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PLOP GOES THE PLUNGER

Who needs hockey? On February 2, the Alma Optimists held their annual plunger toss, giving local residents a chance to see just how far they could throw that least aerodynamic of bathroom implements. All proceeds will go to Alma Optimist youth programs. [WILL SLOAN / THE OBSERVER]

Terms of contract to apply to all Woolwich Township workers; changes to benefits package sees net-zero impact on budget

STEVE KANNON

Woolwich’s unionized outside workers will receive raises of 1.5 per cent in each of the next three years under the terms of a new contract approved this week.

The pay hike will raise the average union wage this year to $24.35 an hour, from $23.99 in 2012.

There will also be in-creases to their standby pay, shift premium and footwear allowance.

With adjustments to the workers’ benefits package, however, the net impact on the budget is expected to be zero this year.

The agreement covers 20 members of the Canadian Union of Public Employ-ees local 1542. The same increase is automatically extended to all other staff members. Council mem-bers, having voted against a wage freeze for them-selves, will also receive the

1.5 per cent increase.Chief administrative

officer David Brenneman said the same benefit adjustments will see pay increases to non-unionized workers net out to zero as well.

The wage provisions in the deal are similar to the contract reached between Wellesley Township and its unionized workers, and to the arbitrated settlement in North Dumfries Township, he noted.

He described the latest negotiations, which began December 7 and wrapped up January 22, as “very reasonable,” with the eco-nomic situation front and center.

“There was a clear un-derstanding on both sides of the economic realities.”

An overall neutral im-pact on the budget was a key goal in the negotia-tions.

The Wellesley Lions Club found their proposal in the doghouse this week as Wellesley council voted against partnering on a leash-free dog park.

In November, the Lions proposed a deal in which they would buy and develop land for a dog park, and then donate the completed park to the township. Wellesley would then become liable for the park under its existing insurance policy. An investi-gation into the proposed area, in the Village of Wellesley at Nafziger Road and Gerber Road (near the hydro sub-station), showed “potential for ques-tionable soil conditions.”

“One of the goals of the Lions Club was to put it into a low environmental and high-use area, that’s one of the reasons that made that land so attrac-tive,” said club member Richard Fran-zke at the Monday meeting. He added that the Lions hoped to build the park where it would be within walking dis-tance of many Wellesley residents as a way to encourage exercise. “I mean, there’s no use putting it out there in a cornfield – we could probably buy

Environmental concerns halt Wellesley dog parkPotential liabilities connected to proposed site see township back away from Lions Club initiative

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Pending a decision on a casino in the region, the Ontario Lottery and Gam-ing Corporation (OLG) will continue to operate a slots facility in Elora having reached an agreement in principle on a new lease.

Grand River Raceway this week became the 11th of 14 hosts of the slots-at-raceways program to reach a new lease deal with the OLG. The agreement is subject to approval by the Grand River Agricul-tural Society, owners of the track, and the provincial agency. Terms of the deal were not released, as it re-mains to be finalized.

Brenneman said he expects the savings from a change in the benefits package to carry over into the second and third years of the contract, depending on premiums levied.

“The cost savings from the benefit adjustments

offset the wage/monetary increases so there is no net increase to the 2013 bud-get,” he said. “With respect to the next two budget years, we do expect that the benefit adjustments will mitigate in whole or, worst case, a significant part of the impact of the wage/monetary increases, pro-

that inexpensively too, but if everybody’s driving out there in a car …”

But the township’s report showed the brownfield site may be contaminated from prior industrial use, and council was unwilling to authorize the expense needed to ensure the area’s safety.

“Mind you, it’s a heck of a great idea, I love it,” Coun. Jim Olender told Franzke. “But if we were told by the ministry that we have to take all that fill out of there and refill it, it could end up being a $150,000, $200,000 job, and I don’t think we can ask the taxpayers of the Township of Wellesley to take that on.”

Council members en-couraged the Lions Club to consider alternate venues for the park. Mayor Ross Kelterborn added, “There would be nothing stopping you from purchasing the property and running a dog park there,” without participation from the township.

Franzke told council that another piece of land near-by on Gerber Road was also

for sale, but its $350,000 cost was beyond the club’s capabilities. The current plan would cost the Lion’s Club $106,000, which cov-ers purchase and develop-ment of the property.

Franzke remained op-timistic that a dog park may eventually be built. “We have 60 supporters. We stopped – we could get more – but we stopped on the condition of, let’s find out where we’re going. All I know is, everybody I’ve talked to, anybody who’s heard of it, I’ve not heard anybody say, ‘This is a bad idea. Don’t bring this for-ward.’”

“It’s not dead,” added Olender. “I think it’s a great idea. It’s too bad the piece of land is a problem piece of land.”

In an official memo pre-pared by executive director of corporate/operations Will McLaughlin, council said they were “quite excit-ed about the proposal,” but the brownfield issue means there is “sufficient risk to the township to decline ownership.”

It also noted that the initiative was “fairly popular in other munici-palities.”

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DOG PARK: Wellesley council takes a pass on ownership opportunity because property has potential for problems

OLG reaches tentative lease deal for slots at Grand River Raceway

STEVE KANNON Ted Clarke, general man-ager at Grand River Race-way, said he hopes to have an agreement settled by the end of the month. With a deal in place, the track could go ahead with sched-uling of this year’s dates for harness racing.

In the long-term, the fu-ture of the slots facility will depend on the OLG’s bid to build a casino in this area, a gaming zone that covers Woolwich, Kitchener, Wa-terloo, Wilmot Township and parts of Cambridge and Wellington County. The opening of a casino in a location other than Elora would mean the closure of the facility and its 240 slot machines.

While Centre Wellington Township has indicated its interest in hosting a new casino, no decision has been made. Clarke said he is hopeful the OLG may decide to stay in Elora.

“For the OLG, it’s been a very good site,” he said of the Grand River Raceway.

In the meantime, the raceway will continue to operate as it has since opening in 2003. “It takes years to build something,” he said of a new casino.

With a new facility, to be built and operated by a private-sector partner, the OLG envisions up to 1,200 slot machines and 55 gam-ing tables.

Woolwich continues to

ponder whether or not to put its name in the hat as a host community, with officials seeking public input. Another meeting is planned for later this month.

Even if Woolwich decides it would like to host a ca-sino, the ultimate decision lies with prospective private investors, who would have to see the township as a de-sirable spot for a facility.

So far, only Cambridge has rejected the idea of be-ing a host community. The game got larger last month when OLG announced at a Wilmot council meeting it would extend the gaming zone to include New Ham-burg in the mix.

HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY GETS NEW EXECUTIVE

The Elmira and District Horticultural Society elected a new executive at their first official meeting Feb 4. Back row: Irene Dickau, Reta Weber, Barb Smith, Wilma Findlay, Diane Coulman, Bette Cummings, Barb Detweiler-Bowman, Mary Austin. Front row: Louise Bexton, Barb Finn, Helen Grainger, Lois Weber, Karen Smart, Sharon Hollinger (Absent) Lyn Schwindt, Bill Crane, Tony Vorstenbosch, Marilyn Coupal, Janet Brown. [SUBMITTED]

On January 21, Elmira gardening enthusiasts came out to bloom when they volunteered to plant and maintain 12 flowerbeds across Woolwich Town-ship at the Annual General Meeting of the Elmira and District Horticultural So-ciety. Attendees included

Karen Makela, Director of Recreation and Facili-ties Services for Woolwich Township, as well as James Graham, Vice President of the Ontario Horticul-tural Association, who ran the elections for the Society’s 2013 Executive. In addition, former Society

president Lyn Schwindt was honoured with a Life Membership, given in recognition of her many years of service (which also includes volunteer work on bus trips, the annual gar-den tour, last year’s Home and Garden Show, the an-nual plant sale).

vided we continue to real-ize the savings from our carrier due to the imple-mented changes.”

The union, too, went into negotiations aware of the current economic climate, said CUPE representative Amanda Wells.

“I think both parties were mindful of that,” she

said Wednesday, noting trade-offs in the benefit package aren’t uncommon.

“It’s a fair settlement. Absolutely, there were no concessions.”

Wells did not release information about the rati-fication vote, saying only a “decent percentage” voted in favour of the deal.

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Life Membership awarded to Lyn Schwindt.

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Don’t be surprised to hear a steam whistle ring out over the Family Day weekend as a histori-cal train makes the trek between Waterloo and Elmira.

Having made its histori-cal debut in October 2012, the Essex Terminal Railway No. 9 will be back in service for its first winter in many years, since the completion of a long refurbishment process, said Southern Ontario Locomotive Res-toration Society (SOLRS) general manager Peter Mc-Gough.

Originally built in 1923 by Montreal Locomotive Works, the rare piece of railway history was the subject of years of repair work by a team of volun-

Restored steam engine prepped to make winter runSouthern Ontario Restoration Society makes test run on restored steam engine in preparation for Family Day weekend

teers and enthusiasts. “Pretty much everything

that was done had to be re-built from scratch because the equipment doesn’t exist anymore,” McGough explained.

Everything was done by hand, he added. Local machinists, electricians and train enthusiasts took on the thousands of hours of labour it took to restore the steam locomotive to its glory last year before the work was finally finished at the SOLRS shop in St. Jacobs.

SOLRS is also the opera-tor of the Waterloo Central Railway, a shortline railway licensed by the province that is specially certified to run steam engine trains.

“Most people, regardless of age, have never been on a train so it’s that whole

experience and the fact that you’re being pulled by a steam locomotive. It’s a different smell, it’s a dif-ferent sound, it’s a whole different experience that even if you took a train right now you’d never be able to duplicate,” Mc-Gough said.

Essex Terminal Railway No. 9 is one of only a few left in Canada, he adds, and is one of three remaining operational locomotives east of Manitoba. Along with providing a spectacle for train aficionados, the continued use and upkeep of the train is most impor-tantly a hats-off to Cana-dian history, he added.

Passengers can board the train over three days of winter excursions that will carry 224 passengers per trip. Starting off from up-

town Waterloo for a round trip, the steam engine will pull travellers through Woolwich Township to Elmira, offering a different look at of the surrounding countryside.

“You get a chance to see the township and the City of Waterloo from a perspec-tive you wouldn’t normally get to see from a car. We’re going through the middle of people’s farms, over trestles, bridges that aren’t anywhere close to a road,” McGough said.

The locomotive will de-part from Waterloo on Feb-ruary 16-18 at 1 p.m., with trips taking approximately two-and-a-half hours. Tick-ets can be purchased on board the train or prior to the trip through the SOLRS website at www.waterloo-central railway.com.

An estimated 2,000 vet-erans of the Second World War and Korean War pass away each month, and with figures like this, the costs of funeral services are of pressing importance. Now, the Royal Canadian Legion has launched a campaign it hopes will help families

Legion launches national letter-writing campaign in ElmiraGroup hopes public rallies around call for better funeral benefits for veterans of past wars

WILL SLOAN with small estates.The Legion’s letter-

writing campaign, which was launched at Elmira’s Legion Branch 469 on Jan-uary 31, calls on Canadians to write their MPs, with the hope of improving the Funeral and Burial Benefits Program.

“The whole point of this letter campaign is to get

the attention of all the MPs in the House of Commons, all the parties, [and] to speak on this in the House to get the dollars that are actually required to give a veteran a dignified and respectful funeral,” said Gordon Moore, Dominion president of the Royal Ca-nadian Legion.

He continued, “I’ve been

sending out letters to the minister of veterans affairs asking Mr. Harper, our Prime Minister, to take a look at the program as well. I haven’t really been receiv-ing a whole lot of response or support.”

Since 2001, the govern-ment has provided $3,600 toward the cost of veterans’ funeral services, a figure

the Legion calls “greatly inadequate.” The veteran’s organization is calling on the government to pay the funeral services for estates valued at under $12,000.

“I know, and a lot of other people know, that you cannot bury anyone for $3,600,” said Moore. “I mean, they’re living below the poverty line. If you

have an estate of $12,000 or less, you’re not a wealthy individual.”

The Legion also raises issue with Veterans Affairs budget reductions passed in 1995, which reduced the survivor estate exemption from $24,000 to $12,000. Currently, veterans with

The Essex Terminal Railway No. 9 undertook a test run last week in preparation for its first winter service. [SUBMITTED]

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Steam engine operator David Banks atop the Essex Terminal Railway No. 9 as it sits in the shop awaiting the Family Day outing. [SUBMITTED]


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A collection of re-discovered documents will soon give Wellesley researchers a new perspec-tive into the township’s earliest days. At its Monday night meeting, Wellesley council approved a $350 grant for the Wellesley Township Heritage and Historical Society to pre-serve municipal records dating as far back as 1852.

The records, which were found in a township of-fice vault in November, are “among the oldest and most significant township documents known to ex-ist,” said Nancy Maitland, curator for the historical society.

The documents include council minutes from De-cember 1866 to 1973; bylaws

Wellesley takes steps to preserve historical documentsWILL SLOAN from 1852 to 1946; minutes

from the Board of Health from 1885 to 1960; Welles-ley Police Village minutes from 1908 to 1961; and birth, marriage and death registers from 1884 to 1948.

“They comprise about two shelves in the vault in the township office. There are about 40, or a few more, items on those two shelves,” said Maitland.

“What kind of condition are the ones from 1866?” asked Mayor Ross Kelter-born.

“They’re in surprisingly good condition,” replied Maitland.

The historical society re-quested funds to purchase acid-free containers in which to store the records, as well as to purchase other items to guarantee their preservation, such as cot-

ton gloves. The $350 grant will be financed from the Jake Koehler Estate Fund,

which offers money for his-torical projects.

