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After years of dirty, undrinkable water, a Chatham-Kent woman will get her day in court after bringing her complaint about wind farms turbines contaminating her well water to a Justice of the Peace.

According to previously published media reports, on July 12 an Ontario Justice of the Peace determined there are “reasonable and probable grounds” to bring charges under the Environmental Protection Act (EPA) against Ontario Environment Minister Jeff Yurek, the Ministry of the Environment and three industrial wind companies with projects in Chatham-Kent — Pattern Energy Group, Samsung Renewable Energy Inc., who operate the North Kent Wind 1 and 2

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projects in the former Dover and Chatham townships, and Engie Canada Inc. which operates the East St. Clair wind farm.

Christine Burke, a well owner in the East St. Clair wind farm project area, brought the complaint to the courts and is called as a witness so was unable to comment on the matter.

According to court documents obtained by the media, the three respondent companies are charged under the EPA with “unlawfully discharging contaminants, including black shale and potentially hazardous metals into the natural environment in an unlawful manner that caused, or is likely to cause, an adverse effect.”

Both the Ministry of the Environment and the minister have been charged.

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Documents state the charges are for allegedly “failing to take all reasonable care to prevent the installation and operation of the wind turbines” at the wind farms, which resulted in the well water contamination.

According to Burke’s lawyer, Eric Gillespie, any person residing in the province can launch a private prosecution by appearing before a justice of the peace and swearing under oath about an alleged violation of the law, including offences under the EPA. The justice of the peace must then determine if there are “reasonable and probable grounds” that offences may have been committed.

In a story reported previously in The Chatham Voice, a recorded conversation between Burke in the East St. Clair wind farm project area and the director of operations for the wind farm company, the official admitted wells were contaminated by turbidity during pile driving, and owners were given filtration systems to fix the problem.

Burke, a well owner who has had black water issues since the East St. Clair turbines were constructed in 2012, called GDF Suez director of operations Augusto Di Maria in August 2017 to ask for help with her well issue. In the 30-minute conversation, Burke asked Di Maria if he was aware of well issues. He replied he

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was aware of issues in the pile driving phase of construction that was making the well water of “six to eight well owners, maybe more” murky.

“When you’re breaking through the earth, that’s a lot of force, I can understand that,” Di Maria said regarding why wells might go turbid during pile driving. “I did see well issues when we punched the piles through the earth, at that point in time there was a disturbance and that makes sense.”

Di Maria went on to say that the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change (MOECC), as well as the Municipality of Chatham-Kent were informed of the well complaints back in 2012.

The province, the wind companies, the municipality and Water Wells First have all declined to comment while the matter is before the courts.

The court date to hear the matter is set for Aug. 14 in the Ontario Court of Justice location on Communication Road just south of Highway 401.

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Co-founder of Water Wells First Kevin Jakubec said while he is cautiously optimistic about the news of a health hazard investigation into well contamination in Chatham-Kent, he has concerns with what he sees as “serious shortcomings” regarding how the government is handling the investigation.

MPP and Ontario Labour Minister Monte McNaughton announced July 19 the health hazard investigation into Chatham-Kent water wells contaminated with black sediment, acting on a promise made a year ago by a campaigning Doug Ford The five-member panel doing the investigation is tasked with determining if the well water and the sediment it contains are safe for human consumption. Members include local geologist Dr. Keith Benn, environmental health scientist Dr. Glenn Ferguson, epidemiologist Dr. Shelley A. Harris who specializes in exposure measurement, toxicologist Dr. Ron Brecher and toxicologist Mark Chappel.

Jakubec said the toxicologists and epidemiologist are good news but at a press conference July 25, asked where were the expert geoscientist with experience in black shale formations, a hydrogeologist and a seismologist who would be able to provide the other pieces of the why and how questions on black shale clogging wells and filters. Kettle Point Black Shale that forms the bedrock in this area is known to contain heavy metals such as lead, uranium

and arsenic.

Benn, who is on the panel as the lone geologist, is a structural geologist with expertise in the Canadian Shield and gold mining applications, according to his resume.

