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EMERGENCY CREWS RESPOND TO THREE-VEHICLE COLLISION
STEVE KANNON Savings from the elimination of two positions in Woolwich’s recreation department will be plowed back into more hires, with an emphasis on frontline service delivery. The long-planned restructuring of the department was aided by the departure earlier this year of deputy director Brian Detzler, who took a position with neighbouring Centre Wellington Township. As well, the township recently let go long-time aquatic supervisor Dave Ruetz. The money from those two positions will be reallocated to pay for new jobs and RESTRUCTURING | 2
A three-vehicle collision resulted in a driver taken away by ambulance and charges after one driver failed to obey a stop sign on Second Street at the Snyder Avenue intersection in Elmira at approximately 7 p.m. August 14. All three vehicles were severely damaged. [PAT MERLIHAN / THE OBERVER]
Withdrawal of gravel pit application a reason to celebrate Capital Paving’s announcement, on the heels of Woolwich’s move to close file, has West Montrose residents breathing a sigh of relief STEVE KANNON First came Woolwich’s decision to close the file. Then the company’s withdrawal of its application for a gravel pit. Now residents of West Mon-
trose can finally relax. And celebrate, which they’ll do next month. Last week’s announcement by Capital Paving that it would no longer seek an aggregate-extraction licence for a site near
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Woolwich’s decision enlivened the group, but there was still a chance the company would launch a legal challenge, he said. Now, the matter is settled. “While the company truly believes that it could
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and the covered bridge,� the company said in a release August 9, announcing its withdrawal of its application. Last month, having heard nothing in the past year from the Guelphbased company, township council voted to deem the file closed, leaving Capital with the option of submitting a new bid for a gravel pit on Letson Drive or launching an appeal. The now-closed application dates back to September 2008. However, there had been little movement or even discussion of the bid since 2010. Capital Paving was involved in legal action
against Woolwich’s 2008 plan to tighten up its rules governing gravel pit applications, appealing official plan amendment 13 (OPA 13) to the Ontario Municipal Board. The company argued its application predated the new rules, meaning it did not have to submit the additional studies demanded under the new policy. The township eventually reached an agreement with Capital Paving, preempting a hearing. In 2009, the company pressed the township to speed up its handling of the application, while planning staff called for more information and studies from the applicant. The process became
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reworking of some existing roles, said recreation director Karen Makela at Tuesday night’s meeting of Woolwich council. The proposal was approved with no discussion by councillors, none of whom questioned whether the funds should be assigned elsewhere in the township or returned to taxpayers. Under the plan, a new unionized position – facility/parks supervisor – will be added to the payroll, and a facilities/proper-
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Having come out on the winning side, the BridgeKeepers plan to turn a community barbecue already scheduled for September 21 into a celebration. “I think it’s going to be a fun afternoon, possibly heading into the evening,� laughed Dowling. However, the group intends to remain vigilant for the prospect of any development in the vicinity of the historic covered bridge. While Dowling predicts the “gravel will remain in the ground� due to the protection of the CHL designation, there could be other proposals floated in the future. In the meantime, the group will keep an eye on
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BridgeKeepers co-chair Doug Cerson in a statement. “Their business depends on extracting aggregate, and they have to find viable places to do that. “On first examination, this site might have looked acceptable. They didn’t have the advantage that we do of experiencing the area firsthand. To their credit, as the body of science and opinion opposing the site expanded and as they had time to further consider the application, they decided to step away. We applaud them for that decision.� Added Dowling, “To Capital’s credit, they acknowledged they didn’t expect the pushback they got from the public.�
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“The time has come to activate the ‘quality of life’ facilities that were realized through a highly successful Fit for the Future campaign.� As a result of the eliminated positions, the department’s overall budget will not increase due to the additions, she stressed. “The funds will be repurposed.� Mayor Todd Cowan said a growing population is putting more pressure on township and recreation services to meet the public’s demand. With this new plan, staff thinks it’s better able to serve the residents, chief administrative officer David Brenneman said following the meeting. While there was no discussion of the plan or finances at the council session, councillors were kept in the loop about the shifts, including the decision to eliminate Ruetz’s position, he noted. Management staff will be monitoring the changes to see if they actually do make a difference in the operation of recreation facilities and programs, he said.
