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08 | 11 | 2012VOLUME 17 | ISSUE 35
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The highly debated redevelopment of Highway 7 between Guelph and Kitch-ener looks to be a hot issue during the by-election campaign in the provincial riding of Kitchener-Waterloo.
Both the Liberals and the Progressive Conservatives were out with announce-ments early Wednesday, even before Pre-mier Dalton McGuinty went public with the news the by-election will be held on Sept. 6.
Conservative transportation critic Frank Klees, along with Kitchener-Conestoga MPP Michael Harris and Kitchener-Water-loo PC candidate Tracey Weiler were at Bel-gian Nursery in Breslau on Wednesday to discuss the redevelopment of Highway 7.
In 2007 Ontario’s Liberal government approved a new divided four-lane highway running north of the existing highway, but delayed the construction until after 2015.
“Years of reckless overspending, mana-gerial incompetence and failed economic policies have indefinitely delayed the des-perately needed redevelopment of High-way 7 between Kitchener and Guelph,” said Klees at the press conference. “This is not a partisan issue this is not a Liberal or NDP or PC project this shouldn’t be, this is a practical issue that is important to the economy and the quality of life in this
Hwy. 7 an issue in upcoming Kitchener-Waterloo by-election
Both Tories and Liberals trying to make hay with long-delayed project to replace route between Kitchener and Guelph
COLIN DEWARCost overruns at the Woolwich Me-morial Centre continued to wreak havoc with the budget last year, but pushing back some capital spending allowed the township to finish 2011 with a small sur-plus, councillors learned this week.
Woolwich’s operating budget ran over by $226,871, while on the capital side the township spent $411,362 less than it planned to, providing a net surplus of $184,491, said director of finance Richard Petherick at Tuesday night’s council meeting.
The surplus will be transferred to the capital budget contin-gency reserve fund.
Furthermore, the township posted a surplus of $124,189 in its water operations, while suffering a deficit of $189,810 on the wastewater side.
The surplus goes to the wa-ter reserve fund. The deficit was covered by the wastewater reserve fund, which is healthy enough to take the hit, said Peth-erick.
While the WMC continued to be a drag on the budget in 2011, its finances were improved from the year previously, when a $385,000 shortfall contributed to some $550,000 in overspending in the budget for the recreation and facilities depart-
WMC a drag on township’s 2011 budget: reportTaking into account unused capital funds, Woolwich posted a small surplus of $184,000 last year
STEVE KANNON
BUDGET | 6 HWY 7 | 4PC transportation critic Frank Klees and Kitchener-Conestoga MPP Michael Harris were at Belgian Nursery in Breslau on Wednesday to discuss the redevelopment of Highway 7 connecting Kitchener to Guelph. [COLIN DEWAR / THE OBSERVER]
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Deeming the venture too risky, Woolwich will not extend a line of credit to an organization looking to extend a car-sharing ser-vice into the township.
Councillors meeting Aug. 7 turned down Grand River CarShare’s (GRCS) request for $30,000 that would help fund two or three vehicles to be placed in Elmira. The line of credit, requested early last year, would be similar to arrangement’s the group has in Waterloo, Kitchener and Cambridge. GRCS also has deals with the region, Hamilton and, most recently, St. Catha-rines.
Parked in accessible public locations, the cars could be rented by the hour to those who join the not-for-profit cooperative. The idea is to provide a section of the population with the
Councillors reject call to bankroll Elmira car-sharing planCouncillors turn down Grand River CarShare’s request for a line of credit, but will provide parking spaces
STEVE KANNON benefits of car use without the downside of car owner-ship.
Matthew Piggott, the organization’s membership services co-ordinator, told councillors the organiza-tion believes the service is viable in the township, getting close to the initial 35 members needed to start operating here.
Admitting that “run-ning a car-share business outside of Toronto is risky,” he suggested the group’s 14 years of continued mem-bership growth and ex-pansion make it a reliable partner.
Councillors weren’t convinced, however, sup-porting director of finance Richard Petherick’s recom-mendation against extend-ing a line of credit based on the organization’s financial statements.
As drought conditions persist throughout the region, Woolwich Township is still in better shape than other areas of the watershed fed by the Grand River.
According to recent in-formation from the Grand River Conservation Author-ity, the Woolwich reservoir is below normal, with levels still dropping and the Con-estogo River near St. Jacobs experiencing lower flows.
As water levels in res-ervoirs monitored by the GRCA continue to drop, restrictions on water usage still varies by geographi-cal area. The Grand River watershed provides the water supply for Waterloo Region, Dufferin, Perth and Haldimand counties and Halton Region. Though lev-els in the township are not the worst of recent statis-tics released by the GRCA, local areas will still be af-fected by possible future
Calling it a solution to a non-existent problem, residents of Elmira’s Pheas-ant Drive won the argu-ment, as Woolwich council-lors this week vetoed a plan to limit on-street parking.
The township’s bylaw enforcement staff had rec-ommended parking be pro-hibited on the south side of the street, from Barnswal-low Drive to Chickadee Court, citing requests from
As drought conditions persist, GRCA asks for water restrictions
ELENA MAYSTRUK
Parking to remain unchanged on Elmira’s Pheasant Dr.Residents convince council to reject staff proposal; bylaw altered for Park Avenue, First Street
STEVE KANNON neighbours. Under scruti-ny, however, that argument quickly deflated.
In a presentation to council Tuesday night, Pheasant Drive homeowner Heidi Kelly presented a survey completed by 12 of the street’s 14 residents indicating their opposition to the proposed changes.
Pointing to low traf-fic volumes and a lack of parked cars most of the day, she argued prohibiting parking would not solve
the problem of people il-legally parking too close to the stop sign at Barn-swallow, thus occasionally obstructing sightlines near the intersection.
“I really question the need for this if we only have five cars on the street at any one time,” she said.
Fellow resident John Bruder also argued against the changes, noting the issue is with Barnswallow Drive, specifically with em-ployees of nearby Leisure-
world Caregiving Centre parking on the streets be-cause of inadequate park-ing space at the facility.
While not unhappy to have the seniors’ facility in the neighbourhood, he said it was clear even before the place was built that parking was going to be a problem. Both he and Kelly proposed that Leisureworld deal with the issue, perhaps by encouraging employees to park elsewhere.
Like Kelly, he too pointed
out the lack of actual data to support any changes, asking to see some quanti-fiable data before council makes a decision that would adversely affect the residents. In questioning township staff about its recommendations, he was unable to find evidence of any real problems, citing two complaints this year from the same person. The rest of the neighbours have no complaints, he said.
“It’s not an issue to us.”
Councillors quickly agreed with the arguments presented. Coun. Julie-Anne Herteis, for instance, said it makes no sense to spend time and money on amending the bylaw and installing no-parking signs when there’s no problem to solve.
On the wider issue of overflow parking from Leisureworld, director of council and information
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Notice of Public Information Centre PROPOSED REGION OF WATERLOO
SIGN BY-LAW
The Region of Waterloo will be holding a public information centre to introduce a draft Regional By-law respecting signs on Regional roads. The proposed Sign By-law addresses all types of unoffi cial signs on Regional roads including election signs, business accessory signs, farm accessory signs, mailbox accessory signs, open house signs and poster signs. The proposed Sign By-law establishes requirements for unoffi cial signs including:
• Location and placement; • Size, shape, construction and content; • Impacts to the function of the road; • Number of signs and timing of placement; and • Sign removal.
Staff are also proposing an amendment to the Region’s Tourism and Essential Services Signing Policy to allow tourism signage on Regional roads for agri-toursim activities.
When: Tuesday, June 17, 2008, drop in 4:00 - 8:00 p.m.Place: Regional Administration Headquarters (lobby) 150 Frederick Street, Kitchener
This public information centre is being held for the purpose of providing information and receiving comments from the public. A copy of the draft By-law is available for review in the Clerk’s Offi ce, Region of Waterloo, 2nd fl oor, 150 Frederick Street, Kitchener or on the Region’s website at:
www.region.waterloo.on.ca - tab Newsroom, tab Public Notices
If you have questions concerning the By-law, please contact Nancy Button, Manager, Transportation Engineering at 519-575-4520 or by email at [email protected]
If you require accessible services to participate in this meeting, please contact the above noted person by Tuesday, June 10, 2008.
All comments and information received from individuals, stakeholder groups and agencies regarding this project are being collected to assist the Region of Waterloo in making a decision. Under the Municipal Act, personal information such as name, address, telephone number, and property location that may be included in a submission becomes part of the public record. Questions regarding the collection of this information should be referred to the person indicated above.
Nancy ButtonManager, Transportation EngineeringRegion of Waterloo150 Frederick Street, 7th FloorKitchener, ON N2G 4J3
CHANGES TO GRAND RIVER TRANSIT FEES AND CHILD CARE FEES AT REGIONALLY-OPERATED
CHILDREN’S CENTRES Regional Council will be discussing changes to Grand River Transit fees and child care fees. The changes specifically relate to:
• School board transit passes available to students increasing from $230 to $235 per five month term, reducing the time of use to the pass to weekdays before 6 p.m., and introducing an upgraded pass for use beyond weekdays before 6 p.m.; and • Changes to the fee schedule for child care services in Regionally-operated children’s centres, including fee increases and removing two fees categories.
REGIONAL COUNCIL WILL CONSIDER THESE CHANGES AT THE MEETING ON:
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 20127:00 P.M.
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Copies of staff reports and supporting documents related to the proposed changes will be available for review starting Tuesday, August 7, 2012, in the Regional Clerk’s Office at the address below. The documents will also be available at the Region’s Public Notice website: http://www.regionofwaterloo.ca/en/regionalGovernment/publicnotices.asp
If you wish to speak at the Council meeting, make written submissions, have questions concerning the proposed changes, or require accessible services to participate in the meeting, please contact the Clerk’s office by phone or email as listed below by 12:00 p.m. on Thursday, August 23, 2012.
This notice is in accordance with the Municipal Act, 2001.
Kris FletcherRegional Clerk150 Frederick St., 2nd FloorKitchener, On. N2G [email protected]
All comments and information received from individuals, stakeholder groups and agencies regarding this by-law are being collected to assist the Region of Waterloo in making a decision. Under the Municipal Act, personal information such as name, address, telephone number, and property location that may be included if a submission becomes part of the public record. Questions regarding the collection of this information should be referred to the Regional Clerk’s Office.
region.”Klees went on to say that
a Conservative government would not allow important infrastructure projects to be moved from a priority list because someone has a stronger poll politically in another part of the province.
“That is not good man-agement and not what people expect. This will be a cornerstone commitment of a PC government that we will put important infra-structure projects beyond politics.”
For its part, the Mc-Guinty government says it has set aside $50 million to acquire properties for the new corridor this year.
In a press release of its own, the Liberal govern-ment said Ontario con-tinues to press the federal government for a contribu-tion to this important re-gional transportation cor-ridor and has applied to the P3 Canada Fund. Which means the government is looking for public-private partnership to provide and bring some financing to the table.
Art Sinclair, vice presi-
dent of the Greater Kitch-ener-Waterloo Chamber of Commerce, said his organization is looking for support from all the major parties on this project and sees the project as both a business issue and commu-nity safety issue.
“The volume of traffic and the number of inci-dents along the current highway is something the community wants ad-dressed,” said Sinclair after the press conference.
Between 2000 and 2009, seven people died and 288 people were injured on Highway 7.
“With more than 22,000 drivers traveling between Kitchener and Guelph everyday, the PC Party understands that develop-ing Highway 7 is needed to both enhance public safety and improve the flow of goods and people,” said Harris.
Luc Lombaert, owner of Belgian Nursery on Vic-toria Street near Breslau, welcomes the idea of hav-ing a new highway built, calling the existing route inadequate.
“I feel the current High-way 7 doesn’t exist. The
road is actually Victoria Street and people are just using the street as a high-way although it is way be-yond its capacity. The new highway is overdue by 20-plus years and should have been done a long time ago,” said Lombaert. “We have seen many collisions hap-pen on the roadway and that is simply because it is overloaded. The highway is overdue.”
The proposed highway will be built 300 metres north of Victoria Street and could potentially cut through farmland and wet-lands in the area.
“This is a provincial is-sue not just a local issue. If we are going to have the population increase that the province has projected over the next 25 years we have to have the infrastruc-ture in place now. We can’t be building it 20 years from now when the people and the businesses are here, otherwise we are going to have grid lock and conges-tion,” said Sinclair adding the proposed highway has been on the agenda for 40 years and the region needs a solution sooner than later.
services Christine Brough-ton noted the issue has been a township concern for more than a decade. Woolwich has made chang-es to Barnswallow Drive itself, along with parking regulation, in an ongoing attempt to deal with the parking shortage at the fa-cility, which complied with parking requirements at the time it was built.
Most recently, in 2011 the council approved a bylaw
to prohibit parking along the east side of Barnswal-low Drive, from First Street West to a point approxi-mately 130 metres south.
In a study of traffic flows on the road, the township determined there are safety concerns with on-street parking in the vicinity of the Leisureworld Caregiv-ing Centre, opting to install no-parking signs.
Meanwhile, councillors did approve changes to the parking bylaw affect-ing Park Avenue West in
PARKING: Councillors side with residentsFROM | 3 Elmira.
Citing traffic flow is-sues and congestion, staff recommended that park-ing be prohibited at all time on the south side of Park Avenue West, from Hampton Street to a point 97 metres west of that in-tersection.
And, as housekeeping measure, the parking bylaw will reflect the change of “no parking” signs on First Street West near John Ma-hood PS to “no stopping” signs.
