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POLITICS / PROVINCE

Mike Harris Jr. replaces Michael Harris as PC candidate in KitchenerConestoga FAISAL ALI WITH THE SUDDEN EXPULSION of MPP Michael Harris from the Progressive Conservative caucus earlier this month, the party was left scrambling to find a suitable replacement to field in Kitchener-Conestoga in time for the upcoming provincial election. Circumventing usual process, where card-carrying party members must vote for their choice of representative, Mike Harris Jr. the party opted to appoint its own instead.

Mike Harris Jr., who has no relation to the riding’s current MPP Michael Harris but is instead the son of the former Ontario premier Mike Harris, was one of 11 candidates appointed by party leader Doug Ford on Saturday to the remaining ridings in the province without a representative.

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Plans are in the works to redevelop most of the 4.2-acre property in St. Jacobs, while retaining the heritage features of the building, which dates back to the late 19th century.

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Former Jakobstettel Inn property generates heritage, redevelopment concerns STEVE KANNON A HERITAGE DESIGNATION FOR the former Jakobstettel Inn building shouldn’t delay redevelopment efforts on the 4.2-acre property, Woolwich council decided this week.

Although the township’s heritage committee called for the designation of the historic

structure prior to any development, councillors opted to run the process concurrently with the owners’ bid to rezone the property. The developer is looking to construct 25 to 27 homes on a 3.25-acre portion of the land at 16 Isabella St. in St. Jacobs.

Representing the owner, planner Paul Puopolo said his client favours heritage designation

for the building, currently being used as a guesthouse, but would like the process to run in tandem with the redevelopment proposal.

His suggestion met with a largely sympathetic reception from councillors.

Ward 2’s Coun. Mark Bauman seemed most eager to avoid putting additional hurdles in the

owner’s path, particularly at this point in the process, noting he too was frustrated with the process.

As with past discussions about heritage designation for properties, he expressed concerns about imposing stringent controls on properties.

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REGION / BRESLAU

Location an obstacle in plans for a library in Breslau FAISAL ALI Finding a suitable location remains a large hurdle on the road to building a library in Breslau.

The latest concerns were raised last week at Region of Waterloo council.

Eager for a new library in the fast growing community, the township had suggested the basement of the Breslau Community Centre as a possible location, which the region is cau-

tioning may be too small.

At about 4,000 sq. ft.

(370 sq. m.), the basement would not be enough space to adequately service Breslau’s growing population, said region staff. The basement setting, moreover, would also reduce the comfort and accessibility of the location, staff added.

“We would ideally hope for a space that’s somewhere between a minimum of 5,000 – hopefully 7,000 to 10,000 sq. ft,” explained Kel-

HANDIWORK / EDSS

EDSS students have a long history of projects that support community

Local students are gaining real-world experience by giving back to the community.

Teacher Alex Derma has been encouraging community involvement through his various custom woodworking classes at Elmira District Secondary School, facilitating projects such as custom toy builds, food bank bins and, most recently, a project to build birdhouse kits for community groups this school year.

Each year the Grade 11 class designs, builds and distributes custom toys to a deserving community group for Christmas.

The students are tasked with conducting research and collectively choosing a worthy organization.

In the past, they have donated toys to places like Woolwich Community Services and women’s shelters, among others.

This year’s recipient was Sunbeam, a multi-site organization providing residential care, day programming and other services for individuals with developmental, physical and emotional impairments in the Waterloo Region.

For the organization’s Laura-Lee McKeown, the students’ generosity and creativity have come alive in the custom toys that have made a positive contribution to Sunbeam.

“Our vision is an exclusive community where people of all abilities are

for areas in the library that might contain 3D-printers, robots and other such technological and constructive tools for people to use.

With a population of about 3,778, and several new subdivisions in the works, Breslau is expected to more than double by the year 2031. The town is one of the fastest growing communities, notes the region, while many in Breslau currently have to use libraries in neighbouring towns. At

the Bloomingdale branch, 34 per cent of its registered users are in fact residents of Breslau, for instance, showing a definite need in the community.

“We’ve looked carefully at the size of the community now and where it’s predicted to go over the next several years. We would love to see a library in there as soon as possible, but it’s never as easy as that. So we’ve been working with the township to try and

find something suitable,” says Bernstein.

The region is recommending that the township continue to search for another location for the library, but are still committed to the project.

“We’re really excited about the possibility of having a branch there. We know the residents have been asking for quite a long time and we’re hopeful that something happens soon,” said Bernstein.

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EDSS student’s latest project is for the birds ALI WILSON

ly Bernstein, library services manager for the region.

“That would allow us to have ample space for the collection that the community wants – an appropriate size for them. But also computers and public reading areas, program space, a ‘Makerspace’ of some kind, collaborative work space and community meeting space. All the elements we’d like to see going in our new libraries these days.”

‘Makerspace’ is the term

valued, so to me it really showed that these young people could see the value in the individuals that are supported and took the time to research and see what kind of toys would be valuable to them and pass them on,” said McKeown. “The toys went to our day program and we actually have a toy library here that, based on whatever program is going on or who is in the building at any point, they can go to the toy library and choose a toy to play with.”

Now, the Grade 12 class is gearing up to mass manufacture birdhouse kits for another cause, a Mennonite Central Committee auction. Under the supervision of teacher Randy Dyck, the project is set to teach students skills for mass manufacturing a woodworking project while providing an opportunity to make a wider contribution.

“We will be building birdhouses for the community; they are then going to sell as them as birdhouse packages. We are cutting all of the wood down for people and then there will be a package that they can purchase – we are the ‘IKEA’ for this community project,” Derma explained.

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Plenty of volunteers for this meaty, hands-on activity Elmira effort for Mennonite Central Committe meat canning enterprise sees some 44,000 lbs of food prepared for shipping overseas to those in need FAISAL ALI There was a flurry of activity in Elmira this week as hundreds of volunteers participated in the Mennonite Central Committee’s (MCC) annual meat canning charity event. Volunteers from Elmira and the neighbouring communities prepared some 44,000 pounds (20,000 kgs) of meat into food supplies for those in need.

The event kicked off at the start of the week with the arrival of MCC’s mobile meat canner at the Elmira Produce Auction Centre.

Each year, the mobile canner makes a months-long journey to communities across the U.S. and into Ontario, stopping along the way for dozens of canning events like the one that takes place in Elmira. The charity is linked strongly with the traditional Mennonite communities of North America, who have been participating in it for years.

“It is quite unique. I don’t know that any other organization does this, but the output is quite substantial,” said MCC Ontario executive director John Head.

The canner began its journey back in October, and has been travelling in the months since: from Ohio to Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, through Pennsylvania and finally into Ontario. Elmira is one of only two Canadian communities participating, and is the second-last stop on the canner’s itinerary. After Elmira, the last stop will be in Leamington for the week

Dozens of volunteers were at the Elmira Produce Auction Centre at the crack of dawn Monday to help with the MCC meat canning charity. This year, approximately 44,000 lbs of meat is being prepared by the group in Elmira. [FAISAL ALI / THE OBSERVER] of April 30.

“It’s a big community effort,” said Neil Martin, chair of the Elmira meat canning committee, which organizes the local event.

“You have individuals from the community that volunteer. You have youth

groups from different churches that volunteer, and even some people from different churches ... that’s the bulk of the volunteers,” he said, adding that volunteers will come from as far as Mount Forest and Milverton.

The meat canning is an international event, but it is the local organizing committees which determine the success of the charity.

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HARRIS: Party appoints son of former Ontario premier to carry the banner into June 7 election FROM | COVER

didate Harris, a Waterloo resident and father of five, said he and his family were looking forward to the June 7 election.

“We’re really excited to be part of what’s happening here not only in the Region of Waterloo but of course Ontario in general,” said Harris. “It’s an exciting for our family and we’re really looking forward to what’s to come in the election.”

Along with Harris, other appointments included former Guelph city councillor Ray Ferraro in Guelph and Andrew Lawton, previously a radio personality, in London West.

“Help is on the way.

We are only 47 days away

from defeating Kathleen Wynne’s government and giving Ontario the change it needs,” said Ford in a media statement. “We have a strong team of candidates who are committed to delivering change that works for the people. It’s time for a government that respects the taxpayer, a government that keeps its promises and puts money back into your pockets.”

Harris, for his part, would agree with the party leader, arguing the need for more frugal spending at Queen’s Park.

“Like I said, I’m also a father of five, so there’s a vested interest for me in making sure that my children have a good future and we’re not mortgaging our future for short-term

gains and votes in the election like the Liberals are doing,” he said of his motivation to stand for election.

Harris had initially run for the PC candidacy in the Waterloo riding earlier this year, but was defeated by nominee Dan Weber.

Harris says though that he learned a great deal through the experience.

After losing the Waterloo nomination, Harris said he still expressed an interested in joining the party.

“I made my intentions known that if there was ever the possibility of getting involved with Kitchener-Conestoga, I would be more than happy to do so,” he said. “And I think they weighed whatever they needed to on their end and I got a call Saturday morn-

ing saying that they wanted me to be part of the movement that’s happening.

And I of course said yes.”

Harris lives outside of the riding, but he says he has experienced the area through community events and through friendships.

He admits though some lack of familiarity with the townships.

“On a governmental level, no, I don’t. There’s not a lot of relationships that I have there, but I’m working on growing those as we speak,” he said.

On his experience and qualifications, Harris notes his roots in the party, as well as his volunteerism on the campaigns of other Tory politicians in the Nipissing riding, including his home town of North

Bay. “Politics has been in my blood for 33 years. I am of course am the son of former premier Mike Harris.

I’ve been around politics the majority of my life,” he said. “And not only have I seen it from the inside of Queen’s Park throughout the years, but I’ve also helped out on many campaigns in the riding of Nipissing where I’m from in North Bay with Al MacDonald and subsequently Vic Fideli. So I’m no stranger to what it takes to run a strong campaign.”

Harris also points to his professional experience as a business development officer for a multinational company, and as a small business owner in Waterloo of a frozen yogurt estab-

lishment, which he says closed after construction began on the light rail transit line “So I’m very familiar with a lot of the different plights that small business – any business really, not just small business – runs up against,” said Harris.

Harris will be running in the June 7 general election against the other candidates in the riding: Liberal Joe Gowing, New Democrat Kelly Dick and the Green party’s Bob Jonkman.

The two-term MPP Michael Harris, who was slated to be the PC candidate in Kitchener-Conestoga, was ousted from the party after being accused of inappropriately texting a former party intern back in 2013.

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but in learning life-long skills.

“I tell the kids the two biggest purchases you’re going to make in your life are your house and your car,” he said. “These are purchase you’re going to make, so it makes sense to know something about it and if you take this course in college its going to cost you thousands of dollars – so why not take it now when it’s free?”

While Derma got into teaching to help introduce more students to the value of a career in the trades, he says EDSS is a great tech school for promoting all students to fall

in love with the possibility of working with their hands.

“We have a very, very good school for tech so it is a lot easier to present it to them that way. A lot of hardworking kids who have grown up using tools that already know how to do that,” he said. “That’s why I got in it to make sure that they knew that door was there.”

Their most recent project will take the students about two weeks to complete, spending each class dedicated to creating custom birdhouse kits. They will then be sold through the New Hamburg Mennonite Relief Sale at the end of May.

Students in the Grade 12 woodworking class at Elmira District Secondary School completed various projects throughout the year that go back to the community, including toys around Christmastime to various service groups. More recently, students will begin working on bird house kits to raise money for MCC.

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Slotting in more revenues The Township of Centre Wellington got $520,433 richer last week thanks to fourth-quarter (January to March) non-tax gaming revenue payment from the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation for hosting OLG Slots at Grand River Raceway.

Centre Wellington has received more than $29 million to fill its coffers since the facility first opened in 2003.

These payments are made under a formula in the Municipality Contribution Agreement that determines the fee municipalities receive for hosting

an OLG gaming facility and 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.

At approximately $2 billion annually, OLG provides the Ontario government with its largest source of non-tax revenue. Some $115 million has been allocated this year for distribution through the Ontario Trillium Foundation.

Waste app data compromised If you signed up for the region’s “My Waste” app, your email may have been acquired last week when the app’s owner, Recycle Coach, was compromised. Some 3,000 email addresses were accessed, the region reports.

The majority of users of the My Waste app were not affected and the My Waste app was not compromised in any way.

However, users who had “opted in” to receive marketing emails and updates from Recycle Coach had been compromised, the region said in a release.

The only information accessed was email addresses. No passwords, names, addresses, location or country information were compromised. Some subscribers may receive or continue to receive spam email as a result of this incident.

The region is now investigating options for alternative applications to meet the needs of its constituents and we will ensure the tools we offer meet its standards.

MCC to close Milverton shop

Continuing the review of its thrift shops, the Mennonite Central Commit-

tee (MCC) last week announced the it will close its location in Milverton as of June 30.

The New to You Thrift Shop opened in 1989 and was the seventh MCC Thrift Shop to open in Ontario. New to You has contributed more than $700,000 to Mennonite Central Committee’s work of relief, development and peace in Ontario and around the world since it opened.

“We deeply appreciate the dedication shown by the staff, volunteers, customers and churches who have supported the New to You Thrift Shop and we recognize the impact of this difficult decision.” said Jans Martens Janzen, MCC Ontario’s director of social

enterprise, said in a release.

Mennonite Central Committee operates seven thrift shops in Ontario and an additional 90 in Canada and the U.S. Each year MCC Thrift Shops in Ontario are able to divert more than 4,000 tonnes from landfills. In 2017 MCC Thrift Shops in Canada contributed over $20 million to the mission of MCC.

CLARIFICATION The photos that accompanied last week’s story about Karen Weber should have been attributed to Gary’s Lens Photography. The Observer regrets the omission.

POLICE BLOTTER

Re-think choice to house ATM on site, police advise business owners A string of ATM-targeted crimes has police asking business owners to evaluate the benefits of ATM ownership.

Since January 2017 thieves have targeted 58 businesses in the Brant, Waterloo, Hamilton, Owen Sound and Niagara areas, Ontario Provincial Police report.

