Oke-Cook was quoted as saying, “I’m
pleased that they voted unanimously to terminate
the bylaw but I’m cautious.”
Today, the tables have turned.
It was just over a month ago the executive was
optimistic snowmobile trails across the province
would be closed in solidarity with the Muskoka
Landowners Association. While the association
assisted members to close trails on their property, it
was a tactic that resulted in few actual trail closures.
The executive has now abandoned that approach,
trails are open and the association has announced it
is working with government officials. What is
behind this abrupt change in direction?
Association representative Brock Napier says “one
or two” politicians have come forward to better
understand the position of the landowners but he
won’t name them. Why does this need to be a
secret?
For an organization insisting that government
provide an open and transparent forum for communication,
the executive of this association is
refusing to share much information. We still don’t
know how many property owners the association
represents. Their first anniversary meeting drew
only about 60 people including the executive and
invited media. How many were members? How
many were observers like district chairman Gord
Adams?
As for collaboration with government, all
through this recent meeting association vice president
Deb Madill was wearing her Back Off Government
T-shirt. That sends a message and it didn’t
appear to be one of working together.
Cautious? Yes, we’d suggest being cautious when
it comes to working with the executive of the
Muskoka Landowners Association.
Letter to the Editor
Thanks for supporting the Walk for Memories
Alzheimer Muskoka’s 3rd Annual Walk for Memories
was a resounding success. A total of 93 people braved
challenging weather on Sunday and turned out to walk
in Huntsville and in Bracebridge raising over $20,000.
Walkers ranging in age from 18 months to 87 years
came from MacTier, Footes Bay, Gravenhurst, Bracebridge,
Huntsville, Emsdale, Brampton and Ottawa.
A special thank you to Sheila Creasor, Ann Knight,
Jack Huggett, Jane Yantha and Leah Mcdonald, our
volunteer co-ordinators, whose extraordinary efforts
made for a fun and successful day. Thanks also to the
many volunteers who helped with registrations and
baked wonderful treats.
On behalf of the many families in Muskoka and in
Parry Sound affected by Alzheimer’s thank you walkers
and thank you Muskoka. Your generosity and support
lifts their spirits and ours.
Linda McElroy,
The Alzheimer Society of Muskoka, Bracebridge
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Health care priorities
Muskoka faces many challenges
in the healthcare field but one that
has been flying under the radar is
a nursing shortage in Muskoka.
While it’s not a problem unique
to Muskoka, all indicators point
to it getting even worse in the
future and because of our aging
demographic, the area will experience
this crunch about five years
ahead of the rest of the province.
It’s not all bad news, however.
Muskoka has an opportunity to be
proactive and put the right pieces
in place to be prepared instead of
following the rest of the province.
It also has something going for it
that most other areas don’t have –
it’s a world-renowned destination.
It seems like a logical fit to market
the vacant part-time or contract
jobs to those people thinking
of retiring. District of Muskoka
studies show many seasonal cottagers
plan to retire to Muskoka
on a full-time basis in the next few
years. Maybe, with a part-time job
in their field, experienced nurses
and related medical staff could be
convinced to move here sooner
and help strengthen Muskoka’s
healthcare system.
In an effort to secure more
healthcare workers, Muskoka
Cares, a group of healthcare related
organizations trying to attract
and retain the number of medical
professionals in the area, has prepared
a report on the subject.
There are some strategies in the
report that can be pursued. And,
if Muskoka Cares gets funding to
attract and retain medical staff, we
can lead the way, and have
stronger health care in Muskoka.
In the meantime, the Muskoka
Algonquin Healthcare deficit plan
is cutting expenses. The hospital is
not allowed to operate at a deficit,
and MAHC board chair Mike
Provan says $400,000 a year is
spent on interest to pay for the
debt. Without that debt, more
money would go to healthcare
staff and patient care.
Hospitals with the latest technology
attract staff more easily.
Muskoka’s hospital foundations
are well supported by both seasonal
and year-round residents. The
recent donation to Huntsville’s
foundation of over a million dollars
is a generous example, but
every bit counts. A strong, healthy
hospital is something needed to
attract staff, in particular nurses.
While fiscal responsibility is
essential, the need to ensure quality
health care is paramount. The
challenge created by a nursing staff
shortage cannot be lost in the rush
to balance our healthcare budgets.
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Olsson takes her message to Nunavut
By Sandy Lockhart
Bracebridge resident Eva Olsson has
taken her anti-bullying message to
Western Canada and as far north as
Nunavut. The 85-year-old Holocaust
survivor regularly speaks to school
groups across the province.
“It is basically talking about hate
and bullying,” she says. “For me the
important thing is to point out what
hate did and what hate still does. If we
get rid of hate, we will get rid of bullies –
and the Nazis were the ultimate bullies.”
Olsson recently spoke in Kuujjuaq,
Nunavut which is one of the 14
communities in Nunavut. She has
already been invited back for next fall
to visit another community. The trip
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took three flights starting in Toronto,
then Montreal and one more two-and-ahalf-hour
flight from northern Ontario.
She found the people there very welcoming
but the landscape was very
barren. Olsson did presentations to the
schools as well as an information session
for parents in the evening. The entire
community gathered at the town hall for
another of Olsson’s presentations. She
By Chris Occhiuzzi
Muskoka’s musicians and bands are
getting the chance to “bring the beat”
and show off their talent to youth
from the G8 countries in June.
Auditions are being held on Feb. 12
between 3-8 p.m. at the Algonquin
Theatre to headline the closing ceremony
of June’s My Summit 2010, the
international youth summit.
“We’re hoping for local creativity to
shine through. It would be a great
opportunity to showcase that,” says
Nadia Ahmad, director of environmental
issues and community liason
for the Summits Management Office.
The audition is open to all musicians
and bands in Muskoka-Parry
Sound and identification with proof of
address is required.
“We’re not excluding anything at
all, what we’re looking for is someone
who is appropriate for this event,”
says Ahmad.
also visited the elders of the community.
“Suicide and drinking were the issues
in that community,” she says, adding the
people of Kuujjuaq were very receptive to
her message.
Olsson has a busy schedule over the
next few months, with trips to Calgary,
British Columbia, her twice-yearly week
in Ottawa plus her many Ontario stops
at school and conferences.
Bring the beat to the G8
While cover bands are encouraged
to audition, the selection will be based
on true creativity. The musician or
band selected will require at least one
song of their own.