HWY 7: Chamber calls for quick action on fileFROM | COVER
plans to reduce water usage in the entire watershed.
Members of the Low Water Response Team be-came aware of persisting deteriorating conditions in the Grand River watershed in late July and were mull-ing over plans to increase water use restrictions due anticipation of rainfall last week. The committee consisting mostly of ma-jor water users including municipalities, farmers, gravel pit businesses and Six Nations, met again on Wednesday to discuss put-ting the entire Grand River Watershed under a level two advisory, which would mean a voluntary reduc-tion of water use by 20 per cent for everyone on Mu-nicipal water supplies.
“I’m not exactly sure what’s going to happen with the rain we got over the weekend. I can’t say for sure that’s going to
happen,” said GRCA com-munications coordinator Cam Linwood on Tuesday, adding that the committee would release an update following the meeting.
The result of last week’s meeting is causing the GRCA to make good on an earlier public notice to adjust the amount of re-leased from its reservoirs to ensure that there is enough water should dry weather continue into late summer and fall months.
“We have to hit certain levels, or flow targets in the river and those flow targets are set to create optimal conditions within the river. Because there is much less water this year we’ve had to reduce those targets a little bit, and that will allow us to put out less water potential-ly depending on [its] avail-ability,” Linwood explained.
Not everyone is heeding the organizations advice to conserve water. Properties
on municipal water supplies are covered by outdoor wa-ter use bylaws and therefore must adhere to certain re-strictions. Property owners using private reserves on their own properties howev-er, such as ponds and wells, are not subject to these limits and Municipal water managers have been hearing complaints about owners with private water supplies watering their lawns and ignoring restrictions.
Linwood said owners of private water sources may not be aware that their wa-ter supplies come from the same reserves as municipal water and though they are not subject to restrictions by law, they are still de-pleting the same regional groundwater sources.
“We just want to make sure that people are aware that even though they are not on a municipal water service they should still be cognizant of conserving water.”
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The gloomy weather didn’t stop local shoppers from browsing through the BIA sidewalk sale in downtown Elmira on Thursday. The event runs through the weekend. [ELENA MAYSTRUK / THE OBSERVER]
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1:50 PM | Police were called about a suspicious person walking through a farmer’s field on Martin Grove Road in Woolwich Township. When police arrived they discov-ered five marijuana plants. The plants were seized and destroyed.
5:15 PM | A Dodge Dakota was travelling along Floradale Road near Jesse Place and Reid Woods Drive when it struck a female pedestrian walking along the road. The woman received a laceration to her face. The traffic division is still investigating the incident.
6:00 PM | A youth left his bike at the St. Clements soccer park for a few days and when he returned to get the bike it was missing. A neighbour had picked up the bike and was holding it in his garage. The bike was returned to the youth.
Police were called to a business in the 800 block of Sawmill Road in Bloomingdale about 9:30 p.m. on Aug. 2 regarding a robbery.
It was reported that two male suspects brandished weapons and demanded money from the business. The suspects then fled with an undisclosed amount of money.
No injuries were report-ed by staff after in the rob-bery. Police are investigat-
Police still looking for information about suspects in Bloomingdale robbery, but reveal few details
ing. Anyone with informa-tion about this incident is asked to call North Division Detectives at 519-650-8500, ext. 3382.
Waterloo Regional Police continue to investigate a robbery releasing an image of the suspects and appealing for information.
A U G U S T 3
5:20 PM | A brown Honda Civic was travelling along Kossuth Road near Chilligo Road in the south end of Woolwich when the vehicle fishtailed, causing it to cross the road and slide into a ditch. The 25-year-old male driver was not charged but did sustain facial injuries.
9:15 PM | Police received a call about a stolen blue vehicle that was found in a ditch along Floradale Road near Reid Woods Drive. The vehicle was abandoned when police arrived. The investiga-tion continues.
A U G U S T 4
8:55 AM | Police got a call about a dog running loose along St. Charles Street West in Woolwich Township. Police found a Huskie and took the animal to the Kitchener-Waterloo Humane
Society. Police were unable to locate the dog’s owner.
9:00 AM | An elderly man locked his keys in his Chrysler along with both of his poodles. When police arrived they safely opened the vehicle retrieving the animals. No injuries were reported.
12:55 PM | Police were con-tacted about a hit-and-run in the parking lot of the St. Jacobs Farm-ers Market. An unknown vehicle struck a 2011 Dodge Ram. Minor damage to the vehicle’s bumper was reported. The investigation is ongoing.
8:15 PM | A one-year-old boy was injured in a farming accident in Wellesley Township. The boy was struck by a farm vehicle and transported to hospital in critical but stable condition. The Ministry of Labour is investigating the incident.
A U G U S T 5
12:30 PM | A red Supercycle 18-speed mountain bike was found in Elmira’s Gibson Park. The rightful owner can pick up the bike at the Elmira detachment.
2:00 PM | A pink mountain bike was found on Sugar King Drive in Elmira and can be reclaimed by its rightful owner at the Elmira detachment.
4:45 PM | A teacher at Cones-togo Public School contacted police after she discovered a window to a portable was broken. The hole in the window was the size of a soccer ball. Nothing was reported missing form the building. The
investigation continues.
11:55 PM | Police received a call about a horse on the loose on Hutchinson Road in Wellesley Township. The animal almost struck a parked vehicle before police could contain it. The owner was contacted and the horse was returned to them.
A U G U S T 6
2:00 AM | Police were contacted about an assault that occurred at a residence on Fountain Street in Breslau. Unwanted guests
showed up to attend a large private party and assaulted one of the attendees with a metal pipe, fists and empty bottles. Eight suspects then fled in a silver Dodge Caravan and a white Ford Flex. The victim had only received minor injuries which did not require any medical attention. It is believed that the suspects also stole the victim’s iPhone. Police are requesting the assistance from anyone who may have witnessed this incident, to help possibly identify the suspects.
2:05 PM | A men’s Schwinn
21-speed bike was stole from a resi-dence on Bristow Creek Drive in Elmira. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Elmira detachment.
3:45 PM | A Floradale man was hitching his horse and buggy to a post on William Street near Anne Street in Elmira when the horse was spooked. The animal then proceeded to run south down Anne Street and through the parking lot of the Mennonite church when it turned west towards Wallenstein and then south along Raising Mill Gate, knocking over street and stop signs before it headed east on Park Street and hitting a parked 2002 black Alero owned by a Kitchener woman. The buggy turned over and the horse broke free until it was caught by a resident. The horse was returned to its owner.
5:00 PM | Police received a call about two cows on the loose along Shantz Station Road. When police ar-rived they could not find the animals.
5:05 PM | A 20-year-old Kitchener woman was charged with ‘careless driving’ after the 1998 Chevy she was operating struck a 2012 Toyota driven by a Kitchener teenager. The woman was not pay-ing attention and struck the Toyota that had stopped at the intersection of Arthur Street and Cedar Spring. No injuries were reported.
5:30 PM | Police responded to a break-and-enter at a residence on King Street North in St. Jacobs. Unknown suspects entered the residence through a back door and stole jewelry. The owners were away on vacation at the time. The
Elmira skate park meeting may be a go in the fall
Still in the early stages, a plan to build a skateboard park in Elmira could move to the public-input phase in late-September or October, says Woolwich’s director of recreation and facilities.
Addressing a question from Mayor Todd Cowan at Tuesday’s nights meet-ing of council, Karen Makela said the township is currently in negotiations with a service club to take the lead on the project. She hopes to see the work
modelled on the recently-opened Kate’s Kause playground, whereby a group would do the fundraising and organizing, with the township providing expertise and ensuring the park gets built to specifications.
Trillium grant fuels tree-planting program
The Grand River Conservation Au-
thority has given a new tree-planting project the green light after receiving $133,700 in grant money from the Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF). The effort to plant 83,000 trees along the
Conestogo River will be used to hire and maintain a project coordinator, create promotions for tree planting and develop a network of volunteers.
The OTF allocates $120 million in grant money annually to not-for profit and community organizations.
A new project coordinator will work with local tree planting organizations such as Trees for Mapleton and Trees for Woolwich to establish 22 kilo-metres of windbreaks, five hectares of shelterbelts and 1,000 meters of stream and riverside plantings using the trees planted in the next two years. The project is a continuation of similar successful efforts in Mapleton in 2008 and Trees of Woolwich
established last year. The Woolwich effort has a goal of planting 23,000 trees by 2016, one for every resident of the township. Thus far, 2,100 trees have been planted.
Provincial by-election called for Sept. 6
The Kitchener-Waterloo seat vacated by long-time Progressive Conservative MPP Elizabeth Witmer will be filled in a by-election Sept. 2, the province announced this week.
Voters in Vaughan will also go to the polls that day.
Under the Election Act, elections must be called on a Wednesday and held the fifth Thursday after the date of the issue of the writ.
Woolwich grants noise exemption for railway work
The reconstruction of the railway crossing on Woolwich Street in Breslau is expected to go ahead Aug. 15-16, as township council this week approved a noise bylaw exemption that will allow the bulk of the work to take place overnight.
Township clerk Christine Broughton
said the contractor, D&S Railway Construction, intends to carry out much of the project in a 12-hour chunk between midnight and noon on Aug. 16. The timing is important, as it’s a period when the rail line is not in use. It also minimizes the amount of time the roadway will be closed, she explained to councillors meeting Tuesday night.
Although some neighbours have expressed concerns about the late-night noise, Broughton said the contractor does not expect the work, which involves the replacement of the railway lines where they cross the road, to disturb anyone’s sleep.
LOOSE HORSE CAUSES DAMAGE
A spooked horse pulling a buggy ran through the streets of Elmira Monday, causing damage to street signs and a parked car said police. The horse broke free of the buggy but was contained by a resident until its owner appeared. [JOE MERLIHAN / THE OBSERVER]
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A U G U S T 7
5:35 PM | A 50-year-old Elmira man on a bike was struck by a 20-year-old Owen Sound woman driving a 2004 gold Intrepid on Mockingbird Drive near Barnswal-low Drive in Elmira. The driver was blinded by the sun and did not see the cyclist, who had stopped at the side of the road. The cyclist received minor injuries and his bike had damage to the back tire. The woman was charged with ‘careless driving.’
A U G U S T 8
9:20 AM | Police received a call about a 2010 Jeep that had rolled down hill on Duke Street in Elmira, striking a pole. Police are still investigating the incident.
12:45 PM | Unknown sus-pects stole four cases of beer from a business on King Street North in St. Jacobs. Police were called and discovered that the locks to the outdoor refrigerator were cut. The investigation continues.
ment. Petherick expects second quarter numbers to be released next week to show 2012’s number to be much better.
Last year, staffing costs and utilities were responsi-ble for much of the WMC’s budget woes. Planning for staff costs of $1.2 million, the township spent $1.3 million at the facility. The cost of utilities came in at $459,000 some $77,000 higher than the budgeted
“We don’t see the risk exposure as something the township should get involved with,” he said, adding that if the operation folded there would be little chance Woolwich would get its money back.
The township did not turn its back completely on the concept. Led by a mo-tion from Coun. Allan Pof-fenroth, council approved GRCS’ request to provide three parking spots in vari-ous locations as potential
pick-up/drop-off spots for its vehicles. The locations would have signs indicat-ing they could one day be home to a car-share ve-hicle, in effect promoting the concept.
“I think we should help them do what they want to do,” he argued, noting the arrangement wasn’t a life-time commitment – “you can always get a divorce.”
Although opposed by Mayor Todd Cowan and Coun. Bonnie Bryant, Pof-fenroth and Coun. Julie-Anne Herteis voted in favour,
CAR-SHARE: Council sees venture as too riskyFROM | 3 with Coun. Mark Bauman
siding with them in his role as chair of the committee-of-the-whole meeting.
With the vote, council instructed director of rec-reation and facilities Karen Makela to meet with Pig-gott in order to determine where the parking spots should go.
Speaking after the meet-ing, Piggott said council’s denial of the line of credit was a setback, but the group intends to push ahead with its plan to offer car-sharing services in the township.
BUDGET: Auditor gives books clean bill of healthFROM | COVER
amount of $381,000.Add to that the $50,000
in deferred revenues pushed over into 2012 be-cause of new accounting procedures, and the totals account for the $227,000 operating deficit, he ex-plained.
That deficit was covered by some unspent money in the capital budget, though council did have some res-ervations about that. Coun. Mark Bauman expressed some concern about using funds earmarked for capi-
tal projects, pointing to a growing infrastructure def-icit, but councillors eventu-ally agreed to the solution put forward by Petherick.
In a related matter, coun-cillors heard a report from the township’s auditor giving Woolwich’s books a clean bill of health
Matt Betick of KPMG re-ported the company’s audit found no issues or con-cerns to report to council – the financial statements for 2011 were completely satisfactory.
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SOMETHING FOR THE KIDS
Abigail Kennedy, 4, enjoys a hot dog at the Youth Centre fundraiser barbecue held outside Shoppers Drug Mart in Elmira on Thursday. The centre held the fundraising event to coincide with the Elmira sidewalk sale. [COLIN DEWAR / THE OBSERVER]
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General• Use flashlights, not candles• If the traffic lights are out, treat the intersection as a 4-way stop.• Home generators should be installed only as per manufacturer’s specs.• Never touch downed power lines.• Don’t use charcoal, gas barbecues or home generators indoors. They give off deadly carbon monoxide.• Do not attempt electrical repairs - use qualified electrical contractors.