The motive of operation is the same in each instance. Suspect(s) attend the business and scope out the location of the ATM, then sometime between 12 a.m. and 5 a.m. the suspects will ram a stolen vehicle through the front entrance or windows of the building, wrap a chain around the ATM and forcible rip it from the premises.

The damage left behind ranges from $20,000 to $250,000 to the building and in some cases leaves the building structurally

unsound. The average loss from and ATM is approximately $10,000, plus loss of revenue while the store is closed and the associated repair costs. The costs can easily become unbearable, not to mention the increase to insure the business again. The average profit from an ATM is approximately $0.20 for every $20 dispensed, police say.

There is no predictability in terms of when or where incidents occur. Gas stations, variety stores, large chain restaurants and shopping malls are all vulnerable.

The OPP encourage business owners with an ATM to report any/all suspicious activity to police immediately. The OPP are also alerting owners of pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles to always pocket vehicle keys and to ensure vehicles are locked at all times.

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man was arrested and charged with ‘theft under $5,000.’

7:32 AM | A vendor at the St. Jacobs Farmers’ Market called police to report a sculpture had been stolen from their booth the previous Saturday. Witnesses were able to identify the suspect and as a result a 64-year-old Kitchener

2:23 PM | A 47-year-old Conestogo woman was driving a black Audi eastbound on Lobsinger Line near Martin Creek Road when several chunks of ice flew off of a

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cube van travelling in the opposite direction. The driver of the cube truck was likely unaware of the incident and continued driving. The driver of the Audi received minor injuries when the ice smashed her windshield and hood of the vehicle. The vehicle was towed from the scene.

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1:55 PM | During the overnight night hours, an unlocked garage was entered at a residential property on Perth Line 46. While inside, thieves removed a set of keys, documents, and personal effects from an unlocked motor vehicle before leaving the area. The matter remains under investigation, and anyone who may have witnessed suspicious activity in the area at that time is asked to contact police at 1-888-310-1122.

Falling ice from a passing truck struck the windshield of an Audi SUV April 19 near St. Jacobs, resulting in minor injuries to the driver. [FAISAL ALI / THE OBSERVER]

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9:45 PM | Waterloo Regional Police responded to a report of a robbery at a Petro Canada gas station, located on Waterloo Street in the Township of Wilmot. Two male subjects approached the lone clerk and demanded cash. One of the suspects held out a knife. The clerk was not injured during the incident. Both male suspects fled the area in a charcoal coloured van.

Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 519-570-9777 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

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3:00 PM | A local fisherman located the human remains of a young male in the water immediately north of the Belwood Bridge on Wellington County Road 26, within the Village of Belwood.

Officers of the Wellington County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) along with the Central Region Emergency Response Team (ERT) immediately responded to the scene and located the remains. A post-mortem examination was to be conducted at the Office of the Chief Coroner and Ontario Forensic

8:00 AM | Sometime overnight, unknown suspect(s) forced entry to a garage at a residence on County Road 86, Township of Guelph-Eramosa. Once inside, suspects stole approximately $300 worth of tools and equipment. Any person with information regarding this incident is asked to contact the Wellington County OPP at 1-888310-1122. Should you wish to remain anonymous, you may call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS) or submit a tip on-line at www.

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of money, animals and meat, the Elmira committee was able to generate 44,000 lbs of meat that will all be cooked, seasoned, canned and boxed by the volunteers.

“It’s almost like an assembly line, where the process is started with cut-up chunks of meat and then it’s put into the can, then it’s seasoned and then it’s sealed and then the labels are put on it,” explained Head of the work that volunteers put into the canning.

“There’s a bunch of generous people amongst the Mennonites,” said Martin of the mostly Mennonite volunteers. “And this is something that they can dig in with their hands and see the end result and at the end of the day they can say they helped with some charity.”

Last year, a total of 570,000 lbs of beef, turkey, chicken and pork was prepared by volunteers and shipped to besieged and beleaguered communities around the world. Ethiopia was the largest benefactor of the project, receiving about

225,000 lbs worth of food supplies, followed by the Ukraine, North Korea, Burundi and then Nicaragua.

All the food prepared in Elmira will get shipped to a warehouse, from where it can be dispersed across the world, wherever the need is greatest, said MCC’s Head, such as conflict zones and areas affected by natural disasters.

“Those have to be flexible depending on what arises,” he said of the recipients for this year’s supply.

“There might be some initial plans based on known conflict areas

where there’s need, but then if there’s a disaster that occurs, that of course couldn’t be predicted. We have the flexibility to divert some to where then it might most be needed,” he explained.

The volunteers were already hard at work in the early hours of Monday, and

by Thursday (today) they were finished.

“I just want to really stress how thankful we are that so many people come out and support this project,” said Martin. “Not only the Mennonites but I would say for sure it’s a com-

munity effort. You have people donating in fuel for the canner and grocery stores donating food and you have people donating animals and people donating money and it’s pretty humbling all the people that want to help.”

While the food is prepared by volunteers, both Martin and Head note that they still stringently follow all the mandated health and safety requirements.

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Avoid letting tragedies become power grabs THE REACTION TO THIS week’s horrific scene in Toronto was immediate and visceral, as our humanity should have it. The security measures, understandable in the moment, need to be a little less kneejerk. Much less, even.

Although bearing the hallmarks of terrorism, the details known thus far have precluded that label. The motive for the attack does not appear to be political or cultural, rather to be associated with the perpetrator’s personal issues.

That does not, of course, change in any way the murders of 10 people and injuries of 14 others. Families are grieving, bystanders traumatized and public safety in question, just as would be the case with a clear act of terrorism.

At first blush, the crimes for which 25-year-old Alek Minnassian has been charged have more in common with what happened at l’École Polytechnique in Montreal and Isla Vista, California.

While grappling with how someone could be driven to carry out such atrocities, we do have to be vigilant to resist any calls to strip away our rights and protections in the name of public fear and uncertainty. Just as we’ve seen with incidents linked to terrorism, there are those who will try to use the opportunity to push us farther along the road to a police state.

As with every other instance, some of the hysteria will pass, of course, In time, we can come to understand this act, as with others. That’s a necessary step. Significant surveillancestate overreach would be completely wrong, however.

As with terrorist acts, we have to be mindful of the fear the scene on Yonge Street breeds. There are many vested interests with financial and other incentives to call for beefed up security, military spending and even more restrictions to our civil rights and liberties.

You can bet this tragedy will be used to justify more intrusions into our collective privacy.

Certain types have always had the urge to spy on people; in the post-9/11 world, the paranoid and dictatorial have found new ways to curtail public freedoms. Their attempts to play on current fears have many precedents – think of McCarthyism and the state police of hundreds of oppressive regimes.

Those who would take your freedoms argue such measures are little grief if only one terrorist is thwarted or one criminal swept up. The argument holds no merit, as taking away the rights of everyone to round up a few smacks of a bad deal – as Benjamin Franklin noted, “Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.”

Information gathered will do nothing to deter real crime, but would serve as an excellent vehicle for public control. Misuse would be rampant. Throw in a lack of data security and the perils become even greater.

With computers able to crunch vast amounts of disparate data, we would be wise to provide government, agencies and businesses with increasingly less information about ourselves. Preventing more intrusion on our lives is where the real battle lies.

For now, we exercise our humanity in coming to grips with what happened in Toronto. But let’s not get lose sight of the bigger picture and what’s at stake.

At least one Kitchener-Conestoga candidate won’t have a problem with name recognition. Nor a need for new lawn signs.

WORLD VIEW / GWYNNE DYER

Piecing together what North Korea wants WORLD AFFAIRS What does Kim Jon-un want? One thing: security.

He doesn’t want to conquer the world. It’s impractical: only one out of every 300 people in the world is North Korean. He doesn’t even want to conquer South Korea. It’s twice as populous as North Korea and ten times richer: eliminate the border and Kim’s regime would crumble in months. And he certainly doesn’t want to attack the United States.

King Kim III (as we would have called him a couple of centuries ago) declared last week that North Korea has now completed the task of building a nuclear deterrent to ward off a possible American attack.

It will return to the task of building its economy and prosperity instead. Indeed, it will “ stop nuclear tests and launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles,” and even shut down a nuclear weapons test site.

He’s obviously laying out his negotiating position

for the summit meetings that are planned for this month with South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in and for next month with U.S. President Donald Trump.

He clearly wants a deal, but he has long been afraid of an American attack. There could be a deal, but only if Washington and Seoul acknowledge that his fear is real.

A little story from the Cold War. I only realized how deeply I had been affected by the propaganda I had heard all my young life when I attended my first NATO military exercise in Europe as a journalist. It was the same exercise scenario as always, with Russian tanks surging forward to overrun Western Europe and outnumbered NATO troops struggling to halt the attack.

I did know that NATO wasn’t really outnumbered.

It had almost twice as many people as the Soviet Union and its allies, and at least four times the wealth.

It just chose to have smaller armies because soldiers are very expensive to maintain, and relied instead on the early use of nuclear weapons. But I had never

questioned the threat of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe. Nobody did.

Then one day, I was interviewing a senior British army officer and for some reason I asked the obvious question I had never bothered to ask before. What scenario did the Russians use when they ran their military exercises?

Oh, he said airily, their scenarios imagine that we have invaded East Germany, but after a few days they manage to turn it around and start pushing us back west. When their tanks are breaking through the Fulda Gap we use nukes to stop them, and the whole thing rapidly escalates into a general nuclear exchange.

Well, of course. Would the Russians tell their troops that they were launching a deliberate attack on the West that would end in a full-scale nuclear war? No. As the weaker side in the long confrontation, would they ever even consider doing that? Probably not. But I had never considered the fact that the Russians were afraid of us.

It had simply not occurred to me before that

a country that had been invaded by everybody from Napoleon to Hitler, and had lost at least 20 million killed in the Second World War, might be obsessed about the threat of being attacked by us. We were the good guys: surely they must realize that we would never do that. But of course they didn’t.

Maybe we were ‘the good guys’ in that confrontation, in the sense that our countries were democracies and their countries were dictatorships, but in terms of threat perception and overreaction the two sides were identical. The situation in the Korean peninsula is the same story in microcosm.

The Kim dynasty inherited a devastated country at the end of the Korean War in 1953. Its cities were levelled and at least a million people had been killed. The Chinese troops who had helped North Korea went home after the war, but the American troops stayed in South Korea. Moreover, the Americans had nuclear weapons and would not promise not to use them – and there was no peace DYER | 8

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THEIR VIEW / QUESTION OF THE WEEK

What is your favourite springtime activity?

»»Katie Ferris

»»Megan Dunne

»»Emily Groves

»»Randy Petznick

»»Eugene Read

“Probably just hanging out, spending time with my friends.”

“Gardening. Photography maybe.”

“ Walking around on trails.”

“Going for a hike in the woods.”

“Working on the lawn. Yard work.”

“Pyongyang won’t give up the nuclear deterrent it has worked so long and hard to build.” Gwynne Dyer | 6 HIS VIEW / STEVE KANNON

Forecasted reduction in dining out a symptom of growing debt woes EDITOR'S NOTES Dining out is much more common today than was the case with past generations, a trend that has survived the evolution from boom-time spending to debt-financed indulgence.

Until now, perhaps.

A new study predicts that cash-strapped Canadians will start cutting back, dampening sales in the food services industry over the next five years.

The Conference Board of Canada report says restaurant sales will see average growth of just 1.4 per cent annually through 2022.

That’s a marked contrast to significant growth in the last two decades that saw commercial restaurant industry sales reach $68.1 billion from $31 billion in 1998, outstripping population growth six-fold.

Those increased sales continued despite ups and downs in the economy.

More than 70 per cent of Canadians report dining out or ordering takeout

food more than a few times a month, spending upwards of $200 each month – our most popular financial guilty pleasure.

Now, even without the minimum wage hikes that have seen restaurant prices increase, soaring household debt looks to be applying the brakes.

Weaker sales growth will increase competition for Canadians’ food dollars.

Already facing increased competition from trends such as meal kits, many restaurant operators will be hard-pressed to maintain sales growth. Such an environment will present the largest challenges to full-service restaurants, which not only have the lowest margins within the industry, but have already lost sales to limited-service restaurants over the past two years, the Conference Board reports.

“Canadians’ ability to spend will be squeezed not just by high debt levels, but by rising interest rates that will increase the cost of servicing their debt,” said Michael Burt, the organizations’s director of industrial economic trends. “This

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styles.

In that vein, we continue to spend, spend, spend … on credit.

Easy credit and low interest rates have fueled the borrowing, but it’s our spending habits that have got the better of us: bigger homes, new cars, electronic toys and so on. Our wants are limitless. Our wallets, not so much.

Worse still, our real incomes and net worth are in decline, meaning we’re borrowing just to maintain the status quo. So, even as household debt climbs relative to our incomes, we had less than we did last year.

More of us are getting caught between falling incomes and growing household debt, which reached an all-time high of almost $2 trillion. Worse still, increasingly the borrowed money is being used to finance day-to-day expenses rather than consumer goodies.

This is no accident, nor is it the result of the financial crisis that began with the meltdowns of 2008, as the middle class has been under assault for more

than three decades. The recession and “recovery” that followed the collapse caused by the financial services industry is indicative of the trend: corporate profits and executive bonuses quickly bounced back, while unemployment remains high and those with jobs work longer and harder to tread water.

Increasingly squeezed for cash, we’re resorting to credit for more and more of our purchases, some more in line with necessities than others.

Clearly debt is a problem at the individual level, just as it is with governments.

The key to changing the situation rests not only with cuts and austerity – we should, however, be saving for the future – but with seeing actual economic growth that moves us away from a dependence on consumerism as its fuel.

That’s mostly wishful thinking, however, as governments have done nothing to encourage that kind of behaviour. Just the opposite, in fact, given the emphasis on corporate tax reductions, deregula-

tion, mobile capital and a host of other measures that have reduced corporate accountability. Those who call for tax policies to prompt companies to spend accordingly – taxing at a much higher rate profits not put back into productive use, for instance – have been dismissed by the business lobby, which continues to exercise tremendous influence despite the self-made crises.

