The Community Edition: April 2015

VOLUME 3, ISSUE 7 • APRIL 2015

OF BRICK AND BEAM

PROFILING WR’S HISTORIC ARCHITECTURE PAGE 10

IF STREETS COULD TALK PAGE 11

SWEET ESCAPE PAGES 8-9

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Volume 3, Issue #7 Next issue: May 6, 2015 75 University Ave. W Waterloo, ON N2L 3C5 519-884-0710 x3564 Advertising All advertising inquiries should be directed to Tammy Rowe at 519-884-0710 x3560 trowe@wlusp.com THE COMMUNITY EDITION TEAM Editor in Chief Allison M. Leonard allison.leonard@wlusp.com Publisher Bryn Ossington bryn.ossington@wlusp.com Photo Editor Matt Smith

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Dani Saad Bryn Ossington Tammy Rowe John Pehar Abdiasis Issa Shelby Blackley Neha Soni Taylor Berzins Laura Buck Alistair MacLellan George Liu

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IN THIS ISSUE

LETTER

FEATURE

The Community Edition is a lot like a one of those cool motels you always see on a long road trip. We have cozy, clean rooms and features, awesome fonts that dazzle your eyes like a retro roadside sign, and we have a quirky little misfit staff that somehow manages to make a pretty awesome paper each and every month.

8-9 MAPLE SYRUP THE CE FINDS SWEET ESCAPE IN WATERLOO REGION’S HISTORIC MAPLE SYRUP HEARTLAND

Our vacancy light is always on, and it’s not because we have bed bugs and nobody wants to stay here, it’s because we are a reflection of a community in constant change.

NEWS

3 THE POLITICS OF POLLINATION 4 WR’S REINVENTIVE HISTORY 4 RETHINKING SEX ED CURRICULUM

URBAN

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WHAT MAKES A MAKER IF STREETS COULD TALK ALL ABOUT THAT ASS FROM BONES OF BRICK AND BEAMS SUCCESS STORIES OF 10 IDEAS ST. JACOBS RESURGENCE KITCHENER ROBOTS RISING

ARTS & CULTURE 13 MUSIC THROUGH MIXED MEDIA 15 REVIEWS 15 LISTINGS

So the next time you’re out on that long trip, skip the boring chain hotel and stop in at our fabulous motel of community journalism.

While you’re here you might as well volunteer with us, you get a fresh set of towels, a questionably short bath robe, and a complimentary, continental breakfast, complete with bagels, muffins, and a chance to have you voice heard across Waterloo Region.

P.S. thank you to the big wigs (Al & Hayley) and the big beards (Bryn and Dani) for having me this past year.

Matt Smith Photo Editor

Every month one TCE editor writes about their experience building community media with us. Want to be part of the team? Email allison.leonard@ wlusp.com.

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NEWS

NEWS BEAT UW AND GRAND RIVER HOSPITAL TEAM UP

Grand River Hospital and University of Waterloo announced a research partnership in March.

Academics and clinicians will collaborate on research to improve patient care. This will aid in resolving the slow down of research, due to having to go before two ethics panels to undergo projects.

Space will become available at the main hospital and Freeport site for UW Researchers.

CENTRE IN THE SQUARE REPAIRS NEEDED

Over a hundred protestors met to voice opinions about Bill C-51 at Kitchener City Hall on Saturday, March 14. • MATT SMITH PHOTO EDITOR

ON THE POLITICS OF POLLINATION

Centre in the Square is facing many hardships this year, as an organization review is already underway. City councillors were given a tour of the facility and told that $7 million would be needed for repair work. Areas needing work include sections of the roof, bathrooms and some of the concrete, which showing wear and tear. Centre in the Square finished 2014 with a $1.5 million deficit, despite a cash infusion from the city of $1.4 million. $2.3 million has already been spent on repairs.

RESEARCHER LEADER IN TOBACCO CONTROL

In an effort to fight harmful insect infestation, honeybees are taking a hit, too. • COURTESY BRIAN WOLFE, FLICKR CREATIVE COMMONS

Building Resilience

CATHY MACLELLAN COLUMNIST Janine Benyus, renowned natural sciences writer, said that “in the natural world, life builds from the bottom up, and it builds in resilience and multiple uses.”

Surveying the dead or damaged limbs, splayed bushes, and generally bleak look of everything in my garden these days is an exercise in hope.

Winter is a great test of resilience, for nature and society.

How can we build a resilient life? Understanding our fundamental need for community, food, water, air and how it interacts with the complex, technological urban life we have created and generally enjoy, will help. Building resilience is neither convenient, nor

cheap, but it far outweighs the costs of not being prepared for the inevitable unknowns.

“Building resilience,” the Community Edition’s newest column, will navigate both local and global issues to consider how Waterloo Region citizens can learn from experience.

-At the St. Jacobs Market, the honey seller cannot be missed. His corny sales pitches are a near guarantee; “how about some honey for your honey?” or “life is sweeter with honey!”

But the bees behind this vendor’s business aren’t as guaranteed as they once were.

Agricultural and chemical advances often come with unintended consequences. In an effort to fight harmful insect infestation, honeybees are taking a hit, too.

Bees, irreplaceable pollinators, are increasingly exposed to neonicotinoid-treated seeds, causing mass-dying of colonies in the spring.

This has been documented in Italy, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, the USA and Canada. While bees are not necessary for growing grains, corn and legumes, they pollinate 84 per cent of commercial fruit, vegetable and nut crops. Nature’s efficient and effective

pollination system is at risk, and calling for resilience.

Neonictinoids, created in the late 1990s, are systemic pesticides, 20 times more effective than DDT. Technologically advanced — they are not just used on plant leaves, they are taken up by the plant and transported to all the tissues (leaves, flowers, roots, stems, pollen and nectar). The decade old pesticide gained such popularity that, in 2008, “neonics” made up 80 per cent of all seed treatment sales worldwide. Evidence for bee colony collapse soon followed. By 2011, global sales for neonic treatment was over US $2.63 billion, solidifying their place in modern agricultural practice.

“If we lost our pollinators, it doesn’t matter if you live in the city or the countryside, we need to work together to find ways to protect both the wild and native pollinators, and our honeybees,” says Susan Koswan, founder of the Grand River Environmental Network (GREN).

Balancing economy with sustainability is no easy task. Powerful interests too often dominate the discussion, leaving a passive citizenship with hopes that government will make decisions with “the good” in mind.

But some individuals in Waterloo

Region won’t wait for this imminent collapse of bee colonies.

Local groups concerned with WR’s bounty of bees have partnered with the Sierra Club of Canada to protect the pollinators.

“Pollinators such as bees, butterflies or any other insects, are such an important part of our ecosystem, and especially important for the production of our food and the food of many other living organisms,” says Anne Morgan, biologist at Waterloo Region Nature (WRN) and Protect the Pollinators event organizer.

Farmers’ market phrases promising a “honey of a deal” are common place to any regular, bringing out smiles and wallets. But it also raises issue worth discussion in Waterloo Region, and an industry in need of great resilience.

When it comes to building a resilient food supply system, ignorance is not bliss. Protect the Pollinators, a discussion on neonic effect on bees, will be held at Princess Twin Cinema on April 7 at 6:30pm.

Cathy MacLellan is the co-founder and VP of Ubiquity Solar, a mom to three millenials and an urban homesteader.

Professor Geoffrey Fong, University of Waterloo psychology department and School of Public Health and Health Systems, received an award from the American Cancer Society for his outstanding research contribution.

Fong founded the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project in 2002. The project focuses on research that combats tobacco use worldwide, with the aim of reducing preventable deaths. This involves assessing the effectiveness of tobacco control policies, such as warning labels, smoke-free laws and taxation, through surveys. The project now has more than 100 researches in more than 20 countries and published more than 300 scientific articles in the past decade. Fong has been awarded for his leadership of the project.

WILFRID LAURIER FACING FINANCIAL WOES Wilfrid Laurier University is projecting a $25 million deficit.

According to Jim Butler, Laurier’s vice-president of finance and administration, this deficit stems from several issues; arts degree applications are dropping across the province, regulated tuition fees, pensions, and lack of international student enrolment.

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WR’S LONG STORY OF REINVENTION

WATERLOO REGION’S HISTORY IS NO STRANGER TO NARRATIVES OF OF INNOVATION

The view from

upstream

LYNDSEY BUTCHER GUEST COLUMNIST

Electrohome made its mark selling phonographs and television sets, it now produces projectors as Christie Digital. • MATT SMITH PHOTO EDITOR

Waterloo Region

under review

DAN HERMAN COLUMNIST There’s been a flurry of stories in major North American publications about the Region of Waterloo’s recovery from the decline of Blackberry.

“The life, death and rebirth of Blackberry’s hometown,” read one story. I couldn’t help but chuckle and wonder if the city and region existed before it.

