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day,”McPhail said, with a chuckle. After the laughter died down, though, she added, everyone gave the idea some more thought and the end result was the Living Locally Fair. The focus of the event is to highlight homegrown produce and oth- er foodstuffs and the farmers, ranchers and vintners responsible for them, local arts and crafts, and community health and wellness services and programs that residents might not realize is available close to their own homes. “We’re not a tradeshow,” McPhail said, “though we could use one of those too.” The first Living Locally Fair featured 40 ex- hibitors spread out through the school’s at- rium and the cafetorium. Organizers hoped to have at least 300 visitors come through the doors. By the day’s end that first fair wel- comed about 700 people to enjoy a browse among the kiosks and booths. “Every year we’ve increased in size,” McPhail said, noting that last year’s fair had 140 exhibitors and more than 2500 visitors show up at the school to wander among the booths in both the atrium and cafetori- um and seven of the nearby classrooms. The fair has been one of several success- ful partnership projects between the hor- ticultural society and St. Thomas Aquinas School. Both the staff and the students provide volunteer support and help in the advance work of clearing rooms for the dis- plays, helping where needed in setting up booths, and also with the general clean-up after the fair closes at the end of the day, including assisting exhibitors with the load- ing or unloading as needed. “We couldn’t do this without the students and the staff at St. Thomas,” said McPhail. This year’s fair will also feature some “in- tergalactic visitors” during the day. One of
the student volunteers helping out at the fair is also a member of an Ottawa cosplay group. So no one should be surprised to see some familiar faces from the Star Wars uni-
verse wandering around the school. Admission to the Living Locally Fair itself is also free. The society is accepting dona- tions of food items for the food bank at the
RUSSELL | Seven is a magic number. There are Seven Wonders of the World, seven Heavens in classical mythology, the sev- enth son of a seventh son has good for- tune and the “true sight”, and every gam- bler wants to roll sevens at the craps table. Wool is a traditional and warm seventh anniversary gift idea to bring along while attending the Seventh Annual Living Loc- ally Fair, Jan. 17, at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic High School in Russell to help chase away the January cabin fever blues. “People have said it’s almost like a home- coming,” said Lindley McPhail, fair organ- izer. “For many, they’re glad to be out of the house.” The Living Locally Fair has been an annual project for the Russell and District Horticul- tural Society since 2008. McPhail, a society board member, recalled that the idea for the fair sprung out of the board’s annual brainstorming session at the beginning of the year. The 2008 brainstorming session resul- ted in a wish list where most of the ideas seemed to revolve around what kinds of food were produced in the Russell Town- ship area, what kind of unique or useful items were available through local sup- pliers, and what environmentally-friendly products or services were on hand in their own community. Everyone agreed that the “wish list” was so long that it would be im- possible to meet all the requests on it even within a year’s worth of society-sponsored activities. “Laughingly, we said we’d do it all in one
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Once upon a time, from a galaxy far, far away, strange visitors found themselves in Russell for last year’s Living Locally Fair, and guess what, they’re coming back as the Capital City Garrison cosplayers stage their own Star Wars sequel at this month’s fair and help raise money for the Winchester Hospital Foundation. Russell’s Living Locally Fair has become a big hit with both residents and local artisans and farmers as a venue to present and promote made-at-home crafts and locally-grown produce.
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L’HGH est un établissement hospitalier communautaire bilingue qui dessert la région de PrescoƩ-Russell avec 560 employés et 100 médecins. L’HGH vous donne accès à plus de 40 cliniques spécialisées et régionales. Avec un héritage de plus de 100 ans de prestaƟon de soins de qualité, l’HGH est reconnu pour sa culture de compassion et son esprit d’innovaƟon. Avec son projet majeur de réaménagement qui a débuté au mois d’août, l’HGH deviendra un centre hospitalier régional à service complet offrant des installaƟons à la fine pointe pour le service d’urgence, la chirurgie, l’imagerie diagnosƟque et les soins communautaires. Dre Ywakim est une otorhinolaryngologiste (ORL) diplômée de l’Université de l’Alberta. Elle a complété sa formaƟon de résidence à l’Université McGill de Montréal . Elle se spécialise dans les affecƟons malignes du nez de la gorge et des oreilles, les chirurgies crâniennes et du cou, incluant les cancers de la peau. Dre Ywakim est bilingue. Elle s’est jointe à l’HGH en novembre 2014 . Pour plus d’informaƟon sur les services de chirurgie de l’HGH, communiquez avec le bureau médical au (613) 632-1111 poste 31001 ou consultez votre médecin de famille. Dre Julie Maranda, médecin-chef, est fière d’annoncer la nominaƟon de Dre Rania Ywakim au service de chirurgie de l’HGH.
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