Council quickly agreed

on measures to preserve the paper documents, with discussion turning to how best to make them acces-sible to researchers. The historical society outlined a number of measures.

“Would it not be feasible to have all these things microfiched?” asked Coun. Jim Olender.

“We would need to get a microfilm reader,” re-plied Maitland. “That’s kind of an old technology. I suppose they could be digitized, but that would be a large expense.” She esti-mated the expense of digi-tization in the thousands.

Wellesley Township cur-rently has plans to digitize its documents, and now intends to make these re-cords part of this ongoing archiving process.

“If we’re going to store

them in some special con-tainer, that’s fine. But long term, we would be looking at having them scanned along with everything else,” said Will McLaugh-lin, the township’s execu-tive director of corporate/operations.

“Regardless of what we do with them in the future, they should be put in acid-free containers as fast as possible,” said Ron Hack-ett, chair of the historical society.

Further information on the documents will soon be made available on the Wellesley Heritage and Historical Society’s website (www.wellesleyhistori-calsociety.org); members of council also agreed to announce the documents’ availability on the town-ship’s site.

Wellesley Township Heritage and Historical Society curator Nancy Maitland makes a case for preserving recently rediscovered township documents at township council Feb. 4. [WILL SLOAN / THE OBSERVER]

The Woolwich Wolves got a chance to howl at the Sugar Kings today (Sat-urday) in a game of floor hockey organized by the coaches of both teams.

Elmira’s Special Olym-pics team is right in the middle of their floor hockey season and ready to work with the Kings in a game off the ice.

“The Kings, they just make the game a lot of fun,” said team manager Bob Allison on Thursday.

The Special Olympics are a national organization that provides various organized sports for individuals with intellectual disabilities. In Elmira the Wolves play two sports during the year, said Allison, a winter hockey season with about 18 play-ers split into three teams and a summer season of baseball with a larger team.

The Sugar Kings some-times use the same facili-ties at the Woodside Bible Fellowship on Barnswallow Drive for their own floor hockey games and Allison approached the team about holding a game.

The Wolves, a team of players of varying ages mainly from Elmira and St. Jacobs, play with a felt ring and a stick on the gym floor, coached by Darren Martin.

“It’s going extremely

Special Olympics team ready to take on the Kings in floor hockey match-up

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well. Unless it’s a stormy night or they are sick virtu-ally all of them are there. Most of them are just as regular as clockwork,” Al-lison said.

A longtime manager for the Wolves, Allison found a love for the game many years ago when his son Mark showed an immediate interest in hockey and the local team. Now aged 40, Mark continues to play in the Special Olympics.

“He just loves this, so that was my interest. It [the team] was going when I moved here 20 years ago and I took my son along to the game and after about five years the fellow who was managing it moved out of town so I inherited it. I’ve been doing this for somewhere between 15 and 20 years,” Allison ex-plained.

On a usual week the

Wolves come together for regular Wednesday games where the players are di-vided into three teams and play against each other with many of the players showing great promise in the game, Allison said.

In previous years the Wolves have gone for Saturday tournaments in Stratford and Toronto, but this season the Kings game brings the most excite-ment.

“This is the highlight. Some have been phoning me and they want to know how soon they should get to bed the night before and what they should wear. This is definitely the highpoint of the winter for them.”

The Kings and Wolves are playing from 10:30 a.m. for an audience of fam-ily members, friends and coaches.

The match against the Elmira Sugar Kings will be a high point in the season for many of the Waterloo Wolves players. [FILE PHOTO]


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10:00 AM | Police responded to a collision on the 6200 block of Deborah Glaister Line in Wellesley Township. A woman reversed from her driveway onto Deborah Glaister Line, causing a male driver to swerve in order to miss the revers-ing vehicle. The man ended up in the ditch. There were no injuries and the woman was charged with fail to yield from private drive.

2:30 PM | Police responded to a single-vehicle collision on Victoria Street near Fountain Street in Woolwich Township where a male driver’s vehicle hit a pole. There was significant damage to

The death of a man is being investigated after he was found unconscious at Jones Feed Mill on Lobsinger Line and taken to hospital on the morning of February 5.

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the vehicle. The driver was charged with careless driving.

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9:43 AM | A 44-year-old St. Clements man lost control of his brown Toyota on the icy road in the 3300 block of Lobsinger Line. There were no injuries and no charges were laid.

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7:58 AM | A collision occurred at the intersection of Herrgott Road and Boomer Line in Wellesley Township. The roads were icy and weather conditions were poor at the time. There were no injuries and no charges.

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7:22 AM | A male driver spun out of control on the 2900 block on Herrgott Road in Wellesley. He was travelling northbound on Herrgott Road when his vehicle hit ice, spun out of control and rolled over into a ditch. The driver was not injured. No charges were laid.

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6:37 AM | A single-vehicle collision occurred on Cedar Spring Road near Arthur Street North in Woolwich. The accident was a result of weather conditions. No injuries occurred and no charges laid.

8:21 AM | A 26-year-old female lost control of her car in icy roads and slid into a guardrail. The driver was charged with careless driving.

11:53 AM | A 20-year-old woman lost control of her red Chevrolet Cavalier, hitting a hydro pole. The driver sustained minor injuries. No charges were laid.

A DAY OF RECOGNITION

Crossing guard Sharon Metzger stands at the intersection of First and Arthur streets in Elmira as school gets out on February 6. The day was dubbed Winter Walk and Crossing Guard Appreciation Day to celebrate safe and healthy walking habits and give thanks to the 200 crossing guards in Waterloo Region. [ELENA MAYSTRUK / THE OBSERVER]

More money for brownfield projects

Encouraging infilling development, so-called brownfield projects, Waterloo Region will be throwing more money that way.

Council this week approved a sustainable, long term funding model for the regional portion of Tax Increment Grants. The model is based on funding the grant from incremental tax revenue that follows remediation and redevelopment. Council also

approved an allocation of $250,000 from the 2013 Regional Smart Growth Initiative to provide additional funding for the Environmental Site Assessment Grant program.

Woolwich approves pre-budget spending

Citing lead-time needs, Woolwich councillors this week gave pre-budget approval for the purchase of a new pickup truck for the recreation depart-ment and some new radios for the fire department.

The decision allows for the purchase of a 2013 GMC Sierra pickup truck from Forbes Motors at a cost of $20,910, with a delivery date of eight or nine weeks. Ordering this week rather than waiting until next month’s formal approval of the budget allows for the truck to be delivered on schedule and at the budgeted price, director of recreation and facilities Karen Makela told councillors meeting February 5.

The mobile radios, 12 units to be purchased from Spectrum Communica-tions at a cost of $26,500, are urgently needed to replace radios that should be removed from service, she said.

Greater accessibility for intersections

Meeting this week, regional councillors agreed to a policy of enhancing acces-sibility of regional road intersections, including roundabouts, for citizens with visual and hearing impairments.

The enhancements include audible pedestrian signals, tactile advisory surface indicators, tactile guide strips, ladder markings, yellow curbs and roundabout accessible traffic control signals.

Exchange deal with Robin in the Hood Festival

Happy with the first swap of services last year, Woolwich and the Robin in the Hood Festival will do it again this year.

The deal allows the festival to use space in the Woolwich Memorial Centre for rehearsals in advance of the event, held annually in Elmira’s Gibson Park. The WMC is also the backup space in the event of wet weather. In exchange, festival volunteers agree to perform community service such as last year’s

cleanup of the park in Conestogo.The township has already put together

a preliminary list of projects that could be tackled this year in exchange for free use of the WMC. Ideas under consideration include spring clean-up and maintenance at Gibson Park; maintenance of flowerbeds at the WMC, Gibson Park or Lions Park; and mainte-nance of the Kate’s Place playground.

Councillors quickly endorsed the deal following a presentation by festival organizer DJ Carroll.

“Volunteers are the backbone of what makes this community different from others,” said Coun. Mark Bauman.


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CONTRACT NO. 313-002Sealed Tenders, clearly marked as to contents, will be received at the Township office until 2:00 p.m., Local Time, on:

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for the application of HL3 and HL4 asphalt at various locations throughout the Township of Wellesley. Tender opening will follow at 2:05 p.m. Please direct any inquiries to the Township office listed below.

ESTIMATED MAJOR ITEM QUANTITIES: •HL3Asphalt 3,120tonnes •HL4Asphalt 3,005tonnesTender forms and specifications may be obtained at the address below, after 10:00amonFebruary8,2013,foranon-refundablefeeof$50.00(includingHST) per set, made payable to the Township of Wellesley.

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A group of Lutheran mission workers from St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Elmira, Redeemer LC of Waterloo and Pilgrim LC of Hamilton took part in a build last month in Nicaragua. [SUBMITTED]

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It’s not every day that one wakes up in the morn-ing and says, “Y’know … I think I’ll go build a Luther-an church in Nicaragua.” But, give or take several months of planning, that’s precisely what members of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Elmira did on a mission-ary visit in January, in col-laboration with Redeemer Lutheran Church of Wa-terloo.

For the visitors from Waterloo Region, the re-public proved to be an eye-opening place. “In the area where we were in, it was very depressed,” said Pastor Rick Frey. “I don’t think I’ve seen poverty quite as dire as that. … Even though the folks in Nicaragua understand, to some extent, the wealth that we have, they really want to be in Nicaragua. They don’t want to come to Canada – they want to stay there and make their country better.”

Frey continued, “I was also surprised by just how grateful the folks are there for whatever help we can

Local mission finds a warm reception in NicaraguaVolunteers from three churches, including St. Paul's Lutheran in Elmira, bring aid to impoverished area

offer them. There were times when I actually kind of felt guilty, because we’re giving these people some things that we have – some of them are kind of castoffs – and I almost felt guilty, ‘I used this and don’t want it anymore, so you have it.’

“And yet they were al-ways so grateful and so appreciative. If you gave them a shirt, right there on the spot they would take off their shirt and put it on, and then they’d show it off to everyone. Just a happy, grateful people.”

St. Paul’s Lutheran’s overseas endeavors began 15 years ago, when the church funded a congre-gation member’s charity work in Guatemala. Sev-eral similar missions were financed until the church finally established a per-manent fund for overseas mission work. After mon-ey built up for 12 years, the church had the sav-ings for a more ambitious project.

Half of the Waterloo Region Lutherans helped with construction work at the building site, while the other half volunteered as

assistants at three Vacation Bible School sites – and with a Spanish staff of min-isters, vicars, deaconesses, teachers and assistants, church member Ron Wag-ner said the translators were kept busy.

“We wished we had studied Spanish more diligently after each of our instruction classes at home,” said Wagner. “We discovered that the interpreters had learned by listening to American television shows with Spanish subtitles.”

On the first day, before an open-air service that saw the Lutherans singing familiar hymns in Span-ish, the visitors inspected the building site, and were happy to see that construction was well underway. “The grounds had been leveled, foot-ings poured, the wall for front of the church was up, three washrooms con-structed, and a large sew-age pit had been built, as well. The first few courses of cement block had been laid for the side walls,” said Wagner.

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The middle of winter being a quieter period in rural communities, it’s a good time for participants to attend the Waterloo Rural Women conference. A staple for 20 years, it’s a chance for women to get together, laugh, reflect on hardships and, perhaps most importantly of all, find understanding and support among their ranks of hardworking farmers, wives and businesswomen.

“It’s important for us to get together and recognize who we are,” said Waterloo Rural Women committee member Susan Martin of Elmira.

The event will be held February 13 at the Schmidtsville Restaurant in Wellesley.

For Martin, farming is a family affair and women play as large a role as men when it comes to running the very hands-on busi-nesses.

“A lot of these women …

Conference a chance for rural women to learn a few things, have some funthey’re in the barn, they are actively involved in the practice, whether they are doing the books or (some-thing) as simple as running for tractor parts in the sum-mer time. It takes every-body too make it work; it’s a business,” she said.

A sheep farmer by trade she knows all too well what it is like to be a woman in the industry, working with the animals and collab-oratively running a farm together with her husband and parents.

Every year the conference features a number of speak-ers to represent the various aspects of farming and rural life that the women may encounter.

“You never know what could happen … but that’s life, it’s just like getting caught in a traffic jam. You just have to roll with it. That’s kind of what this group is all about,” Martin said.

In past years the confer-ence has hosted the likes of gourmet tea parties, with

farmers’ wives bringing for-ward their experiences on the farm.

“My aunt Peg spoke last year on how she was not a farm girl coming onto a farm because she married a dairy farmer. She was like ‘whoa now what?’ She did not go into the barn but she still supported her husband in lots of different ways. We hope that we have

something that’s going to interest everyone,” Martin explained.

The committee will con-tinue exercising a knack for mixing serious issues with lighthearted entertainment on February 13. This year’s speakers are Brenda Gerber of New Hamburg, Linda Slits of Milverton, and Dar-lene Aberle of Elmira.

Gerber will share her sto-

ry of a serious farm injury she suffered as a child; a fit-ting topic as the committee also holds an annual farm safety day for kids. Next up, Slits will share her experi-ence as the 2013 Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) Ambassador.

“It’s interesting that a small-town girl won the title. I’m really curious to hear her story because she

is really interested in agri-culture and how to promote agriculture which I think is really important in this day and age,” Martin said.

And lastly, Aberle, the wife of a farmer for many years, will cap off the event with some decorating tips for the spring.

“We just have a lot of fun and yet there is serious-ness,” Martin says of the annual gathering.

