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This windmill farm near Shelburne, Ontario seemed just right for the cover of our environmental Issue. It was taken in the last week of April, before the grass had started to turn green. It seems to suggest the stark reality before us as we finally gear up to tackle global warming and the resultant climate change.

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Ice Cream is a Homeshow Trademark

Three-year-old Isaac of Wellesley is wearing a clas-sic home show look for those under five… and sometimes those over it.

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Hawkesville Was Seeing Red

Hawkesville organized a ‘Junk Food’ clean up to get rid of road side litter from the winter. Now it’s all ‘in the bag.’

Hericanes Are ChampsLike their namesake, three Twin Centre Hericanes teams blew away the competition. ‘Way to Go!’ Atom, Bantam and Midget teams! 8

4 Board of Trade Completes 2014-15 season.5 Hop-a-thons Always Have ‘Ups and Downs’6 Editorial: Global Warming is So Big That… Oh-Oh!7 Come Join Crosshill’s New Ball Hockey Tournament7 Bedtime Stories Program Will be Back in Fall8 Hericanes Take Three League Championships9 Novice Reps Win Everywhere with 56-4-3 Record10 FEATURE: Global Warming is Going to Hurt Us11 Divest Waterloo—”Do the Math” is Important16 Theatre Wellesley Makes a Killing in Latest Play17 Wendo Course Offers Self-Defence Opportunity18 Plucky Adventurers ‘Drift the Nith’19 Kerri’s Korner: The Family is Expanding19 Wellesley Farmer’s Market Now Open20 Harris Seeks Rare Disease Funding, Ridesharing Policy21 Trillium Grant Moves Playground Along22 Hawkesville Organizes ‘Junk Food’ Clean Up23 Skating on Wellesley Pond Circa 190023 Photo: Food Cupboard: At Pym’s Village Market24 Wellesley: It’s That Kind of Community26 Photo: Hawkesville Hosts Bike Race Again28 Council Gets ‘The Real Dirt’ & Phragmites30 Crowds Were Down a Bit at Homeshow31 Seven Selected at Wellesley Idol Tryouts33 Horticultural Society Hosted District Meet34 CCC’s “A Wee Toast” Was a Top Fund Raiser35 4-H Registration Was in Wellesley This Year36 Photo: Earth… Our Beautiful Home

It’s Our Worldlt’s a great home, but it’s being overwhelmed by CO2. We need to be better, pro-active stewards for our children & grandchildren whom we have to protect.10

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Wellesley & District Board of TradeCompletes Stellar 2014-15 Program

Board Meetings are downstairs at the

Schmidtsville Restaurant3685 nafziger road, wellesley

General Meeting & DinnerMembers & guests only

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PReSentationSopen to non-Member Businesses & the Public

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to attend, please R.S.V.P. towellesleyboardoftrade@gmail.com

Board of Trade 2015 Meeting TopicsJan. 7 tax & accounting—Update tax Planning—Update Control Business Communication Costsspeaker Kim Heinmiller, CPa Ca of Lund & associates Key accounting info small business owners needspeaker Chris Borutskie ProfitPointCommunications How to control business communication costs— cellular, business phone, internet & TV services

Mar. 4 insurance Updates—wsiB & gen. insurance

speaker todd aitchison, Josslin insurance Insurance—‘What every small business should know’ WSIB—Changes & requirements for small business owners

apr. 1 Human Resources speaker Ben Cornell, CPa, Ca, ChrP of ward & Uptigrove Consulting & human resources Key things small businesses need to know onhiring&firing Other key concepts

May 6 Regional Plans for Business Developmentspeaker Rob Horne, W.R. Commissioner of Planning Future business development plans for Waterloo Reg. How the plans will impact Wellesley businesses

Jun. 3 Fraud speaker Staff-Sergeant Robert Cowan from Fraud Dept. of Waterloo Regional Police Services Focus on risks of fraud involving businesses

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The Wellesley and District Board of Trade has completed it’s 2014-15 season, having offered a slate of business topics all of which are im-

portant to the operation of small businesses in our township.

In each case, speakers were invited to give updates on topics that are always in a state of flux:

Board of Trade president, Kim Heinmiller brought us up to date on continuing changes to tax planning rules;

Ben Cornell of Ward & Uptigrove Consulting gave an extensive presentation on current human resources standards. So many changes are occurring in this field that it is fraught with rules that can easily trip up the unfamiliar;

Todd Aitchison of Josslin Insurance, brought new dimensions to insurance, our favourite expense to hate… until we need it! He explained how the choice of broker can affect costs and your satisfaction if a claim arises;

New BOT member, Chris Borutskie, explained the knowledge and mechanics of saving companies money on phone bills. This is another area businesses often operate within a state of ignorance and pay more than is necessary;

Waterloo Region’s Commissioner of Planning, and Wellesley Village resident, Rob Horne, was invited to give perspective on recent business developments on the west end of Waterloo, particularly the impact of the Costco development on traffic to our area.

Business fraud was the focus of Staff-Sergeant Robert Cowan. He heads the Fraud Department of the Waterloo Regional Police Services. Much of the discussion was about the high prevalence of Internet fraud and the evolving techniques that fraudsters continue to develop, frequently extracting tens of thousands to millions from their victims.

If your business has an interest or concern, con-tact the BOT. We may be able to arrange a speaker. ❖

Ben Cornell, of Ward & Uptigrove Consultingand Human Resources, speaks to members of the Board of Trade about human resource challenges.

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Hop-a-thons ALWAyS HaveTheir ‘Ups and Downs’

BBQ’S . COVERS . SPICES . SAUCES . BRUSHES . LIGHTERS .

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You know it’s spring when the Wellesley Pre-School’s Hop-a-thon to raise money for muscular dystrophy is happening. This year they raised $1009.50. When you see teacher Cathy Lindner, photo above, leading the bunny hop, you realize nobody does it better and the children just love it!Photo top left: (l-r) in back is Easton Cahill; in stripes is Layne Boettger Runst-edler; bright green is Dawson Straus; in grey–William Carter; pink–Delanie Ohm;white–Mia Mesar; black–Kinsley Bonnick; Hannah Corriveau and Cameron Tolton. Notice Kinsley’s necklace is bouncing up in front of her face.Photo left: The hop-a-thon comes to an end as the class bunny magically ap-pears in the lobby and the children excitedly return to their class to attend to its needs. It’s a recipe that always works.

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Global Warming—Most of Us Don’t Realize The Magnitude of the Problem

It’s more than two years since I read a Scientific American Magazine article that summarized a number of then-current ideas on how to cool the atmosphere. When I first started reading the story, I was expecting to see some comprehensive

ideas that tackled the problem, but was disappointed that the “solutions” only tackled symptoms. The ideas presented were ways to reduce global warming, but global warming is just a symptom of too much carbon dioxide and methane in our atmosphere.

These gases, often referred to as ‘green-house’ gases, cause our atmosphere to retain an increasing amount of heat, slowly raising the average or ‘mean’ temperature across the planet.

Some of the solutions presented seemed quirky, such as having special ships sail the world’s oceans spraying [salt] water into the air, relying on micro-droplets to block some of the sunlight reaching the Earth’s surface (a kind of cloud effect). Another suggested placing reflective foil particles in space to block some of the sunlight reaching the earth.

By the end of the article, reading it through the eyes of an engineer, I had discounted all of the solutions as being impractical, uncontrollable, irreversible and perhaps even dangerous. That got me scared, and being scared got me thinking—a lot.

If global warming is caused by carbon dioxide, shouldn’t we be trying to figure out a way to remove the CO2 from the air, not to mention step up our efforts to reduce CO2 emissions and stop making the problem worse?

