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Recreation associations get vocal about divide with staff Community groups say they’re losing volunteers due to disrespectful attitude of Woolwich staff

COLIN DEWAR A one-minute video has surfaced on YouTube of two Waterloo Regional Police officers arresting a man downtown Elmira on October 28 and has already had more than 2,000 views. The video shows the officers arresting a 23-year-old man who seems to be lying in the street as the officers try to place handcuffs on him. One officer is seen holding the man as a second police officer knees the man twice, roughing him up. After the man is subdued there is no further use of force by the officers. Early Sunday morning, a police officer was patrolling on Arthur Street when he noticed three men, two 23-year-olds and one 24-year-old, leaving the Central Tavern in Elmira. One man had a foot scooter and was weaving in and out of traffic on Arthur Street. The police officer told them to get off the road for their own safety. The men began to swear at the officer and the one with the scooter proceeded to ride it out onto the street again when the officer arrested him as he was a danger to himself. The other two men began to verbally intervene with the arrest and the officer proceeded to arrest them as well.

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Michael Ziegler of St. Jacobs spent 36 hours carving more than 50 pumpkins for his annual Halloween display at this family home on King Street. See story on page 8. [COLIN DEWAR / THE OBSERVER]

Tired of being “treated like crap,” some of Woolwich’s recreation associations want more respect from township staff, coming just short of calling for the resignation of director of recreation and facilities Karen Makela in addressing councillors Tuesday night. Beyond a lack of communication and little follow-through on promises, the rec. associations say volunteers are treated poorly and given no respect, with speakers singling out Makela. Representatives from groups in Breslau, Conestogo and Bloomingdale attended the meeting. Lisa Nadon of the Breslau Recreation Association said she intends to step down as president at Friday’s annual general meeting, frustrated by the process. For Conestogo’s Lisa MacDonald the issues have been mounting since a new director took over last fall. REC. ASSOCIATIONS | 2

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“It’s been a very trying and frustrating year,” she said, adding she “fears ties will be broken” with the community. Even former Ward 3 councillor Murray Martin, a 20-year volunteer in Conestogo, felt compelled to address the topic, calling on Mayor Todd Cowan and chief administrative officer David Brenneman to show some leadership in dealing with the problems.

“Something has really gone wrong in the last year,” he said. Township staff was clearly on the defensive. Makela had a report detailing a list of meetings and actions ready even before the delegations addressed why they’d come. And Brenneman, who also took criticism from the speakers, argued the rec. association volunteers were unfairly portraying staff as uncooperative, chafing at the use of the word stonewalling.

The controversy seemed to come as news to councillors. “I’m kind of in the dark. It’s not clear what the problem is,” said Mayor Todd Cowan, perhaps alluding to the diplomatic language used to discuss the complaints. The delegates were clear, however, about not wanting any more meetings with either Makela or Brenneman. In a later interview, Nadon said there was no point in more meetings

“that go nowhere.” “We meet and meet. Nothing’s changed.” That frustration is what led her and the other rec. associations to come forward. “We need to get it in front of the people, in front of council.” That the issues came as a surprise to councillors is an indication staff was content to keep everything under wraps, she added. But with volunteers walking away due to the treatment from staff

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talking about solutions,” said Brenneman. “These things can be worked through, of that I’m confident.” His words echoed those of Makela at Tuesday night’s meeting, where she said she’s eager to “go forward” in a “positive relationship that works both ways.” Nadon, however, remains unconvinced, offering the possibility of some improvement if new players, including councillors, replace the current staff members at the meeting table. “The only way a meeting is going to be useful is if they’re going to have a liaison with power to make decisions.” Having the township act on the associations’ requests and being respectful while doing so would go a long way towards restoring confidence, she added. So far, it’s only been talk of respect. “Action speaks louder than words, and their actions show none of that.” The largest barrier appears to be a lack of understanding about the contribution of volunteers, she said. The people involved with the rec. associations care about their communities, rather than seeing it as just another bit of work. “It’s our passion – they’re not understanding of that. This to them is just another job.”

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and the lack of respect in meetings, something had to be done. “The volunteers are fed up. They’re tired, and they’re tired of the fight,” said Nadon, noting the volunteer work that got the community centre up and running is being eroded. “All that work is getting washed away.” For his part, Brenneman acknowledges there’s been a problem with communication and lack of follow-through between staff and the rec. associations, but he insists the township respects the work done by volunteers. “We definitely want to continue a relationship. We do not want to jeopardize that,” he said of the contribution made by volunteers. That said, the township does want a new model for how it interacts with the associations. Traditionally, the rec. associations have by and large run themselves, except for when there’s a funding need, which is when they come to staff for help. The recreation department wants an ongoing relationship, to play more of a role. “We want to make sure there’s a balance in the relationship.” He remains optimistic staff and volunteers can settle their differences. “I’m still very hopeful that we can work through things by reasonable people sitting down and

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THE OBSERVER | SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2012

Local Legion gets a jump on marking Remembrance Day this Sunday COLIN DEWAR Red poppies on the lapels of jackets are a sign of Remembrance Day. For Elmira and Linwood, there is an extra reminder in the form of the Elmira Legion’s activities on the Sunday prior to November 11. For years the local legion has chosen the earlier commemoration for a variety of reasons, including giving other Legions in the area a chance to participate in either the Elmira or Linwood parades. “We have had the same plan for quite some time,” said Sandra Pember, president of the Elmira Legion. “People are use to us having the Remembrance Day ceremony the weekend before November 11. There are some that are still surprised that we hold it before but there are so many things that happen. It is helpful for us as we can invite other legions to come to us and we can reciprocate on the 11th and it is much easier to get a band.” The Legions in Kitchener, Waterloo, Elora and Drayton all hold their parades on November 11. Holding the parade the weekend before also comes with extra support

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The Elmira Legion’s memorabilia chair Clayton Ash admires the restored marble soldier statue after the formal unveiling at the Woolwich Memorial Centre on Sunday, just in time for Remembrance Day. [ELENA MAYSTRUK / THE OBSERVER] in the form of Scouts and Girl Guides as they are available to come and participate on the weekend. Part of the focus of the event is to remember

and few Korean War veterans, but we do have a few more recent veterans from Afghanistan that want to be a part of this service and there is no way that

those lost in wars and those who have died after coming home, said Pember. “We do have fewer Second World War veterans

this ceremony would ever stop happening.” Weather always plays a factor in the turnout, with

Hoping for better results, Woolwich has turned over sidewalk snowclearing duties to a new company for the next three years. Since being introduced in Elmira eight years ago, the program has generated a slew of complaints, with residents upset about the timeliness and quality of service during the winter months and about the damage to their lawns that becomes visible in the spring. In picking a new contractor – Mitchell Property Maintenance – director of engineering and planning Dan Kennaley said the township has “higher expectations” about the level of service starting this season. The company’s bid was not the lowest of four received, but its experience and equipment best met Woolwich’s criteria, he told councillors meeting Oct. 30. CONTRACTOR | 8

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It reduces by 40 seconds the time between the call an ambulance dispatcher answers then passes on the information to the fire department, Andrew Lillico told councillors meeting Oct. 30. Beyond fire calls, the system flags serious medical calls and dispatches firefighters, who can often respond quicker than an ambulance in the rural areas. The idea is that

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firefighters may be able to shave precious seconds off response times and provide much needed assistance in difficult situations. “Motor vehicle accidents, construction, industrial and farm accidents are part of our tiered-response system,” he explained of possible scenarios. Callouts also include reports of multi-casualty incidents, or disasters and presence as requested by

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A reprieve from the wet weather

We might even have a fairly decent November after a soggy start to autumn, says Environment Canada's Phillips COLIN DEWAR Looking up to the sky this weekend don’t be alarmed if you see a large yellow disc, it’s just the sun. After three weeks of rain and cloud cover the sun will be making an appearance to the Waterloo Region this weekend. “October has been the pits. In (the Waterloo Region) for the last three weeks there have been two dry days – that is incredible. That is something a

Vancouverite can understand, but for us that is so depressing and dismal and people are getting upset,” said David Phillips senior climatologist with Environment Canada. This should be our nicest season, but we have seen twice as much rain as we normally get this time of year, he added. The wet weather has begun to wear people down and there had been a total of 140mm of rainfall in the month of October. However, the long

stretch of day after day of wet weather has been good for us as water levels have been filled along with reservoirs and wells, said Phillips. Over the last week the rain has been from the remains of Hurricane Sandy that pounded the east coast of the United States and parts of Canada. That weather system mixed with a cool front coming from the west created the “superstorm “ that devastated much of New York City and other coastal cities along

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the eastern seaboard. The system has left and the region should see sunshine but with much cooler temperatures than normal. “The sun has been missing in action for a lot of September and a lot of October, but it will be back with us for a few days this weekend until at least Monday,” said Phillips. “We can all put away our umbrellas and rain ponchos and feel good.” Normal temperatures for this time of year are 10 or 11 degrees. This weekend it should reach a high of six degrees. Phillips said the month of November will be back

to normal temperatures and normal precipitation, but we should expect some warm days scattered throughout. “We may see our first snowfall in November, but it won’t be significant,” he said. “We will have the fickle weather we are use to having in November. One day will be great the next day not so much and back and forth. We should be seeing a lot more sun in the new month which everyone can agree is a good thing.”

Environment Canada says it should stop raining and clouds will open up allowing the sun to shine through this weekend. [COLIN DEWAR / THE OBSERVER]

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Group to speak against Woolwich noise policy A group opposed to Woolwich’s new noise-making rules for recreation facilities will be making itself heard at Monday night’s council meeting. Having launched an online petition – www.woolwichrecnoisepolicy. org – they’ll be asking the township to reconsider a policy they call overkill. “It doesn’t suit the community – it’s heavy-handed,” said St. Jacobs

resident Susan Weber, who said meeting with staff failed to resolve her concerns. “There’s still lots of frustration for us.” The rules take aim at devices such as air horns (which are particularly damaging to hearing), clappers, thunder sticks and the like, though they also include excessive whistling and yelling. The process is complaint-based, with staff intervening if the decibel levels are deemed harmful. In the case of an incident, a staff member would approach the person responsible. If the problem persists, the culprit could

be asked to leave the facility. A third offence might warrant a suspension from the venue, while subsequent violations could lead to a permanent ban from all township recreation facilities, indoors and out. Director of recreation and facilities Karen Makela said this week the policy is aimed at giving staff a formal resource for dealing with a small minority who cause problems for other people. Since being adopted last month, the measures have yet to be used. “We haven’t had any issues.

We haven’t had to deal with any complaints.”

Two new rescue trucks OK'd for fire department Woolwich will spend $764,000 to purchase two new fire rescue trucks next year, as township councillors this week accepted a proposal from KME Fire Apparatus. The deal provides a replacement vehicle for rescue units at the

Maryhill fire station, currently using a 1992 truck, and St. Jacobs, where a 1993 unit is in service. By combining the two orders, the township was able to save money – about $26,000 less than budgeted – said township fire chief Rick Pedersen. The trucks are expected to be delivered in May or June.

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was struck by a deer that ran into the driver side door. The driver was not injured, but the deer was killed.

Police seeking information about property recovered following arrest On August 19 at approximately 7:30 a.m. a residence on Daniells Crescent in New Hamburg was broken into. The home owner arrived interrupting the incident and the suspects fled in a red Ford pickup taking money and jewelry. The suspects were stopped by the OPP in the town of Courtland around noon on the same day. Both fled on foot and a foot chase ensued. A 25-yearold Brantford woman was arrested and charged by Waterloo Regional Police

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5:25 PM | Firefighters and police responded to a car fire on Katherine Street in Woolwich Township. When they arrived the vehicle was fully engulfed. It was determined that the vehicle had an electrical problem that started the fire. No one was injured. 9:50 PM | An 18-year-old Drayton man was charged with impaired driving when he drove his 2006 Toyota Corolla off Middlebrook Road in Woolwich Township, hitting a telephone pole. The vehicle flipped multiple times before stopping in a field. The driver sustained minor injuries. The car was destroyed. OCTOBER 26

4:00 PM | Police received a call about a break-and-enter at a residence on Lorraine Drive in Wellesley. When the owners came home they found the garage door unlocked, a window open and their refrigerator doors open. Nothing

6:00 PM |A Palmerston man operating a boom truck forgot to lower the boom before driving along Side Road 5 and Arthur Street North. The boom hit wires from hydro poles, causing them to fall into the street. Two poles were knocked over. Police closed the street for several hours and Waterloo North Hydro workers repaired the damages. The man was charged with careless driving.

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7:30 PM | A St. Jacobs woman operating a 1996 Honda lost control of the vehicle while driving along Northfield Drive near Conestogo and swerved into a ditch. She was charged with having an improper tire on her vehicle which may have caused the incident. The southbound lanes of the road were closed as police investigated. The woman sustained minor injuries. OCTOBER 27

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2:45 AM | A police officer noticed three men, two 23-year-olds and one 24-year-old leaving the Central Tavern in Elmira. One man had a foot scooter and was weaving in and out of traffic on Arthur Street. The police officer told them to get off the road for their own safety. The men began to swear

at the officer and the one with the scooter proceeded to ride it out onto the street again when the officer arrested him as he was a danger to himself. The other two men began to verbally intervene with the arrest and the officer proceeded to arrest them as well. One man tried resisting arrest but was quickly dealt with. The men were given tickets for public intoxication and were dropped off at their homes. 6:00 PM | A 42-year-old Sheffield man was driving his 2000 GMC pickup along Listowel Road near Three Bridges Road when he hit a cow, which then wandered back into a field. The vehicle sustained moderate damage. The driver was

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9:00 PM | A 38-year-old Guelph woman was driving along Crowsfoot Road in Woolwich Township when she hit a tree that had fallen into the street. Her vehicle became stuck under the tree. No injuries were reported. No charges were laid.