“It would be great to hear an
original song,” says Ahmad.
As well, the performer(s) should be
able to fill a 20-30 minute set with
around five songs, but these are not
strict guidelines.
“We’re flexible there,” says Ahmad.
On top of performing one song at
the audition, the musician or band will
be asked to speak about who they are.
Appropriate compensation will also
be provided to the winning talent for
their performance at the ceremony.
My Summit 2010 runs concurrent
to the G8 Leaders’ Summit and youth
aged 18-24 from all G8 countries will
be there. The closing ceremony is
scheduled for June 25 in Huntsville at
a yet to be determined venue.
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Hospital receives $1.49 million donation
By Karen Wehrstein
The Huntsville District Memorial
Hospital Foundation has received its
largest single donation in its 25-year
history, in the form of a $1.49 million
bequest from the estate of Mary and
Campbell Fox.
As specified in the will, the money
will go towards the hospital’s diagnostic
imaging department, which is currently
undergoing a $10-million renovation
and re-equipping to digitize and
otherwise update its equipment, says
foundation executive director Debi
Davis. A new CT machine is one of the
planned purchases.
“For SickKids or Royal Victoria
Hospital, $1.49 million would be big
news in their world,” Davis says. “So
it’s astonishing news in our world. It’s
a really, really big deal.”
The highest donation previously
had been $300,000 from the hospital’s
auxiliary. Received on Dec. 18, the
bequest was announced publicly on
Jan. 25 by foundation board chair
Rob Payne.
The gift did not come as a surprise,
since Campbell Fox and his wife Mary
had been frequent and generous
donors to the hospital since 1989,
appreciative of the care they both had
received from the hospital’s doctors
and nurses. Seven years ago, Campbell
Fox indicated his intention to leave
the majority of his estate, with a value
he estimated at the time was $1
million, to the hospital.
According to a foundation press
release, Fox rejected the suggestion
that he donate while he and his wife
were still alive to see the benefits.
Instead, he wanted the fund to grow.
The Foxes lived for many years
on Walker’s Lake, near Huntsville.
Mary Fox passed away two years ago,
and her husband followed her about
a year ago, at the age of 93. Delivery
of the funds, which were in the form
of shares in companies traded on the
Toronto Stock Exchange, was handled
By Karen Wehrstein
Planning continues apace for Film
North, the international film festival
coming to Huntsville from Sept.
26-28, 2010.
A satellite event, an outdoor screening
in Rivermill Park, has now been
set for Aug. 1 of the Sunday of the
Civic Holiday Weekend.
Deciding that late September wouldn’t
have warm enough weather for evening
outdoor viewing, festival founder and
chairperson Lucy Molnar Wing
approached the Town of Huntsville,
which suggested the new date.
“The Festival of the Arts is having a
Cheryl Perry, executive assistant of the Huntsville District Memorial Hospital Foundation, and chair Rob Payne
are looking forward to updating the hospital’s diagnostic imaging equipment, thanks to a $1.49 million bequest.
by Huntsville attorney David Currie,
whom Fox named as executor.
The hospital borrowed the $10 mil-
lion to upgrade the imaging department
so as to keep up with advances
in technology, says Davis, noting that
when the hospital’s radiologist left to
work in the private sector, candidates
for the job said that they were used to
“For SickKids or Royal Victoria
Hospital, $1.49 million would
be big news. So it’s astonishing
news in our world”
jazz fest on Saturday night, so the park
will have the stage and stadium seating
already set up and wired for
sound,” she says. “It’s a complete coup
for us, because we are offering it free
for the community.”
The evening will probably start
with a private dinner for sponsors and
then a cocktail reception for a larger
group at the Algonquin Theatre. Then
the crowd will proceed to the park for
screenings.
“We’ll probably start with a familyoriented
film, with partially Canadian
content, and then probably two more
screenings, one in keeping with our
digital equipment. The foundation
has been paying down about
$750,000 per year, she says.
environmental theme, and then maybe
a horror movie,” Wing projects.
Meanwhile, organizers of the Brian
Schaal Memorial Golf Tournament,
which is in its eleventh year and will
take place on July 26 at Deerhurst
Resort’s Lakeside course, has committed
to donating part of its 2010 proceeds
to Film North.
“We’re excited about that,” says
Wing. “It’s great to have the support.”
The theme for September’s
three-day festival is The Environment:
One Word, One World. Wing hopes
to make the special category for Best
Film with an Environmental Theme,
Davis emphasizes that others
shouldn’t be deterred from donating
because they feel their contribution
isn’t adequate. Every donation makes a
difference, big or small.
“Some people are going to feel
overwhelmed, and think, ‘I could never
do that.’ But it’s the small donations
that keep us going, the $25 or $50 or
$100. We have over 4,000 people who
consistently make donations to our
organization every year,” Davis says.
“We have people who come in with
their jars of pennies, and we cherish
every gift that comes through the door.
People shouldn’t feel that they can’t
help, because every penny does count.”
Film North sets date for outdoor screening
a permanent category. Other categories
include Best Feature-Length Film, Best
Short Film, Best Feature-Length Documentary,
Best Emerging Canadian Filmmaker,
and the G8 Film Alliance Award
for Best International Film.
Wing notes the festival has received 35
submissions to date.
“They’re across the board,” she
says. “All genres, and a mixture of
international and Canadian emerging
filmmakers.”
The festival will announce its jury in
the next month or two, and has plans for
a dinner-dance fundraiser at a cottage on
Lake of Bays in the summer.
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Photograph: Heather Douglas

Exciting events make winter bearable
Around Huntsville
By Don McCormick
Well, we’re
pretty well half
way through
winter and I’m
still able to
maintain my
enthusiasm for
the season. This
is due, in part, to
the relatively
mild winter we’re
having and also to the plethora of
interesting and exciting events and
activities that winter in Huntsville
affords.
If you haven’t already attended a
Hunters Bay Classic three-on-three
hockey tournament you’re missing a
great event. The event is held each year
on the second weekend in January. It
was started by a couple of neighbours
– Dan Caswell and Derek Punchard –
on Huntsville’s Hunters Bay. Punchard
had always built an outdoor rink and,
in 2000, the two neighbours decided
to have a three-on-three hockey tournament
on Punchard’s rink in front of
his Hunters Bay home.
“The tournament was intended to
be just a fun event with a bunch of
local guys getting together to play
some shinny on the lake and have
some fun,” recounts Caswell.