But, surprise surprise, it did.

There’s no denying what one company – and one fundamentally transformative product – did for Waterloo, for Canada and for communications

technologies worldwide. But that’s a company’s story. Waterloo’s story is far deeper and broader — it was before Blackberry and it will continue to be long after.

In fact, the wider region has a good track record of dealing with such periods of economic and technological transition.

Once upon a time, the region was synonymous nationwide for manufacturing. Whiskey, hockey skates, Sorel boots, high definition televisions — they were all made within a stones’ throw of King Street, by household names like Seagrams, Bauer, Kauffman and Electrohome. However, as the patterns of global trade changed in the 1980s and 1990s, so too did the ability of local manufacturers to stay competitive. Dozens of local companies like them closed down or consolidated elsewhere. It’s a trend that continues today.

Then, as now, new companies have risen to take their place and existing companies have reinvented themselves to remain competitive.

While Electrohome made its mark

selling phonographs and television sets, it now produces the world’s most advanced projectors as Christie Digital. That transformation is likely the region’s most sparkling example of technological innovation and iteration, yet is rarely talked about.

While Blackberry’s rise was exceptional, other quieter companies have done as much to keep jobs and ideas in the region. For example, Open Text is rarely discussed as a Waterloo success story, despite a 25 year growth story similar to Blackberry. Founded in 1991, as a spin-off of a University of Waterloo project, the company has slowly built a billion-dollar global empire. While its product – enterprise information management – is nowhere near as sexy as more consumer-oriented local tech offerings.

The results are impossible to ignore as the company’s workforce and annual revenue stream grows. There are many others like it – albeit smaller – in sectors that develop and utilize high-tech solutions, be it in manufacturing, food production, financial services or information communication technology.

Sure, Blackberry’s evolution has stressed many in the region. The region’s growth certainly benefitted from its presence, and the direct and indirect investments it facilitated.

However, this region’s story has never been tied to just one company. The 10,000 or so residents, who work in the region’s insurance industry, or the 10,000 who work in academic institutions, would certainly agree.

In 2006, David Johnston, then-president of the University of Waterloo, now Canada’s Governor-General, noted that KW’s ability to reinvent itself was a “metaphor for the 21st century Canadian economy.” That remains true, and it remains grounded in decades-long processes of innovation, renewal and diversification. The key today is ensuring that the ingredients for those processes, notably the human resources for tomorrow’s great companies and ideas, see Waterloo Region as the place they want to be.

Dan Herman is the co-founder and executive director of the Centre for Digital Entrepreneurship and Economic

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Do you remember your first sex ed class? The awkward teacher? The scare-tactic movie? Giggling at the colouring-book style pictures of penises?

Ontario’s sex education curriculum has not been updated in almost twenty years and navigating healthy sexuality through the lens of colouring book penises is no easy feat.

Healthy sexuality goes beyond STIs or knowing how to put on a condom — hundreds of women every year face unintended pregnancy. Waterloo Region has more teen pregnancies than average across Ontario, a trend that needs changing. Becoming a parent before fully prepared reduces opportunities to finish school and may result in raising a child in poverty.

Both mother and child suffer due to a lack of education about sexual health options – enter upstream thinking on sex and sexuality in Waterloo Region.

In February, Ontario Health Minister Liz Sandals released the long awaited updates to the sex education curriculum. Opponents of the updates have shared misreadings of its content through the media, claiming that it exposes students to too much too soon.

Sex education does not encourage sexual activity. Rather, studies show the opposite.

A UNESCO report on nearly 90 sex education programs found that sex education delays the start of sexual relations, reduces the frequency of unprotected sexual activity, and increases the use of protection against unintended pregnancy and STIs during sexual intercourse. Knowledge is power, even between the sheets.

Despite the controversy, the Ontario government is holding steadfast to its commitment to implement the changes in the classroom in September. The updated curriculum introduces new topics that were not relevant 20 years ago: online activity, social media and texting safety, as well as consent and recognition for same sex relationships. The traditional sex ed material isn’t washed away either; anatomy, puberty and relationships all make an appearance, just a few years earlier. Public health data is at the root of the curriculum’s planning — children are beginning to mature at younger ages, calling for revised teaching.

While the school system is altering practice to better meet the needs of Ontarion adolescents, parents will always be the first and most influential educator in a child’s life and the curriculum does not seek to replace this important role. The updated curriculum recognises the primary role of parents as a source of information, support and care in shaping a healthy approach to sexuality and relationships.

The first time might always be awkward as inexperienced bodies learn to navigate each other, but the first conversation doesn’t have to be.

Lyndsey Butcher, MSW is the Executive Director of Planned Parenthood Waterloo Region, a proud partner of the Waterloo Region Sexual Health Youth Strategy

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URBAN

URBAN BEAT

FOLLOW THE WHITE RABBIT

White Rabbit opened the beginning of March to great crowds and ample delights. Some of their charming attributes include: the biggest back-bar in the city, a lovely, large, open window with a view onto King Street, signature punch bowls and inspired foods. Check out the new digs at 47 King Street N., and let us know if you liked the newest addition to uptown by tweeting @TheCommunityEd.

JANE’S WALK SEEKING VOLUNTEERS

Residents make their way through downtown Kitchener at the first reveal of sidewalks following a long winter • MATT SMITH PHOTO EDITOR

THE MAKINGS OF A MAKER CULTURE

Jane’s Walk Festival takes place May 1 - 3 and is aimed to get people to explore their cities through a series of organized, free walks.

These walks allow volunteers to pick a topic, plan a route, detail the stories, places and people they want to talk about, and promote it around their neighbourhood.

If this is something that interests you, visit janeswalk.org to become a volunteer.

CITY SUED OVER PUBLIC LIBRARY RENOVATIONS

The Kitchener hackerspace, kwartzlab provides opportunites and space for creation at their 33 Kent Ave. location • MATT SMITH PHOTO EDITOR

MARK GROULX CONTRIBUTOR Last November TCE took a glimpse into the maker movement in a discussion with artist, computer scientist, and kwartzlab makerspace cofounder Darin White. With kwartzlab in its sixth year, and the recent unambiguously ambiguous announcement on the Waterloo Mini Maker Faire website to “mark off Sept. 19 2015 on your calendar,” it seems the maker movement is taking hold in Waterloo Region.

Katie Kish, maker and PhD research scrawls out several notes and diagrams that act as a roadmap to our conversation, we discuss the roots of her personal interest in maker culture.

Her academic interest in the topic sparked by an artistic family; Kish’s father and sister are accomplished actors and musicians. Despite this connection and her personal love of a good “stitch ‘n bitch” – a meeting where a group of knitters and crocheters get together for a good yarn – Kish’s description of maker culture focuses only tangentially on the artis-

tic aspects of the movement.

“For me, and some people might disagree, to be a maker you have to do more than just make something or craft. Being a maker is also about rejecting aspects of modern consumer culture.”

For non-makers it might be hard to associate the act of knitting a sweater or repurposing an old appliance with such a political statement. And as Kish notes, not all makers see themselves this way. But speaking with her it’s easy to understand her passion for this dimension of the movement. It comes not simply from the act of creation, but the opportunity to engage with a group of people that are finding ways to stand the process of production and consumption on its head.

In his recent book The Craftsman, sociologist Richard Sennett argues that “craftwork focuses on objects in themselves and on impersonal practices; craftwork depends on curiosity, it tempers obsession; craftwork turns the craftsman outward.”

In other words, craft is not only about how we work, but also how we work with one another.

Indeed, Sennett suggests “that the craft of making physical things provides insight into the techniques of experience that can shape our

dealings with others. Both the difficulties and the possibilities of making things apply well to making human relationships.”

This aspect of building and strengthening social ties is what makes this movement an intrinsic part of the struggle to build sustainable communities.

As Kish crosses out the words “arts and crafts movement” from her sheet of paper, she discusses this aspect of community building as a defining element of modern maker culture.

“Its really about where the DIY movement overlaps with peer-to-peer networks.”

What maker culture does is embed a flexible and modular approach to material production, consumption and reinvention within an equally flexible network of local actors. From a sustainability perspective, makers certainly have a penchant for reducing their individual consumption through upcycling (the process of repurposing or fixing otherwise obsolete objects).

However, the fact that they have traded in a trusting relationship with their favourite brand to be part of a community of committed local citizens is perhaps the more powerful part of the sustainability connection.

Kish suggests that these gestures,

in small but meaningful ways help to “build something more to hold onto.”

Waterloo Region is not unique in having a makerspace. But as Kish circles the last diagram on our conversation roadmap, she argues that we do in fact have a rather unique maker ecosystem.

“In Kitchener-Waterloo you have three things overlapping. You have the technology, you have creativity, and you have a built-in culture of localization and communitarianism.

