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ELENA MAYSTRUK Creating the stuff of nightmares, dreams and everything in between in the heart of Mennonite Country, Floradale’s Thak Ironworks is taking its blacksmithing to the television screen. Encompassing everything a guy would watch on TV – fire, swords, tools and the rare skill of iron craft – and everything a modern blacksmith would want to tell the world about the trade, the Toronto-produced show Metal Masters will follow the activities of Thak’s artisans in the dim wood and stone shop at Floradale and Florapine roads. “Blacksmithing is an ancient trade – it’s been around for thousands of years. We come at it from both a traditional and very modern approach. We use electric welders and grinders and things like that. But a lot of the actual forging and the actual techniques and tools are the same things that they were using hundreds of years ago: there’s really no way to change that or fake that,” said owner Robb Martin. The show, airing its pilot episode on May 14 on the History Channel, follows Martin and fellow craftsmen Tom Martin and Ryan Leis as they forge everything from swords, convoluted sculptures and armour to oldschool tools and more. After searchMETAL MASTERS | 2
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Floradale’s Thak Ironworks is the setting for Metal Masters, a new show on the History Channel Robb Martin of Thak Ironworks has spent years developing new and ancient forms of blacksmithing skills. Martin and crew share their passion for the craft in a pilot episode of their new television show Metal Masters for the first time on History May 14 at 10 p.m. [ELENA MAYSTRUK / THE OBSERVER]
The ongoing expansion of Elmira Pet Products Ltd. grew a little further last week with the announcement of a $2.7 million investment in the University of Alberta’s new animal nutrition and ingredient development program. The money will be used to establish and equip the program, which will use a pilot extruder (similar to what the Elmira plant uses to cook ingredients) to research and test products. “We have a lengthy history in developing nutritional products for cats and dogs, both for our own brands, and we’re also a co-packer or private label manufacturer, which means we make a lot of other people’s brands,” said David Johnston, the company’s chief operating officer. “With that in mind, we do a lot of the research and development for other companies and ourselves
in terms of next wave or new nutrition or what’s better for the animal.” For the company, whose Elmira facility is equipped for high-volume, highproduction equipment, the partnership will make limited test runs easier, Johnston said. “To do a test run, the first thing we have to do is shut down and run at a very slow pace and cut into production time. Having a small, lab-type extruder somewhere means we don’t have to do that. It means we get more volume, more employment for the area.” Johnston added that the investment puts EPP “in the lab on a real-world basis” with its academic partners. “We have relationships at many universities, including University of Guelph, University of Illinois, and obviously the University of Alberta. They all have their own expertise in different research programs. What we’ll be doing is working hand-in-hand with researchers on state-of-theEXPANSION | 2
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art development with a fair bit of control from a business aspect.” He continued, “It keeps our capacity of the plant at the highest possible level. … From a research standpoint, by being at the forefront with leading researchers of the world, and developing the next
whatever-that-might-be, our customers will be the first with new products.” The partnership follows the company’s announcement of a $13 million, fiveyear infrastructure expansion plan, which it expects will create 25 new jobs. Johnston calls the partnership with the University of Alberta “a big step forward for employment.”
ing all over North America, Toronto’s Castlewood Productions’ – the creators of Cash Cab and CBC documentaries – discovery of Thak was quite ordinary, and very much modern. “Google,” said executive producer Andrew Burnstein of how the two parties got together. It was a good fit. “They use their imaginations to create sculptures and generally wild and crazy things.” “Muscles, hammers, sweat and dirt ticks all the right boxes” for a show about guys for guys and of course everyone else curious about rare, cool professions." Is it surreal for a business
like Thak, often blaring heavy metal music from the shop, to exist in such a quaint rural area? “Not for me. I think people look at me a little bit funny but that’s the environment that I like to work in. I think my Mennonite neighbours have come to accept me for what I am. I’ve been around for 25 years,” Martin said. Martin's love for the ancient trade began as a teenager when he took a course at St. Jacobs’ first blacksmithing shop. From there he was hooked, built his own forge on the family farm and apprenticed at St. Jacobs’ Forge and Anvil. “There’s actually more than you think, probably several hundred in North America. But still, when
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Another candidate joins the fray in Woolwich’s Ward 3 ELENA MAYSTRUK The newest candidate in the local municipal race for Woolwich Township is Bloomingdale’s Larry Shantz, running for a seat in Ward 3. With an informal platform to represent the wants
of Woolwich’s smaller settlement areas, the semiretired businessman hopes to devote his free time to public service, he said this week. “[I would] make them aware of some of the smaller communities would like to see happen. Some road
Report sees need for greater support of local food, more active transportation STEVE KANNON We’d like to have more healthy, local food in our diets and we’d like to walk and bike to get it. Turning those theoretical desires into action will require some doing, however. Options for getting us there are part of a recent published study, discussed this week at Woolwich council. Local Food Access and Active Transportation: Policy Opportunities for the Woolwich Community, the work of the Waterloo Region Healthy Communities Partnership, looks at ways to enhance access to local food and get more people getting around under their own power. In a presentation Tuesday night, project investigator Ellen Desjardins said a series of studies, forums and public consultations led to four main recommendations for community action: 1. Expand signage on trails and roads to encourage trail use and point the way to markets, farms, stores and restaurants where local food is sold. 2. Investigate the feasibility of a community food
processing/ packing/ storage facility in Woolwich to enhance the local food sector (for small and larger scale enterprises). 3. Support programs and policies at Woolwich schools that build youth participation and community involvement towards healthy local food, walking and biking. 4. Advocate for policy that ensures the regular addition of segregated cycle/walking paths that link residents to food retail, schools and workplaces in Woolwich. Like most Ontarians, Woolwich residents have diets that fall short when it comes to fruits, vegetables and whole grains. Likewise, they could do with more physical activity, especially walking and cycling, the report found. To improve the situation, more will have to be done with the infrastructure to make local food more accessible and to make cycling and walking to destinations such as shops easier and safer. “Overall, if local food is to be more accessible by
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improvements, maybe. I understand that a lot of money isn’t available for that kind of stuff, but if we could project out a number of years and work in different communities – not at the same time but plan ahead – some of that stuff might get done,” he said.
Previously involved with Shantz Coach Lines, he is currently working on a part-time small business called Stair Travel, installing stair lifts and distributing for Acorn Stairlifts. He’s worked on various boards while with the bus company as well. Shantz hopes
to bring his business sense to the role of councillor. “I think you have to be an active councillor if you want to be in that position. I’ve been to a number of council meetings so I have an idea of what goes on. There’s obviously going to be a learning curve, but I
do want to get involved,” Shantz said, adding he is not making any campaign pledges to residents just yet. “I think I want to hear what people have to say. I don’t want to make any WARD 3| 4
The school is alive with the sound of ... Sondheim Park Manor students rise to challenge of the offbeat musical Into the Woods Cinderella (Jasmine Thuroo) gets a little help with her glass slipper from co-director Breanna Maier during rehearsals for Park Manor’s musical extravaganza.
WILL SLOAN Long before Shrek and his abrasive donkey made fairy tale spoofs trendy, Stephen Sondheim set Broadway ablaze with Into the Woods, a humorously grim take on Grimm. While Sondheim’s peculiar, often atonal melodies are beloved by theatre connoisseurs, his work is more challenging and unusual than that of, say, Andrew Lloyd Weber. It was this sense of chal-
lenge that made the play a good prospect for Park Manor Public School: Into the Woods will be the school’s first play in two years. “It’s definitely been a challenge,” said staff member Natalie Massicotte, one of the directors. “[The students] have found it’s not just the pretty-sounding music that they might be accustomed to. I think they’ve definitely risen to the challenge.” She continued, “Nobody
had ever really heard of Sondheim before, so it was kind of nice that we were able to open up their view on musical theatre. It’s a nice new experience for everyone, and luckily enough, the movie hasn’t come out yet, so it’s still a fresh idea.” The school will be taking on an abridged version of the show adapted for middle school productions – in this telling, the firstact “Happy Ending” really is the happy ending. Still,
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the complicated music and labyrinthine plot (encompassing Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Jack, his beanstalk, and many other familiar characters) have given the students plenty to live up to. “At first, we were all a little bit intimidated by the piece, and just understanding fully what all of the different parts of putting on a play would be. We didn’t have a play last year, so for PARK MANOR | 8
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Taking the pulse of community wellbeing An undertaking of several agencies, assessment survey looks to measure quality of life in the townships ELENA MAYSTRUK
Bloomingdale resident Larry Shantz is the newest addition to the election race in Woolwich.
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promises. Too many times people make promises they can’t move forward with. I’d like to try and see what people are interested in, take that to council and see what happens.” In Ward 3, Shantz will be running against candidate Lisa MacDonald and incumbent Bonnie Bryant, who’s indicated she will run again though she
hasn’t yet filed her papers. The ward currently has just one seat, but a second has been added for this year’s municipal election, scheduled for October 27. There’s also a race for mayor, as former councillor Sandy Shantz is vying for the position against incumbent Todd Cowan. Only one candidate has filed papers in Ward 1, former councillor Ruby Weber,
with incumbent Mark Bauman the sole candidate in Ward 2. In Wellesley Township, current councillors Paul Hergott and Jim Olender are running for mayor, while incumbents Shelley Wagner and Herb Neher hope to resume their posts in Wards 1 and 2 respectively. The last day for contenders to file their nominations is September 12, 2014.
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The Woolwich Community Health Centre is partnering with Community Care Concepts, Woolwich Community Services and the Wilmot Family Resource Centre for the first time to create a broader picture of wellbeing in Woolwich, Wellesley and Wilmot townships. Information gathered and pieced together by the organizations, including public surveys, will help shape future rural services and region-wide initiatives. “We use the assessment for our own organization and I’m sure the other organizations will use it to inform their own boards, but we also provide information to other decisionmakers. We use the assessment for serving awareness and advocacy for services the region might provide or the school board,” said Woolwich Community Health Centre program coordinator Lynda Kohler. The health centre’s Community Wellbeing Assessment is part of a regular planning process for future programs – everything from dental programs for low-income families to support systems for aging populations. This year’s collaboration with the
townships’ social organizations will broaden that scope, Kohler explained. “We’re working together on a steering committee also including community representatives and a board representative to bring our own knowledge of the community to the table and try and use that knowledge to get the best information from the community.” Although the 2012 Canadian Index of Wellbeing report – a framework for the assessment – shows Canadian wellbeing to be strongly connected to troubles in the economy, Kohler says there are more diverse factors on a local level. “I think that, yes, the economy is an issue I’m sure will be raised through this assessment. But, there will also be areas that we’ll find in our rural communities are quite strong, like community vitality, and people’s sense of belonging and connectedness. Wellbeing isn’t just based on economic indicators but it’s also based on supportive communities and living in a healthy environment and having opportunities for education,” she said. The last assessment completed in 2010 showed local rural communities to
have a strong sense of togetherness, Kohler added. An increasing need for chronic disease prevention and management shaped the community diabetes and hypertension programs as well as Healthy Smiles Ontario, a dental program for local families. The research also targeted education initiatives for the rural Low German – a population that often falls “between the cracks” Kohler said – which suffers from statistically low literacy rates. The program has been receiving funding for the past few years. This spring’s assessment will include 30-35 focus groups across the three townships consisting of varied population groups in different geographical locations as well as widely distributed online and written surveys. An online survey, to be completed by residents by May 31, is available on the health centre website’s home page www.woolwichcommunityservices.com, as well as through Community Care Concepts, Woolwich Community Services and the Wilmot Family Resource Centre websites. For print copies, visit the health centre at 10 Parkside Dr. in St Jacobs.