This kind of bad behaviour is nothing new. Look at the history of automation and productivity gains in industry. They were supposed to bring us a higher standard of living and more leisure time. Instead we got neither. In fact, just the opposite happened.

Corporations did in fact make larger profits, but the money was shuffled into the hands of a few and into dubious financial transactions. At first, workers in Canada, the U.S. and other advanced economies were displaced by the productivity gains. Real wages fell as unemployment levels rose, putting more downward KANNON | 8

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will leave Canadians with less disposable income and likely diminish their willingness to dine out.”

If that’s the case, there will be a ripple effect on employment in that part of the service sector, the one area of some growth – albeit poor, often part-time labour – as globalization and automation hollow out the middle class. The Conference Board expects the industry to drop 6,000 jobs by 2019, particularly in Ontario and Alberta, where minimum wage legislation is in play.

In typical businessfocused fashion, the organization predicts a “lower headcount, combined with lower food prices, should keep overall cost increases in check,” which will help the industry remain healthy overall.

Leaving aside the McJob tendency and the looming employment crisis – actual unemployment levels are typically three or four times the reported numbers – we have another indication of the perils of mounting household debt that’s maintained the illusion of middle-class life-

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THE MONITOR

VERBATIM

THIS WEEK IN HISTORY

The federal government is missing out on more than $20 billion in tax revenues: $15 billion by taxing capital gains at a lower rate than ordinary income; $700 million this year and next from the stock option deduction; $1 billion annually through Tax Free Savings Accounts; $5 billion from the Dividend Gross Up and Tax Credit; and $750 annually from the meals and entertainment expense deduction.

“This is just the latest example of why Kathleen Wynne is untrustworthy. The Wynne Liberals will do, say, or promise anything to cling to power – this includes using shady accounting practices to bury the true state of Ontario’s books. The Wynne Liberals’ deliberately misleading shell game is proof that the people of Ontario can’t trust this government.”

In doing a little housecleaning of its own, Woolwich will be expecting its residents to do likewise. The passage Tuesday night of a new clean yards bylaw streamlines the process, making it quicker and easier to assess fines and force the cleanup of unkempt properties. The target is debris, long grass, excessive weed growth and derelict vehicles.

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that the province’s budget deficit is $11.7 billion, 75% higher than the government claims

DYER: North Korea has real

NATIONAL VIEW

reasons for a nuclear deterrent

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treaty, just an armistice.

The Kims built a very big army as a partial and unsatisfactory counter-threat to U.S. nuclear weapons, and started working on their own nukes as soon as the economy had been rebuilt to the required level.

However, that big army created a threat perception in the U.S. and South Korea as real and acute as North Korea’s own fears.

So how might you negotiate your way out of this futile and dangerous confrontation? Pyongyang won’t give up the nuclear deterrent it has worked

so long and hard to build: there’s not enough trust for that. But Kim is saying that he is willing to leave it at its current small and technologically primitive level.

It’s no real threat to the U.S. in its present form.

Concentrate instead on a peace treaty that gives North Korea a sense of security at last. Demand as a quid pro quo that Pyongyang reduces its ridiculously large army to the same size as South Korea’s. And promise that once those cuts have been made, the U.S. troops in South Korea will go home.

It might work. It’s certainly worth a try.

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Governments routinely aid and abet the shift. That the likes of central bankers are making even low-key

mention of the inequities means those who’ve created the lower standard of living are taking note of the social unrest that’s starting to bubble to the surface.

In an economy based on consumerism – a problem in its own right – debtbased spending is unsustainable, as is a shrinking middle class. Shifts in our dining habits are just one of the coal-mine canaries visible to those willing to see.

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Elmira woman to join the Laurentian Voyageurs hockey team

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A time when no canoe is left unturned OPEN COUNTRY

Jaimee MacDonald was selected to play at Laurentian University next season on the highly competitive Ontario University Athletics (OUA) circuit.

FAISAL ALI Jaimee MacDonald is part of an the ever-growing group of girls and young women joining in and excelling at the quintessential Canadian sport of hockey.

The Elmira native grew up on ice, and on completing high school this year, the young player is taking her talents in the arena to the next level.

Starting next season, MacDonald will be heading to Laurentian University, where she will be studying education, and joining the women’s hockey team, the Laurentian Voyageurs, on the highly competitive OUA circuit.

The Elmira athlete has

strong roots in the region’s hockey scene. She started at a young age with the Woolwich Wild before moving over to the Waterloo Ravens.

Up until the end of this season, MacDonald was playing for the Cambridge Rivulettes, which this year made it to the Provincial Women’s Hockey League final four championship before falling in the bronze-medal game to Nepean.

Besides playing the sport, MacDonald has also spent her time helping younger girls excel at the game as well. MacDonald has spent a fair amount of time coaching, at her job at the Grind Hockey Training Centre and during her time with the Rivulettes.

“I would definitely say it’s becoming more popular amongst girls and I’m really glad to see that because I think growing the girls’ game is huge,” she said.

“That’s something that [the Rivulettes] did really well. As we had girls that we’d go to their practices and help out, and we would have them through our changing room and sign autographs and stuff for them, which was pretty cool. For us too,” she added with a laugh.

It’s perhaps no surprise MacDonald is such a keen player – it’s in her blood, if not her DNA. Playing hockey was how her parents first met, she says, while her sister also has taken to

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the sport. So hockey, it’s fair to say, is quite a big deal in MacDonald’s family.

“Oh yeah,” agreed MacDonald with a laugh.

Her grandfather, who is listening to the conversation, also laughs as well, adding: “It runs in the family.”

On her future aspirations in the sport, MacDonald is confident but not cocky.

For her, she admits that the dream team would have to be Canada’s Olympic team.

“I think the Olympic team would definitely be amazing to play on just because it’s got such a deep history. Women’s hockey in Canada has always been super strong and that’s such a hard team to make. That

will always be the end goal,” she said.

In the meantime, though, MacDonald is happy to be playing for Laurentian University, where she hopes to study to become a gym and science teacher. But whatever happens after Laurentian, whether she moves into an even higher tier or pursues her teaching career, it’s clear that hockey will continue to be a part of her life.

“I think that’s important that sport can help you become a better person. I think that’s a big thing a lot of people don’t realize is: someday the game will end.

Someday you won’t be able to play anymore. And it’s what you take out of that that matters.”

Soon, our icy lakes will be open enough for a fellow to launch a canoe in one. Like all anglers, I long for that day.

What I don’t long for, however, is the overturning of the canoes.

The overturning of the canoes is a springtime ritual around here that is often accompanied by lots of drama – and much whimpering.

It starts a day of two before ice out. It’s often exciting and sometimes dangerous, but it’s never boring.

For those unfamiliar with the ritual, it goes something like this.

Two brave souls approach the canoe in question from either end. They then face each other and one person says, “We will flip it on three to the right so we can have a look at the interior.”

On three, they both flip their ends of the canoe to the right – which would be great if they weren’t facing each other.

The result of that misunderstanding is that the canoe remains exactly where it was and should blades of both parties do not.

This is something bystanders enjoy and chiropractors enjoy even more.

So imagine the smiles on spectator faces when the two canoe flippers huddle and agree to try again.

This time, on three, they both attempt to flip the canoe to the left so as to go in the same direction as the person opposite them. This produces similar results but greater applause from anyone fortunate enough to be watching.

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Notice of Study Completion The Study: Waterloo Region is growing, and needs to establish a long term, sustainable strategy for managing biosolids.

The Region has completed a Biosolids Master Plan (Biosolids Strategy) to manage biosolids until 2051.

The Process: The Region has completed the Biosolids

Strategy according to the requirements for a Master Plan project under the Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (Class EA). The study completes Phases 1 and 2 of the Class EA process using community feedback in the decision-making to find a community-made approach. This notice places the Master Plan on the public record.

The Result: The Biosolids Strategy recommends a two phase approach:

Phase 1 (Immediate Need): Develop storage for biosolids at the Region’s three largest wastewater treatment plants (Kitchener, Waterloo, Galt). This will provide the flexibility we need for the current operations to deal with any issues that arise.

Phase 2 (Medium to Long Term): Develop a facility to reduce biosolids volume by producing a dried fertilizer. This could be a single facility or several smaller ones created at existing facilities in the Region. Prior to commencing, an update to the Biosolids Strategy will be undertaken to confirm the approach.

Phase one would proceed under the Class EA process (Schedule A) as would Phase two (Schedule C).

Copies of the Biosolids Master Plan are available for your information at the following locations from April 18 to May 31, 2018, Monday - Friday 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.: Regional Clerk’s Office 150 Frederick Street, 2nd Floor, Kitchener

City of Kitchener Clerk’s Office 200 King Street West, Kitchener City of Waterloo Clerk’s Office 100 Regina St. S., Waterloo

City of Cambridge Clerk’s Office 50 Dickson Street, 2nd Floor, Cambridge

The documents are also available for download on the Region’s website at: regionofwaterloo.ca/biosolids

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Woolwich to strap on some roller skates in latest expansion of offerings at the WMC ALI WILSON Four-wheeling goes old-school at the WMC as the rec. staff looks to inject some fun activities into the summertime mix.

Bringing back the days of quad skating, the township will be offering three confirmed roller skating evenings in Elmira starting next month.

“I think it is just a different program and a different activity that we are bringing to the area. It is something fun – we are going to have music, we are going to do activities, we are bringing back some old-school concession items, so really tying into the themes we are doing,” said Sara Hignell, recreation and community development coordinator for Woolwich Township. “All three nights are going to be great evenings and events to attend.”

The idea of hosting roller skating at the arena was borrowed from successful events offered at surrounding municipalities.

“We thought ‘why not bring it to Woolwich?’ So we are doing it on the arena floor,” she said.

Feedback has thus far been positive, which Hignell hopes will translate into strong attendance when things get going.

“We are hoping that we do have a good turnout,” she said.

The three nights each have their own theme. The first – Rock n’ Roller Skate – will be happening May 12 from 4:30-7:30 p.m. The second – Costume Showdown – will be on June 15, from 5-8 p.m. Finally, the Retro Rewind takes to the floor July 13 from 5-8 p.m.

“Rock n’ Roller Skate is bringing back that ’70s,’80s music. For the Costume Showdown, we were thinking that people can dress in costumes; it’s a family event,

so whether people want to dress like the disco days or where the kids want to wear their ninja turtle costumes, it is kind of open so that everyone can enjoy and have fun,” she explained. “Then Retro Rewind, so we are thinking bringing back more like ’80s, ’90s music and tying that in with a theme as well,” Hignell explained.

“So we just thought we could make activities and concession items around those different themes and then make it that much more interesting and fun for people at the events.”

The essential piece of equipment – the roller skates themselves – will be available on a first come, first served basis. Currently, the township has about 100 pairs in a limited range of sizes.

Although there are only three events planned, following the format of public skating during the winter, the township hopes to expand the offerings.

“As of right now, there are three event dates and then we will be rolling out with daytime skates, as well. Similar to the ice skating, we will have the parent and tot and the family skate – there will be those options as well,” she said.

All ages are welcome, however helmets are mandatory for children and youth under 16, and are recommended for those 16 and over. Tickets will be available at the WMC 30 minutes prior to the start of each event, with children under 12 years of age costing $5 and $10 for 12 years and over.

In addition to roller skating, Hignell notes that they will also be holding a Battle of the Bands, looking to showcase local talent.

“It is just an opportunity for local bands to showcase their talents and have residents in the township attend and vote on them.”

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Sara Hignell, recreation and community development coordinator for Woolwich Township, is promoting one of the rec. Department’s newest activities, roller skating nights.

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GALEA: Getting the canoe to the water is half the battle ... or maybe the battle in its entirety FROM | 9

of muscle creams, there is a huddle. This time a hasty plan can be heard rising above the groans and heavy breathing. “You flip it left and I will flip it to the right….”

Minutes later, you’ll hear. “Let’s do that again but this time let’s remember to face each other!”

Eventually, the scars will align and the canoe will be flipped.

At this point, both prospective canoe carriers will examine the interior of the canoe for signs of wear, wasp nests, mouse nests, angry skunks, sleepy black bears, fishers or wolverines – all of which have been known to delay the process.

Should these delays not occur, the plan to move the canoe is embarked upon.

Moving a canoe 30 feet is easy. Portaging one 30 feet is a different matter

altogether.

And make no mistake, any time you pick up a canoe, you are portaging it.

The main problem is when two people initially get under a canoe they generally do it like duelists – which is to say back to back. Then, if all goes right for the audience, they step forward at the exact same time. Hilarity ensues.

Eventually, this gets sorted out. They face the same direction and both stumble

blindly in the general direction of a tree, lamppost or car window. Then, after regrouping, they throw the canoe in question atop the car, where it remains momentarily before sliding downhill and back onto the ground, sometimes stopping farther away than where they started.

Sooner or later, though, the canoe remains on the roof and the tying of knots begins. The term “knots” is actually an understate-

ment. When most people are finished tying a canoe on the roof of a vehicle, nearby spiders stand up and applaud in admiration.

Then all that is left is a quick ride to the water’s edge where the canoeists go through the whole process in reverse. Ha! Like it was ever that easy.

No, somewhere between driveway and boat ramp the canoe, aided by galeforce winds and rotting

ropes, will shift. OK, more like do a 180.

This will cause the driver to hit the brakes, which causes the car to stop. The canoe on the other hand is so eager to get to the lake that it continues towards that destination, often attempting a shortcut through the woods.

Then the process begins anew.

Remember all this, next time someone tells you how relaxing canoeing is.

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KINGS: Plenty to celebrate at season’s end

She was born to ski

Woolwich skier wins U14 provincials, joined Team Ontario FAISAL ALI

The players graduating from the Sugar Kings include, in front row, Tyler Beauparlant, Ethan Skinner and Ethan Wiseman. Back row: Jeff Jordan, Braydon Munn, Spencer Comelli and Ryan Takamatsu.

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year, the Kings were once again facing Listowel for the coveted Cherrey Cup – and just like last year, the cup slipped from their grasp.

