Ron Largent’s Gingerbread House Contest at Christmas Spectacular (edit/delete)

This was in the Record Searchlight web and paper today:

A Shasta County assessor-recorder candidate is splitting proceeds from a gingerbread house competition with a children’s charity and his campaign, a tactic his competitor says is misleading families by using their holiday goodwill to inadvertently bolster his political war chest.

“Gosh, that’s families, you know,” Leslie Morgan, the incumbent assessor-recorder, said Thursday of Ron Largent’s “Gingerbread Magic” competition at the Christmas Holiday Spectacular display at the Shasta District Fair grounds in Anderson. “It’s going to hit a whole different vein of life (outside the political arena) – you know, the whole ‘here we are sitting on Santa’s knee.’ “

But Largent, a longtime local real estate professional, says the unusual fundraising tactic is completely legal and anyone who participates in the gingerbread competition will know they’re giving to a political campaign.

They’ll also know that half of the cash generated will go to the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Sacramento & Northeastern California, he said.

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• Gingerbread Magic fundraiser flyer

He acknowledges that the tactic is unusual, but that’s one of the reasons it will be an effective fundraiser for both sick children and his campaign, he said.

Such creative thinking also is why he makes an appealing candidate, Largent said.

“I’m sick and tired of traditional thinking,” he said. “That’s why I’m getting involved.”

The gingerbread house competition has a $10 entry fee for individuals and a $25 fee for businesses or groups. The competition runs from today to Dec. 18. Winners will be announced Dec. 19.

Winners will be chosen based on votes at a ballot box at the fairgrounds, through votes on Largent’s campaign Web site, www.largent2010.com, and by “guest judges” who will be announced this weekend, said Terry Barnes, Largent’s campaign manager.

Largent said his campaign has gone out of its way to make sure everything is legal and disclosed, and a participant in the competition must first sign a form that spells out who’s getting their money.

Online entrants using Largent’s Web site must click a box saying they acknowledge they’re giving to his campaign.

“It’s very clearly stated,” he said.

Largent said he also checked with the Fair Political Practices Commission and got the all-clear on legal matters.

“This definitely is an unusual approach to fundraising,” said commission spokesman Roman Porter. “Unfortunately, court decisions don’t allow the FPPC to regulate the content of solicitations, only require that there’s certain disclosures.”

The campaign likewise got approval from Make-A-Wish to include the organization on promotional materials, under the condition that fliers clearly state the foundation isn’t supporting the campaign – just taking the money.

“We asked that the disclaimer be included so that it would be known that no endorsement of the candidate was being made,” said Melinda Carson, the executive director of the Sacramento-based charity, which provides trips or other gifts to sick children.

Morgan said she thought that she originally assumed using a charity as a way to get donors to give to a campaign was illegal because tax-exempt charities generally stay out of political fundraising.

It’s not illegal in this instance, said campaign ethics expert Robert Stern, president of the Center for Governmental Studies and the FPPC’s former general counsel.

But Stern, who reviewed Largent’s fundraiser flier, said he thinks that “people are going to be very surprised” that by entering the holiday competition they’re also donating to a candidate.

“I’ve been doing this for about 40 years,” Stern said. “I don’t think I’ve seen anything like it.”

Additional details can be found at     www.largent2010.com

December 2, 2009

He was sitting at the table where I usually plug in my laptop at the Faithful Cup in downtown Sheffield.  His name was Mr. Gober and he has been a barber in downtown Sheffield for 50 years.  He  still works one day a week.  He lost his business partner six years ago, Mr. Holland, who accidently drove his lawnmower off the bluff.

“I was a Marine,” he said.  “In Korea.  Got cut off by the Chinese army.  137,000 of them and 23,000 of us.  Marines and one army unit.  It was 40 degrees below zero.  We had destroyed the Korean Army, but our intelligence didn’t tell us that the Chinese had slipped in between us and our only escape route.” 

“How did you get out,” I asked. 

“We knocked a hole in it and went through it,” he said.

“Knocked a hole in what,” I asked.

“The Chinese Army, “ he said. 

“How many did we lose doing that,” I asked.

“About 11,000,” he said.  “But just about as bad was the frostbite.  Lots of men lost their hands or feet or fingers or nose. 

“Did you lose anything,” I asked.

“Nope, I was one of the lucky ones,” he said.  “There were only a few thousand that didn’t lose anything to  frostbite. 

“Do you ever see any of the people you fought with,” I asked.

“Yes, I go to reunions,” he said.

“Do you ever see anyone at those reunions who have lost a hand or a foot,” I asked. 

“Oh, yes,” he said.  “There were 4000 men who lost both feet and both hands from frostbite.”

“I am sorry to say, that I didn’t really know we ever actually fought the Chinese.  I thought there was only the threat of war.”

“We fought them alright, and that is why General McArthur lost his job.  Truman was afraid that he was going to get us in to a war with the Chinese.  We had destroyed the the North Korean Army, but because the Chinese stepped in we decided to negotiate a cease fire rather than go to war with them. “ 

“Why do you think you didn’t lose anything to frostbite,” I asked.

“Army did a study on it and they decided us skinny guys didn’t have enough fluid in our bodies to freeze.  It was the bigger guys that usually lost something.”

2009 Christmas at the Cascade – A Review

 The Cascade Christmas Show, the 6^th annual production by James Santos’ Redding Dance Project exceeded all of our expectations. This show was, again, outstanding in every respect. If you have not seen the show this year, you still have this next weekend, and if you have never seen a Redding Dance Project Christmas presentation, you are in for a great holiday treat.

To name the highlights, start with the entire cast. Precision dancing and creative choreography is seen in every one of the fourteen (14) scenes. The full company routines are exciting, fast paced, and beautifully presented, with costuming, under the superb leadership of Cindy Sumsion, surpassing all that one might ever expect to see on Broadway, or even Las Vegas. The strong women’s group dance presentations are full of energy, and the final “kick” number reminds you of the famous Rockettes, and their world-renown Christmas shows in New York City.

