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Woolwich council making cuts in other areas, looks to hold property tax increase at 2.3% Steve Kannon

ore than $550,000 in over overspending in the recreation budget is forcing Woolwich to juggle funds from other dede partments to cover the cost overruns. Along with moving money around, the township has cut spending elsewhere to keep the 2011 tax increase at 2.3 per cent. Much of the excess spending in the 2010 budget was due to higherthan-expected costs at the Woolwich Memorial Centre. That development is an extra hurdle in this year’s oner budget process, more onercoun ous than usual as new councillors challenge many of ex the items, asking staff for explanations. The scrutiny led

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to some fireworks at a budget meeting Mar. 3 as council dissected the recreation and facilities budget, but was more subdued Tuesday night, when the rec. budget was put aside in favour of tackling items from other departments. The others, including fire, finance and planning departments, passed with relative ease. That said, most have been subjected to cuts to deal with the shortfall, the only increases coming in the form of pay increases for councillors. The raise amounts to a total addition of $7,000 for the mayor and four councillors. Last year, the mayor earned, $23,692, councillors

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Mayors getting ready to deliver Elizabeth Bate

ocal municipal leaders will be rolling up their sleeves and dishing out a helping of caring spirit Mar. 21 at the third annual Mayors for Meals affair. Organized by Community Care Concepts, the event sees local mayors deliver meals for the Meals on Wheels program. This year, the mayors from Woolwich, Wellesley and Wilmot townships will be participating in their respective areas. Community Care Concepts has been running programs such as Meals on Wheels for 25 years in the townships in order to help seniors and those living with disabilities live independently in their own homes. Sharon Walsh, local Meals on Wheels program coordinator,

plans to pair the mayors with a more experienced volunteer before sending them each on a different route in the area. “It’s to raise awareness that we need volunteers. We always need volunteers,” said Walsh. “We can always use volunteers as spares for when the regulars can’t deliver.” The deliveries for each route only take about 90 minutes during lunchtime, but the human contact means much more to those living alone. Wellesley Mayor Ross Kelterborn is a veteran of the project and said delivering the meals not only supports those receiving the food, but the volunteers who make deliveries for the rest of the year. “Seniors really appreciate the people coming around,” he

said. “I think it’s a great service and I’m prepared to help.” Woolwich Mayor Todd Cowan, who will be making his first Meals on Wheels delivery, is looking forward to learning from more experience volunteers. “I support the concept of keeping people in their homes for as long as possible,” he said. The number of houses on each route changes from day to day, but Walsh estimates each mayor will be delivering between six and 10 meals, in both rural and more urban areas. “It’s a good focal point for (the mayors). It’s their constituents that they are delivering the meals to,” Walsh said. “It’s promotion for them, it’s promotion for us and it’s just a nice way to have a different spin on it for that one day.”

Bus: Model for other townships > CONTINUED FROM COVER duced in April 2009, the service now attracts some 300 riders a day, closing in on the target of 25 riders per hour of service. The goal is to have 510 passengers a day by 2014. “We’re very close to meeting our minimum for maintaining a bus route,” said regional Chair Ken Seiling following a planning and works committee meeting where members of regional council opted to keep the buses rolling until the end of the year. Seiling said he hopes the service becomes permanent, noting some people in the township have already become dependent on the bus. The extension gives Woolwich council more time to make a decision on whether or not to support the route, which, if made permanent, would be paid for by a levy imposed on

property owners. Councillors fear the route will be a hard sell given the dollars involved and the fact that only St. Jacobs and Elmira residents stand to benefit. For Mayor Todd Cowan, transit discussions should include the potential for a route in Breslau. Given the growing population, future development of employment lands and a new bridge proposed to cross the Grand River near the village, a bus route makes sense, he said in an interview, adding it would serve as a link to the Region of Waterloo International Airport. “It seems funny that we can’t just jump on transit and go to the airport.” Seiling noted that service to the south end of the township is one of the transit options being investigated. In the meantime, the focus is on boosting ridership on route 21. The goal is

to serve more commuters, as well as students and members of the Mennonite community. The bus is also an outlet for those people concerned about the environment, he said. In a brief discussion at Tuesday night’s Woolwich council meeting, Coun. Mark Bauman said the extension of the trial period allows the township to look closely at the benefits. He proposed a public input process and thorough debate before the township makes any official comments to Waterloo Region about the bus service. Down the road, the region will use what happens in Woolwich in evaluating an expansion into other townships. Other communities, including New Hamburg, have requested bus service, said Seiling. “Wellesley’s been asking us for years to come into the township.”

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Nowhere to hide Airport advises travellers to be prepared for security checks SECURITY MEASURES

Mathieu Larocque of the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority explains the function of a full-body scanner now operational at the Region of Waterloo International Airport. Passengers who are randomly selected for additional screening will be subjected to the new equipment. medium-sized container is filled with these items after every outbound flight. Airport general manager Chris Wood said the airport will hold onto items for passengers if they request, instead of having the items disposed of. Access to the full-body

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he busy March break travel period on the horizon, staff at the Region of Waterloo International Airport hope better-prepared passengers will make for a speedier process at security checkpoints. To that end, the airport set up a display of its new fullbody scanner Wednesday, running through the screening process. Travellers were reminded that restricted items such as scissors, pocket knives, and liquids, gels and aerosols in containers of more than three ounces will be confiscated. “In the busy travel season it’s especially important to know what to take and what not to take in your carryon bag to avoid any hassles at the checkpoints,” said. Mathieu Larocque of the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority. The airport seized more than 1,100 restricted items in 2010, including a hammer and a cap gun. Although, liquids seized are not recorded, Larocque said a

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scanner, which has been operational since December, is strictly controlled. Similar equipment became controversial in the U.S. in late 2010 after cell phone pictures of the scans were leaked online. Larocque said security officers looking at the scans

JUST LIKE THAT Larocque demonstrates the use of the full-body scanner now in use at the airport.

have no visual access to those in the scanner and are strictly prohibited from bringing cell phones in the viewing room with them. Photos from the scanner are eliminated as soon as the passenger is finished the scan and cannot be saved in the machine. Not all passengers will be required to use the scanner, just those selected for secondary screening. Larocque said there are two ways to be selected, the first is through the random screening process, the second is through setting off multiple alarms during the initial screening process. “If there’s something in your carry-on bag, you may need to go through the scanner,” he explained. The random screening process is determined by a program on the metal detectors each passenger must walk through. The lights on the detector are programmed to change colour once a certain number of passengers is reached.

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> Linwood pumper going to the show The Wellesley Fire Department has been asked by the Ontario Association of Fire Chiefs to showcase the Linwood station’s pumper truck at the 59th annual OAFC trade show in Toronto May 1-3. Wellesley fire Chief Andrew Lillico received permission from Wellesley council Mar. 7 to send the truck to the show provided there would be a backup pumper truck available for the weekend. Coun. Herb Neher called the request from OAFC an honour. The truck was purchased last year after Neher travelled to a trade show in the U.S. to specially order the customized truck to meet Linwood’s needs.

> West Montrose CHL plan moves on Woolwich will move ahead with the next phase of declaring the area surrounding the historic West Montrose Covered Bridge a cultural heritage landscape, setting in motion the necessary Official Plan amendment. Meeting this week, councillors agreed to go ahead with the CHL process, voting to extend the interim control bylaw blocking development for another year to February 2012. Built in 1881, the 198-foot span across the Grand River is Ontario’s last remaining covered bridge. Studies have shown the landscape around the covered bridge is provincially significant. While Coun. Mark Bauman expressed some concerns about the geography of the CHL area, he was mollified by assertions those details would be discussed as part of the public process needed for the amendment.

> Police launch latest RIDE blitz Getting a jump on St. Patrick’s Day this weekend? Waterloo Regional Police will be out in force keeping an eye on the situation. Beginning this weekend, police will be conducting strategic RIDE checks intended to apprehend unsafe drivers and motorists driving under the influence. In Waterloo Region in 2010, police investigated 120 collisions where the driver had been consuming alcohol. Among the charges laid were 91 impaired driving; 90 over-80mg; 25 dangerous operation; 25 fail to remain and 15 careless driving. In Ontario, 30 per cent of drivers fatally injured annually had consumed alcohol prior to the collision.

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Would-be pig rustlers nabbed in Elmira by a 42-year-old Kitchener woman was struck while waiting to turn left on Sawmill Road by a 28-year-old Listowel man attempting to pass. Both drivers reported minor injuries. The Kitchener woman was transported to Grand River Hospital by ambulance. Severe damage was reported to both vehicles. The Listowel man is charged with ‘pass on right not in safety.’

>>3:45 PM | A 38-year-old

Stratford man lost control of his vehicle on Manser Road near Perth Road. He left the road and stuck a tree. Moderate damage was reported to his van. The accident is being blamed on poor weather conditions.

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hree Palmerston youths face eight criminal charges after they were arrested in Elmira Mar. 3 The youths were driving a pickup truck that appeared to police to be overloaded. Upon checking the plates, officers discovered the truck was stolen. When pulled over the youths escaped on foot and were later found hiding in a garage near the Woolwich Memorial Centre. The truck was found to contain 20 stolen pigs, each weighing about 100 pounds and valued at $2,000. Charged are two 17-year-old males and one 18-year-old male. They have been released pending court appearances. Officers are continuing to investigate.

on the male. Police found no weapon on their arrival and no injuries were reported. The youths were dispersed.

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near Line 86. The van rolled into the west-side ditch and landed on its tires, with the front-end getting caught in a deep snow bank. Moderate damage was reported to the van, but no injuries were

reported to the driver. Poor weather conditions are being blamed and no charges were laid.

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COLLATERAL DAMAGE Around 5 p.m. Wednesday night an 18-year-old Elmira man lost control of his Nissan on Sawmill Road near Conestogo, crossed the eastbound lane and struck a gas meter. >>8:50 PM | An 18-year-old There were no injuries, but a small gas leak was reported. Conestogo fire crews responded as well as an Listowel woman ended up employee from Union Gas. No charges were laid. in the ditch on Arthur Street north of King Street when a >>9:57 PM | A 26-year-old >>10:00 AM | A 40-year-old more than $200,000. dark pickup tried to pass her Cambridge man spun out and Wellesley man was struck >>12:00 PM | A woman on the right while the merge hit a stop sign after being while trying to exit his driveway reported hitting a deer on lane was coming to an end. unable to stop at Townline on Weimer Line. The man got Crowsfoot Road near Sawmill The truck passed the car and Road and Black Bridge Road stuck in deep snow left at Road with her BMW, which braked suddenly due to traffic near Cambridge. Police said the end of his driveway by a suffered more than $1,800 in ahead. The woman spun out on the man was travelling too plow. A 20-year-old Wellesley damage. The collision occurred icy roads and was forced into fast for the road conditions man cresting the hill failed on Mar. 3, but was not reported the ditch to avoid a collision. and spun 270 degrees to see the pickup truck stuck, to police until four days later. The pickup truck drove off. No when attempting to stop at colliding with the vehicle. No injuries were reported to injuries are reported and no the intersection. Moderate Minor injuries were reported the driver and no charges were charges have yet been laid. damage was reported to the to both drivers. Both vehicles laid. The condition of the deer man’s vehicle. No injuries were suffered moderate damage. Police are still investigating. is unknown. reported and no charges have The driver of the pickup was transported to Grand River been laid. March 8 Hospital by ambulance. No charges were laid due to >>2:40 PM | A 74-year-old March 6 slippery road conditions. man travelling southbound on >>1:00 AM | A fight broke out Northfield Drive near Country at the St. Clements arena at a March 7 Spring Walk lost control of private function. Three young his vehicle when a ‘wild males had been ejected earlier >>9:15 PM | A volunteer animal’ ran across his path. in the evening from a stag and firefighter noticed smoke The man hit a hydro pole and doe party for rowdy behavior. coming from 84 Howard Ave. a stop sign before coming to They returned and instigated in Elmira. A garbage truck rest in the ditch. There was a fight with patrons who were parked inside the building was severe damage reported to his leaving the party. A man’s jaw found to be on fire, which is vehicle, however he reported was broken in the ensuing believed to have started in the no injuries. No charges were fight. Three youths are likely cab of the vehicle and is not laid and the animal was never to be charged in the incident. being treated as suspicious. (note: we’ll be closed from 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm Damage was estimated at found. Police are still investigating.

