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Gaming could be back on the table in Woolwich OLG to make presentation to council Nov. 20; public invited to provide input on possibility of hosting casino in township STEVE KANNON

A-haunting we will go EDSS students Katie Morden, Sally Draper and Breanna Michael take part in the Freaky Fairy Tale Haunted House at the first annual Halloween Haunt held at the high school on October 20.

Lydia Wilson, 8, and her sister Amilya, 10, dress up as a pair of stars. Right, Abigail Mielke, 15 months, is dressed like a tiger sitting beside some Jack-O-Lanterns.

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Let the debate begin. A decade after the Elmira Raceway brouhaha, Woolwich is getting another kick at the gaming can.

The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG) is looking at the possibility of a new casino in an area that encompasses the township. Officials from the government agency will be making a pitch to council Nov. 20.

Woolwich is part of a newly-created gaming zone, which also includes Kitchener, Waterloo, Wilmot Township and parts of Cambridge and Wellington County. A new casino is part of OLG’s modernization plan, with the agency seeking municipalities willing to host a new facility. In this area, Cambridge council has said no to the idea, but Woolwich is open to hearing more, says the mayor.

“We’re not going to just say no. We’re going to listen and see what the public thinks,” Todd Cowan said in an interview Wednesday.

He expects the debate to be lively, but different from what happened more than a decade ago when council discussed the prospect of slot machines at the Elmira Raceway. Then, little was known about the impact of introducing gaming into the mix, with opponents speculating about rampant crime and debauchery. As none of that happened, with communities instead enjoying large revenues with no downside, those previous arguments don’t apply, said Cowan.

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Time in Canada a learning experience New program aims to reduce chances of for high school exchange students

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While three head back to France next week, they’ll be joined in February by trio of local girls heading overseas

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COLIN DEWAR Next week Elmira District Secondary School will be losing three students.

The students, Agathe Prod’homme, Elise Ricolfi, and Tanguy Bouvet are returning home to France after spending three months on an exchange program at the school.

All three are excited about seeing their friends and family again but they are going to miss their exchange partners and host families.

Prod’homme said she will miss the school as it is very different than her school back in France.

“Here we can choose what classes we would like to take but we have no choice in France. I also like that we finish at 2:40 in the afternoon because in France we are not done until 5:30 p.m. We have a much longer school day in France,” she said. “The school here is really cool: in France we are not al-

EDSS student Jenna Fletcher, Agathe Prod’homme from France, and EDSS student Anika Bartel are taking part in a student exchange program this school year. [COLIND DEWAR / THE OBSERVER] “The time has gone reand that is something I lowed to take bathroom ally fast. We applied for could not get used to,” she breaks and we have much the program a year ago said. stricter rules. My school and I can’t believe we have In early February three doesn’t study art or already hosted and soon EDSS students – Jenna drama but here you can we will be going to France,” Fletcher, Anika Bartel take those classes, which said Fletcher. and Brianna Bowman – I enjoyed.”

The EDSS students adwill be flying to Europe Although she loved her mit they can’t speak French to meet up with their time in Canada she could very well but decided they French counterparts and not get over the fact that could not pass up the opwill begin studies at their ketchup was used on so portunity to see and learn schools. many foods. in another country for Although the EDSS girls “The food here is difthree months. have another three months ferent but it is OK, I really “I have taken French before they leave, they’re did not like that ketchup classes all the way through excited by how soon they’ll was put on everything get to experience another here. Lots of people eat EXCHANGE | 5 culture. food with ketchup on it

For about a month Grand River Hospital has been testing a new initiative geared at decreasing the number of medication errors in the hospital.

“Medication safety has always been there, but we’ve kind of been able to zero-in on some of the things that are potential for creating the errors,” said program director of surgery Robinne Hausk.

The project helped staff to zero in interruptions that may occur while a nurse sorts or administers medications. Whether it is the administration of a patient’s regular pills, antibiotics and narcotics, the issue of mix-ups is something staff chose to pursue as an opportunity for improvement.

“We have reports every month that detail probable causes of error. It was actually a hypothesis that we had based on that information. We did some timed studies that actually proved the number of interruptions nurses were receiving as it co-related to the errors that were happening,” explained Kim Robinson, clinical manager of the inpatient surgical

unit.

The study proved that up to a third of the mistakes matched the staff hypothesis of errors occurring due to avoidable interruptions during sorting and administration of medication at the hospital. The study noted that mistakes occurred while staff were busy with for high volumes of patients and were dealing with multiple interactions at the same time while handling medications.

“If a nurse is interrupted there’s a chance an error could occur. …We could give the wrong medication, we could give the wrong dose – those are the big problems. It could lead to a death if we weren’t really careful. That’s never happened but it could happen,” Hausk explained.

As a result, the hospital now has a ‘safety space’ where nurses can dispense and mix medications in private and focus on the task at hand.

A month’s worth of data has been collected since the implementation of the private spaces. Over this span the unit has seen a 50 per cent decrease in the amount of errors cause by HOSPITAL | 4

Floradale firefighters raising funds for family of colleague Paul Bowman ELENA MAYSTRUK When a Floradale man died last month, the community came together in support of his family and friends.

Father, husband and longtime firefighter Paul Bowman, 45, succumbed to cancer after a sudden diagnosis just days before his death. Now Bowman’s colleagues hope to give his wife

and children a measure of comfort by fundraising and gathering locals for a breakfast at the Floradale Mennonite Church on Nov. 10.

Organizers hope to present Marylin Bowman with the proceeds they raise in her husband’s name and create a time to collectively remember a man heavily involved with his community.

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CASINO: The process is in early stages, but Breslau the likely site if Woolwich in running for facility FROM | COVER

raceway’s bid for slots in Elmira and a second proposal to move to Breslau, the Woolwich Agricultural Society closed the track and moved a few kilometres away to Elora in Centre Wellington Township, where the slots facility has generated more than $16 million for the community since opening in 2003.

In his time as mayor, Cowan said he’s heard many people express regret about losing the facility, and the revenue that would help fund a growing infrastructure deficit.

“We’re not going to say no, because I heard a lot on the campaign trail that we shouldn’t have gotten rid of the slots,” he said of coun-

cil’s decision, following a closed-door meeting with OLG officials, to put the idea to the community.

Along with a presentation by OLG at the Nov. 20 council meeting, the public will have a chance to provide input on what it hears.

Those who attend can expect a 20-minute presentation about the OLG’s modernization plan and its bid to bring gaming opportunities closer to customers, said OLG spokesperson Tony Bitonti.

The agency wants to hear from municipalities before going ahead with any new facilities, looking to locate in spots where the public is onside, he added.

“We want the community to be receptive. We won’t go where we’re not

welcomed.”

Some municipalities, like Cambridge, are not interested in hosting a casino.

Some have people for and against the idea coming out to meetings.

“We’ve had mixed receptions all over the place,” he said, noting public input is part of the process. “This is the time for people to talk to this issue.”

The desire for input is what the township scheduled a public meeting for the same night as OLG’s presentation, said chief administrative officer David Brenneman.

“We decided to start with public input consultations that same evening,” he explained, adding that while there have been discussions with the agency, no

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The process is in the preliminary stages only.

With its new gaming plan, OLG will first look for receptive municipalities before turning to the private sector for proposals on new facilities in those locations, said Bitonti. Later this fall, the agency will be accepting applications from qualified gaming operators who would like to be part of the process. Once an operator is pre-qualified it can submit formally when requests for proposals go out in the winter.

The pre-qualifying stage ensures only suitable candidates submit proposals,

he explained. That would include international companies, including the likes Las Vegas stalwarts MGM and Caesars, as well as Canadian operations such as Great Canadian Gaming, a BC-based company that currently operates tracks/ slots in Barrie and Flamborough.

“I believe there will be a lot of interest in our properties.”

Once the RFPs are accepted and sound business plans picked, it would be up to the private companies to acquire locations, obtain municipal clearances, build the facilities and run them, under the

guidelines set by OLG, said Bitonti.

It’s very early on, but Breslau would seem the logical spot for any casino bid in Woolwich, said Cowan, pointing to its proximity to Kitchener, Guelph and Cambridge, and backon-the-agenda plans for Highway 7.

There are no proposals to the effect right now, but the township will have to weigh options and likelihoods as the process gets rolling, the better to make a decision. “We’re trying to gauge the public temperature on this one,” he said of the public meeting that will get things going.

CANS program continues a Halloween tradition in collecting for food bank ELENA MAYSTRUK Along with the usual assortment of ghosts and goblins – well, throw in Spider-Man, Lady Gaga and the Biebs – who’ll show up at your door Wednesday night, there’ll be a group looking for something more substantial than sugary sweets.

Continuing a Woolwich tradition, young volunteers with Citizens Always Need Supper (CANS) will be collecting non-perishable items for the food bank.

“I think Halloween is very centered on yourself: you’re going door to door collecting candy for yourself. [This] is an awesome way to do something for other people instead of focusing on yourself,” said Will Allen, 14, one of this year’s organizers.

For a number of years, local youths who may have outgrown trick-or-treating have been coming together and spending Halloween collecting items for the Food Bank of Waterloo Region.

Though Allen said some locals were distrustful of the group in early years, he hopes the difference they make has warmed people up to their cause, with CANS volunteers en-

Last week’s Ontario Public Library Week food drive collected hundreds of items for the Food Bank. Library patrons donated in exchange for waived overdue book fees. WCS’s Leigh Anne Quinn, township branch supervisor Sheryl Tilley, Elmira librarian Bette Cummings and Mayor Todd Cowan with the goods at Elmira Branch Library on Tuesday.

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couraged to be as friendly and informative as possible when they knock on people’s doors.

For Allen, the CANS Halloween event is a labour of love, one that started when he was in Grade 6. Other older young people have also seen the appeal of the good works, however, and hope to continue the tradition that began a decade ago.

More than 100 youths scoured the streets for charitable donations last year, and the young organizer hopes to match those numbers this year as well.

“We felt that it was important that everyone have food and we wanted to show love to them,” he said

of CANS efforts in the past.

After a night of gathering, volunteers will drop off their booty to the Woodside Bible Fellowship at 200 Barnswallow Dr. for pick up by the food bank.

CANS volunteers are not the only ones gathering for the needy in October. Rural library branches have been doing some trading of their own, waving library fines for food donations during Ontario Public Library Week. Last week local librarians managed to collect 210 food items for the bank. Donors with outstanding fines traded their non-perishables for a load off their debt with one food item eliminating $2 worth of fines each.

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interruptions.

Robinson said part of the strategy involved with rolling out such a project is including patients in the process by educating them on the reasons for the change in policy.

Though the new initiative has brought forth some solid results, hospital

patients are not ignorant of possible mix-ups.

“Patients are aware that there can always be an error in their medication and we like patients to be accountable for that; we like them to ask questions about their medication at the bedside when a nurse is dispensing them. So if their pills look different, ask

some questions about that. Patients are very aware that there is some accountability on their part,” Hausk added.

The hospital’s surgical unit is heading the initiative and has conducted presentations sharing their findings with other units who they hope, will start utilizing the new model as well.

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Playwright award for Elmira man Elmira’s Michael Grant was the winner this week of the 2012 New Comedy Award at a ceremony hosted by the Playwrights Guild of Canada.

The award recognizes his play Shorthanded, a comedy about lost dreams and second chances. It explores the trials and tribulations of middle aged men’s lives and most importantly, it is a story about friendship and to what ends we would go for our friends and the pursuit of their dreams.

The jury that selected Grant’s play

was chaired by celebrated Canadian playwright Norm Foster.

Breslau parties for Halloween Today (Saturday) the Breslau Recreation Association is throwing its fifth annual Halloween bash with the hope of bringing the community together and raising some funds for the organization.

While most years the event is free, the association hopes to supplement some of the funds it needs for the future with pizza sales, sold for $1 per

slice, said organization president Lisa Nadon “It’s just a way of trying to get the community together and meet new neighbours, reconnect with old neighbours and get everybody out doing something fun,” she said of the event.

The all-ages event will feature nine game stations where visiting kids can win Halloween treats and a contest for best costume at 6:15 p.m.

Just as in past years, organizers will provide juice snacks and candy for visitors. The event runs from 4-7 p.m. at the Breslau Community Centre.

Public Health Sittler gets $776K workplace awards regional contract Home Hardware Stores Ltd. and Waterloo North Hydro were among the gold award recipients this week as Region of Waterloo Public Health doled out its Healthy Workplace Awards.

The program recognizes workplaces in the region that demonstrate a strong commitment to improving the health of their employees.

The awards were handed out Thursday in Waterloo. There were 17 gold award recipients, one silver and no bronze.

Sittler Demolition will get $776,000 from Waterloo Region for the demolition of various buildings related to the reconstruction and widening of Weber Street in Kitchener, another of the expenses related to the light rail transit scheme. Regional council awarded the tender this week.

Halloween train The Waterloo Central Railway is again operating its Annual Children's

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the damage then returned to his vehicle and drove away. The man was later charged with disobey a red light.

Police warn of cyber-scam virus Waterloo Regional Police have sent out an alert to the community about a viral attack that is circulating on the Internet and which fraudulently includes a warning from police.

In this scam the virusinfected computer displays one of two pop up screens informing the user it has been locked by the Canada Police Cyber-Crime Investigation, which is a fictitious facility and instructs the potential victim to pay $100 to have the computer unlocked.

Police have recently heard from numerous residents complaining of the virus, three of whom paid the fee only to find that

the computer remained infected.

The virus is referred to as scareware or ransomware because it tries to frighten victims into paying for a bogus virus removal service.

There have been several variants of this virus circulating on the Internet.

It originated in the United States where it claimed to represent a legitimate warning from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The police would like to remind the public that no legitimate police service would demand a fine or lock your computer. This is a cyber-scam for illegal profits by cyber-criminals.

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8:55 PM | A 20-year-old Cambridge man was charged with careless driving when the 1998 Saturn he was driving hit a 2008 Chevy pickup operated by a 38-year-old Kitchener man on Fountain Street in Breslau. The Kitchener man suffered minor injuries. Both vehicle sustained minor to moderated damage.

9:30 AM | A 57-year-old Kitchener man operating a dump truck on Erbsville Road in Woolwich Township swerved to avoid two deer, lost control of the vehicle and hit a tree, causing the load to dump.

The road was closed for several hours as emergency crews cleaned the mess. The truck sustained minor damage. No charges were laid.

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steadily, with great results.

“We’ve been asking for corporate businesses to help sponsor the breakfast.

We’ve had corporate donations and private donations of money and food, offers of equipment and help from various businesses and organizations. The

response from the community has been overwhelming,” Martin said.

The all-you-can-eat breakfast hosted by Floradale firefighters will be held at 22 Florapine Rd. from 7-11 a.m. Admission for adult is $10, children 2-8 $5, children under two enter for free. All proceeds will be going to Paul Bowman’s family.

Halloween Special Trains on Saturday, October 27, 2012 from Uptown Waterloo to the Village of St. Jacobs and return.

Goodie bags will be given to children in costume.

The Waterloo Central Railway is operated by the Southern Ontario Locomotive Restoration Society, a volunteer organization dedicated to the preservation, restoration and operation of historic railway equipment and artifacts. All proceeds from this event go directly to the society, which is a not for profit registered charitable organization. For information: www. waterloocentralrailway.

OCTOBER 23

4:10 PM | A Listowel man was charged with careless driving after he failed to stop his white GMC SUV and hit a red Nissan SUV, which proceeded to hit a Nissan truck that had slowed down for traffic at the roundabout on Arthur Street South and Sawmill Road near St. Jacobs.