But, when Punchard was diagnosed
with cancer and started a very difficult
two-year period of intensive treatment,
the decision was made to turn the
event into a fundraiser for the Canadian
Cancer Society. To date, they have
raised over $40,00 for cancer research.
But, that didn’t take away from the
original intention of having a fun tournament
and that is exactly the
ambiance surrounding the event. The
players chip in to help with the set-up.
Sponsors provide food and beverages
for the participants. There’s a smaller
rink for the kids to play on. They have
even set up lights for night games. The
play is spirited, the competition
intense and the level of play is high.
The number of teams is capped at
16 and everybody makes the playoffs.
The games are 12 minutes long with
the play being continuous. Most of the
teams are local but some teams travel
considerable distances to take part in
this tournament. This year’s winning
team came from Belle River near
Windsor.
Looking down onto the rink from
Punchard’s deck is a Norman Rockwell
moment. Men getting a chance to be
boys again, playing a beautiful game in
its purest form. It’s classic Canadiana.
The following weekend, Arrowhead
Provincial Park and the Arrowhead
Nordic Ski Club hosted the first event
of the 2010 Ontario Winter Games.
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Skiers of all ages test their speed and endurance at the 29th annual Muskoka Loppet in Arrowhead Provincial
Park. This year the race attracted 184 skiers.
About 100 of Ontario’s best crosscountry
skiers between the ages of 15
and 18, along with about 20 of their
coaches and another 40-50 support
people, were in town for the event.
The sprint event, as its name
implies, is a full out sprint using the
skating technique over a very hilly
one-kilometre course that the competitors
complete in about two-anda–half
to three minutes.
The event is very spectator-friendly.
The skiers go out in waves so there are
always racers out on the course and
they are visible for quite a bit of the
time. There are very exciting nose-tonose
sprints to the finish lines. A Bracebridge
skier, Natalia Hawthorn, won a
silver medal in the juvenile girls race.
The classic race, held on Sunday,
takes place on a seven-and-a-half kilometer
course for the juveniles and a
10-kilometre course for the juniors.
There is a mass start where the skiers
sprint across the stadium to get out in
front before the trail narrows to two
tracks. They then disappear into the
woods for the next 25 to 40 minutes
and you don’t see them again until
they burst out of the woods for the
sprint to the finish line. Natalia
Hawthorn won a silver medal in this
event as well.
The remaining Ontario Winter
Games are scheduled for March 4-7
but the Nordic events were moved up
to this weekend so the top skiers in the
province could attend. The event
earned rave notices for the venue, the
terrain the courses, the volunteers, the
organization and the work of the park
staff from this very knowledgeable and
sophisticated cross-country racing
crowd. It was a great dry run for the
Ontario Winter Games organizers and
a great start to the Games.
The very next weekend, Arrowhead
Provincial Park and the Arrowhead
Nordic Ski Club were once again in
the spotlight hosting the 29th annual
Muskoka Loppet. This event was started
in 1970, grew to be the biggest loppet
in Ontario and, in 1989, died
because there was no one willing to
carry on with the organization. In
2002, the Arrowhead Nordic Ski Club
resurrected the event and has run it
every year since. It has grown in popularity
with 184 skiers – the largest
number to date in the resurrected version
– participating in the 2010 event.
There was also a snowshoe race held
in conjunction with the Muskoka
Loppet. Last year was the inaugural
year. Four people took part in that
race. This year, there were 43 people in
the race – a tenfold increase in participation.
The weekends of Jan. 29-31 and
Feb. 5-7 brought 1,700 pond hockey
players to town for the 5th annual
Canadian National Pond Hockey
Championships at Deerhurst Resort.
The first weekend featured the open
class mens’ and womens’ championships
and the young (25+) men’s
recreational championships. These are
the most competitive divisions. The
second weekend showcases the older
(35+) mens’ and womens’ master’s
divisions and the womens’ recreational
division.
This year’s event featured a very special
guest – Walter Gretzky. He has
been named honorary coach for the
championships. Tournament organizers
will be staging a sports memorabilia
auction, with all proceeds going to
the Walter & Wayne Gretzky CNIB
Blind Youth Scholarship Program.
Well, I’m out of space already! Once
again, there’s more going on in
Huntsville in the winter than I have
space to give to it. There’s the Port
Sydney Winter Carnival, the Cann
Lake skating and hockey rinks, men’s
day at Hidden Valley Ski Area, the
Kelly Shires Cancer Snow Run and on
and on.
Until next time, get out there and
enjoy winter!
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Principal gets top marks for advocacy efforts
By Sue Coates
Huntsville High School principal Jan
Olsson’s passionate advocacy for character
development in schools has earned
him the Canada’s Outstanding Principals
award for 2010.
Presented by the Learning Partnership,
a national, not-for-profit organization
that supports public education, the
award recognizes exceptional leaders who
make a measurable difference in the lives
of their students and their communities.
Olsson, who holds a masters degree in
character development and has published
a book on the subject, was one of 32
recipients of the prestigious honour.
With about 15,000 elementary and secondary
principals across the country,
Olsson’s achievement is a high tribute
among educators.
“My work in character development is
my passion and focus,” says Olsson, who
has been the school’s principal for four
years and an administrator for 10. “I’ve
always believed in the importance of following
what you’re passionate about, and
I encourage young teachers and students
to do the same.”
Olsson’s recognition was strongly
based on his reputation for character
development in the school’s curriculum
through to national levels. With the support
of staff and students, he co-founded
Principal Jan Olsson talks to Annika Dettmar, a German Rotary exchange
student attending Huntsville High School.
the Trillium Lakeland District School
Board’s National Character Development
Education conference in 2004.
More than 600 educators from Canada
and the United States attended the 2009
event held at Deerhurst Resort in
Huntsville.
“You must look beyond the individual
award recipient to the whole organization
– the school board and Huntsville High,”
Olsson says. “A great characteristic is the
number of staff members willing to step
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He points to staff and students creating
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programs that have made the school and
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director of education, David Hill, Olsson
recognizes the life-long influence of his
mother, Eva.
“We talked about everything at
home,” Olsson says. “Not many stones
were left unturned.”
Eva, a renowned speaker, author and
Holocaust survivor focuses on the importance
of not being a bystander to bullying
and other forms of injustice.