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Woolwich fine with current state of railway transparency STEVE KANNON While neighbouring municipalities are expressing concern about potentially hazardous materials travelling on rail lines in the region, Woolwich won’t be joining the call for greater disclosure. Discussing the issue at Tuesday night’s council meeting, Mayor Todd
Cowan said the system is already transparent enough, with two large chemical companies in Elmira – Chemtura and Canada Colors and Chemicals (CCC, formerly Sulco Chemicals) – already disclosing what’s transported by rail. “We’ve been proactive in managing the risks,” he said, noting that Chem-
tura’s been operating for decades. “We’re the only municipality that can contact all of its residents within five minutes ...,” he said of the Community Alert Network whereby citizens are notified by phone message of any emergency situations. In Kitchener and Waterloo, however, councillors would like to see more
information provided by the rail companies operating locally, the GoderichExeter and Canadian National Railways. In fact, Kitchener city council passed a motion Monday night calling for data to be passed on to the fire department. In Waterloo, the fire chief is the only one privy to that information, and he’s been sworn
to secrecy. Woolwich fire chief Rick Pedersen said he does not receive that information, nor has the township asked for it. Train safety and the transportation of hazardous materials has been a top-of-mind issue in many municipalities following the train derailment and explosion in
Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, and rail bridge collapse and derailment during the flooding in Calgary. The Federation of Canadian Municipalities, which represents some 2,000 municipal governments, has struck a national municipal rail safety working group to study the issue. RAILWAY | 4
Green bins get greater use in region’s rural areas ELENA MAYSTRUK The region’s rural residents, who typically have more options to compost at home, participate in greater numbers than people in the cities when it comes to the underperforming green bin program. Still, given the much smaller population and lower overall participation rates, Waterloo Region is nowhere near meeting its targets, spending far more because of it. A little more than 9,000 tonnes of organic waste went into green bins in 2012 – down from the year before – but officials were expecting 20,000 tonnes. The region signed a longterm contract with the City of Guleph based on the projected number. As of October, it will be paying $2.3 million a year to the processor no matter how much waste it sends. That’s about double what it would have cost if the region had gone with a Hamilton facility, paying only for what it sends, the Waterloo Region Record reports. Currently, 132,000 homes have green bins available. The region says the program has a 19 per cent capture rate: the 9,000 tonnes collected representing only
a fifth of the estimated organic waste available. If everyone used the blue box and green bin all of the time, the region would divert as much as 80 per cent of waste from the landfill. In 2012, the actual diversion rate was 53 per cent. While the majority of green waste comes from the cities due to higher populations, there is better overall participation from the townships (about 10 kilograms more per household), Cari Rastas Howard, project manager of waste management programs at Region of Waterloo, said this week. “Historically we have seen better participation in the rural townships. While the majority of our waste comes from the tri-cities because that’s where the majority of our population is, the last time we looked at the numbers we actually saw that on a per household basis we have better participation in the rural townships.” There are three known reasons for better green waste management among rural folk. One is that township dwellers are familiar with composting through the use of backyard com-
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WILL SLOAN As the annual Waterloo County SteamThreshers’ Reunion gears up for its 19th year, Wallenstein resident Amsey Metzger, who has hosted the event for the its last five installments, knows why the event has proven so durable. “You come out and see how things used to be, and how things are now,” said Metzger, who
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A sunny weekend was just right for the latest installment of the Drayton Fall Fair. The village was one of the first surrounding communities to kick off the fall festivities with tractor pulls, animal shows and a midway August 9-11. [ELENA MAYSTRUK / THE OBERVER]
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post barrels. “Putting it into the green bin wasn’t that much of an additional step for them,” Howard said. The infamous “yuck” factor plays a part in binshunning she said. “We know that one of the things that people don’t like in the tri-cities is when the servicemen dump the bins into the trucks. The way the trucks are set up sometimes they slop some of the material down the side of the green bin and that turns some people off the program.” There’s a small compartment for green bin waste in the garbage trucks, which
doesn’t leave much room to maneuver. In townships, however, contractors use a separate vehicle to collect green waste, thus minimizing spills and drops. “It’s something we’re working on with our tricities contractor, but we’ve heard from a number of people complaining.” The final and most compelling factor is that a four to six garbage bag limit keeps rural residents more conscious of their trash, and focused on other methods of disposal. In the cities the bag limit is 10 per household. Howard notes that there are some remote areas in the townships where green bin collection is still not available.
Farmers have a long history of habitual composting practices, says a researcher with the Ontario Federation of Agriculture. It’s possible that some rural property owners have the space and opportunity to compost table scraps and fertilize their yards and gardens instead of using green bins. “There are a lot more people in the urbanized areas of the Region of Waterloo than there are in the rural areas, so one would have thought that they would generate the required volume from urban areas without having to rely on the much lower volume from rural areas,” said Dave Armitage.