“If someone in our group has a tragedy we are all there, and I think that’s important to acknowledge. We are all connected that way. This group of women is all over Waterloo Region. But we all have a common denominator and that’s that we are rural folk.”

Lunch and coffee breaks are included in the $20 reg-istration fee. Register online at www.waterlooruralwom-en.org or call a committee member: Rita Bauman (519) 638-3624, Lois Cress-man (519) 696-2667, Sharon Grose (519) 846-9788 or Su-san Martin (519) 669-8066.

Sheep farmer and committee member Susan Martin with a member of her flock at her Floradale farm. [ELENA MAYSTRUK / THE OBSERVER]

JUBILEE MEDAL FOR MAYOR

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estates over $12,000 are not eligible for any government assistance.

Moore said that Legion members have been advo-cating for changes to the Funeral and Burial Benefits Program at every bien-nial Dominion Convention since 2004. Now that the majority of Canada’s vet-erans are in their 90s, the issue has become particu-larly pressing.

A printable form letter,

available in English and French, is available at the Legion’s website, www.legion.ca. While the Le-gion is calling on all of its 330,000 members to write their MPs, Moore said he hopes the cause will reso-nate with an even broader population.

“I would really like to see as many Canadians to get involved in this program as possible,” said Moore. “I would really, really love to see two million letters or more hit our MPs in Ottawa.”

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MISSION: Church to host Nicaragua mission celebration Feb. 17

At the bible schools, the language barrier prevent-ed the visiting Lutherans from teaching, but they assisted in various capaci-ties. “The children liked colouring which we had thought was a pretty basis activity [but] crayons were not a regular classroom supply,” said Wagner. “The vicar played the

guitar and led song time. I enjoyed leading the chil-dren, in English ‘Allelu, Allelu, Alleluia, praise ye the Lord!’”

Now that the visitors are firmly back in Waterloo Region, memories of the trip linger. Frey reflected, “We’ve all heard of grum-bling church members, but the ones that we were working with – my good-ness, they were always

eager to do anything for their Lord and for their church.

“When you go on some-thing like this, you never know if we’re blessing people we’re going to help more than we’re being blessed ourselves. And all of us who went certainly felt enriched and blessed and encouraged in our faith in Christ.”

For those of us with

more sedentary lifestyles, St. Paul’s Lutheran will be holding an event to bring Central America closer to home. On February 17 at noon, St. Paul’s Lutheran will host a Nicaragua mis-sion celebration, where church members will discuss their experiences and show slides and crafts. Nicaraguan and Canadian foods will be served for lunch.

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APPARENTLY THE PUBLIC BLOWBACK and resultant legal scrutiny that followed the “Pierre Poutine” robo-calls were not enough to discourage the federal Conservatives from continuing the practice. This week it was re-vealed the party was behind automated phone calls designed to discredit the Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission’s plans for redraw-ing riding boundaries in Saskatchewan. The Tories fear the changes, part of a similar exer-cise across the country, would have an adverse effect on their control of the province, where they have 14 of its 15 seats.

The push-poll, negative marketing masquerading as polling research, was done without identifying the source, a contravention of telemarketing rules heaped onto an un-ethical practice.

Caught with their hands in the cookie jar again, the Con-servatives went into denial mode, with Stephen Harper denying any wrongdoing. Interestingly, Conservative MP Tom Lukiwski, who holds a Regina-area seat, placed the blame for the “deceptive” polls on the party’s political di-rector Jenni Byrne, essentially pointing the finger at the PMO.

Should we expect any charges or repercussions to come of this latest illegality? Not likely, as the Conservatives have proven repeatedly to have no interest in following the law, House ethics or their own pledge of accountability.

They probably won’t even halt the use of robo-calls, which have emerged as an even stronger threat to democ-racy as the Tories dig into the Karl Rove school of unethical political practices.

Since the practice gained attention in the 2008 election, led by Conservative malfeasance in the B.C. riding of Saan-ich-Gulf Islands, the government has refused to disavow it. Nor have other parties been immune from its lure.

Moreover, there have been plenty of irregularities where polling and voting are concerned, with Elections Canada having received more than 2,200 complaints since 2004 alone.

Elections Canada has been investigating the last elec-tion’s robo-call scandal in which voters in several dozen ridings received misleading phone calls, in some cases messages purporting to be from Elections Canada direct-ing them to alternative polling stations in an apparent at-tempt to suppress voter turnout. There were annoying and ill-timed calls, also aimed at Liberal and NDP supporters, identified as coming from the party, but said to be harass-ing tactics to create ill will amongst supporters.

So far, there’s been little in the way of legal repercus-sions. Compelling Elections Canada to be more transparent and, more broadly, making changes to some very undemo-cratic facets of our electoral process will require action from our politicians, not just all the talk, talk, talk coming out of Ottawa.

Robo-calls themselves are not the issue – they serve a legitimate purpose in some cases – rather it’s the lack of transparency and accountability. If they’re going to be used, there should be full disclosure as to who’s calling, on whose behalf and for what purpose. Compelling the parties to keep open records on all the calls would avoid yet an-other repeat of the situation.

We've seen this robo-call issue play out before

It’s hard enough to manage a fishery stock sus-tainably when the fish stay put. Once they start moving around, it’s almost impos-sible. That’s why the Eu-ropean Union and Iceland are heading into a mack-erel war. It’s a foretaste of things to come, as warming oceans cause ocean fish to migrate in order to stay in their temperature comfort zones.

The conflict this time is quite different from the “cod wars” between Iceland and Britain in 1958 and in the early 1970s, as Iceland progressively extended its maritime boundaries in order to save its cod stocks from overfishing by British trawlers. Back then, Ice-landers were indisputably in the right. If they hadn’t acted decisively, their cod-fish would have gone the way of the world’s richest cod fishery, on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland.

Newfoundland lost its cod because it was no lon-ger an independent coun-

Mackerel at the center of latest fishing wartry, and the cod-fishery ranked pretty low on the Canadian government’s list of priorities. Ottawa wasn’t willing to pick a fight with other countries over cod-fish when it had so many other trade issues on the table, from wheat exports to airline landing rights.

Whereas the cod-fishery was the biggest industry in Iceland, and so it fought hard to defend it: British trawlers’ nets were cut by Icelandic Coast Guard ves-sels, there were ramming incidents, and there was much angry rhetoric. In the end Iceland won, as it deserved to – and it still has its cod stocks. (A president of Iceland once told me privately that she believed Newfoundland would still have its codfish too if it had been free to fight for them).

But Icelanders are not saints, and this time they are in the wrong. The issue is the Atlantic mackerel, whose total catch went from about 150,000 tonnes in the early 1950s to over a million tonnes in 1975, and then fell back to around 700,000 tonnes by 2010. A smaller relative of the tuna, its flesh is much in demand in Europe, and it has be-

come a mainstay of the British, Dutch and Scandi-navian fishing fleets.

They know that the mackerel stock is being over-fished, and in recent years they have set quotas for the Total Allowable Catch. This required com-plex negotiations between the European Union (rep-resenting the United King-dom, Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands) and Norway (which is not an EU member). The talks were successful, but last month the Marine Conservation Society removed mackerel from its “(safe) fish to eat” list anyway.

Bernadette Clarke, fish-eries officer at the MCS, explained that “the stock has moved into Icelandic and Faeroese waters, prob-ably following their prey of small fish, crustaceans and squid. As a result, both countries have begun to fish more mackerel than was previously agreed. The total catch is now far in ex-cess of what has been scien-tifically recommended and previously agreed upon by all participating countries.”

What has happened is that global warming caused most of the mackerel to

move north-west to the cooler waters around Ice-land in the summer – and since they were now in Icelandic waters, Iceland began fishing them heavily. It set a quota, of course, but it is not a EU member, and this unilaterally decided quota was in addition to the one agreed upon between the EU and the Norwegians.

Last year scientists ad-vised a total catch of no more than 639,000 tonnes of mackerel by the EU countries, Norway, Iceland and Russia. However, about 932,000 tonnes was caught – 307,000 tonnes more than was safe. And almost half of that excess was down to the Icelanders, who caught al-most no mackerel 10 years ago.

Icelandic Industry Min-ister Steingrimur Sigfusson told the Scottish Sunday Express: “In the summer you can see mackerel jump-ing on the water at the har-bour, which is something new for us. The numbers coming to our waters are quite incredible and they double their weight when they are here. ... Our catch will be above the scientific

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The right to privacy trumps feeble "if you've got nothing to hide" arguments

Our privacy is under at-tack from every direction, from surveillance cameras to increasingly draconian internet snooping. We can add from up above to the list, as police agencies be-gin employing drones more often.

Recent stories about the use of the technology by the RCMP and OPP high-light yet another slippery slope on the road to cir-cumventing our privacy. Oh, authorities maintain the drones – officially known as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) – will be used in only limited ca-pacities for routine work such as photographing ac-cident scenes. There will be no incursions on the public’s privacy, and any shift to surveillance would require a warrant, as is the case with other forms of monitoring such as tapping phones, they tell us.

Certainly Canadian po-lice services aren’t using the kind of sophisticated

military drones common-place in the U.S., nor are we undertaking their ques-tionable surveillance mea-sures and resulting attack on privacy rights – well, not that we know of.

But if history has taught us anything it’s that new technologies are never held in check for long. Because we can do something, we will do that thing. Only the most stringent of regulations – the kind not favoured by controlling governments – have a hope of curtailing the erosion of our rights.

The issue has not es-caped the attention of Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner Dr. Ann Cavoukian, who has flagged the use of drones as a public concern.

“The potential for in-stitutional or other abuse, arising as a result of the inappropriate use of these technologies, suggests a need for safeguards tai-lored to prevent intrusions into privacy and liberty,” reads a report drafted last summer.

She notes that UAV technology is seen as a growth sector in the aero-

space industry. The world market for UAV research and development and procurement was US$6 billion in 2011, and that figure is expected to double in the next 10 years. With that much money to be made – and the notoriously well-greased lobbying sys-tem – it’s only a matter of time before the use of such equipment becomes more widespread.

We can look to the U.S., where sophisticated drones are commonly used and where privacy rights are at much graver risk, as a cau-tionary tale.

A report issued last week by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) points out the benefits and the costs of UAVs.

Drones could be em-ployed to inspect pipelines, survey crops, and monitor weather. Storm damage can be surveyed. Search-and-rescue operations enhanced. “In short, the extent of their potential domestic application is bound only by human in-genuity.”

But there are plenty of red flags.

“With the ability to

house surveillance sensors such as high-powered cam-eras and thermal-imaging devices, some argue that drone surveillance poses a significant threat to the pri-vacy of American citizens.

“UAVs present unique challenges, due to their ability to use a variety of sensors to gather informa-tion from unique vantage points – often for long periods and on a continu-ous basis. The prospect of having our every move monitored, and possibly recorded, raises profound civil liberty and privacy concerns.”

As with each effort to strip away privacy rights, there are those who will argue they’re fine with each new measure because they’ve got nothing to hide. Only those with something to hide – only criminals, for those of this mindset – would argue against more surveillance. That’s akin to Vic Toews’ classic state-ment about the seriously invasive Bill C-30 internet snooping legislation that we either support the bill or we support child por-nographers. Those are the only options.

That kind or reasoning alone is enough to dismiss the “nothing to hide” argu-ment. Of course, it’s also easily shot down by asking those who make that argu-ment if they own curtains and blinds. If they’ve got nothing to hide, they cer-tainly won’t mind others looking in through their windows, right? Or having their bank records made public? Nobody, of course, wants to do that. We all value some measure of privacy. And we all have something to hide, which doesn’t make us criminals, terrorists or pornogra-phers.

There are more sophis-ticated argument in sup-port of the “nothing to hide” rationale, as George Washington University Law School professor Daniel J. Solove, an expert on priva-cy rights, has long argued.

In an essay entitled, fit-tingly enough, “I’ve Got Nothing to Hide and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy," (later expanded to a book called Nothing to Hide: The False Trad-eoff Between Privacy and Security), he argues the state’s ability to collect,

track, store, aggregate and use information represents a huge power imbalance. A lack of control on what happens to that informa-tion poses future risks as technology evolves, while today it threatens to cir-cumvent laws that protect our rights in traditional en-counters with authorities.

What’s the point, for in-stance, of tough laws about police searching your per-son when the government can go poking through your computer files and bank records at will?

“The nothing to hide argument is one of the primary arguments made when balancing privacy against security. In its most compelling form, it is an argument that the privacy interest is generally mini-mal to trivial, thus making the balance against securi-ty concerns a foreordained victory for security,” says Solove.

You’re not up to anything wrong, but I’m willing to bet you have no interest in anyone poking through your online life with a fine-tooth comb. Nor peeking in through your curtain-less windows.

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advice but all I am willing to say is we will be as re-sponsible as our situation allows us to be.”

Loosely translated, that means that Iceland wants a much bigger share of the Total Allowable Catch because it now has most of the mackerel in the sum-mer, while the countries that traditionally fished the mackerel are digging their heels in and trying to hold on to their old quotas. “We will be as responsible as our situation allows us to be” could also be the slogan of the EU countries – and it isn’t responsible at all.

Maybe they’ll all see the light before they fish the

mackerel out, but the EU is now muttering about sanc-tions, and Icelanders don’t respond well to outside pressure. Everybody in-volved understands what’s at stake here, but they are all answerable to their own fishing industries at home, not to international law (there is none on this issue) or to some wise and impar-tial arbitrator. So there may not be a deal. Goodbye, mackerel.