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9:35 AM | A 58-year-old Waterloo man driving a 2006 Volvo stopped at the intersection of Albert Street and King Street in St. Jacobs then proceeded through, hitting a 19-year-old Elmira woman in a 2006 Ford Focus. The man was charged with fail to yield. No injuries were reported. Damage to the vehicles was described as minor to moderate.

12:30 PM | A 43-year-old Waterloo man operating a garbage truck tried to overtake another vehicle on Parkview Drive when the garbage truck hit the soft, wet shoulder of the road and tipped over. It took several hours before the vehicle could be pulled back on the road. No charges were laid.

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6:30 PM | A three-year-old boy was taken to McMaster Hospital with head injuries after he was hit with a bale of hay in a barn located on Ament Line in Wellesley Township. The boy was playing on a hay chute that was being operated by his father on the third level when the incident occurred. The boy’s father did not know he was on the chute at the time.

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According to police spokesman Olaf Heinzel, one of the suspects who appears in the video was actively resisting the officers who were trying to affect an arrest. “It appears to us (the WRPS) that the subject refused to put his hands behind his back as the officer tries to place handcuffs on him and in doing so the

officers used additional force to try and bring compliance to the subject and once that appliance was gained it appears to us (the WRPS) that the officers actions ceased at that point and they continue to handcuff the individual,” said Heinzel. “From what we were able to ascertain from the video it appears that the officers are using actions

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Carvings aplenty at St. Jacobs home COLIN DEWAR Last weekend Michael Ziegler Jr. locked himself inside his house and began carving pumpkins. The 25-year-old St. Jacobs man carved more 50 jack-o-lanterns for the annual Halloween display outside his family home on King Street. This is the fourth year Ziegler has produced the elaborate display with pumpkins, gravestones and inflatable ghosts and black cat. It took him more than 36 hours to carve all the pumpkins. “I started on the Friday night and finished sometime on Sunday. I pulled a few all-nighters to get it done,” said Ziegler as he was building his Halloween display. When he first came up with the idea back in 2009 he carved 15 pumpkins, increasing that to 35 the next year and topped that off with 60 last year. This year he was able to carve only some 55 pumpkins as he found it hard to even find the bright orange gourd.

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“I would buy as many as I could and travelled all over, from Owen Sound to Bloomingdale, looking for pumpkins, but it was really hard to find any,” he said. Ziegler opted to carve out Styrofoam pumpkins along with the real ones so he could increase his numbers. Always one to enjoy drawing, Ziegler started in early October designing stencils for each pumpkin and this year has a lot of popular comic book heroes and famous movie monsters on display. “People, especially kids get a good kick out of it. I have had a lot of requests for my pumpkin carvings and actually gave some out to friends and neighbours.” Carving all the pumpkins can leave quite a mess and although he ended up throwing out all the pumpkin seeds and gooey insides this year, his mother in the past has baked the seeds. “She used to cook them, but I think this year we were done with that.”

“We’ve receive a large number of complaints in the past. We wanted to try to improve that situation.” The township budgets $70,000 a year for the service, but the actual amount charged depends on the rolling surplus of funds in the account. Last year, for instance, some $46,000 was billed. The fund is in a surplus position again in 2012, thanks in part to the mild winter, though there’s still two months to go. The program is paid for

by a special levy on Elmira homeowners. Under the previous contract, that amounted to about $14.56 based on an average home assessed at $254,000. That annual amount will rise to $17.07 based on the terms of the new deal, said director of finance Richard Petherick. In voting for the new contract, Coun. Bonnie Bryant said she likes the fact that annual performance reviews mean the contractor can be fired if they’re not working out.

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Continuing to tweak how it patrols rural areas, the Waterloo Regional Police Service will make some changes in the new year. Notably, a staff sergeant will be given divisional command, with two additional sergeants put in place to ensure 24/7 supervision in the townships. The goal is to further enhance rural policing, chief Matt Torigian told Woolwich councillors in a presentation Tuesday night. Also on tap is a change in scheduling that will allow for a reduction in the number of constables but increase how many are on duty at any one time. Recognizing the differences between rural and urban policing, WRPS will make rural placements permanent so that officers get familiar with the communities and their needs. The rationale for the shift is to provide time and resources for more proactive policing in the community. The moves build on changes introduced in 2011 when regional police assigned an extra five police officers to what was formerly known as Detachment 3A in Elmira – renamed Rural North and encompassing all of

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Investing in activities for young people will pay dividends in Wellesley Township, says a new report released this week to councillors. A year in the making, the study is the work of Wellesley’s youth advisory council. The findings were presented Tuesday night by Scarlet Antaya and four youths. Entitled “project movement” the report examines youth activities in the township, suggesting possible improvements. “Why is this project important? It is throughout the literature that investing in community-wide programming for youth activities leads to social development. It also helps develop preventative factors to help get involved and engage with others. It bolsters self esteem and healthy self image,” said Antaya. The study found that many of Wellesley’s young

people are bored, lacking structured ways to spend their time. The fear is that boredom can lead youths to participate in harmful activities. It also highlighted some possible improvements to activities offered in the township and showed examples of successful youth-oriented programs offered elsewhere. During the year of observation, researchers found many examples of how youth can spend their time, presenting councillors with examples like the skate park in Kitchener and the Fusion youth activity and technology centre in Ingersoll. While acknowledging something on the scale of the Fusion centre is not possible in Wellesley, Coun. Jim Olender cited it as a great example of youth-oriented efforts by Ingersoll’s councillors, who started the project. “We certainly can’t have that, there’s no way, but

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Council's path is clear in impasse with rec. groups TENSIONS BETWEEN COMMUNITY RECREATION associations and Woolwich staff are nothing new. Grumblings are commonplace, the result of the divide between bureaucrats and volunteers. Rarely does it boil over, however. Rarer still is the kind of unified message we saw in council chambers this week, where the rec. associations felt it was time to go public with their concerns about management. While the presentations kept on message – there were no personal attacks – the point was missed by nobody. Clearly, the volunteer organizations take issue with the director of recreation and facilities. Interventions by the chief administrative officer have proven no better. So, the talks having exhausted the senior-most staff members, it now falls to council to ensure a satisfactory solution. There’s no doubt about whose side council needs to take: the rec. associations are run by volunteers who contribute valuable services to the township. They are residents, taxpayers and community-first people. The same people that councillors and staff work for. If that’s not enough, there’s a pragmatic reason to keep the rec. associations happy and strong: the financial cost of carrying out the services they provide would be exorbitant. The hit would be far too much to even contemplate, even by the township’s increasingly profligate standards. Right now, those same groups are unhappy and shedding volunteers. That’s simply not acceptable in a township that says it values volunteers. Nor is it in keeping with the need for engaged communities. As we’ve noted, an increasingly bureaucratic mindset has crept in to the mix – not just in terms of recreation, but all aspects of the operation – which threatens to remove the citizens from involvement in the things that make a community. It’s a dynamic that’s more common in larger municipalities, and certainly at the provincial and national levels, where increasingly programs and services are turned over to bureaucrats, with a resultant loss of quality and increase in costs. Certainly, Woolwich is not in the same category as upper-tier governments when it comes to bloated bureaucracies, but there are troubling signs, both in terms of unnecessary increases in staff size and in the number of policies and procedures trumping common sense, to the detriment of township residents. The situation with the rec. associations is a prime motivation for council to actually push back against this trend, something it’s not done at all to this point. In fact, just the opposite. There’s an inherent resistance to downsizing within bureaucracies. When cuts do come, they typically involve frontline staff, not management and other entrenched bureaucrats. Meaningful cuts to bureaucratic waste would have the added benefit of tackling at least one of the rec. associations’ concerns, namely a lack of money for their relatively minor funding requests. Some of the freed-up cash could easily be made available for services of actual use and value to residents, without any impact on everincreasing tax rates. There’s a chance, then, for councillors to turn an unacceptably bad situation into something positive. Immediately remove the barriers to maintaining strong rec. associations, while moving to counter wasteful spending and a mindset smothering a sense of community. Win-win.

Unhappy with the way things are going with the recreation department, the people see a valuable lesson in the history books. WORLD VIEW / GWYNNE DYER

Wars end when both sides realize nobody wins WORLD AFFAIRS More or less at opposite ends of the world, two very long wars are coming to a negotiated end, with no victors and no vanquished. In the Philippines, President Benigno Aquino signed a peace agreement with the leaders of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) on October 16 after more than 40 years of war. In Norway the next day, Colombia’s government began talks with the FARC rebels to end a war that has lasted for over 50 years. Neither deal is yet complete, and in both wars there have been several previous peace deals that failed. But the omens are better this time, mainly because there is a lot more realism about what is possible and what is not. “You can’t just ask the FARC to kneel down, surrender and give us the arms,” said the Colombian president, Juan Manuel Santos, as the talks in Oslo began. “They will not do

that, so there has to be some way out, and this way out has to be that you are able to participate in the political arena. This is the way any conflict is settled, not only the Colombian conflict.” The Colombian war has gone on so long that neither side remotely resembles the adversaries of fifty years ago. The leftwing revolutionaries who once set out to win power through a guerrilla war have become hereditary rebels who finance their operations through kidnapping and cocaine production. At the same time, the repressive right-wing governments of the 1960s have given way to a more or less democratic system. The death squads are gone and the economy is growing fast. Time to stop, then. But how? There are two reasons why there is more hope for this peace initiative than for its predecessors. The first is that FARC can no longer hope for an eventual victory, although it will be a crippling nuisance for another generation if it is not brought back into the

political system. The other is that the two sides are not trying to solve all the country’s problems in these talks; they are just trying to end the fighting. The talks, which will move to Cuba for the next round, deal with only five topics: rural development, FARC’s participation in democratic politics, an end to the fighting, an end to the drug trafficking, and justice for the many civilian victims of the war. Colombia has dozens of other issues that demand attention, but if you put them all on the table there will never be agreement. Those other issues can and should be settled by the normal political process, in which FARC will play a legitimate part once the war is over. There will have to be an amnesty even for grave violations of human rights. Nor will the fighting stop during the negotiations: that is what provides the pressure for a deal. But this time, in the end, there will probably be a deal. Meanwhile, in the Philippines, the long war between the central government and the Muslim

minority on the big island of Mindanao is also heading for a peaceful resolution. It has been clear for some time that MILF could never achieve its goal of an independent Muslim state in western Mindanao – and it is also clear that MILF could go on fighting for another generation unless there is a deal. So you might as well make a deal, and the only plausible one is that the Moros (Filipino Muslims) get a broad degree of selfgovernment in the areas where they are the majority. There will be a referendum in 2015 to settle the size and shape of the new “Bangsamoro” region, but it will remain part of the Philippines, and Manila will retain control of defence, foreign policy, and the broad outlines of economic policy. This is a bitter pill for MILF to swallow, especially as it was created by leaders who broke away from the old Moro National Liberation Front when it accepted exactly the same deal in the 1980s. But thirty years and tens of thousands more DYER | 12

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THEIR VIEW / QUESTION OF THE WEEK

What do you think of Justin Trudeau's candidacy for Liberal leadership?

»»Linda Blanchette

»»Rose Moser

»»Bert Geerlinks

»»Connie Kilbey

Not very for it, but then again what government are we for?

I think he’d be a good man, something fresh.

He has to prove himself first.

I think he’s good and young and he’ll add a lot I have to see what he’s up to, see his to that party campaign. Doesn’t mean he’s anything like his father right?

»»Marisol Berry

"[I]t seems a necessary matter of respect to place a Union Jack beside the soldier statue in Woolwich Memorial Centre." Marion Israel | page 12 HIS VIEW / STEVE KANNON

Only a third-party vote in U.S. election has a chance of bringing change EDITOR'S NOTES Given a vote in next Tuesday’s U.S. presidential election, most Canadians would opt for Barack Obama. We believe he and the Democrats are much closer in spirit to our values. Certainly that’s true in a cursory comparison to Mitt Romney and the Republicans. On closer examination, however, neither choice is good for the people of that country. In fact, the U.S. would be better served with a system that looks more like ours, particularly with a third-party option. To an outsider, the country’s convoluted electoral college system, and its long ballot, make little sense. The U.S. system is a recipe for stagnation, at least in the bitterly partisan atmosphere we’ve seen in the last few decades. Voting for either of the

mainstream choices is not going to change that. Nor is it going to make the country any better, as both parties are essentially in step on the fundamentals: the supremacy of corporations, big-money financing, military spending, war-asforeign policy, off-shoring of jobs and the like. If things are going to get better south of the border – and we are all too aware of how what happens there affects us here – then some alternative ideas have to gain traction. It’s not as though there are no thirdparty options, it’s just that the electoral system marginalizes such candidates, who are further negated by the mainstream media. They simply have no voice in all but the rarest occasion – think, for instance, of Ross Perot, who took 18.9 per cent of the popular vote in the 1992 presidential election. Such outsiders, however, rarely hold sway. In Canada, at the federal

level we have the example of the NDP to show us how a third party can influence the dynamics of the two traditional governing parties, the Liberals and Tories. In fact, many of the progressive policies that we identify as core Canadian government values stem from the NDP, whose policies were co-opted into the mainstream by politicians looking to curry favour with voters while keeping the third party out of power. Just last year, the NDP became the official opposition in Ottawa for the first time, signalling more than a little voter dissatisfaction with the status quo, though what happens in the long run has yet to be determined. Still, there’s a lesson here for those Americans eager for change. As American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Chris Hedges notes this week in explaining why he’ll be voting for the Green Party on November 6, it’s usually outside

pressure that forces change on the establishment. “All the major correctives to American democracy have come through movements and third parties that have operated outside the mainstream. Few achieved formal positions of power. These movements built enough momentum and popular support, always in the face of fierce opposition, to force the power elite to respond to their concerns. Such developments, along with the courage to defy the political charade in the voting booth, offer the only hope of saving us from Wall Street predators, the assault on the ecosystem by the fossil fuel industry, the rise of the security and surveillance state and the dramatic erosion of our civil liberties. “It was the Liberty Party that first fought slavery. It was the Prohibition and Socialist parties, along with the Suffragists, that began the fight for the vote for

the status quo, however. Fringe parties, particularly in the U.S., have no real hope of actually winning. That’s not the point. Rather, the idea is to make the mainstream parties and media sit up and take notice. If enough people are showing their disapproval and/or signalling what they’d really like to see in Washington, the policies of the third parties will eventually make their way into the platforms of Democrats and Republicans. The goal of those politicians is to gain power, after all. They’ll do whatever it is they think they have to do in order to win. Today, that’s typically done unethically through big money, lobbying, scare tactics and disingenuous calls to patriotism, religion and similar touchstones. It may be too much to expect elections to be fought strictly on platforms and ideas and the common good, but any movement in that direction has to be a plus.