In other cities you might have two out of the three. In Toronto you have technology and creativity, but the scale of the city presents challenges to building community. In St. Catherine’s you have a scale that is conducive to community, you have creativity, but not the same tech scene. Having all three is what makes KW’s maker movement unique.”

The term sustainable community is often pitched as a target to work towards. But sustainability is not an end state for a community. It is a way of thinking about a constantly evolving set of processes that tie a community together. The maker movement in Waterloo Region is still taking hold. Yet it is already contributing to a new way of thinking and a different approach to working with the world around us.

Maystar General Contractors of Vaughan are suing the City of Kitchener, and the architects, on the renovation and expansion of Kitchener’s Central Public Library for $7 million, saying that hundreds of changes to the design led to costly delays. The general contractor filed a statement of claim last May, seeking $7 million in damages from four parties: the City of Kitchener, LGA Architectural Partners of Toronto, Philip H. Carter of Toronto, an architect specializing in library design, and WalterFedy, a Kitchener firm responsible for the design of the parking garage and for engineering design for the overall project. The four defendants filed statements of defence, blaming Maystar for the delays.

EAST KITCHENER SCHOOL DELAYED

This is the second delay in building of the new Chicopee Hills Public School, planned to be built near Lackner Boulevard and Fairway Road. Originally scheduled to open in 2015, the project has been delayed twice, the second delay causing push back to Sept. 2017.

The delay stems from rezoning the site, which is located near busy roads. It also means added costs, to the already exceeding $12 million in approved provincial funding. Construction is slated to begin in May 2016. The school will hold 650 students, and is crucial to a rapidly developing neighbourhood.

Fancy yourself an urbanite? Want to share that passion with KW? Then write for the Community Edition’s urban section! Email us at communityeditor@thecord.ca.

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IF STREETS COULD TALK: MACGREGOR-ALBERT

FROM THE LESS TRAVELLED TO THE LESS-APPRECIATED, TCE IS EXPLORING THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE EVOLVING NEIGHBOURHOODS OF WATERLOO REGION. BY ANDREW MORGAN. PHOTOS BY MATT SMITH.

A close neighbour to uptown, Wilfrid Laurier University and Waterloo Park, MacGregor-Albert has always been on the front lines in a growing Waterloo. The history of Waterloo can be traced in its streets and houses, but the story of MacGregor-Albert is not yet done. Beneath the facade of century homes and converted rental buildings, on the hills where the original blueprint for Waterloo was laid, this community is charting its way forward in spite of seemingly immovable forces at its gates.

The neighbourhood stands on land first owned by pioneer Abraham Erb. Houses were built on the high land north of Erb’s mill and town hall, the fire hall and the market (where the Waterloo Public Library stands today).

Erb is also credited with founding Waterloo’s first school in 1820, near what was then called Church Street.

When people came to settle in the Village of Waterloo, owners and workers of industries like Erb’s mill and Karl Mueller’s cooperage, in shops on King Street or local farms, it was common to purchase two half acre lots in the hills over the mill. As families grew, the properties were infilled with new homes and subdivided.

In those days, Albert-MacGregor was a community of extended families.

It’s a lot like the story of how life-time resident of MacGregor-Albert, Sue Mansell, came to the area.

Mansell lives in a home designed

and built by her father for his parents, built in the 1940’s in the garden of her uncle next door. Mansell’s father built another house for a family member on the same block. She recalls attending school down the street at MacGregor Public School and a booming gang of kids in the neighbourhood to play with.

The most recent census put MacGregor-Albert’s population at 428, but only counted 30 residents under the age of 15. This shift in demographics is attributed to what was happening to nearby schools - some were closing, and another was expanding. Once, the neighbourhood children would attend Alexandra, Brighton or MacGregor Public School. Alexandra and Brighton were closed in the 80s and MacGregor now only offers grades 6, 7 and 8. By the time Mansell was raising her own family in that same home built by her father, children were bussed or driven to schools beyond the neighbourhood.

Without active schools nearby, the arrival of young families slowed to a crawl. Meanwhile, down the street, local universities were growing and MacGregor-Albert was fast-attracting another breed of youngster.

Carrie Stevenson likes to joke that she tries to meet her university student neighbours, so they might think of her face before watering her lawn on their way home from the bars at night.

As demand for off-campus student

housing rose, property owners in Albert-MacGregor cashed in and got out, selling their homes to would-be landlords. The Stevenson’s live between two such rental properties, and in the ten years since moving in have had some negative experiences with noise and vandalism.

But Stevenson points out that students are a part of the neighbourhood, too.

“Those are annoyances we’re willing live with given all the positives,” she says, adding, “we can’t keep building an ‘us versus them’ environment.”

In fact, many find that overall the students bring an activity and youthfulness to the neighbourhood.

Like Carrie’s approach to dealing with unsolicited lawn sprinklers, the community makes an effort to show students they are part of the community through actions like welcoming new students to the area each fall and inviting students to the odd community BBQ. “I like having them,” says Heather Read of her neighbours, a WLU frat house, “I think the guys are trying really hard to be part of the neighbourhood.”

Stories of community spirit are easy to find in MacGregor-Albert.

Take Emmanuel United Church, on Bridgeport Road. Inconspicuous from the outside, the church is a hub of community groups and services from youth group to senior centre.

“Emmanuel has always looked outside its walls to be a fully functioning member of the community,” the Church said in a statement.

No neighbourhood is without onagain-off-again community activists.

By the account of one resident, Betsy Abbott, it all began in the 1970s with a proposal to widen Albert Street for increased traffic. A coordinated push back from the neighbourhood, complete with “SOS - Save Our Street” tshirts was reasonably successful; instead of widening, the City decided left turn lanes at Central Street and at Seagram Drive. And so MacGregor-Albert developed its capacity to mobilize and get engaged. Betsy tells the story of one woman, who, in the days before council agendas were available to the public, would knit during council meetings, with an ear tilted toward the front of the room, listening for anything her neighbours need to know.

Others would collect background research, make presentations to council or join committees.

Some even credit the neighbourhood and their intelligent approach to political matters for starting discussions that gradually lead to the 2003 Height and Density Study, the 2004 Student Accommodation Study and the Rental Housing Licensing Bylaw, documents that are shaping how Waterloo grows and develops.

But the neighbourhood’s top accomplishment has to be the establish-

ment of the MacGregor-Albert Heritage Conservation District, Waterloo’s first and, to date, only heritage district.

The heritage district, which establishes policies to conserve the character of a neighbourhood as it grows, was a real grassroots initiative. “People just step up,” says Abbott, a fact about her neighbourhood that she’s proud of.

In March, a group of interested community members gathered for a soup party. It was a party with a purpose, and on the agenda was the possibility of forming an official neighbourhood association. For all of the past political involvement by the community, there had never been an official neighbourhood group. Homemade soups, stews, chilis and desserts were munched at the same time as neighbours discussed and raised questions about what should be done. At the front of the room, Stevenson and the others behind this meeting speak over little shoes stomping around the gym; noding to a success story for MacGregor-Albert - young families are returning to the neighbourhood.

The soup party was held at MacGregor Public School, which is built on the original grounds of that 1820 log schoolhouse. It was the perfect setting for the next chapter of MacGregor-Albert to begin.

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Pure & local SHEENA BOUSANGA COLUMNIST Jon Kabat-Zinn, professor of medicine emeritus at the University of Massachusetts says that “mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way — on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally.” Simply put, mindfulness creates the space we need to breathe, to be, to live.

Using mindfulness at home and in the classroom, can be such a powerful tool for kids and adults alike. It is a great way to encourage calm, focus, alertness, awareness, and creativity in children — which, as a result, decreases stress and increases self-esteem.

Mind jars are a simple, yet effective technique that you can immediately start using with the children in your life.

MAKING MIND JARS A mind jar is a great visual tool to help children and adults understand mindfulness. It represents our minds and illustrates how busy our minds and bodies can be with our day to day thoughts and emotions, much of which goes unnoticed.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED To make a mind jar you’ll need a mason jar or plastic water bottle, glitter and water.

HOW IT WORKS When I make mind jars with a class or with clients, I invite kids to share emotions or sensations that they often feel in their bodies and minds; responses range through excited, nervous, angry or frustrated.

As they share their emotions, I add glitter into our jar for each answer they offer. Soon the regular jar of water is full of ‘emotions’ and glitter.

I explain that our minds can be very busy sometimes (as I shake up the jar).

Then I share that if we can become still in our bodies, than we can become still and clear in our minds. Taking five deep breaths can calm our mind and settle our glitter.

THE PRACTICE When you notice you’re getting frustrated or angry, take a moment with your mind jar. Shake the jar and pause, take five deep breaths. As the glitter starts to settle, your mind will start to settle.

What happens if the glitter is settled, but your mind is still upset? Take five more mindful breaths, or as many as you need.