The problem is not really greedy Icelanders or stub-born British. It is climate change. And we will see many more disputes like this, some of them with a much higher risk of vio-lent confrontation, as the warming proceeds and fish stocks dwindle.

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» With his party facing another robo-call investigation, Conservative MP Tom Lukiwski points a finger at the party's director of political operations.

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Gravel pit will lead to loss of habitat

To the Editor,As a resident of Cones-togo, I was happy to read the article in the Observer on February 2, “Residents call for legal challenge of Jigs Hollow OMB deci-sion.” I would like to make readers aware of another important implication of developing a gravel pit, which was not addressed in this article, that being spe-cies habitat loss.

The gravel pit will affect 89 acres of land currently home to many species, including deer, rodents, birds, insects and a variety of plants. This is a disrup-tion to the continuity of these habitats. The gravel pit could affect the access of species to Conestogo River and increase ani-mal encounters in nearby neighbourhoods and on roadways.

YOUR VIEW / LETTER

The lifecycle of a gravel pit begins by removing all land cover and eventually includes reinstating the land decades down the road. However, it would be naïve to expect the land, soil composition and plant overgrowth to return to its original state. Typically, invasive plants, such as weeds, are the ones that re-grow first. The Wildwood Gravel Pit near Stratford underwent its rehabilita-tion process and the result-ing land conditions varied across the site. A lack of topsoil and nutrients pro-vided an arid section and gravel was left behind in another section. A similar result could be expected at Jigs Hollow.

It is important to know humans will not be the only ones impacted by Jigs Hol-low gravel pit and habitat loss should be a main propo-nent to fight this decision.

VICTORIA LOMAX, CONESTOGO


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Jacks honour work of this year’s squad at awards banquetEvening was a refreshing pause between first and second round of the SOJHL playoffs

Sunday’s game against Brampton will see the team in pink jerseys to raise funds for anti-bullying campaigns

Victory in Listowel stopped skid at seven games, but Elmira’s weekend got a whole lot worse afterwards

WILL SLOAN

After finally winning one, Kings drop two more

WILL SLOAN

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Kings helping to spread the word about bullyingELENA MAYSTRUK

With a first-round playoff victory against the Delhi Travellers fresh in their memories, the Wellesley Applejacks took a rest January 31 for their annual awards banquet. Held at Kennedy’s Tavern in St. Agatha, the banquet gave the Jacks’ coaching staff a chance to shower the team with praise.

“That was an amazing job, that was an amazing series,” said volunteer Rick Grebinski of the playoffs, before adding, “and I can’t count the number of heart attacks I had sitting in that room up there.”

“When you’ve got a team like we have, there’s not a player that wasn’t considered for an award,” said head coach Kevin Fitzpatrick. “Somebody said, ‘Do they feel the pressure?’ Absolutely not. If there’s one thing this team’s not gonna do, it’s feel pressure.”

The prize for Top Scorer was shared by Corey Way and Troy Williams, who each scored 45 points dur-ing the season. Rookie of the Year honours went to Michael Pollice, and Most Improved went to Mark Detzler.

“Mark is doing what every one of these guys should do, and that’s coach,” said Fitzpatrick.

Goalie Josh Heer picked

The Kings will take on a decidedly rosy hue this weekend and not just from the zeal of the game. On Sunday the boys who are usually clad in green and white will wear pink jer-seys in support of an anti-bullying campaign.

Though the township turned down a request to

It was one step forward, two steps back for the El-mira Sugar Kings last week-end, as the beleaguered team put an end to their seven-game losing streak on Friday, but suffered a pair of tough losses on Sat-urday and Sunday.

It’s becoming an all-too-familiar refrain for the Elmira team: with seven players still recovering from injuries, the Kings struggled to compete with the Listowel Cyclones and the Stratford Cullitons.

“It’s always tough when you have seven or eight players out of a lineup,” said head coach Dean DeSilva. “I’m not trying to use that as an excuse, but if you take any other team, and you take three of their top six defence-men and four of their top ten forwards out of the lineup, the teams are going to have holes to fill.”

But the news wasn’t all bad for the Kings. Facing the Cyclones February 1 at the Listowel Arena, the

tint the ice pink for the game, fundraising efforts to help the fight against physical violence and its more passive though no less harmful counterparts, gossip and online bully-ing, will commence when Elmira plays the Brampton Bombers at the Dan Snyder Arena.

After raising over $5,000 last year to give to the fam-

ilies of Canadian troops through the London Mili-tary Family Resource Cen-tre, the Kings are switching gears this time around.

“This year we’ve switched and we’re going to support the anti-bully-ing campaign being con-ducted in local schools,” said Sugar Kings club di-rector Ron Hackett.

“There’s an awareness

of bullying so we are going to try to help the campaign by raising funds which will be distributed to the vari-ous schools in Woolwich Township to combat bul-lying.”

To help bolster the take, Hackett last week attended Woolwich council to ask the township to waive the rental fee for the arena, to which councillors agreed.

As part of the fundraiser, the Kings will also auction off their game-worn pink gear following the match.

Hackett added the boys will try to tone down the violence on the ice in the spirit of the event, but says the main goal is to promote cooperation in schools.

“The effort is there to stop bullying particularly when you pick on people

because of various physical or emotional things. You’re never going to eliminate violence in hockey, al-though there could be efforts made to tone it down.”

Game time at the Dan Snyder Arena is 2 p.m. on February 10, with the jer-sey auction taking place after the game at the WMC community room.

up the Coach’s Award for Most Dedication. Fitzpat-rick noted that Heer was always “pestering me at one o’clock in the morning after a win or a loss, ana-lyzing things.”

Most Valuable Local Player was awarded to Reid Denstedt, with Most Valu-able Defenceman going to Coleton Madge and Most Sporstmanlike to Troy Wil-

liams.A new award – the “Top

Jack Award” for top volun-teer – was given to Verna Metcalfe, who has volun-teered for 20 of the team’s 25-year history.

“It’s a full-time job try-ing to keep track of these guys,” said Metcalfe in her speech. “It’s really been an exciting time – I’ve just loved it and enjoyed

every minute of it. There’s times I’ve threatened to go into the dressing room and let them know they’re not playing the way they should be, but the coaches haven’t let me in there yet.”

Finally, the President’s Trophy for Most Valuable Player went to team cap-tain Corey Way.

“Taking over as captain

this year wasn’t an easy task,” said Fitzpatrick. “He kinda came into that, ex-celled at it, and has done a tremendous job.”

On Wednesday night, the Jacks were on the road to face the Hagersville Hawks for the next round of playoffs, before return-ing to home ice on Friday. The next home game is Sunday at 7:30 p.m.

The Wellesley Applejacks doled out the hardware at the team’s awards banquet Feb. 1. Recipients included Michael Pollice, Josh Heer, Coleton Madge, Corey Way, Troy Williams, Reid Denstedt. [WILL SLOAN / OBSERVER]

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WOOLWICH WILDCATS

Tyke: SELECT Jan. 27 vs. BurlingtonWoolwich: 1 Burlington: 4Goals: Dustin Good

Novice: AE Feb. 1 vs. OrangevilleWoolwich: 3 Orangeville: 5 Goals: Adam Pauls, Shelby Rempel, Lucas RadlerAssists: Lucas Carson, Carter Cousineau, Oscar Fitch

Feb. 3 vs. FlamboroughWoolwich: 0 Flamborough: 1

Novice: MAJOR AFeb. 1 vs. BramptonWoolwich: 2 Brampton: 4Goals: Ian Speiran, Liam EveleighAssists: Brett Moser, Andrew Gear, Sam Goebel, Mitchell Young

Novice: LL #3Feb. 2 vs. LL #2LL3: 2 LL2: 4Goals: Coleton Benham x2Assists: Corbin Schmidt x2, Ryan Buehler, Turner Duldhardt

Feb. 3 vs. LL #4LL3: 5 LL4: 4Goals: Corbin Schmidt, Coleton Benham x3, Turner DuldhardtAssists: Corbin Schmidt, Coleton Benham

Novice: LL# 4Jan. 18 vs. TavistockWoolwich: 6 Tavistock: 8Goals: Joshua Moore x2, Owen Hackert, Tyson Roth x2, Ryan Curtis Assists: Ryan Curtis, Daniel Grant x2, Owen Hackert, Joshua Moore, Nolan Williamson

Atom: MAJOR AAFeb. 5 vs. Centre WellingtonWoolwich: 2 Centre Wellington: 1Goals: Conner Bradley, Brett AllenAssists: Isiah Katsube x2, Keaton McLaughlin x2

Atom: LL # 1Jan. 26 vs. EmbroWoolwich: 3 Embro: 1Goals: Matthew Brubacher x2, Danny Soehner Assists: Connor Kroetsch

Feb. 2 vs. TavistockWoolwich: 5 Tavistock: 1Goals: Matthew Brbacher x3, Ben Fretz, Kieren OberholzerAssists: Ben Fretz x2

Atom: LL #2Feb. 2 vs. EmbroWoolwich: 1

Embro: 6Goals: James BertiAssists: Matthew Yorke

Atom: AE Jan. 18 vs. HespelerWoolwich: 2 Hespeler: 0Goals: Brendan Grant, Eric Martin Shutout: James Ormson

Jan. 22 vs. CaledonWoolwich: 0 Caledon: 2

Jan. 26 vs. HespelerWoolwich: 2 Hespeler: 3Goals: Nathan Snyder x2 Assists: Matthew Thaler, Hunter Weigel

Atom: MINOR AA Jan. 20 vs. BurlingtonWoolwich: 1 Burlington: 5Goals: Alex Hutton Assists: Kyler Austin, Kolin Weigel

Jan 25 vs. Stoney CreekWoolwich: 4 Stoney Creek: 3Goals: Kolin Weigel, Cameron Leonard, Owen Lee, Kyler Austin Assists: Evan Roth, Kyler Austin, Alex Hutton, Cameron Leonard, Colton Schmitt

Jan. 26 vs. Centre WellingtonWoolwich: 5 Centre Wellington: 1Goals: Alex Hutton x2, Tyler Martin x2, Cole Slade Assists: Cameron Leonard x2 AJ Mitchell, Kyler Austin x2, Kolin Weigel, Owen Lee

Feb. 2 vs. BurlingtonWoolwich: 3 Burlington: 5Goals: Cole Slade, Kyler Austin, Kolin Weigel Assists: Tyler Martin

Feb. 3 vs. BramptonWoolwich: 5 Brampton: 2Goals: Cole Slade x2, Ethan Birmingham, Owen Lee, Kolin Weigel Assists: Weston Bradley x2, Cole Slade, AJ Mitchell

Atom: MAJOR AA Feb. 3 vs. Stoney CreekWoolwich: 6 Stoney Creek: 1Goals: Lucas Huber x2, Isiah Katsube, Ryan Elliott, Matt Fleischmann, Jake Clemmer Assists: Blake Roemer x3, Ryan Elliott x2, Isiah Katsube, Jake Clemmer, Ben Witmer, Lucas Huber, Jesse Martin

PeeWee: AEJan. 25 vs. New HamburgWoolwich: 3 New Hamburg: 1 Goals: Devin Williams, Kyle Bruder, Austin Whittom Assists: Kyle Bruder, Owen Lucier, Cade Schaus

January 29 vs. Caledon

Woolwich: 1 Caledon: 2Goals: Cade Schaus

Feb. 1 vs. Owen SoundWoolwich: 12 Owen Sound: 2Goals: Austin Whittom x2, Devin Williams, Cade Schaus x5, Matthew MacDonald, Kyle Bruder, Ben Lenaers, Owen Lucier. Assists: Ben Lenaers x2, Matthew MacDonald x2, Noah Scurry x2, Cade Schaus x3, Devin Williams x2, Owen Lucier, Austin Whittom, Justin Uhrig

Feb. 1 vs. CaledonWoolwich: 3 Caledon: 1Goals: Cade Schaus, Matthew MacDonald x2Assists: Kyle Bruder, Devin Williams x3

PeeWee: MINOR AAFeb. 3 vs. AncasterWoolwich: 6 Ancaster: 0Goals: Brody Waters, Griffen Rollins, Nolan Hislop, Eli Baldin, Lukas Shantz, Bart SherrerAssists: Sam Davidson, Austin Cousineau x4, Jake Code x2, Lukas Shantz, Bart SherrerShutout: Cyrus Martin

Bantam: AE Jan. 19 vs. Owen SoundWoolwich: 8 Owen Sound: 3Goals: Blake Doerbecker, Benton Weber x3, Liam Dickson, Luke Charter x2, Mathew Uhrig Assists: Connor Runstedler x3, Connor Goss x3, Nathan Schwarz x3, Liam Dickson, Danyal Rennie, Brett Henry, Daniel Gallant, Blake

Doerbecker

Jan. 27 vs. DundasWoolwich: 1 Dundas: 2Goals: Blake Doerbecker Assists: Mitchell Rempel, Gareth Rowland

Jan. 29 vs. CalendonWoolwich: 0 Caledon: 4

Feb. 2 vs. CaledonWoolwich: 1 Caledon: 3 Goals: Connor Goss Assists: Connor Runstedler, Liam Dickson

Bantam: MAJOR AJan. 30 vs. BurlingtonWoolwich: 2 Burlington: 1Goals: Ryley Cribbin x2 Assists: Jayden Hipel

Feb. 1 vs. Owen SoundWoolwich: 1 Owen Sound: 6Goals: Jayden Hipel Assists: Tyler Moser