I started researching CO2 to see how it is currently being extracted. There is ‘jargon’ specific to the industry that one must penetrate to make headway. Coming from a science-engineering background helped, but there is still a lot of learning to do. Fortunately, the internet facilitated the research, as well as help with the vocabulary, but it was a slow process and not a linear one.

The principal method of extracting CO2 — the more serious greenhouse gas by volume — is being used at some coal-fired power generating stations. The method bubbles exhaust gases through chemical mixtures, called amines,which adsorb CO2. It requires more heat energy to remove the CO2 from the amines to store or process them. The amines are then reused.

I had been evaluating a mechanical technique to remove CO2 directly from air. It was during the development of this concept that I started to get a sense of the magnitude of this looming problem.

According to articles I located, human activity is putting 30 billion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere annually. That is 82 million tons daily or 951 tons each second of every day.

How large is 951 tons?Well, based on weight, it would be equal to one three-kilometre Canadian freight

train appearing every 21 seconds, or 12300 km. [Earth’s diameter] of freight trains every day or one continuous freight train stretching to our Moon and back 12 times every year. But don’t forget to leave previous years trains in place as this year’s form!

If you prefer Boeing 747s: Five of these giant planes would appear every second, or more than 400,000 per day. (There were only 1507 actually built between 1970-2015.)

Perhaps city buses are more to your liking — 76 forty-foot buses would appear every second or more than 6.5 million buses a day.

Staggering numbers to comprehend, aren’t they! But, that’s what we are doing to our environment every day. That’s how much CO2 we would need to extract from the atmosphere every second in an effort just to make global warming stand still! Totally untenable. This is one super-massive problem to fix, but how? If we explain it to our children, they might monitor our efforts. They can be good at that and it’s their future. ❖

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by Leanne ClarkRegion of Waterloo Library

Wellesley Branch

This past season, families have been visiting the Wellesley Branch Library to enjoy a cozy evening story time program called Bedtime Stories. Many

children come dressed in their pyjamas for stories, songs, crafts, and other hands-on activities. Parents also participate in activities designed to help each child get ready to read.

Bedtime Stories (ideal for children 2 to 7 years old with their parents or caregivers) was offered on Tuesdays from 6:30 to 7:15 p.m.. It ended May 26, but will resume in the Fall. Registration is recommended, but drop-ins are welcome! Call the Wellesley Branch at 519-656-2001 or visit www.rwlibrary.ca for more information. ❖

Crosshill Mennonite Church Invites Teams To Join Their First Ball Hockey Tournament

“bedtime Stories” Program Will Restart This Fall at the Wellesley branch library

Library employee, Leanne Clark, reads a story to children and par-ents attending the library’s Bedtime Stories program held each Tuesday during the year from Fall to Spring. — Photo submitted.

The Crosshill Mennonite Church is organizing a ball hockey tournament

which they hope, if successful, may become an annual event. The organizers are also making it a fund raiser to support Welle-sley’s new Food Cupboard which opened at the end of March.

Marty Schwende, one of the tournament organizers is excited about the tournament and says the focus will be on camarade-rie—sociability and the players enjoying themselves—not on be-ing competitive.

“Our church parking lot is large and we have borrowed nets from Kitchener’s Hot Shots Street Hockey and pylons and balls from Water-loo’s Road Breakers, to keep our costs down,” says Marty, adding “We appreciate the other organiza-tions lending their resources.

We believe it’s the first ball hockey tournament in Wellesley. We hope that kids from all nearby communities, even New Hamburg

and Baden will come out and play. ”“We’ve invited Pittsburgh Pen-

guin, Nick Spaling to be our guest,” says Marty. “He a local boy from Drayton. We phoned his dad, Char-lie and have arranged for him to attend. We hope he will be able to attend during the lunch hour and have a chance to sign autographs, and sign a hockey jersey that we can raffle off.”

They expect the tournament to run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., de-pending on the number of teams that register.

The tournament is for novice to bantam players—ages 7-14 years.

They will take an hour off for lunch when Nick will be there. They are hoping that he will be able to have lunch with them and to give the players a little inspirational talk, describing his life and the part that hockey has played in it.

The players will be given lunch and the winning team will be awarded prizes.

There are nine organizers with

a total of 20 volunteers working to put the tournament together.

So if you enjoy ball hockey, put together a team and come out and enjoy the fun June 20. ❖

Pittsburgh Penguin #13, Nick Spaling was born in Palmerston, Ontario and raised in nearby Drayton. He will be the guest for the event. Nick was drafted by the NHL in the second round in 2007, 58th overall. He is a former Kitchener Ranger.

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Twin Centre Hericanes Bantam LL Take Top Honours“We were the under-dogs, 3rd place against an undefeat-ed 1st place Kitchener team. We have a team of 10 great players that “Compete Together”. It was awesome!” In the photo (l-r) are: (back row) Michelle Martin, trainer; Janessa Pretorius; Marissa Lebold; Olivia Bolender; Jayna MacDon-ald-Mealey; Jeremy Szabo, coach; Kira Schneider; Char-lotte Birrell and Jody MacDonald (coach). (front row) Laura Martin; Emily Bishop; Grace Kalbfleisch and Nicole Beam.

—Jody MacDonald

Twin Centre Midget LL Are A-Division ChampionsIn Kitchener Girls Minor Hockey League

(l-r) Front Row: Elena McKee, Carly Bender, Sally Draper, Stephanie Ringrose, Riley Barnhart, Courtney Rose. Back Row:Callum McKee (Asst Coach), Dave Richmond (Asst Coach), Leah Sebben, Cassidy Pearce, Leah Gloin, Hope Richmond, Emma Bambury, Haley Burton, Sadie Rich-mond, Stephanie Rose (Trainer), Peter Draper (Head Coach), Gayle Draper (Trainer).

Hericanes Compete at the Top, Take Three Championships

The Play Smart Award Left: The Play Smart Award goes to a Novice-age player who possesses coachability and determination as deter-mined by her coach. In photo: (l-r) Coach Chris McPhee, Novice Rep player Megan Haid; Novice LL play-er Tori Wagler and coach Mike Ditty.

John Sheridan Memorial Award This award goes to two Bantam-age players who demonstrate enthusiasm, initiative and sports-manship as determined by her coach.In photo, left: (l-r) Coach Wayne Jantzi, Bantam Rep player Briony Jantzi; Coach Jody McDonald and Bantam LL player Grace Ka-lbfleisch

Hericane President, Chris Martin, left, presents Wayne Jantzi with the Trainer of the Year award.

Hericane President, Chris Martin, left, presents Mike Barker with the Coach of the Year award.

The Twin Centre Hericanes banquet was held at the Linwood Communi-ty Centre on Thursday, April 16. The awards shown here were presented at that banquet.

—Team & banquet photos submitted.

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Twin Centre Stars Novice A Rep Team Wins Southern County A Division Final (l-r) Front row: Rowan Henderson, Alex Martin, Isaac Lorentz, Blake Mayer, Nate Gawthorn. Middle row: Brayden Stumpf, Colton Henderson, Orrin Schieck, Evan Reid, Kaeden Burger, Jacob Pfohl, Jackson Bowman. Back row: Trainer, Joe Gaw-thorn; Manager, Andrew Henderson; Head Coach, Kory Lorentz; and Assistant Coach, Chad Stumpf. The team beat Delhi in the Southern County A Final. They also placed first in their OMHA finals against South Huron and were first in the Pres-ton International, BCH (Hensall) and Bill Batten Memorial (Exeter) tournaments.

Photos: Top—Going on the road…Bottom: The Novice A Rep team also won their league finals at home.

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President’s AwardThis award goes to the individual who provides selfless motivation and dedication to Hericanes hockey.Photo Above: Hericanes President, Chris Martin, centre, presents the Presidents Award to Karen Hem-merich, left, and Dave Richmond.