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OLEX back seeking exemption for exotic animal sale Tiger Paw Exotics wants to return to live-auction format at St. Jacobs venue Steve Kannon

echnology may be all well and good, but there’s nothing like a live auction, says the owner of an exotic-animal business that wants to return to the Ontario Livestock Exchange. After running his auctions at the OLEX for nine years, Tim Height last year ran afoul of animal rights activists, whose actions subsequently led to Woolwich

council placing restrictions on the auction. A shift to video feeds – precluding buyers and other visitors from being in the vicinity of the animals – proved unworkable, as there was a 60 per cent drop in the number of animals brought to the odd and unusual sale, and attendance was cut by half. Against that backdrop, Height was back before council Tuesday

night, asking for an exemption from Woolwich’s bylaw governing exotic animals. His company, Tiger Paw Exotics, has been holding the twice-ayear sale at OLEX since 2001. Although many of the creatures sold at the auction are prohibited in the township, the organizations were granted an exemption under what was then the exotic pets bylaw. When the township passed a

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Poor road conditions at fault

AFTERMATH A 40-year-old Wellesley man was struck while trying to exit his driveway on Weimar Line last Sunday. He was taken to hospital. No charges were laid due to slippery road conditions.

new animal control bylaw in 2006, however, it repealed that bylaw. The exemption lapsed with changes, but neither OLEX nor Tiger Paw was notified, and the sale continued as usual until 2010. In addressing councillors this week, Height said a new exemption would be appropriate given the event’s clean record over the past decade. “Our safety record is 100 per cent. We police ourselves. We are responsible,” he said. “Look at our record, and let us do what we’ve done … for the last 10 years.” Over the years, the likes of monkeys, kangaroos, zebras and camels have gone up for bid. There have never been any incidents at the sale, he explained, noting he never accepts dangerous animals at the auction. Calling the St. Jacobs venue ideally suited for

the sale – it’s set up to handle animals, with all the needed safety measures – Height said he wants to continue at OLEX, but would carry on elsewhere if needs be. Without the sale, owners of exotics could use other avenues to get rid of animals, putting them in the kind of danger animal rights groups say they’re trying to prevent, he added. OLEX president Larry Witzel shared the safety concerns, telling councillors the venue takes its responsibilities very seriously. He called on the township to allow the exemption so that he and Height won’t have to keep bringing the issue before council. “We’d like to resolve this so that we don’t have to come back every six months.” But Coun. Mark

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Budget: Council still working on the details > CONTINUED FROM COVER $11,846 each. Even with the small increase for council, the cuts made thus far – including reductions in paving and the treatment of gravel roads – bring the jump in spending from a proposed eight per cent to the 2.3 per cent figure approved by the previous council at the target tax increase for 2011. The cuts help offset a jump in the recreation budget. Chief administrative officer David Brenneman said council and staff are still working to get a handle on expenses in the rec. department, particularly at the WMC. Overall in 2010, the recreation and facilities department overspent by 14.6 per cent, or $553,976, on an original budget of $3.78 million. The largest factor in that was the Woolwich Memorial Centre, where expenses were up $384,965, 20.2 per cent higher than budgeted for.

Staff puts much of the blame on low estimated operating costs for the $23-million facility, which opened in September 2009. Having only a few months of operations under its belt while compiling the 2010 budget, staff guessed at costs over a full 12-month period, underestimating the expenditures, said Brenneman, adding much of the focus was on building the facility and getting it operational, so not enough emphasis was put on what it would actually cost to run the place. “Bottom line, the fact remains that we missed the mark.” Those revelations in the past week’s budget talks proved especially irksome to Coun. Allan Poffenroth, who said the operating deficits should have been caught sooner. “What annoys me is that whoever’s in charge let things go, and 15 months later you find out they’re $500,000 in the red,” he said in an interview, adding

in an understatement, “To lose such a huge amount of money is not the best way to operate.” He, like Mayor Todd Cowan, suggested staff look at cost-cutting measures and new sources of revenue. Both pointed to the money-losing fitness centre and food concessions as options for better revenues. In the case of the fitness centre, the township opted to pay an outside company, Personal Best Health and Performance Inc. $11,000 a month to operate the centre, which was equipped at Woolwich’s expense, rather than simply lease the space to a gym operator for a guaranteed revenue stream. The goal was to finance the deal through the sale of memberships, but the numbers haven’t been enough to as much as break even. The township lost $34,000 last year. “It sounds like a hell of a deal,” Poffenroth said of the fitness centre arrangement, argu-

ing a straight rental deal would stop the bleeding and bring in revenues. As for the concessions, an outside operator could provide a wider choice and better operating hours, for instance, while generating more revenue for the township. Those two components of the WMC will certainly be on the list when staff looks at ways to deal with the budget shortfalls, said Brenneman. A detailed study of the facility will look at ways to do things more efficiently, including how best to operate individual components. An energy audit should help with utility bills tens of thousands of dollars higher than budgeted for. To tackle the big money issues, however, the township will have to look at service levels, including staffing and programming. The recreation budget is expected to undergo more scrutiny at the next meeting, set for Mar. 22.

Bauman, the sole retuning member of the council that dealt with the auction last year, was in no mood to make a quick decision on the matter. “I thought this was put to bed by the previous council,” he said, noting the request would have to work its way through the system, including a report to council and a chance for public input. Although the next auction is scheduled for April, the township was unlikely to deal with the “last-minute request” before that time, he stressed. Having been through this before, Bauman told his fellow councillors they could expect a considerable amount of input from activists. Last time around, that included groups such as World Society for the Protection of Animals and Zoocheck Canada.

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New signs to identify Environmentally Sensitive Lands Elizabeth Bate

embers of the Laurel Creek Citizens Liaison Committee want drivers to slow down and take notice of the landscape surrounding them as they travel through the Region of Waterloo. Steward for the group, Kevin Thomason, came to Wellesley Township council Mar. 7 to show councillors new signs that will be erected around the region indicating the borders of protected land designated Environmentally Sensitive Land (ESL) in the Laurel Creek headwaters area. “There’s a lot of environmentally sensitive wetlands, woodlands and other features that have garnered the ESL designation about four and a half years ago” said Thomason. Five signs will go up on regional roads indicating the land in Wellesley, Woolwich, Wilmot and Waterloo. “Folks probably still aren’t aware of the ESL (lands),” Thomason said. “In this area we are lucky to have 72 rare, en-

dangered and regionally significant species.” Thomason and other committee members hope the signs will call attention to the area and encourage residents to explore the wildlife in the area. “We want to note the boundaries of the ESL so people know they are coming into an area that might be a little different than the other areas around it,” said Thomason. The large, oval signs, designed by a Waterloo artist and made by local secondary school woodworking students, are made of red cedar and feature a local landscape hand-carved into them. The picture on each of the signs depicts four local elements, water, wildlife, forestry and farming. “We wanted something that looked official, yet we wanted something that stood out from different signs,” said Thomason. The first five signs will be put up around the region this spring. Thomason said he hopes more signs will be possible later.

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Coyote numbers on the rise, but no local calls for culling James Jackson

he past few months have seen a renewed call for coyote hunting contests throughout the province. The call comes after livestock and pet deaths have begun to mount throughout Ontario, due in part to an approximate threefold increase in coyote population numbers since 2004, according to the Ministry of Natural Resources. Most recently, a contest near Cornwall claims to have collected 121 coyotes throughout the month of February. Some are concerned that coyotes are becoming more daring and encroaching closer to urban areas, putting children at risk. Conservative MPP Bill Murdoch of GreyBruce-Owen Sound repeated his request for a provincial coyote cull last month when he read a statement in the Legislature requesting an easier bounty system on the coyotes and a payment of $200 per animal. “My main concern

is someone’s life is going to get lost here,” he said. “They are so bold now but at lot of it is that they are hungry. People are afraid they are going to snatch a kid or something.” However, the MNR refuses to support such widespread kills, calling them “ineffective.” “People […] have the misguided notion that a cull, or these contests or bounties, will solve the problem that they might be experiencing in certain areas with coyotes,” said Jolanta Kowalski, an MNR spokesperson. “Coyote contests, culls and provincial bounties have been shown to be ineffective in dealing with coyote problems.” Kowalski explained that whenever their population is threatened, coyotes engage in what biologists call “compensatory reproduction,” meaning that there is a higher reproductive output among the heavily hunted or harvested populations. “If you kill coyotes, the ones that are re-

maining will essentially reproduce more. So it doesn’t work. They’re adaptable animals.” Farmers who lose livestock to coyote attacks can apply for compensation from the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Rural Affairs, but they do need to prove that the deaths are linked to coyote attacks. The Township of Woolwich has not received any complaints of coyote attacks in the region thus far in 2011, but in 2010 the township did respond to four calls by farmers to have livestock deaths investigated for compensation, with three found to have links to coyotes, reported director information services Christine Broughton. “For our township, that is an increase. Normally either we don’t have any, or we might have one or two in a year,” she said. When asked if the township would support any cull or bounty placed on coyotes, Broughton said that that would be a decision for council to

make if the situation were to arise. Mayor Todd Cowan said that the township did not have a strategy in place for coyote culls, but said that the topic would be discussed. “It is an issue, but at this point we don’t plan to have a hunting blitz. It will be discussed, probably at the next committee meeting in two weeks,” Cowan said. Throughout the province it is nearly impossible to determine the number of coyotes, but Kowalski said that in most cases any issues associated with coyotes stem from one or two problem animals. She said that by hiring trained trappers, those problem animals can be effectively removed from the area without having to resort to widespread hunts or culls. Kowalski also added that in the Waterloo Region coyotes can be hunted year-round and hunters can take any number that they want, there is no limit, as long as hunters observe all firearm discharge laws.

Wellesley mayor keeps pledge to roll back salary Elizabeth Bate

oss Kelterborn is going to have to do some fancy accounting. The mayor of Wellesley said he will be maintaining his commitment to constituents to keep his salary at $10,000 despite councillors’ refusal to put forth a motion to that effect at a meeting Mar. 7. Kelterborn requested

to have his $17,000 stipend reduced in the official 2011 budget, however Ward 3 Coun. Jim Olender said it isn’t as simple a process as Kelterborn anticipated. “The problem with him not taking a full salary is that in the budget it’s not an actual reflection of what council’s salaries are,” Olender said. Underreporting of current sal-

aries will create false salary inflation when a new mayor is eventually elected in Wellesley. In order to keep salaries properly accounted for in the budget, Kelterborn will be forced to take $17,000 as his 2011 salary and donate remaining funds back to the township. He will be consulting the director of finance to come up with a plan to ensure

the township receives the extra money. “We’ll be coming up with some method in which I will be able to give that money back to the municipality,” he said. “My salary will not be over $10,000.” Kelterborn said he will most likely be making a donation to the township to return the funds, however he had hoped he could make it

a simpler process. “The reason that I wanted to do it the way I had set it up was because that was the simplest way for me to do it,” he said. “I may have to take the money, keep track of it and get a tax receipt. I don’t know.” Kelterborn acknowledges any donation receipts he receives for income tax purposes will work out better for him fi-

nancially in the long run, although he didn’t intend it to happen that way. “The intent was simply to keep my salary at $10,000, which was a commitment I made when I was first elected as mayor,” he said. “I plan to keep that (commitment) until I’m finished.” The $7,000 Kelterborn plans to donate back to Wellesley will be put into the tax stabilization fund.

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New Airport hosts Go Blue! Go Bald! Security: measures rolled out WestJet fundraiser supports Make-A-Wish Foundation Elizabeth Bate

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lue hair and shaved heads abounded at the Region of Waterloo International Airport Mar. 5. The site wasn’t home to a punk rock concert, but played host to the fourth annual Go Blue! Go Bald! head shave and silent auction organized by West Jet Cares for Kids and the Make-A-Wish Foundation. The annual fundraiser featured a live auction, hosted by Sarge from Kool FM, a silent auction and a raffle in addition to eager bluehaired head-shavers. All proceeds from the day went to the MakeA-Wish Foundation, which grants wishes to severely ill children. West Jet customer service representative Debbie Linesky said the goal for this year’s event was $25,000. “We’ve been very, very fortunate over the past four years. We’ve raised about $64,000, we’re hoping to achieve our goal and just keep growing and growing,” she said. Linesky chose to dye her hair blue for the event, while her husband and son decided to go bald. Heads were sheared

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OFF WITH THEIR HAIR Eager participants in the West Jet Go Blue! Go Bald! annual fundraiser

for the Make-A-Wish Foundation get their heads shaved at the Region of Waterloo International Airport on Mar. 5. Left, Brent Raso had his blue locks sheared off. Right, Lisa Heginson-Bowyer shaved her head and donated her hair to Locks of Love. in groups of three his daughter Rebecca, would have to think throughout the after- whom he lost to cancer about being seen in noon. Among the first on Feb. 21. Young said public with his shorn group of participants the Make-A-Wish Foun- mother. was Lisa Heginson- dation was a charity “It’s weird,” he Bowyer, who not only close to his heart. laughed. “Probably as “Make-A-Wish sent long as she wears a banshaved her head, but donated her long, Rebecca to Chicago for dana or a hat.” brown hair to Locks of a whole week of shopThe day continued to Love in memory of a ping. It was the last be filled with emotion thing she could do,” he as participants made friend’s daughter. Locks of Love makes said choked with emo- their heads a little wigs from donated hair tion. lighter, including West After Heginson-Bow- Jet’s vice-president of for children suffering from illnesses such as yer’s hair hit the floor, sales Duncan Bureau. cancer that cause them the tears continued to “It’s all coming off toflow as she wrapped day, it’s going to be fun,” to lose their own hair. Ron Young began her head in a bright red Bureau said before he to cry as he watched bandana that belonged met with the clippers. H e g i n s o n - B o w ye r ’s to Rebecca. “It’s my first year and Heginson-Bowyer’s I’m just glad to be able hair fall away while holding a picture of son Dylan said he to be a part of it.”

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In 2011, let’s move forward and embrace transit for what it is, the future. Cheryl Fisher letter on page

VERBATIM ontrary to what those in power would like you to believe so that you'll give up your Cpension, cut your wages, and settle for the life

your great-grandparents had, America is not broke. The country is awash in wealth and cash. It's just that it's not in your hands. It has been transferred, in the greatest heist in history, from the workers and consumers to the banks and the portfolios of the uber-rich.