This year, James has introduced a large Toyland segment, and with the addition of the very accomplished Student Cast, both young and old in the full house audience were so impressed with the various children’s characters that this scene became one of the favorite offerings. From the opening Christmastime in the City to the concluding A Victorian Christmas and The Nativity, this 2009 presentation could fit right in to any show running in Las Vegas, Branson, or even off-Broadway. This is Redding area talent at its best.

Shows like Cascade Christmas just “do not happen”. Thanks to the many dance schools, each of the area high schools and their strong music and theater arts programs, and the seemingly endless hours of preparation, rehearsals, and  behind-the-scenes efforts to make the scenes a reality,  Cascade Christmas is  becoming “the Christmas tradition” for Redding and the North State. This show, in the magnificent Cascade Theater in downtown Redding, is a truly outstanding presentation. You still have time to get tickets, but they are going fast. You do not want to miss this show, and thanks, James, for making this happen. You can get tickets and info at   www.cascadetheater.org

Ron Largent

November 30, 2009

Chicago Bears NFL Mesh Barrel Headcovers (Set of 3) Review

Feature

• 2 different sized covers included to insure fit
• Polyester mesh and nubuck leather construction
• 1, 3, and X club indicators included
• 2 embroidered team logo’s per headcover

Overview
This set of three Barrel headcovers, constructed of polyester mesh and nubuck leather, is embroidered with two trademarks of your favorite team. Set includes two different sizes to ensure a proper fit on your clubs. The set features 1, 3 and X number tags.

Nov 17, 2009 15:03:04

A few weeks ago, I was invited, in that I am a candidate for the Shasta County Assessor-Recorder in 2010, to take a look at the Hatchet Mountain Wind Project located on Hatchet Mountain just 7 miles west of Burney in Eastern Shasta County.  Hat Creek Construction Company, a huge construction company in Burney and one of the largest in the North State, and a key player in the entire project, was just starting ground work on the project, so my timing was good.

My briefing was almost mind-boggling, when the long range economic impact and the obvious huge source of alternative energy was explained, for although I had heard of the project, I had no idea of the overall effect to the entire north state of this project.  

California’s Pattern Energy Group LP (Pattern) had closed financing and begun construction of its  Hatchet Ridge wind project, the first large-scale wind project to begin construction this year in California. 

The project, developed by Renewable Energy Systems Americas Inc. (RES Americas), is located on a portion of Hatchet Mountain and  is expected to reach commercial operation before the end of 2010.

Here are some of the numbers that go with the project. Hatchet Ridge will generate power equivalent to the amount of energy needed to serve nearly 44,000 California homes annually. Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) will purchase the power, including the renewable attributes, under a 15-year power purchase agreement.

In addition to providing clean, renewable energy for Californians, Hatchet Ridge will create approximately 100-200 construction jobs over the next year and six to eight permanent jobs during operations. There will also be an economic ripple effect in the area from the purchases of goods and services for the wind farm and increased business for service industries.

From an income from the projct point of view, Hatchet Ridge will invest $5 million in the local community over the life of the project through the Shasta County General Fund, the Shasta Regional Community Foundation, and the Burney Foundation Regional Education Fund as well as by paying substantial local taxes. A huge win-win for all.

Pattern selected a unique six-bank club to provide a debt facility to fund the project costs during construction, which converts to a term financing facility upon commercial operation. The lenders include Natixis, UBOC, LBBW, Calyon, SocGen and WestLB, all major international firms, needed for a project of this size.

RES America Construction, Inc. will construct the project, which will consist of 44 Siemens 2.3 MW turbines. The Siemens SWT-2.3-93 wind turbine is a proven technology with more than 2,000 operating worldwide and is well-regarded throughout the industry. This will be one of their major projects both in California and the nation.

I read the following from the CEO of the major company making the project happen, and it kind of says it all:

“We are pleased to close financing and commence construction on the Hatchet Ridge Wind Farm. We are very excited about starting construction of our first project only four months after forming Pattern Energy,” said Mike Garland, CEO of Pattern Energy. “This project is the result of years of dedication and collaboration with RES Americas, Siemens, PG&E, local government, project property-owners, and the community. We are very appreciative for the local support we received that helped make this project a reality.”

No question, the project is impressive. The Shasta Couny Planning Commission recommended approval in October 2008, and after many months of study, with both proponents and opponents represented, the project moved forward. In many respects, with this project being one of the largest economic development projects in the history of Shasta County, this renewable energy project may literally be “the wave of the future”, in the form of wind. To all that have been part of this project, congratulations…and economic benefit to the people of Shasta County will be long-lasting.

A very informative and enjoyable evening was held Wednesday at the Cottonwood, CA Town Hall Meeting, hosted by Supervisor Les Baugh. Les, and the Community Committee, chaired by Mary O’Keefe, the Director of the Community Center, had an excellent line up of panelists to deal with many issues and items of interest facing the residents of the South County of  Shasta County. The panel included Shasta County Admin Officer Larry Lees, Sheriff Tom Bosenko, County DA Jerry Benito, County Resources Director Russ Mull, County Public Works Director Pat Minturn, Dan LIttle and Phil Baker from CALTRANS, and Cottonwood Fire Chief Jim Flaherty.

The topics ranged from public safety to subdivisions, from downtown traffic to developments in the planning stage, and from Gas Point Road congestion to expanding the lanes on Interstate 5 into Redding. In addition to the “purely local” concerns, the panel addressed more far reaching questions, such as the status of the local and state economy and how that situation will impact Shasta County. Discussion was held on current public works projects for the south county, and many expressed interest in more parks in this section of the county.

The audience of 150 were encouraged to write down their questions and Supervisor Baugh received them and distributed each question to the panel member that was involved in that issue. And, Baugh also had a number of questions addressed to him that he handled very well.

I was there to ask some questions and observe, for as a candidate for the County Assessor-Recorder office in 2010, I think it is crucial that I become as aware of community concerns and issues as I possibly can. What I found in this Town Hall was a very interested and informed group of citizens that all want to make Cottonwood one of the very best rural residential areas in which to live. Their issues and questions were well presented and received.