Twin Centre Hericanes Atom LL are Champs In the Kitchener Girls Local League

Team: (l-r) Brianne Barker, Sonya Yusim, Ciara Roth, Kirsten Livingston, Em-lyn McMillan, Reese Looser, Paige Tucker, Macoda Pitsch, Emily Roth, Emma Sommer, Kate Rudy and Brooklyn Reid. Trainers: (l-r) Heidi Rudy and Melanie LooserCoaches: (l-r) Mike Barker, Jamie Reid and Kelly LesperanceThe team played one semi-final game and won 2-1 in a shoot out. They then played one championship game and won 2-1 in regulation time.

—Mike Barker

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Imagine your neighbour has to phone the 911 emergency line: “My home is on fire, send the fire department fast! I live at…” Moments later you hear a siren heading toward his home and you decide to

stroll over to his property to find out the details.When you arrive, you see his home in a billow of black smoke but no

flames are visible. Your neighbour is sticking his upper body out a second-storey window, trying to breathe and shouting that he is trapped. Then you notice that there is only a small emergency vehicle and a single fire of-ficial on the grounds, calling up to your neighbour. There are also a few strangers wandering in from the street to see what the fuss is about and adding to the confusion.

The fire official, dressed in everyday business garb is calling up to your neighbour, “What seems to be the problem?”

You can hear your neighbour choking and sputtering, then in frus-tration he shouts, “My house is on fire, I’m trapped on this floor. When will the fire trucks get here?”

“Oh, the fire trucks aren’t coming yet,” the official responds, “I have to confirm whether there is a fire and what the cost of fighting a fire in this instance would be. You know, we wouldn’t want to spend money un-necessarily. This isn’t a war, you know.”

That’s when you notice the strangers gawking and chatting in the background. “There’s no fire here,” said one. “I don’t see any flames. I’ve seen lots of smoke and there was never any fire.” One bolder than the rest, calls out to the official, “You may as well go back to your office, there’s no fire here. You’re wasting your time. Probably some silly smoke bomb set off in the house. Just trying to get attention, I’d guess!”

The official looked confused, the neighbour looked aghast. “How can this be happening,” he thinks. “How can they ignore the evidence?” “Help me…,” he screams, “before it is too late!”

This metaphorical story embodies my sense of the global warming conversation as I perceived the debate’s progression two years ago.

If You love Your grand Kids, You better get Serious About global WarmingReal Fast…because There’s NO SECOND CHANCEFor Them if We Are Wrong!

About the AuthorLarry Kryski has an eclectic background. He was

born in the town of Rivers Manitoba to parents from dif-ferent provinces. His father came from Yorkton, Sas-katchewan; his mother from St. George’s, Newfoundland and Labrador.

His dad was a member of the R.C.A.F., so they moved frequently. He has lived in Manitoba, Ontario, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador, at least twice each.

As a boy, he enjoyed woodworking and metalwork-ing classes at school and was always building something in his dad’s workshop including a fully-functional boo-merang of unique design.

At age 14, Larry discovered electronics. Using a re-tired military electronics manual and old television parts, he designed and built an oscilloscope by age 16.

He loved to disassemble all types of equipment to see how they worked, so it wasn’t unexpected that he would end up studying physics and engineering at university. He graduated from Memorial University of Newfound-land’s engineering co-operative program with a degree in Electrical Engineering. As a Co-op student he worked in biomedical and power engineering. Later, he attended a year of Law at the University of Manitoba.

Intermingled with the technical side of his life, Larry was his school’s newspaper editor in Grade 8 in Ottawa. Later, as an adult, he worked three years in the newspa-per field and two years as a public relations photogra-pher in Newfoundland.

He became a “Stay-at-Home Dad” when his daugh-ter, Kyla, was two and one-half years old. He chose to pursue desktop publishing as a part-time business while at home, since part-time engineering seemed less practi-cal. Two years later his son, James, was born.

It was this stay-at-home opportunity that eventu-ally led to the formation of Wellesley Is… Magazine. The publication uses leading edge technologies: Computers; digital cameras; internet; software and cell phones. This combination of skills, education, experience and oppor-tunity is what led to this global warming story.

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Divest Waterloo presented the doc-umentary “Do The Math” at Zion United Church in New Hamburg

in April. The event was organized by the church’s “Ecobooster” Committee.

The movie analyses issues facing environmentalists as they try to trigger

significant public action to reduce carbon dioxide emissions responsible for global warming. The most important point em-phasized is that the world’s known fossil fuel reserves would create five times more carbon dioxide than the atmosphere can safely adsorb, yet the petroleum industry

continues to move at full speed to locate and develop more. It introduces the top U.S. environmentalists who have been documenting the problem for decades.

This documentary is available on the Internet. See the links discussed in the story above. ❖

Having a science and engineering background, I am quite convinced by the climate scientists’ research on global warming. There is a broad range of scien-tific disciplines making consistent mea-surements world-wide.

After watching the recent film docu-mentary “Merchants of Doubt,” — about individuals who misrepresented them-selves as scientists in an effort to create confusion and doubt in the minds of sci-entists, politicians and the general public — I now understand what has been con-fusing the world and holding it back sci-entifically and politically from making a concerted effort to cut down on dangerous carbon emissions.

Another documentary I saw, was pre-sented by an organization called “Divest Waterloo” that is encouraging responsi-ble investing which will help reduce the carbon emissions by moving money away from carbon sources. It is called “Do The Math” and is an important analysis of the world’s fossil fuel reserves and their po-tentially disastrous impact on the planet. You can see the film by visiting 350.org. The group is making it freely available to the public, but are managing the public distribution via a sign-in process. At the time of writing, it was also available di-

rectly on Vimeo with English subtitles. (The documentary is in English.)

Everyone talks about cost when glob-al warming comes up in conversa-tion, but lets face it, this is a global

crisis of a size most people cannot con-ceive. If you haven’t read the editorial on page 6, do so now. It will help.

The problem is that we usually expect the term crisis to mean imminent danger. We expect imminent to mean happening in seconds or perhaps minutes, maybe even hours. We are not used to dealing with im-minent as a measure of say, 30 years.

On a scale the size of the planet, 30 years is dangerously close, leaving little time to respond in a way that gives us a guaranteed cushion of safety.

We can’t afford to operate in “politi-cal time,” taking years to come to local or international agreements and decisions that will work. The world needs serious politicians that don’t play games with our future. We need politicians who actually understand what is happening and who realize how long an actual, useful func-tioning solution will take to implement.

We really need a rapid response world-wide. We need consensus team-work—political, technical, scientific and public. These statements are not made to be dramatic, but are made to empha-size that we have been squandering our buffer.

So where should we start?We already have adequate

technology to begin. The ideas pre-sented here, are all based on technology that currently exists in the world. I have researched them on the Internet, so there is likely newer and perhaps better tech-nology available than that which I have located. At the worst, what I have discov-ered is adequate to begin to implement an operational plan.

Important Factors1. Everything that we are now doing

to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is absolutely essential to saving our bio-sphere. These efforts give us a fighting chance to minimize climate change and maybe ultimately reduce the CO2 levels in the atmosphere to long term values. The efforts need to continue and be expanded as fast as possible. This especially includes alternate energy sources and technologies that improve efficiencies.

2. Any long-term climate solution can-not be based on fossil fuels. It has to be based on renewable energy sources such as: wind, solar, geothermal, biomass, hydro and most importantly, nuclear (especially fusion if current research succeeds).

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Divest Waterloo Presents “Do The Math” Documentary at Zion United, N.H.

Right: Judy Paul of Divest Waterloo spoke about the movie.Left: Almost 40 attendees saw Do The Math. After, they were invited to break into small discussion groups. Wellesley Mayor Joe Nowak, Wilmot councillor, Peter Roe and Kitchen-er-Conestoga Liberal candidate Tim Louis were in attendance.