Jakubec also has concerns that AECOM, the company retained by the wind farms company, North Kent Wind, to collect samples of well water after complaints were made, refused to collect sediment samples, going as far as to filter out the black sediment from collected water samples at the home of Dave Lusk in Chatham township. If those reports and collections of well water samples from well complaints, including Lusk’s are being used as the basis of the health hazard investigation, Jakubec said there is bias going into the investigation.

Jakubec has video of an AECOM technician filtering out the sediment and taking pictures of it, but in the AECOM technical report to the MOE, the sediment was “mischaracterized” as a well equipment malfunction.

“Why aren’t they testing the sediment and why did the Ministry of the Environment not come and investigate? They have never been to Dave’s farm.

This is discharge and that’s under section 15 of the Environmental Protection Act,” Jakubec said as he showed the video to media. “Any discharge never seen before is a violation of that section, especially if it impacts quality of life. He had no water at all.”

Lusk’s well casing blowing off water and gas, which the video shows, was also not reported as such in the report. Jakubec said

the water was bubbling around the well cap during this time and shows gas was coming up through the ground at the same time, which requires several thousand pounds of pressure to do.

The AECOM report said the well’s spin-down trap malfunction was causing the water to blow out the well cap, which Jakubec said, is again, a mischaracterization.

Dr. Joel Gagnon, a professor at the University of Windsor and head of the heavy metals lab, was also at the press conference and explained his concerns with his research into the well contamination. He said he was asked by the Ministry of Health this past November to put his findings and concerns with the well contamination in a report for the Minister of Health, Christine Elliott, but he has heard nothing back from them since that time.

“Is there a health risk with consuming water from this well?

It’s not as simple as collecting a water sample, measuring it for dissolved metals and comparing it to a table, because there is a combination of potential factors here, and potential exposures that make this situation unique to the point where looking at the incidence of disease in the human population may be the best to understand this.

That’s how it’s done.”

To that concern, Lusk and Jakubec both took samples of their hair to a Toronto lab accredited to perform hair mineral analysis, and the results were disturbing.

In Lusk’s report regarding toxic materials, he had high levels, above

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Dave Lusk holds a copy of Ground Water magazine showing a front-page article done on his well issues. Hair samples done by a Toronto lab show high levels of toxic metals in Lusk.

acceptable limits, of lead, cadmium and barium.

The test, Jakubec said, is based on the three previous months of exposure, which in Lusk’s case was dermal. Lusk said he hasn’t consumed water from his well since December of 2018 but he has been doing laundry and bathing in the water. He has a complex multi-filter filtration system on his well currently which filters out particles down

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Both reports are dated July 10, and Jakubec said the results are a huge concern and should concern anyone with wells in the area, even if the particles can’t be seen with the naked eye.

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C-K woman to lead LaSertoma International

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For the first time in 14 years, a Canadian will lead LaSertoma International.

Not just a Canadian, but also a Chatham-Kent resident.

Tammy Craeymeersch will take over as president of LaSertoma International Aug. 1 for one year. She was officially named president at this past weekend’s LaSertoma International Convention, which took place at the John D. Bradley Centre.

Craeymeersch, who has known for two years she would head the service club, still found Saturday night’s banquet and announcement very special.

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“If there are any issues that arise in any of the regions, I need to be ready to help and assist whenever I can,” she said.

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Not-so-good vibrations The vibration dissipates by travelling down the pilings and into the bedrock where they are anchored.

“That’s a design necessity, otherwise the turbines would self-destruct. That vibration is transferred to the bedrock and those vibrations can transmit through the bedrock, just like any other seismic wave,” Gagnon added.

The company hired by the wind farm companies, in the Golder report, said models show the vibration could not possibly be transmitted kilometres away from the turbine sites, and surface vibration testing also proved that theory.

Gagnon, however, said the vibrations in the bedrock could not be picked up by surface monitoring done by Golder Associates, and that the vibrations in the bedrock would cause the sediment created to vibrate.

“If a model says it can’t happen, but evidence says it can, then the model is wrong,” Gagnon stated.

He said the MOE was repeatedly asked to test the black shale sediment and the findings from area hydrogeologist Bill Clarke on pre-testing and post-testing of the water samples, including the sediment and its composition, were ignored.