“Jan sees life through a different lens
than most people,” says John Morrison, a
retired principal from Whitby, who nominated
Olsson for the award. Morrison
now co-ordinates York University’s leadership
development program and is an
inductee to the National Academy of
Principals and a recipient of the Canada’s
Outstanding Principals for 2007.
“Jan’s strong sense of humanity, experience
and commitment as an educator,
and ability to inspire people to want to
work with him have enabled him to open
minds and doors of opportunity for
countless individuals in his school, school
district and across Canada,” he says.
Olsson and his co-recipients will join
155 others who were previously honoured
with the award at an annual executive
leadership training program provided
by University of Toronto’s Joseph L.
Rotman School of Management.
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Get out and enjoy winter bliss
Around Lake of Bays
By Judy Vanclieaf
The outdoor
rink in Dorset,
better known as
the Dorset Ice
Palace, is now
open for the
winter season.
The Ice Palace is
open to the
public throughout
the day,
with floodlights illuminating the ice
from dusk till 9 p.m. There is also a
heated change room beside the rink
that is available during the open
hours. Why not come out and skate
under the stars?
I am delighted to tell you that the
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SS Bigwin now has a new propeller
and rudder. In January the crew at
the Lake of Bays Marine Museum
installed a 38-inch bronze propeller,
with steel propeller shaft and rudder.
The folks at the Lake of Bays Marine
Museum have also informed me that
they received a grant from FedNor
for $380,000. The grant is awarded
based upon matched funds from the
museum to be used for the restoration
of the SS Bigwin. Congratulations
are in order on this grant.
Although they have received this
grant, fundraising and donations are
still needed to complete the restoration.
The museum is still looking for
donations so the SS Bigwin can be
launched into Lake of Bays on her
100th birthday this summer.
The people of Dorset and Dwight
are busy preparing for their winter
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carnivals, which will both take place
in February. Going to a winter carnival
is a great way to help break up
the long season while enjoying the
spirit of each community.
The Dorset Snowball Winter Carnival
will be held on the weekend of
Feb. 19-20. The fun begins on Friday
evening with a family skate at the
Dorset Skating Palace (the outdoor
rink).
On Saturday there will be a pancake
breakfast and a parade, as well as
horse-drawn wagon rides and many
more events that will happen
throughout the day. And don’t forget
to try out a hot moose tongue by the
fire hall. It makes my mouth water
just thinking about it. Be sure to purchase
your $3 Snowball button at any
of the local merchants, as you do
need one to participate.
Also, the organizers of the Dwight
Winter Carnival will be celebrating
their 40th year of fun in the snow. It
will take place the following weekend
of Feb. 25-27.
Starting on the Thursday there will
be a princess pageant at the community
centre for girls up to Grade 8.
Friday will bring nighttime shinny on
the rink and Saturday will be full of
fun activities starting off with a pancake
breakfast from 8 a.m. to 10:30
am. The Muskoka Wildlife Centre
will be on hand with their little crit-
ters and horse-drawn sleigh rides will
be available. You can enter the
Dwight Idol karaoke contest or go
for dog sled rides. The whole weekend
is packed with fun-filled activities
for everyone to enjoy. And why
not top the night off with the carnival
dance at 8 pm at the community
centre.
Across the lake in Baysville, the
Lake of Bays Brewery is moving right
along with their plans of opening in
May. The vessels arrived on Jan. 18
and Darren’s crew have been busy
hooking it up and getting things
ready for the first hot water run.
From here on in, progress will visibly
faster and it will be no time at all
that we will be able to go in and sample
some beer.
On a sad note, Baysville is saddened
by the loss of Nellie Gray who
left us Jan. 18. The funeral was held
at Reynolds Funeral Home on Friday,
Jan. 23. Nellie’s family, Spring,
Veronica, Darla, Randy and Calvin
would like to thank friends and the
community of Baysville. They were
shown so much kindness the last few
weeks of Nellie’s illness leading up to
her passing. We will miss you Nell.
Please contact me about happenings
that are going on in your communities
around the Lake of Bays.
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Huntsville on Jan. 15 was presented with a pin.
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Snowshoe race gains footing
By Chris Occhiuzzi
Organizers of the snowshoe races at this year’s Muskoka
Loppet couldn’t be happier after seeing participation
in the event skyrocket since the inaugural races last year.
The event on Jan. 24 grew from just four participants
last year to 43 total runners in this year’s snowshoe competitions.
They came to compete in three types of races:
a nine-kilometre solo run with 16 entries, a three-kilometre
solo run with six people taking part and a ninekilometre
relay with seven teams of two to three people
per team.
Huntsville’s Troy Cox and Kevin Farthing each took
first place in the men’s portion of their respective distances.
Cox ran the nine kilometre in 41 minutes, 43
seconds and Farthing took top spot in the three kilometre
with a time of 18:13.
For the second straight year, 43-year-old Geza Fenyo,
a visually impaired man from Toronto, returned to run
the nine-kilometre race and he loved every minute of it.
He finished ninth overall with a time of 1:04:49.
“They are very nice people,” says Fenyo, who uses a
guide (John Larsen) and tether to run. “And a very nice
ski area, so I have a very good time here.”
The snowshoe event was added to the Muskoka Loppet
ski race because organizer, Huntsville’s Neil Jefferson,
wanted to spread his interest to others.
“I have an interest in snowshoeing myself, both as a
pastime and as a way of cross training for trail running
that I do during the summer,” he says. “It’s another way
to get outdoors in the winter. This gives other people a
chance to try it out as well.”
Jefferson attributes the big jump in numbers at this
year’s race to a number of factors, with timing being the
main one.
“Last year, we approached the Loppet committee in
December (2008) and it wasn’t until after New Year’s
that they said, ‘Yeah, go ahead. Let’s do it,’” says Jefferson.
“So, I think it might have been Jan. 5 (2009) before
we even got started on (promotion). This year we knew
it was coming all year. So, that was a big difference.”
Jefferson promoted the event by sending e-mails out
to 35 running clubs and going to online forums. He also
had some help from Orillia’s Steve Burrows, a participant
in 2009, who brought five of his friends this year.
“I was really pleased with it,” he says of the race. “We
By Chris Occhiuzzi
Huntsville figure skater Jacob Cryderman is set to represent
Muskoka at the Ontario Winter Games.
“I started skating at the age of two and skated until I
was 13,” says 17-year-old Cryderman. “I took a few years
off and came back to skating when I was 16.”