The Sugar Kings stood dejectedly on home ice as, for the second year in a row, Listowel hoisted the Cherry Cup above their heads. The Kings were down but not out, and just like in 2017, they once again were heading to the Sutherland series courtesy of the wildcard spot.

Unlike the year before, it was in the Sutherland Cup semi-finals that the Kings’ story ultimately finished.

Despite their steak of successes over the year, the Kings were unable to match the Corvaris on the ice, and

Sugar Kings alumnus. Like Takamatsu, Beauparlant is hoping to play for his school team at the University of Waterloo. “Obviously not the outcome we wanted but great memories and I’ll have this for the rest of my life. It was a great experience.”

“I thought the team was excellent at first,” notes Bradon Munn, who joined the team from Guelph in midNovember. “They maybe underachieved for what people thought they were going to do but we definitely surprised a bunch of people in the playoffs. And even though it didn’t end the way we wanted to it was definitely a fun ride. Hopefully Elmira can continue being as promising as it always has.”

were swept out.

Now, with the season over, the Kings will be saying goodbye to a lot of players as they age out of the division.

“I loved it here,” says Ryan Takamatsu, one of the team’s top shooters.

Takamatsu is studying fulltime at Wilfrid Laurier University, where he says he’s hoping to continue playing.

“It was a really good experience coming to Elmira.

They treat you great here and the fans are awesome, so there wasn’t much more I could ask for. Maybe a win, but other than that it was awesome.”

“It was a great season, a great team, great group of guys,” says Tyler BeauparTOWNSHIP OF lant, another soon-to-be

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What does it take to excel at a sport? Not just do well, but really reach the top? For 14-year-old Woolwich resident Abby Byers, it’s nothing short of a tremendous amount of focus and discipline.

The young athlete approaches her passion in alpine skiing with a sharp determination that this year saw her come first in the giant slalom at the U14 provincials.

But for Byers, winning at the provincial level was just one more step in her climb to the top. Her mother recalls how, right from the get-go, Byers was aiming for the top: Team Ontario.

“She said to me, ‘I think I’m going to make the CanAm team.’ She says, ‘I’m going to qualify for Team Ontario this year,’” recalls Shannon Byers. And young Abby did just that.

Byers was one of 15 girls to join the U14 Team Ontario this year and go to the Can-Am games at Sugarloaf, Maine. Unfortunately, during her race, Byers fell; but despite the setback, she remained positive.

“We still have Whistler Cup,” she said. Out of 140 girls at Whistler, Byers ranked 7th in slalom, 9th in the dual slalom.

“I fell in GS (giant slalom), but I still came 21st,” she said.

“She fell, and you could see the snow going and I’m like, ‘oh no!’” recalls her mother. “But she popped herself back up and she finished the race.” That qualified Byers for the second run.

“It’s so fun,” she said with a laugh. For her, though, even joining Team

Ontario and representing the province is but one more step in her journey.

Ideally, says Byers, the Olympics is where she would like to see herself.

And with her incredible work ethic, she really might make it.

A future skiing Olympian, Byers might very well be, but the young athlete will to see how far she really wants to go to reach that goal.

“I think Abby’s got some tough choices to make when she gets older be-

cause she loves skiing, but she’s just such a track and field athlete too,” said her mother. “I remember when Abby was about 8 years old, it was funny because she grew up skiing in Chicopee ... and they had said, why doesn’t Abby come out and do dry-land training in the fall, and she was by far one of the youngest kids.”

Shannon was worried, so she asked her daughter if she was sure she sure she wanted to go. “And she looked and she goes, ‘Mum, I was born to ski.’”

Abby Byers made the U14 Team Ontario this year and game first place at the provincials in the giant slalom.

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Keeping the home fires burning during BBQ season

Welcome back to our seasonal farm labourers

Breslau business looks to take the time and hassle out of keeping your barbecue fueled FAISAL ALI SPRING CERTAINLY SEEMED TO take its own time to reach us. But now that it is finally here, we can expect the backyard chefs amongst us will be donning their aprons and firing up their grills for the season. For a lot of us, that will mean stocking up on our propane – fortunately there’s a local entrepreneur looking to make sure you always have enough gas in the tank.

Jason Wiles is the force behind the BBQ Tank Express, a propane-delivery business in Breslau, also the community he calls home. The novel approach his business takes means that customers can use their barbecues confident they’ll never have to run out of propane again.

“We are a barbecue tank delivery service where we set [customers] up with two different tanks so that they never actually run out, because they always have a spare one there,” he explained.

By having tanks delivered two at a time, customers have a backup in case their first tank runs out.

And when it does, it’s a simple matter of calling Wiles who will personally come and pick up the empty tank from outside the house, and replace it with a fully filled-up tank. Wiles even offers to install the propane tank to the barbecue for those interested.

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Looking to make backyard grilling more convenient, Breslau’s Jason Wiles has launched BBQ Tank Express, which offers home pickup and delivery.

“It kind of resembles back in the day, kind of like milk delivery. How you’d have the milk delivery guy come around. You take the empty bottle of milk, I give them a full bottle of milk,” he says. But instead of milk bottles, it’s now a tank of propane.

“Everything else you can pretty much get delivered to your door now,” noted Wiles, but the big exception to that is propane, which is something he wants to change.

There are three levels

to the BBQ Tank Express service depending on how regularly customers make use of the grill. There’s the bronze package, which operates as a ‘pay-as-you-go’ type service, silver, which is closer to a pre-paid subscription, and gold.

“The gold package is more for our high-users, and it’s mostly people that just don’t want to worry about it ever. It’s almost like they want to use the propane as if it’s natural gas where they never run out, they never want to

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have to worry about it,” said Wiles.

The gold package commits the customer to purchasing four tanks in the year. Per unit, it is the least expensive. The way the service works is customers can set up a schedule with Wiles for deliveries for a total of four tanks over the year. They select the times depending on when they expect they will be running low, and Wiles does the rest.

“They pick the four months, and on those four months I’ll come auto-

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matically to their location, switch out their tank with a new one that’s filled, and then they never have to worry about it,” he explained.

Besides the hassle of running out of gas right in the middle of a backyard culinary endeavour, transporting propane tanks to and from the store is an inherently risky act. The tanks are sensitive to heat and poorly ventilated areas, with the industry

MANY PEOPLE BELIEVE THE shortage of farm labour is a recent development, and blame it on young people who don’t want to do hard work.

But it’s hardly new.

As far back as the early 1960s, the farm sector recognized it was running out of seasonal labour. By the middle of that decade, it was experiencing a severe shortage.

So in 1966, the Foreign Agricultural Research Management Services, which has the convenient and enviable acronym FARMS, was established.

It administers something called the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program.

FARMS connects formally with Jamaica, Barbados, Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago and the Eastern Caribbean to bring workers to Canada. Supplementary seasonal farm labour is hired from partner countries only if farmers can’t find domestic workers willing to take the same jobs.

And usually, they can’t.

The program has been a success. With planting season approaching in Ontario, and seasonal farm workers – 18,000 of them in this province alone – are start-

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2018 Municipal and School Board Election Filing of Nominations The Municipal Elections Act requires that every person who wants to run for office in the Monday, October 22, 2018 Municipal Election must file a Nomination Form with the Clerk.

Nomination period opens on Tuesday, May 1, 2018 and closes on Friday, July 27, 2018 at 2 p.m.

The prescribed Nomination Form 1 and Form 2, the new requirement for 25 supporting signatures on the Nomination Form, are available at http://www.mah.gov.on.ca/Page18735.aspx (School Board Trustees are exempt from the signature requirement).

The Municipal Elections Act provides that a candidate’s election campaign period for any of the offices listed below begins on the day they file a nomination for the campaign. No contributions shall be made or accepted and no expenses may be incurred before the Nomination Form is filed with the Clerk. Money, goods and services given to and accepted by or on behalf of a person for their election campaign are contributions.

Please note that nominations for the offices listed below will be received by the Clerk responsible for their municipal election to be held on Monday, October 22, 2018: • Regional Chair • Regional Councillor for Cambridge, Kitchener or Waterloo • Mayor • Ward Councillor • Waterloo Region District School Board Trustee • Waterloo Catholic District School Board Trustee • Conseil Scolaire Viamonde (to be filed at the City of London) • Conseil Scolaire catholique MonAvenir

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ing to arrive. About 85 per cent of them are returnees from previous years.

And economically, it’s no wonder they want to return, even though it means being apart from their families for several months.

Seasonal workers can earn as much as 10 times or more working here than they could in their own countries, if indeed they can find work there.

Seasonal workers’ contributions are immense. They provide so much support for labour-intensive farm production, crops that need hands-on care, particularly fruit and vegetables.

About 1,450 farms will employ these seasonal workers this year.

In fact, labour market research by the Canadian Agricultural Human Resource Council said the program is the key reason the horticultural industry is thriving.

“If we want to continue having access to high-quality, fresh, local produce in

Ontario, we need the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program to continue connecting farmers with the workers they need,” says FARMS president Ken Forth.

On farms across the province, producers are chomping at the bit to get onto their fields. The temptation is huge when the weather starts getting warm.

But they’ll have to sit on their hands for a while longer.

Dale Cowan, a senior agronomist at the AGRIS and Wanstead Coops, urges farmers to wait for the soil to warm, then plant as soon as possible if the forecast is favourable.

“A lot of people are worried that because of the cold weather we’re now on schedule for late planting, but technically, we’re not late,” he says. “We’ve had no usable heat, and the soil temperature is too low yet for planting, so although the weather has been cold, we’re not late.”

Farmers know a warm

seedbed is needed for corn and soybeans. They’re called base 10 crops, meaning they need soil temperatures of at least 10 degrees C and rising for best germination.

If soil cools off after seed is sown, germination slows and disease and insects can wreak havoc on development.

That’s what happened last year. Many producers got off to a quick start thanks to a warm spell in early May. But then the weather cooled and turned nasty for weeks, meaning corn didn’t germinate properly. Some had to be replanted in late May, and gains that could have been realized from early seeding were lost.

The immediate forecast for Ontario is improving.

But as of late last week the soil temperature was only six degrees C. So let’s hope for wind and warm temperatures to dry out fields, and welcome the seasonal workers who’ll be helping grow our food.

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generally advising people not to leave them in their car for extended periods, or in enclosed spaces like the trunk. Moreover, the tanks need to be kept upright during transport and, of course, away from sparks.

Handled correctly, it’s a safe product to use, but Wiles’ service eliminates that hassle and the risk entirely for consumers.

“Mainly it’s the convenience factors for families, the elderly, and just people that are overall too busy,” said Wiles. “They don’t have time to worry about running to the store or putting their kids in danger by putting the tank in their car. They can enjoy their

free time and don’t have to worry about that.”

What’s more, using Wiles’ service ensures customers are always getting freshly painted and safe tanks to use, rather than relying on older ones.

It’s a simple and straightforward solution to the problems and frustrations that Wiles’ himself has personally had to deal with. It was his own experiences with the inconveniences of using propane that led him to create his new business model.

“In the past I’ve had a propane barbecue, and I know the hassle of actually putting it in your vehicle, worrying about whether or not it’s going to run out,” he said. “I switched

to natural gas because I hated switching out the tanks myself, and I figured that there is enough people out there that have that same experience, so I was looking to try to solve the problem.”

The result was the BBQ Tank Express. Right now, the delivery service is operating in and around the Waterloo Region, including the townships, Elora, Cambridge and Guelph. But Wiles’ is definitely interested in growing his business outwards to other parts of the province.

“I would say that my expansion plans are that I’m looking to expand to other cities in Ontario and potentially franchise across Canada,” he said ambitiously.

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Helping Ontario wines be world class

THE GLASS IS HALF full when it comes to grape and wine research in Ontario.

And it’s only getting fuller thanks to the efforts of Brock University’s Cool Climate Oenology and Viticulture Institute (CCOVI).

The research institute, established in 1996 in partnership with the Grape Growers of Ontario, the Wine Council of Ontario, and the Winery and Grower Alliance of Ontario, has tackled significant vineyard and winemaking issues, elevating local tipple to world-class status in the process.

It’s done so by taking on the multi-coloured Asian lady beetle, which can taint an entire vintage, and kept many bottles of wine tasting their finest in the process. It has 20 years of research dedicated to icewine production and authentication to ensure integrity for Canadian versions of the sweet nectar.

The effects of climate change on grape growing, sparkling wine production, and resveratrol and the Ontario wine industry also get

serious research attention at CCOVI to the benefit of Ontario vintners and grape growers.

Most recently, CCOVI received nearly $2 million in fundingfrom the Canada Foundation for Innovation and the Ontario Research Fund to build its one-of-akind Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Sensory Reality Consumer Laboratory. It will be known as R3CL and will be the world’s first mediated-reality wine laboratory, combining sights, smells and sounds to help researchers study the science of consumer choice in the wine industry.

CCOVI’s research is so vital to the industry that an economic impact study pegged its contribution to the Ontario economy at $91 million annually. It also creates the equivalent of more than 300 jobs a year thanks to its research outputs.

Some of the most significant impacts can be credited to its cold hardiness research and flagship VineAlert program, which

warns grape growers about cold weather events so they can use their wind machines and other techniques more effectively to protect their vines from cold damage.

VineAlert spared more than $7 million in crop losses in 2014-15, which converted to nearly $74 million in wine sales.

But CCOVI and its team of scientists, led by director Debbie Inglis, aren’t stopping there. Their work is positioning CCOVI to be the Canadian centre of excellence for cool climate viticulture, oenology, wine business, policy and culture with a mandate to advance the industry nationally, not just locally.

CCOVI’s intrepid VineAlert program is being rolled out across Canada thanks to partnerships in Summerland, BC, and Kemptville, NS. Equipment and testing methods to determine cold hardiness are being tried on for size in both provinces right now.

“We’re hoping within

Jim Willwerth collecting samples for the VineAlert program developed at Brock University’s Cool Climate Oenology and Viticulture Institute. [SUBMITTED]

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Transport Genie monitors microclimate conditions inside livestock trailers and provides that information to users along the supply chain using block

chain technology.