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3. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions is NOT a solution. Only actually remov-ing greenhouse gases from the atmos-phere is a solution. It will allow us to re-build our climate. [Slowing how fast a house burns, does not save the house, but it can extend the rescue time.]

When I began studying glo-bal warming and climate change (they are not identi-

cal) two and a half years ago, I was really quite naive about most of the issues, in spite of lots of radio programs I have heard. We don’t have television here so I don’t know if television informa-tion would have been more informative, but I presume the Internet would likely include most of the important data.

From the beginning, I was aware that climate change is a reaction to global warming and global warming is a response to increased greenhouse gases—CO2 and methane— being spewed into our atmosphere without regulation or control.

As I continued to study the issue, I started to focus my thoughts on methods of removing CO2 directly from the at-mosphere. Industry has developed chemi-cal techniques for extracting CO2 from the smokestacks of large operations that generate concentrated sources of CO2. A current example is a large coal-fired power plant in Texas. It puts 16,000,000 tons of CO2 into the atmosphere annually. Their new CO2 extractor is said to be 95% efficient, but it requires a power source that puts almost 800,000 tons of CO2 into the atmosphere, itself. So the process is far from perfect in spite of it’s “95%” ef-ficiency.

[In the documents I have been reading, there are references to tons and tonnes. A ton is 2000 pounds and a tonne is 1000 kilograms which is equal to 2204.6 pounds. I will refer to tons for the ease of discussion, but my numbers will be off by 10% if I’m actually referencing tonnes.]

The industrial extraction process mentioned above, pushes fossil fuel ex-haust gases through chemical fluids called ‘amines’ which adsorb the CO2. Unfor-tunately, amines have to be heated quite high to cause the CO2 to be released so it can be collected and sequestered under-ground or used elsewhere.

My preferred position is that the CO2 be converted back into some type of hy-drocarbon for use or storage, but that is an

energy intensive approach. At this point, it would be more productive to use any extra energy to reduce the use of fossil fuels.

Before I wrote my editorial and had determined that we are emitting 951 tons of CO2 per second, I was mentally experi-menting with extraction of CO2 directly from the air, initially using wind power and later, using nuclear power.

Since CO2 now occupies 400 parts per million of air, I had reasoned that if we could process a million tons of air, we could extract 400 tons of CO2. Histori-cally CO2 hovered around 250 parts per million. — Compared with Nitrogen at 78%; Oxygen at 21% and Argon at 1%, Carbon Dioxide is only .04%.

The method I was looking at to extract CO2 was based on compression. CO2 has well known characteristics and chemically has a “triple point.” That’s the point at which a material can exist as a gas, liquid or solid. For CO2, at 700 psi and 30°C, it can exist as a liquid and that is the area I was interested in. (Liquid CO2 at much higher pressure is currently

piped around the U.S. as a valuable indus-trial resource. This is a known technology and could form the core of CO2 recovery and reprocessing.)

I had read one document that quanti-fied the amount of CO2 which we are emitting per year to be 30 billion tons. Well, 30 billion is a big number, but if you’re like me, it isn’t necessarily intuitive. I set out to put it in terms I thought might be easier to comprehend. That’s what lead to the numbers expressed in my edito-rial. Even determining that 951 tons of CO2 per second was being emitted meant nothing conceptually, but translating it, by weight, into buses, trains and planes was something easier for me to picture. Liquefied, that amount of CO2 by weight, would equal the amount of water pouring over the American side of Niagara Falls each second.

It becomes blatantly obvious that extracting CO2 from the air while we are still emitting that much is senseless. It really means that we must shut down our emissions and as quickly as is practical.

So what can we substitute in place of fossil fuel sources?

Our renewable fuel options include traditional hydro-electric, tidal, wind,

solar, geothermal and nuclear.After reading about the progress in

nuclear power generation, it seems to be the technology that can be mobilized in the shortest time, with a power footprint large enough to have an impact in the near and distant futures. If fusion power becomes practical, then the obvious deci-sion would be to switch to fusion reactors, away from fission.

Solar, to be a practical source, has to cover large geographical areas. It’s big draw-back is that it works roughly 50% of the time and is not yet as efficient as it will be.

Wind has good potential, but it too has intermittent output and can’t be counted on to perform when it is needed.

Hydro-electricity is excellent, but the number of good water sources is always getting smaller. Plus, we don’t know how global warming will affect water supplies. Some may be substantially diminished if global warming alters weather patterns substantially.

Geothermal is an excellent power source, but is best suited to certain geo-graphical regions.

Tidal is potentially capable of creat-ing a lot of power as well. It is intermit-tent, but predictably so.

The nuclear record has been rather stellar over all. With more than 439 large nuclear power plants around the world and another 69 planned, it’s record over 55 years, has been marred by only three serious incidents: Three Mile Island, in the U.S., Chernobyl, in Ukraine and Fukushima in Japan. There is a site that discusses deaths by energy sources.

If we proceed as quickly as possible in this direction, we really need interna-tional cooperation at the highest levels in the sharing of technologies that can keep the progress moving and to continue the safety of these new plants.

If we can achieve this in 20 years, putting it on a priority basis, then the next challenge will be to start removing CO2 from the atmosphere. Since there might be as much as a trillion tons of CO2 to deal with, that will introduce its own technical challenges.

The modern approach is to sequester it underground, but a post-modern ap-proach might be to reconvert it back into liquid or solid hydrocarbons which we can store and reuse.

Whatever we want as the outcome, we as individuals, need to keep up pressure to make it happen— even at home.

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Nuclear will likely play a major part in any plan

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In Conclusion…So, should we panic? If you are in a rubber dingy floating down the Niagara River and no one is paddling (sounds like a familiar expression, perhaps) and you can hear the roar of the falls getting louder, how would you respond?

This is not unlike what is happening with global warming. Except that those who should be steering the ship don’t appear to be doing it particularly well, from the public perspective.

The G7 countries have recently set the year 2100 as the year that the world, or at least the G7 will be running carbon-free. Do you think the environment can withstand another 85 years of this form of carbon dioxide abuse? Can our oceans survive it? Will your children or grandchildren survive it?

If we ceased putting all CO2 into the environment, to-day—that is 0% carbon dioxide emissions, immediately—do you think that climate change will cease?

It won’t. We have already warmed the planet sufficiently to thaw the ice in the Arctic and begin melting the ice caps in Green-land and Antarctica. This melting will not stop and there is some concern that it will progress faster, even without additional CO2 be-cause of changing feedback loops. At the current rate, it is unlikely there will be polar icecaps by 2100. That ice, as water, will be along our coasts. Only when we stop emitting CO2, does it make sense to extract it from the atmosphere.

We do not need stronger world leadership, we need im-pressive world leadership to get through this. Time to dump

the politics and get with the program as soon as possible. As a simple example: Where is Canada’s Department of Global Warming? We need a specific department. It is that important!

If humans can reduce carbon emissions by 7% a year, we can halve the amount of CO2 emissions in 10 years. That means we need to increase our renewable energy sources by the same amount or more. It will be like going to war on car-bon dioxide sources, but that is vitally important.

Nuclear (and perhaps fusion energy if it arrives in time) will have to bear the brunt of the new energy resources. It is likely the safest and most scalable resource that would allow changes without substantial disruptions of the world’s indus-try. There are more than 500 nuclear plants in the world that are operating or planned. We will need to double that number to have a chance to rescue a bit of the Earth we know.