Freezer• Without power, a full upright or chest freezer will keep everything frozen for about two days.• A half-full freezer will keep food frozen for about one day.• Keep your fridge and freezer door closed as much as possible.• If the power outage continues, and you are at all in doubt about the safety of your food, throw it out.
Fridge• Without power, your refrigerator should keep food cool for 4-6 hours.• Put ice in your refrigerator if you have it.• Discard any thawed food that has been at room temperature for two hours or more.• Immediately discard any food with a strange odour or colour.• If in any doubt, throw it out, especially foods such as meat, fish, chicken, eggs, dairy.
Heat or Cold• Call or visit elderly or ill friends and neighbours who may be suffering from the heat or cold.• People at greatest risk include the elderly, infants and young children, the chronically ill and the disabled.
Water• Emergency Services is working to ensure the safety of the water quality.• Conserve water - do not water your lawn or wash your car, avoid doing laundry.
Communication• Cordless phones don’t work during power outages. Have a “land line” (phone with a cord) handy to make calls to family, friends or your hydro company during a power outage.• Keep a battery opperated or hand crank radio easily accessible. Tune into local media for extended outages. During emergency outages, the hydro companies communicate the nature, extent and estimated time to get their system back to normal to the local media to keep their customers informed.• If you see a pole or lines down, a tree or branches on a hydro line, hear a loud bang or see anything unusual that may have caused the outage, please contact your hydro company to report those details. It may be important informa-tion that helps the hydro crew identify the cause of the outage.• Please be patient during an outage. Your hydro staff is working to restore power to your home in a safe and efficient manner.
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Step One - Know the risks & regionAlthough the consequences of disasters can be similar, knowing the risks specific to your region can help you prepare yourself better. Are floods likely in your area? Is there a history of tornados, earthquakes or hurricanes in the region? The internet can help you find this informa-tion. Once you know about the risks in your region, you can start preparing for those specific situations.
Step Two - Make a PlanEvery Canadian household needs an emergency plan. Put the plan in writing. It will help your family know what to do in case of emergency. Practise your plan.
As a minimum, the plan should include the following elements: emergency exits from your home; an escape route from your neighbourhood; a previously identified meeting location; plans for specific risks, such as what do in case of a flood or blackout; emergency contact information & safety information i.e. location of the fire extinguisher and how to turn off the ectricity or gas, if necessary.
Step Three - Prepare a KitPut together an emergency kit with enough basic sup-plies for at least 72 hours. Make sure your kit is easy to access keep it in a duffel bag in your front door closet.
As a minimum, the kit should contain the following: two litres of water per person per day, plus water for pets; a three-day supply of food (including pet food) that will not spoil, such as canned food, energy bars, dried foods (remember to replace the food and water at least once a year); a manual can opener; flashlight, batteries, candles and matches or lighter; a battery-powered or wind-up radio, plus extra batteries; a first aid kit, including such essentials as ASA, ibuprofen, anti-nausea and anti-diar-rhea products; special items, such as feminine hygiene products and prescription medications (In an emergency, pharmacies may be closed for some time. Talk to your doctor about preparing a "grab and go" bag with a two-week supply of your medications. Also, ask how often you should replace the medications with a fresh supply); some cash (or travellers cheques) in small bills, change for telephones; copies of your emergency plan, contact information and other important documents (license, birth certificate, passport, etc.) stored in a waterproof container; and a change of clothing and footwear for each family member
In addition to preparing a kit, it is also a good idea to stock up on non-perishable items (e.g., toilet paper, paper towels, more candles, dried or canned foods, etc.) in case stores remain closed or you are unable to leave your home during an emergency.
In case of a major emergency:1. Follow your emergency plan 2. Get your emergency kit
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The federal governmenT was tooting its own horn this week in relation to the reduc-tion of greenhouse gas emissions, as levels are about halfway to the 17 per cent drop Canada committed to under the Copenhagen Accord.
That’s all well and good, except that the numbers them-selves represent a fairly insignificant decrease, based on a 2005 benchmark, a far less onerous target than Kyoto, for instance, and unlikely to provide the kind of impact needed to mitigate climate change. Nor is the irony of the announcement lost on the majority of Canadians who rec-ognize the Harper government is on the denier side of the issue.
Of course, we’ve become used to pronouncements of all sorts, usually from politicians looking to score points but with no intention of following through on even their mea-ger pledges. Given that we’ve heard this kind of talk before without any commensurate action, we can be forgiven for being skeptical.
At that Copenhagen meeting, scientists and environ-mentalists told us all countries would have to set very firm targets to reduce global greenhouse-gas emissions before 2020 to stave off some of the harsher predictions about cli-mate change.
Again, recent history tells us not to be optimistic.At Copenhagen and elsewhere, Prime Minister Stephen
Harper called for the meeting to focus on the economy, not the environment. Harper stuck to his familiar refrain about the need for emerging economies such as China and India – far bigger polluters than Canada – to come on board, ar-guing our efforts would be somewhat fruitless otherwise.
It’s true that the big players are doing most of the dam-age. Canada’s contribution to total greenhouse gas produc-tion is about two per cent. Even if we shut down our entire economy, we’d have a negligible impact on the problem. That’s not an excuse, however, to do absolutely nothing.
With Harper at the helm, Canada’s international reputa-tion has taken a pounding, as the country is seen as a road-block to agreements on limiting greenhouse gas emissions.
Harper has, of course, shunned the Kyoto protocol. It can be argued Kyoto and the subsequent follow-ups are a waste of time: more a feel-good photo op than anything concrete. That’s especially so in Canada’s case: any targets we set would be a drop in the bucket if the real culprits – the U.S., China, India and Russia – refuse to play ball.
Perhaps it’s time to move past the rhetoric and actually start doing something. Even climate change skeptics – those who argue the changes are naturally occurring, not manmade – can’t argue the fact we’re polluting the only home we have. Measures designed to improve the environ-ment can only improve our own health and quality of life down the road.
Those opposed to fighting greenhouse gas emissions of-ten cite economic reasons, saying we’d kill the economy by cutting back on energy production and manufacturing.
This stance ignores many realities. First off, resources such as oil and coal are finite – we’re going to run out of them eventually. In that dilemma lies an opportunity to develop alternatives, to make Canada a supplier of technol-ogy that will replace dwindling resources and help protect the environment.
Uninterested in global warming, Harper should see the business possibilities of moving away from conventional energy ideologies and embracing what is needed for the future. That would be leadership.
Low emission targets nothing to get excited about
good news from af-rica: after two decades of bloody anarchy, Somalia is finally on the mend. There is something resembling a government coming into being in Mogadishu, with much help from African Union troops – although the country’s most popular comedian, Abdi Jeylani Marshale, famous for his parodies of Islamic mili-tants, was assassinated in broad daylight a week ago
Bad news from Africa: the situation in Mali is aw-ful. The military coup in March that opened the way for Tuareg tribalists and Islamist extremists to seize the northern half of the country isn’t really over. The ignorant and brutal young officers who made the coup are blocking the arrival of 3,000 African Union troops, Mali’s only hope of ever regaining con-trol in the north, because it would undermine their own power.
News about Africa that you don’t know whether
Africa now a good/bad news storyto cheer or deplore: the major foreign aid donors have finally got fed up with Rwanda’s endless military meddling in the Demo-cratic Republic of Congo. The United States has an-nounced a cut in military aid, and Britain, Germany and the Netherlands are delaying payment of civil-ian aid, until Rwanda’s president, Paul Kagame, stops backing a rebel Tutsi militia in his country’s Congolese neighbour.
Everybody sympathizes with Kagame’s attempt to rebuild peace and prosper-ity in Rwanda after the genocide that killed about half of the country’s Tutsi citizens. Everybody un-derstands why he worries about Hutu militias in the eastern Congo. But he has to stop backing murder-ous Tutsi militias there, and using them to loot Congo’s mineral wealth. (On the other hand, don’t destabilize Kagame’s rule too much or the genocide might resume.)
Too many names, too many places, too much news. Even Africans can-not keep up with the news about their own continent. Is Africa going forwards,
sideways, or nowhere at all? Indeed, is Africa any more than a geographical term?
The surfeit of news is in-evitable in a continent that contains half a hundred countries. The sense of chronic crisis and chaos is due to the fact that in such a news-rich environment, the bad news will always jostle the good news aside. And yes, there really is an Africa about which you can usefully make large gener-alizations.
First, the entire con-tinent is finally growing economically. Many Afri-can economies stagnated or even went backwards in the first three or four decades after decoloniza-tion, but now there is real growth. Local disaster ar-eas remain, of course, but over the past decade the gross domestic product of those fifty countries has grown at an average rate of five per cent.
Manufacturing produc-tion in Africa has doubled in the past 10 years. Seven of the world’s 10 fastest-growing economies are in Africa. The growth is start-ing from a desperately low base, in many cases, but
the magic of compound interest means that a five per cent growth rate will double the size of the econ-omy every 14 years.
So there really is hope that most Africans can escape from poverty in the next generation – but on one condition. The birth rate is declining in most countries, but it must fall faster. The 2008 UN projec-tions saw Africa doubling its population to two bil-lion by mid-century, even assuming that the current gradual decline in African birth rates continues. That means an average popula-tion growth over this entire period of almost two per cent a year.
If the economy is grow-ing at five per cent and the population is growing at two per cent annually, that only leaves room for a three per cent growth in aver-age income. That means a doubling time of about 23 years for African average incomes, so let’s assume that they triple by 2050. That’s not enough.
African average incomes now are so low that tripling them would still not create
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Government corruption is all around us, and shows no sign of abating
heading into a provin-cial election next month, some 70 per cent of Que-beckers believe their gov-ernment is corrupt.
The results of a new Léger Marketing poll took on extra significance this week as the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ), currently running third behind the Parti Quebecois and Liberals, rolled out a star candidate in Jacques Duchesneau, the former cop behind a major anti-corruption investigation. If anybody has any credibility taking about government sleaze, it’s Duchesneau.
Running under the slo-gan, “Enough, things have to change,” CAQ Leader François Legault referred to Duchesneau as “Quebec’s Eliot Ness.”
Duchesneau’s report into the rampant corrup-tion of the construction industry in Quebec – a systemic stew of mafia control, contractors rigging bids, civil servants on the
take and grafting politi-cians fleecing taxpayers of hundreds of millions of dollars – shamed the Lib-eral government and its PQ predecessors alike. Outside of Quebec, many of us saw it as yet another confir-mation of our image of a province plagued by poor governance and a culture of waste.
While there’s certainly a longstanding issue with corruption and kickbacks in Quebec – the London Olympics are a full-force reminder of the fiasco that took place in 1976 – only the most naive among us would believe we’re immune from that here. Indeed, governments from the smallest municipality through to the federal level (especially) are rife with abuse of the public trust.
We don’t see the kind of outright bribery that greas-es the wheels in other parts of the world – the cash slipped to bureaucrats to move the paperwork to the top of the pile, the cop who pulls you over just to shake you down – as corruption is much more systemic here. That’s not to say money doesn’t change hands in
small quantities, but on the whole the corruption is more involved and less blatant, as lobbying efforts and corporate sales tactics, aided by self-serving bu-reaucrats and politicians, aim to funnel away tax dollars.
By international stan-dards, Canada stacks up well on the corruption front. Berlin-based Trans-parency International, which monitors global cor-ruption, ranked this coun-try in 10th spot, with a rat-ing of 8.7 out of 10, in 2011. New Zealand (9.5) topped the list, while Somalia and North Korea were the cor-rupt scraps at the bottom of the barrel, with 1.0 on the scale ranking them at 182.
The ratings are based on perceptions of corrup-tion, using a wide array of indicators, because actual numbers are difficult to come by: in every instance, the actions are illegal and, thus, out of sight except for those rare instances when they come to light. Cases like Mulroney’s brown en-velopes, Adscam, the in-and-out scandal, G8/G20 wrongdoings, robocalls, ORNGE and the like are
typically just the tip of the iceberg.
Corruption also extends to the selling out of the public interest to corpora-tions, most notably in the abdication of oversight and regulation that led to the global financial crisis. The resultant meltdown and tough economic times creates an ideal climate for yet more corruption of all sorts.
The chair of Transpar-ency International does not mince words when ad-dressing such concerns.
“We have seen that economic growth without good governance does not guarantee that the fruits of that growth will be shared equally, nor does it guaran-tee stability,” says Huguette Labelle.
“When political deci-sions are unduly influ-enced by special interests, when valuable resources are exploited by profitable companies but the wealth does not reach the citizens, people lose faith in their leaders.
“When public services are weakened because funds are diverted, lost or stolen, people lose out on
services they need to live a decent life. When the fabric of societies is fatally weakened and violence can thrive unpunished, people die.”
Beyond bribery and skimming of profits, cor-ruption extends to the heart of the financial sec-tor, which has benefited from deregulation and decreasing oversight from governments ... changes that were not made out of the goodness of officials’ hearts.
As Bill Black an associ-ate professor of economics and law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, notes in his many criti-cisms of the financial sec-tor, the system is rife with corporate looting and plundering, in the U.S. and globally. The author of the acclaimed book “The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One,” he is a white-collar criminologist who has spent years working on regulatory policy and fraud prevention, including time as executive director of the Institute for Fraud Preven-tion. He knows what of he speaks.
He argues that the finan-
cial sector’s sole function is to manage capital in aid of the real economy. But thanks to an inherently corrupt system that has seen the industry grow from taking two per cent of the profits four decades ago – when the economy was much stronger and equitable – to 40 per cent today, it’s got out of hand.
Fixing a decades-long slide is not just a matter of tweaking at the margins of the current system, he says, but rather requires the kind of government oversight politicians have long since abdicated in favour of, well, favours from those who stand to benefit the most.