The key to mindfulness is simplicity.

Offer children simple explanations and give them space to explore. I often tell parents and teachers that children, by nature, are actually very mindful.

Insert busy lives, and hectic schedules, and next thing you know, children are inflicted with the same chaos as the adults in their lives. Lead by example, even if that means making your own mind jar first. Mindfulness creates ease, and ease creates happy families and happy kids.

Sheena Bounsanga is a mindfulness coach for kids, parents and teachers.

She is also the creator of Mindful Kids and Mindful Girls. www.SheenaBounsanga.com

MAPLE SYRUP FINDING SWEET ESCAPE IN A WATERLOO REGION SUGAR BUSH.

BY ALISTAIR MACLELLAN. PHOTO BY ALLISON M. LEONARD. Walking down the aisle of a grocery store is a lot like walking down the street in a subdivision. Products arranged uniformly — like homes neatly spaced by the same amount of green grass and trimmed hedges — are organized for ease of access. It’s not a bad thing, like most modern conveniences having one place to stop and stock up for the week can be very helpful, but no matter how hard a marketing team tries to brand the bread aisle, it will never feel the same as your neighbourhood bakery. What’s missing is the personal connection to where the food comes from and the people who make it. In this region finding that connection, even in the early, still frozen, weeks of spring is as easy as, well, pancakes.

“Where does maple syrup come from?” ask’s the St. Jacobs Horse Drawn Tours guide. It’s getting late in the afternoon, and she has probably asked this question ten times already today. This doesn’t impede her enthusiasm which infects the small group of spring-ready attendees.

“Trees!” shouts a sea of bundled-up children near the front of the group.

Everyone is clad in scarfs and mud crusted boots, the ground is soft despite the crisp air.

“You’re right! From a tree! What kind of tree?” the tour guide responds with the same excitement as a motivating camp counsellor.

“This tree,” squeals one little girl pointing nondescriptly at the entire forest in front of her.

The group of ten to fifteen people standing behind the sugar shack are surrounded by maple tress of various ages, the light blue plastic sap lines snake through the trunks catching the bright sun shining through the branches. It’s the last day of March break and probably the best weather the region has seen all week. The forest, looking thin without its foliage is fuelled by pure maple sap, flowing through the intricate root systems like blood.

Maple syrup isn’t often regarded in the same light as tomatoes, cucumbers or cabbage but in this region it’s the first fresh food to be harvested as winter subsides and gives way to a new growing season. Waterloo Region is littered with sugar bushes, the climate being well suited for the maple tree.

Every March, St. Jacobs Horse Drawn Tours opens Matthew Martin’s forest up to the public allowing the region to experience the family farm.

They’ve tapped into the rich cultural history of maple syrup production spanning present day methods all the way back to when the first settlers

learned about the sweet sap from Canada’s indigenous peoples. Step into a red trolly of old, reminiscent of a San Francisco street car, and a pair of draft horse will pull you out of the city and into the region’s heartland.

For four generations, the Martins have been producing maple syrup just outside Waterloo’s city limits.You can sense the urban encroachment of a city bursting at the seams as you turn down Apple Grove Road towards the farm. Much like many of the streets on the outskirts of the city one side is field-laden, awaiting this year’s crops.

Modern developments flank the opposite side and manicured landscaping fill the trolly’s dusty windows. This region seems to be constantly balancing its rural heritage with its urban intensification.

The pace of this progress juxtaposed between the St. Jacobs Farmers’ Market where the tour begins and recent road closers and construction prompted by LRT. Our driver jokes with the young children at the front of the trolly as he drives the large Belgian horses into the farm. Dressed in navy overalls and dirty boots he looks like he might have just been inspecting the sap lines. He’s been driving horses for this tour 9 years and counting.

“Every year it’s different, this year it started mid March,” says our driver, referring to the start of the season.

Predicting when the sap starts flowing is something of a dark art. Part science, part luck it’s mostly determined by the climate, the cold nights and warmer days of early spring where the temperature rises above zero during the day and dips below freezing at night are ideal.

As the horses plod along pulling the trolly down the gravel farm lane the forest cuts a transition between the muddy snow laden fields and the blue sky. The children are excited all talking at once, even the adults in the group eagerly peer forward, looking to catch a glimpse of their destination.

The Martin’s tap about 1700 trees, each with between one and three taps depending on the age of the tree. The sap that drips from each of the 2600 taps is clear and could easily be confused with water. Upon arrival at the sugar shack, tour guides pass a bucket of fresh sap around for attendees to sample. It tastes like stale water. In order to turn the sap into the sweet, sticky liquid you pour on your breakfast, it’s heated, boiling off the water leaving the sugar behind. It takes about 40 litres of sap to make one litre of syrup. This used to be done by putting hot rocks into a hollowed out log full of the liquid. After three

days of doing this you have syrup.

Mechanization has modernized maple syrup production, but the general technique essentially hasn’t changed for hundreds of years.

Today the time it takes to turn the sap to syrup is shortened by using reverse osmosis to remove two thirds of the water before the sap is heated, concentrating the saps sugar content before the evaporation process begins.

Once the sap is run through the evaporator, it’s syrup.

Another question echoes through the group in the same excited tone, now standing amongst the metal machinery inside the building where the sap lines lead.

“Does anybody know what the three grades of maple syrup are or what grade they buy?”

Pale sunlight streaming through the window illuminates several bottles along the ledge containing the different shades of syrup. The poster on the wall gives the answer away, “Light, medium and amber, does anyone know what the difference is?”

She asks not skipping a beat.

“It’s about how you boil it down right?” suggests a mother standing with her daughters.

“The thickness?” offers someone else.

“It’s all boiled the same amount of time, and it’s all the same thickness, the difference is when it was collected”, states the tour guide.

The lighter syrup is collected mid March and the dark is collected mid April. Sap travels up from the roots of the tree feeding it with nutrients much the same as the blood in our veins. As the ground thaws the bacteria levels change, which in turn alters the colour of the sap and intensifies the maple flavour after boiling. Connoisseurs start light when sampling syrups and proceed to go darker as to not loose the subtleties between each grade.

With a plate of fresh, fried pancakes from what can be aptly described as a sugar shack, attendees get to taste syrup produced on the Martin farm.

Sitting in a wooden shed with plastic cloth-covered tables, it’s easy to forget that five minutes away there’s an outlet mall. For the families exploring the farm, this isn’t just about purchasing a product, it’s about experiencing the cultural heritage of the region. And just like the sap in the trees, tradition is the lifeblood of Waterloo Region, feeding the curiosity of the next generation as well as their stomachs.

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Sexplanations

with Stacey

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FROM BONES OF BRICK AND BEAMS

BY MATT QUICK. PHOTOS BY MATT SMITH.

STACEY JACOBS COLUMNIST The hit HBO show, Girls, opened its fourth season with an anilingus scene – go Lena Dunham!

As seems to be a trend, I was flooded with pop-culture sparked questions on the activity better known as ass eating or rim job. They both refer to oral sex performed on another’s anus.

Yes, I am talking about licking someone’s asshole. Many people enjoy performing and/or receiving anilingus, it is not specific to any gender or orientation, and it can be quite pleasurable as the anus has a high concentration of nerve endings.

Maybe you find this act intriguing, maybe you are not interested in the least, maybe you have been eating ass for years.

The important thing to know is that, as with any sexual activity, there is a safer way to do it.

First things first – always ask someone before licking their ass. The ass talk is an important talk to have, some people are not comfortable with sexual activities that involve the anus and that is okay.

It is also important to keep a barrier between your mouth and the anus, no matter how clean the anus is, it is possible to contract diseases and infections, including STIs, from this activity.

There are people who fantasize about feces, become sexually aroused by feces and/or like to incorporate feces into their sexual activity. If feces is involved in your sexual activity it is a good idea to ensure you and your partner(s) are tested for all STIs beforehand. A blumpkin (receiving oral sex while taking a shit) is a safer sexual activity as you do not eat or lick the shit, you only smell it.

A dental dam is a thin piece of latex, they also come in non-latex, that is placed over the anus to act as a barrier. They come in many flavours and can be found locally at Planned Parenthood Waterloo Region (PPWR), the Aids Committee of Cambridge, Kitchener, Waterloo and Area (ACCKWA) and Public Health, at no cost.

A condom can easily be made into a dental dam.

Simply unroll the condom, cut off the tip and cut down the side. You can also make a dental dam out of a latex or non-latex glove by cutting off the fingers and cutting up the side.

You can use lube on the side facing the anus to reduce friction and add pleasure.

Some people like to prepare their anus before it is licked, by removing pubic hair. Often pubic hair grows around the anus. There are many hair removal options – shaving, waxing, sugaring, Nair, laser.