He added a comprehensive population health study, testing the people on the wells and the incidence of illness is a necessity to get to heart of the question: is the water safe, not only to drink, but to bathe and do laundry in and feed livestock?

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Bernice McEachran, a charter member of the Thamesville LaSertoma Club, hands Tammy Craeymeersch a rose at the 91st annual LaSertoma International Convention, which took place in Chatham recently. Craeymeersch was named LaSertoma International President for the 2019-20 fiscal year.

continue as treasurer at Thamesville LaSertoma, where she also chairs several committees.

She’s been involved in LaSertoma for 28 years, and has put in more than 6,000 service hours for the organization.

All that takes place around her job as a children’s service worker at Chatham-Kent Children’s Services.

Craeymeersch said the convention was a hit, as LaSertoma members from Florida, Oklahoma, Virginia, North Carolina, Ohio and Canada joined together for board meetings, business sessions

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Over the three days, the members enjoyed a dip in the sensory pool at the Children’s Treatment Centre of Chatham-Kent, visited Uncle Tom’s Cabin in Dresden, and had Shannon Prince, curator of Buxton National Historic Site and Museum as a guest speaker.

Craeymeersch said the treatment centre holds a special place in the hearts of local LaSertoma personnel, as the service club is a regular donor of funding. In fact, the club was named donor of the year by the centre recently.

The sensory pool was a hit with the visiting LaSertoma people.

Gagnon said this area, from just west of Chatham to about halfway to London is underlain by bedrock – Kettle Point black shale.

“It is different in that it contains considerable amounts of organic carbon and metals which can be considered toxic, depending on exposures and concentrations, and natural gas in the form of methane. It has been prospected in the past for shale gas and has been assessed as a potential environmental risk because of the metals in it,” Gagnon said. “It’s not a competent or tough rock; it’s quite fragile so it can be easily broken.”

At Lusk’s farm, he said there is about 45 feet of clay, then the contact aquifer is about two metres, which produces good water, and under that is the black shale bedrock. When the wind turbine pilings are driven through the bedrock, “it produces damage to the shale because (the pilings) are pounded in, not driven in, and there was evidence immediately upon construction of wind turbines, particularly in this location, that it was having an effect on well quality.”

Gagnon added that is when Lusk began to see his well cap spewing water and gas, and immediately after that, large volumes of black sediment.

Now that the turbines are operating, he said it is known that they vibrate.

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FireFest to return for 2019

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Volunteers and supporters of FireFest Chatham-Kent stand in front of a vintage Seagrave pumper truck that once served the Detroit Fire Department.

FireFest returns to downtown Chatham on Sept. 21.

for this year’s FireFest. Includ- the scene of a fire. planned, and the event will end ed in the displays will be a 1927 Children’s events are also with a parade.

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Still, with volunteer fatigue having set in, the FireFest committee needed a kick-start. Enter Dava Robichaud, one of the co-chairs of the resurrected Festival of Nations.

Robichaud said she’s happy to help.

“My dad was a firefighter in Chatham for 39 years,” she said.

Jordan Metz, of Metz Fire & Rescue, is also involved. His company, out of Guelph, builds fire trucks.

Metz now calls Chatham home and said joining in to help with FireFest just makes sense.

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Brent DeNure expected his father might put him in Time Out if he didn’t keep FireFest alive.

As a result, FireFest, which began in 2012, will continue this year in downtown Chatham on Sept. 21.

A year ago, citing organizer burnout and differences with municipal officials, DeNure said FireFest 2018 would be the final version of the popular event.

A new mayor and new attitude helped change all that. So too did a strong nudging by DeNure’s father, Reg. “My father convinced me not to let this go. With a new, friendly face at city hall, changes were made to make it a lot easier for event organizers to survive and even thrive,” DeNure said, pointing to Mayor Darrin Canniff as the game changer. “Darrin did pave the way for its return. I was blown away by the number of meetings he had between his swearing in and the end of January.

To have the mettle to listen to all these people, and create change...we had a very serious dedication of support from the mayor’s office.”

Canniff said it would have been a shame to lose FireFest.

“It’s a fantastic event that thousands of people come out and enjoy,” he said. “We want to see this go on for many years to come.”

DeNure said after he announced FireFest would not continue after 2018, he realized the importance of the event.