The vehicles sustained damage from moderate to severe.

The driver of this GMC SUV was charged with careless driving October 23 after he failed to stop for traffic at the roundabout in St. Jacobs and hit a Nissan SUV, which proceeded to hit another vehicle.

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1:35 PM | Police are continuing to investigate after $5,000 worth of aluminum was stolen from a business on Fountain Street in Breslau.

Up to six suspects in a white pickup removed the metal through a hole in the fence.

OCTOBER 20

5:50 PM | A pink ladies’ bike was found on Whippoorwill Drive in Elmira. The bike had been lying on the side of the road for three weeks.

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Elmira police detachment.

11:50 PM | A residents of Chalmers Forrest Road in Wellesley Township contacted police after they saw a Nissan SUV stop and unload boxes from the vehicle in a neighbour’s driveway. The boxes contained books from Niagara Falls.

The investigation is ongoing.

OCTOBER 21

5:00 PM | A 42-year-old Heidelberg man was driving a 2011 Harley Davidson on Silver Birch Lane

near Maplewood Drive in Wellesley when he lost control of the bike on some gravel and slid off the road.

No injuries were reported and minor damage occurred to the bike.

9:55 PM | A 21-year-old Kitchener man was charged with careless driving when he lost control of the black Ford Focus he was driving on Victoria Street near Ebycrest Road near Breslau hitting several signs and a gas pipe marker. No injuries were reported.

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OCTOBER 22

1:30 PM | A 25-year-old Elmira woman was driving her 2012 Toyota through the intersection of Arthur Street near South Field Drive in Elmira when she was struck by a 2002 Ford Windstar operated by a 91-year-old Waterloo man. The man got out of his vehicle to assess

4:30 PM | A 26-year-old man fell from a scaffolding at a business on Fountain Street in Breslau. The man sustained an injury to his legs and was taken to Cambridge Memorial Hospital. The injury was not life-threatening. The Ministry of Labour was contacted about the incident.

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school and I just wanted to do something useful with it. I thought living in France would be ideal,” said Bartel.

The girls will miss most of their second semester and will have to make up their work either before they leave or when they

return.

“It is going to be a lot of hard work for them when they get back,” said Stathoula Paleshi, who is in charge of the exchange program at EDSS. “But it is worth it. This is a family exchange as much as it is a student exchange and it can be quite emotional for everyone involved

when the students have to leave.”

While in Canada, Prod’homme visited Niagara Falls, Toronto, spent sometime in the Muskokas and will be travelling to Quebec City before she leaves.

She said she finds it funny that Canadians are so adamant about not being

called Americans and finds it interesting that is a way for Canadians to identify themselves.

The EDSS students heading to France say they are going to make sure they have Canadian flags sewn onto their packs before they leave so no one will confuse them for being Americans.

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Project Name: Conestogo Wind Energy Centre Project Location: Townships of North Perth, and Perth East, Perth County & Township of Wellesley, Regional Municipality of Waterloo Dated at: The Township of Wellesley, October 6, 2012

Pursuant to an ad published on October 6, 2012 the Conestogo Wind Power Partnership (CWWP) is working to engage in a renewable energy project which will require the issuance of a Renewable Energy Approval (REA). The Public Information Centre #1 will be held on Wednesday November 7, 2012.

The wind farm would be located entirely within the Townships of North Perth and Perth East with a project substation located in the Township of Wellesley. This notice, as well as the project, are subject to the provisions of the Environmental Protection Act (Act) Part V.0.1 and Ontario Regulation 359/09 (Regulation). Distribution of this notice is in accordance with section 15 of the Regulation - prior to submitting an application assessed for completeness by the Ministry of the Environment.

Meeting Information: In June 2012 CWPP held its’ first round of Public information Centres for the Conestogo Wind Energy Centre that is to be located in the Township of North Perth and Township of Perth East. At that time, studies to determine the routing for the proposed power line to connect the project to the provincial grid were not complete. This PIC is to present the proposed power line routing and the location of the project substation within the Township of Wellesley.

The power line will be a low voltage line, and the preference is to bury the lines within municipal road rights-of-way.

At this information session you will be able to view information on the power connection lines and substation for the project, ask questions and provide comments directly to the proponent. The session will start with a company presentation, followed by a question and answer period.

Township of Wellesley (PIC) Wednesday November 7, 2012 6 pm – 8 pm St. Clements Community Centre and Arena 1 Green Street, St. Clements

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Project Description: Pursuant to the Act and Regulation, the facility, is a wind energy project rated as a Class 4 Wind Facility. If approved, the proposed wind farm project would have a total name plate capacity up to 69 megawatts. The map below outlines the project location. Again, the wind farm would be located entirely within the Townships of North Perth and Perth East with a project substation located in the Township of Wellesley.

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Documents for Public Inspection: A Draft Project Description Report has been prepared and provides details on the project, including information on wind energy and associated project components and activities. This report was available for public inspection on Friday October 5, 2012 at the Township of Wellesley municipal office ( 4639 Lobsinger Line, RR #1, St. Clements ). It is also available for public inspection at the Listowel, Atwood and Monkton Libraries, and the Township of East Perth and Municipality of North Perth municipal offices. Copies of the draft Project Description Report will be available for review at the upcoming Public Information Centre.

Project Contacts and Information: To learn more about the project proposal and upcoming public information session, or to provide comments in writing please contact: James J. Murphy, Director, Business Development Invenergy Wind Canada ULC 120 Front Street East, Suite 201 Toronto, ON M5A 4L9 P: (416) 901-9463 Email: jmurphy2@invenergyllc.com

Rebecca Crump, REA Project Coordinator Dillon Consulting Limited 130 Dufferin Avenue, Suite 1400 London, ON N6A 5R2 P: (519) 438-6192 E-mail: rcrump@dillon.ca

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Two Canada geese are making Bolender Park in Elmira their home. One of the birds has an injured wing and cannot fly. The township has made plans to help the bird.

[COLIN DEWAR / THE OBSERVER]

Elmira man’s efforts prompt township to attempt rescue of injured goose COLIN DEWAR For the last month a pair of Canada geese has been making Bolender Park in Elmira home – but not by choice.

One of the birds seems to have a broken right wing: approaching the goose causes it to run and squawk, flapping its wings, but it can’t seem to catch flight.

Elmira resident Gord Maier has been keeping an eye on the birds since first noticing them in the park.

“I drive by (the park) everyday… and I have seen that there have been 50 geese there and then there was two, always the same two. It has been three weeks and I noticed that the one bird’s wing was kind of hanging weird and I eventually sorted out that it was wounded and it couldn’t go anywhere, but its mate is staying with it,” said Maier.

As the weeks passed Maier grew more concerned and decided to call Joy Huggins who runs a wildlife rehabilitation centre called Wildlife Haven out of her home in Waterloo.

She doesn’t rescue animals but told Maier to call the township to see if they could do anything.

Following her suggestion

Maier contacted Woolwich Township officials, but was told they were unsure if they could help as they have officially stopped caring for wildlife. Since it was in a township park and they don’t want a wild animal starving, however, they thought they should deal with it.

Maier was told that the township would be contacting a wildlife rescue organization and try to get the bird tended to.

“If someone could get it looked after that would be a great help.”

A few days later Maier received a call from the township’s bylaw officer informing him they’d engaged a contractor from Atwood to come and catch the injured bird, and if lucky, the healthy mate as well. They have also found a rehabilitation centre authorized by the Ministry of Natural Resources to send the bird to when it is captured.

It will cost $250 to secure the bird, with no guarantee of success. The township has committed to the first attempt on a day with good weather and to transport the birds should the capture be successful.

The township is not in the business of dealing with injured wildlife and

this case is a big exception they are making.

Huggins said it was not ideal to leave the bird alone and told Maier that if it was fed by him that would not be enough especially if the goose has a broken wing.

So far the birds have managed to survive in the park but winter is coming and that is a concern for Huggins, as they could die from starvation or the cold.

“That break may get quite painful – with the cold weather it can get arthritis. Anytime I have a bird or mammal with a broken bone I have overwintered them to help the break heal and so that there is less of a chance for arthritis to set in. The bird needs to be accessed. If the goose is non-releasable it is best to have it somewhere where it is protected from the elements and fed good nutritious food and watered daily,” said Huggins.

“Depending on the assessment of the bird’s condition it may need to be euthanized as sometimes the condition of the bird is too grave. A good example is if the bird has a compound fracture. This is when the broken end of the bone has penetrated through the skin and the bone is exposed.”

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It'll be déjà vu all over again in gaming debate YOU CAN BE EXCUSED if there’s a sense of déjà vu surrounding the upcoming discussion about bringing a gaming facility to Woolwich Township.

Those of you who’ve been around long enough will recall a sometimes-heated debate that took place more than a dozen years ago that culminated in the Elmira Raceway pulling up stakes and moving to Elora. Now, it seems, the township may have a chance to rectify that mistake.

Not, of course, that we’re anywhere near that stage.

As part of its plan to modernize its operations, the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG) is approaching a long list of municipalities to determine if they’d be interested in hosting a casino. In southwestern Ontario, the zone labeled SW1 includes Woolwich Township, Wilmot Township, Kitchener, Waterloo, a portion of Cambridge and, in the neighbouring county, Centre Wellington Township. The latter is interesting in that it’s home to Grand River Raceway and its 250 slot machines, the ones that got away from Woolwich.

OLG has determined that a casino in this zone could house up to 1,200 slot machines and an as-yet-determined number of gaming tables. The rub? Only one such facility, which puts Grand River Raceway in jeopardy, though it could make a case that the Elora site is suitable for expansion. Its fate is even more perilous given the province’s decision to halt paying a portion of slots proceeds to the horseracing industry, alter the deal with raceways and even the host municipalities, and shutdown some gaming facilities in favour of a new model.

It would be most ironic if Breslau is eyed as the prospective new home of a casino, as would almost certainly be the case if Woolwich deems itself open to OLG’s plan.

That part of the township is centrally located, with easy access from K-W, Cambridge and Guelph. That’s why what was then the Woolwich Agricultural Society, rebuffed in its efforts to introduce slots in Elmira, proposed moving the operation to the south end of the township, though the council of the day ultimately pulled the rug out from that arrangement too.

Any movement that comes out of the process starting at the November 20 council meeting is likely to see the idea come full circle.

We’ll undoubtedly hear some of the same arguments for and against made a decade ago. While it’s too soon to make any predictions, let alone pronouncements, it’s clear that opponents won’t have the same fears to play on. Back then, there was plenty of talk about crime: prostitutes on the streets, drug dealers preying on the vulnerable and a variety of scare tactics. None of those things happened anywhere slots were introduced to racetracks.

As Mayor Todd Cowan noted this week, the communities that play host to slots facilities have no issues with them. Rather, they’re only too happy to share in the large revenues each quarter.

In Woolwich, that money would go a long way towards a growing infrastructure deficit, allowing roads, bridges and water pipes to be repaired and upgraded without a dramatic impact on taxes. Of course, we’d need to ensure the money is used appropriately for just that purpose – benefitting the residents of Woolwich – not frivolously, which certainly isn’t always the case just now.

No decision has been made thus far, but it makes sense to weigh the options before saying yes or no.

Thought to be dead, the slots debate has been given a new life as Woolwich council gets set to discuss the prospect of an OLG facility in the township.

WORLD VIEW / GWYNNE DYER

The growing prospect of getting fuel from air WORLD AFFAIRS Stockton-on-Tees, a small city in northeastern England, has only one claim to fame: the first railway tracks were made and laid in the city in 1822, and the first-ever train ran on those tracks in 1825.

But it might one day have another claim, also related to transportation: a locally based start-up company called Air Fuel Synthesis has just produced the first petrol (gasoline) from air and water.

It isn’t a lot of petrol – five litres (one gallon) in two months – but Peter Harrison, the company’s chief executive, hopes that within two years they will build a larger plant producing a tonne a day. He envisages refinery-scale operations within 15 years.

“We’ve taken carbon dioxide from air and hydrogen from water and turned these elements into petrol,” Harrison told a conference at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in London. Since the carbon

dioxide that goes into the air when this fuel is burned exactly equals the amount that was taken out of the air when it was fabricated, it is a carbon-neutral fuel.

Provided, of course, that the electricity used in the process comes from renewable sources.

No wonder that people who worry about global warming are excited about this breakthrough – but they should get excited slowly. The question was never IF you could create a complex hydrocarbon like petrol from just air and water, but how much it costs to do it, compared to just pumping oil out of the ground and refining it.

The answer in the past has been: far too much.

Splitting water molecules to get hydrogen is expensive in terms of the electricity required. Carbon dioxide is easily available as the by-product of burning coal or oil, but using that CO2 as the feedstock for artificial petrol only postpones the moment when it gets into the atmosphere by a few days or weeks.

If you want a truly carbon-neutral fuel, then the carbon dioxide you use

must come straight from the air. Prototype machines have been built (by Klaus Lackner of Columbia University and David Keith of the University of Calgary) that can extract CO2 from the air in industrial quantities, but the price per tonne at the moment is about $600.

That’s far too much, but as Lackner points out, the cost of any new technology plunges steeply once it goes into volume production. And the cost of getting hydrogen from water may also drop dramatically. Daniel Nocera of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has developed a catalyst made from cobalt and phosphorus that can split water at room temperature.

“I’m using cheap, Earthabundant materials that you can mass-manufacture,” Nocera said in 2008.

“As long as you can charge the surface, you can create the catalyst, and it doesn’t get any cheaper than that.”

So if the hydrogen is cheap, and the cost of extracting carbon dioxide from the air also falls dramatically, how much would it cost to combine them into petrol?

That’s what Air Fuel Synthesis is working on: an integrated, scalable industrial process that takes carbon dioxide from the air and hydrogen from water, combines them into methanol, and then turns that into petrol.

Peter Harrison is cagey about his current production cost per litre: at the “proof-of-principle” stage, everything costs a fortune.

But as he said in a recent newspaper interview, “You’re in a marketplace where the only way is up for the price of fossil fuel.

At some point there will be a crossover where our fuel becomes cheaper.”

David Keith sees it the same way. “You’re selling this fuel, and they’re burning it, putting carbon in the air, but then you’re recapturing the same amount of carbon and selling it to them again. That’s a business model that could conceivably take a whack at the global transportation market, which is the hardest part of the climate problem to attack.”

Maybe Harrison’s process will not win the race DYER | 10

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THEIR VIEW / QUESTION OF THE WEEK

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"No wonder that people who worry about global warming are excited about this breakthrough – but they should get excited slowly." Gwynne Dyer | page 8 HIS VIEW / STEVE KANNON

We're not doing as well as the economy, which is no great shakes either EDITOR'S NOTES If your house burns down, the costs involved in rebuilding it boost GDP, but you wouldn’t call it a positive experience.

The same is true, on a larger scale, of disasters, both natural and manmade. Plenty of economic activity follows, but we’d rather it didn’t.

Still, the gross domestic product increases. And we’re told that’s a good indicator of growth and progress.

Clearly, that’s not the whole picture, however, as indicated in a new report from the UW-based Canadian Index of Wellbeing (CIW).

The findings uncover some troubling truths about the connection between our well-being and the economy, and beg the question: Are our governments truly responding to the needs and values of everyday Canadians? Apparently not, especially since financial-industry created economic downturn of 2008.