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THE MONITOR he record-setting $130-million NAFTA Tformer settlement with AbitibiBowater over a paper mill in Newfoundland has

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Hard choices to be made in this year's budget P

artly because they’re new to the job and have many questions, and partly because there’s every reason to question many of the items, Woolwich’s new councillors are giving the budget the kind of scrutiny that hasn’t been seen for years. Four of the five members of council have never been through this process before. They have no history to draw on. They have no assumptions. Many of the questions that have come up in recent budget deliberations simply stem from a desire to learn more, but it’s clear that a refrain of “whys?” sometimes puts township staff on edge. It’s staff who prepare the budget documents for each of the departments. And it’s staff who are put in the position of defending each of the spending requests. That’s as it should be, with council playing an adversarial role: “What’s that money

for?” “Why are we doing that?” In some cases, the answer boils down to “that’s the way we’ve always done it.” That’s a sure sign the budget item should be looked at more carefully. Given cost overruns in 2010, particularly in the recreation and facilities department, it’s clear that councillors will have to do more than ask questions: there are some tough decisions ahead. There was overspending in many facets of the rec. department, but the most notable area is the Woolwich Memorial Centre. In setting initial budgets for the new facility, targets for such things as heat and electricity were unrealistically low. What’s developed, then, is a systemic financial shortfall, where forecasted revenues wouldn’t be enough to offset the huge expenditures even if they hadn’t missed the mark.

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Currently, the township is balancing the budget by juggling funds from other departments. Council must now decide if that process will continue, with more money allocated to the facility at the expense of other spending options, or if changes will be made to lower expenditures at the WMC. Increasing revenues with new deals at the fitness centre and concessions stands – two items already on the table – would help, but only to stem the bleeding. Those decisions will have to come within the context of controlling property tax increases, which have been at levels well above inflation for several years. Nor can user fees – the cost of renting ice time or using the pool, for instance – simply be hiked willy-nilly to cover the gap, as the township has gone to that well repeatedly in the years leading up to

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the construction of the WMC. Choices will have to be made in an environment where federal and provincial funding, so plentiful in recent years, will be decreasing as senior levels of government tackle deficits. That means there will be fewer outside dollars for infrastructure projects, the kind that suck up millions of dollars with the greatest of ease. Every dollar spent on operations is one less dollar available for pressing repairs and upgrades. As with other municipalities, Woolwich is now forced to differentiate between needs and wants. Everyone faces a crunch between socalled soft services such as program offerings and hard services, including roads, bridges and water pipes. There are no easy formulas for allocating funds. For Woolwich’s new crop of councillors, the hard decisions start now.

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Politicians playing up Islamophobia in Europe F

rom the beginning of next month, it will be illegal for a Muslim woman in France to wear a full-face veil (niqab) in any public place. An opinion poll last week suggested that Marine LePen, the new leader of the far-right National Front, could win the first round of next year’s presidential elections in France. These two facts are not unconnected. President Nicolas Sarkozy is in a panic as the National Front gains in the polls, for his own core vote is also on the right. He has responded by ordering a nationwide debate on Islam’s place in secular France, and he has made it quite clear which side he is on: he wants no minarets in France, he tells journalists, and no halal food in school canteens. But the new antiniqab law is the centre-piece of his strategy. It is a solution to a problem that does not exist. There are around five million Muslims in France, about eight per cent of the population, but only a couple of hundred Muslim Frenchwomen wear the niqab in public. They probably shouldn’t drive, since all that paraphernalia severely restricts their field of vision, but in what sense is their occasional presence in public spaces a threat to society? In fact, there are probably more British women wearing niqab in my small patch of London than there are French women wearing niqab in the entire country. In Camden Town, I see them in the supermarket, on the bus, in the street – and when I overhear them talking to their husbands or their kids, I notice that most of them have London accents. That’s because most of the niqabwearers are not immigrants. They are

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International Affairs GWYNNE DYER the British-born daughters of immigrants, and the fact that they now appear in public wearing this extreme garb – which was not normally worn by women back in Pakistan, or Algeria, or wherever their parents came from – is part of the crisis that always affects second-generation immigrants everywhere. The men of the conservative older generation are horrified as their daughters absorb the values of the larger society around them, and try desperately to isolate them from those influences. It was a losing battle for Italian and Jewish fathers in New York a hundred years ago, and it’s a losing battle for Algerian and Indian fathers in London and Paris now. But these things take time to work out, and in the meantime a tiny minority of British Muslim women wear niqabs, and an even tinier minority of Muslim Frenchwomen. So why would a French government ban women wearing niqab from taking a bus, entering a shop, or even just walking down the street, on pain of a 150-euro ($200) fine? In addition to a fine, the wicked transgressors will be obliged to attend a citizenship class that stresses the egalitarian values of the French republic, including gender equality. This is a very large sledgehammer being used to crack a very small nut. But it will have served its purpose if it gets Sarkozy re-elected.

The right is in the ascendant in French politics, and this has unleashed a wave of panic-mongering over “multiculturalism.” Assimilation of second- and third-generation immigrants is actually proceeding at the normal pace, but in the midst of the process it is possible to believe that the cultural turmoil is leading to a permanently divided society. Most people on the right do believe that. Whoever can more convincingly claim to have the solution for this imaginary problem wins the rightwing vote, and the National Front is drawing ahead of Sarkozy’s Union for a Popular Movement (UMP). Under the leadership of Jean-Marie Le Pen, the National Front came second in the 2002 presidential election; under the leadership of his daughter, Marine Le Pen, it could do even better. The recent opinion poll commissioned by Le Parisien newspaper gave her 23 per cent of the vote, while Sarkozy’s party and the Socialists got 21 per cent each. She has ditched the National Front’s neo-fascist and racist rhetoric in favour of a low-key, “common-sense” style that is having a real political impact. But all she can do is force a run-off second round in which, like her father in 2002, she would be overwhelmingly defeated. French political parties are divided on many things, but they would all unite to keep the National Front from power. The tide of Islamophobia is running strongly on the European right at the moment. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been trumpeting the failure of multiculturalism for the

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What are your plans for March Break?

“I’m going to Myrtle Beach.” > Brandon Huggins

“I’m going to Hot Topic in Toronto to go shopping.” > Emmie Siroky

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“I’m going down to North Carolina.” > Scott Shea

As Woolwich deliberates the 2011 budget, council pushes for a downward trend in the spending requests from the various township departments.

“Just hanging out at my house with friends.” > Natasha Runstedler

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Speculators gamble on anything, and we pay the price

f you believe oil companies are gouging customers at the pumps right now, you are undoubtedly right. But that longstanding tradition increasingly shares the blame with speculators driving up costs. For that you can thank the same kind of deregulation that led to the recent financial collapse and subsequent recession. It’s the same kind of unbridled market activity that has led to bubbles in the past, just on a larger and larger scale: we never learn. Worse still, the kind of hedge fund speculation that’s driving up oil prices is doing the same to a host of other commodities, including food. That’s right, some people are getting awfully rich betting on who will starve because of massive price hikes in such staples as wheat, corn and rice. They’re driving up the price just by playing the game. Where trading in those commodities was once the purview of farmers and their major customers – an insurance of sorts against price fluctuations between the time a crop is planted and the time it comes off the fields – today that accounts for only a fraction of the trades in the market. Now, there may be 30 or 40 bushels of wheat in play for every one that actually exists in a farmer’s field: most of it is on paper. What was once a fairly stable market has been overrun by the financial services sector. In 2003, for instance, Wall Street

From the Editor Steve Kannon types invested some US$13 billion in food commodities. Five years later, that figure had jumped to $260 billion. Needless to say, that 1,900 per cent increase didn’t correspond to any change in the actual amount of food being speculated on. In fact, it has nothing to do with food: any commodity will do, just as gamblers will find anything to bet on. With food, the industry moves billions of dollars on speculation, trends and expectations, and how others react to those movements. The good doesn’t matter. Except for the billions of poor people on the planet who’ve seen the cost of staples rise dramatically, leaving them hungry and deeper in poverty. We’ve seen those price hikes here, too, but they’ve had a far less dramatic impact on our budgets. The situation with oil prices, subject to the same kind of speculation, is a little different, as we feel the pinch at the pump, but also in higher transportation costs, which includes delivery of goods as well as the impacts on public transit and air travel, among other things. Oil prices also have an impact on food costs, as oil plays an integral

role in farming, from preparing the land to getting the products on store shelves. In U.S. Congressional hearings following the last big spike in gasoline prices in 2008, representatives of the oil industry testified speculation could be blamed for perhaps doubling the price of oil beyond the supply-and-demand arguments we typically hear about. For that, we can thank the U.S. government’s Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000, which deregulated commodity markets, stripping away controls in place since the 1930s. You may recall that was the time of the Great Depression, which followed another time of financial market excesses and subsequent crash. How this came to pass, and what it means for the economy if left unchecked, is the focus of an upcoming book by longtime oil trader Dan Dicker, ‘Oil’s Endless Bid: Taming the Unreliable Price of Oil to Secure Our Economy.’ In a recent interview on CNBC, the veteran of the New York Mercantile Exchange lays out who’s to blame for the situation. “I would put the investment banks first. They have created and sold the instruments for retail investors and institutional investors to easily bet on the price of oil. The three largest investment banks trade in oil as well and make a couple of billion dollars each trad-

ing oil a year, which directly comes out of the pockets of consumers,” he says. “The investor is next to be blamed. They have fallen to a large degree for indexes and commodity ETFs. These new participants are exclusively buying; no one is selling and everyone wants to hold. They understand the importance of crude in the global economy. The oil market was relatively stable until the commodity market was allowed to expand with the passage of the Commodity Futures Modernization Act in 2000. We have seen enormous swings both up and down since then, and barring intense intervention, we will continue to see very volatile moves.” U.S. President Barack Obama had pledged to tackle Wall Street’s foray into the commodities market, and the resultant price spikes and profiteering, but little has been done to date. Not surprising given the billions of dollars invested, the massive profits and the power of the financial sector lobby, despite the meltdown the industry precipitated in 2008. As many critics have noted, it’s as if the industry and the government learned nothing from the folly of deregulation, nor from the futility of chasing the latest bubble. Until something is done – preferably before the next crisis – we’ll be paying more for the gasoline we use and the food we eat.

our downtown corridor. For riders, the question has always remained: will it stay? I have heard families discussing whether to purchase a second or third vehicle, waiting to get a final answer on the future of the transit. I have seen local real estate listings with a selling feature of “on the transit route,” also local ads are posted for advertising room and board to university students, etc. Is it worth the money? The question is, can we afford to not do it? As a permanent service, the region will continue to add improvements to make the service more viable for more and more users. Comments being presented in our local media have shown us a backwards stance on transit in Woolwich. Concerns noted are “it is for the youth, students and seniors.” This is a very large demographic group. The youth are also our future.

Embracing transit will be second nature to them. (The “middleaged folk” will re-evaluate as the cost of gas increases: we only have so much disposable income.) As for the comments from our newly elected council – not servicing everyone in the township, should be considered area-rated – transit affects all areas of Woolwich Township, and our future. For example, Breslau has a wonderful future for growth due to transit, when the GO train station is finally built and parking for hundreds of cars is completed. The Breslau area is also currently growing at an unprecedented rate, and you can be sure of the success of the GO Transit. In 2011, let’s move forward and embrace transit for what it is, the future.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Transit is part of Woolwich's future To the Editor,  Grand River transit route 21 is an essential service in Woolwich Township, and it is, or will become an important part of many people’s lives. Let me remind you of the initial consultation process that brought transit back to Woolwich. Yes, back to Woolwich. As a little girl, I remember the bus coming several times a day into St. Jacobs and Elmi-

ra and many people getting on and off. This was privately run, and after some bad decisions to cut several runs through the day, it made the service unusable by many regulars. After a long hiatus, transit is back, at a time when Elmira is growing at an unprecedented pace. The local information meetings for route 21 were some of the best attended transit meetings in the region. I stood in line with lots of anxious people, as we discussed this new venture for our township. The transit has proven reliable and consistent even through two seasons of extensive construction in

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past six months, and British Prime Minister David Cameron recently added his voice to the chorus. It is only a cynical political stratagem, but it could have real consequences. Left to their own devices, the various immigrant groups in these countries, including the Muslim

groups, will assimilate to the general society in a couple of generations, as immigrants generally do. You can accelerate the process a little with the right government policies, but not much. However, you could stall it entirely by attacking the minority groups and driving them into cultural ghettoes. That’s the game that Sarkozy is playing now.

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A TASTE OF HOME Sandor Dosman shows off some of the open-faced sandwiches that are the specialty of his new restaurant, Køkken Village Café in St. Jacobs.