“There are kids now in college who attribute FireFest as to why they are pursuing a career in emergency services,” he said.

Canniff praised DeNure’s efforts.

“Brent is a great example of someone in the community who wants to give back. We, as

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Combined effort works Often when there is a falling out between two parties, bringing everyone back to the table and achieving a positive outcome is difficult.

In Chatham-Kent, however, a new mayor and council combined with a good citizen who listens to his father have ensured FireFest will continue on in a new partnership.

FireFest, first organized by Brent DeNure is 2012, has been bringing thousands of people to a municipality that has shown its love for vintage vehicles time after time.

Differences with municipal officials and volunteer burnout led him to cancel the event after the 2018 rendition.

But thanks to Mayor Darrin Canniff showing his support for the event, and civic-minded people like Dava Robichaud and Jordan Metz stepping up to help, FireFest is back on for this fall.

Scheduled for Sept. 21 in downtown Chatham, the event will actually kick off with a display of vintage fire and support vehicles in Thamesville on the evening of Sept. 20. Every year, FireFest kicks off in a different locale within Chatham-Kent, keeping everyone involved and interested.

DeNure joked that his dad, Reg DeNure, was going to put him in a time out if he didn’t put his issues aside and bring FireFest back to life, and we’re glad he listened.

As our mayor said, any event that brings thousands of people to our municipality is good for everyone involved, even more so when a private citizen – and friends – step up to do the bulk of the work.

Not supporting an event like FireFest just doesn’t make sense.

Many people are looking forward to the return of FireFest this fall, and all that it will bring with it, adding to the fall fair season in Chatham-Kent and a lengthy list of things of do with family and friends.

When people put aside their differences and come together to make good things happen, our entire municipality benefits. Kudos to all the people involved for putting the public first.

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Keep an eye on Monte, Conservatives Sir: Monte McNaughton, the MPP for Lambton Kent Middlesex and new Minister of Labour, has written to local papers about his support, and his achievements regarding local health care. He announced a half million dollars for architectural work needed at Wallaceburg and Chatham campuses, and the then Minister of Infrastructure declared it “was my proudest day in politics.”

This money was used for planning the changes needed at both campuses, through architectural drawings. Announcing the money for the planning grant, the Minister pointed to the “increase” in funding for Ontario’s hospitals.

Mr. McNaughton reviewed his support for the Sydenham District Hospital. He was in fact a part in the local campaign to save the hospital, as were the citizens of Wallaceburg, SOS, the Wallaceburg-Walpole Island Health Coalition and the Ontario Health Coalition.

“Access to local health care is essential to the people of Ontario. People shouldn’t have to travel far to receive the care that they require and deserve.” I wish that Mr. McNaughton had stated

that the health care he was describing would be public, and not private or for profit.

Mr. McNaughton states the Conservative government is not cutting healthcare. He asserts the Conservatives are ending hallway medicine: this will be done by adding 15,000 new long-term-care beds, 1,100 additional hospital beds and committing to upgrades to 128 hospitals.

He states that the new Ontario Health Teams will put the patient experience first.

These are the facts: the two-per-cent heath-care funding hike is less than the rate of inflation, and most hospitals continue their downsizing, and layoffs. There is a staffing crisis in the LTC sector, so building beds that cannot be staffed will not alleviate hallway medicine.

The minister was invited to a roundtable discussion about the staffing crisis in LTC, sponsored by the CKHC and the OHC, last winter but did not attend, nor send a representative.

The 1,100 new hospital beds have yet to be permanently opened. Thousands of beds across the province lie empty due to 30 years of austerity by

other governments.

Doug Ford has not re-opened them permanently.

The new Ontario Health Teams contain private for-profit companies, creating entities, more like conglomerates, than teams.

A reshuffling of the provincial cabinet has now landed Mr. McNaughton in a new ministry, labour.

Mr. McNaughton’s background is business. He once commented that the U.S. “right-to-work” legislation would be a good model for Ontario. This legislation lets workers decide whether they wish to be part of a union or not, and many see it as a way to get rid of unions.

Perhaps unions would not be necessary if employers believed in treating workers fairly, and believed in a good profit not an obscene profit, made on the backs of the worker.