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THIS WEEK IN HISTORY

The 2012 Campus Freedom Index paints an “abysmal” picture of free speech on Canada’s campus. Locally, of the four categories judged: university policies and principles – UW: C, WLU: D; university actions and practices – UW: D, WLU: F; student union policies and principles – UW: C, WLU: D; student union actions and practices – UW: D; WLU: F.

If public opinion really mattered in this race, we would win. We have majority support in poll after poll on nearly all of the key issues, from downsizing the military budget and bringing the troops home, to taxing the rich, to stopping the Wall Street bailouts, to breaking up the banks, to ending the offshoring of jobs, to supporting workers’ rights, to increasing the minimum wage, to health care as a human right, through Medicare for all. These are the solutions a majority of Americans are clamoring for.”

Cole Bauman, the Elmira artist famous for his Mennonite and Muskoka oil paintings, died Oct. 27, 2003 of throat and tongue cancer. He was 78.

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»»U.S. Green Party leader Jill Stein on the divide between what voters want and

»»From the Nov. 1, 2003 edition of the Observer.

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DYER: History of drawn-out

NATIONAL VIEW

wars a lesson for crisis in Syria CONTINUED FROM | 10

deaths did not change the fact that the Moros were too weak to win their independence, but too strong for Manila to crush or ignore. The current leaders are just recognising that reality. So two wars down (probably), and how many more to go? No more than a dozen or so of comparable scale, most of them in Africa and the Middle East. And whether they are internal wars like Colombia and the Philippines or wars between local nationalists and foreign occupiers, they tend to end the same way. There are exceptions, of course, like the Sri Lankan

government’s recent victory over the Tamil Tigers, but in most cases the wars get closed down when both sides recognize that a decisive victory is impossible. Or rather, they get shut down when the participants finally recognize what has already been plain to most outsiders for decades. The extra time is required because the people directly involved have already paid such a price for that elusive victory that they just cannot bear to admit to themselves that their sacrifices were wasted. Does this have any relevance to the horrors that are now unfolding in Syria? A great deal, I’m sorry to say.

YOUR VIEW / LETTER

Preserving farmland a top priority To the Editor, When I saw Owen Roberts’ headline – How extending road life helps feed the world (Observer, Oct. 20/12 – I thought he was going to talk about gravel pits. Surely the biggest boon to agriculture from the new-and-improved asphalt sealant he mentioned, would be that less farmland would have to be torn up to provide aggregates for road building and repairs. Aggregate extraction is a topic of urgent concern for Woolwich Township,

Union Jack should be part of soldier's display at WMC To the Editor, The beautiful 90-yearold marble statue, representing a World War 1 soldier, was removed from the Elmira cenotaph, repaired and placed in Woolwich Memorial Centre’s main hall. It is with great appreciation that we thank the people who did this.

as all who know and love its countryside are praying there won’t be gravel pits and gravel trucking near the covered bridge. (Remind us why the bridge had to be repaired again last month?) And here in K-W, a lot of people think the planned light rail transit line will cost too much money – but they don’t weigh it against the cost of building more new roads for car traffic instead. Anything we can do to prevent the need for more road-building will not only save money but also help preserve the rich and peaceful farmland of our region.

ELEANOR GRANT, WATERLOO Those of us who lost loved ones in both the first and second world wars, where conscription or compulsory military service was mandatory, or those who heard stories of the lifelong suffering of veterans who survived the floods of yellow poison gas let loose by German soldiers bent on reaching the sea ports of France, want our past and present veterans to be honoured for their bravery and their sacrifices.

In the First World War, 600,000 Canadians donned the king’s uniform. Many were lost in the battle of Somme, Vimy Ridge and Ypres. We want our young people to learn and respect the heritage our ancestors provided for us so that we can live in freedom in this beautiful country we call Canada. However, one wonders how our children and our community can gain knowledge of Canadian history when events of so great an importance are misrepresented by visual suggestion. Our soldiers did not fight under the Canadian flag in either WW1 or WW2, as suggested in this poignant display. They fought under the Union Jack. They fought for king and country. They fought for King George V (1910-36) in WW1 and King George VI (1936-52) in WW2. In the First World War they fought for the British Empire, of which Canada was a part. When Great

Britain was at war, so was Canada. In WW2 our soldiers fought for the British Commonwealth, of which we are still a part, now called the Commonwealth of Nations by the Statute of Westminster in 1931. The Commonwealth flag flies at the Parliament of Canada in Ottawa. Our current soldiers fight for queen and country. Queen Elizabeth is our queen too. The Union Flag (Union Jack) was our flag until 1965 and although we no longer fly the Union Jack we are still part of the British colonies. Since most provincial flags carry a Union Jack, or Lions from the Royal Standards or Crosses from the patron saints of England, Ireland or Scotland as symbols of our history, it seems a necessary matter of respect to place a Union Jack beside the soldier statue in Woolwich Memorial Centre.

MARION ISRAEL, WEST MONTROSE

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SPORTS HIGHSCHOOL SPORTS/ BASKETBALL

Eagles stacked to the max Having made a conscious decision to bolster its basketball program, SJK recruits the best high school players COLIN DEWAR

Borko Popic, head coach for the St. John’sKilmarnock basketball team, is tough on his squad as he runs them through a set of drills in the school’s gymnasium. He expects the best from his players, as well he should: he’s recruited them from other local schools, gathering the best of the best to play for the SJK Eagles. After years of less-thanstellar performances on the hardwood, the school made a conscious effort this year to boost its fortunes. “Field hockey has been the staple program at the school, but it is a girls-only program. The school wanted a boys’ staple program, and they decided to pursue that this year,” said Popic while sitting on the bleachers in the school’s gym. While this is the first year Popic has coached at SJK, he’s no stranger to the game. This will be his third year coaching: he spent the last two assisting at Wilfrid Laurier University with the men’s program. Before that he played two years in the U.S., one for Virginia Military Institute and then for Hawaii Pacific, and spent

Sugar Kings win three straight ELENA MAYSTRUK Last weekend was a good one for the Elmira Sugar Kings, as they steamrolled the Guelph Hurricanes in a 6-1 game at the Sleeman Centre last Saturday before battling it out on home turf Sunday and stealing a 5-4 shootout win from longtime rivals the Stratford Cullitons. Saturday night’s game seemed like child’s play for the Sugar Kings, who dominated Guelph for the second week in a row, having posted a 10-1 victory on Oct. 21. The Kings brought their A-game, with Brady Campbell potting yet another hat trick. As a weekend bonus, they avenged themselves against Stratford to whom they lost their first game of the season 2-1. “I’ve pushed these guys harder during the last two weeks of practice. Harder than any team I’ve ever coached and its just trying to get that compete level up and I thought we competed very, very hard,” Sugar Kings head coach DeSilva said at the end of a successful weekend after Sunday’s game. The Kings’ recent victories have been due to a lot of hard work, he said, and a focus on perfecting the basics of aggressive play has been paying off. On Saturday night, Elmira’s Clayton Greer managed to find the back of the net

the last two years of college ball playing with the University of Guelph. Popic dedicated last spring and the summer to engaging players and built a team from students coming from Guelph, Cambridge, Kitchener and Waterloo. He recruited eight players to form his senior team, including Michael Blumel, John Kusinski, David Khayipangi, Javon Masters, Adam Voll, DaShaun Lalor, Christopher Thompson and Saajan Arora. “We were able to draw a number of kids to the team. We have a younger team, as well, kids in Grades 7 and 8 that we brought in to help build the program. We are looking at a grassroots approach to it because essentially we want to have a program that grows year by year. With the younger ones we can start with them and have more time to spend on them to develop their skills,” said Popic. He decided for his first year he would need a mixture of ages to fill out his team and encouraged a couple of fifth-year students to leave their schools SJK | 17

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Standing at 6’5,” 15-year-old Michael Blumel is one of eight players that have been recruited from local high schools to play for the St. Johns-Kilmarnock Eagles this season. [COLIN DEWAR / THE OBSERVER]

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Applejacks split a pair of road games on weekend ELENA MAYSTRUK It was a mixed-bag weekend for the Wellesley Applejacks, who played two games on the road and came away with a disappointing 6-5 overtime loss against Hagersville Oct. 27 and a 6-2 win over Norfolk on Sunday.

The boys have been working hard this season, according to head coach

Kevin Fitzpatrick, but it’s the little letdowns like Saturday’s game that really hurt the team. In an intense back-and-forth game, Wellesley’s Reid Denstedt potted the first goal at 1:32 before the Hagersville Hawks retaliated at 18:10 and set a pace that would see the two teams tied for the majority of the night. Though the Jacks came out with a 2-1 lead in first,

the two teams went on to tie in second period when the teams first clashed 4-4 after two goals by Hagersville and again at 5-5 when each team scored; Wellesley at 16:28 and Hagersville at 2:03. By the end of third, the Jacks saw a chance to take the game and break the tie once and for all. With the clock counting down, Jake Steenson fed the puck to Corey Way on

a breakaway. Nothing stood between him and the opposition’s net except Hawks goalie Justin Paccheco and with time ticking away on the clock, Way slid the puck past the netminder for what the team thought was the winning goal. “We were lining up centre ice and all of the sudden there was a little conference of the officials and they reversed the goal,” Fitzpat-

rick explained. The Jacks had scored about 15 seconds before the buzzer and no whistle was blown. When the team came on the ice to celebrate, referees called Steenson for a two-line pass, pushing the score back to 5-5 and the game into overtime, where the Jacks lost 6-5 as Hawks Derek Medieros scored on goaltender Josh Heer at 2:03.

Wellesley had better luck the next day as they continued on the road for a game in Norfolk, where they met the Rebels head-on. The Jacks came out on top but Fitzpatrick admits his team was barely ready for the level of competition that night. “They looked at the score board and thought it was JACKS | 25

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THE SCORE WOOLWICH WILDCATS

Tyke: SELECT Oct. 27 vs. Burlington Woolwich: 4 Burlington: 7 Goals: Dustin Good x2, Jordan Chang x2 Assists: Pacey Camm

Woolwich: 6 Brampton: 4 Goals: Sebastian Garrett x2, Sam Goebel, Tyler Brezynskie, Brett Moser, Ian Speiran Assists: Ian Speiran x2, Sebastian Garrett x2, Sam Goebel, Tyler Brezynskie, Liam Eveleigh, Nolan Bridge, Andrew Gear, Reid Burkholder, Zack Bender

Isiah Katsube x2, Nathan Taylor, Jesse Martin, Ryan Elliott Assists: Brett Allen x3, Matt Fleischmann, Blake Roemer, Nathan Taylor, Ryan Elliott