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active transportation, the policy stage needs to be set for more local food venues (such as temporary and permanent markets) and more off-road cycle paths – both of which are challenging and require further discussion and debate,” the report notes. Desjardins pointed to St. Jacobs as a spot where improvements could be made. While a walkable locale in many ways, it’s a “food desert” with no grocery store or similar outlets in the village. Coun. Mark Bauman, who lives in St. Jacobs, said the community would welcome even a small grocery store, but noted the industry is dominated by food giants – Loblaw, Sobeys,
Metro – that would have to step up to provide such an outlet. As for getting around, he said Woolwich has many trails, but most don’t lead to destinations such as shopping. The trails are more for recreation rather than transportation in that regard. While noting that the township could help the situation by adding wider paved shoulders for cyclists when reconstructing roads, for instance, the change-over would be a very long process. Still, adopting some of the goals set out in the report would be helpful, he said. “The challenge is to try to implement that into some of our planning processes.”
Wellesley Preschool held its annual hop-athon last week. [WILL SLOAN / THE OBSERVER]
Hopping nets $723 for charity They came, they saw, they hopped. Vowing to “hop for those who can’t” in the spirit of the Easter season, students at Wellesley Preschool held their annual hop-a-thon for Muscular Dystrophy Canada on April 16 and 17. The event raised $723 for the charity.
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Woolwich OKs tax rate bylaw
The cash keeps on rollin’ in
Making it official, Woolwich council this week approved the tax-rate bylaw for 2014. The township will adjust the tax rate to lift $8,562,010 from residents’ wallets to cover the levy portion of the spending planned for this year. Special levies will apply to businesses operating in the Elmira Business Improvement Area (BIA), grabbing another $30,000, while residents of Elmira will shell out a collective $208,327.14 for the contentious sidewalk snow-clearing services.
The Township of Centre Wellington is off to the bank with a cheque for $443,902 courtesy of a fourth-quarter (January to March, 2014) non-tax gaming revenue payment from the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG) for hosting OLG Slots at Grand River Raceway. Since the facility opened just over a decade ago, Centre Wellington has received some $20.4 million in non-tax gaming revenue.
Under a plan that came into effect last year, payments are based on an escalating scale of slot machine revenue that is consistent across all sites in Ontario. Under the agreement, municipalities receive: 5.25% on the first $65 million of slot revenue; 3% on the next $135 million of slot revenue; 2.5% on the next $300 million of slot revenue; 0.5% on slot revenue above $500 million; and, the new element, 4% on table game revenue. In 2013-2014, the province will allocate $115 million in gaming revenue to support charities through the Ontario Trillium Foundation.
Mill St. sidewalk decision stands While the issue was revisited Tuesday night, last week’s council decision nixing plans to extend sidewalks on Elmira’s Mill Street remains in effect. Coun. Mark Bauman, who chaired last week’s committee-of-the-whole meeting and refrained from the voting, pushed this week for sidewalks on both sides of the street. He was the lone dissenter, however, and the decision stood. There will be no new sidewalk on the north side of the street as part of the $1.7-million
reconstruction project to get started in May, finishing up in the fall.
New exterior cladding for WTA The deteriorating external cladding at the Woolwich Township Arena in St. Jacobs is in store for an overhaul, as Woolwich council this week awarded a $73,000 contract to Roxson Construction Ltd. to carry out the work. All of the upper band of exterior siding and the worst of the lower portion will be replaced. Although the township had budgeted $160,000 to redo the entire exterior,
where steel panels have rusted through and joints leak, other unanticipated repairs have been recently identified, so only the most pressing portion will be done this year, explained director of recreation and facilities Karen Makela. The remaining money will be diverted to the repairs still being quantified by staff.
Correction The front page photo in the Apr. 19 edition featured Kathy, Ben, 8, Andrew, 6, and Bob Allison. Incorrect information appeared in last week's issue. The Observer regrets the error.
POLICE BLOTTER
Chief steps down to take position with provincial government The chief of the Waterloo Regional Police is to retire June 8. Matt Torigian has been appointed by the Ontario government to become the deputy minister of community safety for the ministry of community safety and correctional services. Torigian began his police career with the Waterloo Regional Police Service in 1985. He worked extensively in criminal investigations including detectives, drug enforcement and homicide investigations. He also served as a member of the Emergency Response Unit, specializing as a police sniper. Since that time he has held progressively responsible positions including; staff sergeant of community relations branch, media relations officer, executive officer to the chief of police, inspector of investigative services, commander of community and corporate services, deputy chief of administration, and on December 12, 2007,
Matt Torigian was appointed as the department’s fifth chief “This is an incredible opportunity and one which I accept with both enthusiasm and mixed emotions. This appointment is a direct reflection of the work and achievements of the members of this police service. I have had the privilege to work alongside an impressive team of dedicated, talented, and committed professionals. It has been an honour to be the chief of police in this community,” Torigian said in a release announcing his retirement.
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6:21 PM | A 30-year-old Fergus man struck a deer while driving on Northfield Drive East near Sandy Hills Drive. The vehicle saw minor damage. No charges were laid. APRIL 15
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sion in the 700 block of Northfield Drive East in Woolwich Township after a vehicle was forced to swerve due to the actions of an unidentified vehicle ahead. The first vehicle was struck by an oncoming vehicle. Both drivers of the vehicles and one passenger in the first vehicle were hurt. There were no charges.
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Police and Floradale fighters were called in when a pickup truck travelling on Listowel Road caught fire on Sunday afternoon. No one was injured, but the vehicle was a write-off. [JOE MERLIHAN / THE OBSERVER]
6:50 AM | The driver of a vehicle eastbound on Hawkesville Road in Wellesley Township lost control and slid into the path of a westbound vehicle near the rail crossing. Both vehicles ended up in the ditch. No one was injured or charged. 7:16 AM | The driver of a black Honda lost control on icy roads and entered the ditch at the 1200 block of Hutchison Road in Wellesley Township. There were no injuries. 7:20 AM | An eastbound Chevrolet lost control on icy roads and struck a westbound GMC truck
on St. Charles Street at Beitz Road near Maryhill. No one was injured in the collision, nor was anyone charged. 7:20 PM | Icy roads were to blame when the driver of a grey Dodge RAM pickup truck lost control and rolled into a ditch in the 1900 block of Listowel Road west of Elmira. There were no injuries or charges laid. 8:25 PM | A 40-year-old Conestogo woman lost control of her Chevrolet Impala and struck a decorative rock in a private driveway. She was not charged and
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10:53 AM | A driver northbound on King Street North, just north of Lobsinger Line, was waiting for southbound traffic to clear before making a left hand turn. Another driver waved the vehicle through to make a turn, but when the northbound ve-
hicle made the turn it was struck by a southbound vehicle that was passing off the roadway. The driver making the turn was charged with ‘turn not in safety’ and the driver passing was charged with ‘pass off roadway.’ 9:15 PM | The driver of a van lost control and rolled into the ditch on Northfield Drive just north of Jigs Hollow Road outside of Conestogo. There were four adults and four children travelling in the vehicle at the time, and two people suffered minor injury as a result of the collision. The driver charged with ‘careless driving.’
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Kennel fee frozen for dog guides Facing a large increase in kennel licensing fees, the Lions Foundation dog guides training facility in Breslau earned a reprieve at this week’s Woolwich council meeting. Under a new fee structure, the organization was to be hit with a $700 fee to renew the kennel licence, up from $150 in 2013. Councillors, however, agreed to keep the fee at $150, where it’s been since 2005, in recognition of the group’s non-profit status. The service club’s facility helps train dogs that are provided free of charge to those with special needs. Expanding from the original seeing-eye dog – canine vision for people who are a blind or visually impaired – the organization now trains dogs for Hearing ear for people who are deaf or hard of hearing), autism assistance for children who have autism spectrum disorder, service for people who have a physical disability, seizure response for people who have epilepsy, and diabetic alert for people who have type 1 diabetes with hypoglycemic unawareness. The goal is to train up to 200 dogs per year, representative Danielle MacKay told councillors. It costs some $25,000 to raise and train each dog, with the program funded by donations, receiving no government money. “Every dollar counts,” she said in requesting the fee relief.
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a lot of the students, this was their first opportunity to be in something like this. Rehearsals started in January, with the cast now meeting for practice three mornings each week. Over time, the group has made Sondheim’s classic its own, Massicotte said. “At first everybody was a little bit timid, but now they’ll try things on their own, and characters will come into their own.” She continued, “We knew we had some students coming up who had really great talent, so we knew they would be able to handle it. … It’s amazing to see the commitment we’ve had. There are 35 students in the cast, and every morning they’re there right at 7:30 ready to go.” Into the Woods plays at Park Manor Public School (18 Mockingbird Dr.) on April 29, 30, and May 1. For ticket information, contact Connie Maier at Park Manor PS.
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Park Manor students go Into the Woods and get into character. Clockwise from top: a baker (Jaron Bowman) offers some magic beans for a cow; the Prince (Simon Zenker) sings for his princess; another baker (Kenzie Beacom) considers how to beat a witch; and a Wolf (Avery Klooster) lures Little Red Riding Hood (Maddie McCormick) astray. [WILL SLOAN / THE OBSERVER]
With Ontario’s 2014 budget to be set out on May 1, the organization representing the province’s farmers hopes the sector is recognized in a tangible way for its contribution to the economy. The Ontario Federation of Agriculture (OFA) sees its current mandate as well-aligned with what Queen’s Park should be focusing on, says the group’s president. “I think OFA’s priorities can fit well into the budget, but we shall see. My crystal ball has snow on it,” said Mark Wales. Last year Premier Kathleen Wynne, who also took on the agricultural portfolio, challenged Ontario farmers to double the sector’s annual growth rate
and create 120,000 new jobs by the year 2020. To promote that growth, the OFA sees three priorities for the sector this spring. Number-one on the list is regulation issues for farmers, Wales said. “There are too many to list that affect members on a daily basis: Issues around incorrect property assessment (commercial or industrial instead of agricultural), MOE (ministry of the environment) and water and other environmental regulations. Ministry of transportation issues [include] poor design of traffic circles in rural areas, regulations or inconsistent enforcement in regards to abattoirs, etcetera. Fundamentally, it is about the regulations that are a daily impediment to farm business.”