Unions say right-towork legislature would increase income disparity by undermining union strength and rights to collective bargaining, while union strength leads to improved wages and benefits for employees.

Income disparity is one of the social determinants of health.

Premier Doug Ford’s and Minister McNaughton’s “Government for the People” pledges to put people at the centre of everything, yet the Ford government is pro privatization and pro for-profit business.

Access to public healthcare is one of the pinnacles of the Canada Health Act. There should be no profit made from people being sick, and there should be no government that supports for profit health services.

Mr. McNaughton is a pleasant young man. But he stands shoulder to shoulder with Doug Ford, and the stated policies of the Conservative government are not in any way advantageous to the people of Ontario. We have the duty to fight back against Ford’s and McNaughton’s plans: we must fight to protect public healthcare, public education, library services and more.

Three years can pass quickly, and I do hope that our elected officials find the courage to make an abrupt 180-degree turn, and truly start to serve the people.

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The bounty of Chatham-Kent’s agriculture was on display July 22 as the community celebrated the launch of a Buy Local, Buy Fresh campaign with a farmers’ market, barbeque and flag raising at the Civic Centre.

The effort was sponsored by the Kent Federation of

Agriculture (KFA) and supported by the municipality through the Chatham-Kent Public Health Unit and Economic Development.

MaryAnne Udvari of the KFA noted the $3 billion value of agriculture to the local economy.

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A guide to buying fresh, local products lists nearly 50 locations across the municipality at which producers sell dozens of products.

The guide is also available at all municipal service centers and library locations.

“The guide is so popular we have business who aren’t agri-related asking if they can have copies to display,” Faubert said in a media release.

More information about the program can be found at http://buylocalbuyfreshchathamkent.com.

Coun. Jamie McGrail noted that local residents have a unique option of healthy buying, while Chris Sherman of the health unit said consumption of fruits and vegeta-

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Showcasing a vast selection of local produce, a farmers’ market helped kick off this year’s Buy Local, Buy Fresh campaign.

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New grocery store coming to Chatham grocery store – all food-related items.”

Romualdi said don’t expect to The former Target store in find laundry detergent or other ThamesLea Plaza in Chatham household cleaning supplies at will soon be home to a new the shop, as the focus is on food.

Jonathan Reaume, “one of food market – Mercato Fresh.

Marc Romualdi of M.R. Meat Windsor’s best chefs,” RomualMarkets in Windsor is leading di said, is a partner and he is the partnership to bring the taking care of all the food ser15,000 square-foot store to the vices aspects of the store.

Tiki Ted “a locally famous suwestern portion of the buildshi guy,” is going ing. to handle all the The plan is for “In Chatham, we sushi in the store. the store to be wanted to make it a In terms of pricopen by mid-Ocseamless one-stop ing, Romualdi tober. said the meat will Romualdi said shop, with all departbe for sale at pricthe idea of open- ments of a typical groing a pure grocery cery store – all food-re- es similar to what M.R. Meats offer store in Chatham in Windsor. isn’t new to he lated items.”

He said produce and his partners. - Mercato’s Marc Romauldi will be sourced “We’ve been thinking about doing this for locally as much as possible.

“When it comes to the seathe past two or three years,” he said. “”We just got busy with son, we’ll definitely be dealing directly with the farmers,” he Windsor.”

He said the reasoning behind said.

Romualdi said it is they wanted Mercato Fresh to develop a new “One thing that differwill employ beconcept. entiates us from other tween 40 and 50 “In our Wind- stores is our service. people, most of sor locations, whom will be we just sell meat Our service will be the full-time staff. and some gro- best of the best.”

He anticipates cery items such - Mercato’s Marc Romauldi running a job fair as bread. In Chatham, we wanted to make it a closer to the opening date.

They’ll be looking for people seamless one-stop shop, with all departments of a typical who are outgoing and willing

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Business

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Arlene Hagemann/Special to The Chatham Voice

Mercato Fresh will set up shop inside the former Target store in Chatham. The grocery store hopes to be open by mid-October.

to help others.

“One thing that differentiates us from other stores is our service. Our service will be the best of the best,” he said. “Too often, the clientele (at other stores) is ignored. We will have extremely knowledgeable staff.