Midget: MINOR AFeb. 2 vs. GeorgetownWoolwich: 9 Georgetown: 0Goals: Matthew Leger x3, Alex Uttley x2, Nicholas Pavanel, Jordan Shantz, Cole Conlin, Josh KuenemanAssists: Jason Dunbar x2, Alex Uttley x2, Matthew Leger x2, Troy Nechanicky x2, Josh Kueneman, Nicholas Pavanel, Jordan Shantz, Cole Lenaers, Matthew Lalonde, Thomas VickersShutout: Thomas Vickers

Feb. 3 vs. CaledonWoolwich: 8 Caledon: 3Goals: Troy Nechanicky x3, Josh Kueneman, Jordan Shantz, Luke Brown, Nicholas Pavanel, Cole ConlinAssists: Matthew Leger x5, Josh Kueneman x3, Alex Uttley x2, Luke Brown, Cole Conlin, Jason Dunbar, Nicholas Pavanel

HOCKEY TOURNAMENTS

Woolwich| JAN. 19Woolwich Novice Cup

ChallengeGame 1 vs. Lambton ShoresWoolwich: 5 Lambton Shores: 4Goals: Tyson Roth, Ryan Curtis x4 Assists: Nolan Williamson, Owen Hackert, Joshua Moore

Game 2 vs. LL# 3LL4: 3 LL 3: 7Goals: Ryan Curtis x2, Nolan Williamson Assists: Haiden Idzik

PeeWee LL #2Nottawasaga Tournament

Nottawasaga, ON |Jan. 25- 26Game 1 vs. NoblekingWoolwich: 1 Nobleking: 2Goals: Nate Maier Assists: Cole Campbell, Ryan Belanger

Game 2 vs. BeetonWoolwich: 1 Beeton: 3 Goals: Brannon Slade Assists: Blake Richardson

Game 3 vs. Milton Woolwich: 1 Milton: 7 Goals: Tim Brunkard Assists: Corbin Kaufman, Owen Hill-Ring

WOOLWICH WILD

Novice: C Jan. 26 vs. StratfordWoolwich: 4 Stratford: 1Goals: Haylee Clemmer x3, Maggie Sabean Assists: Teesha Weber, Carly Bauman, Amy Dueck, Haylee Clemmer, Maddy Savage, Josie Brown

Feb. 2 vs. WaterlooWoolwich: 1 Waterloo: 0Goals: Haylee Clemmer Assists: Teesha WeberShutout: Maggie Sabean

Novice: LL #1Feb. 2 vs. Grand RiverWoolwich: 2 Grand River: 1Goals: Ayla Brubacher Assists: Avery Leech, Emily Sargent

Feb. 4 vs. WaterlooWoolwich: 2 Waterloo: 1Goals: Ayla Brubacher x2Assists: Paige Woods, Claire Jacklin, Kyla Bloch, Madi Martin

Bantam: LLFeb. 2 vs. StratfordWoolwich: 2 Stratford: 0Goals: Jessica Schoop,

Rosemarie HartmanAssists: Rosemarie HartmanShutout: Briana Kuchma

Bantam: LL #7109Feb. 4 vs. Grand RiverWoolwich: 3 Grand River: 1Goals: Amanda Fleischmann x3

Midget: BFeb. 2 vs. BrantfordWoolwich: 1 Brantford: 0Goals: Rebecca LuisAssists: Cora Kieswetter, Amber MacPhersonShutout: Lauren LeSage

TWIN CENTRE STARS

Atom: LL #1Feb. 2 vs. BeverlyTwin Centre: 5 Beverly: 0Goals: Connall Gillett x2, Jack Wolf x2, Isaiah SiewertAssists: Stirling Grubb, Colby VanBargen, Dawson Stevenson, Christopher Jones, Jack WolfShutouts: Tyler Rose, Jonathon Gervais

TWIN CENTRE HERICANES

Atom: REPFeb. 3 vs. BrantfordTwin Centre: 3 Brantford: 4Goals: Emily Krueger x2, Blythe BenderAssists: Kara Mark x2, Caitlin Livingston

Bantam: LLJan. 19 vs. Stratford

Twin Centre: 3 Stratford: 1Goals: Melanie Barnard, Leah Sebben, Haley BurtonAssists: Hannah Charlton x2

Jan. 26 vs. KitchenerTwin Centre: 1 Kitchener: 3Goals: Libby HendersonAssists: Hannah Charlton, Melanie Barnard

PeeWee: LL Jan. 30 vs. WilmotTwin Centre: 3 Wilmot: 2Goals: Emily Bishop, Laura Martin, Grace Kalbfleisch Assists: Kate Seip x2, Keira Schneider, Emily Bishop, Nikki Beam

Feb. 2 vs. Kitchener Twin Centre: 4 Kitchener: 3Goals: Marissa Lebold x2 Kira Schneider Grace Kalbfleisch Assists: Kate Seip x2 Grace Kalbfleisch Nikki Beam Laura Martin

Intermediate: LL Feb. 3 vs. WaterlooTwin Centre: 2 Waterloo: 2Goals: Stephanie Lorentz, Becky Cornwall Assists: Jaide Shantz x2, Stephanie Lorentz

Midget: REPJan. 21 vs. MitchellTwin Centre: 2 Mitchell: 2Goals: Mackenzie VanBargen, Autumn HergottAssists: Cassidy Pearce, Autumn Hergott

U12 RINGETTE SQUAD IS GOLDEN IN CAMBRIDGE

The U12 ringette team took the gold at the Cambridge Ringette Tournament, winning the final game 6-0. Back row: manager Barry Bauman, asst. coach Ryan Beisel, asst. coach Tim Murr, trainer Amy McDougall. Third row: Ashley Brubacher, Madison Waters, Abby Murr, Hilary Bauman, Alice Wang, Mckenzie Beisel. Second row: Ava Henderson, Rosie Martin, Madelyn Camm, Brianna Jacobi, coach Carole Schwartz. Front: Erica Buehler, goalie Kayla McDougall. [SUBMITTED]

THE SCORE | MINOR SPORT RESULTS

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NOT SO GREAT OUTDOORSMAN / STEVE GALEA

OPENCOUNTRY

Forget television and the movies, this is bowhunting in the real world

This week, while re-searching a magazine article, I have had the op-portunity to speak to rep-resentatives from several archery manufacturers and importers regarding the state of the union in that industry. The response was overwhelmingly positive, especially with regards to recurve bows.

These items are literally flying off the shelf and it’s hard to keep stores stocked. The reason is a little-known

movie called The Hunger Games as well as a TV series called The Arrow and several even lesser-known cartoons.

As hard as it is to believe these things have rekindled an interest in archery and some of that will eventu-ally find its way into bow-hunting. After all, though I haven’t seen any of these, I’m told they are essentially about bowhunting.

The problem is that they are about using bows to shoot at people. And, until a new world order emerges in which we have blood matches for public enter-tainment or require the use of superheroes to find the evil rich villains, I can’t see

this happening.Even then, would you re-

ally want to use a bow?Look, I love archery and

bow hunting, but if I were ever caught up in either one of those situations, I think I would want something with significantly higher firepower. I mean, shooting traditional equipment, with-out sights, is hard enough at a stationary target that isn’t shooting back. Add the pressure of opposing evil henchmen who mean to hurt you and I figure it’s time to drop the bow, get yourself a good lawyer and threaten to sue.

That’s how we fight wrongs in the real world.

Obviously, the writers of these shows and movies have never actually fumbled with a bow. If they had they would have known that even the best archers can’t shoot that accurately under these circumstances.

Heck, if they showed the reality of it all, we’d see our hero running out of arrows in the first scene without harming a single soul. Or maybe more accurately, in the middle of the battle, a conservation officer would show up.

I could just see it now.“I see you have a bow and

hunting arrows, sir,” the CO would say.

“Ah, yes officer,” our hero

would respond, “I’m kind of busy now though. I’m in the middle of undoing a terrible wrong. These people are hunting me.”

“Uh, sure,” the CO would say, “Could you please put the bow down and show me your hunting licence?”

“You don’t understand,” our hero would say. “I’m in the middle of a battle for life or death.”

“Look, sir, the big game seasons for deer, moose, elk and bear are closed, so un-less you can show me a small game licence and proof that you are out here looking for legal game, I think you have a worse problem than undo-ing a terrible wrong.”

“I don’t have one. I was only allowed to choose a few things that would help me survive these games.”

“Well, sir, maybe you should have chosen a valid outdoors card and hunting licence. I’m going to have to write you up and confiscate your gear.”

“You do realize you are killing me, right?” our hero would say.

“The law is the law,” the CO would respond. “By the way, did you say there were other people out here hunt-ing, too?

Do a movie that way, and things would be different. But at least we’d up the sales of hunting licences.

diminished lineup scored a welcome 5-4 victory.

Listowel scored first at 1:56, but Elmira’s Jake Weidner landed a goal at 3:09, assisted by Adam Brubacher and Cash Seraphim. Listowel scored again at 8:36, and 22 sec-onds into the second pe-riod, but from that point on, Elmira dominated the game.

Scores in the second period came from Brandon Stewart (1:40) and Cash Seraphim (19:46), while the third period began with another goal from Seraphim (25 seconds in), followed by Zac Coulter (16:42). Listowel managed one last goal at 19:00, but the Kings finished the game with a win.

“You lose seven in a row and it seems every bounce is going against you. Fri-day, we just had one of those games where we finally got a few bounces,” said DeSilva. “We got a big save from Hayden [Neu-man, the goalie] when we needed it, and that cer-tainly boosted the players’ morale, and we took some changes when we had the opportunity.

“We played a good road game – it’s a very, very tough building to play in because it’s so small.”

But hopes for a Sugar Kings comeback were dashed on Saturday, when the boys in green suffered a humiliating 13-1 loss to the Waterloo Siskins. From the time the puck dropped, it was clearly one of those nights, with Waterloo scor-ing six goals in the first period, three in the sec-ond, and four in the third. Elmira’s one and only goal came at 16:44 in the

second period from Jaden Goatz (assisted by Cassidy Frey and Rob Kohli). And, if that weren’t bad enough, Elmira managed only half as many shots on net as their rivals – 33 to Water-loo’s 66.

“Saturday was a game where anything that could have gone wrong went wrong,” said DeSilva. “Ev-ery mistake we made end-ed up in the back of our net. Games like that, over a 51-game season, are going to happen. I think that’s probably the first one that we’ve had all year, and we’re going to walk away with a memory of that.

“If we meet Waterloo in the playoffs, that game will certainly be one that we’ll talk about a lot with the team. But if we don’t meet Waterloo in the playoffs, that’s a game that we’re go-ing to just wipe out of our memory.”

The Kings performed better at Sunday’s home game against the Strat-ford Cullitons, but the 6-3 loss was nothing to write home about, either. The two teams were even in the first period: Stratford scored first at 14:02, and Elmira’s Mitch Wright countered 14 seconds later, with assists from Patrick McKelvie and Cash Sera-phim.

But in the second pe-riod, Stratford racked up four goals, and with them a daunting lead. Elmira rebounded slightly with two more goals from Mitch Wright in the third period (at 0:14 and 16:59), but an extra goal from the Culli-tons sealed their victory.

Despite the setbacks, DeSilva remains confident his team has what it takes to triumph in the playoffs.

“I still truly believe that if we get guys back, we’re going to be a tough team to play in the playoffs,” he said.

“Teams are laughing at

us right now; teams are making comments about us right now; we know that, and we’re fine with that. We just want to fly under the radar, we’ll start

to get some bodies back, and as long as we keep the work ethic up, we’ll be a tough team.”

The Kings now have a week to regroup before fac-

ing the Brampton Bombers on home ice on Sunday in a special fundraising match for anti-bullying initiatives. The puck drops at 2 p.m.

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Mitch Wright (#21) lands a goal, while Brandon Stewart (#19) fends off the opposition at last Sunday’s Sugar Kings home game against the Stratford Cullitons. The visitors skated to a 6-3 victory. [WILL SLOAN / OBSERVER]

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FIELDNOTES

CURRENCY / MAKING CHANGE

Ready for some penny pitching

Food Freedom Day arrives next week – on Valentine’s Day, in fact – signaling to most Canadi-ans they have now earned enough money to pay their grocery bill for the entire year.

What does that mean? Well, for one, it means we are lucky to have farmers in this country who have embraced research and modern technology, and who work hard to make their farms as efficient as possible. They hold costs down; we get food free-dom earlier than every other developed country except the U.S. and the UK.

Unfortunately, most people never get to talk to the kinds of farmers who are among the best at this. They’re large-scale farmers in Eastern and Western Canada who grow huge quantities of commodities such as soybeans, corn, canola and wheat that feed the world, but don’t make it into bushel baskets at the farmers market. They’re commercial-size livestock producers who sell into a well-defined supply chain that is geared towards further processing rather than consumer sales.

In either case, con-sumers hardly see them, except when they drive to work in vehicles they might not be able to af-ford if they had to pay more for food.

But on the flipside, nei-ther do these large-scale Canadian farmers often meet those who ulti-mately end up consuming their bounty. Nor do they have much of an avenue

Company takes new approach to dialogue about food

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With the phasing out of the copper, Canadians face a different way of making change

PENNIES | 16

ELENA MAYSTRUK

You can let them stay under the couch cushions or throw them away but there’s just no need to pinch pennies anymore, as the smallest form of our currency is officially being phased out. Businesses and consumers are adapt-ing to new change, so to speak, as the Canadian penny goes out of circula-tion.