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here’s something good cooking in St. Jacobs’ newest kitchen. Køkken Village Café is the latest addition to the town’s line-up of eateries. The operation took over the King Street location previously home to the Cake Box on Feb. 28. Housing sleek and modern decor, Køkken (KOOG-ken) – ‘kitchen’ in Danish – is anything but cold. Owners Sandor and Jenny Dosman along with Sandor’s mother, Jette Rotholm, fill the counters with warm and inviting treats every

morning. “She was the inspiration for this,” Dosman said of his mother, who is originally from Denmark. “I grew up with that type of food at holidays and family functions, and I thought it would go over really well.” Rotholm is responsible for the shop’s signature creations, traditional Danish open-faced sandwiches. Made from scratch using locally baked bread, the sandwiches range from the typical ham and roast beef to sole fillets with shrimp and a Danish meatball sandwich, which is Dosman’s personal favourite. “It’s a traditional sandwich from Denmark that you use a fork and knife to eat. It’s very fancy and very big on the garnish and the presentation,” said Dosman. “They’re fun sandwiches.” Cupcakes, chocolate covered banana muffins and traditional Danish sugar cake are some of the baked goods on offer. All the sweet treats are baked fresh each day by Jenny before she travels to Waterloo, where she works as a full-time baker elsewhere. The long hours don’t discourage the Dosmans, who love owning their own spot. “I’ve worked for many other people, making lots of other people rich, so now it was time to work for myself,” said Dosman. Dosman got his start with an internship at the Ali Baba Steakhouse in Waterloo, and has been working in restaurants for almost 30 years. The work took him across the province. Now he is happy to be making traditional Danish food. Open for little more than a week, Dosman said his roasted

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Eggs worth more if chickens are free, says researcher Food For Thought Owen Roberts they would be willing to pay $1.67$1.71 per dozen more than the $2.15 per dozen cost of conventionally raised eggs (the price in June of 2008, when the questions were asked) if the hens producing them had more living space. Respondents placed the highest value on a scenario that would give the birds about three times more room. As Cranfield quickly points out, this was a hypothetical survey. The big question is whether consumers would indeed do what they claim. Who knows? Surveys like this are all researchers like Cranfield can go on, unless they’re in the rare and luxurious position of having a friendly grocery store that lets them test the waters. But even though this is hypothetical, it’s based on real people, and there’s a message in from this survey that should get farmers’ attention. As Cranfield noted in the results he pre-

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Intuitively, you’d think so. But that’s where animal welfare experts come in. Cranfield consulted them at the early stages of his research, and this week they were listening closely to his presentation. Animal housing is what’s called a credence characteristic of food, something you don’t readily see in the end product – such as vitamin enhancement or locally produced food – but to some consumers, it adds value. Farmers need to know what consumers value, and how much more consumer’s will pay for measures that cost farmers money to implement. Research such as Cranfield’s sheds some light on the matter. Changes to production standards will, at some point, be borne by consumers. So, they might as well be a part of the equation right from the start, learn about their options, and make informed decisions.

sented to an animal welfare seminar at the university Wednesday, those 40 per cent of respondents who said they’d pay more for eggs from hens in alternative housing could represent a niche market opportunity for egg producers. For farmers, new markets for staple foods such as eggs are unusual. So, if the research shows big interest, farmers should give it a look. At the same time, though, they’ll have to look at their own bottom line. It’s fine for consumers to say they’ll pay more for free run and free range eggs … but is the amount they’re willing to pay enough to make it profitable for farmers? Ultimately, any type of farming has to be profitable, or it’s unsustainable. And then there’s the animal welfare angle. Is a hen that has three times more room appreciably better off than its counterpart in a conventional cage?

Breslau air show receives $75,000 in provincial funding tertaining experience for the entire family, said Spremo. As a result, the show is bringing in even more ground displays, or what Spremo called “static displays,” including planes remaining on the ground with their pilots available to answer any questions. “The public can walk around the plane and photograph them, and depending on what aircraft it is sometimes they can climb aboard. It’s a fantastic opportunity for people to see these planes up close,” said Spremo. The air show will also have simulators and other hands-on displays with the purpose of entertaining families, and educating children about the basic properties of aviation. There will also be a beer tent and a VIP section. This year’s event is set for Aug. 20 and 21. Other grants awarded in the area included $43,750 for Kitchener Blues Fest, $399,800 for the Kitchener-Waterloo Oktoberfest, and $40,000 for the Perimeter Institute.

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he Waterloo Air Show was one of four Waterloo Region recipients of more than half a million dollars in grant money announced last week by the provincial government. The air show, which takes place at the Waterloo International Airport in Breslau, is entering its third year and was previously called the Waterloo Aviation Expo and Air Show. The show will receive $75,000 in Celebrate Ontario funding, while other recipients were the Stephen Hawking Centre at the Perimeter Institute, Kitchener-Waterloo Oktoberfest and the Kitchener Blues Festival, worth a total of $558,550. The money for the air show will be divided into three broad categories; fees to attract high-end performers to the show, ground displays, and infrastructure. “The bottom line is, the money is going to help us grow our show and is going to create an even better experience for our guests,” noted Diana Spremo, the event’s director of marketing and media relations. “The money will be allocated where it is most needed in the show.” The spectacle has enjoyed considerable growth in only two seasons, up from 15,000 visitors in its first year to about 40,000 last year – and they hope to use the money to attract even more people this year. Spremo said the big jump from year one and two is probably attributed to the fact that the Canadian Snowbirds Demonstration Team performed at last year’s show. This year, the Snowbirds will be back, along with other big acts including the Canadian Forces SkyHawks demonstration parachute team and a CF-18 Hornet fighter jet display. In order to qualify for the funding, the air show needed to prove that they would provide an educational and en-

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uppose your local grocery store had traditionally gone about its business and sold only eggs from hens raised in traditional cages, the ones about the same size as the chickens themselves. These cages are abhorred by animal rights’ advocates because they offer animals limited space, but are generally accepted by Canadian egg farmers who believe they meet the animals’ needs. Then one day, the store decided to start selling free range eggs or free run eggs, those in which the hens have appreciably more room to move. If you did some homework and ultimately thought these alternative housing styles were better for animals’ welfare, would you pay more for eggs? And if so, how much? University of Guelph researcher John Cranfield, a faculty member in the Department of Food, Agriculture and Resource Economics, asked this question to some 650 people in Guelph. And the answers he found were eyeopening. Cranfield discovered about 40 per cent of those surveyed said they would buy eggs from a free run or a free range system. As well, they said

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Café: Emphasis on fresh food, sourced locally where possible > CONTINUED FROM PG. 13 red pepper soup has already caught on, destined to become a permanent fixture on the menu. “Word has spread around town and everyone has come in just for that soup,” he laughed. “It’s by far the most popular (item).” Hoping to expand his services beyond those of a lunch hotspot, Dosman has set up a catering menu on the restaurant’s website; with just 24 hours’ notice, he can bring lunch to local businesses. “I’m out shopping every day to make sure everything is fresh,” said Dosman, who makes it a priority to bring local ingredients into the shop as much as possible. Køkken’s menu information is available on the website and also on a Facebook fan page Dosman has established for the store. The page features pictures of the fare, specials the shop is offering and comments from fans. Admirers of the café can bring home the Køkken experience through some of the items they stock. Currently Dosman carries Danish candies and chocolate, as well as gift items from the Momma Mar line. He uses some of the locally made food items, like the Momma Mar chutney and barbecue sauce, in some of the shop’s cooking. Eager customers can buy not only the restaurant’s ingredients but the pots they cook with, as well. Dosman sells a line of healthy kitchenware called Carico, which he uses in his own kitchen. In addition to offering food, gift and cookware items, Dosman wants to be able to offer his customers a cold beer and unique summer fare on warm days. “We’re going to be having a spiked

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Putting the heart in 4-H Longtime club member John Drummond recognized for his years of service

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John Drummond was recognized for 25 years of volunteer service to 4-H in Waterloo Region. He has spent more than half of his life as both a member and a leader of the youth organization.

ohn Drummond has de devoted more than half of his life to 4-H, a grassroots organization of communitybased clubs aimed at develop developing leadership and life skills in youth aged 9-21. Drummond was recognized recently for his 25 years as a leader in Waterloo 4-H at the 4-H Ontario annual conference. So what does the 48-year-old think of the honour? “It makes me feel old,” he said with a long laugh. After a moment he pauses, then expresses his true feelings about the award. “It’s wonderful because it’s a very rewarding program and a very re rewarding experience. Everything that we’ve contributed to youth and the fu future certainly pays back in spades.” For Drummond – who was a 4-H member himself back in the late 1970s and early 1980s – 4-H is merely a way of life. He grew up on a dairy farm just outside of Smiths Falls in eastern Ontario, before getting his bachelor of science in agriculture with a major in animal science. He then got a job at Floradale Feed Mill, and as is now their dairy feed specialist. It was soon after he start started work at the feed mill that he decided to join the local 4-H association. He started the veterinary club in his first year as a leader, and soon joined the dairy club. Every year he participates somein at least six clubs – some Drumtimes more. In 2011, Drum mond is set to be the leader

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of the Waterloo senior dairy club, the Floradale dairy club, the veterinary club, the milk club, and the Kitchener market club. “I’m involved with a lot more than the average volunteer,” he laughed. “I certainly hope that people don’t think they have to be as involved as I am. I do it because I love it. “Agriculture is who I am,” he added. It’s more than just agriculture though. The four Hs stand for head, heart, hands, and health, and Drummond sees all four as vital for the development of youth in learning new skills, build building self-confidence, becoming better citizens and making lifelong friendships. “It’s agriculture, the environment, food and health,” he said. It’s also a whole lot of fun. About four years ago Drummond started the first-ever paintball club in Waterloo, and is proud to see that other counties in the surrounding area have adopted the idea as well. The club provides valuable life lessons for the kids beyond what most might expect from an afternoon of shooting each other with paint.

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“It’s proven to be a really wonderful club as far as teaching leadership skills,” he explained. “Not only is it a very safe and economical activity, but with the games that we play kids learn about leadership, they learn about teamwork, strategy and working together.” Not only that, but the club is a great physical workout as well. “I’ve learned that middle-aged men do not run enough,” Drummond laughed. “At the end of the day my legs are killing me, but I’ll go home feeling great because I got a good sweat on and a good heart rate – we need to do that more.” Drummond said that clubs like the paintball club are vital to the long-term survival of 4-H in Ontario, and around the world. The idea persists that 4-H is just for farm kids, and he is working to break through those misunderstandings and get kids from the three urban areas of Cambridge, Kitchener, and Waterloo joining the organization. “If we don’t start recruiting more kids from there as the urban centers spread out, we could go extinct,” he ad-

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With spring in the air, it’s time for something a little bit fancy

ancy doesn’t have to be complicated or gourmet. It’s really about using beautiful ingredients and treating them as simply as possible, so that the ingredients shine. And sometimes it’s also about using a different cooking technique in the kitchen, so that when you sit down to dinner, there is a real sense of accomplishment (usually judged by the smiles on your guests’ faces!). As the first hints of spring appear, we begin to crave meals that are on the lighter side of things, with colour and brightness to put us in the mood for the season. This halibut dish brings all of these elements together: a little on the fancy side, bright with colour and freshness, and unbelievably healthy. I served this dish the other day and used up just a few veggies that I had in my refrigerator: some celery, carrots, savoy cabbage and a beautiful tomato that I found from Martin’s Family Fruit Farm. Yes,

From The Chef's Table Kirstie Herbstreit & Jody O'Malley local greenhouse tomatoes are starting to appear. The halibut comes from T&J Seafoods in Kitchener, but you can use any fresh, firm white fish such as tilapia, haddock or cod. Finally, the method is ‘en papillote,’ referring to the method of encasing the ingredients in parchment paper or foil and then ‘steaming’ them in the oven. It’s a wonderful way to gently cook fish, keeping it moist. Pre-heat oven to 425°F; Tear two sheets of parchment paper, about 16”x16” and fold each in half; Close to the fold and in the middle of the papers, divide the vegetables

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amongst the two sheets in a small pile; Place the fish on top of the vegetables and then sprinkle with the lemon juice, chives, and salt and pepper; Begin to fold the parchment paper: fold the top half over the fish and then starting at one point, begin to fold the edges over top of each other, making a fold every 2 inches or so. You should be left with a little ‘tail’ at the end to tuck underneath the whole package. The package should look like a half heart; Place the packages on a baking sheet and bake for 12-15 minutes; remove, carefully slide onto a plate and, using scissors, cut into the middle of the package and inhale the beautiful aroma of what’s inside; Serve with rice, couscous or boiled potatoes and drizzle good extra virgin olive oil around the plate.

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mits, adding that they have seen some great success in reaching non-farm kids – in fact, he estimates that up to one-half of all the kids in his veterinary club and dairy clubs are from a non-farming background. “I see that as very important because we’re teaching agricultural awareness, and that’s a wonderful thing,” he said with a smile. “I would have never dreamed there would be a paintball club. A club like that was breaking new ground, and I’m proud that Waterloo started it.” Drummond – who lives between

Maryhill and Breslau – was also the president of 4-H Ontario in 2006 and 2007, where he acted as the voice of the 4-H Ontario board of directors. The one thing that continues to amaze him though, is that there are more than 6,000 youth members across the province and 1,800 leaders whom volunteer their time for 4-H without any payment in return. “It’s all volunteer, I’ve never been paid,” he laughed. “From local leader up to president, that’s all volunteers. I should say I get paid, but just not with money, there is always a reward.” For more information about 4-H, visit www.waterloo4-h.ca.

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KEEPING IT OUT Goaltender Matt Smith turns aside Jake Dotchin of the Cambridge Winter Hawks in the first period of Wednesday night’s 3-1 victory. Smith made 33 saves on the night to help eliminate the Hawks from postseason play in five games.