“Economic reform ef-forts are focused almost entirely on fixing finance because the finance sector is so badly broken that it produces recurrent, inten-sifying crises,” says Black. “The latest crisis brought us to the point of global catastrophe, so the focus on finance is obviously rational. But the focus on finance carries a grave risk. Remember, the sole purpose of finance is to aid the real economy. Our
What has been the most exciting event in the Olympics so far?
That finale of the men’s gymnastics, a lot of drama.
» Emma Bartel
I would say the swimming that was probably the best.
» Raymond Vincent
I really liked watching the rowing, when (Adam) van Koeverden won the silver medal for kayaking, I couldn’t not watch it.
» Claire Doran
I liked the horse jumping.
» Ella Gessner
When the Canada won the bronze for weightlifting, a woman has never won a bronze in weightlifting before.
» Rachel Ogle
"It’s a race. Grow average incomes fast enough and you probably survive the coming storm." Gwynne Dyer | page 8
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the degree of prosperity and security that people in other continents are coming to expect. Worse, it would not give African gov-ernments the resources to cope with the huge damage that climate change will do to the continent.
The impact of global warming is worst in the tropics and subtropics: huge floods and semi-permanent droughts will become almost routine in these areas. Africa will suf-fer more than anywhere else, because it is the only continent that is almost entirely in the tropics and subtropics. Feeding the population will become a major problem.
There is enough po-tential cropland in Africa to feed twice the current population in the pres-ent climate, but it’s far from clear that this will remain true in a two-degree-warmer world. If African governments in-vest enough in agriculture now, they can probably keep everybody fed; if not, the long-term future of the continent is prob-ably widespread political violence and gradual eco-nomic collapse.
It’s a race. Grow aver-age incomes fast enough and you probably survive the coming storm. Other-wise, you lose all you have gained, and more besides. Nobody said it was going to be easy.
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» P.J. Partington, a policy analyst with the Pembina Institute’s climate change program, reacts to the federal government's emissions trend report this week.
“The Harper government continues to overstate the federal government’s accomplishments on climate change while understating the scale of challenges remaining. After six years in power, the federal government’s policies still leave a huge gap between where Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions are headed and the government’s promise to reduce climate pollution.”
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The former Varnicolor Chemical property was back on the provincial radar as barrels containing unknown chemicals began appearing on Lot 91 in Elmira. The Ministry of the Environment announced it would be pursuing the property owner and/or persons responsible.
ultimate focus needs to be on the real economy, which creates goods and services, our jobs, and our incomes.”
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going to happen. It’s no wonder, then, that Que-beckers and just about ev-eryone else believe govern-ments are corrupt.
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SPORTSBoxing/ international matches
Elmira fighter claims title in Kansas CityTevin Piper wins his weight class, while brother Terrel edged by U.S. junior national champ
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Pair of athletes win Dan Snyder scholarshipsFormer Sugar King Andrew Smith and St. Clements ringette’s Samantha Nosal receive funding for post-secondary education
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awards / athletics
Wellesley Applejacks are back on the ice Aug. 25
colin dewar
Tevin Piper, right, won his first 95-pound weight class title at the 12th annual Ringside World Championships in Kansas City. His brother Terrel also competed in the tournament but was defeated in a split decision in the semi-finals. [colin dewar/ the observer]
Three years ago, Tevin Piper of Elmira joined the Waterloo Region Boxing Academy at the urging of his father LeVar and older brother Terrel, who also boxes at the club.
Tevin, it seems, had a natural gift, and it wasn’t until he began training at the gym regularly that he discovered his ability to box. Working with his father and head coach Rick Cadilha, Tevin found a safe place to fight within the ring, and he quickly learned how to channel his skills into competition.
Last week Tevin com-peted in the 12th annual Ringside World Champi-onships in Kansas City. In a gripping fight against Julian McDonald from Fenton, Missouri, Tevin won a hard-fought major-ity decision against his opponent, claiming his first 95-pound weight class title.
“I enjoy the indepen-dence of the sport. I like it better than team sports because you have to rely on yourself and not on other people. It is just you out in the ring,” said Tevin.
There were four boxers in Tevin’s weight class, meaning the 13-year-old had to win only two fights to claim his belt.
“I get nervous when I fight, but when I am in the ring I only think about what I am going to do and not what my opponent is
Kevin Fitzpatrick, head coach of the Welles-ley Applejacks, is optimis-tic about his team’s chanc-es this year as he prepares for the teams first tryout camp, set for Aug. 25 at the St. Clements Arena.
“We’re pretty excited, we’ve had a good recruit-
ing year and we’ve got some key guys coming back. From all accounts we have had a really good offseason,” said Fitzpat-rick, adding that the team is looking to add between six and 10 new bodies to its roster.
The Jacks lost eight players at the end of the 2011-12 season due to aging
out of the league.“We lost some key play-
ers to age that had a pretty good season last year. We were a young team last year and we are hoping to get a bit younger this year to spread our ages out a little bit so that we don’t lose a lot of players all at once because of age,” said Fitzpatrick.
The last time the Jacks touched the ice was on Mar. 1 in a 5-4 over time loss to the Ayr Centenni-als, who ousted Wellesley in just five games in the first round of the Southern Ontario Junior Hockey League playoffs. Over the course of the regular season, the team posted a record of 19-14-2, the 40
points good for fifth spot in the McConnell Confer-ence.
This season the team will be playing fewer games as the league has combined both C and D leagues. The season has been shortened by 25 days to accommodate the tran-sition of the leagues. The regular season will end on
Jan. 20, whereas last year the season ran until Feb. 15.
Last season was a frus-trating one for the Jacks, who were in second place until injuries started to pile up and ultimately cost the team a good playoff run.
The coaching staff is
Two exceptional ath-letes got a financial boost for their studies this fall after being named as recipients of the Dan Sny-der Memorial Scholarships on Tuesday night.
Former Elmira Sugar Kings player Andrew Smith was chosen for the Sugar King category, while Samantha Nosal was named as the Woolwich Community open cat-egory.
The awards go to stu-dents enrolled in post-sec-ondary institutions who have demonstrated prin-ciples of sportsmanship, determination, dedication, community involvement and scholastics.
“These two athletes have built up amazing resumes and are well deserving of this scholarship,” said Su-san Van Every, one of the scholarship selection com-mittee members.
A fourth-year Sugar King, Smith is coming off a
Tryout camp the start of a new season for hockey squad that’s making the move to combined Junior C/D
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BoXinG: Competition against U.S. boxers a valuable learning experience for both young fighters
scholarships: Helping to further their academic pursuits jacks: Team looking forward to youth movement as it gets ready for the 2012-13 season
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going to do, because if I think about what he is do-ing that puts doubt in my mind. I just stay positive and focus on my combina-tions.”
Tevin’s older brother, Terrel, also competed in the tournament in the 106-lb weight class, but lost a split-decision in the semi-finals against Todd Cortez, the United States junior national boxing champion.
“It was a good fight but in the end only one judge thought I had won while the other two thought my opponent won,” said Ter-rel. “That is how the sport goes. You win some and lose some. It was a really close bout.”
The two brothers trained for months preparing for their Ringside debuts, visiting their gym six days a week working on their strength training, condi-tioning and boxing tech-niques. The boys began to travel to Toronto so they
strong season as he was the Kings’ star forward, scoring 44 goals and notching 34 assists in 49 games. Smith has graduated out of the Junior hockey system and will be attending the State University of New York at Plattsburgh in September studying marketing and playing for the Division 3 Plattsburgh Cardinals.
“It’s a great feeling to win this scholarship. The Snyders do so much for this community and I have been given so much as well that I am very grateful and can’t wait to see what happens in the future,” said Smith after being pre-sented with a plaque in the backyard of Graham and LuAnn Snyder’s Park Av-enue home.
For Nosal, the award is a fitting addition to her whirl-wind year as a mem-ber of the St. Clements ringette association and a member of the Canadian Junior ringette team. The St. Clements ringette team won nationals this past season and Nosal will be competing in the world championships for Canada in London, Ontario in De-cember.
This fall she will be at-tending the University of Waterloo to study account-ing and financial manage-ment.
“It’s definitely an honour to be recognized for such a prestigious award,” she
hoping they can shake the injury bug that decimated the lineup in the second half of last season. As well, the shortened season may just help.
“We will be starting play-offs before we were hurt last year,” said Fitzpatrick. “We will be playing a lot of games early in the year.”
The bump up to junior C is something the play-ers are looking forward to, said Fitzpatrick. The Jacks will be playing all the same teams as last year with the addition of New Hamburg.
“That will be a good test for us. (New Hamburg) had a superb year last year and they are one of the better teams in the league.”
“We think we have a strong team. We were a strong team last year until the injuries came on and we never got to see what the team’s potential was because we were sidelined with those injuries.”
Many of the players have been keeping in touch over the off season and have entered a team into the Don Green Memorial Ball Tournament to not only get their timing back but to help with the team bond-ing.
This season also marks the 25th anniversary for the Jacks. To celebrate the milestone, members of
could spar with boxers in preparation for their matches in the U.S.
“I am very happy with their performance and the guys they fought had way more experience than what these two have. Many of the American fighters begin at age 9 but in Canada we begin at 10 so that year of training and fighting does make a big difference and the boys proved that they could handle themselves,” said LeVar. “The sport is all about how natural you are and how quickly you can adapt to change.”
This fall Terrel will be adapting to a change in schools as he begins high school at Elmira District Secondary School.
“I am looking forward to it. I think it will be very dif-ferent than my last school.”
The brothers both say they will continue their boxing training and look forward to getting back in the ring and hopefully win-ning more titles soon.
said. “This will be an amaz-ing boost to my schooling next year.”
Both athletes will receive $1,800 towards their post-secondary costs as well as a nameplate on a trophy that is housed in the Woolwich Memorial Centre.
“We are very proud and honoured to be able to offer this scholarship for athletes in the area,” said Graham Snyder. “Dan was always into sports, not just
the executive team have planned an alumni golf tournament. All former players, coaches, trainers and executive members are being beckoned to come and play a round of golf and share memories.
The tournament will be held on Sept. 8 at the Foxwood Country Club in Baden, with an entrance fee of $100 per golfer. For more information contact Rick Grebinski at (519) 656-3111.
Tryouts for the Jacks start at 3 p.m. Aug. 25 at St. Clements arena. The camp will cost $30 and anyone interested in making the squad should contact Gre-binski or Fitzpatrick.
hockey and he would be proud of these two ath-letes. I hope they enjoy their experiences and all the great opportunities that sports have created.”
The scholarships were created in memory of Dan Snyder, the Atlanta Thrashers forward and lo-cal hockey hero who was killed in a car accident in October 2003. The awards have been presented an-nually since 2004. Funds
were raised through dona-tions from NHL players association and other do-nors.
Snyder was always hard working and completely dedicated to his team. He was an avid participant in community events and causes in each city he played in, and has commu-nity awards named after him in Atlanta, Chicago, and the Ontario Hockey League.
Elmira’s Piper brothers trained for months to prepare for their debuts at the Ringside Championships including travelling to Toronto to spar with boxers at other clubs. [colin dewar/ the observer]
LuAnn and Graham Snyder presented former Sugar Kings forward Andrew Smith and St. Clements ringette’s Samantha Nosal with the Dan Snyder Memorial Scholarships on Tuesday night. [colin dewar/ the observer]
After 16 years at the helm, Jeff Seddon has stepped down from his post as president of the Elmira Sugar Kings Hockey Club, the team announced this week.
His spot on the executive has been filled by Mike Benjamins, who’s been involved with the team for 23 years as a volunteer, director and most recently as 1st vice-president for the past two seasons. He’s been a part of the club successes for many years, as a key member of the board of directors in two Sutherland Cup championships and several Cherrey Cup appearances.
Seddon resigns, Kings name new president
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If anybody asks you to pose for some candid shots, just say no to the photo
If you go online at all, you’ll soon see that, at least once a week, a new celeb-rity or celebrity wannabe is announcing that photos or videos of them in com-promising positions have somehow surfaced. It’s got to the point where it’s not even remarkable.
When this trend first be-gan, I actually felt sorry for them. After all, there they were, caught with their pants down for the entire
online world to see. But lately, I’ve stopped
being sympathetic to these people. In fact, I’m start-ing to suspect that this is another cheap publicity ploy designed to keep these people in the limelight. If so, it’s sad.
Worse still, it’s further proof that you don’t need talent anymore.
All you need to do is put out a video of your-self doing things that no one should do in front of a camera. Get past a few embarrassing moments and you immediately ac-quire 15 minutes of fame. The shame of it all doesn’t
matter, nor does the ir-reparable damage to your reputation. It doesn’t even matter that, one day, your children will accidentally stumble on one of these old clips and be mortified.
The only thing that matters is the immediate result, which is the high that comes from the public discussing you. It doesn’t even have to be in a flatter-ing way.
But is it worth it?Between you and me, the
answer is no. Believe me, I know of what I speak.
You see, I found this out the hard way several years ago, when my own photos
were leaked and acci-dentally made public. No doubt, you’ve seen them.
In my defense, I was a young and upcoming out-doors writer at the time. And, quite frankly, I didn’t think I was getting the at-tention I deserved from the editors I dealt with. So, in a lapse of sound judgment, I consented to a tawdry and, in hindsight, highly embar-rassing photo shoot.
As I said, that was years ago and I truly regret it.
Even though it’s water under the bridge, these things just don’t go away. Years later, if you search online hard enough, you
can feast your eyes on a glistening, young Steve Ga-lea, proudly holding it up for the entire world to see.