The important thing is that you are careful, as the anus is a sensitive spot of the body. A Brazilian includes waxing or sugaring the anus. Some also like to bleach their assholes. Anal bleaching is the process of lightening the colour of the skin around the anus.

Again, be careful, as the sensitive skin around the anus can easily be irritated or even burned.

And that is all I have to say about the ass.

The Community Edition set out to find the frames that withstood industry and time, the brick and mortar laid for generations to come.

In a city of development, we asked, what brick and beam buildings are candidates for the next vintage boutique? What exposed pipe spaces will become trendy condos? What walk-up will become home to Waterloo Region’s next start-up?

ELECTROHOME 152 SHANLEY STREET Boarded up windows and doors, a black paint sign slowly conceding to yellowing brick, and paint swatches covering graffiti — the former Electrohome Industries plant physically dominates the corner of Duke and Shanley Streets. First known as Pollock Manufacturing, Electrohome manufactured phonographs and cabinets

69 AGNES STREET

It’s ironic that 69 Agnes Street, a building designed in the art deco style — a form characterized by bold shapes and colours and marketed to the luxurious — is inconspicuous in both its location and function. Surrounded by extended parking lots and distanced from the road, it’s easy to drive or cycle by 69 Agnes Street without noticing its unique, asymmetrical design and patterned windows.

Purchased in 1927 by the Kitch-

table deterioration of the brick façade has been observed. Unlike many old manufacturing buildings in Kitchener, redevelopment won’t be easy — the site is contaminated with tricholoroethylene, an industrial solvent. What is clear is that any redevelopment will require a financially committed and enthusiastic investment.

5 MICHAEL STREET

ener-Waterloo Granite Club, from the Kaufman Rubber Company, and operated primarily as a curling club until 2003. The building is now home to the Kitchener-Waterloo Badminton Club and soon, an axe-throwing league. Recently purchased by the Badminton Club, redevelopment is unlikely — instead, it will remain a building beloved for it’s function, rather than form.

RUMPEL FELT - 60 VICTORIA STREET

George Rumpel was a hardworking entrepreneur, who purchased the Berlin Felt Boot Company in 1879. Rumpel was torn between two desires — advancing his company and returning to Germany, his birthplace.

Not unlike the building’s namesake, The Rumpel Felt Factory is also torn between history and future.

Located at the corner of Victoria Street and Duke Street, it has significant heritage value as one of the oldest

and by the mid 20th century, the brand was commonplace in Canadian households — manufacturing radios, furniture, and colour televisions.

Despite persistent rumors of condominium development, the future of the former plant, one of twelve in Waterloo Region, is unclear. In 2011, the City of Kitchener attempted to sell the building, in order to collect on unpaid property taxes, and more recently no-

Located two blocks southwest of the Tannery, 5 Michael Street is currently home to The Beckett School of Music and Music Plus, but perhaps not for much longer. The building’s owner has recently applied for a zoning change to office space. According to a City of Kitchener Staff Report, issued in Dec. 2014, the owner has entered into agreement with a local high-tech company to expand local operations.

Jane Jacobs, urban provocateur, re-

marked that new ideas need old buildings. Like the Lang Tannery and The Breithaupt Block before it, 5 Michael Street is a perfect example of an old building. A renovated brick and beam that has witnessed Waterloo Region’s economic transformation, from shoe and shirt manufacturing to high tech innovation.

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industrial buildings in Kitchener, but it also stands in the way of development, specifically the proposed King and Victoria Transit Hub. George Rumpel decided to return to Germany, but stayed on as president of his company to form Rumpel Felt Company in 1912. Transit Hub planning should follow Rumpel’s vision, acknowledging heritage and new development as equal parts of progress.

After 90 years, Kitchener’s Schneider’s meat processing plant ceased operations on Feb. 27, 2015. The 10-hectare site, located on Courtland Avenue between Ottawa Street and Stirling Avenue, is overwhelming with redevelopment potential. It’s located close to downtown and future rapid transit and has little industrial contamination. Infill residential, commercial, offices, a grocery store, and green space – it’s a rare opportunity to

transform a community and a city. It will take extensive planning and cooperation between community members, planners, engineers, and architects. It will take time, patience, and vision. It’s like a baseball game in the first inning, the end unknown but the journey will be exciting. Grab a hotdog.

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10 IDEAS, TWO YEARS IN THE MAKING Bearface AS 10 IDEAS ENTERS ITS THIRD YEAR, TCE SHARES PAST PARTICIPANT SUCCESS STORIES LITTLE LIBRARIES Big ideas often come in small packages, or in this case, small wooden boxes full of books. Little Libraries of Kitchener Waterloo’s goal was to promote community engagement through the sharing of books in neighbourhoods all across the region. By offering building plans and kits to construct small weatherproof book boxes, people could put up a little library on their lawns for everyone to share. The kits were so popular they quickly sold out. CBC KW caught wind of this and made a map pointing out Little Library locations across the city. According to the Little Library team new kits will be available later this year.

LIVE LOCAL KW The brain child of Juliana Gomez, Live Local KW rallied over 100 passionate people and 42 businesses to participate in the inaugural event last September. Participants were challenged to eat, drink, shop and play locally for one week; its success prompting some great insights into what the region has to offer.

Waterloo Mayor Dave Jaworsky, Kitchener Mayor Berry Vrbanovic, and MPP Catherine Fife participated as well as many others. While the event won’t resurge until September, the conversation continues online where you can add your experiences with the live local lifestyle using #livelocalkw.

GRAND PORCH PARTY What started out as an idea to bring neighbours out on the street has turned into an annual event that marks the beginning of BBQ season.

Last year’s rain didn’t stop Grand Porch Party from putting on a well attended event in Uptown West Waterloo. The neighbourhood is set to host another batch of musicians again this year, so mark June 14 on your calendars. The idea is catching on across town, other neighbourhoods like Hohner in Kitchener are putting on their own party.

OPEN SPACE Open Space, in partnership with Extend-A-Family started as a weekly gathering to promote inclusion within the community at Queen Street Commons Cafe. Between board games and great conversations, Open Space has become a popular destination for people looking to enjoy socializing and meeting new people in a safe environment. The event has now expanded to two other locations, the Melville Cafe in Cambridge and Seven Shores Cafe in Waterloo.

TOGETHER WE’RE BITTER If you are into craft beer brewed locally (who we are kidding, you all are), get your pint glasses ready for TWB’s spring launch. Having successfully raised funds to get started via the crowd funding website Kickstarter late last year, the team is getting ready to tap the kegs and share their craft beer creations. As the region’s first co-operative brewing company they will be brewing beer with locally sourced ingredients. TWB aims to cater to everyone in the community and create a local space where music and good times can be enjoyed by all.

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on beer

JON JOHNSON COLUMNIST The more you talk about beer, the more you find yourself using words that you’ve never used before. In the interest of helping expand your beer vocabulary, so that you too can speak in beer jargon, I’m interjecting usually “Bearface On Beer” style for a crash course in articulating your ales.

GLASSWARE This is what you drink your beer out of, which should almost never be the bottle or can that it came in.

While the term “glassware” probably isn’t new to you, in the world of beer it can be more complicated than you think. While you might be used to the standard “shaker” style, smooth sided “pint” glass, many people claim this is not the ideal vessel for beer.

There are also debates about the size of a “proper” pint glass. The truth of it all is that there are many different sizes and shapes of glassware. Often specific types are recommended for specific beer styles to help enhance your drinking experience in different ways. Glassware types include, but aren’t limited to: shaker pint, nonic pint, tulip pint, snifter, goblet, and the fairly recently developed IPA glass.

Discussing the finer points of all these could be its own article in the future.

AMERICAN ADJUNCT LAGER This is the classification given to the light-bodied, pale, fizzy lagers popularized by the major breweries. Molson Canadian, Labatt Blue, Budweiser and Coors are all American Adjunct Lagers.

ABV - ALCOHOL BY VOLUME American Adjunct Lagers have similar, fairly low ABV’s, so people who drink those regularly may not discuss ABV much. The alcohol content can vary greatly in the types of beers I usually pursue, so I find myself discussing ABV a lot. It can have a big impact when you fail to realize a beer has an 8 per cent ABV before you down a whole pint in short order.

IBU - INTERNATIONAL BITTERING UNITS This is the unit of measurement for gauging the bitterness of a beer.

American Adjunct Lagers have low IBUs while hoppy American IPA’s have much higher IBUs. For example, Molson Canadian comes in at 15 IBUs, while Central City’s Red Racer IPA has 80 IBUs. This all ends up being somewhat relative, as factors like heavier malts in a beer can tone down the perceived impact of bittering hops, but it’s a helpful place to start a discussion from. It is often said that we can’t detect the taste of more than 100 IBUs, but that has not stopped some breweries from going for higher and higher numbers.