Kings advance to the next round in playoffs Wednesday's 3-1 win sees Elmira eliminate Cambridge Winter Hawks in five games James Jackson

n what turned out to be a fairly one-sided series, the Elmira Sugar Kings eliminated the Cambridge Winter Hawks from the GOJHL playoffs with a 3-1 win on Wednesday night to wrap up their best of seven series four games to one. It was the Kings’ third win in a row, having split the first two games of the series

with a 3-2 overtime win at home Mar. 2, followed by a 4-2 loss in Cambridge last Saturday night. “It probably wasn’t our best game of the series, where I thought in game three and game four we really, really controlled the play and really dominated,” said head coach Geoff Haddaway of the game-five victory Wednesday. Following the series-

opening victory last week, the Kings rolled into Cambridge hoping to extend their lead to two games. However, Cambridge goalie Colin Furlong continued his strong play from the opening match, where he made 42 saves in the loss, and kicked aside 40 shots for a 4-2 win. Elmira’s Brady Campbell scored in the first from Chris Zubac, and Andrew Smith

scored a powerplay goal in the second from Wade Pfeffer and Lukas Baleshta. In game three Mar. 6, however, the Kings finally solved Furlong and retook the lead in the series on home ice. They managed to score four goals before the end of the second period to chase Furlong from the Cambridge net en route to an 8-1 thrashing. Elmira went 6-for-12 on the powerplay, and Matt

Smith made 19 saves in the win. Eight different Kings scored in the win, led by Wade Pfeffer's goal and two assists. The Kings provided a repeat performance on Tuesday night on the road, once again chasing Furlong from the Cambridge net with five goals on 27 shots

> SEE PLAYOFFS ON PG. 21

he St. Clements U16 and U19 ringette teams travelled to Ottawa Feb. 23-27 for the provincial championships, and while the U16 girls had to settle for 6th in the tournament, the U19 girls returned home as the provincial champions. The team of older girls entered the tournament ranked number-one in the province, and was able to live up to that billing with a gold medal performance. “Because we were ranked number one, the pressure was very high,” said coach

Terry Nosal. “It’s happened to us before where we’ve gone in ranked number one and not won, so the girls had a set frame of mind to overcome that pressure and actually win.” This is the same core group of girls that captured the U16 provincial and national championships three years ago, and Nosal said that the fact the team has managed to stick together for so long – some girls have played together for six years now – really helped their cause. The girls are so familiar

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ONTARIO'S BEST The St. Clements U19 AA girls’ ringette team celebrates their provincial championship in Ottawa. Back row : Robin Scott, Sam Nosal, Lisa Bury, Paige Nosal, Lana VanFrankfoort, Sydney Granger, Kailey Whitcroft. Middle row: Alana Raymond, Sarah Worthen. Front row: Emily MacDonald, Emily Griffiths, Josslyn Denstedt, Josie Scott.

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>Morrison wins big in playoffs Former Elmira Sugar King goaltender Dan Morrison earned his third career NCAA playoff victory last Saturday in impressive style. Morrison turned aside 48 shots as his Canisius Golden Griffins defeated the Niagara Purple Eagles 6-3 in the first round of the playoffs to advance to the conference quarterfinals this weekend against Holy Cross. The London-native’s 48 stop performance is a new program record for postseason play, topping his own mark of 44 saves which he set in a doubleovertime victory last season. Morrison helped lead the Kings to the Sutherland Cup finals in 2008, winning the league MVP and top goaltending awards along the way.

>Harnock named to team heading to Mexico in fall Elmira-native Katie Harnock will be one of the 12 players representing Canada at the 2011 Parapan American Games from Nov. 12-20 in Guadalajara, Mexico, Wheelchair Basketball Canada announced Tuesday. Harnock, 27, won gold with the national team in 2006 and was part of the squad that finished fifth at the Paralympics in Beijing in 2008. She also won bronze at last year’s World Championships in Birmingham, England. The 2011 Canadian lineup includes seven returning Paralympians and 10 players that were part of last year’s team that won bronze. “We are confident that we are precisely where we want to be as a program and as a team at this point,” said head coach Bill Johnson.

>Charnuski sets new record The records continue to fall for Elmira resident Olivia Charnuski. The junior track star for Liberty University in Virginia broke her own Liberty record in the women’s 200-metre dash last Saturday with a 24.87 run at the ECAC Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships in Boston. The kinesiology major set the previous record back on Feb. 12 in Fayetville, Arkansas with a time of 25.01. Her run Mar. 5 made Charnuski the first female runner in the school’s history to crack the 25-second time barrier indoors. She failed to advance to the finals, however.

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Boring? Don’t be so quick to judgment T

hese days, it seems the whole world is looking for excitement. That’s why I find it so refreshing to hear about men who don’t want any excitement in their lives at all. In fact, the Dull Men’s Club (DMC) believes it’s OK, and even normal, to pursue uninteresting pastimes. Obviously, these guys have never tried perch fishing. The club was, in fact, started a few years back by several 80-year old men who decided that being interesting was highly overrated. This is something I think Charlie Sheen is proving nicely. They reasoned that while extreme sports, politics, sex and alcohol tended to garner world attention, most men of their age would actually prefer a cup of not–too-sugary tea and a good nap. And, after that, perhaps they might tend to a hobby that was not self-destructive or even remotely interesting to the mainstream – like stamp collecting, for instance. So long as those stamps were not too exotic or valuable, mind you. That’s not to say that DMC members think that their database cataloguing the rotational direction of 400 airport luggage carousels is uninteresting. Nothing could be further from the truth, in fact. They

Not-So-Great Outdoorsman Steve Galea are also quite proud of one member who has a remarkable collection of 345 company letterheads. Judging from the other things they promote, he’s the wild one – probably fishes for perch. You know, the more I hear about the club’s activities, the better I like it. Watching paint dry is a club favourite, for instance. So, too, is placing a piece of wood in a bucket of water and waiting for it to warp – although I suspect any good DMC member would suggest not to get carried away and do both of these things in the same week. The club’s motto is “Celebrating the Ordinary,” which seems like something that the world could use a bit more of. If you go to their website you can even take a Dull Man’s Test. And, in order to research this column, I did just that. And while I didn’t qualify as boring, I came awfully close. Luckily, I was saved from being designated as dull because I could

answer yes to the question: Have you ever had an urge? The fact that grey isn’t my favourite colour also helped. Having said that, I found it easy to list a few boring fishing books that I’ve read and, as much as I hate to admit it, I actually like macaroni. And these things alone almost allowed me to meet the club’s rigorous membership standards. Yup, it that was close. Is being dull such a bad thing? I’m not so sure. As I said, it seems to me the world could use a few less people who make the news because of their interesting, but not necessarily acceptable behaviour. Exciting – especially when fuelled by booze, drugs, greed, the need for political power or perch fillets – is rarely a good thing, after all. Even so, I guess exciting is what I am – relatively speaking, at least. After all, luggage carousels don’t float my boat and I’m not so enamoured with pigeons, park benches or potato varieties just yet. Not when there are so many families of mayflies to research. Call me a wild man, if you like. This afternoon, I’m going to tie a dozen more flies. And, just maybe, I’ll go chase some perch.

Jacks call it a season Game-five loss in opening round against Ayr eliminates Wellesley from the playoffs; coach optimistic as work already underway for next year James Jackson

nother season came to a close for the Wellesley Applejacks following their 5-3 loss to the Ayr Centennials Mar. 3. But they certainly didn’t go without a fight, forcing game five back in Ayr with a thrilling 7-6 overtime win on Feb. 26. In what would be the final match, however, the Centennials proved they had forgotten that loss by building an early 2-0 lead over the Jacks on goals from Declan Kaster at 8:57 and Andrew Tapsell at 15:23 of the first period, with the Jacks’ Shawn Fitzpatrick closing the gap to one with his first goal of the playoffs at 17:04 assisted by Kevin Howorth. Fitzpatrick would score again 7:43 into the second period to tie the game briefly, from Howorth and Mark Hamilton, but the tie was short-lived. Ayr’s Tyler Gauthier restored the onegoal lead just 30 seconds later on the powerplay with Justin Roeder in the box for slashing.

Ayr scored another at 9:54 of the second and added a fifth at 18:15 to go up 5-2 and put the game out of reach heading into the third. Wellesley’s Matt Aspden would score the final tally of the Jacks season at 13:54 from Chris Bauman to make it 5-3, but that’s as close as they would come. Jordan Bauman made 37 saves in the loss. “I think we played well, the guys gave it a good effort, but in the long run they were healthier and a little more disciplined than we were,” said Fitzpatrick of the series with Ayr. “We played catch-up that whole series, and that was the difference.” The Jacks held the lead in the series for only 21:25, and only managed to win one game – game four – in overtime. They were also outshot in each of the five games as well, 229-164 overall. After failing to make the playoffs last year, and their quick four-game exit the season prior, the Jacks had high-hopes heading into

the 2010-2011 season. They started out well, posting a 9-5-3 record by Dec. 3 to put them near the top of the McConnell Conference standings. However, Fitzpatrick can pinpoint the exact day where the team’s season began to go south, finishing the second half with an 8-91 record and a 17-14-4 record overall, good for sixth in the conference with 38 points. “The turning point for our season was Dec. 3 (a 4-3 loss to Delhi). We had three or four guys go out with separated shoulders that night, so all of a sudden instead of being healthy we had all those injuries and it was just one after another after that.” In all, 10 Jacks players suffered separated shoulders throughout the year, and neither goaltender Kurt Martin (hip injury) or Jordan Bauman (groin) was at 100 per cent all season, either. “(Martin) missed the first month of the season, and he re-injured himself at Christmas time, and it never

healed,” explained Fitzpatrick, “Jordan played really well down the stretch […] but he was fighting a groin injury and some nights it loosened up and other nights he couldn’t even go down onto his knees.” Only one skater, Matt Aspden, played in all 35 games this year, while key contributors like captain Rob Hinschberger (29 games played), defenceman Stephen Lewtas (24 games played), and rookie of the year Michael Forster (25 games played) each missed significant time. There were only two games all season where Fitzpatrick could ice his entire starting lineup, he said. It wasn’t just injury either, but illnesses made their way through the Jacks dressing room and hampered their performance this season as well. “Corey Way, our leading scorer, went out with mono two weeks before the playoffs (and) Josh Herd set up the overtime winner (in

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Chris Zubac drives to the net during third period action of the Kings’ win over Cambridge on Sunday night. Zubac was denied on the play, but the Kings dominated the game with an 8-1 win.

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while coasting to a 6-3 win. Smith was solid in net, again making 19 saves. Heading into Wednesday night’s matchup at the Woolwich Memorial Centre, the Kings were looking to end the series quickly in order to give themselves plenty of time to rest up and heal before the start of the second round, and to avoid returning to Cambridge for game six. Elmira got off to a sluggish start, however. The team was outplayed and outhustled throughout the entire period, which was marked by sloppy play and poor passing. Fortunately, they held a 1-0 lead thanks to outstanding goaltending from Matt Smith, and a powerplay goal from Spencer MacCormack, assisted by Colton Wolfe-Sabo and Jordan Benton at 11:22 of the first. “Give Cambridge a lot of credit, a lot of teams would have packed it in but I thought the first period was their best of the series,” said Haddaway following the win. “We got a little bit lucky to get that first goal, we probably didn’t deserve to be up 1-0, but good teams find a way sometimes, and tonight I thought we found a way.” Elmira turned their game around once the second period was underway, with an early goal from Andrew Smith on the powerplay at 2:52 from Josh MacDonald and Josh Woolley. MacDonald used his speed to get to the outside and cut in front of the net, and Smith was right there on the doorstep to clean up the rebound and shovel it home for a 2-0 lead. MacCormack continued his strong play in this postseason with his second goal of the night and fourth of the series at 17:41 thanks to some good work by Baleshta, who retained possession down low and spotted MacCormack all alone in the

ON THE ATTACK Elmira’s Spencer MacCormack goes wide around a Cambridge defender in the third period of Sunday’s 8-1 win. The rugged forward finished with one goal on the night.

MOVING ON The Sugar Kings celebrate the series-ending win

slot. MacCormack unleashed a wrist shot top corner to put the home team up 3-0 after 40 minutes. In the third, however, Cambridge proved they would not go quietly into the night, scoring a quick powerplay goal just 1:37 in to give the team renewed life. However, in the end it was the Winter Hawks’ undisciplined play that led to their demise. The team racked up 58 minutes in penalties in the third period alone following their goal. At one point there were seven Cambridge skaters in the penalty box at the same time, and Haddaway said that it was his team’s disciplined play that

In the end, the Kings had a deeper team than Cambridge, Haddaway said, adding that from here on in the Kings will no longer have that advantage, as the remaining squads in the playoffs are all deep as well. For now, the Kings don’t know who they will play in the next

was one of the deciding factors in the series. “You play four games in five nights, and nobody really understands except the guys in the room – it’s incredibly tough physically and mentally. Our guys are in great shape, and so it becomes a mental battle, and our guys showed a lot of resiliency and strength.” Smith once again had a strong game in net, finishing the night with 33 saves. “I don’t think Matt Smith was depended on a lot in this series, but when he was he came up big and kept us in there when we probably didn’t deserve it,” said Haddaway.

Perhaps the biggest factor in the Kings’ success was their special teams. Elmira finished 12-for-47 with the man advantage (25.5 per cent) and scored at least one powerplay goal in every game. At the other end of the rink, the team only allowed three powerplay goals in 23 chances, an impressive 87 per cent, and never allowed more than one per game. “Special teams were a huge factor for us,” the coach said. “Our guys take a lot of pride in it, and your best penalty killer is most often your goaltender, and he was good and gave our guys confidence to execute our game plan.”

Wednesday night in Elmira.