As of February 4, the Ca-nadian Mint stopped dis-tributing pennies to busi-nesses and financial insti-tutions though the coins remain an accepted form of currency. Following last Monday’s phase-out, some cashiers emptied their reg-isters of pennies and while exact money transactions can still be made through interact, cash payments can be rounded down to the nearest five-cent incre-ment in favour of the cus-tomer as instructed by the Department of Finance.

Locally, large businesses in the townships are look-ing to make the transition gradual. When the govern-ment made the announce-ment public in 2012, management at St. Jacobs-based Home Hardware Stores Ltd. was sup-portive of the idea, says a company representative.

“We support the govern-ment on this decision. The estimated savings for taxpayers from phasing out the penny is $11 million a year. The government’s rounding guide-lines to round up or down for cash transac-tions when pennies are not available, are simple, transparent and fair for all parties,” said Lindsey Dietrich.

The Retail Council of Canada (RCC) last week released the findings of a survey of its members on the discontinuation of the penny and noted that

“most of Canada’s retail-ers will be ready at the cash register to handle the phase out of the penny,” said Diane J. Brisebois, RCC president and CEO, in a release.

The RCC also says that most businesses will im-

mediately start using the

government’s rounding down

model, but some busi-nesses will continue to of-fer the penny to distribute exact change for as long as possible.

“While smaller busi-nesses will do the round-ing manually at first and then determine the ap-propriate course of action, both in relation to cost

and customer service, it is not a practical approach for large retailers with thousands of employees,” Brisebois said.

The survey also ap-praised business’ readi-ness for the phase-out, as well as the potential cost to businesses due to the new rounding model.

As the pennies con-tinue in circulation, Diet-rich said Home Hardware stores are making this

transition a gradual one for customers and ca-shiers.

“As long as pennies are available we will still have pennies in our cash registers and make exact change. Rounding up or down on cash transac-tions only becomes a fac-tor when pennies are not available,” she explained.

Home Hardware has

Home Hardware cashier Lynn Robers holds up one of the pennies left in the store to provide exact change to customers. [ELENA MAYSTRUK / OBSERVER]

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to do so, particularly be-tween Eastern and West-ern Canada. What’s going on in the prairies, what’s going on in Ontario? The farming systems are very different.

So last summer, mul-tinational agri-chemical company BASF set out to do its part to change that. The chasm is significant between consumers and the kind of large-scale farmers who are BASF customers, with way too much suspicion and

approximately 1,100 loca-tions across Canada and as such, Dietrich said, it is up to the management of each location to decide how to handle cash trans-actions now. On a more general scale cashiers and other staff are being trained to handle the new policy on change and in-formation on new govern-ment rounding guidelines have been made available on location for both staff and customers.

Steve Pond, Elmira BIA

mounting concern perco-lating in people’s minds about what’s happening on such farms. These kinds of misunderstand-ings are often caused by a lack of communication. BASF has the resources to help address this matter, and did.

With support from ON Communications in Lon-don, BASF set up its own version of a cross-Canada exchange. The company took five randomly select-ed consumers on a tour of Canadian farms in Alber-

treasurer, said the group’s board has had no formal discussions on the subject.

“Not sure if members of the BIA have been in-volved in the discussion yet. I think it’s left up to each retailer; it’s not an overall township rule that we’re going to go with,” he said on Tuesday.

On a broader scale, busi-nesses seem to have some time to review and adapt both their customer ser-vices and their technology for the total disappearance of the penny still to come. The RCC advocated that

ta, Saskatchewan, Mani-toba and Ontario (near London), to see how these farms work. It video-recorded the interaction between the visitors and the farmers, which turned out to be an eye-opener for all participants.

The videos show how the topics reflect ques-tions on many peoples’ minds. For example, is food safe the way it’s grown in Canada? Will we always have enough food? Why can’t the en-tire country go organic? I

the penny be removed from circulation after the holidays to avoid more chaos in retail stores. Now, Dietrich said, big business is going through a period of adjustment.

“As the penny is gradu-ally phased out of circula-tion this gives retailers more time to upgrade their point-of-sale systems as new versions of their soft-ware are launched which replicate the government’s penny rounding formula for cash transactions.”

In the meantime, many charities are using the

must water my garden to get plants to grow; how do you manage to grow en-tire fields of crops without some kind of irrigation?

The end result of this effort can be seen on-line, in what BASF calls Conversations On Sus-tainability. Usually, we think of sustainability in technological or scientific terms, then have all kinds of arguments about what it means. However, agri-culture cannot be sustain-able if farming is at odds with consumers’ percep-

transition time to encour-age Canadians to get rid of their pennies by con-tributing them to a good cause.

Local bank branches are also offering a place

tion, too. Farmers need consumers to understand what happens on the farm and the challenges farm-ers face. It’s an interesting way of looking at sustain-ability.

Scott Kay, Canada busi-ness director for BASF, says it’s a common-sense approach to communica-tion.

“I was raised on a farm, and when my dad put in a new chicken barn, he held an open house and invit-ed people from the com-munity to come by and

for the pennies. Jennifer Lipp of TD Canada Trust said the Elmira branch will be colleting pennies until

February 16, with proceeds to be

donated to

see it,” he says. “There were lots of questions – where do these chickens come from? Where do you sell them? What’s that smell?”

Kay hopes the sustain-ability videos open the same kind of doors, via the Internet.

“When people view them online, we hope they’ll say “Hey, that was my question, too.”

Look for “sustainabil-ity” at www.youtube.com/BASFAgSolutions, and happy Food Freedom Day.

Woolwich Community Ser-vices. Royal Bank branch-es are collecting pennies for We Create Change penny bags associated with the Free the Children Foundation.

ROBERTS: Video looks at the sustainability of a farm system needed to feed the masses

PENNIES: Charitable groups more than happy to take those extra coppers off your hands now

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Myra’s Story plays on all the emotionsECT’s special presentation of the one-woman play on February 23 is a fundraiser for the Elora Centre for the Arts

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Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin, as the apocryphal saying goes, and in Myra’s Story, a one-woman play coming to Elora Communi-ty Theatre, that’s one coin that won’t be going out of circulation any time soon.

The title character of Myra’s Story (a one-night-only benefit show for the Elora Centre for the Arts) is a destitute woman who spends her day drinking and begging for change in the streets of Dublin while recalling her colourful life. From such material, it might seem difficult to cre-ate a performance that is simultaneously “hilarious, harrowing and heartbreak-ing,” but actor Jennifer Cornish said the mix of emotions came naturally.

“The ability to laugh and kind of thumb your nose at life in the face of adversity is one of the great human courages,” said Cornish. “I think the ease of balance for this particular charac-ter, Myra, is that she never actually feels sorry for her-self. It’s not a self-pity play, so it’s easy for the wry, Irish humour to come through.”

Cornish believes the humour and sadness of Myra’s story will resonate with audiences from all walks of life.

“The desire for a crutch, and the seduction of a crutch in the face of adver-sity is not new or rare,” said Cornish of Myra’s alcohol-ism. “I think that strikes a chord in individuals, and also in families and friends. It’s a part of pretty much

any culture on earth.”Myra’s Story began life as

Maire – A Woman of Derry, by Irish playwright Brian Foster. When it premiered in Northern Ireland, it

lasted an impressive 138 performances. Cornish discovered the play in 2011, and her correspondence with Foster helped reveal unknown depths in the

work.“I learned a lot of its his-

tory, and why he wrote it, right down to why he chose this character,” said Cor-nish. “She is based on a real

character – in fact, she is an amalgam of a number of different homeless people in Derry, in Northern Ire-land, that Brian Foster grew up near.”

As her day goes on, Myra recalls a host of these denizens in her past, with names like Tina the Tap, Big Birdie, Jimmy the Tad-pole, and others. Cornish inhabits all these roles, and finds the one-woman show to be the most challenging form of theatre.

“It’s one of the greatest challenges – you’re out there by yourself,” said Cornish. “There’s no one to save you, no one to give you extra energy, or help pick it up if you’re failing – you’re out there all on your own in front of the audi-ence. It’s very powerful, and it’s also quite daunt-ing.”

Indeed, Cornish spends so much time by herself in character that the perfor-mance becomes uniquely introspective, as she uses her own life experiences to bring Myra to life.

“That’s the only way to translate any character in a way that is going to ring emotionally true for the audience – it has to come through our own emo-tional processors. There are certainly a lot of things in Myra’s life that don’t directly connect with me, but as humans, we can use our own experiences of be-ing up and down, and high and low.”

This empathy for the character is one way Cor-nish hopes to connect with the audience. “What I think is worth sharing with a

much wider audience is the humanity of storytelling. I think the understanding of a human life, the story of a human life, brings us together as humans, and makes us aware of our-selves and our neighbours in new ways.”

The gala performance of Myra’s Story will be on Feb-ruary 23 at 7:30 p.m. at the Elora Centre for the Arts, 75 Melville St. Tickets are $20 and can be purchased at the centre, or by calling 519-496-6481. The perfor-mance will be a fundraiser for the ECFTA and Elora Community Theatre, with all proceeds going to these institutions. A wine and cheese reception will fol-low the performance.

Jennifer Cornish stars as an alcoholic Dublin woman who looks back on her life in Myra’s Story, a one-woman play from Elmira Community Theatre that promises to be “hilarious, harrowing and heartbreaking.” [SUBMITTED]

Jennifer Cornish was the 2011 recipient of the Waterloo Region Arts Award for Performing Arts. [SUBMITTED]


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BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT THANK YOU

Thank youThe celebrations are over and now I must thank my family for all the planning, secrecy and surprises that went into them.

The response to this “Open House” was a very humbling experience, and the very generous donations of food and money to the Food Bank were overwhelming.

For the telephone calls, the cards and sentiments expressed, the greetings on the street and the gifts – Thank-you.

For memories remembered and new ones made.

Thank-you“Sam” Eugene Read

Ryan Anthony Gingrich

Marv and Sherrin Gingrich thank God for the safe arrival of their fifth child, Ryan Anthony. He was born on January 10, 2013 and weighed 8 lbs 12 ozs. A sweet little brother for Kyle, Marissa, Natalie and Ashley. Proud grandparents are Rick and Donna Freeman and Audrey Gingrich. Thank you to the doctors and nursing staff at Grand River Hospital for your excellent care.

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In memory of Vincent Snelling a dear husband, father and Grandfather who

passed away 10 years ago, Feb. 13, 2003Life is so short and the years go by fast special moments and memories from the past. We see your picture and miss your smiling face. How we long to have one last embrace. The Lord saw you suffering and said Vince, come on home to a peaceful place where your soul can roam. The tears flow less but the emptiness remains leaving a void in our hearts, until we meet again. We know you are watching from up above, rest assured, we can feel your love. You will live in our hearts forever. Lovingly remembered by Marie & Family.

DEATH NOTICES

GERBER, NORMAN L. | Passed away at his home in Heidelberg on Thursday, January 28, 2010 in his 67th year.

KLINCK, CAMERON ROBERT | Passed away peacefully at Grand River Hospital at the age of 58. He owned and operated Ace Locators Inc. for 25 years in Elmira.

NEELY, GOLDIE | Peacefully passed away on Friday, February 1, 2013 at the age of 93 years.

SAUDER, RONALD “RON” | Peacefully passed away, into the presence of his Lord, on Monday, February 4, 2013 at Freeport Health Centre of Grand River Hospital, one week prior to his 63rd birthday.

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Brown, Howard R. 1918-2013

Peacefully passed away on Sunday, February 3, 2013 at K.W. Health Centre of Grand River Hospital, at the age of 94 years. Howard was the beloved husband of Mary (Blois) Brown for 70 years. Dear father of David and Colleen of Elmira, Douglas and JoAnne, Clyde and Leslie both of Kitchener, Keith and Val of St. Catharines, Robert and Kathy, Howard and Pamela both of Elmira. Also lovingly remem-bered by his 21 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren. Brother of Jean and Walter Hachborn of St. Jacobs, Betty Gingrich of Gimli, Manitoba, John “Jack” and Helen of Elmira, Carol Stortz of St. Jacobs, Rev. Wil-liam and Joyce of Waterloo, and Sandra and Clinton Rohr of St. Jacobs. Predeceased by his parents William C. and Gladys (Hahn) Brown, his grandson, his sister Ruth (Wolf-gang) Fink, brother Clifford, brothers-in-law Cyril Stortz and Gord Gingrich. Howard served his country as a flying instructor with the R.C.A.F. and was an avid recreational pilot for over 60 years. He was a respected businessman in the local community having co-owned and operated W.C. Browns & Sons Clothing and Tailor Shop for over 60 years as well. The family received their relatives and friends at the Dreisinger Funeral Home, El-mira on Wednesday, February 6th from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Funeral service was held at St. James Lutheran Church, Elmira on Thurs-day, February 7th at 11 a.m. followed by in-terment in St. James Lutheran Cemetery. In Howard’s memory, donations to Grand River Hospital Foundation, St. James Lu-theran Church or Woolwich Community Li-ons Club Bandstand Restoration Fund would be appreciated as expressions of sympathy.