I’m not proud of that stringer of rock bass or the carp I posed with in the accompanying photo. All I can say is that I was young and I thought this would help my career.
As you can clearly see, it didn’t.
Sure, I know of at least one art director who saw the photos and even sug-gested that they might have some “artistic” merit. Then there was that un-fortunate meeting with a fishing show producer who
thought that the smile on my face in those photos showed off my acting abil-ity and comedic skill.
He flattered me and told me I had a promising ca-reer in the industry.
All this got me, however, was an invitation to the casting couch – something that – I’m ashamed to say – the fishing industry is famous for. Again, I was young and, like all aspiring stars, I had no idea.
Was what they asked me to do degrading and humiliating? You bet. Do you know how hard it is to try to cast 60 feet of fly line when you are sitting down?
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Canadian Junior Golf Association Team Canada claimed its second straight John Clark trophy last week at the final round of the Euro Junior Golf Cup in Scotland. It was Canada’s sixth title since the tournament format changed in 2005. Scotland edged out USA by 2 .5 points to finish runner up. In the Boys 14 & under division, Parker Lobban of St. Clements continued his strong play to win both his matches, giving him a total of 4 points for the week. [submitted]
14 | VENTURE THE OBSERVER | SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 2012
VentureFood For thought/ owen robertsNew busiNess / expaNdiNg raNge
Putting her mark on the family business
It seems our growing interest in local, qual-ity food has, so to speak, spilled over to local, quality beer and wine, too. And in a very big way.
The Liquor Control Board of Ontario, the world’s biggest liquor mo-nopoly, released its 2011-12 financial results last week, reporting net sales of $4.7 billion. That’s nearly a five per cent spike over 2010-11.
That’s good for the pro-vincial coffers. The LCBO says it transferred an all-time high dividend of more than $1.6 billion, not including taxes, to the On-tario government in 2011-2012. That’s $80 million more than the previous fiscal year.
According to the prov-
Local food means spike in local beer & wine too
food for thought/ oweN roberts
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Newly arrived in the township, Shannon-Marie Poulton opens new gift boutique in St. Jacobs
atheNa | 15
VENTUREPROFILE
BUSINESS: Athena Gift Boutique
LOCATION:1369 King St. N., St. Jacobs
PHONE:519-664-3636
OWNER: Shannon-Marie Poulton
She moved to Elmira with her seven-year-old daughter in order to run the new branch of the busi-ness. An avid real-estate investor, Poulton’s mother saw economic potential for a new business in Water-loo Region and the family chose a St. Jacobs location because of its similarities to Grand Bend in environ-ment and customer base.
“I grew up around busi-ness; self-employed has always been the way I wanted to go. I wanted to sustain my lifestyle on my own and control it,” she explained during an inter-view at the new store loca-tion on King Street.
Though she learned the most valuable retail expe-rience from her mother, Poulton also has an honors diploma in small business from triOS College in Lon-don.
A passion for indepen-dence is not the only thing keeping Poulton motivated to continue her family’s
A new store adds an-other touch of colour to the bustling St. Jacobs shop-ping district. The Athena Gift Boutique, which had its grand opening last weekend, features a mul-titude of collector’s items, convertible fashions and an ambitious, lively owner who has stepped out from under the wing of her fam-ily’s business with hopes of independence and success in Woolwich Township.
Shannon-Marie Poulton is co-owner of Huckleber-ries Gift Boutique, a family business originally started by her mother and stepfa-ther in Grand Bend. The family had owned a restau-rant and clothing store, but after an illness in the fam-ily decided to focus solely on retail. Their success in Grand Bend prompted the family to invest in a second location, with Poulton at the helm for the first time.
business. On the day of her move to Elmira, she found out she was pregnant a second time and became even more motivated to make the business a suc-cess among local shoppers and tourists. After years of working at her parents’ side she wants to create a
legacy for herself and her children.
Poulton has even gone as far as changing the name of the store, though it is still part of the Huck-leberries chain, the name Athena is the new business
Shannon-Marie Poulton has opened Athena Gift Boutique in St. Jacobs, branching out from Grand Bend. [elena maystruk / the observer]
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ince, this money supports the public institutions we hold dear – hospitals, schools and universities, among them.
Ah, those sin taxes. Great for Ontarians, great for the economy!
But for those who actu-ally buy the stuff, the big story here is the skyrocket-ing sales of what’s called craft beers, the kind pro-duced in small batches by small breweries – F&M, Ma-cLean’s, Grand River, Neus-tadt and Wellington for example – those renowned for quality and attention to
owner’s personal touch on the location.
“Athena is a Greek god-dess. She stood for strength and community indepen-dence. It all has to do with women and strength, that independence. I have an-other business I’m going to start in the next year or so. Eventually my goal is that I want to be able to speak on women in busi-ness and the strengths that they can have. My name relates to that end goal,” she explained, adding that she has hopes of eventually buying the entire family business from her parents.
Poulton’s family gave her financial support when she moved from her home in London to Elmira. Now on her own, she spends her time managing the store, spending time with her daughter and gauging her new customers. A new busi-ness carrying a variety of products is presented with
Owner Shannon-Marie Poulton with some of the clothing available from the boutique, which held its grand-opening last weekend. [elena maystruk / the observer]
detail. Consider this: sales in
the craft beer category grew by a whopping 45 per cent (compared to about a four per cent rise in overall beer sales), an amazing figure in an industry that usually celebrates gains in single percentages. Occa-sionally, certain products come on strong as a result of an effective ad campaign or some other reason. But rarely does an entire seg-ment skyrocket like this.
As evidence, consider Ontario Vintner’s Quality Alliance (VQA) wines. Sales of those wines, considered
the challenge of finding out what people really want.
“I think with every busi-ness it takes time to de-velop that clientele, to have people come in and recog-nize your product and your logo. I’d like to get involved with some of the commu-nity so that my name can be out there,” she said.
Her family’s business policy has always included a strong connection to a variety of customers. Back in the London area, Huckleberries products are circulated during com-munity events and during the holidays at local malls. Poulton hopes to find the same network in Woolwich Township for Athena by thoroughly researching her products and getting feed-back from customers about what they would like to see in her store.
“In every area people are looking for something dif-ferent. I always ask people when they come into the
the best in Ontario, rose by nine per cent.
That would normally be a truly fantastic figure. That’s especially so, given they outpaced LCBO wine sales as a whole, which still increased by almost six per cent … a figure that would normally have the industry jumping for joy.
But nine per cent for VQA wines?
And 45 per cent for craft beer? What’s going on?
Well, according to LCBO president Bob Peter, look no further than the “local” movement. And, of course, his organization’s vision.
store: ‘what are you looking for? If you could have your ideal store what are you looking for that you can’t find here?’ That’s kind of how you start other then that you have to guess,” she said in regards to her sales strategy.
Visitors to Athena Gift Boutique can find a variety of products in the store, ranging from designer clothes, jewelry and high end collectible items. The store’s products are flex-ible to change according to what customers will want to see in the future, but cur-rently, some main attrac-tions include BiJolie san-dals; a line of sandals with interchangeable styles of straps; a high-end collect-ible line of Charlie Bears; DaVinci charm bracelets and other jewelry and a designer clothing line from Mexico. A highlight for the store, one that she hopes to popularize in the store is her collection of children’s’
toys. “My kids stuff seems to
go really well in St. Jacobs. There are not a lot of kids’ stores other than Toy Soup across the street.”
Poulton wants to appeal to a wide range of custom-ers not only in the diversity of her product but also in the prices she charges. There is always a bargain to be had she says, because much of the collectible, higher-end merchandise is not sold at the highest prices. In this way Poulton hopes to appeal to a wider range of shoppers. She also has some success selling her product online, directly through her Facebook ac-count and plans to contin-ue the trend by discounting online products after she receives 100 likes on her home page. For more infor-mation look up Athena Gift Boutique on Facebook or visit the store on the second floor of 1369 King St. N., St. Jacobs.
Says he: “We continue to see very positive results from the steps we have tak-en to promote VQA wines and Ontario craft beers, including through our goLOCAL marketing.”
Wait a minute. Doesn’t the “O” in LCBO stand for “Ontario”? And that be-ing the case, shouldn’t the LCBO be promoting Ontario products above all else and as a matter of course, rather than as a special program for which it congratulates itself? And maybe, given how much money it’s made off the backs of Ontario craft beer
and VQA wine producers on their product quality, could head honcho Peter perhaps say something nice – even a word or two –about Ontario’s best?
Geez. If Ontario craft beers and
VQA wines were subpar, no one would buy them twice, no matter how much the LCBO promoted them. The agency owes a lot to the people who make beer and wine, who toil in and on Ontario farms, vineyards and cellars, and make a fine product. The board should promote Ontario products continually, not
just stick them on a shelf with a sign that says On-tario.
Maybe it will now that it sees consumers are seri-ous about “local” beer and wine. Last year was the LCBO’s 17th straight year of record sales, and 18th con-secutive record dividend. It will be hard pressed to beat this year’s record – but given its concerns about the bottom line, why would it not intensify its good lo-cal products campaign, the same campaign that helped it smash records this year?
President Peter, over to you.
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THE ARTSon stage / ConCert series
Uplifting music is a family affairThe Burie Family will provide the bluegrass and gospel sounds Sunday night at concert series in Elmira’s Gore Park
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SUNDAY NIGHTCONCERT SERIES2012 BURIE FAMILY
In the midst of a tour that’s taken them to Can-ada for the first time, the young performers of The Burie Family bring their energetic bluegrass and gospel sound to Elmira Sunday evening. They’ll be in Gore Park, part of the summer concert series.
The family band from southeast Wisconsin shares gospel bluegrass music from a Christ-cen-tered, family foundation.
Ranging in age from 13 to 19, the five members of the band have been mak-ing a name for themselves, both at home and farther afield. The Burie Family garnered a 2011 Wiscon-sin Area Music Industry (WAMI) Bluegrass Band of the Year nomination and Christian/Gospel Artist of the Year in 2012.
Performing publically for the last four years, the kids have become favou-rites on the bluegrass festival circuit, covering increasingly more ground. It’s what’s brought them into Ontario, having played last week at the River Val-ley Bluegrass Jamboree up in West Nippising before taking the stage at the Hol-stein Bluegrass Celebra-tion this weekend. Being so close to Elmira made a concert series appearance a good fit, said dad John Burie from a stop in Stur-geon Falls.
“This is our first foray out of the country, and the experience has been
great.”Both Burie and his wife
Tiffany grew up with mu-sic – he an avid high school musician, Tiffany a singer – so musical education was an important part of the curriculum when the couple decided to home-school their children.
Early performances had
The Burie Family of Wisconsin, featuring four siblings and family friend ranging in age from 13 to 19, are making their first appearances outside of the U.S. After appearing at a couple of bluegrass festivals in Ontario, they’ll be making a stop in Elmira Sunday night to perform in the bandstand at Gore Park. [submitted]
the kids singing in four-part harmony at nursing homes and retirement communities. After at-tending a bluegrass festi-val, the kids decided that’s what they wanted to do.
“It’s just kind of grown of its own volition,” laughed Burie.
Each gravitated to a dif-
ferent instrument: 19-year-old Bethany on guitar, Rebekah, 17, on fiddle, Joe, 15, on the upright bass and Nathaniel, 13, on mando-lin. They’ve been joined by Neil Greenwald, 18, on banjo and dobro to round-out the five-piece act, though mom joins the kids in some of their signature
harmony vocals.The Burie Family is in-
fluenced by the traditional bluegrass and old-time music of the Carter Family, the Stanley Brothers, Bill Monroe, Earl Scruggs and many others, as well as the harmonies of contempo-rary artists from The Isaacs to Blue Highway.
The bluegrass and gos-pel sounds are something that come naturally. As well, the kids have been exposed to classical music.
“It’s something that I was raised with. We’ve always had that in the home,” said Burie.
The kids, having taken up the mantle with gusto, enjoy the music and the joy that it brings to audi-ences. Performing music specifically chosen to up-lift and encourage others, it is their hope that they leave their audiences with smiles on their faces and songs in their hearts, he added.
“It’s just been a great outlet for them to share the gifts and talents they’ve been given with others.”
If you make you way over to Gore Park for the show – and many people have been doing just that this summer – you can expect to hear a good mixture of classic blue-grass instrumentals and newer, contemporary songs.
“People see it as a relax-ing and uplifting show,” said Burie.
The Burie Family per-forms at the bandstand Aug. 12 at 7 p.m. The con-cert series starts winding down over the next few weeks. The final three shows are Aug. 19, Paul Weber Family Band; Aug. 26, Doug DeBoer & Hard Ryde; and Sept. 2, Harold MacIntyre. All concerts in the series are free of charge
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GARAGE SALE - August 11, 7 am. - 1. 16 Kingfisher Dr., Elmira. Kitchen table, snow blower. Items big and small.
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Shift OperatorsAs a fast growing business, specialized in plastic recycling and compounding, we understand that the key to success is our employees. As a result, we are looking to hire a motivated Production Operator who works well individually as well as part of a team. Some Tasks include monitoring of the production line and loading / unloading trucks. G license and forklift license an asset. If you are interested in working at a fast growing business in a friendly environ-ment, we welcome your resume at [email protected] (fax: 519-669-8364)
CabinetmakerExperienced cabinetmaker required to build and install
quality custom cabinetry.