This is democracy in action, and it was very encouraging, for even in these difficult economic times, citizens want to do their part to “make things better” knowing that the economy will turn around and when it does, they want to be prepared for the future by planning and considering future issues now.

 Hats off to the organizers; to Supervisor Les Baugh; and to all of the participants, for together they all made it a great night. If the various Teaparty organizations want to see how “citizens participate in local government”, just take a look at Cottonwood, CA….a small ranching and farming community in Northern California where the quality of life is about “as good as it can get”….and where the “citizens have a voice and are heard”.

I sure am glad I went to the meeting…well worth it, and a refreshing moment in a busy week.

Ron Largent – Candidate for Shasta County Assessor-Recorder     www.largent2010.com

Ron Largent announces his candidacy to run for Shasta County Assessor-Recorder in 2010. Mr. Largent will address the local press and media to outline his platform: “Keep Our Assessments Fair, Timely and Equitable” Please join us at this historic event. Our friends from The Cafe’ at Turtle Bay will offer a Patriotic Lunch Special. In addition, we will honor our country with a Flag raising, music and of course the press conference Thursday, Oct 15th at 12 noon at Sundial Bridge adjacent to Turtle Bay Exploration Park in Redding, CA. Y’all come! For additional details, please look at www.largent2010.com

What a great night at the Annual Teen Challenge of the Sacramento Valley sold out Banquet at the Holiday Inn in Redding, CA. Over 400 attended this exciting dinner, where the Teen Challenge New Life Choir and the Steven Randal Band provided the musical entertainment.

Nicky Cruz, an internationally known Christian speaker, held the audience in awe for over 45 minutes as he related his life in a New York City gang before meeting world wide Evangelist David Wilkerson, the author of the Cross and The Switchblade. Nicky related his upbringing and challenges of being one of a family of 17 originally from Puerto Rico. Since his conversion to Christ, Nicky has spoken to millions over the 30 years, and Redding was so fortunate to have this renown speaker with us here.

Hats off to the organizers. Ron and Patty Plumb are the area “Community Representatives” (pictured), as well as to the local Board of Ron Barnett, Bob Fruin, Rev. Harold Johnson, Gary Buffo, Jim Holdridge, Rev. Paul Tilley, and Ray toney.  Ex-Officio board members are Rev. Ron Fortenberry, Rev. Dick Rhoads, and Dale Winchester.  Former director Ron and Diane Lauritzen got special recognition for their 20 years of service. Special thanks to the Platinum Sponsors Ray Toney and Associates and Scarbrough Office Design, along with the 23 local businesses, churches, and individuals that were table sponsors.  Just a great evening. Many, many thanks to the many volunteers for making this great event happen.

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Ron and Patty Plumb…organizers for the Nicky Cruz Banquet. A great job, and thanks to all.

Ron Largent

The Carleton Place scene of the Eighteen Seventies is reviewed in the present section of a continued account. 

The larger industrial plants opened here in the Eighteen Seventies were the McArthur and Hawthorne Woollen Mills and the Gillies Machine Works.  Others included a lime kiln, which still remains in operation, and two planning mills.  As a village of 1,200 persons the municipality of Carleton Place was first incorporated in 1870.  A town hall was built and was converted within a few years to help meet the public school needs of an enlarged population.  A new high school remained unused during several years of municipal dispute.  A great fire destroyed a lumber yard stock valued at over $125,000.  A lengthy business depression placed severe limits on the country’s prosperity.  Western migration of the district’s sons continued, and began to reach the new province of Manitoba.

Building Boom

1870 – Carleton Place was first incorporated as a separate municipality by a county bylaw effective in November 1870.  Its future growth was assured when at the same time the Canada Central Railway line was opened for use between Ottawa and Carleton Place, connecting here with the Brockville and Ottawa Railway Company’s tracks which extended from Brockville to Arnprior and Sand Point.

Building of the first stone structure of the present Bates and Innes Woollen Mill was begun by Archibald McArthur and was completed a year later.  The central building was five stories in height.  Other building construction included the present Central Public School on Bridge Street, later enlarged ; the present Queen’s Hotel, also later enlarged, built for Duncan McIntosh of Perth, father of the late Dr. Duncan H. McIntosh of Carleton Place ; and about fifty residences.  The Carleton Place grist and oatmeal mills were taken over from William Bredin by Horace Brown (1829-1891), in partnership with W. C. Caldwell of Lanark, and were further equipped to manufacture wheat flour.

In the Fenian Raids of 1870 the Carleton Place Rifle Company, which had become No. 5 Company, 41^st Regiment, served on duty at Cornwall under Captain John Brown of Carleton Place, and numbered fifty-three of all ranks.  It included the regimental band under Bandmaster J. C. Bonner, proprietor of a local music store.  Lieut J. Jones Bell (1845-1931) of the Carleton Place Company was serving at this time in the Red River Rebellion expedition.

Local Elections

1871 – Elected officials of this newly incorporated community were chosen in January 1871.  Those elected were Reeve Robert Crampton, general merchant, and Councillors Patrick Galvin, tailor ; John Graham, wagon maker ; Dr. William Wilson, surgeon ; and William Kelly, innkeeper.  School trustees elected were James Gillies, lumber manufacturer ; William Taylor, hardware merchant ; William Bredin, mill owner ; Patrick Struthers, general merchant and postmaster ; and Allan McDonald, woollen manufacturer.  Other officers were James Poole, clerk ; James Gillies, treasurer ; James McDiarmid, assessor ; William Patterson, tax collector ; Joseph McDiarmid, assessor ; William Patterson, tax collector ; Joseph Bond, constable and road commissioner ; William Morphy and Brice McNeely Jr., pound keepers ; and Finlay McEwen and John Brown, auditors.