“From 1994 to 2010, while Canada’s GDP grew by a robust 28.9%, improvements in Canadians’ wellbeing grew by a considerably smaller 5.7%,” reads the report. “Despite years of prosperity, our economic growth has not translated into similarly significant gains in our overall quality of life. Even more concerning is the considerable backslide Canadians have experienced since 2008.

“Following the recession of 2008, Canada’s GDP dropped by 8.3%, but shows signs of slow recovery in 2010. In contrast, the impact of the recession on the CIW was a stunning 24% decline and shows no such sign of recovery to even the modest gains made up to 2008.”

This year’s report provides further evidence that Canadians are not reaping many of the potential benefits of improved economic productivity.

The CIW is not alone in noting that increases in GDP don’t necessarily correlate with a better quality of life. Of course, GDP was not intended to be a measure of well-being. It

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sold on established markets, but we know now – or should know – that there’s more to a good society than is captured in that measure.

And, with that in mind, groups such as CIW are working to provide us with better tool.

Beyond simple economic indicators, the index (CIW) takes into account eight factors: living standards, healthy populations, community vitality, democratic engagement, education, environment, time use and leisure and culture. The latter three all are getting worse over time, more so since 2008, which has also seen a decrease in our living standards.

Between 1994 and 2008, the indicators in the Living Standards domain showed an overall increase of 27.5%, but there were sharp drops in both 2009 and 2010. By 2010, our living standards were only 14.3% above 1994 levels.

“In the wake of the recession and a sluggish recovery, Canadians’ living standards have deteriorated significantly. The past two to three years has

revealed a slight widening of the income gap, reduced levels of economic security (down by 6.4%), a smaller percentage of the labour force employed (down by 3.0%), a reduction in the quality of employment (down by 2.0%), and especially, a dramatic increase in the percentage of the labour force out of work for a long period of time (up by 41.7%).

“There has been a gain in median income, but it is not evenly distributed among all Canadians, with the lion’s share going to the wealthiest. We can see that income inequality, measured here as the gap

between the richest 20% and the poorest 20% of Canadian families, continues to be problematic. In fact, according to the Conference Board of Canada, the gap in real after-tax average income between the richest and the poorest grew by over 40% between 1994 and 2009.”

Those findings are in keeping with a growing number of reports showing an erosion of our standard of living due to a longstanding attack on the middle class. The words fairness and equality are no longer applicable to what we consider the Canadian way of life.

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GDP is the best known macro-economic measure of the performance of the market economy of a nation. Although by design and purpose it is not a welfare measure, it has also come to be regarded as a proxy indicator for overall development and progress in general. GDP does however not measure environmental sustainability or social inclusion, and we’re coming to realize those limitations need to be taken into account if our economies are going to be organized to benefit the many instead of the few.

Being a monetary value measure, GDP therefore represents the part of the population’s well-being that comes from consumption of goods and services

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THIS WEEK IN HISTORY

Jack o’ Lanterns originated in Ireland where people placed candles in hollowed-out turnips to keep away spirits and ghosts on the Samhain holiday. The ancient Celts thought that spirits and ghosts roamed the countryside on Halloween night. They began wearing masks and costumes to avoid being recognized as human.

“By Nov. 1 three of China's national oil companies will have more power to shape Canada's energy markets as well as challenge the politics of this country than Canadians themselves. And you can thank Prime Minister Stephen Harper for this economic treason."

Officials were scrambling to provide water for dozens of residents of Breslau after their shallow wells ran dry, with locals placing the blame on excavation work on the nearby Riverland subdivision.

Wells first started running dry on Joseph Street in the older section of the village

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to capture that market.

Maybe the cheaper option will be to grow green algae in waste water or salt water, crush it to extract the oil from it, and then refine the oil into petrol, diesel and so on. (Exxon-Mobil is currently spending about $100 million a year to develop that process.) But one way or another, the petrol we put in our vehicles in 25 years’ time will probably not come out of the ground.

An entire industry employing millions of people, and the national budgets of entire countries, and much of the military planning by the world’s great powers,

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all rest on the assumption that this will never happen.

Of course it will. The pressure to cut greenhouse gas emissions will grow as the temperature rises, and the desire for “energy independence” will only get stronger as oil price rises.

Back in the 1890s, it was still unclear whether the new “horseless carriages” would ultimately be powered mainly by petrol, steam or electricity. But it was already clear to those with any understanding of the interactions between markets and technology that the day of the horseand-buggy was over, and the smart money was already getting out of buggy whips.

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Kings beat up on visiting Hurricanes

Three games, three thirdperiod meltdowns for Jacks

Firing plenty of shots from the start, Elmira opens the floodgates in the third with seven goals COLIN DEWAR Coming off a loss the previous weekend, the Elmira Sugar Kings bounced back in a big way to defeat the visiting Guelph Hurricanes 10-1 at the Dan Snyder Arena on October 21.

Kings forward Brady Campbell netted a hat trick to help lead his team over the Hurricanes. Campbell got on the scoreboard 11 minutes in the first frame and added another in the last minute of the second and his final goal six minutes into the third.

James Weidner got things rolling for Elmira in the first period when he beat Quinton Henry who was between the pipes for Guelph at 8:09. Guelph would manage to come within one during a power play that saw Elmira’s Craig Johnson in the box for using a broken stick during play. Hurricanes’ James Murray took a shot from the blue line right between the legs of Kings netminder Hayden Neuman to bring the score to 2-1. It would be the only goal Guelph would get during the game.

The second period saw Elmira dominating the Hurricanes and the majority of the 20 minutes were fought in the Guelph zone.

The Kings managed to increase their lead by one in the dying seconds of the period off the stick of Campbell.

Despite peppering the Guelph net with 43 shots

After dropping first two, Wellesley was able to hang on long enough to salvage one over the weekend COLIN DEWAR

Brady Campbell battles Hurricane Jordan Hatzinger in front of the Elmira net during third period action at the Dan Snyder Arena on Oct.19. The Kings hammered Guelph 10-1.

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through the first two periods, the Kings were struggling to find the back of the net. The majority of the shots taken were point blank at Hurricane’s goalie Henry, who had no problems stopping them.

“I liked our competiveness and our battle level.

We had some tough practices this week because the boys are not battling early

on in games. We definitely competed in the first two periods and put a lot of pucks on net,” said head coach Dean DeSilva after the game. “A two-goal lead is always the hardest lead to hold because it is easy to take your foot off the gas.

We told the boys between the periods the crest of (Henry’s) jersey is doing a great job of stopping the

pucks but lets see if other parts of his body can stop pucks.”

As the Kings returned to the ice for the third, they seemed rejuvenated and quickly started scoring goals, racking up a total of seven in the period.

Weidner scored his second on the night during a power play when Campbell sent the puck behind the

net to Adam Dauda as he wrapped around the net passing to Weidner who one-timed in past Henry to take a 4-1 lead at 3:07.

Elmira also got points from Rob Kohli, who scored at 4:56, Campbell completed his hat trick at 6:30, and Matt Sheick grabbed a goal at the ten minute mark KINGS | 12

Last weekend was a bit of a head-scratcher for Wellesley Applejacks head coach Kevin Fitzpatrick.

His team played back-toback-to-back games on the road and in all three games the Jacks fell apart in the third period, allowing their opponents to score three unanswered goals each time.

The Jacks, visiting Tavistock on Oct. 19, lost to the Braves 4-1. Tavistock were on the scoreboard first, scoring in the first frame off the stick of Tyson Zehr as he beat Wellesley netminder Josh Heer at 13:32.

Wellesley returned to the ice in the second fighting hard throughout the period and was rewarded with a goal by Luke Rose when he scored 17:49 into the second period to tie the game.

Steve Tait picked up the assist.

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Woolwich atom girls win Oktoberfest tourney COLIN DEWAR The Woolwich Wild Atom B girls’ hockey team skated away the winners of the Kitchener Oktoberfest hockey tournament played October 19-21.

The girls competed in six games over the weekend, losing only one game against their rivals the Waterloo Ravens in the round robin. The Wild would go

one to defeat the Ravens in the finals by a score of 2-1.

The Wild beat the Grand River Mustangs 2-0 in their first game, but would lose their second game to Waterloo before returning to a winning streak with victories over the Kitchener Lady Rangers and the Lambeth Lancers to advance to the final against the Ravens.

The Wild scored the

first goal in the final game against Waterloo in the first period and held that lead for the rest of the game, earning an open-net goal in the last minutes of the third frame.

“Waterloo scored a goal with just seconds remaining on the clock but more than anything that was because our kids had realized they had just won and had stopped playing. They

were very excited,” said head coach Shawn Brubacher.

Wild forward Delaney Douglas was named MVP of the game and was awarded a pair of $500 Bauer skates. The rest of the team got Bauer hockey sticks. Wild netminder Cailyn Wilkie had an outstanding tournament, playing in all six games and only allowing in two

goals in total for the tournament.

“There were a number of kids that were deserving of the (MVP), they all played well. (Douglas) had a particularly good tournament. She is definitely one of our strongest players,” said Brubacher.

A majority of the Wild players have been playing together for the last four years and Brubacher

thought his team was going to do well this season.

“I was cautiously optimistic. I knew we had a stronger team this year but I wasn’t sure how well they would do. Three of the four teams in the tournament are in our league but we have struggled with them in the past. We did very well and this was the WILD| 13

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THE SCORE WOOLWICH WILDCATS

Tyke: SELECT Oct. 20 vs. Garden City Woolwich: 4 Garden City: 1 Goals: Joey Martin, Austin Schnarr, Dustin Good x 2 Assists: Eric Hutton, Joey Martin

Novice: LL #1 Oct. 20 vs. Ayr Woolwich: 4 Ayr: 1 Goals: Mitchell Brubacher x 4, Austin Broadacker Assists: Evan Gruhl, James McCormick, Ryan Wingrove, Mason Spark

Hillsburgh: 0 Goals: Conner Waters, Tanner Mann, Tyler Newton, Brendan Grant Assists: Brendan Grant, Andrew Weber Shutout: Nick Lee

Atom: MINOR AA Oct 20 vs. Georgetown Woolwich: 4 Georgetown: 2 Goals: Cole Slade, Owen Lee x2, Alex Hutton Assists: Kyler Austin, Tyler Martin, Gavin Roemer Oct 21 vs. Burlington Woolwich: 0

Burlington: 6

Novice: LL# 3 Oct. 20 vs. Beverly Woolwich: 2 Beverly: 5 Goals: Corbin Schmidt x2, Michael Gear Assists: Michael Gear

Novice: MAJOR A Oct. 5 vs. Brampton Woolwich: 2 Brampton: 1 Goals: Carter Rollins, Ian Speiran Assists: Tyler Brezynskie, Sam Goebel, Sebastian Garrett, Andrew Gear Oct. 6 vs. New Hamburg Woolwich: 1 New Hamburg: 6 Goals: Mitchell Young Oct. 11 vs. Georgetown Woolwich: 6 Georgetown: 2 Goals: AJ Shaw-McMahon, Sebastian Garrett, Carter Rollins, Liam Eveleigh, Ian Speiran, Brett Moser Assists: Liam Eveleigh x2, Tyler Brezynskie, Brett Moser, Andrew Gear, Ian Speiran, Reid Burkholder, Carter Rollins Oct. 13 vs. Oakville Woolwich: 2 Oakville: 3 Goals: Sebastian Garrett, Ian Speiran Assists: Tyler Brezynskie Oct. 14 vs. Burlington Woolwich: 3 Burlington: 3 Goals: Ian Speiran x2, AJ ShawMcMahon Assists: Zack Bender x2, AJ Shaw-McMahon, Ian Speiran, Mitchell Young

Atom: AE Oct. 18 vs. Hillsburgh Woolwich: 4

Atom: MAJOR AA Oct. 19 vs. Humber Valley Woolwich: 1 Humber Valley: 4 Goals: Jesse Martin Assists: Ryan Elliott, Keaton McLaughlin Oct. 19 vs. Ottawa Valley Woolwich: 3 Ottawa Valley: 3 Goals: Isiah Katsube x2, Ryan Elliott Assists: Conner Bradley, Brett Allen Oct 20, 2012 vs. Belleville Woolwich: 12

Belleville: 0 Goals: Conner Bradley x3, Brett Allen x2, Jesse Martin (x2), Ben Witmer x2, Ryan Elliott, Jake Clemmer, Nathan Taylor Assists: Nathan Taylor x5, Jesse Martin x3, Ryan Elliott (x3), Keaton McLaughlin x2, Isiah Katsube x2, Brett Allen x2, Conner Bradley, Jacob Clemmer, Blake Roemer, Matt Fleischmann Shutout: Zach Verwey Oct. 20 vs. York Mills Woolwich: 0

York Mills: 3

Atom: LL# 1 Oct. 20 vs. Paris Woolwich: 12

Paris: 0 Goals: Ian McGregor, Matthew Brubacher x2, Danny Soehner x 2, Braxten Breen x2, James Reichard, Mac Benhamx2, Ben Fretz, Connor Kroetsch Assists: Ben Fretz, James Reichard x2, Braxten Breen, Jacob Stanley x2, Matthew Brubacher x 2, Matthew Deyell x2, Cody Kroetsch, Liam Moyer, Ian McGregor, Danny Soehner, Kieren Oberholzer

Shutout: Kody Lewis Oct. 23 vs. Ayr Woolwich: 9 Ayr: 0 Goals: Mac Benham, Connor Kroetsch, Ian McGregor x2, Matthew Brubacher x2, Danny Soehner x2, Ben Fretz Assists: Ian McGregor, Kieren Oberholzer, Matthew Deyell x2, Mac Benham x2, Braxten Breen, Jake Stanley, Ben Fretz, Cody Kroetsch, Matthew Brubacher, Jamie Reichard, Connor Kroetsch Shutout: Kody Lewis

Atom: LL#3 Oct. 20 vs. Ayr Woolwich: 6 Ayr: 0 Goals: Cameron Martin x5, Cole Seabrook 1 Assists: Max Nitsche, Zach Downs Shutout: Ryan Martin Oct. 21 vs. LL#2 LL#3: 5 LL#2: 0 Goals: Cameron Martin x3 Cole Seabrook Logan Frey Assists: Logan Frey x2, Cameron Martin, Ben Martin, Jordan Dickieson Shutout: Ryan Martin

PeeWee: LL# 2 Oct. 20 vs. Ayr Woolwich: 1 Ayr: 3 Goals: Ryan Belanger

Milton: 1 Goals: Riley Runstedler Assists: Sammy Huber, Nick Ravelle Oct 21 vs. Owen Sound Woolwich: 3 Owen Sound: 1 Goals: Evan Gowing, Chase Mooder, Nolan Mclaughlin Assists: Austin Flaherty, Bradley Hale, Nick Ravelle

Bantam: AE Oct. 18 vs. Hespeler Woolwich: 7 Hespeler: 0 Goals: Blake Doerbecker, Mathew Uhrig, Brett, Henry, Connor Goss x2, Danyal Rennie, Luke Charter Assists: Nathan Schwarz, Danyal Rennie x2, Liam Dickson x2, Mathew Uhrig Shutout: Dylan Creelman Oct. 20 vs. Dundas Woolwich: 8 Dundas: 0 Goals: Liam Dickson, Luke Charter x3, Blake Doerbecker, Mitchell Rempel x2, Benton Weber Assists: Gareth Rowland, Connor Runstedler, Connor Goss x2, Danyal Rennie x3, Mitchell Rempel x2, Blake Doerbecker, Nathan Schwarz, Daniel Gallant Shutout: Dylan Creelman Oct. 24 vs. Erin-Hillsburgh Woolich: 8 Erin-Hillsburgh: 0 Goals: Nathan Schwarz, Danyal Rennie, Liam Dickson, Benton Weber, Connor Goss x3, Mitchell Rempel Assists: Liam Dickson x4, Connor Runstedler x4, Benton Weber, Luke Charter x2, Nathan Schwarz x2, Daniel Gallant, Gareth Rowland, Blake Doerbecker Shoutout: Dylan Creelman

PeeWee: MINOR A Oct. 20 vs. Brampton Woolwich: 3 Brampton: 0 Goals: Austin Cousineau, Griffen Rollins, Sam Davidson Assists: Bart Sherrer, Kurtis Hoover Oct. 21 vs. Georgetown Woolwich: 5 Georgetown: 1 Goals: Austin Cousineau x2, Griffen Rollins, Eli Baldin, Brody Waters Assists: Bart Sherrer, Brody Waters, Lukas Shantz, Sam Davidson, Griffen Rollins, Nolan Hislop Oct. 21 vs. Caledon.