Block chains are a digital ledger of all transactions in a supply chain – information is passed along digitally as an attachment to the chain instead of through a paper trail and the permanent links between the blocks eliminate the possibility of data tampering.

“The devices currently monitor conditions like humidity and tempera-

ture inside a trailer, but could in future also track things like CO2 levels, acceleration and breaking to ensure livestock arrive at their destination safely, alive and healthy,” explains Kristen Celotto, part of the Transport Genie development team. “And if animals are injured or die in-transit, the sensors can indicate what went wrong and when.”

Although there are already other sensors on the market that do similar tasks, Transport Genie’s advantage is that it provides the information in real-time – to the transport driver, as well as dispatchers and others who wish to receive notifications via email or text message.

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IT WAS A DRAMATIC season for the Sugar Kings this year as the team came close, but couldn’t quite recreate the magic of last season.

The winners of the 2017 Sutherland Cup made it all the way to the semis this year before ultimately being swept from the series. It was the Caledonia Corvairs, their opponents in the previous season’s finals, who got revenge for last year’s defeat and took down the Kings.

Way to go Kings!

Still, looking back at the season, there is no doubting that the Sugar Kings not only played well, they improved on themselves throughout. Despite coming third in the regular season, and making it to the Cherrey Cup finals, the Kings had a late start to the season, often falling behind the competition.

When the regular season kicked off last September, it was Listowel and Stratford that immediately shot to the top, with both teams fighting for the lead ahead

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Elmira, meanwhile, found itself sinking in the rankings and until the last week of September, found itself tied with Kitchener in last place with a record of 1-5.

By mid-October, however, the team had started to climb. The Kings began to rack up the wins and put some distance between themselves and last place.

They overtook Brantford and Brampton in the standings, but were still behind the major competition: Wa-

terloo, Kitchener, Guelph.

Soon enough, though, the Kings found themselves getting ahead of the Guelph, leaving only the three K-W teams in a neck-and-neck race to the finish.

By the second week of November, the Kings were exactly 10-10. It was still a ways off from Listowel, which had pulled to the top of the league with a record of 17-3, but the Kings were nonetheless ahead of Kitchener’s 7-13. The stiffest competition proved to be Waterloo, who was three

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Fast-forward to December, and the gap between Elmira and Waterloo had near vanished as both teams sought the third-place position. Elmira was trailing behind Waterloo by exactly one win until Elmira finally knotted things up in the final game of 2017, just two days before Christmas.

Returning to the ice in January, Elmira, now rested and refreshed, took the lead from Waterloo, claiming the third-place spot. Waterloo was now trailing Elmira,

their positions exactly reversed. But while Waterloo were able to claw back their rank from Elmira a few times over the next few months, the Kings pressed their lead.

By the end of the regular season, the Kings were 2921, a comfortable distance ahead of Waterloo’s 25-24.

However, Elmira was still far behind the second-place Stratford Warriors (37-12-1).

Listowel was even further along at 43-7.

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On paper, the Warriors looked to be the superior team. Over the regular season, they’d accumulated 12 wins and a tie more than what the Kings had been able to bring. But what the stats don’t show is that over the course of the season,

the Kings had improved dramatically in their game, perhaps more than any other team in the league. So when the Kings took down the Warriors after six games in a best-of-seven contest, it was just a matter of showing just how far they had come together as a team.

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The Fizz Club, which provides professional development, and shares knowledge and research among sparkling wine producers also went national in 2017. And CCOVI is developing a domestic, certified “clean plant” program for grapevines to supply the industry with plant material that’s free of disease.

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The verdict is ... plenty of riveting drama Elmira Theatre Company set to stage the landmark courtroom story 12 Angry Men, based on the classic 1957 movie STEVE KANNON It’s been more than six decades since Reginald Rose penned 12 Angry Men, but the play’s message of prejudice and judgment are no less valid today.

Many things have changed, from technology to social norms, but at the basic level, are we really much different than we were in the 1950s?

Challenging our biases and assumptions is every bit as worthwhile as it was then, making 12 Angry Men a relevant choice as the latest offering from the Elmira Theatre Company, the production running from April 27 to May 12.

Based on Rose’s teleplay, which first aired on television but really gained prominence in the 1957 movie starring Henry Fonda, the play deals with issues such as racism and inequality that are very much part of life 60 years later.

Dealing with an apparently open-and-shut case in which an 18-year-old inner-city man is accused of killing his father, the jurors’ own foibles and characters come to light as they weigh the evidence. In need of a unanimous decision, the group is forced to dig deeper when the first vote splits 11-1 in favour of a guilty verdict. Slowly, things change as the jurors are forced to look past what was orchestrated in the courtroom.

With a man’s life literally in the balance – a guilty verdict in New York State

John Settle, Thom Smith, Tom Bolton, Gary Seibert and Gord Cameron during rehearsal of 12 Angry Men, the Elmira Theatre Company production of the courtroom drama that opens Friday night.

[STEVE KANNON] was a death sentence at that time – the stakes are high, warranting a discussion, arguments and counter-arguments.

That’s how a movie or a play set in one room becomes a riveting classic.

“It’s been a favourite movie of mine since I first saw it. I loved it from the start,” says ETC veteran Joe Brenner, who wears the

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“I think the play works because, deep down, if any of us were asked to make a life-and-death decision, we’d struggle with it.”

He notes the story has an enduring appeal because the issues of class, race and social standing all continue today.

The makeup of the jury

is a microcosm of society – an architect, a mechanic, a stockbroker, a football coach, racists, thinkers, hotheads ... it’s all there, he says.

Rose wrote the screenplay after serving jury duty, noting that the hardest part of being on a jury is the relationships between the jurors themselves. That interplay is what makes 12

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He has set the ETC version of the play in 1957, maintaining the New York City locale. The script reflects the racism and perhaps inherent attitudes towards women – it is a dozen angry men, after all – that’s typical of the time. And we’ve not come as far as we’d like to think

we have.

Maintaining a simple set – 12 men gathered around a long table – Brenner is presenting the play as theatre in the round. The audience will literally surround the stage on all four sides.

“I want the audience to feel they’re on that jury, in that room.”

The key is to keep the dramatic tension going at all times. It’s what makes the play work, and what gets the audience involved, he suggests, pointing out that’ll mean no intermission for this production. That would only serve to break the tension.

For the actors, there are some technical challenges to theatre in the round, but the cast has taken to the situation. The classic script is one actors want to tackle. They’re forced to dig into their characters – identified only as Juror 8 or Juror 2, for instance – in order to become that person in that room on that momentous day.

“This is a great group of actors. They’ve been so easy to work with,” says Brenner.

The Elmira Theatre Company production of 12 Angry Men runs April 27 to May 12 at the group’s 76 Howard Ave. venue.

Tickets are available at the Centre in the Square box office in Kitchener by calling 519-578-1570 or 1-800265-8977, online at www. centre-square.com or www.elmiratheatre.com.

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These part-time positions at the Elmira branch of the Region of Waterloo Library are a great opportunity to combine knowledge of the local community and experience working with adults, children and books. You will provide public library services, both branch-based and at other community locations, from customer service and circulation to helping with programs and events.

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Smaller roll front hossier. Oak, centre pedestal table with matching buffet, 5 side and one arm chair in quarter-cut oak. Small drop front desk.

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Early hand held spotlight. Old car horn. Bar & other advertising pieces. Gingerbread clock.

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Community Information Page COMMITTEE OF ADJUSTMENT - NOTICE OF HEARING Pursuant to the Planning Act and Ontario Regulations 197/96 and 200/96 On May 14, 2018 at 5:30 p.m. the Committee will meet to consider the following applications.

All persons interested in the applications may attend and may contact Nancy Thompson regarding meeting details or visit the Township Webpage – Township Services – Mayor and Council – Agendas and Minutes and select the applicable meeting date.

The Committee will also consider submissions for or against the applications if submitted to the Township of Woolwich no later than 5:00 p.m. on May 8, 2018 (Note that this date is before the meeting). Submissions can be forwarded to Jeremy Vink at the address noted at the top of this page, by email jvink@woolwich.ca or by fax 519-669-4669. Any submissions received will be included in a comment package and presented at the meeting. Any submissions received will be included in a comment package and presented at the meeting.

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MINOR VARIANCE APPLICATION A 14/2018 – Bruno and Mary Lamot, 151 Woolwich Street South, Breslau ZONE / USE: Settlement Residential (R-1)/ single detached dwelling and accessory structures The applicant is requesting relief for the following: • from Section 6.4.1 c) to allow an accessory structure to be located in a front yard; and • from Section 6.4.4 to increase the total maximum accessory building size from 100 square metres to approximately 246 square metres in order to permit the construction of a new 100 square metre detached garage and a new 146 square metre accessory building. The property currently contains a single detached dwelling, a 54 square metre detached garage and a 65 square metre accessory building.

The two existing accessory structures are proposed to be replaced by the new detached garage and accessory building.

MINOR VARIANCE APPLICATION A 15/2018 – Doug and Yolanda Nichols, 41 Zinger Villa Place, Maryhill ZONE / USE: Settlement Residential (R-1) / single detached dwelling and an accessory structure The applicant is requesting relief from Section 8.2.3 to permit the creation of a semidetached dwelling versus a duplex in order to permit the construction of an approximate 71 square metre separate dwelling addition.

MINOR VARIANCE APPLICATION A 16/2018 – Marianna Cutrona, 1324 King Street North, St. Jacobs ZONE / USE: Residential Medium Density (R-3) / single detached dwelling and accessory structure The applicant is requesting relief from Section 6.10.2 d) to reduce the building line setback adjacent to a street (Highcrest Lane East) from 6 metres to approximately 2 metres to permit the enclosure of the existing covered porch.

CONSENT APPLICATION B 5/2018 – Lascor Holdings Inc., 56 -58 Woolwich Street North, Breslau ZONE / USE: Settlement Commercial (C-3) / single detached dwelling, office and storage buildings The applicant is requesting permission to sever the property and create two commercial parcels as follows: • proposed severed lands (56 Woolwich Street North) measuring approximately 25 by 44 metres, and being approximately 972 square metres in area, containing the existing single detached dwelling; and • proposed retained lands (58 Woolwich Street North) measuring approximately 24 by 51 metres, and being approximately 1,072 square metres in area, containing the office and storage buildings.

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MINOR VARIANCE APPLICATIONS A 25/2017, A26/2017 and A 27/2017 and CONSENT APPLICATIONS B15/2017, B16/2017, B 17/2017, B18/2017 and B19/2017 The above noted Minor Variance and Consent applications were deferred at the December 11, 2017 meeting. The applicant has now submitted additional information in support of their proposal. The applications relate to three adjacent properties located on Golf Course Road, Conestogo. Each of the three applicants are proposing to create a vacant residential lot on full municipal services which would front onto River Run Place. The following applications facilitate this proposal: 1. MINOR VARIANCE APPLICATION A 25/2017 and CONSENT APPLICATION B15/2017 – Wilfred and Lilla Moyer, 77 Golf Course Road, Conestogo ZONE / USE: Settlement Residential (R-1) / singe family dwelling A 25/2017 - to request a reduction to the required lot width in Section 8.3.2 from 30 metres to approximately 10.2 metres; and to request a reduction to the required lot frontage in Section 8.3.3 a) from 18 metres to approximately 11.1 metres, for the proposed severed lands (B15/2017) at the rear of 77 Golf Course Road; B 15/2017 - to sever a parcel of land measuring approximately 45.4 by 60 metres, and being approximately 2,709 square metres in area, from the rear of 77 Golf Course Road to create a vacant residential lot fronting onto River Run Place.

2. MINOR VARIANCE APPLICATION A 26/2017 and CONSENT APPLICATIONS B16/2017, B 17/2017 AND B18/2017 – Philip and Shannon Kuchma, 87 Golf Course Road, Conestogo ZONE / USE: Settlement Residential (R-1) / singe family dwelling A 26/2017 - to request a reduction to the required lot width in Section 8.3.2 from 30 metres to approximately 16.2 metres; and to request a reduction to the required lot frontage in Section 8.3.3 a) from 18 metres to approximately 11.1 metres, for the proposed severed lands (B16/2017) at the rear of 87 Golf Course Road; B16/2017 - to sever a parcel of land measuring approximately 29 by 60 metres, and being approximately 1,745 square metres in area, from the rear of 87 Golf Course Road to create a vacant residential lot fronting onto River Run Place.

B17/2017 - to sever a triangular shaped parcel of land being approximately 57 square metres in area from the proposed severed lot at the rear of 87 Golf Course Road (B16/2017) and convey it as a lot addition to the proposed severed lot at the rear of 77 Golf Course Road (B15/2017), in order to provide frontage for the new lot on River Run Place.

B 18/2017 - to sever a triangular shaped parcel of land being approximately 120 square metres in area from the proposed severed lot at the rear of 87 Golf Course Road (B16/2017) and convey it as a lot addition to the proposed severed lot at the rear of 93 Golf Course Road (B19/2017), in order to provide frontage onto River Run Place.

3. MINOR VARIANCE APPLICATION A 27/2017 and CONSENT APPLICATION B19/2017 – Krista Foisy, 93 Golf Course Road, Conestogo ZONE / USE: Settlement Residential (R-1) / single family dwelling A 27/2017 - to request a reduction to the required lot width in Section 8.3.2 from 30 metres to approximately 9.7 metres; and to request a reduction to the required lot frontage in Section 8.3.3 a) from18 metres to approximately 11.1 metres, for the proposed severed lands (B19/2017) at the rear of 93 Golf Course Road; B 19/2017 - to sever a parcel of land measuring approximately 29.2 by 60 metres, and being approximately 1,753 square metres in area, from the rear of 93 Golf Course Road to create a vacant residential lot fronting onto River Run Place.

NOTICE OF THE DECISION: Within 10 days of the meeting, a copy of each decision will be sent to owners, agents, those who submit written comments, and people who sign the register at the meeting. If you wish to be notified of the decision of the Committee of Adjustment in respect to an application, you must submit a written request (to the Secretary-Treasurer – Nancy Thompson ext. 6040) or sign the register at the meeting. This will also entitle you to be advised of a possible Local Planning Appeal Tribunal.