Wales cautiously added, with the provincial government’s focus on infrastructure there may be room in the budget, for another OFA priority: at half the cost of electricity and one third the cost of propane, the federation is pursuing pushing for room in the upcoming budget for a long-term expansion plan of natural gas in rural Ontario. “The infrastructure announcement could possibly allow for natural gas lines, but we will not likely see details until budget day,” he said. In a newsletter released earlier this spring the federation looked at additional factors influencing agricultural growth in Ontario, stating that one way to boost growth is for rural communities to have com-
parable services to those enjoyed by urbanites. “The Ontario government must ensure Ontario farms and businesses have access to physical infrastructure capable of handling current and future needs, including a level and quality of services and infrastructure comparable to their urban counterparts. That means properly maintained roads, bridges and culverts that enable farmers to do business, and access to other services such as health care, education and child care.” A third barrier to growth according to Wales is the Not for Profit Corporations Act, which the OFA argues is eliminating geographicbased election for board members. “Our concern is that we elect parliament geograph-
ically, why is it now wrong to elect farmers to lead our organizations the same way? We also have other concerns around allowing proxy voting and voting by non-members. This act is an act to make changes to the previous Not for Profit Corps Act which has all of the same flaws. The new bill has only received first reading and may not survive,” Wales said. While he believes OFA’s priorities are a good fit for the Liberal’s budget, whether it will pass is “anybody’s guess” – the minority government is in a precarious position. “It will depend on the polls, he said, “state of election readiness of parties and whether they think they can win. It would require the NDP to trigger it by voting against it.”
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Woolwich kids hop on down the bunny trail
Hundreds of kids followed their sweet-tooths to Easter Egg hunts in Elmira, St. Jacobs, Breslau and St. Clements on Eastern weekend. Above: the race begins in Elmira’s Bolender Park.
Hannah Hynes shares a basket with the Easter Bunny, and Henry Shantz gets up close with nature at the St. Jacobs hunt at Riverside Park; Breslau’s first hunt got off to a running start.
Left, Wendy McInnes gets set for the Breslau hunt with daughters Byllee and Jorja, while Ryder Holt tries some fancy headwear; right, Elmira’s hunters left no egg unturned.
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A long way to go before we adopt healthier options THERE’S SOMETHING APPEALING ABOUT the idea of jumping on your bike, pedalling along safely to a nearby bakery, café or grocer, and then returning home with the front basket filled with warm bread, cheese and perhaps some fresh fruit and veggies. The image has a certain je ne sais quoi. It’s an idyllic concept conjured up by a recent report – Local Food Access and Active Transportation: Policy Opportunities for the Woolwich Community – discussed at this week’s township council meeting. Supporting local food producers and promoting active lifestyles are motherhood items: few of us would argue against them. In fact, as the study notes, most of us are in favour of more of both. Going down that path would certainly make us more European, both in the cinematic vision we have of the lifestyle and in the reality of places like France, Holland and Germany. That we suffer from weather that limits the growing season and puts a damper on walking and cycling for half the year is a major hurdle. It shouldn’t quash our enthusiasm, perhaps, but should temper any larger financial outlays that governments may be called on to make. That said, there’s something to a call for our communities to be more people-friendly. Just visit most European cities to see what that payoff is. Theirs is a culture accustomed to walking, biking and public transit. Because of sprawl and car-centric design, our communities are largely unfriendly to pedestrian and bicycle traffic. We walk and bike less often here, largely because it’s neither safe nor convenient to do so. We’ll walk more and cycle more when there are places to walk and cycle to. This means undoing decades of poor planning, mixing residential with commercial, installing separate bike lanes akin to sidewalks to make people safer and downplaying the need to get in the car to go anywhere farther than your backyard. We do much better with local food, however. The movement continues to gather momentum, with advocates stressing that going local makes for a healthier and more sustainable future, as food comes with economic, health and environmental impacts. Generally, the more local the food, the better the outcomes on all fronts. Local food does tend to cost a little more, but consumers benefit through fresher food and there’s a multiplier effect on the economy, as every local agricultural job supports another four jobs. On the whole, we’re increasingly conscious about the quality of food we buy for ourselves and our families. We’re also more aware of what it costs the environment to have food transported thousands of kilometres to appear at local grocery stores. Then there’s the direct cost: soaring fuel prices have been reflected in what we pay at the checkout counter, not to mention the biofuels debate and the impact on grain prices. Public response to initiatives such as Waterloo Region’s Buy Local! Buy Fresh! campaign has been strong. As discussed at this week’s council meeting, there are ways the township can encourage both the local food movement and active transportation, but mostly at the policy level, there being no money and no mandate for spending on related projects.
Woolwich residents unhappy with the taxman and how their money is spent are casting an eye on October when they’ll have someone to champion their cause. WORLD VIEW / GWYNNE DYER
Spain makes a handsome apology for its past actions WORLD AFFAIRS The Spanish parliament still has to pass the new citizenship law, but the cabinet has already approved it and Justice Minister Alberto RuizGallardón is sure there won’t be a problem. “In Spain, a clear majority realize we have committed a historical error and have an opportunity to repair it, so I am sure that law will pass with an immense majority in parliament,” he said. Historical apologies are in fashion – ex-South African president F.W. De Klerk apologized for apartheid, ex-British prime minister Tony Blair apologized for the slave trade and the Irish potato famine, and Pope John Paul II apologized for the Crusades, the Inquisition and the Church’s historical oppression of women – but Spain isn’t just saying sorry for expelling its Jews 522 years ago. It’s offering to give their descendants back their citizenship. The year 1492 was a busy
one for Ferdinand and Isabella, joint monarchs of the recently united kingdom of Spain. Christopher Columbus, Isabella’s favourite explorer, discovered the New World, Spain’s armies concluded the seven-century-long campaign of the Reconquista by destroying the last Muslim kingdom in the peninsula, Granada – and Ferdinand decided to expel all the Jews from Spain. Spain’s Jews were given only four months in 1492 to choose between becoming Christian or leaving their homes forever. Most left, settling in Muslim-ruled North Africa and the Ottoman Empire or in other parts of Christian Europe. They kept their Spanish language in the form of Ladino – Castilian written in the Hebrew script – and became known as Sephardic (i.e. Spanish) Jews. Ladino is now a dying language, but the Sephardim have retained their distinctive identity and are estimated to number up to a third of the world’s 13 million Jews today. Spain’s planned new law potentially covers almost all of them, for it is written very
broadly. Applicants for Spanish citizenship need not speak Ladino or even be religious. They need only be able to show a link to Sephardic culture (it could be as little as a Sephardic family name). In most cases, however, the simplest route to Spanish citizenship would be to have a local rabbi certify their Sephardic ancestry, or to get certification of their Sephardic heritage from a recognized SpanishJewish community. Gallardón insists that there are no political motives behind this initiative, and you can actually believe him. His great-grandfather, Spanish ambassador to Romania during the Second World War, saved many Sephardic Jews from the Nazis by giving them Spanish visas, so it’s sort of a family tradition. And to make the current offer more inviting, Gallardón has said the applicants can keep their existing citizenship as well. Spain’s justice minister reckons that only about 150,000 Sephardic Jews will take him up on the offer (which will remain open for two years), and he
doesn’t think that many of them will actually want to move to Spain. But he promises that the government will not be strict in deciding who qualifies as Sephardic – “We are opening the door,” he said – and he may be surprised by how many actually apply. What Gallardón has not taken into account is the fact that Spanish citizenship is, for practical purposes, citizenship in all 28 member countries of the European Union. A Spanish passport-holder can enter Britain, France, Germany, Sweden or any other EU country without a visa, take up residence there, get a job or start a business there. What’s not to like about this offer? Almost half of Israel’s Jews are Sephardim, and Israel is a country where second passports are in great demand. The big Sephardic communities in the United States and Mexico will probably not be tempted, but the remaining Sephardic Jews in Muslim countries, including Turkey, certainly will be. Gallardón is thinking mostly DYER | 12
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THEIR VIEW / QUESTION OF THE WEEK
How have you gone greener for Earth Day and Healthy Communities Month?
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Composting.
Turned off some lights.
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Elmira is not bad compared to some places, but maybe litter control to make sure that garbage is contained.
"Who rules in a democracy? The people or some remote government agency?" Brian McHugh | 12 HIS VIEW / STEVE KANNON
Foreign worker program "abuses" just part of plan to suppress wages EDITOR'S NOTES The federal government’s temporary foreign worker (TFW) program is ripe for and rife with abuses. What was once a program to bring in migrant farm workers and, eventually on the other end of the spectrum, highlytrained people with skills in short supply has become yet another contentious policy of the Harper Conservatives. The latest outrages involve restaurants: a small operation in Saskatchewan and the giant McDonald’s. In Weyburn, the government is investigating – i.e. putting out fires – the case of Brothers Classic Grill and Pizza, where long-time employees say they were let go while the business continues to employ TFWs. In fact, half the staff were said to be foreign workers. McDonald’s, under fire for using the program, was in damage control mode this week, vowing a temporary freeze on hiring new
TFWs and an independent, third-party audit of the of all the restaurants using foreign workers. The company says of its 1,400 restaurants, 268 make use of the program – of 85,000 employees nationwide, four per cent are temporary foreign workers. Of note, the company has no intention to stop using the TFW program. It’s not alone in that regard, as the Conservatives have vastly expanded the program, allowing for temporary foreign workers in jobs not previously eligible – or conceivable or justifiable. From 150,000 in 2006 when Harper was first elected, the number of TFWs quickly grew to more than 350,000. In defending its actions, the government has played up the issue of the so-called skills gap – apparently that now applies to restaurant waiters – though that gap has been increasingly called into question. Still, advocates of the program point to a skills mismatch between what employers need and what young people can bring to the table.