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Wear Out There CHRISTINA PROCTOR COLUMNIST Sure, accessories in general always elevate a look, but featuring fancy feet seems to make the biggest statement.

When it comes to shoe selection in Waterloo Region, we are truly spoiled for options. Many new and vintage shops offer wonderful collections of shoes, which are perfect for a sunny spring day or special occasion.

Chloe Raincock, founder of Heel Boy, and Brie Heatherley, marketing and strategy manager are stepping up the shoe selection in uptown Waterloo.

Heel Boy is a shoe boutique on King St. offering new shoes in the latest styles, for both men and women.

“Diamonds may be a girl’s best friend, but shoes are my true love,” says Raincock, immediately offering up her passion for her boutique.

The first Heel Boy opened in 1998 in Kingston, Ont. Now with two locations in Toronto, and one in Waterloo, this exclusive boutique provides customers with a variety of shoe options at respectable prices. Heel Boy is best known for offering collections, which are a perfect blend of trendy, casual, formal and unique styles. Need shoes for a hot date, snowy afternoon in the park, power lunch, or casual dinner?

The friendly and shoe-savvy sales staff will prepare your pieds for any situation.

“This season, we’re seeing styles from the 90’s return,” says Heatherley.

“The platform is back in a casual flat or tall chunky heel, and the mule is popular as an easy slip-on with peep toe or with a 4” heel.”

Shoes in floral prints and bright colours are also popular this season, along with athletic styles, perfect for everyday wear.

“You can wear any trend this season with jeans, casual cropped pants, skirts or dresses,” explains Heatherley.

Even though spring weather presents a unique challenge, as changing temperatures often require both winter and summer styles to be on hand, footwear can still be used to elevate your look.

“Choose shoes in a bright colour or print to add interest to a basic outfit, and choose a short, 1” heel over flats to add height,” Heatherley recommends.

Inspired by the hip, street-style scene in Toronto’s Queen West neighbourhood, Heel Boy brings fanastic lines to Waterloo Region’s emerging independent fashion scene. Putting your best foot forward is helping the region to do the same.

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ST. JACOBS RISES FROM THE ASHES St. Jacobs Farmers’ Market is nearly ready to open its doors one year after serious fire • HEATHER DAVIDSON, CORD PHOTO EDITOR ERIKA YMANA CONTRIBUTOR On Sept. 2, 2013, St. Jacobs Farmers’ Market lit up in flames, the cause of which remains undetermined. However, following the fire there was no hesitation in providing a temporary place of business for vendors while plans for its rebuilding were considered. A little over a year later, the building is almost finished as it prepares to open in early June.

Overall, the exterior portion of the building is nearly finished including the windows and drywall.

The next few months will be spent finishing the interior and completing

the rest.

Marcus Shantz, president of Mercedes Corporation, which owns the Farmers’ Market building, said the new building will be 10,000 square feet larger, making more room for seating and wider aisles. This will also mean 20 per cent more vendor space.

More importantly, the new building will have sprinklers.

“We were happy to put sprinklers in the building,” Shantz said.

There was no external pressure for the $5-million project, as the company and the community are in support of providing a permanent space for vendors.

“We’re getting lots of nice comments

from people and people seem to be excited by it … the vendors are very excited by it and we’re very encouraged by that,” said Shantz. “I hope that it continues to be a hub for the community and a place where the vendors and the customers continue to interact as they have in the past.”

Devin Petteplace, communications coordinator and executive assistant to the mayor of Woolwich, said the township has fully supported the market rebuilding, as Woolwich encompasses St. Jacobs.

“From a logistics perspective, it was really just about providing approvals for planning and development which was fairly simplistic. We as a township

had indicated at the time of the fire that we’d be happy to work with Mercedes Corp. to make sure that it flows smoothly and I believe it has,” said Petteplace.

The market is a significant tourist attraction for the township of Woolwich and for the community.

The fire has not hindered the circulation of business by vendors and the spirit of the community.

“To have that feeling of being whole again with the construction of the new building, it will be really significant for the township from a tourism and from a heritage perspective,” said Petteplace.

ON A CLEARPATH TO THE FUTURE Kitchener’s Clearpath Robotics company sells robots to over 500 customers in over 40 countries • WILL HUANG, CORD PHOTO EDITOR

MARISSA EVANS CONTRIBUTOR Robots are becoming an important and exciting factor in many industries with the help of Clearpath Robotics. The company is based out of Kitchener and sells robots to over 40 countries around the world and serves over 500 customers.

Recently, they received $14 million in funding from the United States venture firm, RRE Ventures. The funding will go toward the development of new technology as well as expanding their workforce.

“To date, Clearpath has really been focused on research and development,” said Meghan Hennessey, marketing communications manager at Clearpath Robotics.

“So developing products that are research platforms — vehicles that can be used by researchers around the world to help them take their research

to the field and do testing to work on these next generations robotics technology.”

The new technology is in the sector of industrial robotics, more specifically designing robots that will handle materials in warehouse environments.

One of the things Clearpath will be doing is working with developments in SLAM technology, this is simultaneous localization and mapping, which involves researchers developing “techniques to help them localize the robots, understand their environment and then map it out.”

They will apply this to their industrial robotics which will be used inside of warehouses. Warehouses will be able to take Clearpath’s robotic platform and software, place it in their environment and it will do its job. According to Hennessey, this is quite futuristic for the industry.

Hennessey said this is similar technology to what is being used in driverless cars, but applied to a different setting.

“What’s really cool about these is they’re safety rated,” she continued.

“So they can interact with humans in

ways that traditional or conventional industrial warehouse robots haven’t been able to.”

For example, if a robot is going along an aisle and a human or object passes in front of it, it will stop and allow it to pass.

According to Hennessey, they should have prototypes of their next industrial robot by late spring or early summer this year with a possible launch in the fall.

Clearpath currently has 80 employees and are hoping over the next 18 to 24 months to have around 140.

They will be hiring people across all areas of their company, from operations to marketing support, but Hennessey noted their need for engineers.

“The reason they started the business here and decided to keep the business here … is because of the excellent talent pool that surrounds this area with Wilfrid Laurier and University of Waterloo and Conestoga College,” she said.

“It’s fantastic especially as we’re a growing company we want to embrace that young, innovative group of people

that are coming out of university and take them in to be a part of something big.”

In particular they enjoy being able to provide jobs to mechatronics graduates from UW. This is a fairly new program which the co-founders of Clearpath — Matthew Rendall, Ryan Gariepy, Patrick Martinson and Bryan Webb — actually graduated from. According to Hennessey there aren’t a lot of jobs out there yet for mechatronics graduates.

“For Clearpath to be able to fill even a little bit of that void with the opportunities that are directly related to the mechatronics is really exciting for us,” she said.

As of late, Hennessey said they have noticed that the general public has become more aware of robots in the world.

“We think there’s a huge opportunity for robotics to enter essentially any industry,” she said. “For Clearpath robotics we expect to automate anything that moves. If it has wheels, we’ll automate it.”

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ARTS & CULTURE

ARTS BEAT SCULPTURE STOLEN FROM KWAG

A sculpture was stolen from the Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery Absentia display. The sculpture,

by Toronto based artist An Te Liu, was noticed missing Thursday, March 19. Entitled “Eidolon I,” the piece is worth $5,000 and was part of an exhibit of 20 or more pieces. The thief was caught on camera, and the police are looking for the culprit with the help of the public.

PHILIP BAST RECEIVES POST HUMOUS AWARD

THEMUSEUM hosted a nude tour, check out our account of the evening next month • COURTESY MICHAEL WILLEMS, MICHAELWILLEMS.CA

DELIVERING MUSIC IN MIXED MEDIA

The late arts journalist, Philip Bast, has been honoured with an award, for his trail-blazing work in digital journalism and his passionate advocacy for the arts.

Bast, who died last November in his Kitchener home at age 63, is the first recipient of the Joan Euler Order of the Creative Mind Award. Bast was arts editor of the Waterloo Region Record for 26 years, where he worked hard in support of the vibrant local arts scene and emerging talent. After retiring from the newspaper in 2006, he went on to produce webcasts, television reports and a documentary on local blues performer Mel Brown, entitled “Love Lost and Found.”

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The Famines defy music release convention by distributing download code carrying posters with unique artwork • COURTESY THE FAMINES

KURTIS THOMAS CONTRIBUTOR For bands creating music today, finding new listeners can be a daunting task. With the cost of entry into music production getting dramatically lower every year, it’s never been easier for a band to record their music and share it online.

For the listener, accessing new music has also become easier — but there’s a lot of it to sift through. Thousands of bands both new and old are posting music daily, and they’re all vying for the commodity most precious to them, your ears’ real estate.

Because of this, Montreal-based band, The Famines, fronted by Raymond Biesinger on guitar/vocals and Drew Demers on drums, are trying something new. After a few quiet years and a line-up shift, the band was eager to release new content, but were finding themselves shackled to the challenges of traditional release methods.