Woolwich: 2 Caledon: 6 Goals: Zac Pickard, Ben Weigel Assists: Kieffer Beard

PeeWee: MAJOR A Oct 20 vs. Milton Woolwich: 1

Bantam: LL# 1 Oct. 20 vs. Tavistock Woolwich: 4 Tavistock: 5 Goals: Nathan Horst, Luke DeCorte x3, Assists: Ryan Diemert, Joe Hanley, Max Bender, Jordan Luis

Bantam: MINOR A Oct. 19 vs. Hespeler Woolwich: 1 Hespeler: 5 Goals: Jonah Boehm Assists: Mitchell Newson, Ryan Shantz Oct 19 vs. Brampton Woolwich: 3 Brampton: 3 Goals: Owen Read, Jonah Boehm, Ryan Shantz Assists: Jacob Uridil, Cameron Rose, Owen Read Oct. 20 vs. Brampton Woolwich: 1 Brampton: 0

Goals: Jonah Boehm Assists: Isaac Frey, Aaron Logan Shutout: Evan Martin Oct 20, 2012 Woolwich: 0

Hespeler: 4

Bantam: MAJOR A Oct 12 vs. Oakville Woolwich: 3 Oakville: 5 Goals: Jake Lewis, Ryley Cribbin, Aaron Weigel Assists: Ryley Cribbin x2, Tyler Townsend x2, Connor Bauman, Brant McLaughlin Oct 18 vs. Burlington Woolwich: 2 Burlington: 2 Goals: Brant McLaughlin, Kelby Martin Assists: Tyler Townsend, Alex Taylor

Midget: MINOR A Oct. 17 vs. Georgetown Woolwich: 7 Georgetown: 2 Goals: Matthew Leger x4, Alex Uttley x2, and Jordan Shantz Assists: Cole Conlin x2, Jason Dunbar x2, Matthew Lalonde x2, Alex Uttley, Jordan Shantz and Eddie Huber Oct.21 vs. Ayr Woolwich: 2 Ayr: 0 Goals: Cole Conlin and Matthew Leger Assists: Matthew Lalonde, Alex Uttley and Jason Dunbar Shutout: Thomas Vickers Oct. 23 vs. Brampton Woolwich: 6 Brampton: 4 Goals: Matthew Leger x3, Alex Uttley, Eddie Huber and Scott Martin Assists: Matthew Lalonde x3, Jordan Shantz x2, Scott Martin, Alex Uttley, Matthew Leger, Troy Nechanicky and JasonDunbar

Yantha, Bo Uridil Oct. 8 Woolwich: 1 New Hamburg: 2 Goals: Evan Yantha Assists: Cameron Mohle, Tyler Seguin Oct. 14 vs. Brampton Woolwich: 3 Brampton: 0 Goals: Cameron Mohle x3 Assists: Adam Cook Evan Yantha x2, Tyler Seguin Sebastian Huber Oct. 19 vs. Hespeler Woolwich: 2 Hespeler: 1 Goals: Tyler Seguin Cameron Mohle Assists: Bo Uridil Matt Townsend Evan Yantha Oct. 20 vs. Georgetown Woolwich: 4 Georgetown: 3 Goals: Tyler Seguin x2, Bo Uridil, Cameron Mohle Assists: Tyler Seguin x2, Mitch Kernick x2, Evan Yantha

Juvenile: REP Oct 21 vs. Tillsonburg Woolwich: 7 Tillsonburg: 1 Goals: Ryan Ament x 2, Dalton Taylor, Josh Wade, Logan White, Brent Kron, RJ Good Assists: Clinton Dechert,Brent Kron, Jordan Moore, Ryan Ament X 2, Andrew Moore, Tommy Bearinger, Alex Albrecht, Josh Wade

WOOLWICH WILD

Novice: LL# 7108 Oct. 21 Woolwich: 4 Cambridge: 1 Goals: Paige Woods, Ayla Brubacher, Kyla Bloch, Claire Jacklin Assists: Kayla Shantz, Madison Martin, Ayla Brubacher, Taya Diefenbacher

Midget: MAJOR A Sept. 4 vs. Brampton Woolwich: 2 Brampton: 2 Goals: Adrian Gilles, Matt Lair Assists: McKinley Ceaser, Mitch Kernick, Adrian Gilles, Sebastian Huber Sept. 29 vs. Owen Sound Woolwich: 2 Owen Sound: 2 Goals: McKinley Ceaser x2 Assists: Adrian Gilles, Matt Lair x2 Oct. 6 vs. Caledon Woolwich: 5 Caledon: 2 Goals: Eric Hanley, Matt Townsend, Tyler Seguin x2, Sebastian Huber Assists: Matt Lair x2, Adrian Gilles, Tyler Seguin, Mitch Kernick, Cameron Mohle, Evan

Atom: LL# 7103 Oct. 21 vs. Stratford Woolwich: 0 Stratford: 3

Bantam: LL Oct. 20 Woolwich: 2 Grand River: 4 Goals: Jessica Schoop x2 Assists: Amanda Fleischmann x1, Lauren Winfield-Ward x1

Bantam: BB Oct. 21 vs. Cambridge Woolwich: 6 Cambridge: 1 Goals: Brooke Mulder x2, Megan Lair, Meghan Martin, Marlee Kernick, Sydney Meunier

Assists: Erika Morrison x2, Meghan Martin, Cassandra Tuffnail, Megan Chapman, Emily Wilms Oct. 21 vs. Walkerton Walkerton: 1 Woolwich: 0

TWIN CENTRE STARS

Novice: LL #1 Oct. 13 vs. Paris Twin Centre: 1 Paris: 4 Goals: Rylan Edwards Assists: Charlie Birell

Goals: Marlee Fraser x4, Olivia Kellendonk, Claire Higgins, Katie Lee, Katya Yusim, Bella Kuchma, Mackenna Krulicki, Chloe Hislop Assists: Chloe Hislop x3, Mackenna Krulicki x3, Claire Higgins x3, Avery Haid x2 Olivia Kellondonk x2, Marlee Fraser x2, Katya Yusim x2, Mia Thompson x2, Halle Murray x2, Bella Kuchma Shoutout: Kirsten Livingston

Novice: REP

Atom: LL#1 Oct. 13 vs. Embro Twin Centre: 3

Embro: 4 Goals: Ben Bauer, Jack Wolf x2 Assists: Dawson Stevenson Oct. 20 vs. New Hamburg Twin Centre: 9

New Hamburg: 0 Goals: Jack Wolf x5, Ben Bauer x2, Reid Henderson, Dawson Stevenson Assists: Jack Wolf x2, Christopher Jones x3, Reid Henderson, Sterling Grubb Shutouts: Jonathan Gervais, Tyler Rose

PeeWee: REP Oct. 20 Lambton Shores Twin Centre: 4 Lambton Shores: 3 Goals: Josh Monk x2, Cole Bender, Nick Zyta Assists: Mitch Esbaugh, Jake Voisin, Cole Bender, Matt Sommerville, Tyson Bolender Oct. 20 vs. Oakville Twin Centre: 4 Oakville: 0 Goals: Brett Hartin, Mitch Esbaugh x2, Aidan Krueger Assists: Matt Somerville, Cole Bender, Brett Hartin, Nick Zyta Shoutout: Nathan Belcourt Oct. 21 vs. Ilderton Twin Centre: 1 Ilderton: 1 Goals: Brett Hartin Oct. 21vs. Thamesford Twin Centre: 3 Thamesford: 2 Goals: Mitch Esbaugh, Matt Somerville, Tyler Munro Assists: Brett Hartin, Erik Holmes, Tyson Bolender, Jake Voisin Oct. 21 vs. BCH Twin Centre: 0 BCH: 1

TWIN CENTRE HURICANES

Oct 21 vs. Woolwich Twin Centre: 4 Waterloo: 1 Goals: Olivia Kellendonk, Claire Higgins, Marlee Fraser, Chloe Hislop Assists: Katya Yusim, Mackenna Krulicki, Halle Murray, Mia Thompson, Katie Lee, Bella Kuchma

Atom: REP Oct. 20 vs. Ancaster Twin Centre: 2 Ancaster: 4 Goals: Emily Krueger, Lauren Skanes Assists: Jordyn Torti, Avery Bender

PeeWee: LL Oct. 17 vs. Kitchener Twin Centre: 5

Kitchener: 3 Goals: Emily Bishop x2, Janessa Pretorius x2, Marissa Lebold Assists: Grace Kalbfleisch x2, Marissa Lebold Kira, Schneider Laura, Martin Kate Seip Oct. 22 vs. Waterloo Twin Centre: 1

Waterloo: 7 Goals: Marissa Lebold Assists: Nikki Beam

Midget: REP Oct. 22 vs. Mitchell Twin Centre: 2 Mitchell: 1 Goals: Breanna Michael, Casey Hodnett Assists: Becky Jantzi, Mackenzie VanBargen, Rebecca Giovanniello

Intermediate: LL Oct 21 vs. Woolwich Twin Centre: 3

Woolwich: 1 Goals: Stephanie Lorentz, Sarah Van Allen, Kim Finn, Amy Calenda Assists: Sarah Van Allen, Stephanie Lorentz, Lisa Guenther, Katharine Hoffman, Marissa Woodburn

Novice: REP Oct. 20 vs. Woolwich Twin Centre: 11 Woolwich: 0

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with Zac Coulter scoring three minutes later. Dauda also registered one goal at 17:16 and four assists to lead the team in points, and Clayton Greer who scored the team’s last goal at 19:23 with a shot from the blue line that beat Henry high on the glove side.

“We knew they had a

short bench and a lot of midget call ups so that was part of our challenge, we needed to push the pace, work hard but get pucks to the net down low and good things happen,” said DeSilva.

Referees had their hands full with a major incident at 5:48 into the third period. Four fighting penalties were dished out along with

three game misconducts including one to Kings forward Patrick McKelvie.

Elmira racked up the penalties in the contest, and ended with 10 minors and one major for 35 minutes in penalty time. The Kings have been averaging 29 minutes in penalties per game. The Hurricanes could not stay out of the penalty box either, as the

team accrued 27 minutes in penalties during the game. Hurricanes, Steven Domenichini and Zach McFadden were ejected from the contest with game misconducts.

Neuman rejected 18 shots on goal for the win while Henry recorded 51 saves out of 61 shots for Guelph.

The Kings will face the

Hurricanes again this Saturday (today) when they visit the Sleeman Centre in Guelph. The puck drops at 7:30 p.m.

“We told the guys they can enjoy this result but our biggest challenge now is playing them again next week. We played Brampton early in the season and beat them 10-0 and the next time we play them

we thought we just had to show up and we lose 2-0.

This week’s practices will be tougher than last weeks because we need to be ready to play a team that will be very hungry,” said DeSilva.

The Kings next home game is tomorrow (Sunday) against the Stratford Cullitons. The game starts at 7 p.m.

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NOT SO GREAT OUTDOORSMAN / STEVE GALEA

Until conditions change for the better, Bigfoot has no reason to worry about me OPEN COUNTRY I don’t think it’s any secret that I have a great love for hunting. In fact, I will utilize a bow or firearm to hunt any legal game from woodcock to bear. But there is one thing I will not hunt. That’s right, Bigfoot, you are safe from me.

I am clarifying my position on this matter because there has been some confusion recently in New York State. There, an independent and well-meaning citizen put out an official

looking press release that said that the state’s department of natural resources had declared Bigfoot a protected species.

This was later strongly denied by the folks at their DNR. And for good reason too. They still do not acknowledge Bigfoot.

Regardless, I would like to hereby pledge that, until the Bigfoot population bounces back in Ontario to sustainable levels, I will not to hunt them here, regardless of whether or not they are in season; no matter how good they purportedly taste. And I would hope that other hunters in New York State, Ontario

and elsewhere would also consider the same selfimposed limits.

Furthermore, I would like to float the idea of a North American Bigfoot Treaty, perhaps modeled after the North American Migratory Bird Act, which has served us so well in bringing back waterfowl from the brink of disaster. Unless we want to lose Bigfoots forever, we need to act fast.

Look, I think we all can vouch for the fact that very few Bigfoots roam our woods these days. In fact, there are so few that it appears as if there are none at all. But that’s not to say that we can’t return their

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and Brandon Kalbfleisch notching one as well.

“Friday night that third period was the worse period of hockey we have played all year,” said Fitzpatrick when explaining what happened to his team. “We played so well through 50 minutes of hockey and we seem to have this little letdown – it is very frustrating.”

One positive Fitzpatrick took from the game was the Jacks’ penalty kill, which was spotless, allowing no goals on three Tavistock power plays.

Braves goaltender Tim Parker rejected 18 shots on goal while Heer recorded 33 saves for the Applejacks.

The following night the Jacks were in Hagersville to play the Hawks, and through two periods of play they dominated the host team.

Wellesley was led by Michael Pollice, who finished with two goals. Pollice scored the first of his two goals at 2:10 into the first frame to give the Jacks the lead. Reid Denstedt assisted on the goal. That was followed by a goal from Rose to give Wellesley a 2-0 lead which would be cut by one when the Hawks scored in the last minute of play in the period against Jacks’ netminder Trevor Olender who was playing his first game for the team between the pipes.

“He did well, he was nervous and he was up against a good hockey team – it wasn’t like we put him up against one of the bottom teams – and we were very happy with his performance. We will be using him again this weekend and we’ll see how it goes. He did a very good job for a young

guy,” said Fitzpatrick of Olender.

Hagersville would tie the game in the second but Pollice’s next tally made the score 3-2 in favour of Wellesley with 7:51 left in the second period. Connor McLeod provided the assist.

Returning to the ice in the third the Jacks once again fell apart as the Hawks potted three unanswered goals to take the win 5-3.

Olender stopped 31 of 36 shots for the Jacks.

“We have to come and play 60 minutes of hockey and can’t keep giving up three in the last seven minutes of play. We have to stop that. We have talked about it with the guys repeatedly and will be addressing it again at our practices.”

Sunday night would see the Jacks facing the Burford Bulldogs. This time the Jacks would barely survive a determined comeback by the Bulldogs during the third period to win 7-6.

Wellesley had made the score 6-1 on a goal by Tyler Eckert at 15:23 in the second period and forced both Bulldogs’ goalies to work hard to keep the puck out of the net, ripping 32 shots and forcing 25 saves. Don Davis made 17 stops and

Ben Beechey made eight.

The Bulldogs managed to pot their second goal with three minutes remaining in the second frame to make the score to 6-2 before heading to the room.