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mate makes that even more problematic. That the TFW program could exacerbate the problem does not faze the government. It goes on undeterred, despite a growing backlash. Take a recent comment from Chris Worswick, a labour economist with Carleton University in Ottawa, who tells the CBC there is increasing anecdotal evidence employers prefer to hire temporary foreign workers. “I don’t see how they can legally choose to not hire Canadian workers who are qualified, who want to work at the advertised wage, and then turn around and ask the government for a temporary foreign worker. My understanding is they should be refused in that situation.” How did we get into a situation where even the likes of restaurant jobs, which surely can’t be considered part of the overly-exaggerated skills gap, are eligible under the temporary foreign workers program? Official party line aside, the consensus is that the
misguided program is part of a policy of active wage suppression. Economist Jim Stanford argues the growing use of temporary foreign workers is no accident. And no small issue, as TFWs accounted for some 30 per cent of all net new jobs created in Canada between 2007 and 2011. “The TFW program, therefore, is not a marginal activity; this represents the core of labour market strategy by employers and this obliging government. TFW guest workers are not working primarily on farms or in the oil sands; they are working anywhere in the country (over one-third of them in Ontario) that employers complain they can’t find workers to do the right job at the right price,” he says in a recent report. “Hence, this initiative by Harper and Co. is aimed at relaxing a fundamental constraint on class relations in our whole labour market, and in that regard represents a very important (and dangerous) shift in the balance of power in our society. "Now, of course, the
Harper government has given free reign for employers to tap desperate workers from other countries (with just 10 days’ notice), and given explicit approval to using that supply of labour to drive down Canadian wages.” It’s Canadian wages that are at issue here. Along with bringing in large numbers of immigrants, the use of TFWs pushes down wages by increasing the supply of workers. In the case of TFWs, these are often the most desperate and precarious of workers for whom even a slashed Canadian minimum wage is more than they’d get at home. Employers typically want to push wages down, while workers want to go in the other direction. In the normal course of affairs, employers who find themselves unable to attract workers would have to increase the wages they’re offering to entice people to take the jobs. But that process is bypassed if the businesses are allowed to bring in foreign workers. KANNON | 12
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As temperatures dropped, Canadian consumer spending cooled down too. Moneris' quarterly spending report for the first quarter of 2014 revealed that compared to the same period last year, consumer spending rose only 0.84%. March saw the largest increase of the quarter, edging up 0.95%, followed by January with a 0.90% increase. February experienced the smallest growth, with a modest 0.66% gain. The gains were the smallest in four years.
“The concern expressed by Canadians during this investigation demonstrates the high value they place on their democracy and the rule of law. Canadians must continue to have confidence in the electoral system, and, in my view, they have every reason to do so. However, when they believe their rights as electors are being interfered with, they should contact my office without delay.”
The story had Hollywood written all over it: the little theatre group taking on city hall in its long quest to find a permanent home. After all the impassioned speeches, and the drama of some swing votes, Elmira Theatre Company got the happy ending it wanted: Woolwich council approved the troupe’s plan to build a 160-seat theatre on Howard Avenue in Elmira. The decision ended a seesaw battle that saw councillors first approve then deny ETC’s application.
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about symbolism, which is important – but his offer will also have a real impact on many people’s lives. Portugal, which expelled its Jews shortly after Spain did, is also trying to make amends, though on a less grand scale. Last year it changed the law, and now grants citizenship to Sephardim who can demonstrate a connection to the Portuguese Jewish community. How much further might this example spread? Not very far, alas. Most of the great expulsions of history have occurred in the context of war, like the compulsory “population exchange” of the Greek minority in Turkey and the Turkish minority in Greece after the First World War, or the expulsion of ten million Germans from their ancestral
homes in eastern Europe at the end of the Second. Even the expulsion of the Muslim minority from Spain in the course of the 16th century fits that model, although the wars of the Muslim conquest and the Christian re-conquest were long over by then. The real history is a good deal more complex, but the view of the average Spaniard is that the Muslims arrived as conquerors, and when they lost they had to leave. It’s because the Jews of Spain and Portugal were entirely blameless and ruthlessly victimized that there is broad popular support in both these countries for this act of apology and belated recompense. All credit to Spain and Portugal for doing it – but it probably wouldn’t be happening even there if it seriously inconvenienced the majority.
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The result? A suppression of wages here, paycheques driven down toward foreign levels, heedless of Canadian standards of living. The government is certainly not unaware of this fact. To the contrary, the TFW program is just another plank in a concerted effort to do just that – there are too many examples of abuse to consider what’s happening anything but systemic.
For 58-year-old Sandy Nelson, who lost her job of almost three decades at the Brothers restaurant in Weyburn, Sask., the fact the a temporary foreign worker holds a job she would like to have back speaks volumes. “How can that be right, that they’re not Canadians? I’m a Canadian. How can it be that I’m the one out looking for a job and they’re the ones that are still employed?” Increasingly, the answer is clear.
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Competition Bureau needs to rethink its position To the Editor, I want to address the subject of the forced closure of the No Frills store in Elmira. We do not live in Elmira but come there quite often and many times stop
in to shop at this store. What is the “Competition” Bureau thinking about when they say this store must close? What competition is there then? That will mean only one grocery left in Elmira. This is a fast-growing community with many more homes being built on the west side of Elmira. We like shopping at No Frills and seeing the friendly
staff there. Besides, they offer better value than the other store there. I’m sure there is another store in the Loblaw chain that can be closed rather than this one. This is a great community and, obviously, whoever made this decision does not know the area at all. What are they thinking, anyway? I am in support of keeping this store open and hope that this decision will be reversed for the sake of the people in Elmira and surrounding area.
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With No Frills, it’s about what the people want To The Editor, Re: An open letter to Anthony Durocher of the Competition Bureau. The majority of the people in Elmira don’t want another grocery chain in town. The people want
Paul and Adele’s No Frills only. Nothing else will do. If you force the closure of a Paul and Adele’s No Frills the people will do their grocery shopping in Kitchener-Waterloo. Who rules in a democracy? The people or some remote government agency? Has Canada suddenly been transformed into an oligarchy? Who gave you the divine right to close a grocery store in our town? Are we living in the Middle Ages? Mind your own business. Try closing a store in your home town. The people of Woolwich Township and its council have clearly spoken that they do not want Paul and Adele’s No Frills to be closed or sold to another grocery chain. The people of Elmira and Woolwich Township fully support their council’s position to work towards a solution that sees Paul and Adele’s No Frills remain intact as is in Elmira.
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Competition Bureau’s rationale flies in the face of reason To the Editor, Two weeks ago I was wondering whether to laugh or cry at the Competition Bureau’s decision to force Loblaw’s to divest itself of the Elmira No Frills grocery store. After reading assistant deputy commissioner Anthony Durocher’s open letter in last week’s Observer, I had a sardonic laugh at the rationalization given. Stripped to the core for compelling a divestiture, Mr. Durocher writes that the acquisition of Shoppers Drug Mart by Loblaws “would likely result in increased prices and reduced service for Woolwich Township residents for pharmacy products and
drugstore-type merchandise, including health and beauty aids and certain food products.” Did I understand this correctly: the No Frills grocery store has to be sold to another owner because there is overlap with Shoppers in primarily pharmacy, health and beauty aids? This makes little sense. I am not privy to floor space revenues generated at either store, but if square footage is anything to go by, perhaps 10 per cent of No Frills is devoted to drugstore merchandise. That leaves 90 per cent of No Frills selling other types of merchandise. According to the Competition Bureau’s logic, because there is that 10 per cent overlap, the 90 per cent remainder also has to be dispensed with by Loblaws. This is absurd as it violates any sense of proportionality. If we were comparing retail outlets selling similar LETTER | 22
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SPORTS NOT SO GREAT OUTDOORSMAN / STEVE GALEA
Sometimes a proper greeting goes beyond a simple hello
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ELENA MAYSTRUK If you’ve spent any time participating in or watching minor hockey, chances are you’ve seen an example or two of overzealous or perhaps even inappropriate activities carried out by adults. Some seem to get far more invested and emotional than the kids. As the resultant actions are sometimes not desirable, for the next hockey season, one parent from each household with a child in the sport will have to take a course on curbing inappropriate behavior. The Respect in Sport Par-
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ent Education Program will be a requirement of a child’s involvement in the Ontario Minor Hockey Association (OMHA). The program and similar tactics to curb inappropriate behaviors among a small percentage of overly-zealous adults in various sports, including soccer and hockey, has been around for many years, Hockey Canada vice-president of hockey development Paul Carson said this week. “It’s very much an issue that is the minority of parents. The majority of parents are excellent sport
parents, great fans and supporters of the game. When there are incidents they get a lot of attention, whether it’s local, regional, national attention. The challenge is getting parents to understand that the experience on the ice is the child’s experience,” he explained. A simple search on the web will yield a number of incidents. In November 2012 a player at the Woolwich Memorial Centre in Elmira was charged with assault. Just a month prior to that, charges against a hockey dad were withdrawn in Cambridge.
A brawl between fans in Tweed, Ontario was caught on video at a Bantam playoff game in 2013. The Tweed team took a 3-1 lead in the game and witnesses said one group of parents began verbally abusing another group before both sides began trading blows. Coaches are not exempt from bad behaviors either, as seen by the headlinemaking story about Martin Tremblay. The British Columbia minor hockey coach tripped a player during a post-game handshake and received a 15day jail sentence in 2013. At least one parent of
each player, team officials, on-ice volunteers and onice officials will have to complete the course effective August 31. “We do agree with it in principle; however, I’m afraid that it will not make much difference. People check their brains at the door when it comes to minor hockey,” said Twin Centre president Kevin Kraemer. In the past he’s pulled aside not only parents but extended family members for bad behaviour in the arena. RESPECT | 14
OPEN COUNTRY Lately – and I’m not sure why – people have been making a big deal of the fact that the Yanonami tribe of South America utilize farts as a form of greeting. Some people, it seems, are truly fascinated by this. Worse still, they actually make it sound as if the Yanonamis are unique in this. Well, I would argue this is only the case because those people have never been on a camping weekend with a bunch of guys. If they had been, they’d know that this isn’t unusual at all. It’s what any group of folks spending a prolonged period of time in the outdoors does. Farts have always been used as a greeting on these camping weekends. They are also used as a conversation starter, a means to keep warm within your sleeping bag, a method for getting a little alone time in the tent and a very effective way to deter biting insects. My favourite use, however, is to punctuate a particularly poignant statement. GALEA | 14
U12 ringette team captures silver at provincials Players exhibit strong teamwork to make to the finals, where they lost a 4-3 squeaker to Oshawa WILL SLOAN All those matches, all those playoffs, all that ice time and, in the end, it all comes down to seven games. Fortunately, the Woolwich Storm U12 ringette team enjoyed a strong showing at the 2013 provincial ringette championships, taking home silver at the Sault St. Marie event
that ran April 3 to 6. “They prepared for this all season,” said assistant coach Nancy Jacobi. “At this level, they need to be dedicated.” The girls began the championships on a Thursday, and were tied for third place by the end of the round robin games on Saturday. That tie was broken in the 10-minute mini-
games on Saturday evening with just 14 seconds left, taking them to the semifinals. After beating EloraFergus, Woolwich took on undefeated Oshawa in the finals, bringing the game to a narrow 4-3 loss. The team’s performance was good for silver, and they were also recognized for Best Sportsmanship and
Best Costume at the Thursday opening ceremonies (they hit the floor dressed as clown cars). “Congratulations to an amazing group of girls, who used the skills taught throughout the season, pulled together as a team, and never gave up,” said head coach Dawna Martin. In particular, Jacobi singled out first-year goalie
Rachel Bettke for praise. “It was our goalie’s first year playing in net, so she not only played in net for the first time, but also played on a provincial team. What an amazing difference between the beginning of the season and the end.” Success at the championship level requires plenty of hard work, said Jacobi.