Training at the Mariposa School of Skating, founded
by fellow Huntsville native Doug Leigh, Cryderman currently
attends Innisdale Secondary School, but his love
of skating began in Huntsville.
“My mom put me on the ice when I was two years old
and I just loved spinning and jumping and it just went
on from there,” he says. “I started coming here to Mariposa
when I was about nine or 10 years old until I took
some time off. I came back to Mariposa after I started
skating again in 2008.”
Cryderman placed first at the sectionals in Huntsville
this past October to qualify for the Games.
As for participating in the Winter Games at home,
Cryderman wants the local fans to get excited: “I’m hoping
there will be lots of support.”
Janice Morgan has coached Cryderman since June
2008 and offered her insight into the type of indi-
This year’s snowshoe races at the Muskoka
Loppet attracted 43 competitors.
had decent weather. We used a different course this year.
We used the East River trail area last year, so it was dead
flat. And this year, it was a hilly course.”
Another first for the snowshoe race was the relay portion,
with seven teams of two to three runners each. But,
there was one catch: each team could only use one set of
snowshoes.
“It went over very well. It was a good thing to add,”
says Jefferson. “It was a chance for people to get out there
and try something new.”
The snowshoe race is looking like a permanent fixture
at the Muskoka Loppet, with Jefferson forecasting even
more participants next year.
“It will be an annual event at the same location, with
the same mix of races,” he says. “I would think we’ll go
from about 43 to about 60 runners.”
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vidual he is.
“Coaching Jacob has been a great pleasure. Jacob is a
very talented, self-motivated, hard-working and determined
young athlete,” says Morgan. “Jacob has had to
overcome many obstacles this year in training, but continues
to remain positive, focused and determined to
succeed as an athlete.”
The figure skating events are being held at the Jack
Bionda Arena in Huntsville from March 5-7.
Two other local representatives will be on the ice during
the Winter Games, but they won’t be competitors.
Huntsville’s Kyle Shirtliff and Milford Bay’s Steve
Cruickshank are among the eight officials for the men’s
hockey tournament being held at the Gravenhurst Centennial
Centre from March 5-7.
Shirtliff and Cruickshank were nominated due to
their abilities and length of duty.
“I’m pretty excited about it. It’s pretty neat we’re hosting
something like this,” said Shirtliff, who has been a
referee for 16 years. “It’s definitely an upbeat moment
out of my reffing career.”
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Sledder takes aim at world record in Muskoka
By Jason Ferris
Matt Weidinger cannot think of a better place to break
a Guinness World Record than Lake of Bays.
Weidinger, a Toronto native who cottages on Lake of
Bays, will be attempting to break the world record for the
most distance traveled on a snowmobile in a 24-hour
period. The current record, set in 2001, is 2,262 km.
“I’ve been riding in Muskoka with friends for over 20
years,” Weidinger says. “This is something that I have
always wanted to do and I just
know that I can do it.”
Town council and bylaw
officers have been notified of
the event and have granted
Weidinger permission to utilize
the Norway Point parking
lot as a home base.
“Basically what I’m going to
be doing is setting out a track
that goes towards Dorset and
around Bigwin Island and
back,” Weidinger says. “The
only way I can break the record, to average the speed
needed, is to do it on a lake.”
Weidinger has garnered sponsorship support from
Bracebridge Yamaha and Alpha Oil, the Toronto-based
company he works for. Bracebridge Yamaha will be outfitting
Weidinger with a new Yamaha Nitro for the event
and Alpha Oil will be providing the fuel.
“I’ve done the 24-hour run before,” says Weidinger.
“It’s been a long time, I admit, and it is really going to
test my endurance.”
The attempt at the world record will start at 2:30 p.m.
on Wednesday Feb. 17, 2010 and will end the same time
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Matt Weidinger will attempt to break the record for the most distance travelled on a snowmobile
during a 24-hour period. He sets out on his journey on Feb. 17 in Dorset.
the next day. The Ministry of Transportation in
Huntsville will be used to verify the distance of the
staked track that Weidinger sets out and someone will be
there recording and timing each lap.
“I don’t know how I will feel two hours into the ride,
when I still have 22 hours left,” admits Weidinger, “but
I have the will to do it. Maybe, in the last three hours, I’ll
put my iPod on for a little inspiration.”
By Karen Wehrstein
Huntsville High School’s Eco Tribe club, in partnership
with Planet in Focus and the Ontario Teachers’
Federation, will hold an environmental film festival
at the Algonquin Theatre in March.
“It’s on par with the Banff Film Festival and other
environmental film festivals of that calibre,” says
teacher Holly Groome, who helps run the club.
Planet in Focus, which runs an international film
festival every fall in Toronto, allows the teachers’ federation
screening rights to its films so as to sponsor
local film festivals.
Huntsville High School applied to the federation
last fall and was one of eight schools across Ontario
chosen out of hundreds of applicants.
“I think we’re pretty dynamic here in Huntsville,”
says Groome. “Our kids have been on crusade this
year because we’re hosting the G8.”
The films that will be shown include Diane Whelan’s
This Land, in which the filmmaker accompanied
seven Inuit Rangers 2,000 kilometres across barren
Canadian arctic terrain; UK filmmaker Morgan
Matthew’s Battleship Antarctica, recounting his experience
aboard a Greenpeace vessel chasing a Japanese
whaling ship; Australian filmmaker Sally Ingleton’s
Seed Hunter, about Dr. Ken Street’s search for ancient
chickpea seeds in the once Fertile Crescent; and
Andrew Williamson’s The Green Film, which tells the
tale of the making of the most environmentally
friendly film ever, with the inevitable disagreements.
Everyone is welcome to cheer Weidinger on. A 20-foot
construction trailer will be on site to help generate power
and serve refreshments for spectators.
“The only thing that worries me is the weather. I’m
hoping for some really cold days and nights to make sure
it will be safe enough to attempt,” says Weidinger. “But
there really isn’t anything I can about that. I’m just
focused on my cardio and training so I’m ready to go.”
Huntsville High to hold
environmental film festival
As well, student members of the Eco Tribe will perform
a short version of the Otesha Project’s A Reason
to Dream.
“The whole club will have a part of it,” says Grade
12 student and Tribe member Meghan O’Neill. “It’s a
really cool play; all the characters make props out of
their bodies, and make sound effects.”