Please forward resume to Mantels Plus Fax: (519)746-3551
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FULL TIME SEASONAL GRASS CUTTING CREW
TEAM MEMBER -safe and efficient operation of Lawn Tractor and gas powered trimmers -driving truck and landscape trailer -desire for high quality workmanship
The successful candidate will be a conscientious, efficient worker who completes their work quickly and with detail. Must be physically fit. Must have a valid G license with a clean abstract. Must be able to work alone and with a team. Must have pleasant customer service.
Send resumes to Kelly at [email protected] or call Culp's Lawn
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FAMILY ALBUM
BIRTHDAY
OPEN HOUSE MEMORIAM OBITUARY
CONGRATULATIONS MEMORIAM
BIRTHDAYBIRTH NOTICE
BIRTHDAY
BIRTHDAY
Happy 60th BirthdayPaul MacDermott!
Love your family and friends
OPEN HOUSE
With thankful hearts for the many prayers, love and support we experienced during our 5 months in the hospital. Sim & Brenda would like to invite you to a Open House to share in the joy of Natalie Grace’s first B-day. On Sunday August 26, 2012 from 2pm to 5pm at Crystal View Mennonite Church in Floradale. Your presence is our gift, cards only please. May God be Glorified for Answered Prayer!
Metzger, Florence
care, energy, generosity and kindness. We miss your genuine interest in our lives, as you loved each of us as your best friend. You always enjoyed the times when the whole family was together. We look forward to being with you again in Heaven where your bright smile and unconditional love will greet us. We love you so much! Lorne, Craig, Kelly, Christine, Val, Lori, Luke, Joe, Bryan, David, Abby, Mark, Clay, Tia and Nicolas.
In loving memory of our precious Mom, Gramma, and Wife who left us for Heaven August 10, 2008. You are the heart of our family and we still ache as we miss you so much. We remember your cheerful smile, laughter, loving
Happy 1st Birthday!Blake Heckendorn
Love your family xo
Reverie ErinAnalise Bender
July 17th 2012
Inge and Justin Bender are happy to announce the safe arrival of their new daughter Reverie Erin Analise. Reverie was born July 17th 2012 in Kitchener. Your Grandparents, Aunts and Uncles are so excited you are finally here!
Happy 80th Birthday!Pat Weber
There will be an open house “English Afternoon Tea Party” to celebrate Pat Weber’s 80th birthday on Wednesday August 22, 2012 at St. Jacobs Mennonite Church from 4-7 pm, with a short program at 5:30 pm. Please feel free to dress up in the true spirit of a tea party. Light refreshments will be served. Best wishes only; donations to the Woolwich Food Bank are appreciated.
Happy 65th BirthdayEllen Clifford
You are invited to: Ellen Clifford’s 65th Birthday Open House
At: Emmanuel Evangelical Missionary Church, 2 First St. W. Elmira
On: Sunday, August 26th, 2012
From: 2pm-4pm
Hope to see you all there!
Happy Birthday Wife, Mother, and
Grandmother!Love from Elmer Clifford, Melissa
Clifford, Glen and Melanie Dow, Amber-
Lynn Dow, Victoria Dow
Congratulations!
Jamie & Jon Scott celebrated their second anniversary in North Bay, where Jamie graduated from Nipissing University with a bachelors education and an Honours Degree in English. She also received the medal and Trussler Award for excellence in English.
We love you, your family.
In Memory of Bob SoehnerAugust 13th, 1992
20 years ago we lost a great husband, dad and friend. Many years later we still miss you.
Joanne, Corey, Jeremy, Jennifer, Grandkids Dylan, Austin, Shawn, Brooklyn, Chloe, Kyla, Courtney, Casey & Krista.
Love you Papa Bob!
BIRTHDAYS, ANNIVERSARIES, MARRIAGE ANNOUNCEMENTS, BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS,
STAG & DOE. SHARE IT ALL!
WRIGHT, Bonnie Lynn (nee Rau)
Bonnie passed away peacefully at Hospice Wellington in Guelph on Friday, August 3, 2012, at the age of 61 years, with her fam-ily at her side. Bonnie was the beloved wife and best friend of Bill for 43 wonderful years. She was the loving mother of Stepha-nie and Marv Schaus, Ryan Wright and Lori Raible, and Jamie and Nicole Wright. She was special “Ma” to the loves of her life, her grandchildren, Tegan and Cade Schaus, Gavin Wright, and Emily Wright. Bonnie is survived by her mother Arlene Rau, sib-lings Ron Rau Jr., Wallace and Vicky Rau, Tracy and Doug Winslade, Brad Rau, and Chris and Steve McCullough. She is loving-ly remembered by Bill’s family; Sharon and Mike Straus, Paul and Barb Grosz, Jo-Anne and Paul Straus, Judy Wright, and her many nieces and nephews. Bonnie is predeceased by her father Ron Rau, sister Cheryl Rau, mother-in-law Kay Wright, and father-in-law Ross Wright. Bonnie’s friendly manner and ready smile will be truly missed by her family and many friends. She was the defi-nition of a people person. A private good-bye and celebration of her life will be held by close family and friends. At Bonnie’s request, cremation has taken place. There will be no funeral home visitation or fu-neral service. Donations in Bonnie’s mem-ory may be made to Hospice Wellington or Chateau Gardens Ladies Auxiliary and can be obtained by calling the Dreisinger Funeral Home, Elmira (519-669-2207).
www.dreis ingerfuneralhome.com
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DEATH NOTICESMARRIAGE ANNIVERSARY
Laurel & Randy Besco
Laurel and Randy Besco were married on May 19th 2012 at Crieff Hills Conference Centre. After a honeymoon in Europe they are now settled in Kingston Ontario. Congratulations Laurel and Randy!
REAL ESTATE LISTINGS
FAMILY ALBUM CONTINUED
$500.00 donation will be made to WCS Family Violence Prevention Program with every home bought or sold by Paul,
Alli or Bill in Woolwich.
Solid Gold Realty (II)Ltd., BrokerageIndependently Owned and Operated
3 Arthur St. S., Elmira | 519-669-5426
Alli BaumanSALES REPRESENTATIVE
CALL DIRECT
519-577-6248CALL DIRECT
519-577-6248www.elmiraandareahomes.com
THIS WEEKS FEATURE PROPERTIES!
Elmira - This well maintained 1 1/2 storey single detached home features main floor bedroom, bathroom & laundry, A/C, all appliances and a 16ft x 24ft detached garage/workshop. Ample space is yours with the main floor addition and added basement. MLS 1224745 Call Bill or Alli direct.
RETIREMENT AT ITS BEST! Waterloo - 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom condo features fabulous sunroom, 2 fireplaces, ensuite, and large walk-in closet in master. The big living room/dining room is equipped with a lovely built in sidebar. Bright dinette surrounded by windows. Convenient underground parking. Automatic membership to Willowells Club. MLS 1221386 Call Paul Direct
$299,000$299,000FANTASTIC CONDO!
BACKING ONTO GREEN SPACE!
Bill NorrisSALES REPRESENTATIVE
CALL DIRECT
519-588-1348CALL DIRECT
519-588-1348www.elmiraandareahomes.com
SOUGHT-AFTER PARK AVE LOCATION!Elmira - Century brick home full of original character with modern updates. Features original maple hardwood, separate dining room, wood fireplace in family room, gas fireplace in master bedroom & a fully finished basement, private yard with deck & patio area. Central to schools, ball diamonds, Recreation Complex & downtown. True front porch living at its best!! MLS 1231098 Please call Bill or Alli direct.
OUTSTANDING AGENTS. OUTSTANDING RESULTS.
$233,900$233,900 $437,500$437,500
Elmira - This home is equipped for 2 families! Front and side entrances, separate garages, separate laundry rooms, separate bathrooms, living rooms and 2 huge kitchens. Fantastic opportunity for large family/families complete with 7 bedrooms. Perfect for the hobbiest 3 car garage & detached 4 car garage/workshop. Large yard 87x250ft over looking farm land just steps to golf course. MLS 1225049 Call Paul or Alli direct.
EQUIPPED FOR 2 FAMILIES!!$769,000$769,000
Drayton - Luxurious, custom built home loc’d in quiet area. 3100sqft + huge fin’d bsmnt. Spacious kit designed w/cooking & entertaining in mind! Unique & exceptional home, spacious but still makes you feel right at home. Beautiful sun rm w/hot tub overlooking fabulous private yrd w/gazebo, pond & waterfall, beautifully gardens. Stamped concrete drive & lg patio w/retractable awning. MLS 1218027 Call Alli or Paul direct.
LUXURIOUS$539,000$539,000
Elmira - Prestigious, mature corner lot in desirable birdland. Executive home with main floor living rm. and family rm, separate dining room and fully finished basement. Walkout from eat-in kitchen to deck overlooking pool and beautiful treed yard. MLS 1231478 Call Alli or Paul Direct!
SPACIOUS 4 BEDROOM$515,000$515,000
Paul MartinSALES REPRESENTATIVE
CALL DIRECT
519-503-9533CALL DIRECT
519-503-9533www.homeswithpaul.ca
NEW PRICENEW PRICE
BIRDLAND BACKSPLIT WITH POOL!Elmira - Well-kept 3 bedroom backsplit on a quiet street, central to all schools. Finished rec room with gas fireplace. Large covered deck overlooking the refreshing in-ground pool and perennial flower beds. MLS 1228155 Call Alli or Paul direct.
$339,000$339,000SOLD!
Elmira - Backing onto Green space! This fantastic home was built with family in mind! Huge kitchen with breakfast bar and walk out to large deck over looking green space. Office just off kitchen with side door to deck. Finished recroom with laminate floors and ample storage space. Large master bedroom complete with 2 walk-in closets and ensuite. MLS 1234126. Call Alli or Paul direct.
NEW LISTING - $394,000NEW LISTING - $394,000
ELMIRA - 3bdrm, 2baths birdland bungalow backing onto farmland on a family oriented st. From the welcoming eat-in kit, to the oversized LR, to the gorgeous master w/walkout , this home is bright & spacious. Add in the huge unfinished basement, beautiful covered patio & well-kept yrd complete w/shed, this home is everything you are looking for! MLS 1231378 Call Alli or Paul direct!
$399,900$399,900IMPRESSIVE
NEW PRICENEW PRICE
Elmira - Don’t miss this modern home featuring warm, neutral décor throughout and rich ceramic tile. Bright living room, open to dinette with slider to spacious fenced yard. Finished basement could be used for rec room or very large bedroom just off the fabulous 4 piece bathroom complete with corner tub. Appliances included. MLS 1232147 Call Alli or Paul direct.
PERFECT FOR A YOUNG FAMILY!$319,000$319,000
OPEN HOUSE - Sun. Aug 12, 2-4 P.M. 21 Raising Mill Gate, Elmira
Waterloo - Close to universities and downtown, this very well kept, cheerful century home boasts original charm with many modern twists! Original hardwood floors, bright airy kitchens and a huge finished walk up attic with closet are just a few. Walkout to fenced yard from back family room. Ample parking, lots of storage, appliances included. MLS 1234099 Please call Paul or Alli direct
POTENTIAL DUPLEX$379,000$379,000
Kitchener - 2.5 storey home close to downtown and farmer's market. Features an enclosed front porch, separate dining room, rec room and a fully finished walk-up attic. Detached garage and large private yard with an upper and lower level. Appliances included. MLS 1234158 Please call Paul or Alli direct.
LOVELY 4 BEDROOM HOME$289,000$289,000
NEW LISTINGNEW LISTINGNEW LISTINGNEW LISTING
ARNOLD, JOHN PETER | April 16, 1922 - July 31, 2012 Passed away peacefully at South Bruce Grey Health Centre, Walkerton at 90 years of age. Local relatives are his son Allan (Beverley) Arnold of Bloomingdale.
BAST, DORIS MARIE- FEBRUARY 14, 1938 | August 1, 2012 Doris Marie Bast, at the age of 74, of St. Jacobs, died on Wednes-day, August 1, 2012, as the result of injuries received in an accident.
BERG, RALPH N. | Supported by family during his final three weeks of illness, on Monday, August 6, 2012 at Freeport Hospital, Kitchener, Ralph Berg of Wellesley, in his 95th year.
CUSHING, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 1935 - 2012 Passed away peacefully at home, surrounded by his loving family, on Thursday, August 2, 2012, age 77. Bill worked as a chemical engineer at Uniroyal in Elmira.
GOLDSWORTHY, JOHN DIXON | Born January 8, 1927, in South-ampton, Ontario, passed away August 4, 2012, in Elmira.
HATHERTON, MARGARET | Peacefully passed away on Sunday, August 5, 2012 at Parkwood Mennonite Home, Waterloo. Marg (McMurchy) Hatherton age 90 years, formerly of Elmira.
HERRFORT, ESTHER | Passed away peacefully at the Stratford General Hospital on Wednesday, August 1, 2012 after a brief illness. Esther was born in Wellesley Township 87 years ago.
JAGGER, DONALD LOUIS | Peacefully at the Juravinski Hos-pital on Thursday, August 2, 2012, in his 80th year. Local relatives are his son David (Deborah) of Elmira.
MACPHERSON, HELEN | Peacefully passed away on Monday, August 6, 2012 at Heritage House, St. Jacobs at the age of 93 years.
VOULGARI, ZOI | After a lengthy battle with illness, at Pinehaven Nursing Home in Waterloo on August 8, 2012, of Elmira, formerly of Greece, in her 84th year.Happy 30th Anniversary my Dear
from your Sweetie
August 14, 1982
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REAL ESTATE LISTINGS
Bonnie Brubacher Jason ShantzBrokerBroker of Record
Shanna RozemaBroker
[email protected] | www.royallepage.ca/elmira
90 Earl Martin Dr., Unit 1, Elmira N3B 3L4
519-669-3192
Independently Owned & Operated, BrokerageElmira Real Estate Services
When you buy or sell your home with us, part of our commission supports women’s shelters & violence prevention programs.