Town Hall

1872 – The first Carleton Place Town Hall was built on Edmund Street and opened in 1872.  On the ground floor of the two storey stone building was the council chamber, a jail and caretaker’s living quarters.  The second storey served as a hall for public gatherings.

James Docherty built the Moffatt planing mill on the former Fuller foundry property at the south shore of the river.  In the McArthur cloth factory (now Bates & Innes) ten new looms were added.  Napoleon Lavallee removed his hotel business to his large new stone building at the corner of Lake Avenue and Bridge Streets.

John G. Haggart (1836-1913), Perth miller, was elected member of Parliament for South Lanark.  He continued to hold that seat for a record period of forty-one years and was a member of several conservative cabinets.

Lumbering

1873 – A lumber industry change in 1873 was the sale by John Gillies to Peter McLaren of control of the Carleton Place sawmill and Mississippi timber limits of the Gillies and McLaren firm.  The Gillies interests of Carleton Place bought sawmills at Braeside, together with some 250 square miles of timber limits at a price reported as $195,000.

Gambling

1874 – Members of the Carleton Place Council were John Graham, reeve, and William Taylor, John F. Cram, Dr. William Wilson and James Morphy.  Public billiard and pool tables were prohibited.  The next year’s Council permitted their operation under municipal licence.  A press report stated the Council of Carleton Place have passed a by-law prohibiting the keeping of billiard, bagatelle and pigeon-hole tables for public resort in that village, under a penalty of not less than $25.  The reasons for this stringent step as set forth in the preamble to the bylaw are contained in the following paragraph :  As gambling is a vice of a very aggravated nature, which encourages drunkenness, profane swearing and frequently causes the ruin of both body and soul of those addicted to it, and not infrequently murder, it should therefore be discountenanced and suppressed within the Corporation of Carleton Place.

The famous P. T. Barnum’s Circus was billed to appear here.  Claiming such attractions as the only giraffes and captive sea lions in America, Fiji cannibals, a talking machine and over a thousand men and horses, its announcement said :

P. T. Barnum’s Great Travelling World Fair, Museum, Menagerie, Caravan Circus and Colossal Exposition of all Nations will pitch its Mighty Metropolis of twenty Centre Pole Pavilions at Carleton Place on Wednesday, July 15 and at Perth on Thursday, July 16.

New Growth

1874 – A volunteer fire brigade, the Ocean Wave Fire Company, was organized at Carleton Place.  The municipality bought a hand operated pumper fire engine for $1,000 and a $200 hose reel cart.  Members of the committee appointed by Council to organize the brigade were William Patterson, William Kelly, A. H. Tait, James Shilson and Abner Nichols.  The new brigade’s initiation to fire fighting was the McLachlan lumber mills fire at Arnprior.

In the first stages of a five year business depression two new industries were started here.  They came with the building of the three storey stone structure of the Gillies Machine Works on the north side of the river at the lower falls, and the opening of the four storey stone woollen factory of Abraham Code, M.P.P., later known as the Hawthorne Woollen Mill.  Mr. Code was a member of the Ontario Legislature for South Lanark from 1869 to 1879.

Famous Struggle

1875 – A ten year losing battle was begun by Peter McLaren (1831-1919), owner of the largest lumber mill at Carleton Place, for monopoly controls over the navigation of logs on the Mississippi River.  It was fought between the government of Ontario and the Dominion, by physical force between opposing gangs of men on the river, and in the courts of Canada and England.

In the opening rounds of 1875, men of the Stewart and Buck firm brought their drive down the river to the Ottawa after cutting a passage through a McLaren boom at the Ragged Chute in Palmerston, and a twenty foot gap through a closed McLaren dam at High Falls in North Sherbrooke.  Boyd Caldwell & Son, which later carried this famous struggle for public navigation rights to a successful conclusion, was then employing seventy-five men on a ten hour day at its Carleton Place mill managed by William Caldwell.

Our Volume One

1876 – This newspaper was founded in January 1876, under the sponsorship of William Bredin of Carleton Place, with William W. Cliff of Napanee as editor and publisher.  There were 1,800 persons living in Carleton Place.

When adverse winds delayed timber drives for several days in the lower Mississippi, some 24,000 sticks of square timber lay in the river between Appleton and Almonte at the end of June.  Owners were the Caldwell, McLaren, Mackie, Campbell and Buck & Stewart firms. 

A Saturday vacation starting date for the province’s public schools was advanced from July 15 to July 7.  The Minister of Education addressed a meeting of the county’s school teachers here.  Carleton Place had five public and two high school teachers.

Local Taxes

1877 – The McArthur woollen mill, equipped to operate by waterpower of the lower falls, was leased and reopened by William H. Wylie when the country’s business depression became less severe.

The six largest assessments for local taxes were those of the railway company, Peter McLaren, lumber manufactuer ; Archibald McArthur, woollen mill owner ; Boyd Caldwell, lumber manufacturer ; Abraham Code, M.P.P., woollen manufacturer ; and Horace Brown, grain miller.  A tax exemption for the machine works of Gillies, Beyer & Company continued in effect.  The tax rate was 14 ½ mills.

O’Brien’s Circus visited Carleton Place, Perth and Smiths Falls, with its transportation provided by horses and two hundred mules.  Barnum’s Circus showed at Brockville and Ottawa.

High School

1878 – A separate High School of stone construction was built on High Street.  During the course of bitter and widespread disputes and litigation, based on a division of business and real estate interests between the north and south halves of the town, the new school, though much needed remained unused for nearly five years. 

A local option temperance statute of 1864 was brought into force in this area and retained for one year, prohibiting all sales of liquor in quantities of less than five gallons.

Alexander M. Gillies and Peter Peden, aged 21 and 24, were drowned in September while duck hunting at night near Black Point in the lower Mississippi Lake.

Great Fire

1879 – In continuance of prolonged controversy over the sites of the High School and Town Hall, the Town Hall on Edmund Street was converted in part into a public school, a step which brought a brief stage of physical violence followed by allegations of riot, assault and libel and a number of related court actions.