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E.W. “Eddie” BearingerFebruary 10, 1921 – January 11, 2013

Passed away on Friday, January 11, 2013 at KW Health Centre of Grand River Hospital, in his 92nd year, of Elmira. Beloved husband of Elizabeth “Betty” (Smith) Bearinger for almost 65 years. Dear father of Colleen and Ron Wike of Vancouver Island, Bev and the late Mariano Gagliano of Elmira, Shannon and Dan Shillington of Elmira. Also lovingly remembered by his grandchildren Casey Wike, Pietro (Vivian), Luca, John-Paul and Giuseppe Gagliano, Leah and James Shillington. Eddie was the last surviving member of his family having been predeceased by his parents Noah M. and Annie (Weber) Bearinger and his sister Irene (Oscar) Martin. Eddie was very involved in the Mennonite Disaster Service. He was instrumental in starting the organization in Canada and was the co-ordinator for 25 years. He also was on the committee for the first Elmira Maple Syrup Festival in 1965. He will be greatly missed

In Loving MemoryWalter Kieffer

February 11, 2008For My FatherI would give up every possession I have just to hug you one more time. I remember the last time I held your hand and how you looked at me in the eyes. If only I could turn back the time. I would have never let you go. I felt the world stop five years ago, when they told me you’re gone. How I wish I was only dreaming. Just like rain, tears fell down from my eyes, I couldn’t speak for a while.

Thank You Dad, For always understanding, listening, caring and loving me all of your life. The greatest gift God gave me was you, my Dad.

All our love.Your wife Ina, daughter Sharon and Peter and grandchildren Angie, Natalie, great grandchildren Alexander and Riley.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC WORKSHOP BRESLAU

SECONDARY PLAN AND ENVIRONMENTAL

ASSESSMENT The Township of Woolwich is in the process of preparing a Secondary Plan and Environmental

Assessment for Breslau. As part of the Secondary Plan process, the second community-building workshop will be held on Wednesday February 13, 2013 at 7:00 pm at the Breslau Community

Centre – Gymnasium located at 100 Andover Drive, Breslau. For more information please visit the Township’s website: www.woolwich.ca and navigate to Ongoing Planning Items – Breslau Secondary

Plan and Environmental Assessment or contact John Scarfone at 519-664-2613 ext. 6037 or 519-669-6037. Email: [email protected]

NOTICE TO RESIDENTSTAKE NOTICE that the Council of the Township of Woolwich intends to adopt the following 2013 budgets as required by section 290 of the Municipal Act, 2001, as amended:

•Tax-supportedoperatingbudget; •Capitalbudget;

•Waterbudget;and •Wastewaterbudget;

at its regular Committee of the Whole meeting on February 19, 2013 at 6:00 PM with final Council approval set for the Council meeting on March 5, 2013 at 7:00 PM. Both meeting will be held in the Council Chambers, Municipal Office, 24 Church Street West, Elmira.

Richard Petherick, CMA. Director of Finance & Treasurer

PROPOSED GAMING FACILITY MEETING NOTICE On Tuesday February 19th and Tuesday March 5th, The Mayor and Council of the Township of Woolwich will be considering a staff report on the potential social and economic impacts of a

proposed gaming facility being established in the Township.

At these meetings, there will also be an opportunity for residents to hear presentations and perspectives which will supplement existing social and economic research.

When: Tuesday February 19, 2013. 6:00 PM & Tuesday March 5th, 2013. 7:00pm

Where: Council Chambers Township Administrative Building 24 Church St W, Elmira, ON

For more information on the public meeting, please visit us at www.woolwich.ca or follow us on twitter: @woolwichupdates and facebook. For more information or to register as a delegation

please contact Devin Petteplace at 519-669-6021 or by email [email protected]

COMMITTEE OF ADJUSTMENT NOTICE OF HEARINGOn February 25, 2013 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 February 19, 2013. 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 Application A3/2013 – Oscar M. and Eileen Weber - 989 Arthur Street North The applicant is requesting permission to relocate the existing 172 square metre legal non-conforming woodworking shop from the current building to a portion of the newer 208 square metre driving shed located on the property. The existing woodworking shop building will be used for farm purposes. The 5 hectare property is zoned Agricultural and contains a single family dwelling, legal non-conforming woodworking shop, driving shed and livestock barn.

Minor Variance Application A4/2013 – Richard and Judith Hendershot - 1030 Northfield Dr. E., Conestogo The applicant is requesting permission to recognize the existing undersized lot, being approximately 1,215 square metres in area, in order to permit residential uses. The applicant is proposing to remove the existing attached garage and replace it with a two storey addition consisting of a three car garage and second floor living area. The property is zoned Settlement Residential (R-1) and contains a single detached dwelling.

Consent Application B15/2012 – 2144183 Ontario Limited - 43 – 49 Howard Avenue, Elmira This application was deferred at the August 27, 2012 meeting. The applicant is requesting permission to sever a new vacant industrial lot along Howard Avenue being approximately 0.9 hectares in area with a frontage of approximately 70 metres. The proposed severed lands contain a 24 metre wide storm water easement along the west property line. The proposed retained lands (approximately 3.3 hectares) contain a building used as an industrial mall. The proposed severed and retained lands are zoned General Industrial – Urban (M-2).

Kim Barber Bauman July 19, 1961 – January 18, 2013

Kim Barber Bauman passed peacefully in her Concord, California home with devoted husband Michael Bauman, formerly of Elmira, holding her & with her cat Romeo resting on her lap. She fought a brave & energetic fight against cancer for 7 ½ years.

Whether hiking, biking, bird-watching or seeing a Broadway show, Kim was full of loving energy & spark in what-ever she did, and with whomever she met. In her work creating web-based courses for nurses, her passion for shar-ing knowledge and skills has inspired many, and will be long remembered.

Kim is survived by her mother Jan, father Paul, step-father Norton, step-mother Annette & brother Eric – all of California – and Michael’s family: par-ents Aden & Joanne Bauman, brother Barry Bauman, niece Hilary Bauman, nephew Simon Bauman & Marianne Miller – all of Elmira. Donations to help expand an organic food program for cancer patients & their families can be made in her memory to Ceres Commu-nity Project.

Thank you Morden Edwin

– husband of Joyce MordenA sincere thank you to all who gave our family such loving support during his illness and since his passing. Perhaps you sent a lovely card, Or sat quietly in a chair.Perhaps you sent a funeral spray,If so we saw it there.Perhaps you spoke the kindest words,As any friend could say; Perhaps you were not there at all,Just thought of us that day,Whatever you did to console our hearts,We thank you so much whatever the part.

Joyce Morden and Family

Thank YouThanks to all the many people and church groups that prayed for me during my illness . Thank you from the bottom of my heart! Also thank you to anyone who brought food or flowers to the house . Thank you so much to everyone for your support to the Richmond family also . Your amazing kindness will never be forgotten .

Thank you all so much,Hope Richmond

24 | LIVING HERE THE OBSERVER | SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2013

LIVING HERETRANSITIONS / THE NEXT PHASE

Putting the flock in new hands

We at FLOW Café & Ca-tering love to experiment with exotic flavours and recipes originating in dif-ferent countries from all over the globe. Some of our favourites include Thai, Caribbean, Greek, Italian and Indian.

Nowadays, we can often find an extensive variety of spices and ingredients at our local grocery stores without having to search high and low, enabling us to go ahead and give those recipes a try.

Indian food is known for its spiciness and also for its wide array of flavours. You can control the level of spice you add to your dishes by increasing or re-ducing the amount of chil-lies or “spicy” ingredients called for in the recipe. We usually strive to hit that mild to medium level of heat with our recipes, which generally goes over well with most people.

The most important spice in Indian cooking, found in our recipe for Makhani (Butter) Chicken, is garam masala. This spice is actually a blend of black and white peppercorns, cloves, cinnamon, black and white cumin seeds,

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CHEF’S TABLE | 27

WILL SLOAN

BELL | 27

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“I’m in my sixty-fourth year, and by the time April comes, I will have been here 19 years. I think it’s time for them to have fresh vision,” said Rev. Linda Bell, the minister at El-mira’s Gale Presbyterian Church. Come April, the church’s longtime leader will deliver her last ser-mon, and as she looks back on years of service, she knows what she’ll miss the most.

“You leave behind a lot of relationships,” said Bell. “People joke about it being a one-day-a-week job, but it’s really a bit more time consuming than that, and because it’s so time con-suming, you don’t have the time or energy for a lot of relationships outside the congregation.”

It’s not everybody who feels compelled to a life-time of a religious service. For Bell, the call came when she was 14. “I felt like somehow God was nudg-ing me to the ministry, and I didn’t really want any part of it, so I spent a lot of time and energy thinking I might convince God oth-erwise.”

But the nudging didn’t stop, and Bell embraced her faith. She did her semi-nary training, picked up a Master of Divinity degree at Colgate Rochester Di-vinity School in New York State, and was ordained a Presbyterian minister. Returning to Canada after seven years in the United States, she spent 18 years

As the first anniversary of the opening of the new Gale Presbyterian church in Elmira approaches, longtime minister Linda Bell figures it’s a good time to move into retirement mode

ministering at a number of small charges across the province, before settling to a more permanent resi-dence at Gale Presbyterian in 1994.

In her years at Gale, Bell

has seen the church un-dergo numerous changes. Chief among them was the church’s move from 2 Cross St. to a new structure at 10 Barnswallow Dr. The ambi-tious move went through

a decade of planning, and was sparked when the church began outgrowing its space.

Bell remembered, “There was a funeral where a couple had come in a bit

late, which is no big deal, except that they said they had arrived in Elmira half an hour before the funeral was to start, and they had

CHEF’S TABLE/ RYAN TERRY

RECIPENOTES

Linda Bell has been minister of the Gale Presbyterian Church for 19 years, and first felt the call to service at age 14. [WILL SLOAN / OBSERVER]

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FEBRUARY 9

VALENTINE’S SUPPER, MARYHILL HERITAGE Community Centre, 58 St. Charles St. E., Maryhill. Two seatings 5:30 & 7 p.m. Tickets $15 per person; children (6-11) $8; Aged 5 & under free. Rolled ribs and all the fixings, including dessert and coffee. A flower for your special lady. Chances at door prizes. For tickets: Mike Runstedler 519-648-3394; Doug Zinger 519-648-2939; Mary Campagnaro 519-822-9287.

ELMIRA LEGION LADIES AUXILIARY Swiss Steak Dinner. 6 p.m.; $8/person. Held at Elmira Legion, 11 First St. E., Elmira.

MAMMA MIA LASAGNA DINNER at Trinity United Church. Two sittings, 5 p.m. or 6:30 p.m. Advance tickets: $12 adults; $8 children under 10 or $30 per family (2 adults, 2 children). Homemade lasagna, garlic bread, Caesar salad, dessert. Tickets available from Church office 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. or Read’s Decorating.

FEBRUARY 10

HUNGRYMAN BREAKFAST AT ELMIRA Legion, 11 First St. E., 8:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. $6 – All you can eat. In support of the Children’s Wish Foundation.

FEBRUARY 11

DO YOU HAVE HIGH blood pressure? Registered dietitian Tiffany Krahn will help you explore tips and tools for controlling your blood pressure. Learn how salt intake, portion size and weight management impact your blood pressure. This free education event is held at the Woolwich Community Health

Centre, 10 Parkside Dr., St. Jacobs. Monday February 11, 6:30-8 pm. Call 519-664-3794.

FEBRUARY 12

STROKE SUPPORT GROUP – The Stroke Support Group is a group comprised of stroke survivors, their caregivers and peer facilitators. Planned upcoming topics include: medications, physical activity, and nutrition. Second Tuesday of the month, 10 a.m. - noon, Woolwich Community Health Centre, 10 Parkside Dr., St. Jacobs. For more information, call Tiffany at 519-664-3794.

PARADISE LIONS CLUB BINGO, 7 p.m. Upstairs at the St. Clements Community Center.

PANCAKE AND SAUSAGE SUPPER 5-7 p.m. at West Montrose United Church.,42 Covered Bridge Dr. Free- will offering. All welcome.

WCS YOUTH CENTRE HAS Junior and Senior Round Table’s today, at 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. At 7 p.m. we are walking to Robin’s Nest to hear some acoustic music, don’t forget to bring a little bit of money to buy yourself a treat. For more information, contact Catherine or Anna at (519) 669-3539.

FEBRUARY 13

RURAL WOMEN CONFERENCE AT Schmidtsville Restaurant, Wellesley. Speakers will be Brenda Gerber, overcoming obstacles in life, Linda Slits 2013 CNE Ambassador promoting agriculture in her role as ambassador, and Darlene Aberle will demonstrate how to use simple items found around the house and farm to decorate for a fresh spring

look. Lunch and coffee breaks are included in the $20 registration fee. More information on line www.waterlooruralwomen.org or call a Waterloo Rural Women Committee member Rita Bauman (519) 638-3624 Lois Cressman (519) 696-2667 Sharon Grose (519) 846-9788 or Susan Martin (519) 669-8066.

WE ARE MAKING VALENTINE cards at the WCS Youth Centre today. In the evening, we have a workout, Wii Mario Kart and a Youth Council meeting planned. We are open from 3-10 p.m., so come check us out! For more information, contact Catherine or Anna at (519) 669-3539.

FEBRUARY 14

NEW HORIZONS IS A group for zoomers, boomers and seniors. Feb 14 – Tammy Tebbutt, director of Waterloo Wellington District Heart and Stroke on recognition and prevention of stroke and heart health. Get informed, socialize and have fun! Admission is $2 per person. Meetings are 10-11:30 a.m. At Maryhill Community Centre, 58 St. Charles St. E., Maryhill. For further information contact Joan Haid at 519-648-2742 or by email at [email protected].

ELMIRA LIONS CLUB WEEKLY Bingo 7 p.m. at Elmira Lions Hall, 40 South St., Elmira. All proceeds go to support the many projects of the Lions Club of Elmira. For more information call 519-500-1434.

WCS YOUTH CENTRE IS having fun with Valentine’s Day trivia and a cupcake decorating contest. For more information, contact Catherine or Anna at (519) 669-3539.