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brings something to the team and we don’t have any superstars, and we’ve never had a captain on our team, because everybody is a captain. It’s all about the players and what they can bring.” At the provincial championships, the team entered the semifinals undefeated, 6-0, and beat Nepean in the semis to set up a match against Waterloo in the finals. The team trailed Waterloo 2-0 after the first period, but Sam Nosal scored four goals, Lisa Bury had two, and Paige Nosal and Robin

Scott also scored to provide St. Clements with an 8-6 win and the championship. Nosal said that the team is training hard as Team Ontario now in preparation for the national championships in Cambridge from Mar. 28 to Apr. 2. The fact the team won’t have to travel far is a bonus for them. “Next year they’re in B.C., last year they were in Saskatoon, and the year before that they were in PEI. So it’s really nice because we don’t have to travel. It’s going to be phenomenal competition,” she said.

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Jacks: Reasons for optimism

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game four), and he’s got pneumonia. It’s just one thing after another,” Said Fitzpatrick. The coach is optimistic about moving forward next season, however. Their 10-win and 18-point improvement over last year’s 7-23-6 record, as well as their competitive five-game series against Ayr should be good preparation for next years team, and the head coach is also expecting less turnover than the end of last year as well. The team replaced 15 skaters from last year’s team, but the coach said he only expects to replace eight to 10 this year, including over-agers Read

Shantz, Kurt Martin, Eric Parr, and Matt Aspden who are not eligible to play Junior next season. The team is also in talks with the Elmira Sugar Kings to arrange a rookie camp next year as well prior to the start of the season, and Fitzpatrick says that their scouting of AAA and high school teams is going to pay off next season as well. “We’ve got guys calling us that are good hockey players, and we brought a lot of quality into the program this year. “We had a lot of positives this year, we felt we were good enough to go on a run, but we didn’t. We’ll re-tool, re-load, and go again next year.”

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Winning in the land of the Vipers

TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONS The Woolwich Novice LL#3 boys' hockey team finished

its hockey season on a winning note, taking top spot at the Arthur Vipers Novice Boys tournament Mar. 5. The team worked together to beat out Paris, Fergus and Tavistock in the final match. Team members are: Ben Martin, Brady Gingrich, Caden Sellars, Cameron Martin, Cole Seabrook, Dante Del Cul, Dominic Roth, Jackson Dumart, Jordan Dickieson, Keith Mikel, Kieren Oberholzer, Nathan Curtis, Parker Merlihan, Patrick Perry and Seth Horst. Coaches: Matt Roth, Craig Curtis, Phares Horst, Mark Sellars, Kirby Gingrich and manager Jasmine Roth.

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MAR. 2 Twin Centre 5, Woolwich 1 Goals: Katie Lee x2, Blythe Bender x2, Marlee Fraser (Kara Dietrich, Megan Jantzi, Claire Higgins, Mia Thompson, Lauren Skanes, Avery Haid, Katya Pym, Lindsay Miller, Avery Bender, Emma Sommer) MAR. 5 Twin Centre LL #2 8, Twin Centre LL #1 4 Goals: Zach Lipczynski x2, Alex Kaufman, Michael Hayes (Tyler Zyta, Ben Belcourt, Kodie Gerber) MAR. 5 Twin Centre 4, Kitchener Bobcats 1 Goals: Blythe Bender x3, Katie Lee (Blythe Bender, Katie Lee, Katya Pym, Lauren Skanes)

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MAR. 5 Woolwich 8 Waterloo 0 Goals: Alise Fife x3, Lize Schuurmans x2, Brianna Schlupp, Emily Schuurmans, Megan Thoman (Emily Schuurmans x4, Lize Schuurmans x2, Breanna Campbell x2, Jenna Weber, Megan Thoman) Shutout: Autumn Campbell

TWIN CENTRE BANTAM C - GIRLS

FEB. 28 Grand River 2, Twin Centre 1 Goals: Carly Bender (Cassidy Pearce, Breanna Michael)

TWIN CENTRE MIDGET LL #1 - GIRLS

MAR. 6 Waterloo #1 3, Twin Centre 1 Goals: Brittany Wagner (Shannon Novak)

TWIN CENTRE NOVICE LL #1- BOYS

MAR. 5 Twin Centre LL #2 8, Twin Centre LL #1 4 Goals: Zach Lipczynski x2, Alex Kaufman, Michael Hayes (Tyler Zyta, Ben Belcourt, Kodie Gerber)

TWIN CENTRE NOVICE LL #3 - BOYS

MAR. 2 Twin Centre #3 4, Twin Centre #2 4

Goals: Jake Thompson x2 Jack Wolf, Jaden Palmero (Nate Brideau, Dylan Hehn) MAR. 5 Twin Centre #3 3, Woolwich #2 3 Goals: Jake Thompson x2, Jack Wolfe MAR. 6 Twin Centre #3 5, Twin Centre #1 2 Goals: Jacob Thompson x3, Jack Wolf, Dawson Stevenson (Dylan Hehn, Conall Gillett, Jack Wolf, Jaden Palermo) WOOLWICH PEEWEE LL #1 - BOYS

MAR. 5 Plattsville 5, Woolwich 1 2 Goals: Ryan Deimert, Jeff Talbot (Luke Charter x2 Max Bender, Ryan Deimert) MAR. 6 Woolwich #1 4, Paris #1 3 Goals: Adam Elliott, Nic Campagnolo, Jeff Talbot, William Mehwinney (Nathon Horst x2, Max Bender, Luke Charter, Michael Devries, Nic Campagnolo)

WOOLWICH PEEWEE LL #2 - BOYS

MAR. 5 Woolwich 6, Paris 4 Goals: Joe Hanley x2, Liam Catton, Matthew Uhrig, Zach Pogue, Alex Metzger (Matthew Uhrig)

WOOLWICH PEEWEE AE - BOYS

MAR. 2 Woolwich 3, Erin-Hills 1 Goals: Jake Lewis, Aaron Weigel, Joey Hanley (Cameron Brown, Joey Hanley, Alex Taylor, Alex Turchan) MAR. 6 Woolwich 2, Erin Hills 1 Goals: Jake Lewis, Cameron Brown (Joey Hanley, Jake Lewis)

WOOLWICH MAJOR PEEWEE - BOYS

MAR. 5 Oakville 6, Woolwich 3 Danyal Rennie, Tyler Moser, Garrett Schultz (Mathiue Fife, Kelby Martin, Liam Dickson, Kelby Martin)

WOOLWICH BANTAM LL #2 - BOYS

MAR. 3 Paris 2, Woolwich #2 1

Goals: Matt Lalonde (Jacob Cornwall)MAR. 5 Woolwich #3 4, Woolwich #2 1 Goals: Matt Lalonde (Nick Berlet) WOOLWICH NOVICE MAJOR A - BOYS

FEB. 24 Woolwich 3, Centre Wellington 2 Goals: Lucas Huber, Mitchell Lee, Isiah Katsube (Ryan Elliott, Connor Bradley, Spencer Young, Keaton McLaughlin, Kyler Austin) FEB. 26 Woolwich 5, Centre Wellington 0 Goals: Connor Bradley x3, Mitchell Lee, Isiah Katsube (Mitchell Lee x2, Blake Roemer x2, Trevor Ferretti, Brett Allen, Kyler Austin) Shutout: Ryan Martin FEB. 27 Woolwich 1, Centre Wellington 1 Goals: Mitchell Lee (Brady Brezynskie, Keaton McLaughlin) MAR. 3 Woolwich 2, Centre Wellington 1 Goals: Spencer Young, Kyler Austin (Lucas Huber, Connor Bradley, Mitchell Lee) WOOLWICH WINS OMHA SEMIFINAL SERIES WOOLWICH BANTAM MINOR A – BOYS OMHA SEMIFINAL GAME 3

MAR. 4 St. Thomas 2, Woolwich 1 Goals: Jason Gamble (Harrison Clifford and Cole Lenaers)

OMHA SEMIFINAL GAME 4

MAR 5 Woolwich 3, St. Thomas 2 Goals: Greg Huber, Jason Gamble and Grant Kernick (Troy Nechanicky, Alex Uttley and Cole Lenaers)

WOOLWICH BANTAM MAJOR A - BOYS

MAR. 4 Flamborough 3, Woolwich 2 Goals: Adrian Gilles, Alex MacLean (Alex White, Alex MacLean, Mike Martin, Bo Uridil) MAR. 6 Brampton 7, Woolwich 1 Goals: Timmy Shuh (Alex MacLean, Matt Lair)

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Bring-a-friend event looks to boost girls’ hockey James Jackson

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omen’s hockey has enjoyed a considerable upswing in the past two decades. It is estimated that, across Canada, 80,000 girls now play Canada’s official winter sport – 10 times the number of players in 1990. Women are achieving recognition at the highest levels of hockey as well. Back in November, the venerable Hockey Hall of Fame inducted the first female members in its 77-year history – U.S.A. national team captain Cammi Granato, and Canadian hockey star Angela James. Much of that growth can certainly be attributed to the introduction of women’s hockey at the Olympics starting in Nagano in 1998. Girls’ hockey has enjoyed growth in Waterloo Region as well, says Jacinta Faries, team manager for the Atom Local League girls’ team in Woolwich and a member of the Wild executive. She wants to open the sport up to even more girls, though, which is why she has helped to organize “Bring a friend to girls hockey,” a day for young girls aged 4-11

» JAMES JACKSON

THE MORE THE MERRIER The Woolwich Wild have organized a day for girls aged 4-11 to come out and try girls

hockey for the first time in St. Jacobs on Mar. 27. Among those now enjoying the sport are (back) Brianna Fleming, Holly Faries, Larissa Musselman, Maggie Sargent and (front) Annie Sargent, Annabel Musselman. to come out to the arena in St. Jacobs on Mar. 27 to try hockey for the first time. “(Girls’ hockey) is definitely growing,” she said. “Our numbers grow year after year, and I think we’re directing this day more towards the younger kids. Some of the other girls’ hockey associations that are in our local league of-

fer similar programs, so we thought we’d give it a try.” Starting at 4 p.m. parents are invited to bring their daughters to the arena to try hockey for the first time. At 4:30, coaches and trainers from the Woolwich Wild will be conducting an hour of on-ice drills and skating seminars, and will finish up with a friendly exhibition

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game. “We want to give more girls the chance to give hockey a try,” said Faries. “This way it gives them a chance to go and try it one time and to give their parents a better idea of whether they think their child will enjoy it.” The skaters are required to have skates, a CSA-approved helmet and face

mask, a stick and gloves. For anyone who doesn’t have this equipment, there will be spare gear available. “We didn’t want anybody to feel that they couldn’t try it because they don’t have what they need,” explained Faries. One concern that often arises with new players and their parents is the physical nature of the sport, but Faries said that there is no checking allowed in girls’ hockey, which comes as a relief to most. Even her nineyear-old daughter Holly was concerned by the body contact in boys’ hockey, but once she explained there was no contact, Holly was much more comfortable. There will be handouts with information on the registration and fees for next years season, and Faries also said that there will be members of the executive present to answer any questions parents might have, in particular parents who have never played hockey themselves or have not had another child play. The event is free. For more information, contact Jacinta Faries at (519) 669-8625.

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JOIN THE WOOLWICH COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE (WCHC) BOARD OF DIRECTORS WCHC’s Nominating Committee is now recruiting Board nominees for the 2011-12 year. Board members reflect the community that WCHC serves: • Residents from across the WCHC catchment area: * Woolwich Township * Wellesley Township * Parts of Perth County: area bordered to the north by Perth Line 72, to the east by Perth Road 116, to the south by Perth Road 119, and to the west by Perth Road 121, and the area bordered to the north by Perth Line 56, to the east by Perth Road 103, to the south by Perth Line 43, and to the west by Perth Road 107 * Part of Wilmot Township: the area bordered to the north by Gerber Road (12), to the east by Wilmot Line, to the south by Snyder’s Road/Christner Road, including all Baden and Petersburg addresses, and to the west by Wilmot-Easthope Road. • Catchment-area residents with a mix of work and volunteer experiences in health and community services, business, farming, law, financial management, facilities management, organization and board develop ment, patient safety and quality of healthcare. • Catchment-area residents who are representative of, or work with, the priority populations that WCHC serves at its St. Jacobs, Wellesley and Linwood sites: Families with young children (0-6), Seniors (60+) and their caregivers, Rural and farming families, and Youth (14-19 years of age). Board members do not have to be clients of the health centre. However, Board members must be able to attend regular Board meetings on the 4th Monday evening of every month from September to June, and take part in one other Board committee. Please call Heather at (519) 664-3534, ext. 239 to receive an application package. Applications are due by Friday, April 1, 2011. All interested applicants will be required to attend a pre-orientation session which will be set up for later in April. For further information, please contact Denise Squire, Executive Director, at (519) 664-3794. HELP WANTED

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>>Touch Of Scotland Mature sales lady required for weekend shifts. Knowledge of British goods an asset. Bring resume to: 1441 King St., St. Jacobs. CHILD CARE

>>Christian Mom has openings in her smoke free home. Competitive rates, receipts, healthy meals and snacks, outings and crafts. For more information call 519-669-1456 . HEALTH CARE

>>Pain Relief with bowen therapy - a natural, yet highly effective treatment. Great for back/neck pain, carpal tunnel, migraines etc. 519-574-0515 . FOR SALE

>>Clearance Centre Upstairs OPEN - Many items at 75% off. Something for everyone. FREE browsing. Elmira Home Hardware 519669-5537. >>Couch and Love seat. Black with rose floral. New condition. 519-669-2109 . >>Tree Seedlings Bareroot 10” to 24” tall. Field grown for hardiness. Mix and Match $2 each, 100+ $1.75 each, 300+ $1.50 each. HST extra. Book early to reserve. Limited supply. Colorado Blue Spruce, White Spruce, Norway Spruce, White Pine, Red Pine, Douglas Fir, White Cedar, Hemlock, Staghorn Sumac, Burr Oak, Red Oak, Red Maple, Sugar Maple, Silver Maple, Paper Birch. Asparagus Roots $2.50 each. To order, call Lorne at 519-638-3589 afternoons or leave message. Pick up at 8109 Wellington Rd. 8, (1 km west of Drayton). Thursday, Friday, Saturday, April 22, 23, 24.