Oct 27 vs. Brampton Woolwich: 8 Brampton: 1 Goals: Brett Allen x2, Conner Bradley x2, Blake Roemer, Trevor Novice: AE Atom: LL# 1 Ferretti, Isiah Katsube, NateTaylor Oct. 13 vs. New Hamburg Fri. Oct 26 vs. Brampton Assists: Brett Allen x3, Isiah Woolwich: 3 New Hamburg: 0 Woolwich: 5 Brampton: 3 Katsube x3, Conner Bradley x2, Goals: Lucas Carson x2, Lucas Radler Goals: Matthew Brubacher x3, Jake Clemmer, Lucas Huber, Connor Kroetsch, Danny Soehner Ryan Elliott Assists: Oscar Fitch, Samuel Siopioloiz, Mitchell Hartman Assists: Liam Moyer x3, Matthew Brubacher x2, Ben Fretz, Jacob Oct. 28 vs. Flamborough Shoutout: Simon Bauman, Stanley, Danny Soehner Jordan Wong Woolwich: 6 Flamborough: 1 Goals: Blake Roemer, Lucas Oct. 26 vs. Bradford Huber, Ben Witmer, Ryan Elliott, Novice: LL #2 Woolwich: 1 Bradford: 2 Conner Bradley, Isiah Katsube Oct. 20 vs. Paris Assists: Trevor Ferretti, Lucas Goals: Matthew Brubacher Woolwich: 1 Paris: 1 Huber, Keaton McLaughlin, Assists: Cody Kroetsch Goals: Evan Catton Brett Allen Assists: Parker Alles Oct. 27 vs. Bradford PeeWee: MINOR AA Oct. 20, 2012 vs. Plattsville Woolwich: 4 Bradford: 5 Oct. 26 vs. Milton Woolwich: 6 Plattsville: 1 Goals: Mac Benham x2, Matthew Woolwich: 6 Milton: 0 Deyell, Matthew Brubacher Goals: Tyson Roth, Will Goals: Nolan Hislop x3, Austin McDougall x2, Owen Hackert, Assists: Liam Moyer, Ian Cousineau, Jake Code, Bart Sherrer Nolan Williamson, Joshua Moore McGregor, Matthew Brubacher, Assists: Kurtis Hoover x2), Caden Sellars Assists: Jon Horst x2, Teagan Griffen Rollins x2, Bart Sherrer Cadeau,Joshua Moore, Haden x2, Eli Baldin, Brody Waters, Idzok x2, Jackson Smith Sat. Oct 27 vs. Vaughan Josh Martin Woolwich: 1 Vaughan: 4 Shoutout: Riley Demers Oct. 27 vs. Tavistock Goals: Matthew Brubacher Woolwich: 15 Tavistock: 1 Oct. 26 vs. London Goals: Nolan Karger x5, Tristan Atom: LL #3 Woolwich: 4 London: 1 Kraemer x2, Cale Waechter x2, Oct. 27 vs. Paris Evan Catton x2, Thomas HillGoals: Austin Cousineau x2, Woolwich: 10 Paris: 0 Ring, Adrian Kocan, Parker Alles, Goals: Cameron Martin x3, Jesus Brody Waters, Nolan Hislop Jonathan Staken, Assists: Brody Waters, Griffen Flores-Dyck x2, Keith Mikel x2, Assists: Tanis Uhrig x2, Thomas Jordan Dickieson, Ben Martin Rollins, Jake Code, Owen Harnock Hill-Ring x2, Daniel Kelly x2, Gavin Wright Riley Snider, Parker Alles, Evan Oct. 27 vs. Nickel City Assists: Zach Downs x2, Cole Catton, Tristan Kraemer, Jonn Seabrook, Gavin Wright, Woolwich: 5 Nickel City: 0 Kilgour, Adrian Kocan Cameron Martin Goals: Austin Cousineau, Brody Shoutout: Ryan Martin Waters x2, Josh Martin, Griffen Novice: LL#3 Rollins Oct. 27 vs. Embro Atom: AE Assists: Griffen Rollins, Nolan Hislop, Woolwich: 1 Embro: 5 Oct. 20 vs. Arthur Kurtis Hoover x2, Brody Waters Goals: Coleton Benham Woolwich: 3 Arthur: 3 Shoutout: Riley Demers Goals: Andrew Kieswetter, Tanner Mann x2 Oct. 28 vs. LL#1 Oct. 28 vs. Missisauga Assists: Nathan Snyder, Hunter LL #3: 6 LL #1: 1 Woolwich: 1 Mississauga: 2 Goals: Coleton Benham, x4, Ben Weigel, Grayson McGirr, Tyler Newton Goals: Justin Taylor Wilkie, Corbin Schmidt Peewee: MAJOR A Oct.21 vs. Hespeler Oct 24 vs. Caledon Woolwich: 0 Hespeler: 3 Novice: LL#4 Woolwich: 1 Caledon: 0 Oct. 20 vs. Plattsville Oct. 24 vs. Hespeler Goals: Nolan Mclaughlin Woolwich: 6 Plattsville: 1 Woolwich: 0 Hespeler: 0 Assits: Evan Gowing, Nick Ravelle Goals: Tyson Roth, Will Shoutout: James Ormson McDougall x2, Owen Hackert, Nolan Williamson, Joshua Moore Oct. 26 vs. Hespeler Atom: MINOR AA Assists: Jon Horst x2, Teagan Woolwich: 2 Hespeler: 1 Oct. 26 vs. Flamborough Cadeau,Joshua Moore, Haden Goals: Jordan Lee, Nolan Woolwich: 5 Flamborough: 2 Mclaughlin Idzok x2, Jackson Smith Goals: Kyler Austin x2, Weston Assists: Bradley Hale, Jordan Bradley x2, Owen Lee Lee, Sammy Huber Novice: MAJOR A Assists: Alex Hutton, Kyler Oct. 21 vs. Burlington PeeWee: AE Austin, Owen Lee, Tyler Martin, Woolwich: 3 Burlington: 4 Sept. 28 vs. Hespeler Colton Schmitt Goals: Ian Speiran x2, Seb Garrett Woolwich: 5 Hespeler: 0 Assists: AJ Shaw-McMahon x2, Goals: John Wang, Kyle Bruder, Oct. 28 vs. Ancaster Zack Bender Matthew MacDonald Woolwich: 1 Ancaster: 6 Assists: Kyle Deyell, Owen Goals: Owen Lee Lucier, Matthew MacDonald, Oct. 24 vs. Caledon Assists: Gavin Roemer Cade Schaus, John Wang Woolwich: 9 Caledon: 4 Shoutout: Cal Schell Goals: Carter Rollins x3, Ian Oct. 30 vs. Caledon Sperian x2, Sebastian Garrett, Woolwich: 5 Caledon: 4 Tyler Brezynskie, Zack Bender, Sept. 30 vs. Dundas Goals: Kyler Austin x3, Cameron Sam Goebel Woolwich: 6 Dundas: 2 Leonard, Alex Hutton Assists: Andrew Gear x3, Carter Goals: Kyle Deyell, Kyle Bruder, Assists: Ethan Birmingham, Cole Rollins x2, Tyler Brezynskie, Sam Ben Lenaers, Riley Shantz Slade, Alex Hutton Goebel, Sebastian Garrett, AJ Assists: Matthew MacDonald, Shaw-McMahon, Brett Moser, Atom: MAJOR AA Cade Schaus, Kyle Deyell, Justin Mitchell Young, Nolan Bridge Oct. 26 vs. Ancaster Uhrig, Cade Schaus, Bruce Woolwich: 8 Ancaster: 3 Martin, Tim Mayberry Oct 26 vs. Brampton Goals: Keaton McLaughlin x3,

TWIN CENTRE ATOM REP ARE HUNTSVILLE CHAMPS

Atom: B Oct. 27 vs. Cambridge Woolwich: 4 Cambridge: 0 Goals: Alana, Mya x2, Ella Assists: Cassidy x3, Alexandra, Delaney Oct 28 vs. Stoney Creek Woolwich: 2 Stoney Creek: 0 Goals: Alana, Lauren Assists: Delaney x2, Ella

Atom: LL 7103 Oct. 28 vs. Kitchener Woolwich: 1 Kitchener: 1 Goals: Kristen Busse

PeeWee: REP Oct. 21 vs. Ilderton Twin Centre: 1 Ilderton: 1 The Twin Centre Stars Atom Rep went undefeated claiming top spot in the 2012 Huntsville Tournament championship Oct. 27-29. Front Goals: Brett Hartin row: Colby Switzer, Peter Holmes, Daniel Rudy, Brock Krulicki, Liam Robertson, Kyle Kraemer, Cameron Hoy, Easton Gowing, Alex Kaufman. Back row: Blair Bender, William Weber, Michael Hayes, Devon Lee, Curtis Butler, Dylan Hehn, Dylan Burton, Nathan Brideau. Coaches Kevin Bantam: B Oct. 27 vs. Kitchener Kraemer, Ken Holmes and Jensen Rudy. [BRIGITTE HAYES / SUBMITTED] Woolwich: 4 Kitchener: 1 Goals: Kyle Gingrich, Matt Assists: Daniel Kauth,Connor Uridil, Matt Lair, McKinley Ceaser Goals: Jaycee Kaufman, Hannah Oct. 5 vs. Arthur MacDonald Bauman, Mathieu Fife, Ryley Weber, Caitlin Pickard, Nicole Woolwich: 8 Arthur: 0 Cribbin x3,Jake Lewis, Brant Merlihan Goals: Kyle Bruder, Kyle Deyell, Shoutout: Liam O’Brien McLaughlin, Aaron Weigel Oct. 27 vs. Dundas Assists: Victoria Weber, Ciara Ben Lenaers, Devin Williams, PeeWee: LL# 2 Hea, Caitlin Pickard) Woolwich: 6 Dundas: 1 Cade Schaus, John Wang Oct 27 vs. Ayr Oct. 20 vs. Toronto Goals: Tyler Seguin Adrian Gilles Assists: Matthew MacDonald, Woolwich: 5 Toronto: 2 x3, Sebastian Huber Evan Yantha Oct. 28 vs. Sarnia Devin Williams, Kyle Bruder, Tim Woolwich: 3 Ayr: 8 Goals: Owen Hill-Ring, Blake Woolwich: 0 Sarnia: 1 Goals: Tyler Moser, Ryley Mayberry, Kyle Deyell, Owen Assists: Bo Uridil x2, Adrian Richardson, Matthew Dunn Cribbin x2, Mathieu Fife, Brant Lucier, John Wang Gilles x2, Evan Yantha x2, Tyler McLaughlin Assists: Cole Campbell, Ryan Seguin x2, McKinley Ceaser Oct. 28 vs. St. Mary’s Shoutout: Cal Schell Belanger, Sullivan Keen, James Wang Assists: Mathieu Fife, Kelby Mitch Kernick Grant Kernick Woolwich: 1 St. Mary’s: 0 Adam Cook Martin, Aaron Weigel, Tyler Goals: Caitlin Pickard Oct. 6 vs. Hespeler Townsend x2 Oct. 26 vs. New Hamburg Assists: Nicole Merlihan Woolwich: 5 Hespeler: 0 Oct. 29 vs. Caledon Woolwich: 5 New Hamburg: 1 Goals: Cade Schaus x2, Kyle Shoutout: Autumn Campell Oct. 20 vs. Woodstock Woolwich: 3 Caledon: 2 Bruder x2, Matthew MacDonald, Goals: Kyle Bruder, Matthew MacDonald, Tim Mayberry, Cade Woolwich: 2 Woodstock: 2 Goals: Tim Shuh, Tyler Seguin, Mathew Turkalj Midget: B Schaus, Kyle Deyell McKinley Ceaser Goals: Daniel Kauth, Connor Assists: John Wang x2, Oct. 20 vs. Mount Forest Bauman Assists: Devin Williams, Riley Assists: Adam Cook, Adrian Devin Williams x2, Matthew Woolwich: 2 Mount Forest: 2 Shantz, Cade Schaus, Ben Gilles, Grant Kernick Assists: Brant McLaughlin MacDonald, Riley Shantz x2, Goals: Kendra Harold, Randi Lenaers, Kyle Bruder, Kyle Deyell Kyle Bruder Paul x2, Ben Lenaers Oct 21 vs. Kitchener Oct. 30 vs. Georgetown Shoutout: Mathew Turkalj Assists: Rebecca Luis, Jennifer Woolwich: 0 Kitchener: 2 Woolwich: 1 Georgetown: 1 Norris Oct. 28 vs. Arthur Goals: McKinley Ceaser Oct. 13 vs. Orangeville Bantam: LL #1 Woolwich: 5 Arthur: 0 Assists: Sebastian Huber Woolwich: 6 Orangeville: 2 Oct. 26 vs. Ayr October 24 vs. Woodstock Goals: John Wang, Kyle Bruder, Goals: Bruce Martin, Devin Woolwich: 3 Ayr: 2 WOOLWICH Woolwich: 1 Woodstock: 1 Matthew MacDonald, Cade Williams, Kyle Bruder, Cade WILD Goals: Nathan Horst, Luke Goals: Amber MacPherson Schaus x2, Cal Schell Schaus x2, John Wang Decorte, Nick Campagnolo Assists: Kyle Bruder, Riley Novice: LL #2 Assists: Kyle Deyell x2, Cade Assists: Jordan Luis, Ryan Shantz x2, Justin Uhrig x2, TWIN CENTRE Oct. 20 vs. Twin Centre Schaus, Ben Lenaers, Tim Diemert, Alex Berry, Adam Elliott Cade Schaus, Noah Scurry, Ben STARS Woolwich: 1 Twin Centre: 1 Mayberry x2, John Wang Lenaers, Devin Williams Oct. 27 vs. St. George Goals: Gwyneth Martin Novice: REP C Shoutout: Cal Schell Woolwich: 1 St. George: 2 Assists: Lauren Gerth, Karli Gingrich Oct. 20 vs. Woolwich Oct. 14 vs. New Hamburg Goals: Luke Decorte Woolwich: 2 New Hamburg: 2 Twin Centre: 11 Woolwich: 0 Bantam: MINOR A Oct 21 vs. Stratford Goals: Cade Schaus x2 Oct. 24 vs. Flamborough Bantam: LL #2 Novice: LL #1 Woolwich: 4 Stratford: 1 Assists: John Wang, Matthew Woolwich: 1 Flamborough: 0 Oct. 22 vs. Paris Oct. 20 vs. Paris MacDonald, Owen Lucier, Riley Goals: Gwyneth Martin, Twin Centre: 1 Paris: 1 Goals: Jacob Uridil Woolwich: 2 P aris: 6 Shantz Makenna McLaughlinx2, Kieran Goals: Kaden Scherrer Assists: Connor Martin, Owen Read Goals: Nick Langer Nick Stewart Kieswetter Shoutout: Evan Martin Assists: Tia Zettel, Lauren Gerth, Assists: Noah Strauss and Oct. 20 vs. Minto Charlie Birrell Assists: Matt Greene, Alex Kieran Stewart, Payton Karn, Woolwich: 6 Minto: 0 Metzger, Jacob Dubue Oct. 26 vs. Brampton Makenna McLauglin Goals: Cade Schaus x3, Owen Atom: LL #1 Woolwich: 3 Brampton: 2 Lucier, Matthew MacDonald, Oct. 27 vs. Paris Oct. 27 vs. Embro Goals: Mitch Waters x2, Jacob Oct. 27 vs. Kitchener Noah Scurry Twin Centre: 12 Paris: 0 Woolwich: 2 E mbro: 3 Uridil Woolwich: 8 Kitchener: 2 Shoutout: Mathew Turkalj Goals: Ben Bauer x5, Reid Goals: Matt Greene x 2 Assists: Jordan Gamble, Ryan Goals: Makenna McGlaughlin x3, Henderson, Dawson Stevenson Shantz, Owen Read Assists: Liam Catton Nick Langer Braelyn MacPherson x5 x2, Connel Gillet x2, Isaiah Oct. 20 vs. Erin Vince Dally Assists: Eadyn Meier,Lauren Stewart, Jack Wolf Woolwich: 5 Erin: 0 Oct. 28 vs. New Hamburg Gerth, Jane Hinsperger,Kieran Assists: Ben Bauer x2, Goals: Justin Uhrig, Devin Midget: MINOR A Stewart, Alison Martin, Tia Zettel, Christopher Jones x3, Will Woolwich: 2 New Hamburg: 2 Oct. 24 vs. Burlington Williams x3, Owen Lucier Karli Gingrich, Payton Karn Edwards, Dawson Stevenson x3, Goals: Owen Read x2 Woolwich: 0 Burlington: 1 Assists: Cade Schaus x2, Bruce Josh Carere, Jaden Palermero Martin, Tim Mayberry, Matthew Assists: Jacob Uridil, Sheldon Midget: MINOR A Midget: B x2, Jack Wolf Metzger MacDonald, Owen Lucier, Oct. 27 vs. Ayr Oct. 27 vs. Zorra Shoutout: Jonathan Gervais, Shoutout: Cal Schell Woolwich: 0 Zorra: 0 Woolwich: 4 Ayr: 1 Tyler Rose Oct. 30 vs. New Hamburg Goals: Cole Conlin x2, Matthew Woolwich: 5 N ew Hamburg: 0 Oct. 21 vs. Orangeville Oct. 28 vs. Mount Forest Leger and Jordan Shantz TWIN CENTRE Goals: Owen Read x 3, Connor Woolwich: 4 Orangeville: 1 Woolwich: 1 Mount Forest: 2 Assists: Eddie Huber x2, Jordan HERICANES Martin, Jacob Uridil Goals: Owen Lucier, Devin Shantz, Cole Conlin, Cole Lenaers Goals: Cora Kieswetter Assists: Sheldon Metzger, Williams, Cade Schaus x2 Atom: REP and Matthew Leger Cameron Rose, Mitch Waters, Assists: Riley Shantz, Cade Oct. 27 vs. Waterloo Oct. 29 vs. Twin Centre Cameron Brown, Aaron Logan Schaus, Matthew MacDonald, Twin Centre: 1 Waterloo: 4 Woolwich: 0 Twin Centre: 0 Midget: MAJOR A Shoutout: Ryan Conrad Noah Scurry, Ben Lenaers Goals: Blythe Bender Shoutout: Lauren Lesage Oct.24 vs. Dundas Assists: Kara Mark Woolwich: 4 Dundas: 2 Peewee: LL Bantam: MAJOR A Goals: Tyler Seguin, Adrian Oct. 28 vs. Waterloo Oct. 19 vs. New Market Novice: C Gilles, Matt Townsend, Bo Uridil Oct. 21 vs. Wilmot Woolwich: 0 Waterloo: 3 Woolwich: 6 New Market: 1 PeeWee: LL Assists: Adrian Gilles x2, Bo Goals: Brant McLaughlin x2, Woolwich: 1 Wilmot: 7 Oct. 27 vs. Grand River PeeWee LL#1 Tyler Moser, Luke Merritt, Daniel Twin Centre: 1 Grand River: 3 Goals: Carly Bauman Oct. 29 vs. Paris Kauth, Mathieu Fife Goals: Marissa Lebold Woolwich: 2 Paris: 0