“Mammoth Cave records, out of Toronto, was handling the release of our new LP Too Cool + Other Songs,

WE’RE NOT USING ANY SPECIAL EFFECTS OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT, AGAIN, MAKING THE THE MOST OUT OF AS LITTLE AS POSSIBLE. RAYMOND BIESINGER, THE FAMINES and they were telling us it was going to take roughly 11 months turn around time from the moment it was mastered for vinyl, to being pressed and back at our door,” explains Demers. “At the time we were already working on some new material, so we decided it would be best to figure out a way to release a single before the LP was ready, so that we weren’t sitting around for 11 months before touring new music.”

Mammoth Cave has since closed their doors, citing the steeply increasing costs and times associated with music production as one of the reasons.

With the cost and time commitment of vinyl becoming increasingly unwieldy, the band came up with a unique distribution model.

The Famines have a history of convention defying releases — including 8-tracks, a live cassette and even

a book — but it was Biesinger’s career as an illustrator which inspired the next step.

Demers describes their new ‘paper release’ as “a 20” by 30” black and white poster on newsprint, sporting an image that has been used recently for several different designs — t-shirts, posters — by The Famines. The poster contains a digital download code that leads to two brand new tracks.”

This new medium of music delivery allows for a symbiotic relationship between music and art.

“The front has art that relates to the A-side song, and the back has the integrated B-side, and the download information. It’s a combination of the flexibility of the digital, but it also has this visual artifact which is quite unique, that I think a lot of people are going to like having on their wall,” says Biesinger.

He further elaborates, “visually I like to make as much as possible using as little as possible. I like having the thrill of economy of line, or shape and expressing as much of an idea as possible without using many materials.”.

“In music, Drew and I have a drum kit, a guitar and my voice. We’re not using any pedals, were not using any special effects or anything like that, again making the most out of as little as possible.”

It’s this relationship between the tangible and audible aspects of the release that elevate it above a mere means to an end. It also provides significant cost savings to The Famines, both on the sides of production and distribution.

At shows, the release will be available for a significantly smaller fee than a traditional physical release would allow, and costs savings will also be felt when the band ships the release nationwide later this year.

Biesinger has high hopes and long term plans for the new medium of music delivery.

“If this experiment and format works out well, we’re going to put out our full length record on paper in August. It just makes sense.”

The Famines play The Princess Café on April 9.

Kitchener artist David Whitely is painting 25 panels, each 4 feet tall and 8 feet in length, for a mural that will span his back fence that faces River Road in Kitchener.

The theme is childhood, and the project is being called by Whitely “the Cat’s Pajamas Community Mural.” The City approved the mural, after worrying about traffic accidents caused by the art, but the artist is actually hoping that the artwork will encourage drivers to go the posted speed limit of 50 km/h, which many do not heed.

JANICE LEE LOOKING FOR KITCHENER TALES Janice Lee, folk artist and story teller named Kitchener’s artist in residence for 2015, is beginning a new project this spring. She will be visiting four general areas of Kitchener (downtown, five library branches, Kitchener Market and the Iron Horse Trail) to collect stories of these places from people she meets there. From the stories and anecdotes she will compose four poems, which she will then ask people in those locations to recite. The final video of each poem will be a collage of the different voices and faces of the city, and the stories of those places where they gather. She is also commissioning local graphic artists to create posters for each of the poems.

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REVIEWS ALBUM REVIEW

Jeff Rosenstock’s newest album, “We Cool?” debuted on the Billboard Charts as #7 heatseekers album after its March 3 release • COURTESY TANTRUM IMAGERY

JEFF ROSENSTOCK RISES IN THE INDIE SCENE DAVE EMRICH CONTRIBUTOR Playing their final show on Jan. 19, 2014 in Brooklyn, Jeff Rosenstock’s home-project-turned-punk-rock-revolution Bomb the Music Industry has left Jeff fairly inactive as far as formal studio releases go. Their last album “Vacation,” was released on July 26, 2011, and since then outside of a few

home recorded releases like “I Look Like Shit” and a couple of singles, Jeff has been working on his newest release “We Cool?” which came out on March 3 this year via SideOneDummy. Upon its release “We Cool?” crashed the SideOneDummy website.

It debuted on the Billboard Charts at #7 for Heatseekers Albums, #43 for Rock Albums, and #157 for Current Albums. So it’s safe to say that “We Cool?” holds some serious clout on the indie scene.

The album opens with the quiet acoustic punk intro of “Get Old Forever,” but very quickly bursts the doors open with feedback and guitars turned

up to 11. The dynamics on this album are incredible. If you like screaming out lyrics with the windows rolled down on a summer day, this album is exactly what you need. In fact, this album is already a number one contender by a country mile for your summer album of the year, and it was released in the winter.

Much like all of his releases with Bomb the Music Industry, Jeff pulls no punches on experimentation with this album.

Featuring everything from 8-bit chip tunes, to grand piano ballads, to a full on horns section, to what is seemingly a melodica recorded in reverse to God

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knows what else, this album will keep you listening time and time again trying to find the new secrets that Jeff has included on this masterpiece of an album.

The best example of this is on the eerie ballad “All Blissed Out.” Which many will look over upon first listen (guilty as charged) but let me tell you, this is slowly creeping up to be the stand out track from the album.

Although this album features some heavy ballads like “All Blissed Out” and “Beers Alone Again,” don’t be hesitant if you’re looking for high energy. With track such as “You, In Weird Cities” and “Hey Allison!” (the latter of which

is the absolute definition of a “banger”) Jeff packs a serious punch of energy in this 36 minute album. While there are many areas that could be defined as “epic” he never allows any part to drag on allowing you to be bored; this album will keep you interested from start to finish.

It’s unfortunate album reviews sit around 400 words, because Jeff’s work, having matured over the years, warrants pages of discussion. “We Cool?” is the absolute pinnacle of this development and it shows in spades.

Don’t sleep on this one, it’s got punk album of the year written all over it.

BOOK REVIEW

THROUGH EYES OF INNOCENCE

CLAIRE CAMERON’S THE BEAR TAKES ON FEAR VIA WORLDVIEW LEFT LONG AGO

The Savoury is hidden in the uptown, beside the Duke of Wellington • MATT SMITH PHOTO EDITOR

SECRET, SIMPLE, SAVOURY

THE SAVOURY OFFERS TRADITIONAL ENGLISH FARE IN UPTOWN

DEBBIE FREY CONTRIBUTOR Shortbread usually follows a typical 1-2-3 ratio: one part sugar, two parts butter and three parts flour. But as soon as you walk into the Savoury in uptown Waterloo and smell shortbread baking, you know that the chef Terra Maurer doesn’t always bake by the rules. The smell of butter is what greets you, along with Maurer’s cheerful smile while she bakes, serves customers and rings the cash register.

The Savoury had been popular in uptown Waterloo long before Maurer purchased it. Having worked in the food and beverage business all her adult life, KW native Maurer befriended the previous owners while she worked across the hall at the Duke of Wellington.

“I had always dreamed of owning my own restaurant,” Maurer said. “I spent

several years working and saving to buy a place. When The Savoury went up for sale, I knew I wanted to buy it.”

Her restaurant is part dine in, part take out and part British grocery store where you can pick up tough-to-find teas, sauces and candies from the other side of the pond. Maurer also offers business catering and has recently added late night hours for students looking for home cooking instead of fast food.

If you’re expecting standard British fare, you’ll find it here, like steak and onion meat pies and cheddar stuffed pretzels. But Maurer prides herself on taking the typical British staples and throwing a curveball at them.

Her chicken pot pies (a top seller at the Savoury) have a gentle garlic taste through them that is natural and unexpected.

“The garlic is what makes these stand out,” whispers a customer to me when I notice that she’s buying twelve of the pot pies to go (she also informs me that they freeze beautifully). Maurer’s a millennial, and she brings those sensibilities to the menu as well. Her

newest creation, pulled pork pot pies (which are offered on Friday and Saturdays) are a big favorite for the university crowd.

When dining in at the Savoury, you can expect your meat pie served with a fresh salad and drink. I also tried a samosa, one of a few Indian inspired menu items that Maurer offers.

“Indian flavours are often featured in modern British food,” she explains, which is why she offers meat pie flavors like chicken curry and tandoori beef.

She encourages me to save room for dessert and brings me a piece of the shortbread that I’d been smelling.

Warm, fresh, buttery shortbread.

There’s no chocolate or fruit to dress it up, and none is needed. Before she rings in my order, I ask her for two more pieces of the shortbread to go (and a couple of meat pies for the freezer).

“Hearing someone praise my pies actually touches my heart,” Maurer says. “I want my customers to love eating them as much as I love baking them.”

