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communautaire community link Le lien The Cérémonies aux cimetières Cérémonies annuelles aux cimetières avec messe : Wendover- 21 août, à 10h30 ; Plantagenet- 21 août, à 14h ; Treadwell- 28 août, à 9h15 ; Curran- 18 septembre, à 9h45. S’il pleut, ce sera à l’église. Renseigments : Cécile , au bureau paroissial-613-673-4348. Cérémonie au cimetière de Bourget le 11 septembre après la messe de 11h. Suivie d’un goûter au Centre communautaire. Réservations (avant le 7 septembre) : Alice Labelle, 613-487- 2326 ou Ginette Lalonde, 613-487-4077. Billets aussi à vendre aumagasinHome Hardware de Bourget. Cérémonie au cimetière à St-Albert, le 31 juillet. La cérémonie commencera par lamesse à l’église à 9 h et sera suivie d’un repas au Centre communautaire. Pour de plus amples détails : Marie au 613-764-5351. Messe au cimetière de Casselman le 28août à10h30, suivi d’unrepas chaudet froid servi au sous-sol de l’église. Billets vendus à l’avance à la Caisse populaire de Casselman. Renseignements : Danielle C. Desnoyers, 613-764-2022, danurge2@hotmail.com Tournoi de golf des Lions Le club Lions de Clarence Creek tien- dra son 38ième tournoi de golf annuel samedi le 20 août prochain au club de golf de Hammond. Départ 12h30. Les fr par personne incluant le golf, la voi- turette, le souper et les prix. Ecriteau publicitaire $100. Insc. avant le 10 août Gaetan Pagé 613-488-2127 ou ggpage@ hotmail.com Vente à la Friperie Grande vente de fin de la saison à La Friperie de Rockland, 2815 rue Chamberland, jusqu’ au fin de juillet. Les vêtements d’été pour adultes se vendent à 50 sous, pour enfants 25 sous, pour les bébés 10 sous. Tous les profits sont remis à la banque d’alimentaire. La Friperie est ouverte jeudi 13h à 20h, vendredi 13h à 16h, et samedi 10h à 13h. Club l’Amicale Belle Rive Le Club l’Amicale Belle Rive organise la sortie au Rideau Carleton Casino. Départ des Jardins Belle Rive à 13h45. Réservation : Thérèse, 343-200-3575. Le Club l’Amicale Belle Rive organise les sorties suivantes : 1) auThéâtre Des Hirondelles à Beloeil, le vendredi 12 août; 2) whist militaire, le samedi 17 septembre, à 13h30, suivie d’un lunch; 3) sortie au club le Mirage de Céline Dion pour aller voir Martin Fontaine Rock&Roll, lemardi 25 octobre; 4) Noël en automne auManoir du LacWilliam, le 5, 6 et 7 novembre. Réservation : Laurent, 613-296-4685.
Participants in a workshop at Tucker House in Rocklandwill find themselves out in the backyard garden, scrounging around for seed plants. It’s not harvest time, though. It’s time to help bank something away to ensure a future for native food plants. Tucker House, in cooperation with the Clarence-Rockland Public Library, hosts a seed-collection workshop this summer. It’s the second year that the two local community groups have partnered on the project, and NathalieMathieu explained that the purpose of the workshop goes beyond just helping teach local gardeners how to collect and save their own seeds for future planting. “Seed saving is really important for the diversity of our (local) seeds and vegetables,” Mathieu said. Almost all commercial packets of seeds for sale for home gardeners, in the store, come from companies which may be in Canada but most often are located in the U.S.The same goes for the large bags of seeds available for commercial farms. Those seeds, Mathieu noted, may not be native to Canadian climate. They will grow here but their place of origin for the most part may be in the United States, and the plants that produce those seeds may be hybrids which are adapted for specific growing conditions in their home regions. Some of those seeds may not grow very well or may not grow at all when planted in Canadian soil. Mathieu noted that the Clarence- Rockland Library has begun its own small seed bank, storing away samples of vegetable seeds from plants which grow in the Clarence-Rockland area.The seed-collection workshop, which the library and Tucker House co-sponsor, aims at educating more people about seed collection and helping to preserve local varieties of vegetables, and even flowers, which are adapted to local growing conditions. Seed banks, Mathieu noted, are important for helpingmaintain genetic diversity, which is key to evolutionary survival for plants. “You want all kinds of varieties,” she said. “We also invite the old-time farmers to share their seeds for the seed bank.” The seed-collection workshop is divided in two parts.The classroom session features
NathalieMathieu adjusts one of the tomato vine cages in the backyard garden at Tucker House. The garden is more than just a plot of ground for growing vegetables. It also serves as an outdoor classroom for seed-collection workshops. —photo Gregg Chamberlain
information on the reasons for seed-saving, how best to protect seeds set aside for saving so they do not rot away in storage, and also details on proper collection technique. The second part of the workshop has
participants going outside, in the Tucker House garden, to practice what they’ve learned. For more details on the seed-collection workshop and registration information go to www.maisontuckerhouse.ca. Trail rider groups negotiate The City of Clarence-Rockland is going to try and help broker an agreement between the ATV Club of Eastern Ontario (ATVCEO) and the Eastern Ontario Snowmobile Club (EOSC) for trail use within the municipality. Councillor Michel Levert will organize a meeting for representatives of the two groups, along with himself and other city officials, to try and work an agreement on which existing trail routes are suitable for sharing, which ones are not, designating potential new routes, and also clarifying which municipal roads may serve as links between snowmobile and ATV trails under provincial government’s off-road user guidelines. – Gregg Chamberlain Racine family reunion All members of the Racine families of America are invited to the 29 th Reunion of the Racines, at the NAV Centre in Cornwall, on September 23, 24, and 25, 2016.A mass at Ste-Thérèse-de-Lisieux church will be celebrated in honour of all Racine families. For more information: Diane, 819-424-5876, Denise, 613-443-3625 or Thom, 613-939-4785.
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