So should we panic? If we can’t get our politicians to re-spond to this important crisis, then panic. Only we can get them responding, they won’t do it voluntarily. And, we need scientists who can speak freely and keep us up to date on our progress. ❖

Who to contact (click name to send an email): Canada Prime Minister HarperLocal MPs Harold Albrecht, Gary Goodyear, Peter Braid, Stephen Woodworth, Gary Schellenberger Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne, MPP Michael Harris, MPP Catherine Fife, MPP Daiene Vernile

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Dark Comedy A Bright Spot For Theatre Wellesley Spring Show

by Larry Kryski

Theatre Wellesley’s spring offering, The Art of Mur-der by Joe DiPietro has more twists and turns than a steep mountain road; and while it starts out with

the feeling that it’s going to be a bit too fluffy, it promptly turns to the dark side, where director, Al Strong, kept the tension high and riveting with each new twist.

Jack Brooks (Dave McNorgan) is a famous artist who has been selling his wife, Annie’s (Lori Hoelscher) paintings under his own name because he has lost his creativity. He is trying to make a come back and has invited his art agent, Vincent (Al Cook) over for dinner to see if he can get Vin-cent to work harder to sell his latest painting for more money.

We soon discover Jack is an ornery character and doesn’t treat anyone well, including their Irish maid, Kate (Jamie McLean) whom he makes passes at, behind his wife’s back. Jack humiliates Annie early in the evening and points a revolver at Vincent ‘in jest’ as the evening sours.

Finding a private moment, Annie persuades an inebri-ated Vincent, to help her kill Jack and the plot snakes along at high speed. Twist after twist keeps the drama high and the ultimate victim hidden until the final scenes.

The spring play was held upstairs at the library. With a mere 20 seats, it makes the play an intensely personal experi-ence. The cast convincingly pulled off the play, their charac-ters increasingly more intense as the plot progressed. ❖

Annie tries to recruit Vin-cent to help her kill Jack.

Vincent tries to placate an irate Jack.

Jack terrifies Vincent with his revolver.Vincent reaches the breaking point where he

decides to help Annie carry out Jack’s murder.

Artist Jack Brooks exits his cof-fin-shaped isolation chamber.

Jack can’t keep his hands off their maid,

Kate, when Annie is away.

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Isla’s going to have a baby sister or brother round about September 10, Kerri Johnson tells us. Kerri is obviously thrilled, but Isla seems a bit serious about the whole event.

On June 6th, the Wellesley Farmers’ Market re-opened for its 2nd year providing local, in-season produce.

“After our first year being so successful, we couldn’t wait to start planning year two!” says Pamela Wideman, Wellesley Farmers’ Market organizer.

Each Saturday, from 8 a.m. until noon, growers from Wellesley Township offer local and in-season produce, including organic and non-organic products, honey, maple syrup, baking, sprouts, eggs, meat as well as homemade crafts.

The market is located in the pavilion near the Wellesley arena so weather is never an issue, and kids will love the new accessible playground beside the pavilion.

This year, kids ages 5-15 will have the opportunity to sell their own homemade or homegrown products and the KidsClub program has activities for kids at the market each week.

Entertainment—musicians, team demonstrations and busking—is planned. Interested entertainers should contact the organizers. Several acoustic bands are scheduled and even a martial arts demonstration is set for 9:30 on June 20.

“Our hope is that people will take advantage of the delicious, local produce that’s available all summer and fall,” says Wideman. “Our market is fun.” she adds. “We love visiting neighbours and meeting new people there. It’s amazing to watch how much kids love it too!”

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Harris Calls For Select CommitteeInto Rare Disease Funding

Harris stands with PKU sufferers at Ontario Legislature

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Kitchener-Conestoga MPP Michael Harris, states a May 27 prepared release, took

an important step towards finding solutions for the continuous line of rare disease sufferers who are forced to plead at Queens Park for life-saving and disease-altering medications.

Following a morning news conference with PKU sufferers, MPP Harris asked for unanimous consent to introduce a motion, “respecting the establishment of a select committee to research funding for rare diseases.”

PKU is a rare and inherited brain damaging disorder that can, and does, lead to severe intellectual disability if not treated. Extreme restrictive government criteria has meant that, two years after being cleared for managed access, not a single patient has received publicly funded access.

“Premier, do you think it fair that PKU sufferers are forced to come cap-in-hand, like so many before them, to plead your government for the medication that will change and often save their lives?” Harris asked in the Legislature. “People with rare diseases can’t wait, Maddie Vanstone couldn’t wait, the aHUS sufferers who were here over a month ago can’t wait as you make feel-good announcements when they’re facing you, but continue to force them to jump through hoops for access when they leave the building— it’s not right and you know it.”

“Premier, will you join me in doing the right thing, support the creation of a select committee into funding for rare diseases, and end the suffering for those forced to plead with you for life altering medication?”

While the Wynne Liberals refused to allow the motion to move ahead, Harris advised that this was only a first step of many more, to finally work toward solutions for the small percentage of rare disease sufferers across Ontario. ❖

MPP Michael Harris is ad-dressing the emergence of ridesharing technology

in Ontario. He tabled a motion in the Legislature May 28, indicating that, “in the opinion of this House, technology is evolving the way peo-ple get around and our laws built for the last century’s economy need to evolve with it. Consumers demand more efficient, affordable and enjoy-able means of travel, which rideshar-ing companies, like Uber, are able to provide. The Government should support innovation, competition and consumer choice through the immedi-ate development of public policies to ensure both public safety and better service for consumers in the Province of Ontario.”

At a related news conference at Queens Park, Harris highlighed the fact that, “As technology evolves, our laws must evolve with it,” adding that with, “consumer demand driving advances in technology that, quite

evidently, people want, it’s time for jurisdictions across the world to get on board or risk being left behind.”

Half the US states now have legislation that governs ridesharing. While ridesharing has been a hotly debated issue on the municipal level in Ontario, Harris is the first provincial political to weigh in on the issue.

“Look, this issue doesn’t af-fect just one city, it affects the entire province — acting on the provincial level allows us to avoid a patchwork of public policies that could soon conflict with the creation of varied municipal by-laws,” Harris stated. “By develop-ing ridesharing legislation, we can set the standard for how transportation network companies operate across Ontario and support consumer choice.

“It’s all about consumer choice, and consumers have chosen to get on board — It’s time for governments to do the same… I call on the Provincial Government to get on board,” Harris concluded. ❖

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$150,000 Trillium Grant Gave Accessible Playground Essential Impetus

Taking part in the Trillium funds announcement held at the Nith River Chop House was (l-r) Mariko Koebel, William Foster with his mom Leah, Lions President Murray Bremner, Trillium volunteer member and presenter Ruby Weber, Welles-ley Mayor Joe Nowak, Kim Kelterborn Banbury and her son Jack, Carrie Siewert, Viki Yusim, Mikayla Zacharczuk, Jen Sommer, Mel Zacharczuk, Kitchener-Con-estoga MPP Mike Harris, Jolene MacDonald and her daughter, Joy.

A large portion of the Acces-sible Playground Committee had been through the Trillium

grant process with the Wellesley Wa-tering Hole—the splashpark—so the Trillium presentation that took place in mid-April seemed to come quickly compared to the earlier process.

They received a grant of $150,000—Trillium’s maximum contribution—to-ward the playground construction.

In an interview with Wellesley Is… Magazine, Trillium presenter Ruby Weber said, “I encourage the community to keep looking for projects. When you get this park built, do a second phase. Apply again for money for a second phase.”