The Eco Tribe, which has existed for two years and
is made up of five teachers and anywhere between 12-
20 students, will hold two other environment-oriented
events. On May 18 they will host the second annual
Eco Youth Summit, a student conference which last
year drew over 600 Grade 4-12 students from as far
away as Lindsay. This year they will explore environmental
impacts in the Arctic. They are also planning
an event concurrent with the G8.
Grade 12 student and Tribe member Mitchell
Roodvoets says he’s helping organize these events
because he likes to get involved.
“I’m passionate about the environment and I want
to see changes made around here. It’s a great way to
raise awareness, and it’s fun to do.”
His sister, Audrey Roodvoets, who is in Grade 11,
notes that Eco Tribe has had an impact.
“Since the Eco Tribe became a bigger part of the
school, we’ve been implementing more environmentally
friendly systems into the school, such as recycling,
composting and good-on-one-side paper.”
The film festival takes place March 2 at 7 p.m. and
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WHAT’S UP MUSKOKA
SPORTS
Figure skater goes for Olympic gold
By Chris Occhiuzzi
All eyes will be focused on Vancouver
this month as Canadians prepare to
cheer on the nation’s best at the Winter
Olympics from Feb. 12-28.
While athletes from across the
nation are set to compete, one man
who calls Muskoka home is going for
glory in figure skating pairs.
Huntsville’s Bryce Davison and
partner Jessica Dube of Drummondville,
Que. sealed their trip to the Olympics in
January by winning their third Canadian
pairs title in four years.
Their performance at the national
championships in London, Ont. was
described by media experts as “inspiring”
and “stunning,” thus setting the stage for
a great skate in Vancouver.
Still, Davison isn’t taking anything
for granted and realizes the level of
competition they will come up against
at the Olympics.
“We would need to be very close to
perfect to bring home an Olympic
medal,” says Davison. “Historically the
pairs event is very clean and the winners
rarely falter.”
At this point, Davison and Dube, both
22, are training hard both mentally and
physically.
“Now is definitely more of a time to
fine tune,” says Davidson. “It’s probably a
little too late to be adding elements to our
skating now. We have worked a lot with
our sports psychologist on being in the
zone. Cliché or not, it is a place where an
athlete must go to perform at their best.”
The pair is gearing up for their opportunity
to help “own the podium,” the
Canadian Olympic Committee’s motto
for the Games.
“I feel it challenges us to be our best
when it counts, which each athlete is
certainly capable of,” he says. “As a nation
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Davison and Dube, who have been
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“The number one thing that has
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While the pair won bronze at the
2008 World Championships and silver
at the 2009 Four Continents event,
many still remember a scary on-ice accident
in February 2007 at the ISU Four
Continents championships in Colorado
Springs, Colorado.
During a free skate routine,
Davison’s blade struck Dube’s face
causing a laceration, which required
surgery and 80 stitches to repair.
Dube’s subsequent return to the ice
and the pair’s success afterward has
strengthened their bond and Davison’s
admiration for her.
“Jessica is definitely a tough cookie,”
he says. “She will never stay down or
give up.”
Davison, who was actually born in
Walnut Creek, California, has lived in
various cities in Ontario and Quebec
throughout his life. However, for most
of Davison’s life, the family cottage
has been located on Lake of Bays.
It’s been a great way to enjoy some
downtime from the rigours of training
and competing.
“My family has had our cottage on
Lake of Bays my entire life,” he says.
“There is nothing better then sneaking
away to the family cottage on Lake of
Bays for a long weekend in the summer.
Friends, fun and outdoor activity.”
Prior to 2009, Davison’s hometown
was listed as Cambridge in the media,
but for good reason this is no longer
the case.
“My parents recently made our
family home in Huntsville our permanent
residence although it’s been like
home my entire life,” wrote Davison.
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Junior hockey has a loyal following in Muskoka
By Don McCormick
Years ago, every community across
Canada had its own hockey team and
the people in those communities lived
and died by the fortunes of their team.
In spite of the various things competing
for our attention today, the community
hockey team continues to hold a
special place in the hearts of many. In
the spotlight are the rising stars on the
junior hockey teams.
“I think it may be that the level of play
is that much higher with the older players,”
says Huntsville’s Bill Muckler, who
has been involved in hockey in almost
every capacity for over four decades.
Junior hockey leagues were an
offshoot of the minor hockey system
that is a fixture of almost every
community in this country. The minor
system caters to boys and girls between
the ages of about five and 17 years of
age. Without a junior team, players
graduating from the minor system
would have nowhere to
continue to play the game. The first junior
teams began to appear in Muskoka in
the early to mid 1960s.
Junior teams were classified as Junior
A, B, C and D according to the size of
the community. Muskoka communities
were classified as Junior C. These teams
were intended primarily for local
players and there was a defined local area
from which each team could draw its
players. Each team was allowed a couple
of “import” players from other communities.
Because the players were primarily
local, small communities would only
have a small pool of players from which
to draw. Some years the quality of players
coming out of the minor system was
high and the team would be quite successful.
“There seems to be a natural cycle in
which a group of talented local players
will come along, win, get great fan and
sponsor support, be financially successful
and flourish,” Muckler says.
He notes that this is typically followed
by a period that produces fewer talented
players, a losing team, a decline in fan
and sponsor support and a lack of
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money coming in. If the drought of
good players lasts long enough, the coffers
run dry and the team fails.
“When the team is losing, the fans
stop coming, the sponsors lose interest
and pull their support and the money
dries up,” says Huntsville’s Brenda
Demaine, a former board member of the
now defunct Huntsville Wildcats.
“There isn’t enough money to attract
good players so the team can’t ice a competitive
team and they continue to lose.
The team is either folded or sold to
someone else to stop the financial bleeding.
It’s a vicious circle.”
In 1966, Huntsville had a particularly
talented group of young hockey players
graduating from the minor system so a
Junior C team was formed so they could
continue playing. The team played in
the Georgian Bay Junior C League with
Parry Sound, Midland, Stayner, Innisfil,
Oro, Penetang and others. They continued
in operation for 26 years as the
Huntsville Teen Towners, then the
Huskies and finally the Blair McCanns.
During those 26 years the team experienced
the characteristic ebb and flow in
their fortunes and
eventually folded in 1993.
The Bracebridge Bears entered
the league in 1974 and continued to
function until the team folded in 1982.