RANCH BUNGALOW1800+ sq. ft.
$559,000. Desirable wooded section of town! Generous sized rooms throughout complete with mainfloor conveniences. Studio/dinette overlooks private deck and side yard. Fully finished basement. Oversized double garage with triple+drive. MLS
ABSOLUTELY SPOTLESS!!!
$273,000 DRAYTON. 4 bedroom raised bungalow in mint condition! New maple kitchen, walkout to deck & 144’ lot, update bathrooms including 5pc cheater ensuite, newer windows, attached garage, dbl interlock drive. NEW MLS.
PARADIGM ELMIRA HOMES STARTING AT $322,900
Bungalow currently under construction, starting at $337,900 with an Oct close available. Still time to choose your colours! Call today to book your appointment to view. Limited lots left. Model to view. MLS.
FLORADALE VILLAGE SETTING ELMIRA LINK TOWNHOME
$319,900.Hurry! 3+bedrooms, 3 baths, finished walk up basement. Spacious country kitchen/diningroom. Deck backs to farmland. Fantastic amenities offered, school, churches, store and the Lions Trail. NEW MLS
$282,900. End unit on 30’ fenced lot. Open concept mainfloor with 9’ ceilings, walkout to grand sized deck. Ensuite bath, 2nd floor laundry, and finished rec room to mention a few of the features. NEW EXCLUSIVE
OPEN HOUSE: Sunday August 12th, 2-4P.M. - 5 Nuthatch Place, Elmira
519-669-2772
R.W. THUR REAL ESTATE LTD.
45 ARTHUR ST. S., ELMIRA
BROKERAGE
JULIE HECKENDORN
BrokerRes: 519.669.8629
BRAD MARTINBroker of Record,
MVA ResidentialRes: 519.669.1068
TRACEY WILLIAMS
Sales Rep. Cell: 519.505.0627
www.thurrealestate.com
CARDINAL ST.- great family home. 4 level backsplit w/large country kitchen. 3+1 bdrms. Hardwood flrs, Remodelled bthrms. Large lot. Close to all schools, park & rec centre. MLS $357,900.
CLOSE TO DOWNTOWN - large fam. rm addition. Oversized dining area. Main flr. laundry, bathrm. and master bdrm. Huge rec. rm. w/high ceiling. 2 bdrms upstairs. Newer doors, windows, furnace & deck. MLS. $265,900.
WEST MONTROSE- Huge lot backs to farmland. Detached garage/workshop. Large kitchen Den. Main flr laundry. Main flr. master bdrm. 3 bdrms. Gas heat. Unfinished bsmt. MLS. $299,900.
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COMMITTEE OF ADJUSTMENTNOTICE OF HEARING
On August 27, 2012 at 5:30 p.m. the Committee will meet to consider the following applications. All persons interested in the applications may attend and may contact Nancy Thompson regarding meeting details or visit the Township Webpage – News and Events – Current Public Notices.
The Committee will also consider submissions for or against the applications if submitted to the Township of Woolwich no later than 5:00 p.m. on August 21, 2012. Submissions can be forwarded to Jeremy Vink at the address noted at the top of this page, by email [email protected] or by fax 519-669-4669.
Minor Variance A9/2012 – Lillian Melitzer Estate, 38 Covered Bridge Drive, West MontroseThe applicant is requesting permission to recognize the existing lot width of approximately 26 metres whereas 30 metres is required. The property is zoned Settlement Residential (R-1) and is currently vacant.
Minor Variance A10/2012 – Pendant Custom Homes Ltd., Maryhill Road, MaryhillThe applicant is requesting permission to recognize:• the existing lot frontage of approximately 2.5 metres whereas 18 metres is required;• the existing lot width of approximately 6 metres whereas 30 metres is required; and• a reduced driveway ingress/egress width of approximately 2.5 metres whereas 3 metres is required.The property is zoned Settlement Residential (R-1) and Agricultural (A) and is currently vacant.
Consent B14/2012 – Elmira Golf Club Limited, 40 Eldale Road, Elmira The applicant is requesting permission to sever a parcel of land measuring approximately 87 by 73 metres, and being ap-proximately 0.6 ha, from the property at 40 Eldale Road for the purpose of creating a new vacant residential lot on private services. The proposed retained lands, being approximately 57 ha, are zoned Agricultural (A) with site specific provisions to permit the existing golf course, club house, curling club and accessory uses. The proposed severed lands are zoned Settle-ment Residential (R-1) and contain an existing shed which is proposed to be removed.
Consent B15/2012 – 2144183 Ontario Limited, 43 – 49 Howard Avenue, ElmiraThe applicant is requesting permission to sever a new vacant industrial lot along the westerly side of the property being approximately 0.9 hectares in area with a frontage of approximately 70 metres on Howard Avenue. The proposed severed lands contain a 24 metre wide storm water easement along the west property line. The proposed retained lands (approxi-mately 3.3 hectares) contain a building used as an industrial mall. The proposed severed and retained lands are zoned General Industrial – Urban (M-2).
SPARE CROSSING GUARDS NEEDED FOR THE 2012/2013
SCHOOL YEAR
The Township of Woolwich has Crossing Guards serving schools in Elmira, St. Jacobs, Conestogo, Maryhill and Breslau. We are recruiting community-minded indi-viduals to serve as Spare Crossing Guards periodically throughout the upcoming school year. Ideal candidates like working with children, are 18 years of age or older, are punctual, can stand for 30 minutes in all types of weather, and have flexible schedules. Spare Crossing Guards choose the schools they will serve and, when called upon, have the right to refuse work if it does not fit with their schedule.
Shift times are 30 minutes before and after school. This is a paid position and all training and equipment is provided. A police background check is a condition of employment. Interested persons are invited to submit a resume and cover letter by August 31st to:
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LIVING HEREPERSONAL TESTS / ON THE ROAD TO RECOVERY
Finding art in finding himself
This time of year always takes me back to childhood memories. The grain com-ing off, straw being baled and my grandmother in the kitchen, making jar upon jar of preserves. I come by this passion of mine hon-estly. My mom the eternal entertainer, my aunts preserving their gardens for the winter and the infa-mous pie competition that no one likes to talk about.
The preserves and food in our shop have many of the local flavours growing right now. We are enjoying peaches, tomatoes, pep-pers and corn. This year especially, preserving the bounty of the summer to ease the pocketbook for the winter is not a bad idea. Many of the recipes are de-signed for smaller batches, which will save product and time. Only choose recipes from reliable books and publications that you trust. Online recipes can be misleading as they may not have the right amount of vinegar, sugar or salt for the preserving to be safe.
Inspired yet? Unsure where to start? Choose a recipe based on your fami-lies eating habits. Aiden lives on peanut butter and jam and I love the ease of spaghetti night. This
Preserve the best of summer
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ELENA MAYSTRUK
It’s never too late to go back to a first love. But for local artist Brent Sch-reiber, the road back was not just a matter of re-discovering how to paint again.
After spending years of his youth and early adult-hood in a struggle with alcoholism, Schreiber cel-ebrated five years of sobri-ety in June and continues to circulate a collection of paintings meaningful to his recovery. He will be featured in the September addition of AA Grape-vine Journal, which has already published four pieces from a collection of works representing his struggle with alcoholism.
“I got sober in 2007 and
Five years after beating his addiction, Elmira’s Brent Schreiber is back doing the artwork that was his first passion
I hadn’t touched art in about 10 years. You lose so much of what you are passionate about. You lose your guts and your soul when something like that takes over in your life,” he said in an interview at his Elmira home on Wednes-day.
After graduating high school and receiving praise for his artwork, Schreiber wanted to enroll into a program at Sheri-dan College. The rejection of his first application for a place in a highly competitive animation program discouraged him from pursuing his goal. He traded in his artist’s palette for 16 years in the advertising industry as a creative director, but after the haze of addic-
because they’ve shot their health so badly,” he ex-plained, adding that his family’s decision to dis-tance themselves finally gave him the push to quit drinking.
“A real turning point for me was when my mom came to see me when it was my last time in detox and she said, ‘I love you but I’m finished with you and I mean it,’ and some-thing just clicked. You get so used to manipulating people and it was just done. That was five years ago in June.”
Schreiber’s work has been shown in Canada and the United States but he is still amazed at the feedback he gets from people around the world that have seen his work on
tion lifted five years ago, Schreiber’s new artistic ambition presented him with a chance to return to the fine arts. After years of holding down steady work he chose to became self-employed, selling his artwork, teaching and working with rehabilita-tion centers.
“If I wasn’t the best at something or I didn’t see an end result, which is how a lot of alcohol-ics think, then I would just quit. It was that fear of failure. By the time my alcoholism kicked in I couldn’t do anything. I’ve been very lucky, I re-bounded with my health. There’s been no long standing detriments or ef-fects physically. I’ve seen a lot of people die sober
the internet. His experi-ences with addiction as well as well as his recent re-entry into the art world connected him to AA Grapevine, which reaches more than 150 countries around the world.
“It helps so many peo-ple because it tells the sto-ries from people who have gotten sober and stayed sober, for people who may not have had the opportu-nity to get help.”
September will be Sch-reiber’s fourth time being published in the magazine over the past year. The collection of 20 paint-ings, which has generated much interest from treat-ment centers and art en-thusiasts, is a portal into
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Elmira artist Brent Schreiber returned to the world of fine arts five years ago after a long recovery from alcoholism. His work will be published in the September issue of AA Grapevine. [ELENA MAYSTRUK / THE OBSERVER]
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ELMIRA LEGION COLD PLATE Dinner; 6 p.m., $7/person.
H.U.G.S. PROGRAM – 9:15-11:15 a.m. Meet with other parents to discuss parenting and child health issues. Topic: Park Day in Elmira! Meet at Gibson Park in Elmira. Bring a snack and enjoy the park with other parents and children! Return to WCHC in case of rain. No childcare today. Call Heidi at 519-664-3794, ext. 237 for more information. A Woolwich Community Health Centre program.
AUGUST 11
WOOLWICH COMMUNITY LIONS CLUB is hosting “Drive a Ford Event” from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. at Foodland parking lot. Come out and take a car for a test drive (one test driver per household). Classic Car show and shine, BBQ, Bouncy Castle, games and prizes. Classic car show & shine registration call Sandy 519-638-2523. Live Band – Cowboy Up, classic car show & shine, BBQ & classic movie Grease at Lions Hall, Elmira 4-8 p.m. Grease Lightning dance 8 p.m. – 1 a.m. at Lions Hall. Tickets $10 advance $12 at the door. Tickets available at Pampered & Polished, Brown’s Menswear, Lions Club members or by calling 519-669-5800. All proceeds to Elmira District Community Living van project.
AUGUST 13
BUCKETS OF FUN! FREE Summer Camp runs Aug. 13-17 from 9-11:30 a.m. This free program is for children ages 4 to 11., includes stories, songs, crafts, activities and games. For more information www.breslaumennonitechurch.ca Limited space available.
AUGUST 14
IMAGINE WHAT I COULD Be! Tuesday, August 14 to Friday, August 17 - Join us at the Elmira, St. Clements, Linwood, St. Jacobs, Bloomingdale and Wellesley Branches for Imagine What I Could Be! with the Imagine TD Summer Reading Club! This free program includes stories, crafts, and activities for children ages 6-12. Join us as we make the most out of our imagination and imagine the future by reading fun books and making cool crafts. Today, we will award our contest winners. For more information, please email [email protected], or contact your local branch. Limited space available.
KAMI PAPERCRAFT WORKSHOP WITH Andrew Dewar at Wellesley Branch Library at 2:30 p.m. Create your own paper airplane! This event is for ages 6 and up. This workshop is free, but pre-registration is required as space is limited. To purchase tickets in advance or for more information please contact the Wellesley Branch Library at 519-656-2001 or [email protected]. Tickets are limited so buy yours today.
BINGO, 7 P.M. ST. Clements Community Centre sponsored by the Paradise & District Lions Club. For further information contact President Joe Brick at 519-699-4022.
AUGUST 15
STAMP CAMP – AT Elmira Branch Library. Join us from 7-8 p.m. for beginner stamp collecting. Free for ages 5 to 105. Space is limited. Event will take place at the library located at 65 Arthur St. S. in Elmira. For more information call the Elmira Branch Library at 519-669-5477 or [email protected].
AUGUST 16
JOIN US AT THE St. Clements Branch Library for Birds of Prey show from the Canadian Raptor Conservancy at 10:30 a.m. as part of the TD Summer Reading Club Closing Party! Enjoy free-flight demonstrations and commentary about the birds. This show is free for all children registered in the TD Summer Reading Club! For more information please contact the St. Clements Branch Library at 519-699-4341 or [email protected].
AUGUST 20
VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL “JESUS is my BFF” – Aug. 20-24, 6:30-8:45 p.m. Children ages 2 to 14 welcome. Come and bring a friend. Bible stories, songs, games crafts and snacks. St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 27 Mill St. Elmira. For more information 519-669-2593 or visit stpaulselmira.ca A free will offering will be taken each day.
AUGUST 21
BINGO, 7 P.M. ST. Clements Community Centre sponsored by the Paradise & District Lions Club. For further information contact President Joe Brick at 519-699-4022.