We’re very engaging.”

As for the expansion into Chatham and new store concept, Romualdi said he thinks they found the perfect location.

“To me, it’s a fairly underserviced area, especially in that end of town. There are a lot of seniors living in that area that we want to accommodate as well.

We’re right in their backyard,” he said. “It’s just a good market to pilot the new concept. It’s the first of a few we’re planning

on putting in Ontario.”

Romualdi is already amazed by the support the concept has received on social media.

Mercato Fresh will also be involved in community support in Chatham.

“One of our primary focuses is to be involved and part of the community. In Windsor, we’ve given hundreds of thousands to charities. We will do the same thing in Chatham,” Romualdi said.

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Friday, August 2 • Meal (5:15pm-6:30pm), open darts (7:30pm) and Catch the Ace (drawn at 6:30pm) at the Chatham Legion, William & Colborne St., Chatham. Choice of meatloaf, roast beef or fish & chips for $10.

• STEAM+ at the Chatham branch of the CKPL, 120 Queen St., Chatham. For children 6 years and older. 10:00am. Explore science, technology, engineering, arts & math.

Saturday, August 3 • Summer meat draw (4:00pm-6:00pm) and dance (4:30pm-9:30pm) featuring Allen James at The Chatham Legion, William & Colborne St., Chatham. Everyone Welcome.

Monday, August 5 • Free Brown Bag Lunches available for pick up at Christ Church, 80 Wellington St. W., Chatham between 11:00am and 12:15pm.

• Euchre at The Chatham Legion, William & Colborne St., Chatham at 1:00pm. Everyone Welcome.

Tuesday, August 6 • Music & Movement Story time, drop in at the Chatham branch of the CKPL, 120 Queen St., Chatham. 10:00am. Best suited for children 0-6 years of age.

• Euchre at The Chatham Legion, William & Colborne St., Chatham at 1:00pm. Everyone Welcome.

Wednesday, August 7 • Mother Goose at the Chatham branch of the CKPL, 120 Queen St., Chatham. Songs, rhymes and stories for children 0-24 months and their caregivers. Drop-in. 10:00am. Bring a blanket!

• Pepper (1:00pm), fun darts (7:30pm) at the Chatham Legion, William & Colborne St., Chatham.

Thursday, August 8 • The Chatham-Kent Film Group presents “The Children Act” starring Emma Thompson and Stanley Tucci at the Chatham Capitol Theatre. $10 cash at the door or subscribe for the year for $50.

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Friday, August 9 • Meal (5:15pm-6:30pm), open darts (7:30pm) and Catch the Ace (drawn at 6:30pm) at the Chatham Legion, William & Colborne St., Chatham. Choice of cabbage rolls, roast beef or fish & chips for $10.

Saturday, August 10 • Summer meat draw (4:00pm-6:00pm) and dance (4:30pm-9:30pm) featuring Don & Bonnie at The Chatham Legion, William & Colborne St., Chatham. Everyone Welcome.

Sunday, August 11 • Church in Victoria Park, Bothwell. Corner of Elm and Catherine St. 10:00am. Sponsored by the Bothwell Ministerial Association. Please join us.

• Tilbury Area Action Team is hosting Roller Skating at Tilbury Memorial Arena from 7:00pm10:00pm. $20/family. $8/adult. $5 youth under 13. Includes skate rental. Family skate 7:00pm8:30pm. 13 years and over 8:30pm-10:00pm.

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Monday, August 12 • Vacation Bible School running Aug. 12-16.

9:30am-11:45am. For children entering JK to finishing Grade 8. Held at the Bothwell Baptist Church, corner of Elm and Peter St., Bothwell.

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• Euchre at The Chatham Legion, William & Colborne St., Chatham at 1:00pm. Everyone Welcome.

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• Euchre at The Chatham Legion, William & Colborne St., Chatham at 1:00pm. Everyone Welcome.

Wednesday, August 14 • The Bubbleology Show at the Dresden branch of the CKPL, 187 Brown St., Dresden. 10:00am.

• Mother Goose at the Chatham branch of the CKPL, 120 Queen St., Chatham. Songs, rhymes and stories for children 0-24 months and their caregivers. Drop-in. 10:00am. Bring a blanket!