A planing mill was opened by Abner Nichols (1835-1905) on the riverside at Rosamond Street adjoining the Gillies Machine Works.  A lime kiln which continues in operation was built by Napoleon Lavallee, hotelkeeper, on his farm at the present site of Napoleon Street.  William Cameron acquired the business ten years later and operated it for many years.  With two local woollen mills remaining in operation, the closed Hawthorne Woollen Mill was offered for sale by Abraham Code.

A great fire destroyed over thirteen million feet of sawn lumber in the northern part of the Peter McLaren piling yards, together with a section of ties and rails of the Canada Central Railway.  The yards extended about three quarters of a mile along the railway line.  The lumber firm’s loss was recovered from $50,000 in insurance and $100,000 in damages paid when court decisions holding the railway company responsible were upheld five years later in England.  Fire engines and men came to Carleton Place from Almonte, Arnprior, Brockville, Smiths Falls and Ottawa, and hundreds of local helpers aided in saving lumber and checking the spread of the conflagration.

Life in the Eighteen Sixties in Carleton Place is recalled in the present fifth installment of a series of annals reviewing events in the first hundred years of this community and its surrounding district.

The location of Carleton Place at a waterfall on one of the larger tributaries of the Ottawa River and on one of Eastern Ontario’s first railways proved in the Eighteen Sixties to place this community in a position of some advantage in the lumber economy of the Ottawa Valley.  A number of new industrial firms were established here.  Among them were two sawmills and a foundry each of which grew to become a substantial employer of capital and labour and a leading industry of the town.

Prince of Wales

1860 – Archibald McArthur (1816-1884), reeve and prominent wholesale and retail merchant, enlarged his business premises here by building a store of stone construction in 1860 near the corner of Bridge and Mill Streets.

The young Prince of Wales, later Edward VII, viewed Carleton Place while travelling by coach and railway through Lanark and Leeds Counties in the course of a tour of Canada.

Patrick Struthers (1830-1907), merchant and later magistrate, became postmaster of Carleton Place.  He continued in charge of the local post office for over forty-five years.

New Saw Mill

1861 – A steam-powered sawmill was built in the area of the present Riverside Park on the south bank of the river.  The old Muirhead sawmill, which was located near the present electric power plant, was leased and reopened by Robert Gray.

Brice McNeely Jr. (1831-1920) began a forty year period of operating the long established tannery.  The town bridge across the Mississippi was rebuilt.

Findlays Foundry

1862 – In the infancy of the town’s present leading industry, a new foundry was opened on the Perth Road, now High Street, by David Findlay (1835-1890) for the manufacture of stoves, ploughs and other castings.

Canadian military preparations were begun in view of risks of the United States Civil War leading to war between Britain and the United States.  At Carleton Place a volunteer rifle company, with newspaper editor James Poole as its captain, was equipped to take the place of the townships former militia regiment.  A new infantry company was formed at Almonte. 

In a match at the Almonte exhibition grounds between the Carleton Place and Almonte cricket clubs, the Almonte club’s resplendent uniforms featured white caps, pink shirts and white pantaloons.

Militia Training

1863 – The Ramsay lead mine at Carleton Place resumed operation.  A woollen mill at Appleton built by Robert Teskey (1803-1892) was opened under the management of his son John Adam Teskey (1837-1908) and son-in-law William Bredin.

In a target shooting competition at Carleton Place between the local Rifle Company and the Almonte Infantry Company, the rifle company appeared in its new uniforms with green tunics, grey pants with red facings, and dark belts.  The infantry uniforms had scarlet tunics, grey pants and white belts.  The impressive headpiece of both companies’ uniforms was an ornamented cap known as a shako.

Railway Extension

1864 – The Brockville & Ottawa Railway Company’s line was extended and opened from Almonte to Arnprior, providing rail transportation between the St. Lawrence River and Grand Trunk Railway at Brockville and the Ottawa River at Sand Point.  George Lowe became the station master at Carleton Place.

Temperance Movement

1865 – A temperance society known as Temple No. 122 of the Independent Order of Good Templars, was formed at Carleton Place to oppose the sale of alcoholic beverages.  A proposal to apply a local option Temperance Act to Beckwith township including Carleton Place was rejected by a majority of thirty votes.

The Beckwith municipal council elected for 1865 was Patrick Struthers, reeve, and Archibald McArthur, Donald Carmichael, George Kidd and Alexander Ferguson.

Gillies & McLaren

1866 – This town’s first large scale business had its start in 1866 with the opening of the Gillies & McLaren lumber mill with thirty employees.  James Gillies (1840-1909) came as its manager.  Five years later John Gillies (1811-1888), who had founded the firm in Lanark township, removed to Carleton Place.  Both remained here for life and were leaders in the town’s industrial growth.  James Gillies for over thirty five years was head of the later widespread lumbering operations of Gillies Brothers, a position occupied from 1914 to 1926 by his brother David Gillies (1849-1926) of Carleton Place.

A shingle mill also began business here in 1866, managed by John Craigie.  He was the builder of the town’s first two steamboats, the Mississippi and the Enterprise.  The local grist and oatmeal mills were bought by Henry Bredin from Hugh Boulton Jr.  They continued to be operated by James Greig (1806-1884), who ran these mills from 1862 to 1868 after the death of Hugh Boulton Sr., founder of this first industry of the community.

The union of Lanark and Renfrew Counties was ended in 1866 by the establishment of a separate Renfrew County council and administration.

Fenian Raids

Raids from the United States upon border points were made in 1866 by groups known as Fenians, whose professed objective was political independence for Ireland.  The Carleton Place and Almonte volunteer companies were dispatched to Brockville in June.  Captain of the Almonte company was James D. Gemmill.  Total of all ranks serving from Carleton Place numbered fifty-seven.  Under local officers Captain James C. Poole, Lieut. John Brown and Ensign J. Jones Bell, they included such Carleton Place and township family names as Burke, Coleman, Cram, Dack, Docherty, Duff, Enright, Ferguson, Fleming, Hamilton, Kilpatrick, Leslie, Lavallee, Moffatt, Moore, Morphy, and McArthur, McCaffrey, McCallum, McEwen, McFadden, McNab, McNeely and McPherson, Neelin, Patterson, Pattie, Rattray, Sinclair, Stewart, Sumner, Williams, Willis and Wilson.