The Gravenhurst Indians had
a team in the league from about 1980-
87, winning the league championship in
1981. The Gravenhurst Cubs played in
the league from 1994-2000 winning the
league championship in 1997.
Currently, there are no Muskoka Junior
C teams. There are, however, two
Junior A hockey teams in
operation in Muskoka – the South
Muskoka Shield and the Huntsville
Otters.
Presently, the designation Junior A
operates under a model that allows a
team to draw the best players it can
attract, regardless of their location, to
form the team. With this system, there
may be no local players on the team.
The South Muskoka Shield plays
in the Greater Metro Junior A
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Hockey League, an affiliate of the World
Hockey Association. The league was
founded in 2006 with the express purpose
of exposing players to scouts and
recruiters at all levels
of the game, particularly the
college level.
The South Muskoka Shield hockey
team was also formed in 2006. It is a
community based franchise that plays
out of the Gravenhurst arena with sponsorship
support from many local businesses.
Now in their fourth
season, they are currently in second place
in the league. In the 2008-9
season they won their division and the
league championship.
According to Gord Carey, general
manager of the Shield, the team is drawing
between 450-500 fans per game for
the regular season games and as high as
800 during last year’s
playoffs. There has also been an increase
in the number of sponsors.
The Huntsville Otters have a history
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that goes back to 1992 when they started
as the Bracebridge Bears, Muskoka’s
first Junior A team. In 1997, the Bears
were purchased by a Huntsville community
group, moved to Huntsville and
renamed the Wildcats. In 2004, the
Wildcats were sold to a group of private
investors and renamed the Muskoka-
Huntsville Otters. In 2006 they were
purchased by Huntsville businessmen
Jason Armstrong and Kris House and
renamed the Huntsville Otters.
The Otters play in the Ontario Junior
A Hockey League, which is affiliated
with Hockey Canada. Last season they
finished second in their division in regular
season play, won the first three
rounds of the playoffs and lost in the
semifinals. They are currently in 11th
place in the standings and fan support
has remained fairly constant at between
400-500.
Despite the ups and downs, the popularity
of junior hockey remains strong
and continues to thrive. The community
hockey team lives on.
Snowboarder Olympic bound
Snowboard halfpipe specialist Jeff
Batchelor has punched his ticket to
Vancouver, according to the Canadian
Olympic Committee website.
The 21-year-old, who spends his
summers on Lake Joseph, qualified
by taking silver at a World Cup
event in Stoneham, Que. in late
January.
Featured in December’s edition of
What’s Up Muskoka, Batchelor knew
what it would take to qualify and he
got the job done.
“All I need to do to make the
Olympics is get another top 5 in
one of the selection contests coming
up,” he stated.
With a family cottage in Trout
Bay, Batchelor spends his off-season
in Muskoka and has been visiting
the area for over 13 years.
Batchelor credited his summer
activities with helping him focus on
his snowboarding passion.
“I’ve always been able to keep in
shape and still have a sick time
while cross training,” he told What’s
Up Muskoka. “In a way it keeps me
fearless in the off-season so I don’t
get soft when it comes time to step
on my snowboard. I guess you
could say that Muskoka keeps me
interested in what I do best.”
The men’s halfpipe event at the
Olympics is at Cypress Mountain
on Feb. 17, with qualification,
semifinals and finals all taking place
on the same day.

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Hospice play captures the moments of life
By Sandy Lockhart
Mark your calendars for Hospice
Muskoka’s presentation of the enlightening
and humorous play, Grace and
Glorie, on the stage of the Rene M.
Caisse Memorial Theatre. The final
night will also be the official launch of
the organization’s new fundraising
campaign.
“It is an uplifting affirmation of life,
not about death,” says Annette Procunier,
the internationally known adjudicator
who is directing the production.
Grace and Glorie, by Tom Ziegier,
is a two-person comedy that tells the
story of a feisty old woman dying of
cancer and the Hospice worker sent to
help her. Together, this odd couple
gain new perspectives on values and
life. Local actors Pru Donaldson and
Lisa Friesen are playing Grace and
Glorie, respectively.
“It is a very funny play. There is a
tremendous amount of humour but
then, there is a tremendous amount of
humour in life,” says Procunier. “It is
like a lot of experiences when people
interact with each other, the tables
turn.”
Procunier, who calls Bala home, is
pleased to be able to spend some time
By Bronwyn Boyer
Fans of folk artist Mendelson Joe will
get a rare Valentine’s Day gift from the
musician, artist and political activist.
This past September, Joe took the time
to record Live At Sixty-Five which will be
officially released on Valentine’s Day.
As the title suggests, the album was
recorded in a very intimate manner.
Though it is not a live recording, it is
fashioned after one. And as much as any
artist can bare their soul, Joe does so on
this record. To that end, there is very little
instrumentation to add clutter. It’s just
Joe’s voice, his old painted guitar, and his
foot stomping out the beat.
“My purpose in life is to produce,”
explains Joe. “I’m not driven to impress,
the way other people are. I am just pathologically
productive, in a creative sense.
And I’m not concerned with what others
think, because you should never give
people the freedom to control what you
Grace, played by Pru Donaldson, has a heartfelt talk with Glorie, played by
Lisa Friesen. The play is a fundraiser for Hospice Muskoka.
supporting the cause and working
close to home.
“When you get two of Muskoka’s
finest actors to participate and the
Muskoka Arts Council to produce it,
do. You can’t be a successful artist if you
start catering to other people. I’m not
saying it’s wrong to try to please others,
but when it comes to art, a true artist
must first set out to please themselves.”
Joe long ago devoted himself to the
how good is that?” she says.
All funds raised will help Hospice
Muskoka provide end-of-life care and
support to Muskokans who are coping
with end of life issues. The final
uninhibited honesty of self-expression. In
keeping with this, he kept the album raw
and natural. In fact, it’s safe to say that
Live At Sixty-Five is as real as he gets.
There are even snippets of narration
between tracks. He also included some of
the incidental moments of imperfection
that occurs in the recording process.
“I’m a flawed artist,” Joe is fond of saying.
“I’m not a perfectionist at all – I just
aim really high. Perfection, for me, is
accidental. When I make a masterpiece
in anything, it’s always luck. All I do is
just keep going, because I like doing it.”