APPEAL OF MINOR VARIANCE AND CONSENT APPLICATIONS: Anyone in opposition to a decision may appeal the decision to the Local Planning Appeal Tribunal. The Tribunal may dismiss an appeal without holding a hearing if the appellant did not make oral or written submissions to the Committee of Adjustment before a decision was given, or does not provide a reasonable explanation for having failed to make a submission to the Committee.

TRACTORS AND MACHINERY: Agco Allis

ST 35 4wd tractor with cab and loader with front mount snow blower 800 hours – excellent condition; Farmall 504 tractor running, good rubber, overhauled motor; 2- 6ft 3pth scraper blades; 3pth 5ft cultivator; sprayer on wheels; 5ft x 8ft hydraulic dump trailer; TMT scroll saw; grain auger with motor;

SATURDAY, MAY 12TH @ 10:00 A.M.

PROPERTY: 1 ½ storey brick home with attached porch, located on a 43 X 112ft. corner lot. House has good roof, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, sitting room, living room, kitchen and spacious basement. Heat – oil furnace. On property is a detached vinyl sided garage. Note – A solid house with lots of potential. Good location - 1 block from LRT, minutes from Rockway High School & golf course. See www.gerberauctions. net for photos. Will be sold at 12:00 noon subject to a reasonable reserve bid with 10% down sale day and the balance in 60 days or when possession is given. To view – Attend open houses Sat. April 21 from 1 - 4pm, Wed. April 25th from 6 – 9pm, or call 519-743-3184.

ANTIQUES: Table with drawer. Cellar table.

4 trunks. 2 Singer featherweight sewing machines. Wrought iron crib. Crosley turn table.

Early “Royal Chef” barbeque. Crocks. License plates (1947 – 1970). Dress form. Tinware. Oil lamps. Books. Floor lamps. 78’s. Set of china.

Model car kits. China & glass (coloured glass, depression, fancy bowls, etc.).

HOUSEHOLD: Danby fridge. Stove. Newer corner cupboard and pine dry sink. Buffet. 4pc. double bedroom suite. Drop leaf table. 4 drawer chest. Cedar chest. Wooden Adirondack chair.

Singer 14U34 Overlock serger sewing machine.

Singer 560 sewing machine. Sewing supplies.

Vacuum cleaner. Small appliances. Sealers.

Cookware, kitchen utensils, etc. MISC. ITEMS including Honda lawn mower, alum. ext. ladder, few hand & garden tools, etc.

NOTE – See www.gerberauctions.net for photos. Terms – Cash or cheque with I.D. Proprietor and auctioneers not responsible for accidents day of sale.

TOTAL HOME ENERGY SYSTEMS

RESIDENTIAL & COMMERCIAL

LICENSED SHEET METAL MECHANIC (308A) • Must have commercial and custom new construction experience • Gas license an asset • Must have clean driving record • Full benefit package

Please email resume to scott@totalhomeenergy.ca

LOOKING FOR LOCAL WORK?

AUCTIONEER:

Jantzi Auctions Ltd.

AUCTIONEERS:

Gerber Auctions Ltd. 519-699-4451 or 698-0138

YOU’VE COME TO THE RIGHT PLACE.

Wellesley | 519-656-3555 www.JantziAuctions.com

2827 Hutchison Rd., RR#1 Millbank (Crosshill)

OBSERVER CLASSIFIED LISTINGS HELP WANTED FULL TIME POSITION on large country property west of Waterloo for general maintenance including grounds keeping, minor carpentry, and general care taking.

Familiarity with farm equipment would be an asset.

Contact Kathleen at 519570-2672 or mail resume to: K. Walsh, 43 Allen St. W., Waterloo, N2L 1C9.

HELP WANTED 2-3 full days per week at The Corner Store in Linwood. Job includes kitchen and retail duties. 519-698-2600.

HELP WANTED PART- TIME HELP Wanted for Chip Wagon in Elmira!

Starting weekends from May 18th onwards and during the weekday and weekends throughout July and August.

Must have fantastic customer service skills, problem solving skills and initiative taking. Cooking and food prep experience helpful but not necessary. Previous cash handling experience also helpful. Need to be able to work independently and as part of a team.

Please send resumes to stephs5328@gmail.com

WORK WANTED TRUCK AND TRAILER....

Spring is here! Cleanups, tree trimming, junk removal, deliveries, gardening, anything, odd jobs etc.

Power washing available.

Call David 226-868-0245.

FOR SALE DINING CHAIRS SET of six.

Sturdy wooden structure.

High back with design. Very nice condition. Elmira, Ont. 519-807-2407.

MATTRESS AND BOX Spring, new, never used, still in sealed bag. Sacrifice $195. Delivery available.

519-635-8737.

FOR SALE

AUCTIONS

POTATOES - YUKON Gold, red, and Russet. $12 for 50lbs. Ask about delivery. Solomon Martin 519-664-1471.

AUCTIONS SAT. APRIL 28 at 9:30 AM - clearing auction sale of antiques; primitives; glassware; collectables; and miscellaneous items to be held at 10 Huron St. in Cambridge (Galt) for the Debeau Family. Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 519 656 3555 www.jantziauctions.com

TUES MAY 1 at 5:00 PM - Toy auction of approx. 350 toys; collection of precision tractors; JD and International; CIFES; Farm show; custom; collection of 1/64th; banks; tractor trailers; and much more. Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 519-656-3555. www.jantziauctions.com WED. MAY 2 at 7:00 PM Farm property auction of an approx. 97 acre farm with 87 workable acres; approx.

2 acres of soft wood bush; working dairy barn; gorgeous redone field stone house with a board and battan addition to be held at 1483 Wrigley Rd North

Dumfries Township. Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 519-656-3555. www.jantziauctions.com FRI. MAY 4 at 11:00 - Clearing auction sale of household effects; antiques; and miscellaneous items to be held at 084448 Side Road 6 in Bognor for the estate of the late Dieter Voight. Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 519-656-3555. www.jantziauctions.com

MAY 12th • ELMIRA

HELP WANTED

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS: 2008 Jayco Jay Feather 25ft camper trailer – new tires and in excellent condition; White 18hp riding lawnmower; Case 448 lawn tractor with Honda motor; lawn roller; Stihl 31 AV chain saw; Ryobi cut off saw; Reddy heater; Trademaster drill press; Miller welder; power fist mig welder; welding accessories; front tine tiller; echo weed trimmer; gas weed trimmer; Ariens rear tine tiller; handyman jack; battery chargers; battery operated homemade lawnmower lift; engine lifts; floor jacks; torch cart; small lawnmower lift; extension and step ladders; wood work bench; 17” truck tires; tire changer; tire splitter; 6ft press on stand; Koehler 18hp lawnmower motor; tractor weights; small drill press; lawn estate sprayer; appliance cart; engine hoists; towing hitch; barrel stand; logging chains; jack stands; air pig; sand blaster; small lawn trailer; ATV tires; tire hoist; 5” vise; oil pan on wheels; variety of tool chests; tap and dye set; gear puller; battery chargers; pipe wrenches; construction heater; SMV signs; grinder; live traps; variety of oils; filters; grease; gas cans; ramps; variety of lumber; 2x4’s; firewood; scrap steel pile; quantity of wrenches; sockets; hand; power; lawn and garden tools; aprox 30 farm toys and 2 wagon loads of miscellaneous items found on a well equipped farm.

Note: An exceptional well kept, clean auction.

Farm is sold. Terms: cash, cheque or debit.

· SALE ·

Email resumes to terry@stemmlermeats.ca or apply in store at 3031 Lobsinger Line Heidelberg

Yard

Looking for part-time employees for janitorial and light cleaning duties.

7am. till approx. 11am

SATURDAY MAY 5 AT 10:00 AM

Call Donna at 519.669.5790 ext.104

7556 Wellington Rd 7, RR#1 Alma (approx. 6kms west of Alma) for Hubert and Magaret Ditner on:

15 $ 8

AUCTION SALE

Of 1 ½ storey brick home, household goods, antiques and miscellaneous items, to be held at 244 Sydney St. South, (corner of Sydney and Courtland), in Kitchener, for Erma Roth, ON

2 Weeks + Map listing

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OBSERVER SERVICE DIRECTORY AUTOMOTIVE SERVICES

TIRE

WHERE TIRES ARE A

SPECIALTY, NOT A SIDE LINE.

Farm • Auto • Truck Industrial On-The-Farm Service 35 Howard Ave., Elmira

519-669-3232

GENERAL SERVICES

BIKE SALES & REPAIRS

THOMPSON’S

Auto Tech Inc. Providing the latest technology to repair your vehicle with accuracy and confidence.

Quality Bedding

Visit our website

Accredited Test & Repair Facility

519-669-4400 30 ORIOLE PKWY. E., ELMIRA www.thompsonsauto.ca

www.biobobs.com or call today!

519-648-3004

or

800-232-6396

PROFESSIONAL BIKE MECHANIC ON STAFF

Premium Softwood

Blown or Pushed Off We are geared to meet your timing and volume requirements

BLENDED TO MEET YOUR NEEDS!

Ph: Elmira (519) 669-5219

SEE US FOR

Window & Screen

REPAIRS 22 Church St. W., Elmira

519-669-5537

STORE HOURS: M-W 8-6, TH-F 8-8, SAT 8-6, SUN 12-5

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OBSERVER SERVICE DIRECTORY GENERAL SERVICES

OUTDOOR SERVICES COMMERCIAL & RESIDENTIAL SERVICES

Diesel & Auto Repairs Inc. Various sizes & rates

CLEAN • DRY • SECURE Call

519-669-4964

Lawn Maintenance & Landscaping

Join Our Family

519-669-8459

Hours: Monday - Thursday 9am - 6:30pm Friday 9 am - 6 pm Saturday 9am - 3 pm

20A Arthur St. N Elmira ON

After Hours by Appointment

Your source for year-round property maintenance.

205 Peel St., New Hamburg Call 519-662-1857

“Mechanics You Can Trust” (Formerly The Kids Diesel Shop)

100 SOUTH FIELD DRIVE, ELMIRA

Lawn Mowing Packages

TAX & ACCOUNTING SOLUTIONS

Call

www.kratax.ca

mobile:

• Mulch Delivery & Installation • Full Flower Bed Maintenance • Snow Plowing & Ice Control

Jeff Basler, Owner/Operator, at 519.669.9081

519.505.0985 | fax: 519.669.9819 | ever-green@sympatico.ca

HOME IMPROVEMENT SERVICES COMMERCIAL • RESIDENTIAL

GLASS SYSTEMS INC. 1553 King St. N., St. Jacobs, ON N0B 2N0

• Store Fronts • Thermopanes • Mirrors • Screen Repair • Replacement Windows • Shower Enclosures • Sash Repair TEL:

519-664-1202 / 519-778-6104

SPACE FOR RENT

ST. JACOBS

FAX: 519 664-2759 • 24 Hour Emergency Service

“25 years in Business”

Steve Co.

Plumbing and Maintenance Inc.

RESIDENTIAL • COMMERCIAL • INDUSTRIAL

For all your Plumbing Needs.

24 HOUR SERVICE Steve Jacobi

ELMIRA

CONSTRUCTION INC. (519) 569-0772 • Commercial & Industrial General Contracting • Specializing in Concrete Work & Excavation • Retaining Walls

519-669-3652

info@trappconstruction.ca www.trappconstruction.ca

• • • •

Stamped Coloured Concrete Demolition Bin Service Machine Bases

Concrete Breaking & Removal

HOME IMPROVEMENT SERVICES

AMOS

WINDOW FASHIONS

INC

R O O F I N G

- Design and build -

AGRICULTURAL | RESIDENTIAL

A Family owned and operated business serving KW, Elmira and surrounding area for over 35 years.

FRAMING • ROOFING RENOVATIONS • EAVESTROUGHS

Wayne Martin | 519-504-2016

Free in-home Consultations.

Call someone you can trust.

• Specializing in residential re-roofs • Repairs • Churches WORKMANSHIP GUARANTEED

Brands You Can Trust

CALL JAYME FOR YOUR FREE ESTIMATE.

519.501.2405 | 519.698.2114

darwayconstruction@icloud.com | Alma, ON

22 Church St. W., Elmira

Tel: 519-669-5537 or 1-844-866-5537 STORE HOURS: M-F: 8-8, SAT 8-6, SUN 12-5

In Business since 1973 • Fully Insured

homewindowfashions.ca

• Residential • Commercial • Industrial Randy Weber

ECRA/ESA Licence # 7000605

www.rwelectricltd.com 18 Kingfisher Dr., Elmira | 519.669.1462

HOME IMPROVEMENT SERVICES

The Right Window Treatment Can

Save you

 Drywall & Taping  Painting  Flooring Installation

 Trim & Moulding  Tiling  Appliance Installation & much more

FREE ESTIMATES ON ANY SIZE JOB

Over 30 Years Experience

CALL US TODAY! 226-220-1196 info@martinandmousso.ca | www.martinandmousso.ca

HOME IMPROVEMENT SERVICES

John Schaefer Painting FREE ESTIMATES Interior/exterior Painting, Wallpapering & Plaster | drywall Repairs

519-503-6033 (CELL) 519-669-2251

36 Hampton St., Elmira

RA HOME COMF ELMI (519) 669-4600 ORT APPLIANCES – FURNACES – FIREPLACES AIR CONDITIONERS – WATER HEATERS SPRING SPECIAL ON AIR CONDITIONING TUNE UP $99, INSTALLED FROM $1999 FURNACES INSTALLED FROM $2499 FRIDGES $499, STOVES $399, WASHERS $399, DRYERS $369, FREEZERS $199 Come visit our show room FREE QUOTES 1 Union Street, Elmira

ehc@hotmail.ca (519)-669-4600

Blinds

by Elite or Mera

In home consultations Wide selection of styles & fabrics 1011 Industrial Crescent St. Clements | 519-699-5411 www.LetUsFloorYou.ca

FREE

INSTALLATION When you buy 3 or more

Hours: M-F 8:30 - 5:30 Sat 9:00 - 3:00

RESIDENTIAL & AGRICULTURAL

Driveways • Sidewalks • Curbs • Patios Finished Floors • Retaining Walls • Steps Decorative/Stamped and Coloured Concrete www.marwilconcrete.ca

Evenings By Appointment

519-577-0370

OUTDOOR SERVICES Since 1998

•Final grading •Lawn repair & complete seeding well equipped for large stoney areas •Spike Aerator/Overseeding •Natural & Interlocking Stone •Retaining Walls, Walks & Patios •Help for Top Water & Drainage issue

Murray & Daniel Shantz

ALMA, ONTARIO | PHONE: 519.846.5427

YOUR BUSINESS RIGHT HERE. Advertise your business services in our service directory. Weekly exposure with fantastic results!