Volunteers from these and other Lanark County areas served also in the Fenian Raids of 1870.  Drill halls built in 1866 at county centres including Perth, Carleton Place and Almonte were used for many years.  The Carleton Place drill shed was at the market square between Beckwith and Judson Streets, at the present site of the skating rink.  Almonte’s military quarters were combined with the North Lanark Agricultural Society’s main exhibition building then being erected.

Confederation

1867 – Canadian confederation was hailed in Carleton Place by a day of celebration which extended from a sunrise cannon salute to an evening of torchlight processions and fireworks.  There were speeches by the clergy,  a military parade with rifles firing, a costume carnival and sports events featuring novelty races.

A new sawmill was built by the Gillies & McLaren firm to employ up to a hundred men.  At Arklan Island a smaller sawmill was built by William Bredin.  Erection of a large frame building on Mill Street for use as a woollen cloth factory was begun by Allan McDonald.  The Allan McDonald foundry was reopened by John Grant and operated for four years, producing stoves, ploughs, ploughpoints and other castings.  A local house construction boom was under way.  Daniel Galbraith (1813-1879) of Ramsay township was elected to the Ontario Legislature of North Lanark.  He represented this constituency in the House of Commons from the following election until his death in 1879.

Another Railway

1868 – Building of the Canada Central Railway between Ottawa and Carleton Place was begun and was completed two years later.  In ceremonies marking the start of construction, held at the Carleton Place end of the line and attended by Richard W. Scott, Q.C., M.P.P., of Ottawa, the sod turning ritual was performed by the Rev. J. H. Preston of St. James Church, Carleton Place.

Caldwell Sawmill

1869 – This towns second large sawmill business was started by Boyd Caldwell (1818-1888) and managed by his son William Caldwell.  It operated for twenty-two years on the site of the present Riverside Park.

An enlarged stone grist mill building was erected by William Bredin on Mill Street, together with buildings occupied in the following year by Joseph Cram as a planing mill and by John F. Cram as a tannery.  A stone church building for the Zion Presbyterian congregation was built at the church’s present Albert and Beckwith Street location.

The Mississippi Navigation Company was incorporated to build locks at Innisville and Ferguson’s Falls and open navigation from Lanark and Playfairville to Carleton Place.  Its directors were James H. Dixon of Peterborough, Abraham Code, M.P.P. (then owning mills at Ferguson’s Falls) and Robert Bell, John Craigie and Robert Crampton of Carleton Place.  The company’s brief existence ended with the building of a steamboat, The Enterprise.  Bought by the Gillies & McLaren firm , The Enterprise plied the Mississippi Lakes for about twenty-five years in the service of the lumber industry and provided transportation for many of the town’s public events of bygone summer days.

A number of stories of the community activities of former citizens of the Carleton Place area have been gathered for the first time as a continuous annual record of local events.  Brief reviews of these typical events, extending from the town’s beginnings down to the times of the youth of many of Carleton Place’s present residents, will be published in a series of installments of which this is the second.

Second Decade

A brief view of the eighteen thirties, the second decade of community life at Carleton Place, shows that this area, like other sections of the province, was taking its first steps toward local government by townships.  This small and late political reform soon was followed by the seemingly unsuccessful armed rebellion against abuses of power of the province’s little ruling class or group, the Family Compact.  Queen Victoria began her reign of over sixty years while the consequent threat of border raids was arousing our local citizens to take steps for the defense of their new homeland.

Post Office Opened

1830 – Carleton Place in 1830 was added to the small number of communities in the province provided with a local post office.

Caleb S. Bellows, merchant, became the first postmaster here.  By one of the postal practices of long standing, the mounted mail courier carried a tin horn which he blew to announce his approach with the incoming mail.  An error by postal authorities is supposed to have been the cause of the local post office being designated Carleton Place instead of the then current name of Carlton Place. 

Among the 1830 newcomers here were Napoleon Lavallee (1802-1890), a legendary raconteur and sixty year resident who was a cooper and later a hotelkeeper, and the Rosamond family, James Rosamond (1804-1894) with a partner soon opened a wool carding and cloth dressing establishment and later a factory here with the first power looms in Eastern Ontario.

Village Church

1831- The first church in Carleton Place was built by the Methodists in 1831.  It was in the north side of the town at the Bridge Street site of the present Baptist Church, which also was built by the Methodist congregation.  The original church was a frame building forty by sixty feet in size, costing 200 pounds and seating about 250 persons.  Its use was granted both for public meetings and lectures and in various periods for also the services of other religious denominations.

Gaelic Kirk

1832 – The Carleton Place district’s second stone church building was that of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland, built in 1832 and 1833 in the 7^th concession of Beckwith.  Part of its walls still stand.  During the eighteen year term of its first minister, the Rev. John Smith, its services were conducted in both Gaelic and English.  Its first trustees were Peter Campbell, James McArthur (1767-1836), Findlay McEwen, Colin McLaren, Donald McLaren, Alexander Stewart (1792-1892) and John Scott.  Use of this church building was discontinued about 1870, services by its minister, the Rev. Walter Ross, being transferred to both the St. Andrew’s stone church building erected in the 1850’s at the corner of William and St. Paul Streets, Carleton Place, and a frame building of St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church built at Franktown.

The building of the Rideau Canal was completed in this year, as an engineering work fully comparable for its time to that of the present St. Lawrence Seaway.

Road Commissioners

1833- Among commissioners chosen to supervise the spending of some 200 pounds of provincial grants for road repairs in the neighbourhood of Carleton Place, mainly in Beckwith township, were John Cameron, James Cram, Duncan Cram, William Davis, Thomas James, Phineas Low, John McDonell and Archibald McGregor, Robert Johnston, Donald Robertson, David Moffatt, Thomas Saunders, Stephen Tomlinson, James Bennie and William Drynan.