“They have to make every single practice. We had dry land training once a week, plus sometimes two ice time practices and a game, and it’s a must that they attend all training. It even gets into eating healthy, getting enough sleep – it’s a bit of a lifestyle change, in a good way.” RINGETTE | 14
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Consider the statement, “Look at how that gorgeous sunset makes the water look like a million glittering diamonds; isn’t nature wonderful?” Without a small, but well-timed fart at the end, a statement like that would seem weird or perhaps overly sensitive coming from an outdoorsman. But add just one curt, little “brrppp” and you’ve practically created poetry. If nothing else, this il-
lustrates that, like all social customs, etiquette and sound judgment are required. It probably goes without saying but, if you are going to fart in the presence of others in the outdoors, do so loudly and with authority. Otherwise, people feel like you are talking about them behind their backs. Or worse, you’ll get a reputation for being shy and indecisive: two qualities that do not exactly inspire confidence in the great
outdoors. On the other hand, it doesn’t pay to showboat either. If you fart too loudly, you will soon be known as that blowhard who dominates the conversation or, alternately, the guy who’s always laundering his underwear. And even if that’s not the case, you’ll call in vultures, ravens or any other creature who are attracted to dead things. This is typically not appreciated by fellow campers. The point is, you need to
be sensitive to others. Needless to say, it’s the same with greetings too. Etiquette, in that case, demands that, should you shake a person’s hand or hug them and then fart, you let go. Not eventually either. No you do it quickly, while they still stand a chance. Don’t get too enthusiastic either. Dropping one rose is plenty. Dropping a bouquet of them is, quite frankly, embarrassing – and depending on what
you ate for dinner, dangerous. The proper gentleman or lady will let loose a quick one just as the person you are greeting steps into the tent, canoe or light of the campfire. For the latter, it goes without saying you should be facing away from the campfire. Otherwise, nothing ruins an evening of toasted marshmallows quicker. I’m not writing anything most outdoorsy types don’t already know. But I
do think that every now and then it’s fair to remind others that many unique and interesting behaviours often attributed to uncivilized, wild peoples were probably originated on a weekend of camping with the boys. We just don’t brag about it that’s all. Having said that, if any anthropologist would like to discuss it further, come visit my place. I’ll only be too happy to greet you at the door.
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But they always take time to have fun, she added. “We do a fun bowling event and team parties, and we get together at Christmas. At tournaments, we always have
potluck meals, and the whole team – parents and kids – would eat together. That’s a good bonding experience, and the more they bond as friends, the better they play on the ice.”
All in all, the team’s efforts represented the sport’s true team spirit, said Jacobi. “It’s an amazing team sport. Hockey is a team sport as well, but with ringette, because you have
to pass all the time over the blue line, it’s more of a team effort. No one person can carry the game, and just take the ring down the ice, get it across both blue lines, and get it in that net.”
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“Only one parent has to complete the course per family. Chances are the people who are the problem aren’t the ones who will be doing the course. The second part of it is, there’s really no avenue in minor hockey associations to really police the parents.” Woolwich Minor Hockey Association president Rob
Waters is not keen on making the course mandatory across the board. “The one to five per cent of the parents that don’t conduct themselves in a professional manner, they should be the ones taking it. From my understanding this course goes a little beyond how to behave in an arena, it talks about concussions and return to play and it’s gotten a lot more
encompassing in the overall course. There might be some good takeaways for people, but I don’t necessarily like the idea that it’s mandatory.” Parents who have taken the course while their kids played at certain levels in soccer won’t need to repeat it, he added. The one-hour online course will run local hockey parents $12. Waters does
stress that the OMHA is not looking to make money from making the course mandatory, as only a small percentage of the funds will go to the association. The education program is mandatory across the province of Alberta and enforced to various degrees in Canada. Instructions can be found on the OMHA website (www. omha.net).
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GYMNASTS MAKE A VERY REWARDING VISIT TO MILTON The Woolwich Gymnastic Club girls took part in the Milton Springer Challenge, April 11-14, for their first competition of the year. They brought home nine gold, seven silver, and seven bronze medals. Front row: Tegan Krieger, Madelyn Halstead, Alison Saulesleja, Trinity Barnes, Grace McBay, Julia Code, Julia Ersil. Back row: Camryn Goodall, Mackenzie Simpson, Natalie Mayer, Sylvia Horst, Hannah Simpson, Morgan Hanley, Audrey Parker. [SUBMITTED]
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Street hockey tournament has become a Maryhill staple The family’s passion for the game evolved into a way to help others, as tourney is now a fundraising event WILL SLOAN Many a sportsman has took to the streets with a net and some sticks. Few, however, have channeled this energy into a charitable initiative. When the Maryhill Ball Hockey Tournament returns next weekend for its fifth year, recall that this durable neighbourhood institution sprang from the weekend games of two hockeycrazed teens. “Both my boys were down at the Maryhill Park all the time,” remembered Karen Kron of her sons, Brian and Brent (now 24 and 22). “They thought, Well, let’s just have a tournament, and we can give back to the community or other charities that require some help.” “The idea was just to
Maryhill residents Brian and Brent Kron parlayed their weekend hockey games into an annual charity event. get together with a couple of friends, and it just got bigger and bigger,” added Brent Kron.
For its first two years, the event raised money for the Maryhill community centre then in the works, and for
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the next two, for a Maryhill family caring for two autistic boys. This year’s event (which Brian and
Brent are organizing with sister Brittany) will collect funds for the KW Bell Cartage Outlaws fastball team, where Brent and Brian have played for 10 years. The team is in urgent need of donations because the team will be one of the hosts of the 2014 International Softball Congress World Tournament. “They’ve been on that team for a long time, and my husband has played with some of those guys throughout his fastball career, said Karen Kron. “With the worlds being in town this year, it’s just more and more money that the boys need to bring to the table. Things just keep getting more expensive – you need uniforms, you need bags, you need balls.” This year, the 13 teams of six have already been filled,
LADY LANCERS OFF TO A 2-0-1 START ON THE PITCH
The EDSS lady Lancers won their second match at RIM Park against Glenview Park Secondary 3-0 on April 23 with goals scored by Jaime MacDonald, Rebecca Luis and Kaitlyn Wilson. In two previous road games the girls won 2-0 against Galt (April 17) and tied with Hespeler 2-2 (April 14). [ELENA MAYSTRUK / THE OBSERVER]
with the age of players ranging from 14 to 49. However, the organizers stress that the barbecue and bake sale make it more than a sports event. “Come out to support your community and your neighbours. It’s not just ball hockey – it’s a nice time to get out and hopefully see some friendly faces after a winter of staying inside,” said Karen Kron. “Every year is just an awesome year,” said Brent Kron. “Every year we prepare for it, going down to the rink and shooting balls, and just getting together with friends is a good time.” He added, “You get a couple of the older ladies around here, and they cook a mean spread!” The event takes place May 2-4 at Maryhill Heritage Community Park.
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Oktoberfest pretzel. It has also cultivated a long-time presence in the townships at the Elmira Maple Syrup Festival, the St. Jacobs Farmers’ Market, the Robin’s Nest in Elmira and other local haunts such as the Crazy Canuck, Conestogo’s Blackforest Inn, Heidelberg’s Stemmler’s Meats and Cheese and the Runway Café in Breslau, to name a few. The company also supplies many restaurants and companies across the region and as far afield as Ottawa. Soon after their first
A big step has been taken towards what should be a no-brainer, but has proven to be an extremely difficult task: that is, getting people to eat more fruits and vegetables. On Tuesday, Ottawa and the Ontario government combined forces to give $26.5 million over five years to the Vineland Research and Innovation Centre. Vineland is a long-standing horticultural research institution that’s been around since the early 1900s, located in the heart of the Niagara region. Lately, it’s taken a modern view towards development, one of which the province and the feds clearly approve. That view is centred on partnerships. It sounds simple, but getting the various players in the complex and diverse food sector on the same page is as challenging as getting consumers to eat what’s good for them. Traditionally, coordination has been a problem. New fruit and vegetable varieties were mainly focused on growers’ abilities and researchers’ expertise. And that was not unique to horticulture. The entire agriculture sector had
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ELENA MAYSTRUK Warm, just out of the oven pretzels and seedcovered loaves might just be the greatest thing since sliced bread. In fact, the art of baking traditional loaves and other such goodies could put that old saying to bed for good, at least according to the owners of Grainharvest Breadhouse. “If it’s done right, slow fermentation in an oldschool way, bread is not a bad thing. The typical bread is loaded with sugar, quick fermentation and gluten added to it. You have to keep it simple. Slow fermentation gives you high lactic acid, gives you natural digestibility ... whole grain instead of just white sifted flour. People wouldn’t have allergies if the bread was done right all along,” said co-founder Roland Berchtold. A quarter of a century ago, Hubert Wurm and Berchtold came to Canada armed with a sense of adventure and a business dream. The Grainharvest Breadhouse Inc. triumvi-
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Grainharvest Breadhouse partners Hubert Wurm, David Nötzold and Roland Berchtold celebrate 25 years in business on May 3 at their Waterloo location. rate of partners – Wurm, Berchtold and David Nötzold who joined as a third partner in 2009 – are looking back on their humble beginnings of bringing the best of artisan breadmaking. Hailing from an Austrian town on the German-Swiss border, childhood friends Wurm and Berchtold never expected to fall in love with the country that later brought them success. The land of hockey and maples was supposed to be the first stop on the road to travel, but the pair never ended up leaving. “We just wanted adven-
ture. Me, personally, I just wanted to do something different, get away from home and see the world a little bit before I settled down,” said Wurm of the two founders’ decision to come to Canada. The two got their start working for a year at a German bakery in Toronto before moving to Waterloo and starting Grainharvest. German-born Nötzold grew up with a family owned bakery business in Berlin and also trained as a baker, coming into the fold to also handle more of the company’s growing marketing base.
