Maxville Messenger, by The Review - April 27, 2016

CELEBRATING THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE IN JUNE
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MAXVILLE MUSIC FEST
THE MAXVILLE MESSENGER
May 6 8
VOLUME 1MAXVILLE, ONTARIO
APRIL 27, 2016 NUMBER 4
Maxville firefighters host training exercises
Maxville Fire Department
hosts training exercises
On April 23 and 24, the Maxville Fire
Department hosted a “Firefighter Safety
and Survival Course” for firefighters from
Stormont, Dundas and North Glengarry
(SD&G). On May 13, the Maxville Fire
Department will be hosting an automobile
extrication course for SD&G firefighters.
The course will be held at the Maxville
fairgrounds. Thanks to the Maxville Fire
Department for sharing these photos with us!
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Come celebrate with us!
SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 2016
At the Maxville Fairgrounds
Parade, Games, Community Pig Roast, Musical Entertainment,
Caber Decorating Contest, Mini Caber Race, Fireworks, Musical Entertainment
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May 6 8
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Maxville’s green food box program proves popular
When Cathy Davidson Grant saw advertisements for Alexandria’s Green Food Box program, she wondered why it couldn’t be offered
in Maxville.
She soon realized it might be up to her to
make it happen. “You start thinking about how
you could do that, and then you look in the
mirror,” says Grant. She and another Maxville
resident, Loretta Landmesser, who was already
travelling to Alexandria to pick up food boxes
for herself and a few neighbours every month,
contacted the program’s organizers and set up a
pick-up day in Maxville.
The Green Food Box program is an initiative of the Eastern Ontario Health Unit, and is
available in several locations between Cornwall
and Hawkesbury. For $10 per month, partici-
pants can pick up a box of fresh fruits and vegetables. There’s an emphasis on cheaper, staple
items, like apples and potatoes. The food is
purchased wholesale from grocery stores.
Grant says she wanted to bring the program
to Maxville not only because she’s a self-described “vegetable fanatic,” but because she saw
a real need. “Maxville has no grocery store at
all,” she says. There are also a lot of low-income
people and elderly people living in Maxville,
who might have difficulty getting to Alexandria
or Casselman for fresh groceries, she says.
The monthly pick-ups, at Youth Unlimited,
a community centre, are also a social event for
people, says Grant. “It’s interesting to me how
the community comes together over a bag
of vegetables,” she says. “We can’t get rid of
up for a local food bag, as well as the regular
box. “They don’t want to stop the green bag,
because all your inexpensive stuff is in there,”
she says, but people will have another option.
They are also in discussions with a local beef
farmer.
Soon, participants will be able to pay for
their boxes at Maxville’s Scotiabank branch,
which will help with the logistics of the program, which is the complicated part of being
an organizer, she says – advocating healthy
eating comes naturally. “I don’t give people a
choice,” she says. “If I love you and care about
you, you’re eating vegetables.”
Visit: www.greenfoodbox.ca.
– By Tara Kirkpatrick
Maxville MusicFest just days away!
The Maxville Messenger
SOMETHING OLD AND something new. The “Maxville Messenger” that you hold in
your hand began as a conversation about getting the word out to everyone in Maxville about the fun Music Festival that takes place in town every May. That conversation
grew to include Maxville’s 125th anniversary and other community information. The
idea of publishing a special news sheet just for Maxville residents, emerged. We decided to call it the Maxville Messenger, borrowing the name of a newspaper published
long ago right here in Maxville. (Thanks to James Joyce for this suggestion.) And so:
something old and something new. Watch for the Maxville Messenger inside a free
copy of The Review in your mailbox during the month of April.
Please visit and support the community-minded businesses who made this project possible. And take note of all that volunteers are doing in your community. Events,
markets, concerts and more are organized for you to take in and enjoy. When you live
in a small town, all it takes sometimes is a walk down the street to find your community: people, events, the market, good food to eat, places to shop, and even music
concerts!
We hope you have enjoyed reading news about your community and that you
have enjoyed reading the complimentary issue of The Review you have been receiving
each week during April. Remember that any time, if you have news that you would
like to share with your neighbours, email your stories, pictures or ideas to Review publisher Louise Sproule at lsproule@thereview.ca. See you on Main Street!
people when they come to pick up!” The program, which started in February in Maxville,
has 30 participants. The organizers’ efforts also
seem to have boosted enrolment in Alexandria, where 90 boxes are now picked up every
month, including Maxville’s, up from about 28
in recent years, Grant says.
She says occasionally, people she spoke with
would be reluctant to sign up for the program
because the products are not necessarily organic or local. But, “it has to start somewhere,” she
says. With more people signing up, organizers
are looking into including local food. “It’s very
exciting to go to a little local farmer or a little
local producer and say hey, what can you provide,” she says.
This summer, residents will be able to sign
The year was 2008. Blair Willliams
envisioned and designed a venture to
bring a variety of genres of good music to the village of Maxville at a price
that was affordable for all. If any village
knows how to celebrate with music,
surely it’s Maxville. Four venues, four
different styles of music, each with excellent acoustics and established seating
and each representative of the historical
traditions of Maxville: the four village
churches. The committee, with delegates from each of the churches, shifts
membership periodically but the original theme continues.
Musicfest Statistics:
• 8 years of first-rate performances
• 4 different venues
•1000’s of homemade cookies, squares
and cakes consumed at intermissions
• 16 Burma-shave verses dotting the
roadside hills and dales of Glengarry
• 879 estimated hours spent placing
Burma-shave signs into rocky roadside
hills and dales!
• 98 total seats available on a Musicfest
week-end
• 60 percent increase in donors since beginning
• 54 hours of entertainment provided to
date
Friday evening, enjoy the rousing
tribute to Bluegrass with Toronto quintet Union Duke, known for energetic
live performances at festivals (TURF,
Summerfolk, Mariposa) and who regularly sell-out venues across Canada. This
group is one you won’t want to miss.
Friday, May 6 at 7:30 p.m., Maxville
United Church. Saturday afternoon at
3 p.m. at St. Michaels and All Angels
Anglican Church, experience the exceptional talents of Gabrielle Campbell
and her students and be sure to arrive
early for the pre-concert talk. Saturday
night is Musicfest’s Celtic night. Get
your tickets early and bring a friend to
St. James Roman Catholic Church at
7:30 p.m. The Brigadoons with Paddy
Kelly as host are sure to sell-out. St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church boasts the
finale, Sunday, May 8 at 3 p.m. with
East Hawkesbury Gospel Sound. Again,
come early for the pre-concert talk by
Glengarry archivist, Allan MacDonald.
Tickets are still available at Scotiabank Maxville, Cornwall and Alexandria and at The Review, located at 76
Main Street, Vankleek Hill and Home
Hardware, Maxville. Advance tickets are
$12 or $15 at the door. For the first time
this year, Musicfest is offering a Friends
and Family Discount of $10/ticket for
groups of 5 or more. For information
contact Paddy Kelly by email: paddykelly@xplornet.com or call 613-527-1336.
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