Trillium receives $500 million annu-ally from the province. Five million of this goes to Waterloo, Wellington and Duf-ferin counties. ❖

Photos – Left-top: Working out site ge-ometry prior to removal of old play-ground. (l-r) Kim Banbury, playground committee; Murray Bremner, Lions president; Jen Sommer, playground project co-ordinator; Mike Hexam-er, president of New World Park Solu-tions, the company that will install the equipment; Brad Voisin, Director of Fa-cilities for Wellesley Township.Left-centre: Following the site assess-ment, the group met to make the fi-nal equipment determination. (l-r) Brad Voisin, Mike Hexamer, Kim Ban-bury, Carrie Siewert, Jen Sommer, Councillor Peter van der Maas and Murray Bremner.Left-bottom: Playground equipment was carefully selected from detailed catalogues, based on determined needs and cost.

Photos – Above: The old playground prior to removal.Below: Jagtar (Jack) Nijjar, of Ever-play International Inc., sprays water on the second of three layers of rub-ber matting his company is install-ing. Water binds the treated rubber particles together. The rubber comes from recycled tires. The top layer will be coloured.

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From the left: Keaton Borutskie, Winston Shantz, Dylan Mar-tin, Christian Irenge, Donvan Shantz, and Isaiah Shantz were part of the 40 volunteer crew that participated in Hawkes-ville’s Junk Food Community Clean Up at the end of April.

The Hawkesville Recreation Service Board were pleased with their efforts to organize a spring road-side cleanup event at the end of April. As recreation board representa-

tive, Chris Borutskie, put it, “It was a great opportunity to learn more about protecting our environment and enhancing vitality in our community. I’m proud of the way our community—tre-mendously represented by young and old—rallied and served in this community initiative.” He thanks their sponsors, town-ship staff and the Region of Waterloo for their contributions.

More than 40 residents aged three to 65 came out and par-ticipated in the effort, collecting 50 bags of garbage, much of it recyclable items.

Geddes and Broadway Streets were the main focus as well as the Community Centre. Other areas cleaned were beside the bridge over the Conestoga River and along Mac’s Way walking trail.

Borutskie says, “Over a long winter, the winds blow a number of recyclable items and garbage into the ditches, out of the reach of the Region’s waste and recycling service providers. By working as a team, we were able to retrieve a large number of hard-to-reach items along the river bank and ditches. Unfortunately, we also discovered an inordinate about of waste presumably tossed from passing vehicles along the length of Broadway Street. Prior to the clean up it was difficult to take ten steps before seeing trash like coffee cups, food wrappers, and even—surprisingly—a lot of beer bottles just off the shoulder of the roads.”

The Region provided red litter bags, gloves and some educai-tonal resources from the Region’s Waste Management Division. Kevin Beggs, General Manager of Community Services for Wellesley Township and his team provided traffic safety vests, gloves additional bags and other support. They even hauled the refuse away after the event.

Sponsors Chervin Woodworks donated the pizza party and covered some other expenses, while Len’s Mill provided candy for the children.

“The kids played a fantastic role,” Borutskie added, “They showed fantastic enthusiasm but were shocked by how much waste was thrown out by passing traffic. Special thanks to our volunteers, young and old; it was a successful clean up. Our countryside is truly beautiful if we take steps to keep it that way.” ❖

—Photos by Chris Borutskie

Fifty bags of garbage and recyclables await pickup.One dozen extra-large pizzas with lots of pop and can-dies to wash it down, was the motivation for the kids.

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Nancy Maitland, curator of the Wellesley Township Herit-age and Historical Society

(WTHHS) says she has uploaded the final issues of the digitized Wellesley Maple Leaf newspaper to the WTHHS website. Issues are now up to the end of 1908.

“Our web stats show increased traffic, due in part to new information added on a regular basis and the sup-port of local news sources,” she said.

Responding to the photos of people skating on the pond, in the Jan-Feb-Mar issue of Wellesley Is…, she sent a similar photo (above) — taken circa 1900 by local photographer Charles F. Ottman. 

The WTHHS is planning a new display in the late summer that will showcase his photography. They con-tinue to seek photos by Ottman, so if you have pieces of his work and would like to share, contact Nancy. ❖

—Charles F. Ottman Photo c. 1900

SKATING ON WeLLeSLeY POND

Food Cupboard chair, Christa Ger-ber, right, shows the type of signs that she placed on Pym’s Village Market shelves during the opening of the Wellesley Community Food Cupboard. The Food Cupboard is not a full food bank, but is meant to provide short-term support to in-dividuals who have unanticipated needs. For this, their supplies are non-perishable and narrower in se-lection. The special signs were to help buyer-donors identify desired items. The Food Cupboard opened the end of March, 2015.

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by Peter van der Maas

On a Sunday afternoon in late September, 1989, I opened the front door to find a young man holding a dog leash. I had never seen him before

in my life. “You left this at the store,” he said. “Welcome to Wellesley”. We had moved to the village on Friday.

A few years later, my daughter Johanna lost her footing crossing from one hay wagon to another during an evening corn roast and gashed her calf badly. Without anything being said, a long-time resident went up for his truck, drove into the field, and helped me take her to the medical clinic where the doctor was waiting to stitch her up.

I think you know where I’m going with these stories. I could tell more, but you’d get the idea my children were accident-prone or not closely supervised. Actually, the latter may have some truth in it. My children and their friends did not require close supervision. We often summoned them back to the house by shouting from the front door, having only a general idea where they had been for the last few hours. They may have been skiing in the fields, fishing in the pond, or playing in someone’s backyard. We never worried because we knew they were safe in a community that cared for them. If they fell off a bike, the nearest adult

would help them; later, if their car got stuck in the snow, someone would come and help push them out. People looked out for each other both figuratively and literally.

Wellesley then was a community: a group of people who shared common values. Perhaps the greatest value of a community is caring for others, not because you know them, but because they need care. And we all need care. I know the village is not full of kids falling off of bikes or getting cars stuck in snow banks, despite this winter’s evidence; however, we residents do require a lot of care. We need food hampers at Christmas time; we need funds to help us deal with unforeseen medical emergencies; we need coaches for minor sports; we need volunteers to run the ABC; we need accessible playgrounds for children. Most of all, we must know each other as members of a community, and we must understand that our strength lies in meeting the needs of others.

Wellesley is still the kind of community my family moved into twenty-six years ago. I get real satisfaction knowing that my house stands on the site of Ohmer Gerber’s back garden. It reminds me of the roots this village has as a collaborative farming community: a place in which the needs of your neighbours stood next to your own. What I don’t want Wellesley to become is the kind of place in which residents think of themselves first and oppose any changes that may seem inconvenient to them without thinking of who benefits by the changes.

What should we do? You don’t have to have a truck like John Jacobs or be a medical professional like Brian Finn to help keep Wellesley a community; you can even be a kid who works in a variety store. We can just talk to our neighbours; find out who they are. Impress upon them that this is not a bedroom of Kitchener-Waterloo by discovering their needs and doing what we can to meet them. There are lots of concrete things we can do: coach our kids’ sports team, join a service club, support a community fund-raiser, join the recreation services board, etcetera. Any of these actions will improve the community, and, in the long run, they will satisfy our own needs. ❖

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A New Playground

Street Competition Fundraiser

The Wellesley Lions Club and the PlayTogether Committee want to build an accessible, inclusive playground at the arena park, enabling children of all ages and

ability to play together. To accomplish this goal, we need your support.

Ask Your

Family To Consider

Making A Donation Towards The Accessible Park

The Street that raises the most money will have the Apollo

named after

it!

The Apollo is a rotating climber that children of all ages and abilities can

enjoy. If your street donates the most money towards the accessible park, we

will rename this equipment to your street name. Wouldn’t it be fun to hear

your kids say, “Let’s go play on the Ferris, or the Lawrence, or the Henry…..”

Family donations of $100 or more will be recognized on the playground donor board. To make a donation, you can write a cheque to the Township of Wellesley. Mail your cheque to: 4639 Lobsinger Line, St. Clements, ON, N0B 2M0.

All donation amounts will receive an income tax receipt.