Resident Clergyman

1834 – The population of the present province of Ontario by 1834 had doubled in ten years to reach a total of 321,000.

The first resident clergyman at Carleton Place, the Rev. Edward Jukes Boswell, was appointed a church of England missionary here in December, 1833, and remained for ten years.  St. James Anglican church, a frame structure at the site of the present St. James Church on the corner of Bell and Edmund Streets, was built in 1834.  It remained in use for nearly fifty years and was replaced in 1881 by the present stone building of similar seating capacity.  An unkind comment on the earlier church after it was demolished described it as “one of those marvelous unshapely masses of windows and galleries of the early Canadian order of architecture, whose only excellence was that it was commodious.”

Second Woollen Business

1835- Allan McDonald  (1809-1886) came to Carleton Place in 1835, after two years in the woolen mill business in Innisville.  He built a custom carding and cloth dressing mill on the river bank here at the corner of Mill and Judson Streets, where woollen mill operations were continued for over 75 years.

The building of the first stone church in Ramsay township, still standing at the Auld Kirk cemetery, was completed in 1835.  Its Church of Scotland members included a number of residents of Carleton Place.  Its trustees in 1836 were James Wylie, James Wilson, John Lockhart, John Bennie and John Gemmill.  This congregation’s first resident minister, the Rev. John Fairbairn, came to Ramsay in 1833.  The first child baptized by him was John Fairbairn Cram, a later prominent resident of Carleton Place.  The church was succeeded by St. Andrews Presbyterian Church, later Bethany United, of Almonte.

Taxes in 1835 paid by township tax collectors to the district treasurer at Perth 108 pounds for Beckwith township and 10 pounds 7 shillings 13 pence for Ramsay township.  The district treasurer paid a bounty of 1 pound each for nineteen wolf scalps.

Early Morning Bell

1836 – A fund to pay for the ringing of a morning bell at Carleton Place, as a sort of community alarm clock corresponding to later factory whistles and bells, was raised by donations from some forty persons.  Among the contributors were Adam Beck, James and Robert Bell, Hugh Boulton, Joseph Bond, Rev. Edward J. Boswell, James Coleman, William Dougherty, Thomas Glendinning, Thomas and William Griffith, Paul and Peter Lavallee, John and William Morphy, John McEwen, Robert McLaren, John McLaughlin, John McRostie, Manny Nowlan, David Pattie, William Poole, James and Henry Rosamond, Henry Snedden, John Sumner, William Wallace, Catin and Henry Willis and John Wilson.  At a meeting called by Hugh Boulton, with James Rosamond as chairman, it was decided the bell should be rung daily at 5 a.m. in the months of May to August, and at 6 a.m. during the other eight months of each year.  A deduction was to be made from the bell ringer’s stipend for any time the bell was rung more than ten minutes late as timed by Robert Bell’s clock.

Township municipal officers were first chosen by election in 1836.  In Beckwith and Ramsay, as in other townships of similar populations, land owners chose three commissioners, an assessor, a collector of taxes, a clerk and overseers of highways and pound keepers.  Those elected for 1836 at a Ramsay township meeting were John Gemmill, John Dunlop and James Wilson, commissioners ; David Campbell, clerk ; Matthew McFarlane, assessor ; and Daniel Shipman, tax collector.

A district temperance society convention was held in February at the Carleton Place Methodist Chapel with the Rev. William Bell of Perth as chairman.  Delegates in attendance reported memberships of five of the local societies at numbers totaling more than a thousand persons. 

The Home Guards

1837 – On the outbreak of the Upper Canada Rebellion in December, 1837, home guard forces were organized in a number of communities, including Carleton Place.  At a meeting here, with Robert Bell as chairman, volunteer guards were enrolled for training and asked to arm and equip themselves at their own expense.  Among those enrolled, in addition to most of the names of 1836 mentioned above, were Peter Comrie, Daniel and Peter Cram, John Graham, Edmond Morphy Sr. and Jr., James, John, David and Thomas Morphy, Ewen McEwen, Allan McDonald, Jacob McFadden and several members of each of the Coleman, Dougherty, McLean and Willis families.  A number of weekly musters were held to drill on Bell Street during the early part of the winter.

The Lanark Emigrant Society settlers of 1821, after over fifteen years without a transferable title to their lands, were authorized to be granted their land patents in 1837, upon the British government deciding to relieve them of repayment of government settlement loans of 8 pounds per person – men, women and children – which had been made to each of these families.

On the death of King William IV, the proclamation of King William IV, the proclamation of Victoria as Queen was marked by ceremonies at the district’s centre at Perth.

Invasion

1838- Invasion near Prescott in November 1838, by United States, Canadian and other sympathizers with the cause of the Upper Canada Rebellion led to the summoning of militia of this district for service.  Seventy-five men of the Beckwith and Ramsay unit, the Third Regiment of Lanark Militia, were called up and mustered at Carleton Place under Captain Thomas Glendinning.  Before they could proceed further, word of the defeat of the invaders was received with orders dismissing the militia draft.

Six woollen mill operators met at Carleton Place in March, 1838, and agreed to restrict their credit terms for the custom carding of wool and dressing of homespun cloth.  They were James Rosamond of Carleton Place, Edward Bellamy of Bellamy’s Mills (now Clayton), Gavin Toshack of Bennie’s Corners (Indian River, Conc. 8, Ramsay), Elijah Boyce of Smiths Falls, Silas Warner of Merrickville and Isaiah Boyce of Ennisville.

Village Fairs

1839- Licensed inns at Carleton Place were operated by Manny Nowlan, Robert McLaren and Michael Murphy (1805-1884), father of James L. Murphy.  Those at and near Franktown were the inns of Patrick Nowlan, Peter McGregor, Widow Ann Burrows and Archibald Gillis.