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>>Elmira - 2 Bedroom townhouse. Please, no smoking, no pets. $875 plus utilities. Suitable for quiet tenants. Call 519-7437479 . One parking space included.

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>>Recently Refinished 3 bedroom home in Linwood! Appliances included. Large back yard. Available April 1. Asking $1150 /mth. Call Joey at 519-505-0785.

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>>Upstairs Office Space - 3 rooms available from $450 per month depending on size. Includes heat & hydro. Main floor in an active real estate office. Call Mildred Frey, 519-669-1544. >>WANTED:

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>>Three Bedroom Ranch style bungalow for sale in beautiful birdland. Large well treed lot. Price $319,000. 22 Bluejay Rd., Elmira. Call 519-669-3714 to view.

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Spaghetti effect applies to more than your pasta Q

. At supper, you slurp in a long strand of spaghetti and are startled to see a spot of sauce slung out onto the wall. Why this “spaghetti effect”?

It’s the conservation of angular momentum, says Jearl Walker in

The Flying Circus of Physics. If the free end of the strand initially rotates around the entrance point of the sucking mouth, it must rotate faster and faster the farther in it gets, much like an ice skater spinning with outstretched arms and then bringing

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them inward to speed up sharply. So too the speed of the spaghetti strand becomes great enough to sling the sauce wallward. This effect is of concern to engineers designing equipment to either pull in sheets of paper or to eject them. It can also arise with an automatically retracting metal tape measure; as the end of the tape nears the case, it may lash out sideways (like the spaghetti effect) and cause injury. “So be sure to draw in the last part carefully.”

How do those military spying “eyes in the sky” sometimes see too much?

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In 2009 alone, the U.S. Air Force shot 24 years’ worth of video over Iraq and Afghanistan using “unmanned aerial vehicles,” says Ariel Bleicher in IEEE Spectrum magazine. “It would take 16,000 analysts to study all this video footage,” and there aren’t that many human eyes available, states John Rush, chief of the Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Division of the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Having computers do the watching is perhaps the only alternative but programming them poses notoriously difficult problems. Vehicles seen from high above look exceedingly small, and with the plane moving faster than the vehicles, the yield is only a few frames for each. Even tougher is differentiating people from trees, mailboxes, traffic lights, necessitating geometric comparisons of shadow heights. A final challenge is mapping

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How early in life did the “Father of Geekdom” get his first hint of who he might become?

Called also the “Father of Computer Science,” retired Stanford math professor Donald Knuth may just be the world’s most renowned geek, says Dave Wieczorek in Think magazine of Case Western Reserve University. Knuth has authored more than 30 books, including “The Art of Computer Programming,” already into its fourth volume and fifth decade. He is also editing “Selected Papers on Fun and Games,” which will include his own short story “The Chemical Caper,” where every word is a chemical formula. “A geek is not something you learn to be,” Knuth says, “you just are.” An early indication of this was the candy bar contest he entered as an eighth-grader. A local radio station had challenged contestants to see how many words they could make out of the letters in “Ziegler’s Giant Bar.” “I devised a systematic way to go through the dictionary and find all these words. So I pretended to be sick and stayed home from school for a whole week. I found 4,500 words even though the judges had only 2,500 on their master list. (I won two candy bars and a toboggan.) That was an early indication of my geek streak.”

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the movement pattern of many things at once, such as aerial footage of a city. As Rush sees it, military intelligence analysts will at first use a system put in front of them, then turn it off because it just makes their job harder. “Getting them to accept the results of automatic video-search software without going back and checking all the data, that’ll be a long time in coming.”

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glEn allan - country living on the edge of the Village! Custom built 4+bdrm. with fin. walkout basement. Huge principal rooms. Open concept. Dble. garage + det. garage 24’ x 30’. A MUST SEE. nEW MlS $524,900.

Two storey 3 bed and 3 bath room home on a half acre lot, open concept, high speed fibre optic internet available. $317, 900 MLS. Financing Available O.A.C.

Country living - outside Alma. .72 of an acre. Immaculate 3 bdrm. bungalow. Huge kitchen w/walkout. Walkup from garage. Partly fin. bsmt. Insulated WORKSHOP 24’x36’. MlS reduced to $419,900.

$217,990. Move in now! Fabulous 1500 sq ft Semi features beautiful stone

fireplace, open concept, 3 bdrms, huge master walk in closet and unspoiled an basement awaiting your creativity. Many other models available to build.

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Lisa Hansen Tribble Sales Representative

REAL ESTATE CENTRE INC ExCEllEnt Condition - ‘retirement bungalow’ on a great street. Updated doors, trim, windows, cupboards, flooring & furnace. Main flr. laundry. Covered porch & deck. Fin. bsmt. (2 bdrms. rec. r. & 3pc.). new MlS $399,900.

WESt MontroSE - Min. to K-W & Guelph. Huge lot backing to greenspace. Open concept to large great rm. w/high ceiling. Main flr. master bdrm. (ensuite) Fin. lower level - full walkout. All the extras you’d expect! MlS $629,900.

www.thurrealestate.com

COUNTRY LOTS .5 acre don’t miss this chance to enjoy sunrises and sunsets. Within 40 minutes KW, or Guelph. High speed internet is available with fibre optic. Starting at $66,000 MLS

519.787.0203

Alyssa Henry

Sales Representative

Learn More About Sunlight Heritage Homes and Our fine communities by Visiting us Today! www.sunlighthomes.ca

Find local open house locations listed here every week!

3 bedroom back split. 1& 1/2 bath, open concept with eat in kitchen and dining room with fireplace, semi finished basement, private lot, scenic view of Conestoga River Valley, in the friendly village of Glen Allan. MLS. $289,000.

Industrial For Lease. Local heated shop is available. Total square feet is 4400. Lots of parking. $1925 per month. MLS Space For Lease. 4000 square feet. Available immediately. Industrial in Waterloo. $2700 per month. MLS ADDRESS: 4-B Arthur St. S., ELMIRA • EMAIL: leonmartin@remax.net DIRECT: 519-503-2753 • OFFICE: 519-669-5426

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REAL ESTATE

Each Office Independently Owned and Operated

Solid Gold Realty (II) Ltd., Brokerage

ALLI BAUMAN

BILL NORRIS

OFFICE:

SALES REPRESENTATIVE CELL:

FAX:

HOME FAX:

180 Weber St. S., Waterloo, ON N2J 2B2

519-577-6248

519-888-7110

Independently Owned & Operated, Brokerage

519-669-3192

ELMIRA REAL ESTATE SERVICES

REALTY LTD., BROKERAGE INDEPENDENTLY OWNED AND OPERATED

519.500.1865 (Direct)

BONNIE BRUBACHER Broker of Record

519-669-9885

billnorris@rogers.com

SHANNA ROZEMA Broker.

OPEN HOUSE â€˘ 210 FIRST ST., ELMIRA

NEW LISTING $229,000

MONIQUE BRUBACHER Sales Representative

LAURIE LANGDON Sales Representative

Elmira - Great starter or retirement home. Curb appeal plus on quiet street. Nice yard, newer kitchen, refinished hardwood floors, finished basement. MLS

EXCELLENT 7YR. OLD SEmi

SATURDAY MARCH 12TH â€˘ 2-4PM

$199,900 | DRAYTON | Great home on 40â€™ lot backing onto green space. Cozy kitchen and dinette open to the living room with walkout to deck and private fenced yard, main floor 2 pc bathroom, 3 upper floor bedrooms, cheater 4pc ensuite bathroom, newly finished recreation room, central air. NEW MLS

NEW LISTING $218,900 Drayton - A lot of house for the money. Nice yard, finished basement with in floor heating and a walkout.3 plus bedrooms. A great family home with large eat in kitchen. MLS

SOUGHT AFTER LOCATiON

$369,000 | ELmiRA | Large sideplit on quiet mature court, oversized double car garage. Spacious foyer, bright front living room, separate dining room with walkout, eat-in kitchen overlooks the family rm/ den area with walkout, 3 upper level bdrms incl. master bedroom w/3 pc ensuite & a 5 pc bathroom, main floor laundry & 2 pc bathroom, lower level rec. room, office & plenty of storage space. NEW MLS

Gorgeous and nicely maintained 2200sq.ft. custom built home with endless amounts of features. Situated on a large corner lot. This 4 bedroom, 4 bathroom home is perfect for a growing family. MLS.

$293,900

$359,900 Drayton - .69 acres just a few minutes from Drayton. Great family home surrounded by open country. Double attached garage, paved drive, finished rec with gas heating stove, upgrades to bath, newer windows. MLS

RiVER ViEW PROPERTY!

$429,900 | DRAYTON | Scenic views from this one of a kind custom built Cap Cod backing onto Conestogo River! Welcoming ceramic entrance, maple hardwood floors throughout the open concept living rm, dining rm and eat-in kitchen, breakfast nook with bay window overlooks the river & green space, pocket French door to the den, main flr laundry/mudroom, access to the oversized dbl garage, 3 upper level bdrms, 4pc bathroom w/ whirlpool, finished walkout basement w/in-floor heating & 3pc bathroom. NEW MLS

BEAUTIFUL FREEHOLD TOWNHOUSE

Located in east Waterloo and close to RIM Park. This tastefully decorated townhouse is in excellent condition and features an open concept main floor with walk-out to deck and fully fenced yard. MLS . MLS $369,900

SPECTACULAR WOODED LOT

$649,900 | ELmiRA | 3,000 sq. ft. home with indoor pool, hot tub and sauna. Gleaming hardwood floors, fantastic entry foyer; circular oak staircase; 4 bedrooms, 5 baths. Absolutely prestigious home. Many features to offer. Please call for your personal appointment. MLS

IMPRESSIVE COUNTRY PROPERTY

And well maintained home at the edge of Elmira. Features include detached insulated workshop, as well as a detached two car garage, both with hydro and situated on a nicely landscaped lot. A wonderful home and close to all amenities.

www.elmiraandareahomes.com

FOR LEASE $12/ SQ.FT. GROSS St. Clements - Utilities and taxes included. Opportunity awaits the entreprenure. Lots of parking and great exposure at a busy intersection minutes from Waterloo. MLS

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

4B Arthur St. S. Elmira â€˘ www.remaxsolidgold.biz OFFICE: 519-669-5426

DIRECT: 519-572-2669 EMAIL: bert@remaxsolidgold.biz

BERT MARTIN, BROKER

EXQUISITE DECORATING!

Elmira@royallepage.ca | www.royallepage.ca/elmira

View the countryside from the loft in this beautifully decorated home offering hardwood & ceramic flooring, open concept dining area & kitchen with island, three bedrooms, two bathrooms plus ensuite with corner tub, walkouts from dining area and basement, one & one half garage, backs to green space. Tour this home with Bert on Saturday or Sunday. MLS.

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OFFICE PHONE: 519.343.2124 KATHY ROBINSON EDITH MCARTHUR DEBBIE ROY *Sales Representative *Sales Representative

159 William St., Palmerston **Broker (Across from Home Hardware) 519.292.0362

519.638.2509

519.343.4817

As a result of many sales we NEED LISTINGS! Give us a call.

New Listing - $189,900 Palmerston

Economical, cozy bungalow w/ 3+1 bedrm, 2 baths, fin basement, carport encl. on 3 sides w/workshop at rear. Exceptional lot backs onto walking trail. Opportunity for retirement or starter home. Edith MLS 1117304.

New Listing - $275,000 Palmerston

Opportunity & Potential! 4bedrm, 3.5 bath, 4yr. old, 2800 sq. ft. backs onto walking trail. Impressive lg eat in kit w/lots of cupboards, island & built in china cabinet, lg great rm w/gas fireplace, great laundry/mdrm. A must see! Kathy MLS1117023.

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OBITUARIES

FAMILY ALBUM STAG & DOE

MARRIAGE

Stag & Doe Candace Hammell & Peter MacKenzie

Patti Turney and Dennis Lichty are thrilled to announce their marriage. The wedding took place in a beautiful outdoor ceremony in Winterbourne on October 1, 2010.

Saturday, March 26, 2011, Elmira Lion’s Hall, 8pm - 1am

$10/ticket in advance $12/ticket at the door Great Music by DJ, Amazing Food, Raffle, and Lunch Provided!