Call Donna at 519.669.5790 Ext 104.

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CLASSIFIED LISTINGS CONT. FROM PAGE 23 AUCTIONS AUCTION SALE OF Antiques, collectibles, household goods and miscellaneous items, to be held at the K.W. Khaki Club, 2939 Nafziger Rd. Wilmot Twp. 2 miles south of Wellesley, for Orval Bast, Tavistock, also Kitchener & Cambridge Estates, on Saturday, May 5th @ 10:00 a.m. Gerber Auctions Ltd. 519-699-4451 or 519-698-0138.

SAT. MAY 5 at 10:00 AM Clearing auction sale of tractors; farm machinery; quantity of hand, power, lawn and garden tools; approx. 30 farm toys; and household effects to be held at 7556 Wellington Rd. 7, Alma for Hubert and Margaret Ditner. Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 519 656 3555 www.jantziauctions.com WED. MAY 9 at 9:45 AM Clearing auction sale of household effects; furniture; antiques; tools; collectibles; and miscellaneous items to be held at the St. Jacobs Community Centre in St. Jacobs for an area estate with additions. Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 519-656-3555. www.jantziauctions.com

FARM SERVICES BAGGED PINE SHAVINGS Agricultural Spray Lime, 22.5kg. bag; feed grade lime, 25kg. Delivered. Call George Haffner Trucking, 519-574-4141 or 519-669-2045.

FERTILIZER AND SEED GRAIN - at competitive pricing. Call George Haffner Trucking, 519-574-4141.

KILN DRIED CORN & CORN SCREENING Delivered by Einwechter. Minimum 15 ton lots. Call George Haffner Trucking 519-574-4141 or 519-669-2045.

PETS MALTESE PUPPIES. DEWORMED, vet checked, vaccination up to doate. $950.00 each.

519-669-0898.

WANTED WANTED - ROLEX, Breitling, Omega Le Coultre watches, gold & silver coins, military items, jewellery, musical instruments, toys, records, sports items. gallamore@golden.net Call Terry 519-242-6900, fast & fair service.

Welcoming

PROFESSIONAL COUPLE LOOKING to rent farm house within 30 mins of Elmira.

References available. Call Paul @ 519-500-9640.

Stephen Hartman

TWO BEDROOM APARTMENT available close to downtown Elmira. 226-600-0135.

Stephen is a lifelong resident of Woolwich Township where he has enjoyed many years coaching in the local minor hockey system. He sat on the Woolwich Council from 1988 - 1994,

TRADES & SERVICES CUSTOM LAWN SEEDING, garden tilling, sweeper rental. 519-669-2043, 519503-5641.

He looks forward to helping his clients achieve their housing goals and dreams.

RON’S DRYWALL AND Renovations. Over 35 years experience. Please call 519-496-7539 or email ron. spncr@gmail.com

Call or email Stephen today!

Stephen Hartman

GARAGE SALES GARAGE SALE. FRIDAY April 27th 8:00 - 4:00 and Saturday April 28th 8 a.m. - 12:00.

5322 Ament Line, Linwood Ontario. All kinds of household items.

YARD SALE RAIN or Shine - May 3, 3-7 p.m, May 4&5, 8a.m. 6 p.m. 1075 St. Charles St. W., Bloomingdale. Boat winch, lawn furniture, Super M&H tractors, 21� Lawn Boy mower, Aerins rototiller, air compressor, mitre saw, shop tools, two womens bikes, motorcycle helmets, fishing equipment, yard tools, antiques and much more.

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AUCTION SALE OF 1-1/2 storey brick home, household goods, antiques and miscellaneous items, to be held at 244 Sydney St. South, (corner of Sydney and Courtland), in Kitchener, for Erma Roth, on Saturday, May 12th @ 10:00 a.m. Gerber Auctions Ltd. 519-699-4451 or 698-0138

WED. MAY 16 at 4:00 PM -Auction sale of household effects; quality furniture; and miscellaneous items to be held at 23 Spring St. in St. Jacobâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s for Erma Wideman.

Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 5 1 9 - 6 5 6 -3 5 5 5 www.jantziauctions.com

RENTALS 1 BEDROOM AND 2 Bedroom Apartment in Elmira. Quiet building, newly renovated, close to downtown. Call 519669-5798.

CROSSWORD PUZZLER

FRI. MAY 11 at 3:00 PM Property auction of a 3 bedroom bungalow on a large approx. half acre lots; household effects; antiques; tools; and miscellaneous items to be held at 592 Rustic Dr in Waterloo for the estate of the late John Neufeld Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 519 656 3555 www.jantziauctions.com

AUCTIONS SAT. MAY 12 at 9:30 AM Clearing auction sale of farm machinery; household effects; antiques; miscellaneous items; and a collection of approx. 400 including farm; banks; cars; etc. to be held at 7590 Line 86 Macton for Amsey and Eileen Metzger. Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 519 656 3555 www.jantziauctions.com

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REAL ESTATE

TIME FOR A CHANGE? WE CAN HELP! NEW LISTING

Sue From

Alli Bauman

226-750-9332

519-577-6248

SALES REPRESENTATIVE CALL DIRECT suefrom17@gmail.com

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

THANK-YOU FOR CHOOSING RE/MAX!

$324,900

$570,000

Moorefield- Investment Opportunity!!! First time home buyers, this well cared for duplex is the property for you! Why not offset your mortgage payments by renting out one of the units? Unit A has two bedrooms and one bathroom, Unit B has been updated and has two bedrooms and two bathrooms. Two newer high efficiency gas furnaces (2016/2017), Roof 2015, all appliances included and parking for three cars. Don't wait, call today!

Drayton - Spectacular open-concept 3 bedroom bungalow (2013) with 9' ceilings. Large kitchen has cherry cabinets, gas stove and huge island while living room has gas fireplace and 10’ ceiling. Master with walk in closet & 4pc ensuite. Main floor laundry has loads of storage.

Oversized double garage with air compressor and 220 service. Unfinished basement (1600sq ft) with rough-in for bathroom and 9' ceilings. Back yard has privacy hedge, 20x25 deck, shed and play structure.

3 Arthur St. S., Elmira | 519-669-5426

SELLING? CALL US FOR A FREE MARKET EVALUATION.

Shanna Rozema

BROKER

Bonnie

Brubacher

BROKER

A portion of each sale commission is donated to The Woolwich Community Services.

HELPING YOU IS WHAT WE DO…

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519.500.1865 (Direct)

Dale R. Keller

519.747.0231 (Office)

Sales Representative

410 Conestogo Road, Unit 210, Waterloo, ON N2L 4E2

www.KellerSellsRealEstate.com | dale@kellersellsrealestate.com

SOLD

3 bedroom 3 bath, big yard overlooking fields. MLS Call Dale

Building Lot | Tobermory | $36,000

BUILT BY PARADIGM (ELMIRA) HOMES - PERFECT FOR EMPTY NESTERS. PRICED AT $459,900 These executive style bungalow

OPEN HOUSE SAT APR 28

INDEPENDENTLY OWNED AND OPERATED

NEW LISTING | Drayton | $453,000

FREEHOLD BUNGALOW TOWN HOMES towns offer all main floor conveniences. Open concept layout, gorgeous custom kitchens complete with island/breakfast bar, hardwood floors in the great room, gas fireplace and walkouts, master offers a walk-in closet and full ensuite bath with walk-in shower, main floor laundry/mudroom, central air conditioning, privacy fencing + more included! Call today for further details and to reserve your unit today!

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Building lot on Dyers Bay Rd, South of Tobermory. MLS Call Dale.

BLOCK 98

Now is always the right time to put your house on the Market. Inventory is low so still a Sellers market. For a free, no obligation, consultation on Buying or Selling, call Dale direct at 519-500-1865.

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87 COUNTRY CLUB ESTATES DR., ELMIRA

$559,900 Beautifully appointed 3 BDRM, 3 BATH two storey home with chic decor. Inviting foyer welcomes you into this lovely open concept home.

Main floor family room with gas fireplace & upgraded floors throughout, kitchen complete with island/breakfast bar, granite counter tops & stainless appliances, walkout off the dinette to covered deck, fenced yard & shed.

Stylish master bedroom offers a walk-in closet & 4 pc bathroom with oversized glass shower. NEW LISTING MLS

ARE YOU THINKING OF BUYING OR SELLING IN 2018? CALL US TODAY AND WE CAN HELP YOU ACHIEVE THIS!

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PLACE AN AD IN OUR REAL ESTATE SECTION TODAY! Call: 519-669-5790 ext. 104 or Email: drudy@woolwichobserver.com

Independently Owned and Operated wendy@wendytaylor1.com 24hrs 519-747-0231 24hrs

Wendy Taylor BROKER

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Thinking of Buying or Selling call or email today!

72 First St. W., Elmira OPEN HOUSE Saturday, April 28, 2018 2-4pm

NEW LISTING $499,900 ELMIRA – This centrally located 3 bedroom, 2 bath bungalow on 60x130 pool sized lot shows AAA. Situated in a mature neighbourhood, this nicely maintained, all brick home is within walking distance of all Elmira schools, Gibson Park and the Woolwich Rec. Centre.

Many updates! MLS 30650863 Call or email Wendy Taylor to view.

“You dream...We’ll work.”

Free, no obligation, Opinions of value

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It is with great sadness that the family announces the passing of Joan Weichel, who passed away peacefully on Wednesday, April 18, 2018, at Pinehaven Nursing Home, Waterloo, at the age of 93 years. Joan was the beloved wife of the late Donald Weichel (1993). Dear mother of Barbara Brubacher, the late David Weichel (2009), and Susan Leeson and her husband Hugh. Loved grandmother of Heather Brubacher, Robyn Brett (John); Jean Power (Allan), Sarah Weichel, Laura Weichel McShane, Jon Weichel (Cheryl); Angela Stahlbaum (Mike), and Annali Leeson (Justin); and many great and great-great grandchildren. Joan will be missed by her many friends and extended family.

Predeceased by her parents Dick and Hilda (Tongate) Whitington, and son-in-law Marvin (Merch) Brubacher.

Joan was a well loved and respected secretary at John Mahood Public School for over thirty years. Special thank you to the wonderful staff at Pinehaven for making Joan always feel at home. The family received their relatives and friends on Sunday, April 22, 2018 from 2-5 p.m. at the Dreisinger Funeral Home, 62 Arthur St. S., Elmira. A funeral service was held on Monday, April 23, 2018 at 2 p.m. at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 27 Mill St., Elmira. At Joan’s request, cremation has taken place.

A private family interment in Elmira Union Cemetery at a later date. As expressions of sympathy, donations to the Heart and Stroke Foundation would be appreciated by the family.

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Scheerer, Bernice (nee Scheffner) Peacefully passed away on Sunday, April 22, 2018, at Grand River Hospital at the age of 78 years. Loving wife and best friend for 58 years of Robert “Bob” of West Montrose. Dear mother of Wendy and Ron Holowchuk of Heidelberg, Doug and Carolyn of West Montrose, and Sue Fisher (Rich) of Dorking. Cherished Nana of Echoe Lambertz, Chantel (Kris) Lewis; Christina-Dawn (1993), Caitlin (Mike) Martin, Stephen (Shawnee); Elisha Fisher (James), Kristen Fisher and Tim Fisher. “Little Nana” of Keaton Lambertz, Bennett Lambertz, Sommer Lewis and Myla Lewis. Bernice was the last surviving member of her family, having been predeceased by her parents Andrew and Josephine (Weiler) Scheffner, her siblings Edward, Raymond, Hilbert, Beatrice, Margaret, and Ken. She will be fondly remembered by many nieces and nephews. At Bernice’s request, cremation has taken place. A memorial visitation will be held on Thursday, April 26, 2018 at the Dreisinger Funeral Home, 62 Arthur St. S., Elmira from 10 a.m. until time of memorial service at 11 a.m. Reception to follow. A family interment will take place at West Montrose Church Cemetery. In Bernice’s memory, donations to St. Mary’s Hospital Cardiac Care Centre would be appreciated as expressions of sympathy.

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Brubacher, Elsie (Martin) Peacefully passed into the arms of her Lord at Barnswallow Place, Elmira, on Wednesday, April 18, 2018, in her 98th year. She was the last remaining member of her family. Beloved wife of the late David H. Brubacher (1992). Cherished mother of Abner (Vera) of Tara, Harvey (Beatrice) of Mount Forest, daughter-inlaw Barb Brubacher of Elmira, Mervin (Marie) of West Montrose, and Lester (Catriena) of Thorsby, Alberta. Precious grandmother of 12 grandchildren and 24 great-grandchildren. Dear sister-in-law of Minerva Martin of Cambridge and Naomi Martin of RR 2, Elmira. Predeceased by her two sons Clare (2006) and Orton (2015), five grandchildren, a greatgrandson, parents Moses and Rebecca (Martin) Martin, six brothers, and a sister.

The family wishes to thank Barnswallow Place for providing dedicated loving care for our mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. The family received relatives and friends on Sunday, April 22, 2018 from 2-5 and 7-9 p.m. at Crystal View Mennonite Church, 2167 Floradale Rd., Floradale, where a funeral service was held on Monday, April 23, 2018 at 10:30 a.m. Interment followed in the adjoining cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Christian Aid Ministries. Arrangements entrusted to the Dreisinger Funeral Home, Elmira.