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Now, celebrating 25 years is quite a milestone, the partners agree. “I tried to find a statistic on how many businesses make it to 25 years, and the latest statistic I could find was that nine per cent of businesses make it to 10 years,” Nötzold said. A few dozen costumers showed up to the opening of their first Waterloo location on November 27, 1989. Since then, business has grown, as has the company’s link with the communities it serves. For 20 of its 25 years, for instance, Grainharvest Breadhouse has created the official K-W
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store on Lexington Road in the north end of Waterloo took off, a Kitchener location on Lorraine Avenue opened, and a few years later a Kitchener-area café and catering operation followed. Still, the bread needs of modern man have changed significantly over the years, and the company has found ways to adapt to their customers while keeping traditional quality in the innovative products it offers. The bakers started the Circle of Life Bakery, a division specializing in wheat-and-gluten-free baking. Local ingredients are used when possible. “That was the benefit of working in Toronto for a year. We kind of learned that we can’t just do what we did back home, we have to adapt,” Wurm said of the Canadian twist on the European craft. Parallel to its business successes the company gives back to the community by donating products to the food bank and various local charities. Ten cents of every large pretzel sold in its stores and at special events, for example, goes directly to the KidsAbility Centre for Child Development. All breads are preservative-free. In classic bread-
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making style, sourdough breads are baked with the original starting culture brought to Canada in 1989. Today, the times of baking all night and arguing who will stay up to open the shop in the morning are over, but all three partners still put on an apron every day. Sure, there have been some setbacks on the way to success, as recent as the fire that last year destroyed the main building at the St. Jacobs Farmers’ Market, the owners concede. Their market stand was burned down along with those of dozens of vendors.
It’s the communities Grainharvest serves that the partners credit with their success. “We are looking forward to what lies ahead. We are currently in a temporary location at the Farmers Market and when the new market building will open next year, we will have a better and bigger stand to serve our customers” said Nötzold. Celebrating 25 years in business, Grainharvest will hold an open house on Saturday May 3 at their Waterloo location at 105 Lexington Rd. from 9 a.m.2 p.m.
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The bakery business has grown to several locations in Kitchener-Waterloo and supplies many local rural and urban businesses. [ELENA MAYSTRUK / THE OBSERVER]
long been focused inward, trying to keep its own 88s straight, and not getting a lot of feedback from consumers, either. A sea change takes some impetus, and in horticultural research in this province that change happened when Vineland reinvented itself eight years ago as a partner-driven entity. In dollars and cents, that meant industry would be expected to provide significant funding, to top up whatever governments provided. That’s what happened Tuesday. The many millions Vineland received in government support are about half of what it needs to do business. And indeed, that business is focused squarely on research, innovation and commercialization. That means more product development and new varieties, the ones that Ancasterarea MP David Sweet says “savvy” consumers are clamouring for. “They’re increasingly looking for a variety of home-grown produce,” he said at the an-
nouncement. In developing new varieties, researchers will look at traits ranging from enhanced flavour to diseaseand drought resistance. They’ll also have an eye towards bringing what are called “world crops” into production. CEO Jim Brandle notes a study by University of Guelph Prof. Glen Filson that estimates a $700-million a year market exists for such crops – Chinese broccoli, eggplant, okra, bitter melon, smooth amaranth and bok choy, among them – just in Ontario. Vineland’s job is to help adapt these world crops to Ontario conditions. Other research efforts resulting from Tuesday’s support will centre around horticultural production systems, including natural and automated pest management systems for greenhouse and nursery operations. Labour is one of the sector’s biggest costs, and in Brandle’s view, if production can be reduced or automated like it is in field crops, food prices can be held in line and products
will be more accessible. And finally, he says, researchers will keep trying to answer the age-old question – that is, what do consumers want? – so farmers can respond with the appropriate commodities and products. “We spend a lot of time figuring out what consumers want, then work to try to provide it,” says Brandle. Recent successes from Vineland’s product, process and varietal development efforts include Sundown Pear, for which sales of 40,000 trees are predicted this year, Pixie grapes (an ornamental dwarf grapevine) and the development of the Appassimento grape drying system for Ontario conditions. “This is a new way to innovate,” says Brandle. “It’s more results-oriented. Things flow faster when you have investment from growers, a good consumer focus and partners for commercialization.” So if limited variety is the main reason you’re not eating enough fruit and vegetables, you may soon run out of excuses.
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The not-so-easy ride off into the sunset The tribulations of retiring farm couple’s decision to move to the city are comedic fodder for Theatre Wellesley’s production of Harvest WILL SLOAN Let’s say you’ve been married for four decades and you’re ready to retire. You’ve lived on a farm for many years, but you don’t want to die there. No, you want to sell it and move to a condo, living the rest of your life in the big city. But it’s not a simple matter of selling the house. Instead, you’re faced with neighbours, renters, house inspectors, and insurance and real estate agents of variable quality. And, of course, you have to deal with each other – you may have been married for most of your lives, but that doesn’t mean you see eyeto-eye. Suffice it to say, Charlotte (Lori Hoelscher) and Allan (Dave McNorgan), the stars of Harvest, seem designed to ring true to many of Wellesley Township’s farm-dwelling residents. The travails of their retirement form the foundation of Harvest, Theatre Wellesley’s new production playing this weekend at the Wellesley Library. “The husband and wife have been married for 42 years, and you don’t have to be a farming couple to identify with what they’re going through,” says star Dave McNorgan. “They’re kind of nattering with each other, but when it comes down to it, they’re really
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there for each other. In that way, it’s a lovely story that transcends rural/urban.” “I think that people are going to be able to relate to the two characters,” says producer Rhonda Caldwell. “Whether you’re in that stage of life, or you’re looking at your parents or your grandparents making decisions about changing and letting go of whatever that life was that you were carrying. We know how difficult that is, and people can relate to the characters from that perspective.” McNorgan discovered Ken Cameron’s play when auditioning for another production, and proposed it to Theatre Wellesley. The ambitious effort will reunite him with Hoelscher and director Al Strong, who collaborated on the company’s fall production, and see the stars taking on a wide range of characters. “It’s relatively simply to stage, but work-wise, it’s humungous, because there are only two in the cast,” says McNorgan. “The past two months have been nonstop thinking about it, practicing, memorizing lines. We rehearse twice a week with our director, and Laurie and I have met a couple of times on our own just because we’ve absolutely needed it.” The veteran cast and crew made the undertaking easier, says Caldwell.
“You know you can trust the other people – they’re going to follow through, they’re going to be able to carry their part, and that makes it easier for you to carry yours.” Though the community theatre group is known for its annual fall production, Harvest marks the beginning of what the company hopes will be a tradition of smaller, more experimental work in the spring. “We’re doing it at the library, so we don’t need nearly the amount of audience to cover our costs,” says Caldwell. “When we go to plays in Elmira and some of those other communities, we walk away with some good feelings and introspection because
not only do you have a good time, but you can also relate to the story. We thought if we were going to play with some different kinds of material, a spring show would be the way to do that.” The show also provides an opportunity for the troupe to take advantage of the library space, which accommodates an intimate audience of 30-40. “It’s our rehearsal space, and we’re so blessed that the township gives us this rehearsal space to work in,” says Caldwell. “We always build our set in that room to rehearse. We’ve had a dream for a very long time of being able to do a show in that room, because you basically create a stage.” Harvest plays upstairs at the Wellesley Library (1137 Henry St.), April 25 at 8 p.m., and April 26-27 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $10 ($5 for students and seniors), and are available at Pym’s Village Market (119 Queens Bush Rd.) or by calling 519897-1737. In addition, auditions for Theatre Wellesley’s fall show will be held June 4, 7 p.m. and June 8, 2 p.m. at the library. For more information, visit www. theatrewellesley.ca.
Dave McNorgan and Lori Hoelscher are ready to sell the farm in Theatre Wellesley’s first spring production, on this weekend. [SUBMITTED]
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In loving memory of Luke, who passed away, April 25, 1996. 18 years ago you left us, your memory is as dear today as the hour you passed away. Forever remembered and always loved by Mom and Dad, brother Skye, Aunt Dianne and Uncle Brian and Uncle Scott and Aunt Michele, three cousins Cody, Jesse and Lucas, Grandparents Irene Hamilton and the late Ken Hamilton.
DEATH NOTICES CHAMBERS, ROSE | Peacefully passed away with her family
by her side on Tuesday, April 22, 2014 at Grand River Hospital, in her 91st year, of Elmira. BEAUMONT, FLORENCE (NEE WEPPLER) | Peacefully on Easter Sunday, April 20, 2014 at Caressant Care, Listowel. Florence (Merkley) Beaumont age 96 years formerly of St. Jacobs and Conestogo. MARTIN, SALOME | Peacefully passed away on Saturday,
April 19, 2014, at Martin’s Rest Home, Elmira, at the age of 58 years.
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if not identical items to the same market, this decision could make some sense. But we are not. A drugstore is a different outlet than a grocery store. Their entire premise is illogical, especially so when that 90 per cent would effectively be transferred to the only other genuine grocery store rival upon closure, creating an effective monopoly – the very thing the Competition Bureau ostensibly is guarding against. Here we have a prime example of myopic decision-making by civil servants whose result is likely the opposite of what was intended. It would be comical if it were not so serious. The decision means that the current franchisees of No Frills will lose their store. It means all the current employees will be placed in a grey zone as to whether they will have jobs in the future. It means Loblaws will lose some leverage because any future buyer will know they have to divest, squeezing down the selling price. And for the community, it means that one of two grocery stores will be forced to close without any guarantees that another will take its place – notwithstanding Mr. Durocher’s optimism that one will appear. Perhaps the Competition Bureau should now divulge the confidential parts of the settlement with Loblaws to allay these fears – do they know more than they are letting on? At core, this decision is bereft of a sense of proportionality (you don’t lose all the groceries because toothpaste prices might increase). It flies in the face of common sense and begs the question of whether the Competition Bureau has the competence to deal with these issues. It might be time for a cry after all.
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Peacefully passed away with her family by her side on Tuesday, April 22, 2014 at Grand River Hospital, in her 91st year. Rose (Hillis) Chambers, of Elmira, was the beloved wife of the late F. Arlee Chambers (2003). Loving mother of the late Connie Chambers (2009) and her husband Terry Lyon of Baden, Sandie and Rick Bott, Steve and Mady Chambers, all of Elmira. Lovingly remembered by her grandchildren Cory (Darlene), Craig (Katie) and Curtis (Tanya) Chambers, Jason (Morgan) Bott, Amber (Bott) Snyder, Shawn Lyon, Jairo (Amanda) and Jaime (Elena) Rueda, and by her great-grandchildren Brandon, Cody and Adam Chambers, Justin and Londyn Chambers, Joshua and Jenna Chambers, Jaxon Bott, Jorden Wilson, and Sebastion Rueda. Dear sister-in-law of Margaret Hillis of Elmira. Predeceased by her parents Nelson and Josephine (Mills) Hillis, her brothers Harry “Buddyâ€? and Don, and her sister Doreen Plank. The family received their relatives and friends at the Dreisinger Funeral Home, Elmira on Thursday, April 24, 2014 from 7-9 p.m. where a funeral service will be held in the funeral home chapel on Friday, April 25, 2014 at 2 p.m. with Pastor David Slomka oďŹƒciating. Interment in Elmira Union Cemetery. In Rose’s memory, donations to the Canadian Cancer Society would be appreciated as expressions of sympathy.