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NOT SO GREAT OUTDOORSMAN / STEVE GALEA

Here’s the full story of coping with the real pain of childbirth memories of the birthing ordeal and reminded me of all the pain and suffering I went through. Who knew that both would be born smack dab in the middle of hunting season and cause me to miss a day or two? I mean, it’s not like there’s a way to plan these things or predict when a baby is due. Anyhow, I was telling this to my oldest daughter Jenn on her 25th birthday, after she muttered something about her mother’s experience, what with her being induced into labour for 12 hours only to be told that a C-section was required. Which of course,

OPEN COUNTRY If you don’t think that an outdoorsman is tough, you probably ought to consider what he has to go through during the childbirth process. I was reminded of this last week when both my daughters celebrated their respective late-October birthdays. Even now, I can’t help but wince just a bit. Just watching my two girls blow out the candles brought back horrible

was truly horrible – had it not been for this, I probably could have made it out for morning hunt. “Yes,” I conceded, “I guess it might have been hard on her too.” “Huh?” Jenn sputtered. I almost didn’t have the heart to tell her. But I figured now that she was 25, she could probably withstand to hear about everything I went through. She must have suspected. After all, her birthday, October 29, falls practically on the pinnacle of the outdoorsman’s year. Even so, I began with my trademark subtlety. “You know October 29 is

a very special day, near and dear to my heart” I noted. “Well, yes…” she cooed. “Thanks for saying so.” “Yup!” I said while choking back a manly tear, “the woodcock flights are in, the leaves are down so there’s visibility in the grouse woods and some of the best duck hunting of the season happens then.” “Is there anything else special about that day?” she asked in an uncharacteristically gruff voice. “Anything you might be forgetting? Anything?” “Of course,” I yelped, tears now freely flowing. “The whitetails are into

pre-rut mode and the bowhunting is fantastic!” Perhaps it was the sudden realization of just how much I suffered by missing this that caused her to shake her head and go silent for an hour. And despite the fact that I told her that I had finally forgiven her for not waiting to make her debut until after the rifle season, she remained sullen and distant. Oh and she threw things at me. Guilt does strange things, I suppose. But that’s beside the point. They say that if you remembered all the pain you endured in childbirth you’d probably never do it

again. I guess my memory isn’t great because I did put myself through it again with my second daughter Carmen who was born a few years later and a few days earlier in October, right at a time when the mallards had arrived in good numbers. I can’t tell you how I suffered on that one – especially after my brother, who isn’t exactly a great shot, called to say he got a limit. Nevertheless, in both cases, it was worth it. You see, I learned a thing or two when it came time for my son Ryan’s birth. He arrived in late February, when the ice fishing sucked.

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first at 4:28 of the opening period, with an assist from Matt Harding. Elmira went on to pepper the opposition’s net throughout the game, with Campbell getting on the scoreboard at the tail-end of first, burying one at 18:35 with the help of Jake Weidner and Matt Harding. Three more unanswered goals were fired in the second, headed by Weidner at 4:36 and Campbell again at 9:45 and 17:48, with assists from Matt Schieck, James Mildon and Cash Seraphim. Zac Coulter took the lead in third scoring one at 1:55. Guelph was aggressively on the offense and managed to bag a goal at 16:31 in a last attempt to score points. Kings brought the same

high energy the next day, when back at the Woolwich Memorial Centre they took on the Stratford Cullitons for the first time since a defeat on Sept. 7. “It was very much an intense game. When Elmira and Stratford play, both teams could be 0-5 and they play that hard every time – Stratford, it’s a team you can never take for granted. You know they are always going to come in and compete very, very hard,” said DeSilva. Stratford started things off with a goal at 5:15 by Jake Ryan. The Kings answered when Mitch Wright scored glove side on Stratford goalie Nick Caldwell about two minutes later at 7:28. Elmira’s offence kept the puck firmly in enemy territory for

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the remainder of the period, providing plenty of work for the defenders. “One team could be up 40 points in front of the other one and they still play that hard because there is such an intense rivalry,” DeSilva said of the two teams’ competitive history. Startford fought back, finding two holes in the Sugar King defence in the first seven minutes of second frame. The Kings would answer both goals, capitalizing on a power play making the score 3-3 at 17:15. Stratford’s Jake Ryan got one in at 6:38 into third, giving his team the edge for a while until Weidner and Campbell fed the puck to Wright, who even things up at 4-4 at 17:02 and sent the

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and join a team that will be made of Grade 10 and 11 students. “I want to build a program, not just an overnight success that every year I would have to bring in 10 new guys. This way we are building it and hopefully we will start drawing in some good players who want to

NAME: Saajan Arora POSITION: Shooting Guard HEIGHT: 6’1” AGE: 16 GRADE: 11 FORMER SCHOOL:Jacob Hespeler, Cambridge NAME: David Khayipangi POSITION: Small Forward HEIGHT: 6’2” AGE: 15 GRADE: 10 FORMER SCHOOL: Our Lady of Lourdes, Guelph NAME: John Kusinski POSITION: Point Guard HEIGHT: 5’10” AGE: 15 GRADE: 10 FORMER SCHOOL: Our Lady of Lourdes, Guelph NAME: DaShaun Lalor POSITION: Shooting Guard HEIGHT: 6’1” AGE: 15 GRADE: 10 FORMER SCHOOL: St. David’s, Waterloo NAME: Christopher Thompson POSITION: Shooting Guard HEIGHT: 6’0” AGE: 16 GRADE: 11 FORMER SCHOOL: Glenview Park, Cambridge NAME: Adam Voll POSITION: Forward HEIGHT: 6’7” AGE: 18 GRADE: Fifth year FORMER SCHOOL: St. Mary’s, Kitchener NAME: Javon Masters POSITION: Point Guard HEIGHT: 6’1” AGE: 17 GRADE: Fifth year FORMER SCHOOL: Forrest Heights, Kitchener NAME: Michael Blumel POSITION: Power Forward HEIGHT: 6’5” AGE: 15 GRADE: 11 FORMER SCHOOL: St. Mary’s, Kitchener

attend the school,” he said. “We focus on skill development and we are building the blocks to having great players.” The private school has an advantage over public and Catholic schools, as the team has been training together since late August, unlike most high schools in the area where practice doesn’t start until November 1. Regular high schools will hold tryouts and then have a week or two of practices before they have to play their first game, whereas SJK had a month and a half before they played for the first time, allowing the team to work on skills, endurance, strength, and getting ready to play rather than just putting guys on the court and hoping they gel. “These guys are working as a team before they even played their first game,” he said, adding the team has spent a considerable amount of time on the fundamentals of the game so they are ready to play, rather than rushing to put a group of guys out on the court. Popic admits it was difficult to recruit the new players to the school, as the basketball program was not well known. ‘It took work, to draw the caliber that they are I needed to show them that it was worth their while.” Popic has been a part of the coaching team with the Wildhawks OBA basketball team in Waterloo and knew a few of the players he recruited through that program. He also ran workouts through WLU, giving his prospects the chance to see how he would be coaching them if they decided to join his team. It was the combination of the basketball, academics and the independent school environment that seemed promising to the students and their parents, said Popic. “It came down to them trusting that I would put them in the best position not only to get better but to have the potential to be seen by coaches. The guys’ goals are to play university basketball, maybe even NCAA.” Already this year the head coach from Ryerson University has stopped by to watch practice, as well as a coach from Siena College in New York. “The guys have already been exposed to schools that they probably would not have been exposed to in their regular high school season.” The team plays in the Conference of Independent Schools Athletic Association (CISAA) league and supplemented their schedule by joining the National Prep School Athletic Association (NPSAA) league, where it will join select tournaments throughout the year. “Playing in the tournaments is a big step up for our players, as most of the other teams are made up of 19-year-olds and we have a few 15-year-olds on our team. Playing at the higher level only helps out our guys because they are against guys that are quicker, stronger and have more experience, so our guys have to step up their game.” So far the squad is 0-2 in the NPSAA league, but Popic believes the added time on the court will help his players when it comes to the CISSA league play. “This year is about improving, and as long as we are getting better, for us that is important. We do play to win and I have no doubts that by the time December or January come we will be very competitive and that will lead us into our CISAA season.”

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AGRICULTURE / THE LAY OF THE LAND

Demand fuels big increases in value of farmland

A double-edged sword as some farmers see benefits, while others face barriers to entry or expansion

Woolwich farmer Fred Wagner sees rising farmland values as problematic for some producers who, like him, plan on keeping the farm in the family. ELENA MAYSTRUK Large increases in the value of farmland comes as a mixed blessing to producers. A new report from Farm Credit Canada (FCC) shows Ontario land prices rising significantly, especially in areas near urban centres. The FCC report released last month finds the increase in farm values has been part of a steady trend seen as far back as 1993, with this year seeing the highest increase since 1996. During the first six months of 2012, average values of Canadian farmland increased by 8.6 per cent, with Ontario experiencing the highest average increase at 16.3 per cent. Though multiple bids on the same properties signal a seller’s market for those interested, farmers may be divided on the benefits, suggests Mark Reusser, the Ontario Federation of Agriculture’s regional director for Wellington, Dufferin and Waterloo counties. “The increased cost of farmland makes it more

difficult for farmers to buy more land. It’s kind of a two-edged sword in that higher land values make it more difficult to purchase more land, on the other hand if you already own land your net worth increases. Another downside is that your taxes increase because of the assessed value of the land,” he explained. For those farmers who are ready to retire, this is an ideal time to sell their homes, Reusser said. Yet local farmer and Waterloo Federation of Agriculture board member Fred Wagner said farmers not interested in selling are suffering. “We are keeping the property in the family for generations. Farmers are in the business of producing produce, it’s not our business to sell farms,” he said at his farm near Breslau. Wagner said he and other landowners are now forced to pay heavier taxes on land that was previously bought cheaply and which may not be as valuable as the appraisals by the Municipal Property Assessment Cor-

poration (MPAC) state. Reusser, however, said such opinions can vary. There are farmers who, despite the rise in taxes, welcome an increase in the value of their assets so long as they are not looking to buy additional property. But those looking to expand are likely unhappy. “Farmers who are looking to buy land or new farmers find the increased farm values to be a problem because it is almost prohibitive in terms of them being able to purchase land.” Wagner worries that with such close proximity to urban areas, the region’s farmland is being sold to non-farmers who use the land solely for residential purposes and has observed more and more large homes being built in the places where working farms once stood. “Any time that farmland is close to an urban area there is probably some added value there in that it’s not only farmers who want to purchase it, it’s also urban people who see some

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value in purchasing farmland, usually to live there,” Reusser said. “What is healthiest for agriculture? That’s the more difficult question to answer. Certainly if you are new or expanding it’s better to have cheaper farmland because it allows people to enter the industry and expand,” he added. For established farmers, having land with increased value may mean higher taxes, but it also increases net worth and with favorable assets in the bank, gives farmers increased borrowing capability. The two sides of the argument, Reusser notes, makes for an odd situation for the farming industry. Proximity to urban cities aside, Canadian land values have been rising for the past two decades, when the trend was first seen in 1993. The current national increase the largest one documented by the FCC since it began documenting and producing reports on farmland values in 1984. The FCC sees increased

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activity in the land market as due to continued high crop receipts and low interest rates in Canada. “While interest rates will undoubtedly increase at some point, the key interest rate of the Bank of Canada is forecast to remain low into 2013, due to the uncertainty around the world economy.” J.P. Gervais, FCC chief agricultural economist stated in a release. According to the report, it is the demand for land “suitable for specialty crops” that is inflating the prices in Ontario, something Reusser has noted as well. In his eyes, the demand for land in Ontario stems from a larger global need for food. As demand increases, so to prices, which in turn fuels the demand for the farmland. “I think there is a realization that farmland is a finite resource. Whenever you have a finite resource, increased demand comes from a higher population, a population that wants to eat more and better food.”