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HALL, MARION JEAN (NEE CAVEN) - Peacefully passed away Saturday, April 21, 2018 at Sunnyside Seniors’ Services. Marion Hall, aged 93 years of Kitchener, formerly of Winterbourne.

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Groups such as Community Care Concepts, which administers Meals on Wheels, find themselves with a shortage of volunteers due to changing demographics ALI WILSON WHILE NATIONAL VOLUNTEER WEEK showcases the amazing work volunteers do, it also shines a spotlight on the ever growing need for more people willing to help.

Volunteerism is dwindling across the board, whether it be for events, local sports teams or service clubs. From such groups, the message is unanimous: they need more help.

For Community Care Concepts, which administers seniors’ services such as Meals on Wheels, volunteers are the very life blood of the organization. There is a pressing need for assistance.

A record high demand for their services has come along with a wave of retiring volunteers and only a slow stream of new people entering to help.

“Our agency is over 30 years old and across the three townships we have had very, very good uptake and volunteer retention, but they are aging and so we are finding it harder and harder to recruit young people into volunteerism,” said Karla Frey, community outreach coordinator with Community Care Concepts of Woolwich, Wellesley and Wilmot, noting it could be due to many things including a lack of knowledge of the opportunities to volun-

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and so with those 21,000 its additional routes – a volunteer can only deliver so many – so we have had to add extra routes, which means more volunteers.”

In addition to the delivery of meals, the program serves as somewhat of a watchdog service for the vulnerable in the community.

“They become the eyes

HAVING JUST COME THROUGH the Easter season and the Elmira Maple Syrup Festival, it might be time to liven up the humble pancake.

Combining the likes of sweet potatoes, coriander and jalapeno, these Spicy Sweet Potato Pancakes fit the bill as a novel way to change things up on the griddle. Plenty of maple syrup still applicable, of course.

These pancakes also work well as an appetizer or as a side dish with dinner. The spicy heat can be adjusted to your liking.

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Community Care Concepts organized a free concert with the KW Symphony at the Breslau Community Centre April 19. The show is one of the smaller ways the organizations works to benefit residents. [FAISAL ALI / THE OBSERVER] teer locally, the demands of work and the changing economy.

“We are very flexible with what is available for volunteerism. Often people just aren’t aware of the flexibility and what is available in terms of volunteerism here at the agency.”

Among the many services that they need volunteers for, they have an immediate and desperate

need for drivers to help with their Meals on Wheels and assisted transportation programs.

“Our biggest need is getting folks their food, making sure those hot meals come to them and they are nutritionally supported and not feeling isolated socially as well because they get that contact,” explained Frey.

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“This year we will see the largest number of meals that we have ever had delivered,” said Cathy Harrington, executive director of Community Care Concepts. “Over 21,000 meals that we have delivered across the three townships

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HUNGRY MAN’S BREAKFAST. 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. All you can eat. Join Mike Farwell for Hire for Cystic Fibrosis. Donations to the cause would be greatly appreciated.

YOUNG AT HEART. WE invite you to a fun afternoon of canvas painting, no skill needed! This was a big hit at our last event so please sign up with Sue at 226-7898904. There is no charge for this event. St Clements Community Centre at 1 p.m. Refreshments.

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APRIL 30 NEW HAMBURG MENNONITE RELIEF Sale Promotion Dinner at Bingeman’s Marshall Hall. Speaker Sarah Martin Mills, founder of Growing Hope Farms. Starts at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased at www.nhmrs.com and MCC Ontario. Proceeds to New Hamburg Mennonite Relief Sale.

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MARYHILL KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Vegas Night at Bridgeport Rod & Gun, Breslau. Doors open at 7 p.m., fun begins at 8 p.m. Free admission. Fast food available. Many generous prized to be won at the “Big Wheel. Penny table and other games of chance available. Light lunch at the end. All proceeds to Food Bank and Sister Christine’s Drop-in Center, Guelph.

SPAGHETTI DINNER WITH THE Cord Spinners. Join us from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at St. Jacobs Lutheran Church.

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MAY 10 WOODSIDE EVERGREEN FOR SENIORS at Woodside Church, Elmira. “Our Life North of 60” photos and stories from NWT. Presented by Nolan and Fanny Swartzentruber. Devotional by pastor Dan Allen.

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NEW HORIZONS FOR ZOOMERS, boomers and seniors from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at the Maryhill Community Centre. Guest Speaker Noah Irvine, Youth Advocate for Mental Health. Topic: Resilience in the Wake of Mental Health.

SENIORS’ HIKE. 9A.M. TO 10:30 a.m. The Woolwich Trails Group invites seniors to meet at the Mill Race Trail entrance in St. Jacobs just before 9 a.m. for a 2.5 km hike. For more information contact Ann at 519465-8199 or aroberts@woolwich.ca.

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Tossed together, words can lend even more colour to our creative language means â&#x20AC;&#x153;fear nothingâ&#x20AC;? but can also describe â&#x20AC;&#x153;a battleship armed with all heavy guns,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;a thick clothâ&#x20AC;? and a large, loud acoustic guitar.

No doubts about â&#x20AC;&#x153;killjoy,â&#x20AC;? a person who spoils the enjoyment of others, from Old English â&#x20AC;&#x153;cyllanâ&#x20AC;? (to kill) + Old French â&#x20AC;&#x153;joieâ&#x20AC;? (joy). And, of course, a â&#x20AC;&#x153;sawbonesâ&#x20AC;? refers to a doctor, especially a surgeon, taken from Old English â&#x20AC;&#x153;sagaâ&#x20AC;? (to cut with a saw) + â&#x20AC;&#x153;banâ&#x20AC;? (bone).

Finally, a â&#x20AC;&#x153;scofflawâ&#x20AC;? is someone who â&#x20AC;&#x153;displays contempt for the law, especially in minor violations, such as failure to pay parking tickets.â&#x20AC;? As Garg says: â&#x20AC;&#x153;In 1924, during Prohibition, banker Delcevare King of Quincy, Massachusetts, announced

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Q. English is a colorful

and inventive language, enlivened by tosspot words such as â&#x20AC;&#x153;dreadnought,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;killjoy,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;sawbonesâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;scofflaw.â&#x20AC;?

What are â&#x20AC;&#x153;tosspots,â&#x20AC;? anyway, and how do these examples fit in the mix?

A.

They follow the pattern â&#x20AC;&#x153;verb + nounâ&#x20AC;? to describe people, â&#x20AC;&#x153;from â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;smellfungusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; (a habitual faultfinder), to â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;lickspittleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; (a servile flatterer), to â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;makebateâ&#x20AC;? (one who incites a quarrel), explains Anu Garg on his â&#x20AC;&#x153;A.Word.A.Dayâ&#x20AC;? web site. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dreadnoughtâ&#x20AC;? literally

a contest to coin a word to describe â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;a lawless drinker.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; The prize was $200 in gold (about $5,000 today). Of more than 25,000 entries that poured in, coinages such as â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;wetocrat,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;violist,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;boozshevicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; lost out to â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;scofflaw.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

Q. This small prey is a textbook example of chemical defense, surviving up to 107 minutes in a predatorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stomach.

Can you name the prey/ predator?

A. Call this the struggle between the stingless bombardier beetle and the much bigger, tougher toad that can tongue-strike in an eyeblink, says Susan Milius in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Science Newsâ&#x20AC;? magazine. The beetleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s defense? Inside its stomach are two substances

followed by sheep and goats. Then the floodgates opened: pigs, cows, cats, horses and a menagerie of birds and other beasts made the leap. Over the past 30,000 years or so, humans have domesticated all manner of species,â&#x20AC;? says Colin Barras in â&#x20AC;&#x153;New Scientistâ&#x20AC;? magazine. But what animal may have been domesticated even earlier?

that mix together to form a hot noxious stream and shoot out from its back end into the toad at up to 100 degrees Celsius (212 degrees Fahrenheit). This causes the toad to vomit, and more than 40% of the bombardiers escape alive, report ecologists Shinj Sugiura and Takuya Sato.

However, when prodded into spraying all their noxious chemicals beforehand, almost none of the beetles were ejected.

As University of Sydneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Gregory Brown put it, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The hot chemical blast would be like â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;having a small bomb go offâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; in the stomach. What does surprise meâ&#x20AC;Ś is that the defense only worked around 50% of the time.â&#x20AC;?

Q. â&#x20AC;&#x153;First came the dog,

A.

Humans! Domestication results from the repeated selection and breeding of animals less aggressive and more cooperative than the norm, traits which may have conferred a survival advantage during our evolution. The speculation that we tamed ourselves is not new; it was advanced by Darwin

and even Aristotle. Recent genetic comparisons between us and Neanderthals confirm that some of the differences â&#x20AC;&#x153;are the same as those that distinguish dogs from wolves and European cattle from European bison.â&#x20AC;? Domesticated animals tend to have reduced brain size, smaller teeth and shorter muzzles than their wild brethren.

And this â&#x20AC;&#x153;domestication syndromeâ&#x20AC;? describes our relationship to our Neanderthal ancestors. Concludes Barras, â&#x20AC;&#x153;We really may be the puppy dogs to their feral wolves.â&#x20AC;?

ABOUT THE AUTHORS Bill is a journalist, Rich holds a doctorate in physics. Together the brothers bring you â&#x20AC;&#x153;Strange But True.â&#x20AC;? Send your questions to strangetrue@compuserve.com.

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Reflecting CCC’s focus on services for seniors, the crowd was thoroughly entertained by the music and the lessons provided by the symphony conductor. [FAISAL ALI / THE OBSERVER] and eye tests, for instance.

Beyond the transportation, volunteers also provide some much-needed support to the clients.

“It’s not always good news for people so it’s nice to have the comfort – not everybody has somebody who can drive them,” she said.

Over the past year, they have provided some 8,000 rides for people, both within the region and to destinations beyond. With that, volunteering to help with the program is completely flexible.

“It is the most flexible in that you just say when you can and can’t do it. We phone you and if you say yes, that’s awesome – we will schedule you with a ride – and if you say no, then we will call you next time or offer you a couple more rides that we need to fill.”

The organization works

very hard to accommodate anyone interested in volunteering, there are no lengthy commitments – any help they can get they are happy to have it.

“We couldn’t do the work that we do without the contribution of volunteers,” said Harrington.

Originally founded by volunteers as Woolwich Home Support, CCC has seen people committing upwards of 30 and 40 years as volunteers.

“Long before our organization was formed there were volunteers through the local churches preparing meals and delivering them to seniors who were isolated in their community. It was really only when the volume became so big that the organization formalized that at that time we chose Woolwich Home Support. We have never ever forgotten the con-

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tribution that volunteers made,” said Harrington.

“We have that spirit of helping your neighbours in need, rolling up your sleeves and doing what it takes to just make this a great community for people to age well in. Those are the messages that we continue to hear and that’s a unique piece that I really appreciate around the township. It’s just that spirit of giving back to the community.”

Getting involved is easy, Frey says. To volunteer, just reach out with your interest and then they can go from there to work around what will fit into your schedule.

There are 110 active volunteers across the three townships, collectively putting in around 9,000 hours a year to help support the many programs.

“If we can use the volunteers our capacity and capability is a lot bigger,” said Frey. “If you can only give a tiny bit that is huge to us being a volunteer-based agency.”

Working directly with volunteers, Frey says it has been a blessing to see the generosity come out of the community.

“We love them. I enjoy working with volunteers because I find it quite a blessing to sit with people who come on their own, don’t look for anything in return and just want to give - they are just inspiring people to work with, for sure.”

“We couldn’t do the work that we do without the contribution of volunteers,” added Harrington. “The needs are not decreasing, they are continuing to increase.”

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and ears in the community, so when you’re dropping off a meal to somebody it may be the only human contact that person has in that whole day,” said Frey.

Although the volunteers are just dropping off the meal, they do become familiar with residents and can flag anything irregular or issues with safety at the home. CCC can then follow up with them and help to provide solutions.

Just recently, however, a lack of volunteers has forced the agency to condense some routes. With that, the demand is higher than ever for help.

Frey explains there are many ways to boost volunteer numbers, including businesses promoting participation during lunchtime, students meeting their required volunteer hours and people pitching in as they can, perhaps volunteering sporadically rather than regularly.

“There are all different ways in which we can incorporate volunteers, and we really try to make it around what works for people,” she said.

Also in dire need is the assisted transportation program. With this, volunteers are needed to drive people to medical appointments, grocery shopping and any other type of outing they may need assistance with.

“It’s a great opportunity to access that more homey environment of a driver,” said Frey. “Volunteers that we get in here are lovely and they are a friend on your way to a difficult appointment.”

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“If we make this too onerous on the proponent, this could backfire on us,” he said Noting the owners could choose to walk away, leaving the building to fall into disrepair, he pointed to similar issues with the old Steddick Hotel property and a Victorian home on Park Street in Elmira, where both properties deteriorated to the point they were beyond saving.

Although concerned about the compatibility issues of cramming a bunch of “tiny houses” into the existing neighbourhood, Coun. Patrick Merlihan agreed with the call to combine the processes.

“It sounds like a winwin situation,” he said, adding the heritage process shouldn’t be shortchanged. “It comes down to how much we cherish the heritage here.”

For director of engineering and planning Dan Kennaley, however, there remained concerns about getting the heritage issues dealt with, including a peer review of a heritage assessment carried out by

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A number of features on the exterior, interior and landscape surrounding the building are worth protecting, he said, arguing in favour of retaining the peer review option to “be sure” in determining which aspects of the property to designate for protection.

Councillors appeared to side with Puopolo’s characterization of such a study as time-consuming and unnecessary given that the owners are willing to work towards a heritage designation, having hired heritage consultant Owen Scott because of his years of experience in the field.

“I don’t think this needs to be an adversarial pro-

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Puopolo said the owners have no plans to modify the front of the building, nor to alter any of the major heritage features.

Scott identified those as including the exterior brickwork, many of the windows, a wrought-iron fence and interior elements such as the front staircase, copper ceilings and parquet flooring.

Many of the features date back to the original 19th century building and the early 20th century addition that essentially doubled the size of the structure. Later work done in 1982, some of which altered historic features, doesn’t make the grade, he argued.

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