• Join Shelly Webster for a Pebble Art class from 6:00pm-9:00pm at the Active Lifestyle Centre, 20 Merritt Ave., Chatham. $35 for supplies. Cash bar on site. Call 519-352-5633 to reserve your seat.

• Pepper (1:00pm), fun darts (7:30pm) at the Chatham Legion, William & Colborne St., Chatham.

• Hop on the bus to join the Active Lifestyle Centre as they travel to Caesars Windsor’s Colosseum to see Wayne Newton. Cost is $20/person and includes the bus from the ALC to the Casino and return to ALC by 6:00pm. Call 519-352-5633 to book your seat! Must book by August 7.

I may not barbecue quite as much as I used to, but there are few people happier than this guy to learn Mercato Fresh is coming to town, and bringing a diverse selection from M.R. Meat Market with them.

I spoke with Marc Romauldi, owner of M.R. Meats and one of the driving forces behind Mercato Fresh, and I got hungry just doing a phone interview.

I love what the folks at Lenovers’ and Schinkel’s have, don’t get me wrong, but to have another option in town is very intriguing.

Marc and I have something in common as well: the Big Green Egg. As readers of this column know, I’ve cooked a variety of food – big and small, meat, vegetable, bread and dessert – on that Egg. Be it chicken breasts from Schinkel’s, bacon-wrapped pork medallions from Lenover’s, a brisket from Buis Beef, pork shoulders or prime rib from the Super Store, I’ve cooked it.

And now there is one more option coming for October.

Kids have their candy stores, and some of us guys, especially Eggers and smokers, have their large cuts of meat.

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I have finally done it. Well, I have finally done two things.

First off, I replaced my very old cell phone. As I type this, I have a Samsung Galaxy S5. It’s five generations out of date and counting.

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I will soon be operating on an iPhone, an iPhone XR to be exact.

My daughter, an iPhone addict, is salivating. She will indoctrinate me into the iBrigade and have to teach me all the useful tips and tricks of using an iPhone.

I’m a tech guy, but for seven years I have been an Android user. Prior to that, it was BlackBerry.

I have an iTunes account and figured I’d kill my Sirius satellite account and save some bucks in the process.

Of course, I’ll have some work to do to figure everything out. That’s where the kid comes into play.

She’ll help make the transition as seamless as possible.

In other words, I’m just another aging parent who will rely on his child to help him understand new technology.

I have to give a shout out to Thames Communications in town for advising me on how to approach Bell Mobility to get a good deal from the company’s loyalty program. I’ve been with Bell since the mid-1990s, and they came through with a nice deal.

Tune in next week to see if I’ve tossed the phone against a wall in frustration, or if I am an iExpert (more likely somewhere in between).

Friday, August 16 • STEAM+ at the Chatham branch of the CKPL, 120 Queen St., Chatham. For children 6 years and older. 10:00am. Explore science, technology, engineering, arts & math.

Friday, August 17 • Art in Memorial Park Tilbury from 10:00am6:00pm. Stewart St., Tilbury.

CK Metal Detecting Club. Last Thursday of the month. Erickson Arena. 7:00pm. Guests welcome.

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 2019

Meadow Park celebrates 40 years

By Bruce Corcoran bruce@chathamvoice.com

Staff, family and friends gathered to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Meadow Park LongTerm Care Home on July 24, and to look to the future.

On hand for the celerations was former owner Don Stevens.

He built the home in 1979.

Stevens said the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care originally put out a request for proposal for a 60-bed facility in Chatham, and he was fortunate to land the contract.

“When we opened, there was unbelievable demand,” he said.

Stevens sold the facility a decade later to Jarlette Health Services, who own it to this day. He still sits on the Jarlette Health Services Advisory Committee.

At the celebrations, Stevens said he was happy to run into so many familiar faces.

“I met so many original staff here today. It was quite a reunion,” he said.

Meadow Park opened in 1979 with the 60 beds down two wings. Built on three acres of land at the corner of Sandys Street and Poplar Avenue, Meadow Park expanded to accommodate 99 beds in the early 1980s.

Since its inception in 1979, Meadow Park has served more than 1,500 senior residents and has supported countless family members.