Questions? Phone:

Carrie, 519-656-9050

Email: wellesleyplayground@gmail.com

Facebook: WellesleyPlayTogether

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Hawkesville Hosts 2015 KW Classic O-Cup Road RaceJune 7 was a beautiful day for racing as 400 riders regis-tered to pedal the gruelling hills and beautiful valleys of the Conestoga River. eleven divisions of men and women rode up to 12 laps of the 11.3 km course. Blake ellis, Cycle Waterloo organizer, says this “route is awesome… and this community is awesome.” He said Pan Am Games Cara-vans were here and in training during this race. Here a tight group of riders followed by regular and Pan Am chase cars, start up the hill toward the intersection of Broadway and Geddes St., near the Start/Finish Line.

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Country Jam Session Wednesday, July 1st, 2015

2:00pm - 8:00pm

$2.00 entry Fee

Outside if nice weather Burgers & Hot Dogs available for purchase Bar Beverages also available for purchase

Please dress up for the event. BYOLC (bring your own lawn chair)

 

Elmira Legion 11 First St. E.

For more Information

call 519-669-2932  

 

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Council Hears About “The Real Dirt…” and Phragmites

Mayor Joe Nowak, left, listens intently to Jeff Stager’s presentation about farming in the Region. Speaking on behalf of the Wa-terloo Federation of Agriculture, it was Stager’s duty to bring newly elected councils up to speed on local farming and its sig-nificance to the local economy and the local food supply. His noted Wellesley has the second highest farm net income of the four townships, after Woolwich. He provided a good overview of Canadian farming in The Real DIRT on Farming.

Photo Below: Kevin Thomason spoke to council on behalf of the Laurel Creek Headwaters Environmentally Sensitive Landscape (ESL) Public Liason Committee. The ESL that cov-ers part of Waterloo, Wellesley, Wilmot and Woolwich cov-ers 5000 acres. He spoke about efforts to control phrag-mites australis, an aggressive, invasive species of reed, that is making its throughout Ontario, mainly in wet areas and ditches. It destroys native habitat displaces native species. They have received funding to cut, clear and spray the 32 cells of phragmites in the Laurel Creek ESL.

Photo Left: Outside of the council chambers, Thomason poses with a sample of phragmites which he brought to council as an example. This sample is about 10 feet tall, but Thomason says that it can grow up to 18 feet tall.

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CLASS 8 “SCARECROW EXPLOSION” From the Wellesley/NEH Fall Fair

This competition is open to everyone! Join us! In this Class you may enter more than once. Scare up your property, keep the birds from your gardens and have some fun. Register your scarecrow location by AUGUST 15TH . Prize money and rosettes donated by Richaven Farms Ltd.

FAMILY a) Traditional Scarecrow: 1ST prize - $50.00; 2nd prize - $35.00; 3rd prize - $25.00 b) Creative Scarecrow: 1ST prize - $50.00; 2nd prize - $35.00; 3rd prize - $25.00

BUSINESS, ORGANIZATION OR SERVICE GROUP Any type of Scarecrow: 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes – “Bragging Rights” Rosette and Certificate Let your scarecrow advertise your business or group while advertising the fair. There were some really fun and novel scarecrow ideas displayed last year.

Scarecrows will be judged the last week of August. Your scarecrow must be holding a sign advertising the Wellesley Fall Fair – 2nd Tues. & Wed. after Labour Day, or the actual date of the current year’s fair. An official fair sign can be borrowed for $5.00, totally refundable upon return to the fair. Signs available at the Fair Booth at Art Round the Pond or from Wendy Richardson, 519-656-2961. Hand-made signs are welcome. Make them stand out. Feel free to “dust off” or re-invent your scarecrow from last year and enter it again. We want to see as many as possible. Your scarecrow must be exhibited in the Township of Wellesley, Township of Perth East, OR within a 15 km. radius of the Village of Wellesley. Contact: Wendy at 519-656-2961, wrichardson@bell.net or mail the form below to W. Richardson, 1061 Lisbon Rd., Wellesley, N0B 2T0 Let’s EXPLODE the town and countryside with hand-made scarecrows to highlight the fall season and all the events happening in the area at that time of year --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

SCARECROW EXPLOSION CONTACT NAME: _________________________________________________________________ Location of Scarecrow: _____________________________________________________________ Does the Scarecrow have a name or theme? ___________________________________________ Phone #: ___________________________ Email address: _______________________________

Fairboard Sign $5.00 (to be reimbursed when ret’d) or Handmade Sign

FAMILY ORGANIZATION/BUSINESS/SERVICE GROUP

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Home & Garden ShowStill a Fun Three Days

by Rick Grebinski

The 27th annual Home and Garden Show, ended up with 86 vendors with 65 displays in the arena and 21 in the Community Centre.

This was our (Rick and Brenda Grebinski and Verna Metcalfe) 5th year running the show and we had donations of $1,240.00 in cash and 1,250 lbs of food over the 12 hours that the show operates.

There were five groups of greeters: Four members of the Township Council started on Wednesday, followed by four members of Theatre Wellesley. On Thursday evening, the Agricultural Society took on the task with eight greeters and on Friday, four members of the Horticultural Society did the early shift with four of the Home Show crew finishing the show. That’s a total of 24 greeters.

Fifteen youth volunteered as runners and helped with other jobs such as gathering and packing the food donations, clean up of the arena and Community Centre during the show and greeting visitors. We are very proud of these youth and wish to thank them for a job well done.

We had approximately 1,800 visitors to the show which is down from the average of 2,100. Bad weather typically brings out larger crowds, so Wednesday night was very slow as the day proved to be the nicest in three weeks so people took the opportunity to be outside for the first time in a long while. Thursday night was very busy and Friday pulled in a very good crowd.

The show featured many new vendors. We were especially pleased to have the Canadian Blood Services and the Wellesley Welcome Wagon join us.

Brenda and I would like to thank all of the vendors for their dedication to our show. We have many returnees each year and appreciate the continued support of their businesses. Colonial Brick and Stone, as always, put up a stunning display. Thank you to Elroy Wagler and his staff. John’s Nursery had a beautiful garden display featuring many varieties of trees and shrubs. Thank you, Rob, for all of the trips you made back and forth to the nursery so that you could provide us with a wonderful display. Peter Zehr and his crew from CFR spent many hours putting up a mini store featuring all varieties of cookware and kitchen gadgets. Many nifty pieces. Thank you Peter. I could go on about all of the vendors but I don’t have the space. Thank you all.

We also thank all of the visitors to our show. Your generous support of the local food bank is truly appreciated. We hope you enjoyed the show and will come visit us again next year. Last, a really big thank you, to all of the volunteers who helped put the show together.

The dates for next year’s show are April 27, 28 and 29, 2016.  See you then. ❖

Thank You Student VolunteersCole gowing; Jeremy erb; Carson higgins; Cole Foster; travis Poole; Cole Bender; deangelo Lopez; Lauren sibbick; reegan Jantzi; Madeline gervais; haley Burton; riley Barnard; Marissa Lebold; Lucien tranc; Jayna Macdonald; as well as Kristen ropp & Keri Bartlett from tavistock.

Ninety-year-old master carver, Milt erb, right, discusses

his carvings (inset photo) with Lawrence Wideman of Dorking.

Tim Franzke, left, and Sam Chakraburtty

speed deliver fresh french fries for the Lions meals.

John’s Nursery had a marvelously green display.

Roger Nafziger, left, & Pastor Brent Kipfer were answering

questions at the Maple View Mennonite Church booth.

elroy Wagner, left, chats with Dave Shipley beside the Colo-nial Brick and Stone exhibit, the largest booth at the show.