19 Flamingo Dr., Elmira • 519-669-3387

St. Teresa Catholic ChurchNo God, No Hope; Know God, Know Hope!

Celebrate Eucharist with usMass times are:

Sat. 5pm & Sun. 9am & 11:15am

21 Arthur St. N., Elmira • 519-669-5560www.wondercafe.ca

Trinity United Church, Elmira“Our mission is to love, learn & live by Christ’s teachings”

Sunday Worship: 10:30 amSunday School during WorshipMinister: Rev. Dave Jagger

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Sunday Worship: 10:30 am

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47 Arthur St., S. Elmira • 519-669-3153www.thejunctionelmira.com

Finding The Way Together

Zion Mennonite Fellowship-The Junction-

Sunday School 9:30amWorship Service 10:45am

REACH WITH LOVE. TEACH THE TRUTH. SEND IN POWER. Rev. Paul Snow

Service at 10:30am

Sunday School at 9:30am

www.ElmiraAssembly.com (Across from Tim Horton’s)290 Arthur St. South, Elmira • 519-669-3973

www.woodsidechurch.ca200 Barnswallow Dr., Elmira • 519-669-1296

9:15 & 11:00 AM Sunday, Feb. 10th, 2013

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Beauty and Courage”Friendship Club Sunday

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Discovering God Together

Sun. Feb. 10, 11amGate Crashers

Diamonds In The Rough

Ron Seabrooke

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St. Paul’sLutheranChurch

Pastor: Richard A. Frey

Sharing the Message of Christ and His Love

9:15 Sunday School10:30 Worship Service

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SUNDAYS @ 10:30AM Services at Park Manor School

18 Mockingbird Dr., Elmira • 519-669-1459

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STRANGE BUT TRUE / BILL & RICH SONES PH.D.

WEIRDNOTES

OBSERVER CROSSWORD PUZZLERSUDOKU

The English language has a long list of ingredients, and it’s still in the oven

Q. If the English lan-guage were a cake, what etymological languages would be its major ingre-dients? The flour? Sugar? Butter? Milk? A. Think of this as a much simplified view of language, according to Anu Garg’s A.Word.A.Day at Word-smith.org: The batter would have Germanic flour, and Norse, French and Latin origins would constitute the sugar, butter and milk. Atop the icing would be little flourishes of Arabic,

Chinese, Spanish, Hindi, and dozens of others. In fact, “the recipe for the making of the English language takes hundreds of ingredients, thousands of years of messy hodgepodge, and it goes on forever -- it’s still in the oven. A language is never finished, unless it’s a dead language.” Consider just a few exam-ples: “Behoove,” meaning to be necessary or appropri-ate, comes from Old English “behofian” (to need). “Ug-some” describes something dreadful or loathsome, from Old Norse “ugga” (to fear), giving us both the everyday “ugly” and the uncommon “ugsome.” And from Latin “abjurare” (to deny on oath) comes the word “abjure,” to

Scientific Optical Network in Russia on Sept. 21, 2012, it was no more than a dot beyond Jupiter. But on Nov. 28 or 29, 2013, the comet should skirt within 1.4 mil-lion kilometres (870,000 miles) of the sun, and according to “Astronomy Now,” it could become the brightest object in our night sky, possibly outshining the full moon. Now that would be a heavenly sight well worth waiting for!

Q. What’s the toughest thing about producing and watching live 3-D TV events?A. A 3-D image can blur the line between the audi-ence and the scene, so that instead of looking through

avoid or to renounce under oath. Truly, our language is filled with such “gifts” as “cum-shaw,” a Chinese word (kan, to be grateful, and hsieh, thanks) meaning a gift or a tip; visiting sailors during the 19th century picked up this one from beggars in Chinese ports.

Q. For you moon-gazers, what little extra sky gift just might present itself for your viewing pleasure next November 2013?A. Call it a “brand new sun-grazer,” or newfound comet C/2012 S1(ISON), says “New Scientist” magazine. Discovered by Vitali Nevski and Artyom Novi-chonok of the International

a window at the event, you feel like you’re standing on a sideline, says Howard Postley in “IEEE Spectrum” magazine. Thus, when a 100-kilogram (220-pound) athlete speeds toward you, you’re likely to duck. Yet the 3-D experience often isn’t what the audi-ence expects. For instance, at one test screening of the concert movie “U2 3-D,” the audience said they “didn’t know what to do.” As one put it, “I went to see a movie and ended up at a concert, but I couldn’t get up and dance or make noise.” Sports broadcasts -- the backbone of 3-D -- make the remote viewing experience a lot more like being there, which can seem “uniquely compelling” or “just plain

weird.” Britain’s Sky Sports has had a lot of success showing soccer in pubs, partly because of the com-munal feel of it. Postley finds that surpris-ing, since wearing 3-D glasses can make viewers feel like they’re in their own individual bubbles. But mixing in live experiences can have a positive effect: “At some remote football viewing venues, seats are spaced more like those in a stadium, with more ambient light than in a theater, plus live cheerleaders to engage with the live audience -- and of course, you can buy beer... The real challenge is, as it has always been, to engage the audience. In that sense, the challenge never changes.”

Whyte, LindsayPassed away on Tuesday, February 5, 2013 at the age of 68 years. Beloved husband and best friend of Marsha Pidgeon of Elmira. Lindsay was predeceased by his first wife Sheila (1997). Dear father of Colleen Whyte of Waterloo and stepdad of Toby Woods (Danielle) of Waterloo and Rhonda Bouchlas (Sam) of Florida. Brother of Lynda Kudrewatych (George) of Mississauga. Son-in-law of Grace Pidgeon of Fer-gus. Brother-in-law of Terry Pidgeon (Iris) of Saskatchewan, Carol Martin (Gary) of Eden Mills, Eleanor Snyder (Gord) of Saskatchewan. Fondly remembered by his nieces, nephews and their families. Lindsay was employed at Jones Feed Mill, Heidelberg for over 28 years. The family will receive their relatives and friends at the Dreisinger Funeral Home, Elmira on Friday, February 8, 2013 from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Funeral service will be held at Northside Baptist Church, 1373 Lobsinger Line, Waterloo on Saturday, February 9, 2013 at 11 a.m. In Lindsay’s memory, donations to Chosen People Ministries or Northside Deacon’s Fund would be appreciated as expressions of sympathy.

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20ACROSS1. Haul4. Spanish appetizer8. ___ Wednesday11. “Sure”14. Victorian, for one15. Black cat, maybe16. “___ Cried” (1962 hit)17. Relating to urine19. Neat and clean22. Battering wind23. Bending with ease24. Balloon filler25. Add up26. Negative particles27. Batter getting three strikes29. Barely beat, with “out”30. “Fantasy Island” prop31. “Is that ___?”32. Panhandles34. Marienbad, for one36. “___ any drop to drink”: Coleridge38. Bit42. Harder to find44. Armageddon46. Higher economic status, not gained social acceptance

48. “Give it ___!”49. Pair of conjugating gametes52. Battering device53. Sweet liqueur55. Fold, spindle or mutilate56. Curtain fabric58. Cord fiber59. “Ciao!”61. The “one” in a one-two63. Breezy64. Aloof66. Ace68. “___ It Romantic?”70. Military Figurine, toy74. Puget Sound city77. Looks out for, maybe78. Mozart’s “L’___ del Cairo”79. Bone, shoulder to elbow80. “Get ___!”81. Make too simple83. “... or ___!”84. Cyst85. Length x width, rectangle86. Absorbed, as a cost87. “___ alive!”88. “... ___ he drove out of sight”

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39. A _____ military unit40. Broadcasting41. A body embalmed43. Fix, in a way45. Beaver’s work47. ___ gestae50. A woman who tells fortunes51. Blair’s predecessor54. A specially long, formal letter57. Make invalid for use60. Lacking vigor62. Naturally occurring impure mixtures of hydrocarbons65. Comedian Bill, informally67. Back69. Asian skiff, propelled by two oars70. Container weight71. A dagger mark72. Bakery supply73. Capital of the state of Delaware75. Civilian clothes76. Heretofore79. Bring on81. “I ___ you one”82. Chucklehead

OBITUARY

ROCHE-DAYNES (DAVIS), Suzanne Alexandria Passed peacefully from this life to be with her Lord on Wednes-day, February 6th, 2013 at the Grand River Hospital, Kitchener in her 61st year. Suzanne was the beloved partner of Herb Neher. Loving mother of Steve (Rebecca), predeceased by her son Mark (Anna). Cherished grandmother of Joshua, Noah, Ellise, Daniella, Rachael, Emily, and Chelsea. Predeceased by her mother Marion and her father Frank and survived by her siblings, Ron (Olive) and Irene. Visitation at the Mackey Funeral Home, 33 Peel Street, Lindsay on Tuesday February 12th from 2-4pm and 7-9 p.m. Funeral service at Fairview Bap-tist Church, 130 Colborne Street West, Lindsay on Wednesday, February 13th, at 2:00 p.m. Interment at St. Mary’s Cemetery, Lindsay. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations can be made to Peterborough United Way for Suzanne Daynes legacy fund would be appreciated by the family. Online condolences and donations may be made at www.mackeys.ca..

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BELL: “In order for a new minister to make his or her place here eventually, I need to be gone.”

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looked all over Elmira try-ing to find the Presbyterian church. They had even asked a few places and people didn’t seem to know where we were, because we were tucked in beside the garage. And when they did find it, then they went looking for parking, and they had to park about four blocks away.”

She continued, “All I could think of is that when people are coming to a fu-neral, feelings are tender. They’re there for the fam-ily, but they’re also there for themselves, and to go through that amount of frustration … It was starting to feel very, very cramped.”

The land was purchased with a gift of one million dollars, and the church was built with donations large and small from around

the community. Its official opening was April 22 of last year – and Bell saw the one-year anniversary as a com-fortable date to depart.

Over the years, Bell has observed an evolution in her own spiritual life, and discovered that a veteran of the ministry has a much different perspective on faith than a 14-year-old child.

“In the church I grew up in, it was a fairly literalistic understanding of scrip-ture,” she remembered. “And when I went to semi-nary, the first semester was really difficult, because things I had not really questioned suddenly were pointed out, and so there was a lot of wrestling, a lot of angst. … I think the struggle and the tension through all of that was God’s way of helping me find the purpose that He

had in mind for my life.”She continued, “And also,

He was preparing me for the day when people would come up to me and say, ‘Women have no right to be ministers, women are not allowed to teach in church,’ yadda yadda yadda. My mental answer – I didn’t always say it out loud – was, ‘I’m OK with that, but tell God!’”

Following her depar-ture, Bell might do some occasional supply preach-ing, but she stressed that a smooth transition means keeping out of the lime-light.

“When you’re a minis-ter, you walk closely with people, particularly during their times of struggle or tragedy – or great celebra-tions. In order for a new minister to make his or her place here eventually, I need to be gone.”

1/4 cup plain yogurt

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1 cup tomato puree

Salt to taste

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1 tbsp vegetable oil

1 pound boneless, skinless chicken thighs, cut into bite-size pieces

Heat 1 tbsp oil in a large saucepan over medium high heat. Sauté chicken for 5 minutes, add onion and cook until soft and translucent;

Stir in butter, lemon juice, ginger-garlic paste, 1 tsp garam masala, chili

black, brown and green cardamom pods. If you can’t locate this in your local grocery store, you can always get it at any Indian specialty food store or Bulk Barn.

Once you have it on hand you can use it to add to soups or even make up your own version of Indi-an-inspired dishes using your favourite ingredient combinations. For ex-ample, make this dish veg-etarian friendly by using chick peas and cauliflower instead of chicken. Be cre-ative and enjoy.

IndianMakhani Chicken

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1/4 white onion, chopped

2 tbsp butter

2 tsp lemon juice

1 tbsp ginger garlic paste

1 tsp garam masala

1 tsp chili powder

1 tsp ground cumin

1 bay leaf

CHEF’S TABLE: Enjoying a spicy taste of India

powder, cumin and bay leaf. Add tomato paste and cook for 2 minutes stirring frequently;

Stir in half-and-half cream and yogurt, reduce heat to low and simmer for 20 minutes or until thick-ened, stirring frequently. Be sure to season with salt pepper;

This dish is best served over basmati rice and a piece of naan bread.

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Township of Wellesley

NOTICE TO HOLD

A PUBLIC MEETING

TAKE NOTICE that the Council of the Township of Wellesley, intends to hold a Public Meeting on Monday March 4, 2013 at 6:45pm in the Council Chambers at 4805 William Hasting Line, Crosshill to review and discuss a proposed change to Building Permit Fees amending By-law 6/2013, being a By-law to Regulate Fees and Charges for Certain Services in the Town-ship of Wellesley. Should you require further details or information, please contact the Chief Building Of�cial at the Township of Wellesley Administra-tion Of�ce at (519) 699-4611 or email: [email protected].

ORAL AND WRITTEN SUBMISSIONS: Persons and public bodies are invited to make oral submissions at the Public Meeting or to make a written submission to the Council of the Corporation of the Township of Wellesley before the proposed Building Permit Fee Schedule Revision Public Meeting is held. Written submissions, relative to this matter, will be received by the municipal Clerk until 12:00 p.m. March 4, 2013.

If you wish to be noti�ed of the adoption of the proposed/amended Build-ing Permit Fee Schedule please make a written request to the Clerk, Town-ship of Wellesley, 4639 Lobsinger Line, RR# 1 St. Clements, Ontario N0B 2M0.

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