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Passed away to be with her loving Lord and Saviour at her home in Elmira on Wednesday, April 23, 2014 at the age of 47 years. Elaine (Wells) Harris was the beloved wife of David Harris. Loved mother of Rachel, Steven (Ashley Monroe), and Rebecca Harris. Sister of Ross (Marjorie), Murray (Marilyn), Faye (Ab) Boogerman. Dear daughter of Harold Wells. Predeceased by her mother Wilma (Noble) Wells. A memorial service will be conducted at the Emmanuel Evangelical Missionary Church, Elmira on Saturday, April 26, 2014 at 3 p.m. Cremation has taken place.
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A sincere thank you to everyone who attended my surprise retirement party and to those who did all the work. Thanks so much for your cards, quilt, flowers and variety of gifts. I am deeply touched by your generosity. Employed by Elmira & District Community Living for the past 17 years has given me the opportunity to interact with many people who I will always count as friends. You have blessed me with many treasured memories. Thanks again and God bless you all.
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Palmerston – Move in & enjoy the summer in your new Home. Solid 1.5 storey brick 3 bdrm, 1.5 bath home w/detached sngl car garage. Recently remodeled master & both baths. New roof 2010, orig hrdwd flrs, double French drs & spacious rms throughout. Lots of character & space for young or growing family. 3 decks, children’s playground & huge private/fenced & beautifully landscaped backyard make this property ideal for entertaining or simply enjoying some family time. MLS 1417276. Call Paul or Alli direct.
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Breslau – Approx 2700sqft house located on 3.15 acres. Enjoy sunsets from your bckyrd haven. Tree lined private drive. Complete w/main flr LR, FR w/wood fp, eat in kit & sep DR. Main flr bdrm w/kitchenette & 3pc ens. Side entrance ideal for home office/business. Master bdrm w/8ftx8ft walk in closet & 3pc ens. Fin'd basement featuring lg bar & location for wood stove. Bsmnt bath incl sauna, whirlpool. 648sqft unfinished bonus room above garage. TLC Required. MLS 1414121. Call Alli or Paul direct.
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DESIRABLE WOODED NEIGHBOURHOOD – with park-like yard – 120x250 backing to wooded parkland! 1650 square foot bungalow w/ attached sunroom at rear. 3 bedrooms, main floor laundry, partially finished basement w/gas f/p. Central air, central vac. Rare opportunity to purchase a wooded lot of this size and location! NEW MLS. LOCATION! Desirable Southwood Park. Close to walking trails and across from a park. Lovely oak kitchen with ’bump out’ dinette & walkout to concrete patio. Private asphalt driveway. Storage shed. Convenient side entry. 3 bedrooms. Spacious finished rec. room & washroom in lower level. MLS $284,900.
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FUNDRAISING / MAN ON A MISSION
He can’t wait to be on the road again While he’s back in Elmira now, local man is itching to continue cycling trek in support of World Vision
Spring is all about the garden and what it will bring RECIPE NOTES
Charlie Bauman cycled through 13 states from Oregon to Virginia last year. He departs for Alaska – and the most challenging months of the journey – on June 17.
WILL SLOAN It may look like he’s just sweeping floors in the kitchen of Flow Café and Catering, but Charlie Bauman has a plan brewing. Last July, Bauman returned from a bike journey that saw him cycle through 13 states from Oregon to Virginia, and then from Virginia to Elmira, all to raise money for World Vision. On June 17, it’s back
on the road, travelling the trans-Canadian highway to Edmonton, and then Alaska. Along the way, he’s stopped at every major city and town he finds to pass the hat for the Christian charity, which offers humanitarian aid for impoverished children and communities. “I’ve always enjoyed cycling, and I was like, ‘You know what? Why don’t I do something I like, and try to
make it for a good cause,’” he says. “It kind of puts me in the sense of how they’re feeling, in a way,” he says. “I’m doing it by choice, so I can’t complain, but there are days when for 300km you don’t see anything, and you’re like, ‘I have no food, no water, I’m tired, I don’t want to go on. This is how it must feel.’” He continues, “I’m decking myself out in World
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Vision gear,” says Bauman. “People will always ask me, ‘Oh, you’re a World Vision guy?’ I’ll say, ‘No, I’m just helping to raise funds for it,’ and I’ll tell them about it. They’ll say, ‘Oh, here, let me give you a few bucks,’ and those few bucks add up.” So far, Bauman has raised $4,700, with an ultimate fundraising goal of $15,000. “There are towns I stopped in where they’d say, ‘Come to our community centre,’
and they’d have a bunch of people there and say, ‘This guy’s for World Vision.’ I got $150 from one town, stopped in at Yellowstone National Park and got $300 from there …” When asked if he has any favourite spots, Bauman responds, “It’s really the people, not the location – the people make the scenery.” CYCLIST | 31
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Despite the ups and downs in the weather, there’s a spring in everyone’s step. The long winter is over and we look forward to warm breezes and plants springing up in the garden. Those who know me well understand my predicament with the garden: yes, it’s the thyme factor. Every year I begin the challenge with my garden with a vengeance. This will be the year we get control of the crazy meadow and gardens that were left to nature for many years. I will say that things have improved over the years but it has been a long go of weeds and the naturalizing of bulbs. Then, of course, there’s the fallout from the massive ice storm that took down our 100-year-old maple tree last year. On the upside, the storm has left a perfect place for a veggie garden. The thyme factor is whether or not I will be able to fit it all in. Our little business takes up a lot of time during planting season, which always puts us behind. This is a new year and Ron and I will give it another go and we’ll see where we get. My inspiration will be the picture of my dad tilling the CHEF’S TABLE | 31
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APRIL 25 HEY KIDS IN GRADE 5-8, looking for a place to hang out? Get a bunch of your friends together and come join the dance party! Our kids’ dance is the event you are looking for; 6:30 p.m. at Breslau Community Centre, 100 Andover Dr., Breslau. The Breslau Lions Club believes that kids in this age group need and deserve to have a fun, safe, secure, co-ed, social environment and it is our desire to provide such an opportunity.
APRIL 26 TREE PLANTING - HELP leave a green legacy; 9 a.m. - 12 p.m., Trees For Woolwich church challenge. For more information contact Ann at 519-669-6027 or 519-664-2613, ext. 6027 or aroberts@woolwich.ca. MARYHILL KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Vegas Night at the Bridgeport Rod & Gun, 1229 Beitz Rd., RR1 Breslau. Doors open at 7 p.m., fun begins at 8. Many beautiful quilts & generous prizes to be won at the big wheel: grocery hampers, turkeys, hams, steaks, misc. Other games of chance as well. A light lunch will be served at the end. Arrive early to get a good seat. All proceeds are given to charity, to be announced that evening. Contact Mike Runstedler 519-648-3394; Doug Zinger 519-648-2939. VISIT THE WTHHS HISTORICAL Room at the Old School, 1137 Henry St., Wellesley, on Saturday between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. and enjoy displays and interesting historical facts about Wellesley Township. Free admission.
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ST. JAMES EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN Church, 60 Arthur St. S., Elmira will be hosting a concert featuring The Renaissance Singers at 3 p.m. This concert features two premiers: Boyd McDonald with string quintet and tenor saxophone and Emily Walker (commissioned work), as well as settings of Blake, Donne, Yeats, Shakespeare and other. No charge but there will be a free-will offering at the door. For more info contact St. James at 519-6695591 or email saintjames@golden.net.
APRIL 27 BIRD WATCHING HIKE. 2-4 p.m. Join Mark Bauman for birding and hiking on the Health Valley Trail in St. Jacobs. For more information call Mark at 519-4658368 or mbauman@woolwich.ca. CAREGIVER COFFEE HOUR – meets on the 1st Tuesday of the month (Sept. to June) 10-11:30 a.m. at Chateau Gardens, 11 Hebert St., Elmira. This support group is offered in conjunction with the K-W Alzheimer Society. May 6: guest speaker, Cathy Harrington, from Community Care Concepts. For more information call Lorraine at 519-664-3794, ext. 229.
APRIL 28 SENIORS LUNCH CLUB AT noon (doors open at 11:30 a.m.). Woolwich Memorial Centre, 24 Snyder Ave. S., Elmira (community room). Cost $6. Join us for a noonday light lunch and fellowship. Call Community Care Concepts at 519-664-1900 for more information. CAREGIVER SUPPORT GROUP MEETS on the 1st Thursday of the month (Sept. to June), 10-11 a.m. at the Woolwich Community Health Centre, 10 Parkside Dr., St. Jacobs. Join this informal group of caregivers who
are acquainted with the struggles you experience. For more info, call Lorraine at 519-664-3794, ext. 229.
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APRIL 29 TREE PLANTING - HELP leave a green legacy. April 29 & 30 with Woolwich Clean Waterways Group. For more information contact Ann at 519-669-6027 or 519-664-2613, ext. 6027 or aroberts@woolwich.ca. ELECTRONIC BINGO UPSTAIRS AT the St. Clements Community Centre, 7 p.m., sponsored by the Paradise & District Lions Club. For more information contact Lion Joe Brick 519-699-4022.
APRIL 30 MODEL SEDER - WHAT do the Jewish Passover and Jesus’ last supper have in common? Andrew Barron, with Jews for Jesus, will answer that question as he presents “Christ in the Passover” at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church located at 27 Mill St. in Elmira, at 7 p.m. You’ll gain wonderful insights on how the pieces of God’s plan of salvation fit together, and you’ll remember this visual display of the Passover pageantry for years to come. Join us for Christ in the Passover from Egypt to Calvary to what it means for us today. For information contact St. Paul’s Lutheran at 519-669-2541 or stpauls@golden.net. CAREGIVER COFFEE HOUR MEETS the 1st Tuesday of the month (Sept. – June) 10-11:30 a.m. at Chateau Gardens, 11 Herbert St., Elmira. This support group is offered in conjunction with the K-W Alzheimer Society. For more information call Lorraine at 519664-3794, ext 229.