It’s that point in the semester where my agricultural communication students at the University of Guelph start writing web logs, popularly known as blogs. As you may know, a blog is a social media tool, providing an active forum for the exchange of views. My students are taking a citizen journalism approach to their blogs, presenting an issue, then the new development that’s promoting them to write about the issue, and finally, their opinion on that new development. In the spirit of idea exchange, they’d love to hear your thoughts on their thoughts. You can find links to all 20-plus blogs by viewing the roster on the EDRD 3050 portion of my blog, www.urbancowboy. ca. I’m writing about my students’ blogs for a couple of reasons. First, I think it’s important for young people to have a platform to be heard, such as that given to them by the Canadian Young Speakers for Agriculture competition being held today (Saturday) at the Royal Horse Show and Winter Fair. The competition is putting extra emphasis on video this year so the participants’ speeches can

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ans. It could be argued that everyone is affected by agricultural issues, and to an extent that’s true. But when these issues come to life in your immediate surroundings, you’re living a different experience than people from downtown Toronto or even the GTA. Still, they need to connect with farmers as much as anyone. My students have posted several salient posts. For example, one student, an equine enthusiast, talks about how changes in Ontario’s racehorse industry could end up with an inordinate number of unwanted horses – by her count, as many as 85,000 animals. She argues in favour of horse slaughter being a humane alternative for horses that are neglected. It’s better than having the horse dying of disease or neglect, she argues. What do you think? Still on the animal welfare vein, another student reports that at a national dairy cattle animal welfare

symposium, the guest speaker explained 95 per cent of consumers’ understanding of animal welfare is based on what they read on Google news. She goes on to say that more than 90 per cent of consumers care about farm animals lives, and how their food is produced. Based on those numbers, agriculture has to get more in the game. If most consumers go to Google for animal welfare news, agriculture has to likewise figure out how to get reporters to write animal welfare stories that will show up in a Google search. It shouldn’t be too tough – if nine out of every 10 consumers care about animal welfare, and consumers are the ones who buy newspapers, why would the media ignore animal welfare stories? Join the conversation with these students. It’s a great opportunity to exchange information and opinion. They’re waiting to hear from you.

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The Sound of Music, Benny Goodman style Gene DiNovi, who’s spent decades playing alongside some of the musical greats, brings the Benny Goodman Centennial Orchestra to the Registry Theatre, evoking a 1959 show that was the first jazz take on a Broadway musical STEVE KANNON It’s hard to disagree with Gene DiNovi’s assertion that swing “is probably the happiest music of the 20th century.” Firstly, you just have to listen to the music, starting with the greats of the big band era, to share in the sentiment. Secondly, it would be just plain silly to argue with a man who’s seen so much of it firsthand. DiNovi began his career as a teenage bebop pianist. The Brooklyn-born kid was a regular at Manhattan jazz clubs. One night The Yardbird himself, Charlie Parker, called him up on stage. He went on to play and record as a sideman with Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Lester Young and Buddy Rich. A popular accompanist, DiNovi played in the 1950s for Peggy Lee. He was also pianist and arranger for Tony Bennett and Lena Horne. He was composer, arranger and pianist on some classic TV shows, including Dick Van Dyke, Joey Bishop and Danny Thomas. In addition, he was music director for ABC-TV music specials starring Gene Kelly and Robert Goulet. With a résumé like that, DiNovi knows what of he speaks. And you know he’ll be doing the music justice when he presents the Benny Goodman Centennial Orchestra in concert November 14 at the Registry Theatre in Kitchener. The nine-piece outfit

Gene DiNovi, who first played with Benny Goodman in 1948, will be at the keyboard for next week’s concert, continuing a seven-decade love affair with the piano. will be playing selections from “The Sound of Music” and Goodman favourites, including Let’s Dance, Memories of You, Don’t be that Way, Stompin’ at the Savoy, Sunny side of the Street, Rose Room, Moon Glow, One O’clock Jump, Sing Sing, Sing and more. The Sound of Music presentation is based on a 1959 recording at the famous New York club Basin Street East, where DiNovi was on piano that night. “It was the first jazz version of a stage musical – the Sound of Music – which was pretty special,” he said this week down the

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line from Toronto, which he’s called home for four decades. It was one of many memorable nights with Goodman, who DiNovi first met as a 20-year-old in 1948, after getting a call to come to the recording studio to play on a new Goodman album. “I was too young, too dumb to be scared,” he laughed. “It was thrilling at the time.” It was not his first brush with musical royalty, however, having been on stage with Parker and again with Dizzy Gillespie while only 15 years old.

That early introduction to some of the greatest musicians fostered a love for the piano that’s lasted more than seven decades. “I loved it, so I just kept going at it,” he said of those early musical experiences. “It’s love that will never fade as long as I’m here.” You can be sure he’ll be all smiles when he takes to the stage in Kitchener next week. While most of the nine musicians at that Sound of Music show in April 1959 are no longer with us, for the upcoming concert he’s put together a collection of younger

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players who share his love for the music. The next generation of premier jazz musicians who make up the Benny Goodman Centennial Orchestra includes Bryden Baird (trumpet), Graham Campbell (guitar), Tara Davidson (alto saxophone and flute) and David French (tenor saxophone), Bob DeAngelis (clarinet), Dave Young (bass) and Terry Clarke (drums). “It’s wonderful because it’s a different kind of Benny Goodman that we’re giving them,” he said of the Sound of Music portion. Of course, there will be all those classics that

made Goodman the King of Swing, sure to take audience members, no matter what their age, back to that magical era of music. “It’s nostalgia to an older audience, and a revelation to a younger crowd.” Gene DiNovi and the Benny Goodman Centennial Orchestra take to the stage November 14 at 8 p.m. at the Registry Theatre, 122 Frederick St., Kitchener. Tickets are $50, available at the Centre in the Square box office by calling 578-1570 or toll free 1-800-265-8977 or online at www.centre-square.com. Also available at the door.

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We are currently seeking a safety-minded, motivated, part-time DZ Driver. Preferred candidates will meet the following requirements: • Secondary School Graduation Diploma or Equivalency Certificate • DZ license • Clean driving abstract • Willingness to work 3-4 days/week or as needed • Ability to repeatedly lift 25 kg bags to chest height • Repeatedly handle vehicle roll-doors at delivery/pick-up points • Ability to interact positively with co-workers and customers • Ability to read maps and co-ordinate logistics of loads • Be a reliable team player, with a professional and positive attitude

Send resume with current drivers abstract by November 16, 2012 to: Betty Ann Glauser hr@bio-ag.com or fax: 519.656.2534 We thank all applicants, however we will only contact those considered for an interview.

FULL-TIME TRUCK & TRAILER MECHANIC REQUIRED Position available immediately for a full time truck mechanic in our Drayton Repari shop. This person must be self-motivated, team player, strong diagnostics and electrical skills. Person should be licensed or a 3rd year apprentice. Afternoon shift. Competitive wages paid, plus benefit package. Fax resume to 519-638-2143 Attention Randy. Only those we wish to interview will be contacted.

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We have openings for dynamic, sales oriented individuals with the ability to promote our products to existing clients, identify and approach potential clients, assess client's needs and resources and recommend the appropriate goods or services. We are looking for one (1)full-time and two (2)part-time applicants for our new Elmira location. Requirements • Grade 12 diploma • Valid Driver’s Licence • Willingness to work flexible hours • Basic understanding of business practices, handling of cash, credit and debit card items Functions and Duties • Understand fully the features and selling points of Mornington’s cellular products in order to match them to the needs of the customer • Have a good understanding of our existing products including internet and home telephone • Meet sales targets • Have a good understanding and be able to effectively use provisioning software • Respond to customer questions and solve problems relating to cellular, internet and other products offered at Mornington Communications Interested parties will email their resume and cover letter to jsmith@mornington.ca or fax to 519-272-0037 by November 9, 2012. We thank everyone for your interest but only applicants that are chosen for an interview will be contacted.

MILL OPERATOR AFTERNOON SHIFT • Responsibilities include: Working in a feed manufacturing plant. Duties may include production of pelleted and milled animal feed products, general physical labour and specific tasks related to the production of animal feeds • Skills Required: the ability to operate a simple forklift; basic telephone skills; ability to lift packages 25 kg to 40 kg; good communication skills; mechanical ability, and understanding of proper shipping/receiving procedures; the ability to work alone and as a team player; prior experience and agricultural background preferred. • Wages: we offer a competitive wage and benefits commensurate with experience • Location: Listowel, Ontario Reply in confidence to: Scott Nieuwland or Dennis Stirling Nieuwland Feed & Supply P.O. Box 220 Drayton, Ontario N0G 1P0 scott@nieuwlandfeed.com dstirling@nieuwlandfeed.com Fax (519)638-5221

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FOR SALE ELLIPTICAL COMPUTERIZED TRAINER $150; Infinity Pulley 2-station home gym $200, purchased for $950. Call 519-669-5021. FOR SALE - Almost New tools used to finish basement and no longer needed: 3 HP Craftsman Table Saw, Ryobi Chop Saw, DeWalt Jigsaw, DeWalt Qtr Sheet Sander, Ryobi 1/2” Hammer Drill, Ryobi Hand Planer, TradeMaster Mitre Saw $350 for the lot. Call John in Elmira at 519-210-0091 or cell 905-518-5981. MATTRESS AND BOX Spring, new, never used, still in sealed bag. Sacrifice $195. Delivery available. Temperpedic Memory Foam Mattress, new, never used, in sealed bag. Like sleeping on a cloud. No pressure points. Bankruptcy sale $595, box spring $200 extra. Delivery available. 519-635-8737. NEW ITEMS ADDED DAILY! Visit our 2nd floor clearance centre for mega deals on hand tools, small appliances, artwork, home-decor, lighting, paint sundries, and so much more. All at least 35-50% off retail prices. Elmira Home Hardware. OPEN Mon Fri 8 a.m. - 8 p.m., Sat. 8 a.m. - 6 p.m. & Sun noon - 5 p.m. PRE-SEASON WALK BEHIND Snowblower sale on New In stock Blowers - Columbia 7hp, 24” blower $849, Columbia 10.5hp, 28” $1049, Columbia 11.5hp, 30” $1217. 3 year warranty on new. Used Cub Cadet 10.5 hp 30” $895. Call Stoltz Sales & Service 519-669-1561.

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AUCTIONS SAT. NOV. 10 at 10:00 AM - Clearing auction sale of riding lawnmower; Waterloo County antiques and collectables; rustic furniture; household effects; miscellaneous items to be held at 927383 Oxford Road 8 (highway 97 or 4 kms east of Plattsville) for Wendy Kaufman. Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 519-656-3555 www.jantziauctions.com WED. NOV 14 at 10:00 AM. Clearing auction sale of furniture; household effects; antiques; tools; and miscellaneous items to be held at the St. Jacob’s Community centre in St. Jacob’s for a Waterloo Estate with additions. Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 519-656-3555 www.jantziauctions.com

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SALE CONSISTS OF: Ass’t Furniture Items; Mattress; Ass’t. Electronics; Watches; Swar; Housewares; Kid's & Adult Clothing; Toys; Linens; Hardware Items; Books; Candy; Consumer Goods; Plus a Large Selection of Other Misc. Items. LUNCH BOOTH TERMS: Cash, Interac, Visa, M.C. NOTE: Clothes will be sold in large lots, list subject to additions & deletions. Viewing from 4:00 P.M. day of sale. Owner or auctioneer not responsible for accidents day of sale. Any announcement given verbally day of sale take precedence over written ads.

FRI NOV. 16 at 4:30 PM. Toy auction of approx 400 pieces of farm toys; precision; tractor trailers; cars; and other collectables to be held at the St. Jacob’s Community Centre in St. Jacob’s for an area collector. Jantzi Auctions 519-656-3555 www.jantzi auctions.com ESTATE AUCTION SALE. Community Centre - St. Jacobs, Ont. SUNDAY AFTERNOON Nov. 4 at 4 p.m. Canadian silver, old clocks, glass, china, oil lamps, cast, primitives, paper, music box. Check Web Page BRIANHILLAUTIONS.COM

RENTALS ELMIRA 2 BEDROOM, newly renovated, basement apartment in quiet duplex, yard, parking, in-suite laundry, no smoking/pets. Available Nov. 15. $825.00 inclusive. Call 519574-6105. GARAGE AND CAR Lot for rent. Good for other types of business too. 761 Sawmill Rd., Bloomingdale. Call Jerry 519213-1123 or cell 519-581-8859.