Both teams worked hard in the first 15 minutes of the period scoring one each to make the tally 7-3 for Wellesley. But once again the Jacks fell apart and allowed three goals to be scored on them before the final whistle blew.

Jacks’ goaltender Heer stopped 30 shots out of the 36 that he faced.

“We dominated large portions of the game and when we were up 7-3 with three minutes to go and you could see a change on the bench as everyone started joking around when we scored the seventh goal but then we just fell apart. If they had shot wider they would have tied it up. We played well with a lot of intensity but we just lost our way. We are going to have to really address this issue.”

The Jacks are once again on the road this weekend, visiting the Hagersville Hawks on Oct.27 and then travelling on to face the Norfolk Rebels in an afternoon game starting at 2 p.m.

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Call it a dream of mine.

I know it won’t be easy.

We’ll first need to capture a male and female so that we can start a captive breeding program. And then, years later, after they have got a mortgage, vacationed in Disneyland, grown distant and indifferent to each other while their offspring have learned to spend all their waking hours text messaging their friends, we

can release them all into the wild.

Again, this won’t be simple. We’ll first have to create prime habitat for them.

We could start by building oversized foot rests and scattering them throughout the woods. We might also leave bottles of foot powder in hollowed out tree trunks and drape huge socks randomly over low-hanging branches. Then, we should fund complicated projects that enable university researchers rake the woodlands so that the forest floor is free of anything that might stub a large toe.

Perhaps we can also stop making fun of the size of

WILD: Atom girls post only one loss en route

to capturing title at Kitchener tournament

The Woolwich girls Atom B team won the Oktoberfest tournament last weekend.

Front: goaltender Cailyn Wilkie. Second row: Sydney Dettweiler, Ali Harnock, Abby Burkholder, Julia Doerbecker, Hannah Carr, Maddy Goss. Third row: Ella Campbell, Alana Bauman, Delaney Douglas, Cassidt Moser, Lauren Schell, Mya Brubacher.

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“They have struggled in the past because they were younger kids and now they are playing atom at the proper age. A lot of the girls started playing at this level when they were novice age and these girls have improved a lot and are quite strong on the ice now.”

The team will be busy with league play over the next few weeks and at the

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NEW BUSINESS / DANCE STUDIO

Sharing her passion for dance Chantelle Pagett has transformed Elmira’s former Gale Presbyterian church into Technique Dance Centre ELENA MAYSTRUK The building is still filled with people and music, but the pursuits are far more Earthly these days at 2 Cross St. in Elmira, the former home of Gale Presbyterian. A community landmark for more than a century, it’s now the home of dance teacher Chantelle Pagett.

The renovated space looks much different from its consecrated beginnings, with a living area upstairs and two studios on the main floor, complete with change rooms and a kitchen.

Inside, the original stained glass windows cast colorful designs on a dance floor already scuffed with the feet of 130 students.

“We’re using it for the community and the kids are still coming in and the music is still going,” Pagett said while sitting in the main lobby on Tuesday.

Having just opened on Oct. 1, she hopes that the previous owners are happy with her use of the property as an open space for music, dance and education.

Moving Technique Dance Centre from its original spot at the Birdland Plaza on

Oriole Parkway was a chore for the young entrepreneur, who shares ownership of the building with boyfriend Parry Martin.

An influx of new students made the old location a tight squeeze.

When Gale Presbyterian announced its move, Pagett inquired about renting the property. Presented with more than enough room for her busi-

ness to flourish, however, she soon decided to purchase and make it home.

In the evenings, Pagett leaves her job at Foodland as a filing clerk and makes her way home. But unlike most people who see that as a time to relax, when she throws on her favorite sweatpants and comfortable shirts, she runs downstairs to meet her first class of students and the real work begins.

Together with sister Kyla, the two women teach students of various age groups, offering jazz, tap, ballet, hip hop and acro dance classes.

Though students are starting to pile in, so far the two sisters have everything under control, working together to alternate classes and keep students interested in dance.

“It’s nice because we work really well together.

We’ve had a lot of fun getting started and the kids love the space; they think it’s great because there’s so much more room for them,” she said.

At two years of age Pagett was plunked onto a dance floor by her mother despite her daughter’s protests.

“I guess I used to dance around and my mom thought she’d try it and put me in dance and see how it went. I used to go in and I would cry, I didn’t want my mom to leave,” Pagett explained, knowing all too well how difficult it is to be persistent and not give up

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VENTURE PROFILE BUSINESS: Technique Dance Centre LOCATION: 2 Cross St., Elmira PHONE: 519-210-0535 OWNER: Chantelle Pagett

Could local food be a Hallowe’en treat?

Chantelle Pagett’s Technique Dance studio is now located at 2 Cross St., Elmira, previously Gale Presbyterian Church. [ELENA MAYSTRUK / THE OBSERVER]

Local food has taken the country by storm … but as far as I know, it has yet to make inroads into Hallowe’en, that special occasion when we still revel in the junkiest of junk food, both as givers and takers.

I’d never really thought about Hallowe’en as a food event, let alone a local food event. But like so many special occasions, food is central to the occasion. So why not make it about local food?

That’s the way it used to be. If you’re old enough, you might remember getting apples in your loot bag, even though you really preferred junk.

Of course, such treats are unpopular now, owing to safety concerns.

And this year, even if ersatz Ninjas and zombies received apples as treats, they might not be local, however it’s defined. It’s been a rough year for Ontario apple producers, whose trees lost most of their blossoms in the spring to frost, and have struggled to produce a crop.

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ROBERTS: It’s a real challenge to make Hallowe’en loot bags reflect our interest in local food FROM | 14

Apples aren’t the only option. Back in the day, Rice Krispies squares were another local food favourite. Again, they’ve fallen off the popularity chart for a number of reasons, including prep time. And to be honest, the rice wasn’t exactly local, either. And neither were the marshmallows. But the baker was.

So do locally made Rice Krispies squares and their ilk qualify as local food? Or if they’re junk, are they automatically disqualified, no

matter what the occasion?

I doubt it. I always hesitate (but proceed anyway) to associate the word “junk” with food, even at Hallowe’en. A University of Guelph food scientist I greatly respect, Prof. Rickey Yada, maintains there’s no such thing as junk food.

He says it’s all a matter of volume, and that it’s OK to indulge a little.

I like that attitude. Junk food is contributing to our society’s health ills, but not causing them – it’s our lack of activity and self-control, in the face of an onslaught

of junk food advertising and sedentary pursuits.

Still, it’s unlikely the term junk will be separated from its noun food. Junk is so convenient … as is the term local, which in our society is tossed around in the loosest of ways.

More and more, local food is heralded as a step towards food security.

That’s an ever-present concern, and a particularly newsworthy matter at harvest. Droughts in the Midwest U.S. and elsewhere, especially Ukraine, which has cut back on grain

exports to make sure its own citizens have enough food, underline that when it comes to food we live in fragile times.

In Ontario, public institutions have been getting a helping hand from the Greenbelt Fund to offer more local food. Last week, the fund announced 17 more grants to a variety of businesses and organizations which broadly serve public institutions, to help boost local food availability. These grants complemented 38 other successful projects already underway,

which overall increased food purchases from Ontario farmers by nearly $12 million in the past two years.

The largest sum of the new awards, $265,000, went to Gordon Food Service Ontario, which will create a regional distribution system with hubs in Milton, London and Ottawa. The hubs are designed to bring more Ontario food into Gordon’s system, which the company anticipates increasing its local food purchases by $7.6 million in 2013.

On the heels of the funding announcements, the Greenbelt Fund also unveiled a call-to-action to public institutions for more local food by introducing a local food challenge. Organizers hope this incentive program inspires institutions to assess menus for local food content and introduce more Ontario food into their food service.

So now, how about a local food Hallowe’en challenge? That’s where we need an incentive. Look in your kids’ loot bags and I’m sure you’ll agree.

DANCE: A studio where the emphasis is on having fun, rather than putting pressure on kids FROM | 14

on a student.

“My mom pretty much says it’s good she didn’t base my first class on my dance career because I probably wouldn’t have danced anymore. I didn’t dance on stage my first year, I just stood there and smiled.

After that year it was completely different and I loved it.”

When her students step into the studio for the first time, she tries to take the same approach, enjoying the challenge of encouraging kids to exceed their own expectations, not hers.

When all of a sudden a shy, unsure student nails that spin or lands a perfect jump, “the smile on their face is just makes it all worthwhile” for the young teacher who has spent her life dancing.

At 13 Pagett was already helping out with dance classes at Dimensions and

Dance in Kitchener, where she first started as a tot. Later, the promising dancer was given her own classes and discovered a passion that would eventually lead her to launch her own studio.

With a full roster of

young students, Pagett hopes to expand the school and start running dance classes for adults, due to an overwhelming number of requests.

As for her current crop of students, things are being

kept low key this year, with just three dance competitions in order to allow older kids time to work on their studies.

“Most of our competitors are a little older. School comes first and then dance,

so I want to make sure they are not stressing. All I want them to know is that if they mess up I don’t care as long as they’re having fun. When I danced it was very competitive and fun but I felt like i had to win. I don’t want my

kids to feel that,” she said.

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The good, the bad and the funny There are plenty of laughs aboard the HMS Majestic in Theatre Wellesley’s production of Peril on the High Seas STEVE KANNON There’s no ambiguity in Theatre Wellesley’s latest production: the good guys are good, and the bad guys are obvious. But it’s the manic pace of the comedic Peril on the High Seas, which opens November 15, that will demand your attention.

From the sugary heroine Merry Ann Sweet to the dastardly Snively Swine, the players all stay in character ... well, except when the story calls for something else, but even then we know who to cheer for.

“There are a lot of great characters in this story,” says producer Rhonda Caldwell. “We know who the good guys are. And the evil laughter of our villains would certainly let you know that they’re the bad guys.”

The play, penned by Billy St. John, takes us aboard the HMS Majestic at the height of the opulence of the Roaring Twenties. The rich heiress Merry Ann Sweet, travelling with her appropriately-named aunt

Alex Urlando, Amanda Bast, Al Strong, Christine Strong and Ashley Jeffries rehearse a scene from Theatre Wellesley’s production of Peril on the High Seas, which runs November 15-17.

[SUBMITTED] Bea Goode, is the target of a kidnapping plot masterminded by Snively Swine (yes, he’s the bad guy).

Along with his partner, the slinky and exotic Aracnia Webb, Swine disguises himself as Sir Reginald Rottentot, a British nobleman, in order to gain the confidence of Merry and her flapper friends, Mitzi, Ritzy and Ditzy.

Swine’s plans go awry, however, when Merry falls

for a handsome waiter, Cary De Mille (our hero and allround good guy). The villain must adjust on the fly, while the would-be suitor has problems of his own in the form of a company policy that forbids staff from fraternizing with the passengers. Could the love story be over before it even begins? Not if Merry’s flapper friends can help it. Together, they transform Merry from a shy young lady

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Not complicated enough for you? Snively’s accomplice, Aracnia attempts to cast a web of her own around young Cary, who she becomes smitten with, much to the waiter’s chagrin. Can he save Merry and stay out of Aracnia’s clutches? It’s up to the passengers – movie star Mary Pickaxe (man, make that woman, overboard), gossip columnist Hedda Hooper,

detective Willy Ketchum and more – to help Cary put the damper on Swine.

There does in fact appear to be many a Peril on the High Seas.

Establishing and dealing with those perils requires a hectic pace on the most complicated set Theatre Wellesley has dealt with to date. The 14 actors are constantly moving to and fro, maintaining the comic flow in the midst of set and costume changes galore.

It’s a more involved show for the community theatre group’s 15th anniversary, said Caldwell.

“We wanted to do something bigger and special.”

In keeping with the celebratory atmosphere, the Saturday night show a “captain’s table” performance, which will feature musical entertainment along with appetizers and punch before the show, and dessert and coffee/tea during the intermission.

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No need to dress up, however, as it’s not a black-tie affair. That said, if you feel like getting in on the spirit of a 1920s cruise, feel free to indulge yourself, she added.

Perhaps you might feel like extending that Halloween spirit a little longer.

“It will definitely have the ’20s feel,” said Caldwell of the performances, pointing to music in keeping with the era and the cast breaking into the Charleston in the second act.

The Theatre Wellesley production of Peril on the High Seas (or Let’s Get Together and Do Launch) runs November 15 (8 p.m.), 16 (8 p.m.) and 17 (2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.) at the Wellesley Community Centre. Tickets are $15 for the Thursday and Friday night shows; $10 for the matinee; and $25 for Saturday night’s “captain’s table” performance. Tickets are available at Pym’s Village Market, online at www.ticketscene.ca or by calling 519897-1737. More information is available online at www. theatrewellesley.ca.

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The EDSS junior boys’ football team was defeated by the visiting St. Benedicts Catholic School 40-6 on October 24. The senior team was the victor over the senior visiting squad 33-19. Top, junior player Jacob Fulton avoids a tackle to score the team’s only touchdown.

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through-out this 4 bedroom home. Convenience at its best with main floor laundry/mudroom, walk-in pantry and completely finished basement with gas fireplace. 9ft ceilings thoughout main floor. Bright eat-in kitchen with granite counter tops, cupboards to the ceiling and island.

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$347,000 POTENTIAL DUPLEX

Waterloo - Close to universities and downtown, this very well kept, cheerful century home boasts original charm with many modern twists! Original hardwood floors, brigh airy kitchens and a huge finished walk up attic with closet are just a few. Walkout to fenced yard from back family room. Ample parking, lots of storage, appliances included. MLS 1234099 Call Alli or Paul direct.

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Elmira - Century home boasting original woodwork and hardwood throughout, 9ft ceilings, and pocket doors. spacious main bath and bedrooms with bonus room off master. Fully finished attic with skylights and gas fireplace. Within walking distance to all amenities. Detached workshop. MLS 1241191 Call Alli or Paul direct.

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$269,000 $279,000 LARGE WORKSHOP

Heidelberg - Bungalow with lg Workshop. This

Alli Bauman SALES REPRESENTATIVE

home is complete with 4 Bedrooms, plus office, living room, family room and finished basement. The bright living room is open to dinning room and kitchen.

Unfinished walk up attic. Located on large lot featuring detached 17ft x 18ft, insulated, heated workshop, fantastic gazebo and 10ft x 20ft shed. MLS 1234999.

Call Alli or Paul direct.

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$369,900

PRIME LOCATION!

Elmira - Backing onto farmland! Open welcoming front entrance to this, like new, open concept home. The main floor is bright and airy featuring: large breakfast bar, powder room, main floor laundry and is carpet free. The second floor is carpet free, master bedroom complete with walk in closet and spa like ensuite. Appliances are included. MLS 1241487. Call Alli or Paul direct.

$239,900

SPACIOUS TWO STOREY

Floradale - 1866 sq.ft. home in Floradale with

a large lot backing onto green belt. This century home is one of Floradale's originals.

This home is priced right for a young family and has great potential . Close to Floradale School and the park. 20 min to K-W. MLS 1241726. Call Alli or Bill direct.

$259,900

RARE FIND!!

Elmira - A perfect family home located on a mature treed lot complete with shed and detached garage.

This 2 storey, 3 bedroom home features a finished rec room, separate dining room, and main floor family room with sliders to large wrap around deck. New main floor and rec room windows excluding living room. All appliances included with the exception of freezer. MLS 1237778. Call Alli or Paul direct.