Live At Sixty-Five is an intimate view
into Mendelson Joe’s philosophies, emotions,
fears, hopes and his quirky sense of
humour. Some moments of the record
are casual and fun, some are serious and
thoughtful, and some are both at the
same time. Put simply, it is a clear,
unadulterated view into Mendelson Joe’s
artistry. And although it is quite revealing
evening of Grace and Glorie is a dinner
theatre at which the sweater knit during
the play will be auctioned off.
“It launches Stitches for Hospice,”
says Joanne Korten, director of philanthropy
and community outreach
for Hospice Muskoka.
Stitches for Hospice is a project in
which hospices from across Ontario
will be invited to submit pieces of
stitched or knit artwork for a fundraising
auction event to be held in
Muskoka.
“These are top quality, juried products
that are ready for auction,” she
notes.
All of the pieces will be auctioned
off with the raised funds shared
between Hospice Muskoka and the
submitting artist’s hospice.
“It enables other countries to raise
money for their hospice without having
to hold their own event,” explains
Korten.
Grace and Glorie is at the Rene
Caisse Theatre at on Thursday, Feb.
11 and Friday, Feb. 12 at 7 p.m. On
Saturday, Feb. 13 there is a dinner,
theatre and auction starting with
cocktails at 5 p.m. Tickets are available
through the Rene Caisse Memorial
Theatre box office.
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of Joe’s thoughts on the flaws of humanity
and the perils of the world, it also has
many light-hearted moments. And, of
course, he pokes fun at himself as much
he does others.
It’s an expression of his identity as a
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reflecting on how far he’s come in his life,
what he’s learned, and what he continues
to learn. And, of course, it wouldn’t be a
Mendelson Joe record if it weren’t also an
expression of what humanity has to learn.
In the song Some Dumb Machine, for
instance, Joe sings, “Why can’t we stop
and learn from our folly/and listen to
hearts instead of our wallets?/The conscience
of people got lost in the wash/like
socks that got eaten by some dumb
machine…and we built the machine.”
In short, Live At Sixty-Five makes the
listener laugh, cry, and think. Look for it
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with this legendary local artist.
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Opera Guild brings the world to Muskoka
By Allan Cook
Opera aficionados throughout
Muskoka are enjoying a series of performances
by New York’s Metropolitan
Opera broadcast at Bracebridge’s Rene
M. Caisse Memorial Theatre, thanks to
the efforts of the Muskoka Opera
Guild.
The simulcasts are presented in high
definition (HD) video and sound, with
encore dates scheduled for each performance.
The Metropolitan Opera has specific
requirements for venues wishing to
carry their performances, and the
Muskoka Opera Guild was instrumental
in helping the Rene Caisse Theatre
meet the guidelines.
“What we did was a number of our
members made donations to the Rene
Caisse Theatre which gave them the
funds necessary to get their equipment
up to the standard required by the Metropolitan
Opera for these broadcast
simulcasts,” explains Guild president
Tom Anderson.
The simulcasts grew out of a similar
program the Guild started at the Norwood
Cinema last year, and Anderson is
proud to see the Bracebridge movie theatre
has begun bringing ballet and stage
production broadcasts to the area as
well.
Founded in the fall of 2006, the
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Muskoka Opera Guild meets monthly
in Bracebridge to share a love for the art
form and work to make opera more
accessible and available in Muskoka.
“Opera guilds are seen as support
organizations for the Canadian Opera
Company,” Anderson says, “but we also
have the ability to get tickets, if they’re
not sold out, at a pretty advantageous
rate and over the years several of our
members have taken advantage of this.
The other thing we try to do is improve
the members’ knowledge of opera and
what’s involved in productions.”
Members give presentations and
illustrated talks about the meaning, history,
plots, music and other details of
specific works. The Muskoka Opera
Guild has started taking its talks outside
the membership, with a recent presentation
by a member to a music class at
Bracebridge and Muskoka Lakes Secondary
School.
Anderson, a retired Ministry of Correctional
Services librarian with a soft
Scottish burr, explains that even members
who would have never imagined
“Often people have been
to an opera and quite
enjoyed it, but haven’t had
the opportunity to delve
deeper into the art form.”
they could speak in front of a group
have found themselves giving presentations
on their favourite operas.
“Everybody who is in the group has
made a contribution to the program,”
he says. “That’s the only way something
like this can work.”
Honoured this year with a nomination
for a Muskoka Award in the Arts
for his role in helping found the
Muskoka Opera Guild and his efforts
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is quick to disavow any special
responsibility for bringing the group
together.
“It was Diane Adamson-Brdar, who
is a member of the president’s council
of the Canadian Opera Company, who
got a bunch of us together and suggested
it might be a good idea to set up
such a guild,” he explains. “Now I am a
physical coward, and as soon as anyone
starts to twist my arm, even metaphorically,
I give in. So I became president
through some subtle arm-twisting.”
Guild meetings are the perfect compliment
to the HD broadcasts, Anderson
feels, helping people expand their
appreciation of opera.
“Often people have been to an opera
and quite enjoyed it, but haven’t really
had that opportunity to delve deeper
into the art form,” he says. “We have
several members who are quite capable
of doing that, and even if you’re an
expert you’ll learn something every time
you listen to these people.”
Upcoming performances at the
Rene M. Caisse Memorial Theatre:
March 27, 2010 @ 1 p.m. – Hamlet
by Ambroise Thomas. Encore presentation
April 24, 2009
May 1, 2010 @ 1 p.m. – Armida by
Gioachino Rossini. Encore presentation
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Royal LePage real estate agents Monique Heemskerk, Julie Schnurr, Mary Cook, Jan Sargeant
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2. Sam Halls, Grant Bowler, Ted Stawarek (back row) and Dan Hals, John Stoat and Brian St.
Thomas of the We Love Pigs team have participated in the Canadian National Pond Hockey
Championships at Deerhurst for several years. They had just finished a game on Saturday, Jan. 30.
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5. Elaine Fletcher, Sue Barrett and Mary Jean Cline enjoy a cup of tea at the Marriott Residence
Inn in Gravenhurst on Wednesday Jan. 20. The Marriott hosted a fundraising breakfast with all
funds raised going to the Canadian Red Cross to help with relief efforts in Haiti.
6. Daniel Hunter, Esa Paltanen, Mag Ruffman, Martin Stitt, Jerry Feltis and Quinn Michell flex their
muscles at the Habitat for Humanity Steeltoes & Stilettos fundraiser.
7. A Scout from Burk’s Falls shows off the pine cone skier craft that Beavers, Cubs and Scouts
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