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FARM FOR SALE. 200 acres - 170 +/- workable, 3 barns, 3 silos, tractor shed, heated workshop. Century old brick house with addition - 4 bedrooms, excellent shape. East of Hwy 6 between Fergus and Arthur. 519-843-2859.

ELMIRA STORE 1560 sq. ft. plus unfinished basement with shelving - front & rear entrances, move in condition. $1175.00/ mth plus utilities and taxes. Suitable for retail or office. Phone Allan 519-669-8074 or Paul 519-669-8582. Email allanpoffenroth@gmail.com

FOR RENT - For Not For Profit Woolwich Township organization or charity. Older 3 bedroom house about 1300 sq. ft. known as Kiwanis house. Plenty of parking, has central air. Rent will include all utilities and maintenance. Monthly rent negotiable. Located near Elmira Memorial Centre (arena & pool) KIWANIS HOUSE could share with other “not for profit” group or charity.

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GARAGE SALES CHRISTMAS GARAGE SALE - Fri. Nov. 9, Sat. Nov. 10, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. 2368 Northfield Dr. Elmira. Wreaths, decorations, ceramic houses, nativity set, lights etc. Excellent quality, reasonable prices. Downsizing.

GARAGE SALES SATURDAY NOV. 3, 8am. 47 Poffenroth Path, Elmira. Furniture, tools, shelves, DVD’s and numerous household items.

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COMMITTEE OF ADJUSTMENT NOTICE OF HEARING

Make K ndness a Priority on November 9th!

On November 19, 2012 at 5:30 p.m. the Committee will meet to consider the following applications. All persons interested in the applications may attend and may contact Nancy Thompson regarding meeting details or visit the Township Webpage – News and Events – Current Public Notices. The Committee will also consider submissions for or against the applications if submitted to the Township of Woolwich no later than 5:00 p.m. on November 13, 2012. Submissions can be forwarded to Jeremy Vink at the address noted at the top of this page, by email jvink@woolwich.ca or by fax 519-669-4669.

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Pay your cart forward at No Frills Help rake your neighbour’s leaves Donate to the local Foodbank Volunteer at Woolwich Community Services Hold a door open for someone at Tim Horton’s Form a Kindness Krew! Teams of 2-4 volunteers will be spread around Woolwich handing out free copies of the Waterloo Region Record on November 9th! For more details, or to register, contact Rae Ann Bauman (rbauman@woolwich.ca) by November 2nd!

CHANGE YOUR CLOCK, CHANGE YOUR BATTERIES On November 4 you set your clocks back one hour. When you change your clocks, change the batteries in your smoke alarms too! A Reminder From Your Woolwich Township Fire Department.

The applicant is requesting permission to sever three separate vacant parcels of land and convey them as lot additions to the rear of adjacent Residential properties as noted below: • Application B17 – sever approximately 23 by 35 metres (809 square metres) to be conveyed as a lot addition to the rear of 91 Water Street South; • Application B18 – sever approximately 30 by 39 metres (1180 square metres) to be conveyed as a lot addition to the rear of 87 Water Street South; and • Application B19 – sever approximately 30 by 36 metres (1090 square metres) to be conveyed as a lot addition to the rear of 83 Water Street South. The proposed retained and severed lands are zoned Residential – Medium Density (R-3) and Open Space (O-2). Consent Application B20/2012 – Douglas and Minda Cerson, 135 Rivers Edge Drive, West Montrose The applicant is requesting permission to grant an easement over an irregular shaped portion of land with an approximate frontage of 3.2 metres in favour of the adjacent property owner at 1115 Rivers Edge Drive for the purposes of providing vehicular access. Consent Application B21/2012 – Honor Delia Hachborn, 1923 Sawmill Road, Conestogo The applicant is requesting permission to sever a vacant parcel of land measuring approximately 28.6 by 24.4 metres (700 square metres) and convey it as a lot addition to the rear of the adjacent lands at 1919 Sawmill Road. The retained and severed lands are zoned Settlement Residential (R-1).

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Elmira - Bright Home Backing onto farmland and directly across the road from Ann Street Park. Carpet free with Hardwood and ceramic through out main floor. Family room with cozy wood stove, large windows and walk out to fenced yard. This home is complete with mudroom and very large dining room. 24 x 20ft double garage. MLS 1244010. Call Alli or Paul direct.

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Kitchener - Fantastic bungalow close to expressway, amenities, bus routes and in quiet neighbourhood. The carpet free main floor is complete with 3 bedrooms, living room and eat-in kitchen. Large finished rec room with gas fireplace. Both bathrooms recently renovated. Convenient second garage door to fenced backyard featuring patio and large 10x16ft cedar shed. MLS 1241620. Call Alli or Bill direct.

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Elmira - A perfect family home located on a mature treed lot complete with shed and detached garage. This 2 storey, 3 bedroom home features a finished rec room, separate dining room, and main floor family room with sliders to large wrap around deck. New main floor and rec room windows excluding living room. All appliances included with the exception of freezer. MLS 1237778. Call Alli or Paul direct.

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Elmira - Attractive upgrades and finishing touches through-out this 4 bedroom home. Convenience at its best with main floor laundry/mudroom, walk-in pantry and completely finished basement with gas fireplace. 9ft ceilings thoughout main floor. Bright eat-in kitchen with granite counter tops, cupboards to the ceiling and island. Large living room with wood floors, gas fireplace and French door walk-out to yard. MLS 1241535. Call Alli or Paul direct

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Heidelberg - Bungalow with lg Workshop. This home is complete with 4 Bedrooms, plus office, living room, family room and finished basement. The bright living room is open to dinning room and kitchen. Unfinished walk up attic. Located on large lot featuring detached 17ft x 18ft, insulated, heated workshop, fantastic gazebo and 10ft x 20ft shed. MLS 1234999. Call Alli or Paul direct.

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

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backing onto farmland on a family oriented st. From the welcoming eat-in kit, to the oversized LR, to the gorgeous master w/walkout , this home is bright & spacious. Add in the huge unfinished basement, beautiful covered patio & well-kept yrd complete w/shed, this home is everything you are looking for! MLS 1231378. Call Alli or Paul direct!

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Elmira - This home is equipped for 2 families! Front and side entrances, separate garages, separate laundry rooms, separate bathrooms, living rooms and 2 huge kitchens. Fantastic opportunity for large family/families complete with 7 bedrooms. Perfect for the hobbiest 3 car garage & detached 4 car garage/workshop. Large yard 87x250ft over looking farm land just steps to golf course. MLS 1225049. Call Alli or Paul direct.

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Elmira - Only 2 years old! Backing onto greenbelt.

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

VERY AFFORDABLE! Elmira - This semi is only steps to downtown! Fantastic hardwood floors, high ceilings, original built in cupboards and trim provide charm and character. Bright spacious kitchen with walkout to sun porch. Featuring; large front porch, carpet free, 3 bedrooms, living room, family room and lots of parking. MLS 1237444. Call Alli or Paul direct.

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$396,500. Beautifully appointed 3 bdrm home, many upgrades, fully fenced and professionally landscaped yard. Large upper level family rm for relaxing. Finished office, reception, and bath on lower level with separate entrance. Ideal for home based business. MLS Call Dale

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10 Acre Lot, Mapleton Twp.

$319,900 Huge older home with in-law

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

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Custom built & loaded with extras! 12 acres overlooking the countryside & POND. Gourmet kitchen. Open concept makes it great for entertaining! Private master suite w/fireplace. Huge finished walkout bsmt. Covered back porch. TRIPLE garage. Prof. landscaped. MLS - One owner bungalow with walkout basement. 200’ deep lot. Overlooks GRCA and walking trails. Elevated deck. Gas furnace (2004). Steel roof. Fireplace in rec. room. Oversized garage. MLS FLORADALE

ST. JACOBS - Extensively renovated bungalow on a large lot (85‘x170’). Hdwd. and ceramic flrs. Oak kitchen w/island. Fin. rec. rm & 4th bdrm in lower level. Main flr. laundry. 2 baths. Main flr. family rm. (could be bdrm. w/ensuite). Updated bathrms, windows, and furnace. MLS

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$255,000 NEW PRICE!

HUGE FAMILY ROOM ADD’T w/cathedral ceiling & lots of windows! Oversized dining area. Main flr. laundry, bathrm & master bdrm. Huge rec. rm. w/high ceiling. Newer doors, windows, furnace & deck. Short walk to downtown. MLS REDUCED

$285,000 NEW PRICE!

MOVE-IN CONDITION! enjoy the dble. garage w/stairs to basement. Updated kitchen 2 bathrms, windows, doors, furnace & central air. Private dec area. Fin. rec. rm. w/fireplace, 2/pc washroom & games room. MLS REDUCED

519.787.0203

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Lexi Paige Gaudet September 22nd, 2012

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in Hagersville, disappointing but team comes back to post strong win in Norfolk

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We welcome with love, our little angel Lexi Paige Gaudet born September 22nd, 2012 at 1:24am 8lbs 8oz and 20 inches. Mommy, Daddy (Geoff and Steph) and big sister Peyton are very excited to welcome her to the family along with grandparents Doug and Barb Frey and Richard and Chris Gaudet. A big thank you to the St Jacobs Midwives Pooja, Julie and Ashley for her safe arrival.

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IN MEMORIAM

Ronald F. Braid

Thank You! To all the people who made my 60th Birthday so special thanks for all the cards and gifts it was unbelievable. To the Bloch boys who took me out for a drink. To my son Cory and his wife Jen thanks. To my sister Kate and her husband Dennis thanks. Too some special friends Rich and Debbie thanks. And last to all my Brothers, Sisters and Mom you all have a special place in my heart.

COUNTRY LOT .5 ACRE | $73,500 Don’t miss this chance to enjoy sunrises and sunsets. Within 40 minutes of KW or Guelph. High speed internet is available with fibre optic. MLS

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Over the past 10 years much has changed in our family. We wish we could share them with you but know you would be proud of us all. We miss you dearly and think of you often.

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DEATH NOTICES CARTER, DOROTHY M.L. (KRAEMER) | Passed away peacefully in her 73rd year, with family by her side, after a courageous battle with ALS on October 25, 2012. MARTIN, LYDIA ANN (FEBRUARY 10, 1945 | October 24, 2012) Peacefully went to be with her Lord, in her 68th year, in her home at R.R. 2, Clifford.

Again Thank-you Dennis

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Elizabeth (Drudge) passed peacefully, into the presence of Jesus, with family at her bedside, at Trinity Village Care Centre, Kitchener.Local relatives are her son Murray (Gale) of Elmira.

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going to be an easy game,” he said. Yet the Rebels held their own. Wellesley got on the board first, though not until the second period, scoring at 6:58 when Shawn Fitpatrick capitalized on a feed from Denstedt and Coleton Madge. Norfolk replied 17 13:47 to tie it up at 1-1, but the Jacks would head back to the room up by one courtesy of another goal from Fitzpatrick at 16:18, assisted by Steenson and Denstedt. Norfolk’s goal just 49 seconds into the third period would bring the teams even, but it would be a short-lived arrangement. After that, it was all Jacks. Denstedt put the visitors ahead for good a minute and a half later, assisted by Fitzpatrick. Luke Rose made it 4-2 at 11:33, assisted by Cody Tapsell. Steve Tait (from Devon Wagner and Rose) and Denstedt (Fitzpatrick, Tapsell) rounded out the scoring to make it a 6-2 final. After a road game in Delhi Friday, the Jacks are home Saturday night for a rematch with Hagersville. The puck drops at 7:30 p.m.

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LIVING HERE A MATTER OF HEALTH / HELPING THEMSELVES

The words may come out wrong, but now there’s support Elmira man launches Expressive Café group in Elmira to help other stroke survivors battling with aphasia ELENA MAYSTRUK Frank Austin sits near the back of Lions Hall with his bingo tickets before him and a marker in hand. A friendly man with a dark mustache and intelligent face, when he speaks, there are only a few telltale signs of the battle he has fought for the past four years: expressive hand gestures, occasional thoughtful pauses before he speaks. On this particular Thursday night, his focus is on raising money during world stroke week. It’s a task he’s only too happy to carry out, having come a long way from a hospital bed where he lay paralyzed after a severe stroke. Now, after a long recovery the thing to do, it seems, is to help others like him find support and understanding on a local level. “When I woke up, I couldn’t even walk. The first things I start asking the nurses: what’s my son’s name? And I would ask them that 100 times over two days. Not that I couldn’t remember, I couldn’t say it,” he said of his stroke on the morning of Apr. 12, 2008. “After I got home and I was looking for a support group, the closest one I could find was either Georgetown or Paris – that’s a long way to go. I still went and observed. I do some speaking the best I can as an advocate,” he said of what ultimately led him to

create the Expressive Café support group in Elmira. He wasn’t the first to notice that representation and support for stroke victims is lacking in the region, but he did do something about it. Seeing the location at Woolwich Memorial Centre in Elmira as a closer alternative to other support groups, Austin meets survivors from Elora, Palmerston, Guelph, KitchenerWaterloo and Woolwich who get together to help each other work through their aphasia. “It’s a loss of language, if you will,” he explained of the condition. “Most of us are very visual now or use gestures and it’s called expressive aphasia. I like that name, and that’s where I came up with the idea. I will give you one line about how it is: My favorite number in the alphabet is purple. That’s what aphasia is: it doesn’t make sense but it makes sense to us,” Austin said. People with aphasia are still very intelligent, he explained, but their stroke forces them to formulate their thoughts and speech patterns in a different way. Some survivors have trouble with speech, while others cannot read aloud or write their phone number. “We have problems with numbers: how I am going to do this I have no idea,” Austin said, jokingly pointEXPRESSIVE | 31

CHEF’S TABLE/ DIERRE AND JACQUELINE

Working in the kitchen together makes for quality family time RECIPE NOTES Fall is always a busy time of year: school, classes and hockey has begun. Many families have been enjoying our casseroles but the question is what to do with the hour of time created? This week I decided to treat Miss Mackenzie and Aiden to an hour of baking with mom. No computer or TV, just quality time. Many parents ask about their picky eaters – the best advice I can give is to get the kids involved. There are lots of duties during the dinner hour. Setting the table, tearing the salad greens or, perhaps most enticing, scooping the muffin or cookie batter. Cracking her first egg was more nerve-racking for me than Mackenzie; the second was much better. We talk about whether the food was grown locally or far away, safety, germs and the importance of being patient. Baking or cooking with kids also bridges to family tradition while working together, taking turns and making healthy choices.