Semi-annual village fairs, providing market days for “all kinds of Horn Cattle, Horses, Hogs, Sheep and Hawkers” were instituted at Carleton Place and Franktown under authority of government charters.  Petitions for their authorization were signed by about 125 residents of this area.  Names heading the Carleton Place petition were those of Rev. Edward J. Boswell, Robert Bell, merchant and postmaster, and James Rosamond, manufacturer.

Good morning!

I would like to start my first post on ‘In at the Corner’ with a small note of thanks to the incomparable Mr. Chirwa for inviting me to contribute to this exciting blog. Can we become a serious threat to the inane ramblings of Dewi Morris or the utter drivel of Stuart Barnes? Will we emerge into a sort of rugby Saint and Greavesie? Only time will tell, dear reader.

The more astute of you will notice that the times of my posts are usually rather early in the am. This is not due to insomnia or the product of wild drinks binges (usually); I am currently holed up in Perth, Western Australia playing back to back seasons for the first time. Many of my initial posts will therefore take on a southern hemisphere bent, together with notes on life as, essentially, a rugby mercenary in the lower reaches of ’semi-pro’ rugby.

So, please feel free to comment and spread the good word of ‘In at the Corner’ and I hope you enjoy the blog.

I remain, etc.

Frank.

What is now known as the Bataan Death March began on April 10, 1942. Some 76,000 soldiers, many already close to death, were forced to walk 66 miles during the hottest season of the year — there were almost no buildings along the way, no trees, no shade — with little food and almost no water.

It was called a death march for a simple reason: if you stopped marching, you were killed, by bayonet or rifle. There were many other ways to die during the Bataan Death March; it was a spree of arbitrary brutality. For sport, Japanese soldiers fractured skulls with their rifle butts. Japanese tanks ran over men who fell. Good Samaritans who tried to help fallen comrades were beaten or stabbed. Men were forced to bury others alive.

To be on this march, one soldier said, was what it must feel like to “come to the end of civilization.” Some 11,000 died along the way to the ultimate destination, a prison camp.

source: ny times

Janet McKay McArthur. She married Robert Hall Drummond, son of Robert Drummond and Elizabeth Shierlaw Drummond.

Children of Janet McKay McArthur and Robert Hall Drummond are:

1. +Elspeth Mary Drummond.
2. Douglas Robert Drummond.
3. Ewan McRae Drummond.

Sermon Jams are great!

I will analyze an article that I read on the Macarthur foundation website relating to the time that teens spend online and the importance it has on a teens’ social development in our North American society that we live in. The article says that the time spent online is beneficial for teens because not only do they learn from one another, they also learn the ways by which they could network on web 2.0 systems such as Facebook.com, Youtube.com, and Myspace.com. It then goes on to say, that it is a myth that sitting on a computer all day is dangerous and leads to laziness, and instead it is advantageous because of the very fact  they pick up social skills that they need to be competent in the digital age. The article really seems to favor the positive aspects and does not take into account a lot of the negative aspects. The authors view is simply that the positive aspects weight out the negatives by a long shot.

 I disagree with the author in the sense that I believe that it is exactly what the digital age is doing to the youth of today, making them lazy. That is not to say I believe that the internet and the social networking systems that they use so richly don’t serve a great purpose in facilitating interaction and learning amongst each other, however, there is an obvious lack of face to face interaction and teens are less forced to leave their homes when they have what to do all at the tip of their fingertips. This may even create some form of anxiety because of the lack of going outside. Another aspect that the article comments on has to do with the “generation gap” between students and their parents. The article stipulates that parents, for the most part, are in the dark about what their kids are doing on the internet. I agree to some extent with this observation insofar that some parents don’t bother to concern themselves with what they’re children are doing online. However, it feels that parents are becoming increasingly involved with what the kids are doing online. Parents are screening more now and setting up firewalls to control their kids. Not only does this allow them to see who we interact and network with, it also gives them a chance to use the technology themselves so they are able to interact on the same level. Furthermore, even if the “older generation isn’t “in tune” with what we are doing, they are brought up to speed by being a consumer of mainstream media, be it television, radio or newspapers. The only problem however is that more often than not, usually when we hear about youth and the internet, we often hear about negative stereotypes; therefore parents and older people in general get a bad rap of the internet.

Despite the negative aspects of the internet, and even though the internet is a very valuable way to learn new things, one must be careful of the lack of credibility which is also mentioned in another article on the Macarthur foundation. Meaning, since anyone is free to post stuff on the net children often don’t know who to trust as good sources and who not. Therefore, they must be taught, to back up information and simply double check facts. If you use Google as a search engine it can find tons of illegitimate articles… However, if you use Google Scholar and find peer reviewed articles then it is much more reliable because the information has been backed up by experiments and proper research. The research is also transparent and can be duplicated because the procedures and methods are all listed in the actual article. The article I read on the McArthur website can be found at: http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.4773437/k.3CE6/New_Study_Shows_Time_Spent_Online_Important_for_Teen_Development.htm

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With your career at stakes, and a difficult decision between the “questionable” new face of the Adelaide Law School (Rosemary Owens), and the UniSA Law School which has attracted various talent from the Adelaide Law School, what should your preferred choice be then? Well, it should obviously depend on which Law School LSSA prefers.

I recently phoned LSSA to enquire about whether the two Law School’s differed, and I was explained how the Adelaide Law School’s degree is much shorter than the UniSA one. Whereas in each study period, there are three subjects per semester at the Adelaide University; in UniSA, there are four subjects per semester. So, over 4 years (8 study periods), at Adelaide University, you’re doing 24 as supposed to 32 subjects at UniSA. Yes, the study load at the University of Adelaide is almost 25% less.

Talk about an easy way to get your Law degree, I think the newspapers are correct when they talk of a need to upgrade the Law degree to a “JD”, particularly in light of the second oldest Law School in Australia (the Adelaide University), which has a history spanning 150 years, offering 75% the load of the “new” Law School on the block.

Obviously, as you would expect, the LSSA didn’t say which one was better, but the person who I was speaking to made it obvious!

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