D L O S

$359,000

5+ BEDROOM HOME

Waterloo - within walking distance to Universities, RIM and other Tech companies. This home could be an Investment property, residence or both! Just steps away from bus stop. Multiple driveways for parking. Separate entrance. Roof 2012. MLS 1237590. Call Bill or Alli direct.

$374,900

BACKING ONTO GREEN SPACE!

Elmira - Backing onto Green space! This fantastic home was built with family in mind! Huge kitchen with breakfast bar and walk out to large deck over looking green space. Office just off kitchen with side door to deck. Finished recroom with laminate floors and ample storage space. Large master bedroom complete with 2 walk-in closets and ensuite. MLS 1234126. Call Alli or Paul direct.

$314,000

GREAT OPPORTUNITY

St. Clements - Own a duplex in small town St. Clements.

Great mortgage helper, excellent tenants, ample parking, fantastic location. Live in one and rent the other or rent them both or convert back to a large family home. very large country lot with mature trees. Backs onto greenbelt.

Just minutes from the city and steps from all amenities, everything you want can be found in St. Clements. MLS 1241584. Call Alli or Bill direct.

$269,900 LOCATION, LOCATION!

Kitchener - Fantastic bungalow close to expressway, amenities, bus routes and in quiet neighbourhood. The carpet free main floor is complete with 3 bedrooms, living room and eat-in kitchen. Large finished rec room with gas fireplace. Both bathrooms recently renovated.

Convenient second garage door to fenced backyard featuring patio and large 10x16ft cedar shed. MLS 1241620. Call Alli or Bill direct.

$299,900 YOU DON’T WANT TO MISS THIS! Elmira - Brand new semi detached raised bungalow.

Complete with main floor laundry, 4 piece ensuite, open concept eat-in kitchen and living room with French door walk out to deck. All the conveniences on one floor. The large garage is perfect for storage and have room for a vehicle. Located close to downtown, walking distance to library, restaurants and banks. MLS 1234444. Call Alli or Paul direct.

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$399,900 $399,900 IMPRESSIVE

Bill Norris SALES REPRESENTATIVE

CALL CALL DIRECT DIRECT

519-588-1348

ELMIRA - 3 bdrm, 2baths birdland bungalow backing onto farmland on a family oriented st. From the welcoming eat-in kit, to the oversized LR, to the gorgeous master w/walkout , this home is bright & spacious. Add in the huge unfinished basement, beautiful covered patio & well-kept yrd complete w/shed, this home is everything you are looking for!

MLS 1231378. Call Alli or Paul direct!

$319,000 PERFECT FOR A YOUNG FAMILY!

$769,000 EQUIPPED FOR 2 FAMILIES!!

Elmira - Don’t miss this modern home featuring warm, neutral décor throughout and rich ceramic tile. Bright living room, open to dinette with slider to spacious fenced yard. Finished basement could be used for rec room or very large bedroom just off the fabulous 4 piece bathroom complete with corner tub. Appliances included. MLS 1232147. Call Alli or Paul direct.

Elmira - This home is equipped for 2 families! Front and side entrances, separate garages, separate laundry rooms, separate bathrooms, living rooms and 2 huge kitchens.

Fantastic opportunity for large family/families complete with 7 bedrooms. Perfect for the hobbiest 3 car garage & detached 4 car garage/workshop. Large yard 87x250ft over looking farm land just steps to golf course. MLS 1225049. Call Alli or Paul direct.

$549,900

$218,500

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$345,000

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FANTASTIC LAYOUT

Elmira - Fantastic Layout in this bright home!

Modern colours & décor throughout.

Hardwood floors in the lg open living room & master bedrm. Eat-in kitchen w/slider to deck overlooking green space. Convenient upper floor laundry w/lg window. Finished basement w/slider walkout to back yard. Large 1.75 garage (18x20ft). MLS 1241698. Call Alli or Paul direct.

OUTSTANDING BUNGALOW

Elmira - Only 2 years old! Backing onto greenbelt.

Many upgrades throughout. Open concept mf w/hardwood & ceramic throughout. Gas fireplace in great room w/cathedral ceiling. Lg master w/5pc ens incl corner whirpool bath. MF laundry/mudroom. Finished basement includes: 2 bdrms, 4pc bath & lg rec rm. Sunroom walk-out to deck & interlock patio over-loogin yard & greenspace. MLS 1237430. Call Alli or Paul direct.

EXCELLENT OPPORTUNITY! Elmira - This semi is only steps to downtown!

Fantastic hardwood floors, high ceilings, original built in cupboards and trim provide charm and character.

Bright spacious kitchen with walkout to sun porch.

Featuring; large front porch, carpet free, 3 bedrooms, living room, family room and lots of parking. MLS 1237444. Call Alli or Paul direct.

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R.W. THUR REAL ESTATE LTD.

BROKERAGE

Elmira Real Estate Services Independently Owned & Operated, Brokerage

90 Earl Martin Dr., Unit 1, Elmira N3B 3L4

45 Arthur St. S., Elmira Office:

519-669-3192

519-669-2772

Broker of Record,

JULIE HECKENDORN

TRACEY WILLIAMS

Res: 519.669.1068

Res: 519.669.8629

Cell: 519.505.0627

BRAD MARTIN MVA Residential

$324,900

Broker

When you buy or sell your home with us, part of our commission supports women’s shelters & violence prevention programs.

Bonnie Brubacher Shanna Rozema Jason Shantz Broker of Record

Sales Rep.

FEATURED PROPERTY

ST. JACOBS - Extensively renovated bungalow on a 85‘x170’ lot. Hdwd. and ceramic flrs. Oak kitchen w/island. Walkout to deck. Main flr. laundry. 2 bathrooms. Main flr. family rm. (could be bdrm. w/ensuite). Updated bathrms, windows, and furnace. Fin Bsmt.

MLS

$899,000

LINWOOD - exceptional bungalow w/loft. Open concept is great for entertaining! Enjoy the veiw of the POND & countryside from several rooms!

Gourmet kitchen. High ceilings, crown mouldings, custom doors. Formal din. rm.

Private master suite w/ensuite. You’ll love the walkout bsmt.- completely fin. w/seperate entrace. MLS

$474,900

BACKS TO A SCHOOL FIELD Park like yard w/mature trees.

Oversized dining area w/wo to deck, patio & covered porch. 3 gas fireplaces. Fin. rec. room, games rm. & washroom. Main flr. office & bdrm.

Oversized master w/updated ensuit.

Cherry hardwood MLS

$259,900

HUGE FAMILY ROOM addition w/oversized rec. rm. w/high ceiling.

Large dining area. Maple kicthen.

Hdwd. in bdrms. Main flr. master bdrm. & laundry. Updated doors, windows, siding, furnace & deck. Close to downtown. MLS

$289,000

MOVE-IN CONDITION! enjoy the dble. garage w/stairs to the lower level. Fin. rec. rm. w/fireplace, games rm & bathrm. Main flr has un updated kitchen open to the L.R. and dining area.Renovated bathrm. Updated windows, doors, furnace & central air.

Private dec area. MLS

Broker

OPEN HOUSE Sat. Oct. 27, 2-4 p.m.

NEW BUNAGLOW

MARYHILL 25 ACRES

3390 Lobsinger Line, St. Clements

WOW! ALMOST 1/2 ACRE

One owner bungalow in FLORADALE on a 200’deep lot. Walkout basement.

Overlooks GRCA and walking trails.

Elevated deck. Gas furnace (2004). Steel roof. Fireplace in rec. room. Oversized garage. NEW MLS

NEW PRICE! $399,900

Broker

$342,735 ELMIRA. Well designed home with all main floor amenities, gorgeous kitchen with island & pantry, ceramic & hardwood floors, living rm with gas fireplace and walkout, 2 bdrms, 2 baths, full basement for future development.

NEW MLS

$319,900.

Spacious & clean 5 level backsplit, cathedral ceilings, main floor family with walkout, bright main floor living room, dinette with walkout to tiered deck, 3 bdrms, 2 baths, main floor laundry, oversized garage, detached shop with hydro. MLS

$839,000.

Picturesque property of rolling land, mature trees for privacy. 3 Bedroom bungalow with walkout basement, an ideal in-law if needed.

Inground pool, shop/barn future pond sight.

Centrally located to the tri-cities. MLS

REALTY LTD., BROKERAGE

INDEPENDENTLY OWNED & OPERATED

17 Church St. W., Elmira

Len Frey

Phone: 519-669-1544

Sales Representative mildred@thefreyteam.com

Fax: 519-669-5119

519-741-6369

Millbank $329,000. Stately Victorian redbrick with original gingerbread trim, some original glass, original woodwork, updated European style windows, wiring, plumbing.

Finished rec room, walk up attic for potential use. Large lot backing onto greenspace. Must see! MLS Call Dale.

Mildred Frey

Wendy Taylor

Mary Lou Murray

Dale Keller

Bill Cassel

519-741-6970

519-669-1544

519-669-1544

Cell: 519-500-1865

Cell: 519-505-3111

Broker Broker/Manager Sales Representative Sales Representative Sales Representative mildred@thefreyteam.com wendy.taylor1@rogers.blackberry.net marylou@mmrealestate.ca dale@kellersellsrealestate.com sandcasselkids3@gmail.com

WELLESLEY $396,500.

Beautifully appointed 3 bdrm home, many upgrades, fully fenced and professionally landscaped yard. Finished office with sepaprare entrance on lower level. Just recently on the market. MLS Call Dale.

ST CLEMENTS FOR LEASE. 3200 sq ft available. Lots of parking. High traffic exposure. Can be divided. Great character building for retail or professional services. Can pick your flooring and colors. $10.50 all in gross. MLS Call Dale

WELLINGTON RD 12 $528,000.

Your country dream. Full brick custom home with fully finished basement, loaded with features and set in a picture perfect setting allows you to enjoy entertaining both indoors and out.

OPEN HOUSE Sunday Oct. 28, 2-4pm 17 Park Ave. Elmira

Elmira | 10 Martin’s Lane | New Price

Mapleton Twp | $199,900

$379,900 This 2-storey home includes a gourmet

$319,900 Huge older home with in-law set up M 1 zoning (light industrial) Inlaw allows as a mortgage helper. Some updates are New wiring, 200 amp, new plumbing, New on demand water heater, new kitchen in the main unit, 3 bathrooms, Some new windows & floors. More work in progress to be finished by the buyer. To view call Mildred or Len Frey. Will consider all reasonable offers.

Concession 12-Lot 18 10 acres ready to build your dream home along with out buildings.

The lot is level and is in a good production area for market gardeners. On a paved road with traffic.

Perfect for a roadside stand. For more information call Mildred Or Len Frey. MLS1237449

LET OUR 50+ YEARS OF EXPERIENCE WORK FOR YOU!

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Sunlight Homes Drayton Heights OPEN HOUSE EVERY SATURDAY AND SUNDAY 1-5PM Come take a look you won't be disappointed!

The last home in the Sunlight Heritage Homes Phase 1!!

Beautiful 1400 sq ft home, features 3 beds, 3 baths, master with ensuite and walk in closet.

Open concept main floor, with custom kitchen and island. Buy today and celebrate the holidays in your brand new home! Quick Possession available!

15 Green St., Drayton only

kitchen with custom maple cupboards and a breakfast bar with 3 stools. The huge dining room is adjacent to the kitchen and opens into a large living room with large stained glass window. This home has lots of old time charm and character. Take the time.

Come to our open house. MLS 1221850 Call Mildred Frey to view.

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Kiwanis Transit celebrated its 20th anniversary on October 20 at its main offices in Elmira. Wilmot Mayor Les Armstrong, regional Chair Ken Seiling, KT board member Greg Bechard, KT manager Cheryl Fisher, Wellesley Mayor Ross Kelterborn, and KT board member Ron Hackett were all on hand for the event.

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OBITUARY

FAMILY ALBUM N MEMORIAM

IN MEMORIAM

In memory of

Shawn Del Dechert

Muriel Martin

Rudow, Florence Mildred “Flo”

Jan. 30, 1965 - Oct. 26, 2009

Who passed away on October 27, 2007

Longstaff, Ralph Edward Passed away peacefully at his home in Elmira on Saturday, October 20, 2012, at the age of 72 years. Ralph Longstaff was the beloved husband of Eleanor (nee Dietrich) for 50 years. Loving father of Kimberly (Nathan) Pape of Elmira, Kelly (Jeff) Haid of St. Clements, and Kathleen (Kelly) Bradley of Elmira.

Loved grandfather of Sarah Pape; Jakob and Samantha Haid; Kelsey, Riley and Conner Bradley. Dear brother of Barbara Kerr and Eleanor Lorfing. Lovingly remembered by his sisters-in-law Lynda Longstaff and Meryle Baird, and brother-in-law Alfonso Trevisan. Uncle Ralph will also be missed by many nieces and nephews. Predeceased by his son David Longstaff (1969), parents Stella (Klein) and Charles Longstaff, sisters Arlene Trevisan and Mary Louise Longstaff, brothers Paul Longstaff and Frank Baird, and brothers-in-law Lorne Kerr and Richard Lorfing. Ralph enjoyed his many years as the “Happy Wanderer” driving tractor trailer for Home Hardware Stores Ltd. His family will receive relatives and friends at the Dreisinger Funeral Home, Elmira on Friday, October 26, 2012 from 7-9 p.m. and at St. Teresa of Avila RC Church, Elmira on Saturday, October 27, 2012 from 9 a.m. until the Mass of Christian Burial at 10 a.m. A reception will follow at the Elmira Legion. A private family burial will take place at a later date. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Canadian Diabetes Association or Heart and Stroke Foundation and would be appreciated by the family.

May the winds of love blow softly and whisper for you to hear, that we’ll always love and miss you and wish that you were here. It isn’t that we write, it isn’t that we say, it’s how we feel deep down inside as we think of you today.

Love Mom, Dad, Pamela & Paul

Your memory to us is a keepsake, with which we will never part. Though God has you in His keeping, we always have you in our hearts. With love from Oscar, Rod, Darren, Michele and families.

BIRTHDAYS, MARRIAGE & BIRTH NOTICES, STAG & DOE. SHARE IT ALL! DEATH NOTICES

REAL ESTATE LISTINGS

Bert Martin BROKER

Remax Solid Gold Realty (II) Ltd., Brokerage Independently Owned and Operated

DIRECT: 519-572-2669 OFFICE: 519-669-5426

3 Arthur St. S. Elmira

www.remaxsolidgold.biz

EMAIL: bert@remaxsolidgold.biz

FREE Market Evaluation NEW LISTING!

WAREHOUSE/LIGHT MANUFACTURING!

Lease Space - 22,700 s/f on 3 acres 20 minutes to Waterloo offers 20’ height, loading docks, drive in door, lots of office space. Space is easily divisable.

MLS. Call Bert.

ELMIRA! GREAT INVESTMENT PROPERTY

Duplex with one 2 bedroom and one 3 bedroom unit. Separate laundry, hydro, gas and water meters. Lots of parking. MLS

$279,900.

ELMIRA! GREAT STARTER semi offering new kitchen, two bathrooms, three bedrooms, patio and deck, fenced yard backing to green space. New roof September 2012. MLS $229,900.

OBITUARY

AUSMAN, CLARENCE | Peacefully on Sunday, October 21, 2012 at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, at the age of 81, formerly of Wellesley.

AIKEN, JEAN | Passed away peace-

fully at the Freeport Health Centre of Grand River Hospital on Friday, October 19, 2012, in her 79th year, formerly of Elmira.

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BEACOM, JOHN WESLEY | Passed away peacefully at Freeport Health Centre of Grand River Hospital

on Saturday, October 20, 2012, in his 78th year, formerly of Linwood.