Frank Austin has created the Expressive Café, run out of the Woolwich Memorial Centre. It’s a support group for individuals who have suffered strokes and wish to improve their abilities. [COLIN DEWAR / THE OBSERVER]

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fair in 2013, the Wellesley North Easthope Agricultural Society will be having a silent auction at the annual banquet . 7 p.m. at the Wellesley Community Centre. Catered by Angie’s Kitchen with humourist Eleanor Wood as entertainment. Tickets $30. For tickets call Bill Johnson at 519-662-2733, Peter Brennan 519-656-9923, Murray Schlueter 519-656-2731.

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

NOVEMBER 4 DAVE RANDALL – 7 p.m. Southern Gospel Award Winning Artist. Come hear a solo performance from this talented Christian musician. Waterloo North Presbyterian Church, 400 Northfield Dr. W. Free-will offering, wheelchair accessible. For more information 519-888-7870.

WCS YOUTH CENTRE LOVES Fridays! Our fun and fantastic Friday activities include a game of Go Fish. We will be decorating mugs, you can take it home or keep it as your drinking cup at the YC (this craft costs $2). Finally, we will be walking the track to get ourselves moving. Hope you can come chill with us. For more information contact Catherine or Anna at 519-669-3539.

NOVEMBER 6 CAREGIVER COFFEE HOUR – This support group is for caregivers of a loved one with Alzheimer’s disease. Support groups offer the opportunity to meet and learn from others who are experiencing the same journey as you. Sessions are held on the 1st Tuesday of the month (September-June) at Chateau Gardens 11 Herbert St., Elmira 10-11:30 a.m. For more information for this group, call Lorraine at Woolwich Community Health Centre 519-664-3794, ext. 229 or Cara at K-W Alzheimer’s Society 519-742-1422.

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

NOVEMBER 3

MOVIE AFTERNOON FOR ADULTS – 1 p.m. at Elmira Branch Library. Join us at 1 p.m. for our Movie Afternoons for Adults! Movie shown will be War Horse (PG). Tickets are $1 each and every person attending must have a ticket. Admission includes light refreshments, please no outside snacks. The event will take place at the library located at 65

ST. CLEMENTS CRAFT SHOW & Sale, 9 a.m. – 2 p.m., St. Clements Community Centre. More than 30 vendors, no two the same, food available, raffle table, admission $1. More info call Brenda 519-699-5746. TO HELP PROMOTE AND celebrate the 160th annual fall

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INFLAMMATION: THE BURNING TISSUE. Presentation to include: are we more at risk with age, is it all bad, lifestyle changes to lessen it, and foods that fight inflammation. With presenters Jacqueline Bergman, Nurse Practitioner, Wellesley Township CHC and Robin Hicken, Registered Dietitian Woolwich CHC; 9:30 – 11:30 a.m. Held at Pond View in Wellesley. Refreshments will be served. Everyone welcome! For more information contact Karla Wilker 519-656-9028, ext. 224. BINGO AT THE ST. Clements Community Centre sponsored by the Paradise & District Lions Club; 7 p.m. For more information contact Joe Brick, 519-699-4022.

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NOVEMBER 8 NEW HORIZONS’ IS A group for zoomers, boomers and seniors. Dr. Carol Cressman – The Healing Barn; 10-11:30 a.m. at the Maryhill Community Centre, 58 Charles St. E., Maryhill. Get informed, socialize and have fun. Admission $2 per person. For more information call Joan Haid 519-648-2742 or email jehaid@xplornet.ca.

NOVEMBER 9 H.U.G.S. PROGRAM – 9:15-11:15 a.m. Meet with other parents to discuss parenting and child health issues. Topic: Financial Planning for Families. No registration required. Held at Woolwich Community Health Centre, 10 Parkside Drive, St. Jacobs; 9:15-11:15 a.m. Call Heidi at 519-664-3794, ext. 237 for more information.

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Are real-life Spider-Men seen as superheroes, or just plain out of their minds? WEIRD NOTES

Q. How do real-life

Spider-Men give the fictional hero a â&#x20AC;&#x153;runâ&#x20AC;? for his money? A. These death-defying adventurers climb some of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tallest skyscrapers or other man-made structures, says Laura Hudson in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wiredâ&#x20AC;? magazine. When 49-year-old Frenchman Alain Robert was 19, he took a 50-foot fall while rock climbing, fractured his skull and wound up in a coma for five days. Nevertheless, he went on to become famous as climber of the Skyper in

Frankfurt, Germany; and the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tallest building at 2,716 feet. Robert has been arrested more than 100 times. While 20 stories from the top of Sears Tower in Chicago, he was covered in a thick fog that turned the building into a â&#x20AC;&#x153;vertical icerinkâ&#x20AC;? that nearly ended his adventurings. Another climbing career got off the ground in 1980 after 56-year-old American Dan Goodwin witnessed a hotel fire that claimed nearly 100 lives. When he suggested rescue techniques to the fire chief, â&#x20AC;&#x153;he was told that he had no business giving advice until he had climbed a high-rise building. Six months later, Goodwin scaled Sears Tower.â&#x20AC;? His

other climbs include the World Trade Center and the CN Tower in Toronto. Arrests: 5. In Chicago, a fire commissioner reportedly even threatened to â&#x20AC;&#x153;killâ&#x20AC;? him if he climbed another of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s buildings. Goodwin claims he was later â&#x20AC;&#x153;blasted with a fire hose on the 37th story of the John Hancock Center, until the police and mayor intervened.â&#x20AC;? So superheroes or crazy dudes? You be the judge.

Q. How deep is the bond

between all of us and the dogs we love? A. Any time your dog comes when you call or lies next to you simply to share your company, the bond deepens, says psychologist Stanley Coren in â&#x20AC;&#x153;What Do Dogs Know.â&#x20AC;?

Corenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s favorite cultural story of how humans and dogs came to be together is from an American Plains Indian tribe: It tells of a time long ago when the Great Spirit had just created the world and sent out a call for all the living creatures to gather on a wide plain, then drew a line dividing the humans from all the others. And while everyone watched, the line began to deepen and widen, becoming a great crack in the earth that opened into a bottomless chasm. At the last moment, just before the gap became unbridgeable, the dog leapt across to stand by man. As the Nobel Prizewinning author Maurice Maeterlinck expressed it, â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are alone, absolutely

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alone on this chance planet, and amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us.â&#x20AC;?

Q. A previous column

pointed out that a visiting team pitcher completing a 9-inning game must throw at least 25 pitches minimum, where 3 outs are gotten in each of 8 innings and he throws a home-run ball that gives the home team the win: (3 outs x 8) + 1 (the home run) = 24 + 1 =25. Can you imagine a rare but theoretically possible scenario where a single pitch suffices to complete a 3-out inning? A. Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s how, as suggested by Jeff Witmer of Oberlin College in Ohio: (a) the first

batter hits the first pitch for a triple; (b) the runner attempts to steal home from third base and the new batter interferes with the catcherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attempt to tag the runner out. The batter is called out and the runner returns to third base; and (c) repeat the previous step for each of the next two batters. Concludes Witmer: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Granted, this has never happened and never will, but in theory it could. No pitcher has ever thrown a complete game with 25 pitches either, so it seems that theory is king here.â&#x20AC;? And fun to ponder, we might add.

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26. Twist or braid together 27. Australian runner 28. Pretense 30. Embodiment 33. Ardor 34. ___ lily 35. Flight data, briefly 40. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Comprende?â&#x20AC;? 42. Amazon, e.g. 44. Justin Biebers nickname (singular) 45. Indefinite article 46. A negative 47. Small tuna 48. Up to the knees 56. Evasive

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CHEF’S TABLE: The family that cooks together ... EXPRESSIVE: Practice with others helps stroke FROM | 28

When we rush around every day doing the normal duties we tend to forget the importance of taking a moment to create memories. We don’t need to be out every night of the week to entertain our kids. The dinner hour doesn’t have to be an elaborate

Banana Bread with chocolate and brown sugar fairy dust 1/3 cup butter 3/4 cup granulated sugar 1 cup mashed over ripe banana 1 tsp vanilla 2 eggs beaten 2 cups all-purpose flour 1 tsp baking powder 1 tsp baking soda 1/2 cup buttermilk 45 chocolate wafers Brown sugar

In a bowl, cream together butter and sugar until

meal, but needs a family and table. The time spent will weave the fabric of our kid’s future of healthy choices. This week we made banana chocolate brown sugar muffins, scones, salad and decorated pita pizzas. Before you know it dinner will be quick and easy because everyone participated.

it is pale yellow. Beat in the bananas and add eggs. Beat well; Stir together flour, baking powder, soda; Combine the dry mix with the butter mix, with buttermilk in thirds; Line muffin tins with papers and scoop batter into the tins. Add chocolate wafers into the batter. Sprinkle brown sugar on the top of the batter and bake at 350 F until the muffins are golden and firm to the touch.

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ing at his bingo sheets. When people come home from the hospital after a stroke, they are at a loss for what to do and there is little support with the exception of expensive speech pathology and other costly treatments. Having launched on Sept. 12, the 15 members are now looking to raise money for supplies to keep the workshop going “and we’re having a blast,” Austin said before the bingo fundraiser at Lions Hall began. The group hopes to raise enough money for future events as well as supplies: “everything you need for a school.” The group gets together every week to practice communication, and play games that help them develop their speech with the help of and Waterloo-based speech pathologist Michele B. Anderson, who volunteers her time. “By coming out to the Expressive Café they are able to interact with other people and start conversations again and the more we practice, we get better,” said Austin.

After suffering a stroke in 2008, Austin is healing and hopes to help others like him improve their health. [COLIN DEWAR / THE OBSERVER]

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NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNERS The 2nd Installment of the 2012 Final Tax Bill Is due

November 7, 2012

Taxes are payable at the Township of Wellesley Municipal Office (4639 Lobsinger Line) by cheque, money order, cash or debit; at Financial Institutions located within the Township of Wellesley, Telebanking, Internet Banking or by Pre-Authorized Payment. Credit Cards are not accepted. There is a mail box available at the office for payments being made after hours. Postdated cheques for the due dates are accepted. Tax Payments may also be mailed to: Township of Wellesley 4639 Lobsinger Line R. R. #1 St. Clements, ON N0B 2M0 NOTE: Persons who have acquired properties and have not received a tax bill should contact the Municipal Office. Failure to receive a tax bill does not relieve a taxpayer from responsibility for payment of taxes, nor from penalty for late payment. Theresa Bisch Deputy Treasurer/Tax Collector Township of Wellesley Telephone 519-699-4611

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ST. JACOBS

THE SALE YOU’VE BEEN WAITING FOR.

MODEL

SALE

AND APPLIANCES

10% B AC K IN HOME FURN

SELECTED IN STOCK ITEMS | MAY NOT BE EXACTLY AS SHOWN

ITURE

GIF T CARDS on furnitu re purchases from this flyer see back page

ELECTRIC FIREPLACES

30 %

UP TO

OFF

BEDROOM SETS

30%

UP TO

RECLINING SOFA $ OFF 99

699

4845-832

LEATHER SOFAS HOT AND CHAIRS BUY

UP TO

1049

% OFF

SAVE 50%

SELECT

MULTI-PURPOSE DININGFOLDING SETS TRAY $ 49

UP TO

% OFF

4810-010

Multi-purpose Folding Tray 4810-010 Reg. $20.99

CHAIR & OTTOMAN $ 99

THREE COLOURS SAVE TO CHOOSE FROM 59950% 4830-324/325/326

SUNDAY HOURS: Nov. 18 - Dec. 23 12:00-4:00

NO 16 MONTHS OR 24 PAY M E N T S PAYMENTS OR INTEREST FOR

EQUAL MONTHLY

Grand Pappy’s Home Furniture

Monday Wednesday T 9:30am - 6:00pm C L-E EThursday S - Friday S 9:30am - 7pm

HOURS: Mon.-Wed. 9:30-5:30 Thur.-Fri. 9:30-7:00 Saturday 9:30-5:30

ESSE MATTR Saturday 9:30am - 5:30pm

Closed on Sundays

S E LE C T

AREA RUGS

On Home Credit Card purchases over $250. O.A.C. See Details in Store. UNTIL NOV. 11/2012 Visit us online at www.homefurniture.ca

44680 Yale Road, Chilliwack, B.C. (604) 792-9519 UP TO

1 Union St., Elmira www.elmiragiftoutlet.com

SALE ENDS

Offer Runs November 2-18, 2012