Theatre Wellesley greeters, Jamie McLean, left, and Allan Strong, right, ‘ham it up’ for the camera as Rhonda

Caldwell, centre left, and Pat Bremner arrive at the arena entrance.

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Barb Speers, left, and Trisha Robin-son at the joint Community Care Concepts-Wilmot Family Resource Centre booth.

Beth Schlueter, left, explains WWNeH Fall Fair details to Kirsten and Amy Fisher.

Anna & Dave Bartsch, left & centre, of Welles-ley Woodworks, chat with Peggy Manley.

About the JudgesKalina Seifried – Sings in bands, musicals and concerts. Four-teen-year member of The Community Players of New Hamburg as performer and production manager.J.P. Sunga – Prolific songwriter for two decades across genres. Hope, Try, Stand Tall, his latest, is a collaboration with Mark Pelli from Juno Award winning band Magic; written for & performed by KW Glee, 2015 Show Choir Canada Grand Champions.Saibal Chakraburtty–Plays classical Indian music for Hamilton’s Indian Community. Involved in community bands and orches-tras. Plays in Waterloo Concert Band and Royal City Big Band.Byron Shantz – Has played in clubs, festivals, churches and community events for more than 20 years. Plays numerous mu-sical styles and is inspired by the great talent in this community.

Seven Selected at Wellesley Idol2015 Tryouts

Seven performers were selected at the Wellesley Idol tryouts at the Com-munity Centre May 31. Moving on to perform in the semi-finals at the WNEH Fall Fair are: Left photo (l-r) Brooke Bauer, Maddy Kuehl, Sarah Gingerich, Paige Warner and Jessie MacDon-ald. Top right photo: Christian Econo-mides & bottom right: Taylor Kelly.

Idol judges for 2015 are: (l-r) Kalina Seifried; J.P. Sunga; Saibal Chakraburtty and Byron Shantz.Wellesley Idol organizer

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Sandra Schmidt was tending the Millbank Family Furniture booth. Their furniture displays are consistently excellent and their store’s showroom is truly impressive.

Ice cream from the Schmidts Bulk Pantry booth plays a big part at the show. Here Mark and Chantel Byerley took Dexter (4) and Caroline (2) along for a treat.

Attendees at the annual Home and Garden show can enter a free draw to win one of the many gifts donated to the show. Here visitors explore the offerings before entering the arena.

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Wellesley Hort Society Hosted 2015 District Meeting

929 Arthur Street SouthElmira, ON N3B 2Z2519-664-1900 FAX 519-664-1944Toll Free: 1-855-664-1900

Helping Seniors & Others Live Independently

MEALS ON WHEELS — Hot and frozen meals delivered to your home

COMMUNITY MEALS — Combine food, fellowship, info & entertainment

TRANSPORTATION — Rides for medical, shopping & other needs

DAY PROGRAMS — Day of activities, lunch & a chance to meet people

HOMEMAKING — Help with light household tasks, cleaning and meals

INSIDE AND OUTSIDE MAINTENANCE

FRIENDLY VISITORS-LUNCH DATES—Socialization for isolated, lonely seniors

HOME AT LAST — Support to transition from hospital to home

Wellesley Seniors’ Lunch Club

Community Centre, 1000 Mapleleaf St.Lunch at 12 Noon

June 17, 2015Register by 10 a.m. June 15 at 519-664-1900

Cost: $6.00(3rd Wed. Sept. to June)

LinwoodSeniors’ Community Dining

Linwood Community Centre, Ament LineLunch at 12 Noon

June 24, 2015Register by 10 a.m. June 22 at 519-664-1900

Cost: $11.00(4th Wed. Sept. to June)

Wilmot lunches Also AvAilAbleRegistered CharitableNo. 10822-1540-RR 0001

www.communitycareconcepts.ca

Wellesley Township Historical Society hosted the Ontario Horticultural Society

District 19 annual general meeting this year.Beside their usual business and service recogni-

tions, they had two guest speakers: Keith Reid who spoke about improving soil, also the subject of his book Improving Your Soil–A Practical Guide to Soil Management; and Peter Rasberry, an elementary school environmental and nature educator. His slide presentation ranged from maple syrup, to biodiver-sity, including plants, insects, spiders and birds. ❖

Sixty delegates were fascinated by Peter Rasberry’s slide show facts.

James Graham did a great job when called upon to be an ad hoc MC.

Soil consolidates practical infor-mation for the avid gardener.

Keith Reid, a soil scientist at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada discusses his book with an attendee.

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A Wee Toast, Volunteer Luncheon & Mayors for Meals: CCC is Busy

Community Care Concepts held a ‘first annual fundraiser’ at Waterloo Inn called A Wee Toast—a classy tribute to five scotch whiskies and a five-course Scot-tish meal, including one hagus dish. The evening was hosted by Mike Farwell and Jennifer Campbell of 106.7 FM.Left: The five “Scotch Masters” are piped into the dining hall by piper, Geoff Irving;Below Left: The scotch masters on stage present their individual scotches.Below Right: KW Highland Dancer Company dancers perform the sword dance.Right: Peter Skoggard performs his ad-dress (ode) to the hagus.The evening included a raffle, a silent auction, a live auction, carried out by Mike Farwell, who did a superb job sell-ing some bottles of scotch for more than $300. The evening event raised almost $15,000 for the charity. About 200 persons attended.

Below: Community Care Concepts (CCC) offers services in Welles-ley, Woolwich and Wilmot and has a large volunteer base that pro-vides exceptional support. Each year CCC holds a Volunteer Appre-ciation event. This year it was held at the Elmira Legion.

Below: Mayor Joe Nowak, right, joins Elayne Futher on one of her weekly “Meals on Wheels” runs. Hot meals, prepared by the Schmidtsville Restaurant, include soup/salad and desert. Elayne has been volunteering for more than six years.

The Scotch Masters present their scotches: (l-r) Tom Fahey presents a 12-year-old Glenkinchie Lowland Singe Malt; Ken Harkes presents 18-year-old Highland Park; ed Korshewitz presents Dalwhinnie Distillers edition; Richard Rooke presents Bunnahabhain 18-year-old Islay Single Malt; and Kathy Fa-hey presents 11-year-old GlenDronach.

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4-H 100-Year Registration Held at Wellesley Community Centre

4-H Ontario is celebrat-ing 100 years this year and John

Drummond is working hard with everyone to make it a big, success-ful celebration at Steckle Heritage Homestead, June 20. (See ad page 13.)

For the first time, the 4-H March registration was held at the Wellesley Community Centre, rather than the St. Agatha venue. Kids had lots of choice in the clubs they could join: Sheep; Deco-rating; 100th Anniversary; Pollinators; Old Fashioned Square Dance; Paintball; Kitchener Market; Camping; Digital Photography; Woodworking; Poultry; and Rabbit Hop Club.

For those too young (6-8 years old) for the 4-H, there is Clover Buds, an introductory program. ❖

4-H members attending the Judging Competition at the St. Agatha Community Centre send a spunky reminder that the 4-H is celebrating 100 years this year. See 4-H ad, page 13 for celebration details and location.

John Drummond

Tayler Black baked pizza bread at the registration. She was a member of the Kitchen-er Market Bread Venture Club.

Indiviually numbered Massey Fer-gussen model tractors will be auc-tioned off June 20.

A video explained the details of the celebration at the Steckle Heritage Homestead in June. Waterloo County had the first 4-H in Ontario.

Kevin Snyder’s bird house was a Woodworker Club project.

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earth… Our Beautiful HomeIt is difficult to look at our planet from space and not be philosophical. Human-kind has never, in its total existence, ever had to physically ‘care for the planet,’ other than emotionally. For the first time, we need to be responsible stewards but, as a species, we are struggling to accept this newly recognized responsibility.

NASA 1972 Apollo 17photo via Wikipedia