KURTIS THOMAS CONTRIBUTOR Everybody has a fear that they can’t quite explain. No amount of illuminating or statistical evidence will convince certain people to step foot in the ocean, or climb down those dark basement stairs. Claire Cameron’s, The Bear plays on the idea of fear, and overcoming it, in more than one interesting way in its concise page span.

The book begins innocently enough, when we’re introduced to the four members of the Whyte family on a family camping trip through Algonquin Park. The calm is quickly upset when the titular bear shows up at the campsite, and the results are as tragic as one might expect. Our narrator, 5-year-old Anna, is entrusted with the protection of her younger brother (nicknamed Stick), and we join them in their harrowing escape.

Seeing these horrific events through the eyes and logic of a child is what will ultimately make Anna stick with you long after the book has been finished. The narrative is free flowing and disjointed, as Anna struggles to make sense of the situation in which she has found herself.

This narrative style gives the reader insight into other aspects of Anna’s home life, that serve as an interesting

IT DEFTLY HANDLES TOPICS BIGGER THAN ITS SHORT PAGE SPAN SHOULD ALLOW sub-plot to The Bear. No spoilers here, but it adds an engrossing layer to the narrative when we quickly understand the adult relationships that Anna is struggling to make sense of on her journey.

As Anna battles hunger, darkness, and the other dangers of the Algonquin wilderness — we feel horrified, but surprisingly inspired by her acts of courage. The Bear is a story of love and bravery at all costs, and of understanding the logic of fear through the eyes of perfect innocence.

The Bear offers an illuminating look into a worldview most of us left behind long ago. It’s emotional, gripping, and a page-turner in every sense of the phrase. It deftly handles topics bigger than its short page span should allow. It’s that narrative hook that will keep it with you long after you’ve finished devouring it.

It is a perfect summer read – decide for yourself if you want to bring it on your next camping trip.

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Listings Wednesday, April 1 A Case Against Patents UW Humanities Theatre David Levine challenges the view that intellectual property is good for society. Waterloo Arts Distinguished Lecture.

Talk ~ Free ~ 3pm ~ All Ages

Thursday, April 2 UnHinged: Festival of Disturbing Theatre KWLT Playwrights are sent to disturbing places to write a 10 minute play, which is performed for you. (April 2-4) Theatre/Festival ~ $12 ~ Various Times ~ 16+

Gross Bodies Dance Party The Raintree Café

Phedre, Petra Glynt, Doomsquad, & Hthr Tzy! Weird electro pop & soft psychedelia. Everyone welcome!

Music/Art ~ $5/pwyc ~ 7pm ~ All Ages/Licensed

Saturday, April 4 Free Flicks: Birdman Kitchener Public Library Oscar winning film about a washed up actor. Won best picture, best director, and more. Bring your own snacks!

Film ~ Free ~ 2pm ~ All ages

KW Poetry Slam ft. Beth Murch The Boathouse Sign up and take the stage in this high-energy, audiencejudged spoken word competition & open mic.

Spoken Word ~ $5/pwyc ~ 7pm ~ All Ages

Tuesday, April 7 Knitting Night Kitchener Public Library

Meet with other knit & crochet enthusiasts in the beautiful KPL Reading Lounge. All skill levels welcome.

Workshop/Social ~ Free ~ 6:30pm ~ All Ages

Maria Speth Film Retrospective UW ECH 1220

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Films by award-winning director from the Berlin school of German filmmaking to celebrate her visit. (April 7,14, 21) Film/Talk ~Free ~ 4:30pm ~ All Ages

Thursday, April 9 Yes! Art Opening: Kernohan & Little UWAG

Catch them while you can! Award winning MFA candidates: “Sift” by Sarah Kernohan & “Small Worlds” by Liz Little.

Art ~ $15-$25 ~ 8pm ~ 12+

The Famines + Lifestyle Sub Princess Cafe

Protopunk and fuzzy garage rock! Release show for the Famines’ new “Paper Single” with art by Raymond Biesinger.

Music ~ Pay What You Can ~ 9pm ~ All Ages/Licensed

Métis Mutt (Sheldon Elter) The Registry Theatre

“Screamingly funny & brutally honest: a one-man show that blows all kinds of prejudices out of the water.” (April 9,10,11) Theatre ~ $15-$25 ~ 8pm ~ 12+

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Friday, April 10 Neruda Arts Presents: AYRAD The Boathouse

Ayrad is moving poetry, inspiring melodies & improvisation: Andalusian & Berber rhythms to Reggae, Raï & Latin groove.

Theatre/Festival ~ $10-$25 ~ 8pm

Saturday, April 11 Hawkeyes and Hawks A.C The Jane Bond

Local favorites Hawkeyes, Hawks A.C. & Woodlouse!

Expect: heavy psych space rock, hardcore, & punk.

Music ~ $5 ~ 9pm ~ 19+

Sunday, April 12 Play with Clay Canadian Clay & Glass Museum

Open clay studio experience: you make an object out of clay over two Sundays. (April 12 and 26) Workshop/Art~ $10 ~ 1pm/2:30pm ~ All Ages

Wednesday, April 15 Janice Lee and Jesse Maranger The Boathouse

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Kitchener-Waterloo’s favourite singer-songwriters bring a night of heartfelt music & poetry.

Music ~ $6-10 ~ 8pm ~ Accessible Space

Friday, April 17 Visual Music: Tess Girard Conrad Centre

Deeply engaged with rhythm and the passage of time, Girard will create haunting video art with the KWS. (April 17 & 18) Music/Film ~ $14-35 ~ 7:30pm ~ All Ages

Friday, April 17 (continued) VIGNETTES-A-GO-GO The Button Factory

NUMUS Mix Series: Improvisations by Colin Labadie (guitar & electronics) and Adam Tindale (percussion & electronics).

Music ~ $5-15 ~ 8pm ~ All Ages

Computers Now Have Control The Outpost

In the wastelands, time travellers are building a giant amplifier. Electronic Euphoria. Free Snacks.

Music ~ $10adv ~ 8pm

Sunday, April 19 New Music at the Boathouse The Boathouse

Brand new experimental music series! The Craig Pedersen Quartet, Michael Anderson & Kourosh Ghamsari-Esfahani Music ~ Pay What You Can ~ 8pm ~ All Ages

Tuesday, April 21 Intro to SketchUp Kitchener Public Library

Want to use the KPL’s FREE 3d printer? Learn Sketchup, 3D modeling software that’s easy to learn and use!

Workshop ~ Free ~ 7pm ~ All Ages

Wednesday, April 22 My Neruda Bonnie Stuart Studio Space

An intensive voice/movement workshop. Participants will be guided in the creation of a solo piece. (April 22, 23, 24) Workshop ~ $100 ~ 5-9pm

Thursday, April 23 KW|AG’s Workshop for Artists KW|AG

Mingle and make art with local artists and creative minds.

Snacks and one drink included.

Art/Workshop/Social ~ $20 ~ 7pm ~ 19+

Cold Specks and Etiquette Starlight

Somali-Canadian sweeping soul-pop. Polaris nominated, beloved singer-songwriter.

Music ~ $13adv ~ 8pm ~ 19+

Saturday, April 25 Allison Au Quartet The Jazz Room

Modern Jazz ensemble. “She stands out as alternatingly pure and hard-toned strength, faculty and imagination.”

Music ~ $18 ~ 8:30pm

Sunday, April 26 Waterloo Region Food & Drink Show The Aud

Taste some of the best cuisine in the Region while sipping on a glass of wine, a cocktail, or a craft beer. (April 24, 25, 26) Festival ~ $12 ~ 12pm/5pm ~ 19+

Tuesday, April 28 Nerd Nite! The Boathouse

Fun, informative, and inclusive event with talks, trivia, and socializing!

Talk/Social ~ $5 ~ 7pm ~ Accessible Space

Thursday, April 30 Princess Cafe Comedy Night Princess Cafe

Funnies with: Todd Graham, Jeremy Woodcock, Jordan Foisy & Pat Burtscher!

Comedy ~ $10/pwyc ~ 9pm ~ All Ages/Licensed

Friday, May 1 Sounds in Space The Registry Theatre

NUMUS! Jesse Stewart! Voyager Golden Record Remix on Canada’s only Reactable (an experimental instrument).

Music ~ $10-$30 ~ 8pm ~ All Ages

Ongoing Exhibitions Neighbourhood Voices Kitchener Rotunda

A Wrap-Up exhibition from the 2014 Kitchener Artist in Residence, Dwight Storring. Through photographic portraits & interactive video snapshots of everyday life, the show explores how the ordinary things we do ripple across the community. (April 1-April 30)

The Foot Made KW|AG

In this new work, multi-disciplinary artist Brendan Fernandes posits that stillness and static movements are signs of active endurance, power and hegemony. (March 20-June 4)

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