AUGUST 24
H.U.G.S. PROGRAM – 9:15-11:15 a.m. Meet with other parents to discuss parenting and child health issues. Topic: Activities for children in our township/region. The HUGS planning committee will coordinate a list of family friendly local places to visit. Clothing exchange day – Bring outgrown children’s clothing and get something “new” for back to school! Held at Woolwich Community Health Centre, 10 Parkside Drive, St. Jacobs. Call Heidi at 519-664-3794, ext. 237 for more information.
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STRANGE BUT TRUE / BILL & RICH SONES PH.D.
WEIRDNOTES
OBSERVER CROSSWORD PUZZLERSUDOKU
Ice cream manufacturers capitalizing on making profits out of thin air
Q. Do newborn babies enter the world as virtual blank slates or as little Ein-steins, loaded with knowl-edge about things they’ve barely even seen? A. “Helpless as they are, babies pop into the worldneurally programmed for reasoning about objects, physical causality, numbers, the biological world, the beliefs and motivations of other individuals, and social interactions,” says neuro-scientist David Eagleman in “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain.”
For example, Baby’s brain EXPECTS to see faces, and so Baby will turn toward face-like patterns but not toward scrambled versions of these patterns. By just a few months old, babies will express surprise if one object seems to pass through another, or if solid objects seem to disappear as if by magic. They know to treat supposed animate objects dif-ferently from inanimate ones and also make assumptions and draw conclusions about adults, trying to impersonate them when they do some-thing right but not if they make a “whoops-punctuated” mistake. As for babbling, deaf children do this in the same way as the unimpaired, and children hearing radically dif-ferent languages nevertheless
wind up babbling similarly. “In other words,” Eagle-man concludes, “by the time babies are old enough to be tested, they are already making assumptions about the workings of the world. So although children learn by imitating what’s around them -- aping their parents, pets and the tv -- they are not blank slates.”Q. What’s in ice cream that you probably never thought about, though the manufacturers certainly have, counting their profits along the way? Beer lovers, take note. A. Beer, you know, has foamy bubbles collected in the “head” that for many drinkers never lasts long enough, though others argue it lasts too long, says F. Ronald Young in “Fizz-
ics: The Science of Bubbles, Droplets, and Foams.” Some beer manufacturers fatten the foams by using additives, but ice cream manufacturers? Fact is, ice cream is a dessert famous for its foam. Before she became a politi-cian, former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher once worked for an ice cream company and helped devise a method for introducing more air into the product, lighten-ing the texture and winning over customers. “It also resulted in less ice cream (which is relatively expensive) and more air (which is relatively cheap), creating bigger profits. Mrs. Thatcher’s method, of course, spread widely.”Q. What’s a most surpris-ing way to predict whether your marriage is likely to
last? A. Take a look at your spouse’s early photographs from youth or college and check out his or her “smile intensity” and hope to see a beaming smile rather than a faint or ironic one, suggest DePauw University psycholo-gist Matthew Hertenstein et al, as reported by David G. Myers in “Psychology: Tenth Edition.” As the Jewish proverb goes, “As at 7, so at 70,” stressing the continuity of who we are. In fact, the research showed that “none of the people who fell within the top 10% of smile strength had divorced, while within the bottom 10% of smilers, almost one in four had had a marriage that ended.” Yet the researchers emphasize that the cause of the correlation is unclear.
“Maybe smiling represents a positive disposition toward life,” Hertenstein offers. “Or maybe smiling people attract other happier people, and the combination may lead to a greater likelihood of a long-lasting marriage.” Or it could just be that smilers tend to have a larger support network to bolster marital stability. Yet this is not to say that early faint smilers will later experience marital misfor-tune, Myers concludes. “Happily for them, life is a process of becoming.”
SOLUTION: on page 19
ABOUT THE AUTHORS Bill is a journalist, Rich holds a doctorate in physics. Together the brothers bring you “Strange But True.” Send your questions to [email protected].
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ACROSS1. Old World duck5. Jerks11. Scrawny one16. Spelling of “Beverly Hills 90210”17. A wooden game18. Song of joy19. Not opportune21. Hollow in a bone22. Any red eruption of the skin23. Conservative25. Bring (out)26. Embodiment in a new form29. Common deciduous tree32. Code word33. Missing from the Marines, say34. “The magic word”
37. Infomercials, e.g.40. Ownerless dog, around Asian villages44. Sluggish bottom-dwelling ray47. A constellation in the southern hemisphere48. Indemnify49. Fountain order50. Scarlett O’Hara, e.g.51. Ancient52. Of or relating to a magistrate53. Arid54. Asian tongue57. Computer science58. The “A” of ABM59. “I had no ___!”60. Go bad
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2. Like old recordings3. “Aeneid” figure4. Cleans the windshield5. Revealing little emotion6. Carnivorous freshwa-ter fish7. Appropriate8. An oblong shield9. Mount Vernon, for one10. Breastbones11. Marienbad, for one12. Project as a cantilever13. Back in14. Composer Copland15. No-see-ums20. “MS. Found in a Bottle” writer24. Complain whiningly27. Ballroom dance from Latin America28. Cracker Jack bonus
29. Met productions30. Assert without proof31. Someone in charge of other people35. A scholar36. Chester White’s home38. Downer39. “The Open Window” writer41. Kosher ___42. ___ podrida43. Highlander45. An end to sex?46. “Absolutely!”50. Have an existence54. Blue eyes or bald-ness, e.g.55. Caste member56. Daisylike bloom
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Schreiber’s inner struggle not only with alcohol but also the emotional states that caused him to drink. It is also thank-you to those who gave him the help he needed. The sup-port he received saved his life and continues to on a daily basis, he explained. Because of his prolonged
struggles with alcohol and success in overcom-ing the disease, he is not afraid to reveal his private struggles in order to pass on a positive message of healing and hard work.
“I got sober when I was 31 and was very blessed to have a lot of good people around me who carried me and kicked me in the ass, really taught me a
new way to live. You’re not just taking, taking, tak-ing, which is so much of what addiction is, when you get into a twelve-step program it’s: ‘what can I do for someone else?’ ” he said adding that he has since reunited with his family and is especially close to his mother, who had given him the push he needed.
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year we pickled more than 100 lbs of asparagus for our sandwich platters, al-though I prefer my aspara-gus in a Caesar!
Bell Pepper and Garlic Jelly (makes a wonderful gift)
1 cup finely diced red peppers1 cup finely diced green pep-pers6 large cloves garlic1-1/2 cup apple cider vinegar6 cups sugar2 pouches liquid pectin
Dice red and green peppers finely, place in stainless steel pan. Add chopped garlic cloves, sug-ar and cider vinegar;
Over a high heat bring to a full rolling boil. Boil hard one minute (I set the timer), remove from heat and stir in the 2 pouches of pectin;
Pour jelly into hot jars and try to ensure the diced pepper is dispersed evenly. Wipe rims with paper towel to ensure the stickiness is removed. Follow the direc-
tions on the jars to ensure the seals of the lids are used correctly. Most ask that you place the seals in hot water but not boiling water. Then place the seal on firmly but do not over tighten;
Place jars in a canner and boil for 12 minutes. This will seal the jars com-pletely. After 4 hours check that the seals worked and the lids are curved down-wards, if a seal did not take place in the fridge. The rest can be stored in a cool dark place.
Tomato Simmer Sauce x 2 for 6-8 500ml jars
6 lbs ripe tomato, roma or field tomato will work1-1/2 tbsp brown sugar2 bay leaves1 tbsp sea salt2 tsp balsamic vinegar1/2 tsp black ground pepper1 cup roughly chopped basil3 cloves of garlic chopped1/2 cup total of roughly chopped parsley, oregano, thyme (combine to make half a cup total)1/2 tsp crushed chiliLemon juice
Score an X on the bottom of your local tomato, place on pan and put in a preheat-ed oven at 400F for approxi-mately 5 minutes or until the skin starts to separate from the flesh. Remove from the oven and peel off the skins and discard. Dice 6 of the tomatoes into half-inch cubes and puree the rest. Place in stainless steel pot;
Place the brown sugar, vinegar, garlic, salt, pep-per, bay leaves, in pot with tomatoes. Bring to a boil and simmer until it reaches the desired consistency. Ap-proximately 1 hour. Add the fresh herbs and stir in;
Pack tomato sauce in 500ml jars with 1 tbsp of lemon juice. Leave a quar-ter-inch head space in jar. Adjust prepared jar lid and tighten. Place prepared jars in canning pot of boiling wa-ter. Process for 35 minutes. Remove from boiling water and allow to cool. Check that jars are sealed and place in cool dry place.
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Another national title for blind bowler from St. Clements
COLIN DEWAR
Norm Green is once again the national Cana-dian Blind Lawn Bowling champion.
The St. Clements man won gold in the B-2 men category, a victory he has claimed three years in a row.
This year was much more competitive than in 2011, said Green, as more athletes participated.
“Over the years we have lost a lot of competitors to age and there are just no new competitors to take up the slack, but this year we had five competing who made the competition a lot more difficult,” said Green sitting in his family home.
Green had to compete in eight games, which he said made the champion-ship held in St. Catharines worthwhile.
Green, 71, has been with limited sight for the last 20 years after an 18-foot fall onto his head while on a catwalk at work in 1992. Now, Green is categorized as a B2, which means he has less than five per cent vision remaining.
A B1 is someone who is completely blind, while a B3 is someone with less than 10 per cent of their vision. Green has no vision in his one eye and only four per cent vision in the other.
Players are allowed to bowl against anyone in the same sight category or higher, but cannot com-pete against anyone lower, he said.
Winning the national title means Green will have the chance to compete in the World Blind Lawn Bowls Tournament to be held next summer in Eng-land. The world champi-onship is nothing new for Green, having competed for Canada in South Africa in 2011.
“The world competi-tion is very competitive, as there are many more participants. When you get to the world stage it is a different game, as some of these players bowl all year round,” said Green. “I only bowl in the summer months here and that can give me a disadvantage.”
He bowled in Elmira up until about two years ago, when he moved to the Heritage Greens Lawn Bowling Club in Kitchener. They have both indoor and outdoor bowling greens, but he doesn’t bowl in the winter because of his other passion: curling.
“I really love to curl, I’d curl all year round if I could.”
Fortunately, the two sports are actually quite similar. In lawn bowling there is a ball called the jack which players throw
down the playing green to start the match. It must travel at least 76 feet (23 metres) down the 120-foot (35-metre) green, then players each take turns bowling their four balls, called bowls, in an attempt to get as close to the jack as possible, much like the centre rings in curling.
“The only tricky part is that, unlike the centre rings in curling, the jack can move when it is hit and usually it moves back-wards.”
Green said he relies heavily on his coach, Jeff Ontonovich, as he focuses on his coach’s feet to help line up his shots, as well as directions from his coach once the shot has been made to help him adjust for the next one.
“My coach and I use the hands of a clock which really helps me with my aim. If he tells me to aim at four o’clock I know ex-actly where to bowl. We have a good time with each other.”
Ontonovich is also Green’s golf coach, a new sport that Green has been trying his hand at over the last few months.
“I have never golfed in my life. It is a real roller-coaster for me right now. Sometimes I am good oth-er times not so much, but I think if I hang in there I can only get better.”
Norm Green faced a more competitive field this year in defending his crown at tournament in St. Catharines
Norm Green of St. Clements has won the national Canadian Blind Lawn Bowling B-2 championship for the third time in a row and plans to compete in the World Blind Lawn Bowls Tournament to be held in England next year. [COLIN DEWAR/ THE OBSERVER]
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Revisiting the farming techniques of yesteryearWaterloo County Steam Thresher’s Reunion, featuring antique machinery, set for August 23-25 in Wallenstein
Antique tractors, trucks, cars and steam threshing machinery will be rolling into Wallenstein on Aug. 23 for the 18th annual Waterloo County Steam Thresher’s Reunion.
The event allows the public a chance to get a look into farming’s past.
Displays this year in-clude a demonstration of antique tractor displays, antique ditching machin-ery, steam-driven grain threshers, plowing, corn maze, and horse-drawn wagon rides.
“People are really inter-ested in the old antique tractors and equipment that was used years ago. These old machines really draw people in every year after year,” said Amsey Metzger, who has hosted the event at his farm west of Wallenstein for the past four years.
“It’s nostalgia thing. They want to see the trac-tors that were used years ago, and more and more we are seeing the younger people interested in the old machinery, which is
great as they can carry it on.”
The event costs just $5 for a single entry or $15 per family and all the money goes to a good cause: St. Mary’s Hospital Cardiac Care and the Food Bank of Waterloo Region.
The decision of where to donate the money is decided on by the group’s executive, which meets every month starting in the spring when they start to plan the reunion.
“Both groups do good work and are set up to help people in the community,” said Metzger. “There is a need for both these groups who help the needy so we chose to help them out.”
The event sees some-where between 800 and 1,000 people walk the grounds of Metzger’s farm to appreciate the old ma-chinery, enjoy gospel mu-sic and taste the authentic steamed corn at their fa-mous evening gospel sing and corn roast on Friday night. This year an auc-tion will be held featuring quilts, handmade furni-ture, toys and gift certifi-cates to local businesses.
As always the event
kicks off with the an-nual antique tractor run on Thursday morning starting at 8:30 a.m. that leaves Metzger’s farm and makes it way into Elmira stopping at all the senior citizen homes in the town. Some 70 tractors are ex-pected to participate in this year’s run. A brunch will be served afterwards at the Metzger farm for visitors and tractor riders.
The reunion runs Aug. 23-25at Metzger’s farm, R.R. 1 Wal-lenstein, 7590 Line 86. For more informa-tion visit their website: www.waterloocountyste-amthreshers.com.