BROUGHTON, GLADYS IRENE (PELLETT) | Passed away peacefully on Sunday, October 21, 2012 at

Chateau Gardens, Elmira, in her 77th year.

MARTIN, ELI M. | Passed away peacefully at Chateau Gardens LTC on Saturday, October 20, 2012, at

the age of 107 years WEBER, ELMER | Passed away peacefully on Monday, October 22, 2012 at his home, RR 2, West Montrose, at the age of 82 years.

Peacefully passed away after a brief illness on Friday, October 19, 2012 at Guelph General Hospital, at the age of 87 years. Florence, formerly of Elmira, was the beloved wife of George Rudow for over 67 years. Dear mother of Bill and Nancy of RR 2, Wallenstein, John and Karen of Elmira, Paul and Cheryl of Waterloo, Terry and Kate of Waterloo. Cherished nana of Jeff (Lisa), Anne, Jonathan (Jessica), Kara; Jordan (Angela), Bailey, Alex; Emily, Tommy and Alexandra; and four great-grandchildren. Remembered by her sisters and their husbands Joan and Ken Chapman, Maureen and Fred Pollack, her cousin Barbara Tuddenham, and their families, all of England. Predeceased by her parents Arthur and Hilda Moore, her sister Margaret Moore and her granddaughter Bonnie Rudow. Flo was a war bride after the Second World War and arrived in Canada in 1945 to be with her husband and start a family.

At Flo’s request cremation has taken place. A memorial visitation for family and friends to celebrate Flo’s life will be held at the Dreisinger Funeral Home, Elmira on Saturday, October 27, 2012 from 1 p.m. until the memorial service at 2 p.m. in the funeral home chapel. In Flo’s memory, donations to the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario or Alzheimer Society would be appreciated as expressions of sympathy. The family would like to express their gratitude to Hillside Retirement Home, Maryhill and support staff for their loving care during her short stay there.

www.dreisingerfuneralhome.com Aiken, Jean Passed away peacefully at the Freeport Health Centre of Grand River Hospital on Friday, October 19, 2012, in her 79th year. Jean Aiken (nee Miller) was the beloved wife of Earl Aiken of RR 1, Elmira. Dear mother of Randy of Chatham, Steve and his wife Natalie of North Bay. Loved grandmother of Isabelle, Mackenzie, and Taylor. Sister of Laverne Miller and his wife Joanne of Georgetown. Cremation has taken place. There will be no visitation or funeral service. As expressions of sympathy, donations may be made to the Canadian Diabetes Association or Canadian Cancer Society. Arrangements entrusted to the Dreisinger Funeral Home, Elmira.

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BIRTHDAY

BIRTHDAY

Happy 90th Birthday Dad Carl Foell - November 2, 2012

Happy Birthday Trevor

BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED

and detailed master bedroom and ensuite is the main feature of this 4 bedroom, 4 bathroom home situated on a large mature lot backing to green space. The main floor offers large principle rooms with hardwood and crown mouldings.

Walkout to large deck, patio and spacious rear yard. MLS. $474,900.

Your referrals are appreciated!

The Older the Fiddler, the Sweeter the Tune! The Foell family invites you to an Open House in honour of our Dad’s 90th Birthday.

Location: Country Sister’s (Club 86 Hall) Hwy 86 outside of Dorking Date: Saturday November 3, 2012 Time: 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. Best Wishes Only! For further information or directions contact Charlotte and Jeff at 519-669-2788. Happy Birthday Dad! Love, Doug, Don, Bill & Barb, Brad, Jeff & Charlotte

With Love

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MUNICIPAL | REGIONAL PUBLIC NOTICES

NOTICE OFCOMPLETE COMPLETEAPPLICATION APPLICATION AND MEETING NOTICE OF ANDPUBLIC PUBLIC MEETING Tuesday November 20, 2012 at 7:00 p.m.

Township Council Chambers Tuesday November 20, 2012 at 7:00 p.m.

24 Church Street West, Elmira Township Council Chambers

Church West,the Elmira Take Notice that in accordance with the Planning Act,24 R.S.O., 1990,Street as amended, Township of Woolwich has received a complete application for the proposed Zoning By-law Amendment as detailed below. Please be advised that Notice of a Complete Application does not indicate whether Take Notice that in accordance with the Planning Act, R.S.O., 1990, as amended, the Township of Woolwich has received a complete application the municipality is in support of, or in opposition to the proposal. That determination will be made at a later date. for the proposed Zoning By-law Amendment as detailed below. Please be advised that Notice of a Complete Application does not indicate whether the municipality is in support of, or in opposition to the proposal. That determination will be made at a later date.

The Township of Woolwich will hold a Public Meeting, under Section 34 of the Planning Act, to consider the following Zone Change application. No decisions will be made at this meeting; its purpose is to provide additional information to the public and agencies and to receive comments and The Township of Woolwich will hold a Public Meeting, under Section 34 of the Planning Act, to consider the following Zone Change application. No information from them. at this meeting; its purpose is to provide additional information to the public and agencies and to receive comments and decisions will be made information from them.

Zone Change Application 11/2012 - Nelson Kraus Holdings Zone Change Application 11/2012 - Nelson Kraus Holdings The Township has received a Zone Change application from Kuntz Topsoil Sand and Gravel Ltd. on behalf of Nelson Kraus Holdings for the property located 889 Bridge Street Westapplication (see Map 1).

TheKuntz 55 hectare designated Land Use and Restricted Land Useproperty Area in The Township hasatreceived a Zone Change from Topsoil property Sand andisGravel Ltd. onRural behalf of Nelson Kraus Holdings for the the Townshipâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Official Plan and is zoned Agricultural (A) and Extractive (E) with site-specific provisions to allow a topsoil screening operation as located at 889 Bridge Street West (see Map 1). The 55 hectare property is designated Rural Land Use and Restricted Land Use Area in the an ancillaryOfficial use to the operation within(A) a 1.0 area. The(E)Temporary Use By-law for the topsoil in effectas until Townshipâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Planaggregate and is zoned Agricultural andhaExtractive with site-specific provisions to allowscreening a topsoil operation screening isoperation an ancillary use the aggregate operation within a 1.0 ha area. The Temporary Use By-law for the topsoil November 10,to2012. screening operation is in effect until November 10, 2012.

The purpose of the application is to extend the Temporary Use By-law for an additional three year The purpose of the importation application and is toprocessing extend theofTemporary Useancillary By-law use for to anthe additional three year period to permit topsoil as an existing aggregate period to permit andspecific processing of topsoil as an ancillary use to the existing aggregate operation, subjectthetoimportation the same site regulations. operation, subject to the same site specific regulations.

The property contains an accessory shed and two silos and is located adjacent to the City of Waterloo.

The property contains an accessory shed and two silos and is located adjacent to the City of Waterloo.

Please Note: APPEALS: Please Note: APPEALS:

Details for the Ceremony are as follows:

TOWNSHIP OF WOOLWICH CENOTAPH SOLDIER REDEDICATION CEREMONY When: Sunday October 28th, 2012 6:30 PM-7:00 PM

Everyone is welcome to attend.

Please join us to see the 90 year old statue rededicated at his new home at the Woolwich Memorial Centre.

NOTIFICATION: NOTIFICATION:If Ifyouyouwish wishtotobebenotified notifiedofofadditional additionalTownship Townshippublic publicmeetings, meetings,Township Townshipstaff staffreports reports oror the the decision decision of of the Township of Woolwich regarding these applications you must make a written request to Engineering and Planning Services at the Township of Woolwich at the address shown at the top of this page.

If you cannot attend the meeting, you can express your concerns/comments about the proposed change in writing to the Township of Woolwich.

Any comments comments received received on on or or before before November November 13, 13, 2012 2012 (Note (Note that that this this date date is is before before the the public public meeting) meeting) will will be be included included in in aa report report prepared prepared Any by Engineering and Planning Services and presented at the Public Meeting.

Any comments received after the Public Meeting, but prior to Council

by Engineering and Planning Services and presented at the Public Meeting. Any comments received after the Public Meeting, but prior to Council making a decision on the applications, will also be considered. making a decision on the applications, will also be considered.

The personal personal information information accompanying accompanying your your submission submission is is being being collected collected under under the the authority authority of of the the Planning Planning Act Act and and may may form form part part of of the the public public The record which may be released to the public.

Questions about this collection should be directed to the Records and Freedom of Information Officer record which may be released to the public. Questions about this collection should be directed to the Records and Freedom of Information Officer at 519-669-6005 or 519-664-2613 ext. 6005. at 519-669-6005 or 519-664-2613 ext. 6005.

MORE INFORMATION: The public may view planning documents and background material relating to this application at the Township of MORE INFORMATION: The public may view planning documents and background material relating to this application at the Township of Woolwich, Woolwich, Engineering and Planning Services Department between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, or on the Township website Engineering and Planning Services Department between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, or on the Township website at www. at www.woolwich.ca. woolwich.ca.

Questions Questions or or written written submissions submissions may may be be directed directed to: to: Township of Woolwich Township of Woolwich Engineering Engineering and and Planning Planning Services Services Department Department Box Box 158, 158, 24 24 Church Church Street Street West, West, Elmira, Elmira, Ontario, Ontario, N3B N3B 2Z6 2Z6 Telephone: 519-669-1647 / 519-664-2613

Dated at the Township of Woolwich this 27th day of October, 2012

Township of Woolwich Mayor Todd Cowan along with the Royal Canadian Legion, Elmira Branch will host a rededication ceremony for the former Cenotaph Solider at the Woolwich Memorial Centre.

Where: Woolwich Memorial Centre 24 Snyder St S, Elmira

Zoning Amendments Zoning Amendments If a person or public body that files a notice of appeal of a decision of the Council of the Township of If a person or public body that files a notice of appeal of a decision of the Council of the Township of Woolwich in respect of the proposed zoning by-laws does not make oral submissions at a public meeting Woolwich in respect of the proposed zoning by-laws does not make oral submissions at a public meeting or or make make written written submissions submissions to to the the Council Council of of the the Township Township of of Woolwich Woolwich before before the the proposed proposed zoning zoning bybylaw amendments are passed: law amendments are passed: a) a) the the person person or or public public body body is is not not entitled entitled to to appeal appeal the the decision decision of of the the Township Township of of Woolwich Woolwich to to the the Ontario Ontario Municipal Municipal Board; Board; and and b) the person or public body may not be added as a party to the hearing of an appeal before the Ontario Municipal Board b) the person or public body may not be added as a party to the hearing of an appeal before the Ontario Municipal Board unless, unless, in in the the opinion of the Board, there are reasonable grounds to add the person or public body as a party. opinion of the Board, there are reasonable grounds to add the person or public body as a party.

TOWNSHIP OF WOOLWICH CENOTAPH SOLDIER REDEDICATION CEREMONY

For more information, please contact The Township of Woolwich Recreation and Facilities Services Department at 519-669-6026 or email kmakela@woolwich.ca

NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING The Chemtura Public Advisory Committee (CPAC) Meeting will be held Thursday, November 1, 2012 at 6:00 p.m. in Council Chambers 24 Church Street West, Elmira

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LIVING HERE CHEF’S TABLE/ RYAN TERRY, FLOW CATERING

HOBBIES / A GROWING CONCERN

The great, big pumpkin

Nothing says “comfort food” like a big bowl of pasta

Breslau man takes his giant gourds seriously, working all season to grow a real competitor ELENA MAYSTRUK The time of fall fairs and harvests is coming to a close and no one knows it better than Breslau’s John Matesa, who will soon signal the end of another harvest season by slicing into a giant pumpkin.

With a last showing at the Port Elgin Pumpkin Fest last weekend, both grower and gourd can take a breather and reflect on a season of volatile weather, wayward predators and the everpresent danger of the crop growing too fast and exploding before ever making it in front of an audience.

From April to mid-October, lovers of giant vegetables run themselves ragged, tending to their prize like a pageant mom to her tot.

If there is one thing growers can agree on it’s that when it comes to giant vegetables “you’re always teetering on the edge of catastrophe,” Matesa said while sitting near his enormous pumpkin, which, after three competitions, has come to its final resting spot outside of his home in Breslau.

Matesa has always carved the biggest pumpkins available for Halloween but could never find the monster he was looking for.

He decided to take things into his own hands and during his research stumbled across Giant Vegetable Growers of Ontario, a nonprofit organization dedicated to growing giants vegetables for competitions.

Now with the biggest pumpkin of his life resplendent on the front lawn all that is left to do is round up his two kids, cultivate the

seeds and carve it into a monster of a jack-o-lantern complete with shop lights and smoke machine, a last hurrah to an orange giant that won him second place at the Woodbridge Fair.

He set out as the defending champion at the Woodbridge event: last year’s gourd won him first prize.

Over Thanksgiving weekend he walked away with second place, but Matesa was still proud of his largest pumpkin yet. Resting on one flat side, the pumpkin looks massive at the stem, tapers down slightly at the back and weighs in at 1, 313 pounds.

From fertilizing and watering the giant daily to gently wrapping it in a blanket on cold nights, Matesa’s pumpkin received the fivestar treatment. Even during the summer dry spell Matesa’s giant guzzled close to 300 gallons of water per day.

While battling with the normal challenges of the season, growers also had to content with this summer’s unusually dry weather that rendered many farmers helpless. Many of this year’s pumpkins took on an unusually light orange hue likely due to the climate, Matesa explained.

Despite growing to full size, the prize pumpkin is also lighter in weight, as he had expected it to be at least 100 pounds heavier considering its size.

Every April Matesa and his fellow growers sow the seeds of previous champion gourds and select the best seedlings. The sprouting youngsters are then placed in heated green houses

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John Matesa sits on the 1, 313-pound pumpkin that won him second place at the Woodbridge Fair this fall. where they will grow to maturity.

From there, once the plant gets big enough and the weather turns warm, pumpkin vines can grow up to a foot a day and need constant pruning lest they continue to spread and sap precious resources intended for the pumpkin.

So how does one move a giant pumpkin from fair to fair and then back home

to be carved and ready for the scariest day of the year?

Since cutting it from the vine, Matesa’s pumpkin has given its owner more than a few grey hairs.

“It’s always a nervous time when we first lift it for the first time every year.

Animals will build nests under them. Sometimes they will burrow underneath and make a hole and you won’t know until you lift it,” he

[ELENA MAYSTRUK / THE OBSERVER]

said.

Though next season is months away there is still work to be done. Growing space needs to be cleared of old vines, soil samples need to be sent to laboratories, fertilizer spread for April.

“It’s just amazing to see a pumpkin, or anything really, grow like 40 pounds a day … they are bigger at night then they were in the morning, which is kind of cool.”

Cold and rainy October screams out comfort food – my favorite. Though the list of comfort food is vast, all I can think about is that stick-to-your-stomach bowl of pasta that we all crave. This dish is simple, flavourful and will not disappoint.

Working in Italy and Mediterranean-style restaurants you learn the art of cooking pasta pretty quick. Rule number one: season your water with salt; it should taste like sea water. Rule number two: never rinse your pasta, as the starch helps the sauce stick to the noodles.

Rule number three: never serve Italians overcooked pasta (al dente, meaning to the tooth, is best).

For best results you should finish all pasta right in the sauce that way it soaks into the noodle. If you can’t do that then be sure to toss the pasta with oil so the noodles don’t stick to each other. Just because you cooked a box of noodles doesn’t always mean you need to use them all today. Adding oil to your noodles will allow you to use them at a later time.

