The Journal jcornwall@eap.on.ca The excitement around a Quilt of Belonging exhibit is about to explode with the un- veiling of a new documentary chronicling the historic making of the Quilt of Belong- ing and a“first of its kind”Youth Quilt Proj- ect created by close to 800 students from eastern Ontario and Akwesasne. Visitors are in for a special weekend from Friday to Sunday at the Nav Centre along the St. Lawrence River on Montreal Road at the eastern edge of Cornwall, according to organizers. The 120-foot long Quilt of Belonging, which includes works from every world na- tion and all Canada’s First Peoples, will be displayed along with the huge youth quilt. The youth display consists of stunning artis- tic blocks created by students from kinder- garten through high school, a testament to the creativity of Canada’s youth. The Quilt has long been included in school textbooks throughout Canada and educators have found it an effective tool for reaching youth. The pilot project will provide effective programming tools for educators nationally and internationally to teach much-needed core values—caring, responsibility, diversity and respect, orga- nizers say. The 48 minute documentary, which will be shown hourly throughout the exhibition dates, features heartwarming interviews with participants from a wide range of cul- tures. Esther Bryan, the originator of the project, chronicles the inspiration and early years of making this mammoth work of art, while photos and footage celebrate the gener- ous spirit of the volunteers who made the dream a reality. The Quilt of Belonging has impacted mil- lions in its 15-year journey, and along with the new documentary and school program will continue to reach out to the world, sharing the important message, A Place for All!, organizers proclaim. The outreach projects were funded by the Ontario Trillium Foundation and made pos- sible through partnerships with the Upper Canada District School Board, the Akwe- sasne Mohawk Board of Education, The Na- tive North American Travelling College and Heart of the City, and further supported by Service Ontario. The documentary was produced by Key- hart Productions in collaboration with Quilt of Belonging . The public exhibition will be Friday from 10 a.m. to 9 pm. and Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5: p.m. For more information, visit www.quiltofbelong- ing.ca . Quilt of Belonging to launch documentary and youth quilt at Nav Centre COMMUNITY
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which includes Cornwall Mayor Bob Kilger, issued a press release April 10 lending its weight to the bill that would tailor arbitration awards for essential services like police and fire on a municipality’s ability to pay. But the Liberals and New Democrats teamed up to vote down the bill one day later onThursday, according to JimMcDonell, MPP for Stormont-Dundas-South Glengarry, who along with his Progressive Conservative col-
leagues voted in favour of the legislation. The mayors’ committee, which on April 4 endorsed Bill 44, Public Sector Capacity to Pay Act 2013, issued a press release the day before the failed vote Thursday at Queen’s Park lend- ing its support to the proposed legislation in- troduced by PCMPP JimWilson on March 28. According to a release from McDonell, “the Act wouldhave enacted significant reforms to the current arbitration system and answered demands being made by the Association of Municipalities of Ontario.” The Act would have enshrined capacity to pay as a principle for arbitrated settlements, which would have to take into account local economic factors such as the evolution of the tax base and local unemployment statistics, he wrote. Councillors in Cornwall and small cities across the province have complained that the arbitration system, which often bases its deci- sion on awards made to emergency services in large cities like Toronto, put an increased burden on smaller municipalities which have less tax revenue. Recent provincial arbitration awards such the 27 per cent increase given to firefighters in Scugog, the 20 per cent increase handed out to Stratford’s full-time firefighters and dispatchers, and the 11.7 per cent increase awarded to police in Windsor make it clear that the current arbitration system is unsus- tainable, according to themayor’s committee. BothWilson and Leeds-Grenville MPP Steve Clark attended the April 4 special meeting of the EOMC to give a presentation on Bill 44, which introduces Ministry of Labour over- sight to arbitration, requires that arbitrators provide full written reasons for their deci- sions, and establishes criteria that tie arbitra- tion awards to the “capacity to pay” of local municipalities. The mayors’ committee chair Brett Todd had encouraged the governing Liberal party “to take a serious look” at the bill and work with the other parties and the municipalities of Ontario “to move this issue forward and embrace real, meaningful reformwith arbitra- tion.” He said the bill was “pretty much exactly what the EOMC was looking for in terms of interest arbitration reform that addresses the broken current system that has put our tax- payers on the hook for wildly escalating pub- lic sector salaries.”
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A provincial bill that would have changed the arbitration systemtomake awardsmore affordable for small cities like Cornwall has been voted down in the Ontario legislature. The Eastern Ontario Mayors’ Committee,
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL
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Neil Macmillan and John Towndrow explain a display chronicling the journey taken bymembers of the Kaplan family, who escaped the Nazis in 1939 by fleeing Lithuania and settling on a farm inWilliamstown. Family members spoke at a Holocaust Memo- rial Day ceremony organized by the Cornwall Interfaith Partnership at Knox-St. Paul’s United Church.
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