Julie King, chief operating

officer at Meadow Park, said the demand for long-term care beds remains today.

“We are patiently waiting approval from the province to build a 128-bed facility,” she said. “We will move forward once redevelopment plans are approved by the province.”

Stevens said the new facility would better be able to serve the people of Chatham-Kent.

“This is a beautiful building still,” he said. “But new standards mean bigger and better for the residents.”

King agreed.

“This is a beautiful building, but the infrastructure is outdated to best meet the needs of the residents,” she said.

Lydia Swant, resident and family services co-ordinator at Meadow Park, said celebrating four decades of operation is special.

“It is incredibly rewarding to be part of this remarkable milestone,” she said in a media release. “It is very meaningful and special to have some of our original staff still extending a tradition of excellence in care within Meadow Park, and we truly believe it is a testament to the Home’s unwavering commitment to making an outstanding difference in the lives of others when we witness connections being made between the past and the present.”

Swant added Meadow Park has become

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Meadow Park Long-Term Care Home celebrated 40 years recently. From left are Don Stevens, the man who built the home; Sharon Jarlette, representing current ownership Jarlette Health Services; Anne-Marie Rumble, administrator; Julie King, chief operating officer; and Renee Pauze of Jarlette.

a teaching environment of sorts as well, as students have had the opportunity to learn and gain hands-on experience.

Meadow Park Chatham also worked to become a Best Practice Spotlight Organization (BPSO) with the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario. The three-year program, which upon successful completion, will result in an official designation, has challenged Meadow Park Chatham to evaluate current practices and to make changes to ensure the highest degree of safe and efficient care is being provided, Swant said.

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CLASSIFIEDS In Memoriam

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Mary Castein ~ June 3rd, 1930 - August 5th, 2009 It will be ten years on Monday since you left us Mary.

We all miss you more each day.

We’ll meet again, don’t know where, don’t know when, but I know, we’ll meet again some sunny day.

Keep smiling through, just like you used to do, till the blue skies drive the dark clouds far away.

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Tough goodbye for Block Parents board, volunteers

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It was with a stiff upper lip, the board, staff and volunteers of the 40-yearold Block Parent Program of Chatham-Kent held their last board meeting to wrap up business and look back over all they accomplished.

Held at Rossini’s Restaurant recently, the board meeting was a chance for current and past board members and Block Parents to talk about how the agency evolved over the past 40 years to include child and senior safety information, Block Parents in almost every part of the municipality, and Halloween safety programs.

Board Chairperson Tanya Nooyen said since it was announced late last year Block Parents didn’t meet the new criteria for funding from the United Way of Chatham-Kent, they had been seeking new donors for the $30,000 per year funding, without success. The funding pays for the office rent in the United Way building as well as two part-time staff

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She said the board had to make the hard decision, after “turning many stones over and a phenomenal amount of our own grief,” and trying to answer the questions of the public about just running the network of signs by volunteer, that they weren’t willing to go back to the beginning after years of growing the program to include child and senior safety education.

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Board Chairperson Tanya Nooyen of the Chatham-Kent Block Parent Program speaks at the organization’s final AGM recently, with board members and volunteers sharing some good memories and a few tears. The organization, in its 41st year, shut it doors after not meeting the new funding criteria set by the United Way.

this program,” she noted.

At the meeting was past Block Parent Chair Ruth Bossence, who got a little emotional when talking about her journey with the organization.

“This is a sad night, but so many memories,” Bossence said. “My hat is off to the ladies who have worked so hard to get CKBPP to where it is.”

From parades in the freezing cold, rain or heat, to lugging parade supplies up and down stairs, to ID clinics, Bossence

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“But all good things have to come to and end.

It’s been really hard for me these last few weeks,” she added.

She thanked Ed Sykes and Maple City Office Supplies for supplying them with a copier over the years, and talked about all the moves.

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She also told a story about an older couple who would walk by her house, who stopped her one day to tell her they always felt so safe going by when they saw the Block Parent sign in the window of Bossence’s home.

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Block Parents had been under the United Way umbrella for the past 18 years.

Nooyen said the police have expanded child and senior safety and prevention programs and they were told their services were being duplicated and no longer needed.

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