Garlic-butter-soaked

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COMMUNITY EVENTS CALENDAR

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THE NEEDLE SISTERS QUILTERS Guild meets at 7 p.m. on the 4th Saturday of every month at Elmira Mennonite Church, 58 Church St. W., Elmira. Guests welcome $5.

For more information call 519-669-3244.

OCTOBER 26 HOT ROAST BEEF SANDWICHES $7, Royal Canadian Legion, 11 First St., Elmira; 6 p.m. Take outs available call 519-669-2932 to place your order for pick up Friday.

OCTOBER 30

LIFTED VOICES IS CELEBRATING over 20 years of friendship and music-making with the release of our new CD “Sing for Joy”. Please join us for a free concert at 7 p.m. at First Mennonite Church,800 King St. East Kitchener. We will sing in memory of our dear friend, Joy Dorsch who passed away in 2006. CD’s will be available to purchase.

WCS YOUTH CENTRE HAS got some Halloween fun planned! We are going shopping for pumpkins and then we are carving those pumpkins into jack-olanterns. We will also be discovering some neat Halloween facts. It’s sure to be a ghoulish good time.

For more information contact Catherine or Anna at (519) 669-3539.

H.U.G.S. PROGRAM – 9:15-11:15 a.m. Meet with other parents to discuss parenting and child health issues.

Topic: Best and Worst Toys to buy for Christmas. No registration required. Held at Woolwich Community Health Centre, 10 Parkside Drive, St. Jacobs 9:15-11:15 a.m. Call Heidi at 519-664-3794, ext. 237 for more information.

OCTOBER 31 WCS YOUTH CENTRE IS having some haunted Halloween fun. Make sure to dress up in a Halloween costume. The festivities will start with some scary Scrabble. Next, we will be attempting creepy costume Twister. In the evening we will be making and eating zombie food. And it wouldn’t be Halloween without some trick-or-treating. For more information contact Catherine or Anna at (519) 669-3539.

OCTOBER 27 39TH ANNUAL ELMIRA CHARITY Quilt Auction and Country Market to be held at Riverdale Poultry Express, 6811 Church St. W (Line 86), Elmira: www. elmiraquiltauction.com.

NOVEMBER 1 CAREGIVER SUPPORT - THE Woolwich Caregiver group meets at the Woolwich Community Health Centre on the 1st Thursday of every month (September – June). Come talk and listen with other caregivers to discuss caregiver issues and to offer mutual support over a cup of tea. Thursday, November 1, 10-11 a.m.

Woolwich Community Health Centre, 10 Parkside Dr., St. Jacobs. Please call Lorraine 519-664-3794 for more information.

VISIT THE WTHHS HISTORICAL Room at the Old School, 1137 Henry Street, Wellesley, on Saturday, between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. and enjoy displays and interesting historical facts about Wellesley Township. In 2012, we will be open every last Saturday of each month, except December. Free Admission.

WCS YOUTH CENTRE HAS got some brain boosting activities planned today. We are going to be working on some problem solving puzzles. In the evening, make sure to bring your instrument and singing voice for music time. We will also be getting active by playing some ball hockey. For more information contact Catherine or Anna at (519) 669-3539.

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NOVEMBER 2 ST TERESA OF AVILA Parish presents “A Cabaret –style Review “The War Years in Song” at the St. Teresa Parish Hall, 19 Flamingo Dr., Elmira at 7 p.m. Featuring Jane Cowan, Dale Mieske, Peter de Sousa, Arno Karuse and Bob Reinhart. Sing-a-long with the choirs and intermission to socialize. Adminssion will be $15 by advance ticket only. Tickets are available at the Parish office or call 519-669-3387 (Mon. – Fri 9 a.m. – 1 p.m.).

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WCS YOUTH CENTRE LOVES Fridays! Our fun and fantastic Friday activities include a game of Go Fish.

We will be decorating mugs, you can take it home or keep it as your drinking cup at the YC (this craft costs $2). Finally, we will be walking the track to get ourselves moving. Hope you can come chill with us.

For more information contact Catherine or Anna at (519) 669-3539.

ST. MARTIN’S NINTH ANNUAL Chicken Barbeque; 5-7 p.m. at St. Martin’s Parish Hall, Drayton. 1/2 chicken dinner $12.50; children ages 5-12 $6. Dinner includes BBQ chicken, baked potato, vegetables, salad, roll, coffee, tea, juice and dessert. Join us in the hall or take out is available. Advance tickets only. For tickets call Darryl Brodhaecker at 519-638-5428 or any member of the social committee.

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PLACES OF FAITH | A DIRECTORY OF LOCAL HOUSES OF WORSHIP

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

Celebrate Eucharist with us Mass times are:

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

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

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Sunday School at 9:30am

Service at 10:30am Rev. Paul Snow REACH WITH LOVE. TEACH THE TRUTH. SEND IN POWER. 290 Arthur St. South, Elmira • 519-669-3973 www.ElmiraAssembly.com (Across from Tim Horton’s)

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

How aquarium-dwelling fish live can teach us some valuable lessons

Q. Who cares if cramped, boring aquaria make for fussier, more aggressive fish?

A. The fish certainly care -you wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to be living in a small, barren fish bowl either, answers Jackie Fitch in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Think,â&#x20AC;? the magazine of Case Western Reserve University (CWRU).

A recent study by CWRU biologist Ronald Oldfield, PhD, showed that aquarium fish living in such spaces are more aggressive than fish in nature or those living in more stimulating surroundings with lots of obstacles

Q. Performance-enhancing drugs in sports are one thing, polydactyl pitchers are quite another. In what fascinating sense do the two somewhat overlap?

A. While most sports fans decry the use of such drugs,

pointing to the rapid beefing up of Barry Bonds, others ask why Tommy John surgery is OK when itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not â&#x20AC;&#x153;naturalâ&#x20AC;? either, says Steve Mirsky in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Scientific Americanâ&#x20AC;? magazine.

A pitcher used to pitch till his arm gave out, but in 1974, orthopedic surgeon Frank Jobe replaced pitcher Tommy Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ulnar collateral ligament with a tendon from his arm, allowing him to take the mound for another 15 years. Yet today, â&#x20AC;&#x153;so many pitchers have performed so well after Tommy John surgery, some young pitchers have considered having it done electively.â&#x20AC;?

Consider also pitcher Mordecai Brown, nicknamed â&#x20AC;&#x153;Three-Fingerâ&#x20AC;? after losing a finger to a farm equipment accident. Ironically, his curve ball became better. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pitcher

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Your Own Tomato Sauce 500 ml canned tomatoes 1 pint cherry tomatoes 5 cloves garlic 1 bunch stem off basil

Place into a pot or large plastic container and blend with a hand blender; remember to taste and adjust seasoning.

Chicken Linguine in Vodka Rose with Baby Arugula & Parmesan

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2 medium-large chicken breasts or any leftovers (cooked) 1 tbsp canola oil Crushed chilies to taste (pinch) 3 shallots, diced 2 cloves garlic, chopped 2 cups Your Own Tomato Sauce 1/2 cup heavy cream (35%) 2 oz vodka (optional) 3 cups cooked noodles 1 cup fresh baby arugula 1/2 cup parmesan, grated shaved Chiffonade fresh basil to garnish

Oh So Good Garlic Butter Baguette

Over medium heat place a large bottom heavy pan and add oil wait 1 minute then place shallots, garlic and chilies sautĂŠ for 30 seconds add cooked chicken and continue to sautĂŠ for 2 more minutes; Add tomato sauce and simmer for 5 minutes; Add heavy cream, toss vodka and add cooked noodles, toss together, top with baby arugula and parmesan â&#x20AC;&#x201C; serve immediately.

In a mixing bowl add all ingredients and whip, spread on your favourite baguette and bake at 350 F for 5-7 minutes until delicious (crispy bread, melted butter); Freeze leftover butter in packs large enough to coat your next baguette.

Your favorite baguette 1 bulb Ontario garlic, chopped or pureed 1 lb of the best salted butter you can find (room temperature) Chopped parsley Black pepper Parmesan shredded (optional)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Chef Ryan Terry owns FLOW Cafe & Catering in Elmira. More information can be found at his website, www. flowcatering.ca.

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CHEFâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S TABLE: Quick and easy comfort baguette and salad are best friends with pasta, so be sure to serve these with your meal. Enjoy!

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Q. According to the classic Parkinsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Law, â&#x20AC;&#x153;work expands to fill whatever time is available for its completion.â&#x20AC;? Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the garbage version of this principle?

A. As discovered by Tucson anthropologist William Rathje and reported by Edward Humes in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash,â&#x20AC;? the amount of garbage a household generates expands to fill its available receptacles.

As part of his Garbage Project, Rathje discovered this after researchers pointed out â&#x20AC;&#x153;that households in Phoenix threw away a third more trash than their counterparts in Tucson, despite similar demographics.â&#x20AC;? Phoenix

used mechanized garbage trucks and 90-gallon bins, whereas Tucson used smaller containers.

Then when Tucson adopted the same trash system, the amount of garbage increased by a third. Included were more yard waste, old clothes, household toxins, recyclable plastics, glass and cans (previously disposed of separately, now all too easily dumped into the bigger bin).

Concluded Humes: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Parkinsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Law suggested the need for separate mechanized bins for recyclables, which has since become the industry standard.â&#x20AC;?

OBSERVER CROSSWORD PUZZLER

HOW TO PLAY: Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the numbers 1 through 9 only once.

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with the unanswered questions.

Antonio Alfonsecaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hereditary polydactyly gave him six fingers per hand. Do we need a five-finger rule?â&#x20AC;? Mirsky quips. Then there was Finnish Olympic seven-time cross-country skiing medalist Eero Mantyranta, whose genetic condition dramatically increased his red blood cell count and oxygen-carrying capacity. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Which is a pretty terrific thing for an endurance athlete to have. (Much, much better than an extra finger on each hand.)â&#x20AC;? Isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t this a form of blood doping? Actually, yes, answers Mirsky, though itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a natural form if a mutation is natural. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So if users of performanceenhancing drugs are disqualified, should holders of performance-enhancing mutations be barred too?â&#x20AC;?

The debate goes on, along

48. Bothers 50. Take offense 51. Quickly angered 53. Belong 57. Sometime today, say 58. More, in Madrid 59. Property of being anisotropic 62. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Catcher in the ___â&#x20AC;?

64. Pastoral poem 65. Make sure 69. Select 70. A table supported on trestles 74. Lying, maybe 75. Automobile roof window 76. A little lamb 77. Euros replaced them 78. Produce a literary work 79. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dig in!â&#x20AC;?

DOWN 1. â&#x20AC;&#x153;___ I care!â&#x20AC;?

2. Jaywalking, e.g.

3. ___ Bell 4. â&#x20AC;&#x153;No ___!â&#x20AC;?

5. ___-Wan Kenobi 6. Crumb 7. J.F.K. overseer 8. Loosen, as laces 9. Back 10. A complex polymer 11. Tea type 12. Dorm room staple 13. Least wild 15. A pan for cooking pasties 16. Conceited 19. Telekinesis, e.g.

23. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Miss ___ Regretsâ&#x20AC;?

25. Balloon filler 26. Guns 27. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Holberg Suiteâ&#x20AC;? composer 28. Star bursts 29. Nitrogen compound 30. Typical shipworm 32. Street fleet 33. Adaptable truck, for short 34. Ark contents 35. Deli order 36. Deprive of heat?

39. A metal that is common 40. A natural cavity

41. Digestive juice secreted by the liver 42. Brought into play 44. Bit of statuary 46. Cheat, slangily 49. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cut it out!â&#x20AC;?

51. Expression of love 52. Cracker Jack bonus 53. Of or relating to feces 54. Resembling a terrifying dream 55. sprouts from the base of grass 56. King Markâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bride 60. Rwandan people 61. Any â&#x20AC;&#x153;Seinfeld,â&#x20AC;? now 62. Atoll protector 63. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Are we there ___?â&#x20AC;?

65. ___ gin fizz 66. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oâ&#x20AC;? in old radio lingo 67. Hip bones 68. Camping gear 71. Armageddon 72. Mr., abroad 73. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sesame Streetâ&#x20AC;? watcher

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and rocks and plants for hiding places. â&#x20AC;&#x153;With more than 182 million ornamental fish living across the country, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot of aggressive aquariumdwellers,â&#x20AC;? Fitch says.

As Oldfield explains, â&#x20AC;&#x153;What we are looking at in household fish may serve as a model to explore how people interact with their environments. For instance, we think this may translate to violence we see in prisons, which might be linked, in part, to tight spaces and reduced stimuli.â&#x20AC;?

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Lydia Herrle’s story the inspiration for music professor’s new composition Piece will be featured in free concert scheduled for October 31 at UW’s Conrad Grebel University College ELENA MAYSTRUK

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In May University of Waterloo professor Carol Ann Weaver was taking in the sights of Africa as she sat listening to the teachings of a traditional healer. Weaver recalls the “sangoma” telling her that though there are many problems in the country, she felt as though Waterloo had its own troubles to take care of.

At the same time the story of Lydia Herrle, a St. Agatha youth struck by a truck on May 17, touched the heart of many in the region. Upon returning to Waterloo, Weaver dedicated herself to bringing a measure of comfort to Lydia’s family by writing a symphony inspired by the young girl’s trials.

“Everywhere there were green banners on the fence posts and mailboxes in honour of Lydia. It sunk more deeply into my sense of sadness and hope for her well-being,” Weaver said of her inspiration for the composition Weaver is in charge of the concerts put on by Conrad Grebel University College in Waterloo and was due to present a piece of work soon.

“It finally came to me that I wanted to write something for her,” Weaver explained of the pending free public concert making its debut at Conrad Grebel Chapel on Oct. 31.

The concert will feature Weaver herself as well as Waterloo-based composer and pianist Joanne Bender who, in addition to Weaver’s composition, will perform what she calls a healing piece she originally wrote for a friend and selected as a fitting addition to Weaver’s 17-minute composition.

Cautiously, Weaver pondered on what to write and how to approach the Herrle family with her idea. After a number of meeting and e-mails passed between the composer and the Herrles, she was ready to make music.

The first section of the

composition she entitled Summer Silence and describes as hazy, representing Lydia’s silence as she lay at Sick Kids Hospital in Toronto. A cello represents her heartbeat.

One morning, Weaver stood watching a sunrise; she had an epiphany which would lead her to write the second section of the work, Autumn Dawn, to signifying Lydia’s recovery in the fall.

“I watched one of the miraculous dawns that broke through a haze and watching this; the sun gradually light up and clarify the distant shore made me think about Lydia Herrle … because the first day that she talked it was amazing.

Gradually things are adding to her life, points of clarity,” she explained.

Weaver thought she was finished with the composition, yet something was still missing from the creation that took her several weeks to compose.

“I thought no one knows what will happen this winter coming up. I was virtually done with the piece and then I thought it needs a blessing,” she said adding that she sat down at the piano that very day to put the finishing touch on a tribute to the young girl.

Every note had to be right, every image the music brought to mind had to be beautiful; had to be thought of and revised again and again to capture what Weaver wanted to represent in the finished Three Seasons written for flute, alto saxophone, cello and piano.

“I’ve not worked so hard in a long time that every note wasn’t right; I had to think of it again and again.

Somehow the delicacy of the topic made me want to do something that was as un-clichéd as possible and then this blessing just fell into my fingers,” she said of the last section called Winter’s Prayers and Blessing.

The concert is free to the public and takes place at noon. It’s expected to run about 45 minutes.