STAG & DOE

BIRTH NOTICE

STAG & DOE for

Jenn Reist & Joel Stemmler

Kittel, John Tobias “Jack”

Peacefully passed away on Thursday, March 2, 2011 at Knollcrest Lodge, Milverton in his 86th year. Formerly of Macton, beloved husband of the late Eileen (Moser) Kittel (2006). Loved father of Marilyn Hurlburt of Elmira, Sharon Morin of London, Gloria Kittel of Macton, John Jr. And Margaret Kittel of Elmira. Also lovingly remembered by his grandchildren, Brian and Matthew (Tonya) Hurlburt, Justine and Joseph Kittel, Jonathan Moser, and his great grandchildren, Tyler and Addison. Dear brother of Beatrice and her husband Frank Walter of Elmira. Dear brother-inlaw of Celena Kocher, Art and Cecilia Moser, both of Hesson, Doreen O’Grady of RR 3, Listowel, Lenore Moser of Atwood, Irene and Charlie Zettel of Elmira. Fondly remembered by his many nieces, nephews and their families. Predeceased by his parents William and Elizabeth (Weidner) Kittel, a brother Michael, a sister Mary Kittel and a sonin-law Claude Morin. Jack retired from Uniroyal, Elmira after 40 years of service. Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated at St. Joseph’s RC Church, Macton on Monday, March 7, 2011. Spring Interment in St. Joseph’s RC Cemetery, Macton.

Hunt, Alice Edith

Peacefully passed away on March 7, 2011 at Leisureworld Caregiving Centre, Elmira, in her 94th year. Alice Hunt (nee Lamb) is the beloved wife of the late Jack Hunt (2002). Loved mother of Patricia Anne Sinclair of Waterloo and Catherine Marie Scott and her husband John of Fergus. Loving grandmother of David Scott and Janet Scott, and great-grandmother of Alicia. Dear sister of Elsie Smith, Frederick (Muriel) Lamb, and Walter (Betty) Lamb, and sister-in-law of Jean Hunt, all of England. Predeceased by her son-in-law Gordon Sinclair (2004). Cremation has taken place. The family received their friends and relatives on Thursday, March 10, 2011 from 10 a.m. until the Memorial Service at 11 a.m. in the chapel at Dreisinger Funeral Home, Elmira. A reception followed at the Royal Canadian Legion Elmira Branch 469. As expressions of sympathy, donations may be made to the Alzheimer Society of Kitchener-Waterloo.

www.dreisingerfuneralhome.com

DEATH NOTICES

>>FROMM,

Ida Marie (nee Wilhelm)- Passed away peacefully, surrounded by family, on Friday, March 4, 2011 at Twin Oaks of Maryhill, at the age of 95 years.

DORSCHT (HUNTER)

Saturday, March 19th, 8pm Royal Canadian Legion 19 Regina St. N., Waterloo $10 per ticket

Nick and Kristen are excited to announce the safe arrival of their son Cameron Nicholas Dorscht, born February 11th 2011, at Grand River Hospital, weighing 7lb. 8ozs. Proud Grandparents are Jim and Claudia Dorscht of Linwood, and Ken and Barb Hunter of Goderich. Cameron is also welcomed by his Uncle Matt, Aunt Heidi and cousin Levi.

Thank You Dennis Day and family would like to thank everyone for their generous donations and overwhelming help and support to make Sat. Feb. 26 a huge success. Dennis had a wonderful night! Special thanks to all of you for the love and support you show Dennis and our family daily. Dennis Day and family

>>JANZEN, Maria J. (1929-2011)- Maria passed away, peacefully, after a lengthy illness, at Leisureworld Care Giving Centre in Elmira on Tuesday, March 8, 2011, in her 82nd year. >>KITTEL, John Tobias “Jack”- Peacefully passed away, on Thursday, March 3, 2011, at Knollcrest Lodge, Milverton. Jack Kittel, in his 86th year, formerly of Macton. >>MARTIN,

Clifford L.- Suddenly, at his residence, on Sunday, March 6, 2011, at the age of 73 years. Local relatives are his daughter Arlene Martin and her husband Terry of Elmira.

>>MARTIN, Henry H. – Of RR1 St. Clements, died Wednesday, march 9, 2011, in his 81st year, at the home of Norman Martin.

IN MEMORIAM

THANK YOU

>>HUNT, Alice Edith – Peacefully passed away on March 7, 2011 at Leisureworld Caregiving Centre, Elmira, in her 94th year.

HACKETT, Patricia In memory of my dear wife who passed away 13 years ago on March 12, 1998. “And so, my dear Patricia, has left my present sight, And passed into a better Place, of Majesty and Light” Ron

Bracken, Michael (Mike) Eugene

Passed away peacefully on Monday, March 7, 2011. Mike was the beloved son of the late Eugene and Edythe Bracken of Guelph and cousin to Mel and Loretta Pederson of Port Robinson. Mike was a cherished friend to many at Elmira District Community Living and to Dave and Fran Bain of Guelph. A memorial service for Mike will be held at 11 a.m. Sunday, March 13 at the Elmira Legion.

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PLUMBING

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>>H.U.G.S. Program 9:15-11:15 a.m. Come meet with other parents to discuss parenting and child health issues. Topic: Children Love Music. Presentation by Kindermusik. Introduce your child to rhythm and song! Held at the Woolwich Community Health Centre, 10 Parkside Dr., St. Jacobs. Call Heidi at 519-664-3794, ext. 237 for more information. MARCH 15

>>Living with Stroke Series – Mar. 15 to Apr. 19 10 a.m. - noon This series will provide practical education about stroke and stroke recovery. Information about strategies for coping with changes caused by stroke will be discussed as well as reducing the risk of another stroke. Tiffany Krahn, registered dietitian, Bernadette Vanspall and a trained peer will lead this series. Held at The Woolwich Community Health Centre, 10 Parkside Dr., St. Jacobs. Call 519-664-3794 for more information on this FREE series. >>Gale Presbyterian Tuesday Lunch, 2 Cross St., Elmira; 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. Irish meatloaf, homemade bread, salad, chocolate dessert, beverage $9. If you would like to pick up or take out your lunch please call 519-669-2852 by Mar. 14. >>Music Fun with Sandy MacDonald Mar. 15, 3-4 p.m. at Bloomingdale Branch 519745-3151, Mar. 16, 3-4 p.m. at St. Jacobs Branch 519-664-3443, Mar. 17, 10:3011:30 a.m. at St. Clements Branch 519-6994341. A musical show filled with memorable singalongs and audience participation. Fun for all ages. Tickets $3 per person or 2 for $5; everyone attending must have a ticket. >>Reptile Show from Hamilton Reptiles – Mar. 16, 2-3 p.m. at Elmira Branch Library 519-669-5477; Mar. 16, 7-8 p.m. at Linwood Branch Library 519-698-2700. Tickets $3 per person or 2 for $5; everyone attending must have a ticket. See and learn about the amazing world of reptiles. Touch live animals. For ages 5 and up. >>How big? How fast? How many times?

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Guinness World Records Quiz Event, 3-4 p.m., at Elmira Branch Library. For kids ages 9-15. Up to three people per team. Questions will be based on the 2011 edition of the Guinness World Records. Bonus points will be awarded to players wearing green. For more information contact the Region of Waterloo Library, Elmira Branch located at 65 Arthur St. N. Elmira. 519-669-5477 or email elmlib@regionofwaterloo.ca

>>Community Diabetes Health Education – Learn more about Diabetes at this upcoming video conference seminar being held at the Woolwich Community Health Centre in St. Jacobs; 6:30-8:30 p.m. This session will discuss kidney disease and diabetes, presented by Ruby Weresch, RN, CDE from the St. Joseph’s Dialysis Unit in Hamilton. For more information call 519-742-1481, ext. 221. >>Woolwich Community Services has trained volunteers available to complete your income tax reurn. This service is offered free of charge to people with limited income. To find out if you qualify, drop by or call Woolwich Community Services at 73 Arthur St. S., Elmira 519-669-5139.

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MARCH 17

>>Magic with Larry – from 7-7:45 p.m. at Wellesley Branch library 519-656-2001. Experience the exciting world of magic! Fun for all ages. Tickets $3 per person or 2 for $5; everyone attending must have a ticket.

New to the Community? Do you have a new Baby? It’s time to call your Welcome Wagon Hostess. Elmira & Surrounding Area

MARCH 18

>>Come to the Cabaret! St. Teresa of Avila Church, 19 Flamingo Dr., Elmira; 7:30 p.m. in the church hall. This event will include a history of St. Teresa’s Parish in song, skits and jokes featuring Katalin Puscas, Ron Eagle, Bob Reinhart & company. Tickets $15 per person. Please call St. Teresa of Avila Parish office at 519-669-3387 for tickets. Proceeds will go to the St. Teresa of Avila kitchen renovation fund.

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MARCH 19

>>Roast beef dinner and dessert bar, 5-7 p.m. Royal Canadian Legion, 11 First St. E., Elmira. Two sittings, 5 and 7 p.m. Advanced tickets only by calling 519-6692932. Adults $12; children 6-10 $5; 5 and under free. >>Diabetes awareness breakfast, 9-11 a.m. Elmira Lions Hall, 40 South St., W., Elmira. Three speakers with information on living with diabetes. Hosted by Woolwich Community Lions Club, free will offering. Proceeds to the Canadian Diabetes Association. MARCH 20

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Gloryland Chorus, 7 p.m. The Gloryland Chorus shares the message of the good news through music and word. Waterloo North Presbyterian Church, 400 Northfield Dr. W. Free-will offering, wheelchair accessible. For more information 519-888-7870.

MARCH 23

>>Storytime for Children ages 3 to 5 – at St. Jacobs Branch of the Region of Waterloo Library. Join us for stories and fun activities on Wednesdays, Mar. 23 – May 11 from 10-10:45 a.m. or Thursdays, March 24 to May 12 from 1:30-2:15 p.m. Space is limited. Call or visit the library for more information. 519-664-3443. >>Waterloo 4-H sign-up night, 7-8:30 p.m. at the St. Agatha Community Centre. For more information please contact Stephanie Snyder at 519-569-9859 or ssnyder@ hotmail.com MARCH 24

>>Carol McMullen seminar ‘Focus on Learning Problems;’ 7-9:30 p.m. at the Drayton Christian Reformed Church (88 Main St. E). Carol McMullen is a Learning Disabilities Specialist and ADHD, Asperger’s and ABI Coach. Suggested $10 donation per person would be appreciated to help with expenses. Transportation arrangements for those in need will be provided – contact Teresa Dekker (519638-2542). For further details please visit the C.A.T.S. website at www.mapletoncats. org

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PRINTING & COPYING SERVICES Black and white, 8 1/2 X 11 flyers designed and printed for as low as 6¢. Professionally designed, quick turnaround, local service. Delivery, folding and colour work also available. Call 519.669.5790 ext 107 for details.

Wise customers read the fine print: •, *, ††, § The Drive it to Believe it Event offers are limited time offers which apply to retail deliveries of selected new and unused models purchased from participating retailers between March 1, 2011 and March 31, 2011. Retailer order/trade may be necessary. Offers subject to change and may be extended without notice. See participating retailers for complete details and conditions. •$25,995 Purchase Price applies to 2011 Ram 1500 Quad Cab SXT 4x4 (24A+AGR) only and includes $8,750 Consumer Cash Discount. See participating retailers for complete details. Pricing includes freight ($1,400), air tax, tire levy and OMVIC fee. Pricing excludes licence, insurance, registration, any retailer administration fees, other retailer charges and other applicable fees and taxes. Retailer order/trade may be necessary. Retailers may sell for less. *Consumer Cash Discounts are offered on most new 2010 and select 2011 vehicles and are manufacturer-to-retailer incentives, which are deducted from the negotiated price before taxes. Amounts vary by vehicle. See your retailer for complete details. ††Customer Choice Financing for 36-, 48- and 60-month terms on approved credit through TD Financing Services and Ally Credit Canada is available at participating dealerships to qualified retail customers on most new 2010 Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge and Ram models (except Grand Caravan Cargo Van and Ram Chassis Cab) and select 2011 Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge and Ram models. The following terms apply to TD Financing Services contracts. (Different contract terms apply to Ally Credit Canada offers. See your retailer for complete details.) Vehicles are financed over a 36-, 48- or 60-month term with payments amortized over a term of up to 96 months and the pre-determined residual balance payable at the end of the contract. At contract’s end, customers have the choice of returning their vehicle through a Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge, Ram dealership with no further obligations (except payment of a $199 return fee and excess wear and tear, mileage and similar charges), financing the remaining balance for the rest of the amortization period at then-current standard rates or paying the residual balance in full. Some conditions apply. Customer Choice Financing offered by TD in Quebec is subject to different terms and conditions. All advertised Customer Choice Financing offers are TD offers. Example: 2011 Ram 1500 Quad Cab SXT 4x4 (24A+AGR) with a Purchase Price of $25,995 financed at 2.99% APR over 60 months with payment amortized over 94 months equals 130 bi-weekly payments of $143 and one final payment of $10,165 for a cost of borrowing of $2,752 and a total obligation of $28,747.11. Taxes, licence, insurance, registration, excess mileage and wear and tear charges, any retailer administration fees and other applicable fees and charges not included. Retailers may sell for less. See participating retailers for complete details. §2011 Ram 1500 Crew Cab Sport shown has a higher price than the 2011 Ram 1500 Quad Cab SXT 4x4 advertised. See your retailer or go to www.ramtruck.ca for complete details. The Best Buy Seal is a registered trademark of Consumers Digest Communications LLC, used under licence. °Based on 2010 market share gain. ®SIRIUS and the dog logo are registered trademarks of SIRIUS Satellite Radio Inc. ®Jeep is a registered trademark of Chrysler Group LLC. Customer Choice Financing is a trademark of Chrysler Group LLC.

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