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St. Paul’s 9:15am Sunday School Lutheran 10:30am Worship Service Pastor: Richard A. Frey Church Sharing the Message of Christ and His Love 27 Mill St., Elmira • 519-669-2593 www.stpaulselmira.ca
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Tree planting among the many things spring brings
TAKING NOTE OF EARTH DAY
Kiwanis Club and Trees for Woolwich volunteers will be in force this weekend WILL SLOAN The arrival of spring means many things – the melting of snow, the blooming of flowers, and the taxman, not necessarily in that order. While many of us view the dawn of spring as the real beginning of the year, for treeplanting groups it’s just a narrow window that needs to be their most productive time of year. Saturday, Woolwich Township will see its first two major tree-planting initiatives: Trees for Woolwich is back with its annual church challenge, and the Elmira Kiwanis Club will have its semi-annual planting session. Kiwanis member and Ward 1 councilor Allan Poffenroth proposed the tree-planting project to the Elmira club in 2010. “When I went out for walks, I thought that we should have more trees,” he said.
“So I convinced the Kiwanis Club to take on the program, and since 2010 we’ve planted 25 to 30 trees every spring and every fall.” He continued, “I think it’s nice to have a town that has a lot of trees, instead of a barren operation. It suddenly occurred to me out walking, ‘Oh, there could be a tree here, there could be a tree there, they cut this tree down and didn’t replace it…’ I thought I could do something about this.” For the third year, the church challenge will bring members from Elmira’s various sects together for a little friendly competition at the railway tracks off of South Field Drive. Which faith plants the most trees? “Last year, the largest contingent was from Trinity United, and they were pretty proud of that,” laughed Trees for Woolwich chair Inga Rinne. “But St. Teresa is doing if for the first time this
year, and from what I hear, they’re pretty excited about this.” She added, “Stewardship of the environment is one value all religions share, so it makes sense to come together for this.” The event will also include a tree planting in honour of Larry Martin, an active volunteer with Trees for Woolwich who died last summer. Woolwich’s relative dearth of tree coverage remains a pressing issue for the township. In the early 20th century, urban myths suggesting that trees soaked up water from crops led to farmers regularly cutting down their saplings: while the environmental ideal for tree coverage in the Grand River Watershed is 30 per cent of the land, that number fell to five per cent at its lowest point. “As we all know, trees create a lot of good things
for the environment. Along with creating shade and beauty, they give off lots of good stuff, don’t they?” says Poffenroth. The Kiwanis Club of Elmira’s planting will take place on Mockingbird Drive from Oriole Parkway to Finch Place, 9-11 a.m. The club will also be holding several events throughout the year to raise money for its fall tree-planting session, beginning with its annual Lobsterfest on May 31. For more information, visit www.elmirakiwanisclub.com. The Trees for Woolwich church challenge will take place 9 a.m. to noon. They’ll partner with more plantings on April 29-30 with the Woolwich Clean Waterways Group, and a seedling planting at the Elmira Tree Nursery on April 29. For more information, contact Ann Roberts at 519-669-6027 or aroberts@ woolwich.ca.
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“Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle” was the name of the game for Samantha Klinger and Emily Lambe. The University of Waterloo co-op students working for the region’s waste management division taught conservation at Linwood Public School on April 24.
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STRANGE BUT TRUE / BILL & RICH SONES PH.D.
Where future technology is concerned, a crystal ball isn’t always on the ball WEIRD NOTES
Q. If you suffer a seri-
ous health problem while on a commercial flight, how might “telephone booth syncope� enter into play here?
A. Let’s say you wind up passing out on the plane, but the narrow seats keep you from falling, so you are without sufficient blood flow to the brain, a situation that can lead to cardiac arrest, says Dena Rifkin, M.D., in “Discover� magazine. This potentially lethal combination was known as “telephone booth syncope,� where passing out in an old-style
telephone booth kept the body upright and caused the central nervous system to shut down– especially breathing controlled by the brain stem. “Falling over is the body’s way of protecting itself from low blood pressure because it allows whatever blood pressure remains to work with gravity in getting blood to the brain.� Confronting just such a medical emergency, Dr. Rifkin realized it was vital to get as much blood as possible to the man’s brain, applying chest compressions and lifting his legs up to help restore central circulation. Despite this low-tech intervention, he began to move – weakly. The survival rate for cardiac arrests in an air-
plane is remarkably low–1 in 7. But, as Dr. Rifkin explains, long-term survival depends on the cause of the event. If the problem described here was in fact telephone booth syncope, chances are good that the passenger survived. Q. Dust off your crystal ball and try looking 50 years into the future. When sci-fi writer Isaac Asimov did this 50 years ago in 1964, how well did he hit today’s mark?
A. As expected, Asimov had plenty of savvy technological hits, anticipating self-driving cars, video calling, widespread use of nuclear power, single-duty household robots, says David Pogue in “Scientific American� magazine.
dicting the future: “First, almost every new technology takes longer to arrive than sci-fi writers imagine.� Second, not all the big ones can ever be anticipated; for example, even Asimov overlooked the coming of the Internet. Finally, “many attractive or logical developments never materialize, thanks to our own human failings. The fault, dear Isaac, is not in our engineering but in ourselves.� Q. It’s a “growth industry� literally, efflorescing into a number of colorful curiosities: how many? from where and to where? processed by whom? how long from cut to vase?
Asimov also worried about coming world overpopulation, estimating it at 6.5 billion, which isn’t far off today’s 7.1 billion. However, Asimov missed in that underground homes and those underwater never became popular, nor did cars and boats that levitate on jets of compressed air. Actually, many of his prognostications fall into a third category of technologies feasible today but not yet commonplace: moving sidewalks in airports but not on city streets; no moon colonies nor ones on Mars; no large solar-power stations in the desert. As Pogue summarizes it, three lessons can be learned here about pre-
A. Make that 700+ million flowers harvested dur-
ing a recent season, with 78% from Colombia, 15% Ecuador, 2% Mexico, and 1% each Guatemala, Thailand and the Netherlands, says Heather Schwedel in “Mental Floss� magazine. Some 88% of these stems were processed in Miami by 6000+ people working in the flower-importing industry. Points of sale included supermarkets 49%, florists 22%, warehouses 7%, the web 2%, by phone 0.4% and others 19%. “It takes about a week for cut flowers to make their way from the farm to your kitchen table.�
ABOUT THE AUTHORS Bill is a journalist, Rich holds a doctorate in physics. Together the brothers bring you “Strange But True.� Send your questions to strangetrue@compuserve.com.
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95. “Give it ___!� 96. Dash lengths 97. “All ___ are off!� 98. After expenses DOWN 1. Any thick, viscous matter 2. Dark-skinned 3. High relief 4. 50 states 5. Horrible 6. “The ___ Ranger� 7. Appetite 8. Maintained 9. Analyzes 10. Fold, spindle or mutilate 11. “Buddenbrooks� author 12. Take up space 13. Crow’s home 18. Computer info 20. Cattinesses 22. Alternative to Windows 25. Mozart’s “L’___ del Cairo� 27. “I ___ you one� 29. Quick trip 30. Argus-eyed 35. Genetic stuff 36. Fire starter 37. Club publication 39. Haven 41. “The Second Coming� poet
43. Useful 44. Suitable for a duke 45. File 47. ___ juice (milk) 49. Faint 51. Gun, as an engine 54. Utter impulsively 55. Green 58. “___ alive!� 61. Big roll 64. Run off, plural 66. Portable bulletproof shelter 69. Carbonium, e.g. 71. Biblical birthright seller 73. Drone, e.g. 74. Catch, as flies 75. “M*A*S*H� setting 76. Getting on 78. Muhammad’s religion 80. Crowded 81. Crack 83. A chorus line 85. Bank 87. “MS. Found in a Bottle� writer 88. Hangup 93. To the same degree
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Being back in Elmira – where he works at Flow and the Sip ‘n Bite restaurant – has been just a little strange for someone who has spent so many nights on the road. The trip, he says, “Takes away all the distractions of life – having a job, going home to a nice, warm bed and shower. It really makes you appreciate the nice stuff.” He’ll need to appreciate that bed and shower while he has them, because the second half of the trip will
pose the greatest challenges. “Going up north, there won’t be as many people and there will be smaller towns. Just that complete solitude will be the biggest factor to push through. It’s the most remote part, and I want to see what that’s like, but it’s a doubleedged sword.” Bauman hopes to be back in Elmira in midOctober, and will raise the remainder of his fundraising goal at local events that will be announced at a later date. “I found at
the maple syrup festival, hardly anyone knew what World Vision was. I was like, ‘Are you serious?’ But you go to the larger cities, [many] know about it, but it’s still a widely unknown charity. Their funds go to the children directly.” Will it all be worth it in the end? While en route in the United States, Bauman travelled for a time with a European cyclist who long dreamed of traversing the red, white and blue. He finally made the plunge when his wife told him it was now or never. This is
a philosophy that Bauman has taken to heart. “If you don’t force yourself to get out there and do it, you’re never going to do it.” Bauman hopes to raise $15,000, or one for every kilometre pedaled. Donations can be made at http://my.worldvision.ca/ mwv/fundraiser/367. His progress can be followed at www.facebook.com/Cycle4Humanity.
Charlie Bauman has collected $4,700 for World Vision during his travels. [WILL SLOAN / THE OBSERVER]
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garden on the farm and the conversation we both enjoyed in his garden. Many of his plants will be making their way to our garden, a good choice of therapy. It won’t be huge but we will focus on things that are easy to grow and herbs that we enjoy in our cooking. Welcome spring, we are thrilled to have you here and look forward to all you bring. These recipes draw inspiration from the upcoming asparagus season. Enjoy some sunshine, warmth and good memories in your garden.
Roasted Asparagus and Cherry Tomatoes 2 bunches of asparagus, trimmed and peeled if needed 2 tbsp white balsamic vinegar 3 tbsp olive oil 1 red onion, sliced into rings 15 cherry tomatoes, halved Goat cheese Salt and pepper to season
In pot of boiling water, blanche asparagus for 2 minutes, pull out of water and shock in a bowl of ice water; In a bowl, combine sliced onion, cherry tomato, add blanched asparagus and gently toss in olive oil,
salt and pepper; Place on tray lined with parchment paper and roast in oven at 400F until warm; Place on a serving platter and garnish with crumbled goat cheese.
PotatoCrusted Salmon Fillet 1 Yukon gold potato 4 salmon fillet portions (6oz) Olive oil 1 tbsp butter Salt and pepper
Peel the potato and make long shoestrings with a mandoline slicer; place in cold water to avoid the potato browning; Season salmon with salt and pepper; Drain the potato and dry as best you can. Wrap the potato around the salmon; Place pan on medium heat, add butter and olive oil. Once the oil is hot, sear the salmon in the pan and allow the fish to brown on both sides, then place on a baking tray lined with parchment; Bake in oven at 400F for approximately 12 minutes.
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