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tor pull,” said Metzger. “It’ll be the antique tractors that are going to be here with their tractors. Just antiques.” Other activities will include horse-drawn wagon rides, a corn maze, an antique hay loader demonstration, and the everpopular bouncy castles for kids. Proceeds from the event will go to the Canadian Therapeutic Riding Association and Ontario Christian Gleaners. “It’s good to see how much money we can profit and give back to the community. That’s what gives me a good feeling,” said Metzger.
Metzger’s 56-year-old tractor will be on display. Amsey Metzger’s farm is located at 7590 Line 86 in Wallenstein. Admission is $5 per person, or $15 per family (with free parking). More information, including a chance to preorder the event’s
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Upgrades approved for Snider Park Woolwich will spend $167,000 on upgrades to Snider Park in St. Jacobs, with half the cost covered by a federal grant. Meeting this week, Woolwich councillors awarded a $137,000 contract to Wagler Electric for new lamp standards and lights in the park. Another $30,000 will go towards perimeter fencing. The federal funding will be
provided under the Community Infrastructure Improvement Fund (CIIF). The winning bid of the four tenders received by the township came in at some $25,000 less than originally budgeted, prompting Coun. Mark Bauman to suggest looking into the possibility of the federal government still providing half of the difference, to be applied to another project. Acknowledging it as a long-shot, he added there’s no harm in asking. In applying for CIIF grants, Woolwich submitted four projects
for consideration, with only the Snider Park upgrades winning approval.
Region ratifies deal with union
Some Waterloo Region councillors are calling for job cuts as a way to cut $7.5 million from next year’s budget, a shortfall largely fuelled by ever-increasing employee costs. Still, the region this week doled out another round of pay raises, this time to the 814 full-time workers (and 68 temporary full-timers) in
CUPE Local 1883. The three-year deal that runs from July 1, 2013 to June 30, 2016 provides raises of 1.5 per cent this year, and 1.25 per cent in each of the next two years. The region puts the total compensation cost at 3.34 per cent over the term of the contract, factoring in adjustments to benefit levels. The inside workers in CUPE local 1883 are involved in Social Services, Public Health, planning, housing and community services, transportation and environmental services, and finance departments
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Noise exemption for Serbian festival set for Maryhill The Serbian Day Festival, which has made its home in Maryhill since 2007, was this week granted an exemption to Woolwich’s noise bylaw, clearing the way for the event to be held September 1 at the Waterloo Wellington Serbian Cultural Community Centre at 689
St. Charles St. E. The exemption runs from noon until 2 a.m., allowing for amplified music and announcements. The township’s bylaw prohibits amplified sounds at all times. Under the terms of the exemption, amplified music must be reduced in volume at 11 p.m., with all amplified noise to cease by 1 a.m. Past years have seen up to 2,000 people attend the annual event, which is being held for the 17th time. Up to four paid-duty police officers will be on the scene.
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Items are sold as is. Property being sent for auction has been verified as being unclaimed by the owner through serial number and investigative checks. Members of the public are advised they cannot attend the auction to claim any property they believe may be theirs. Appointments for inquiries must be made with Evidence Management staff prior to the day of the auction to review relevant information regarding any claims. They can be reached at 519-650-8500, ext. 8869. More information can be found online at www. mrjutzi.ca.
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9:50 PM | A 74-year-old woman was taken to a Stratford hospital with minor injuries after her car rear-ended a tractor trailer with no brake lights on Perth Line between Chalmers Forrest and Road 116. Her beige Chevrolet and the truck were both northbound on Perth Line. There were no lights on the rear of the trailer, and as a result the driver of the Chevrolet collided with the vehicle. There were no injuries to the driver of the truck, who was charged with not having proper lighting contrary to the Highway Traffic Act.
8:50 AM | A driver was charged in a two-vehicle collision on King Street North in St. Jacobs. While exiting a Tim Hortons parking lot in a blue Dodge, a driver struck a Ford pickup travelling on King Street North. The driver of the Dodge was charged with failing to yield from a private driveway, contrary to the Highway Traffic Act. There were no injuries.
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2:40 PM | A pickup truck and a horse-drawn buggy collided while travelling westbound on Ament Line in Wellesley Township. The driver of the pickup truck was slowing as he overtook the buggy when the horse veered and collided with the pickup. The horse was corralled by citizens and there were no injuries sustained to either driver or the horse. No charges were laid.
DRIVER CHARGED AFTER ROLLOVER NEAR ELMIRA
A 22-year-old male driver sustained minor injuries after loosing control of his vehicle at South Field Drive and New Jerusalem Road bend in Elmira at about 5 p.m. on August 14. The vehicle rolled, ending up in a ditch at the side of a cornfield. Emergency crews attended the scene. The driver was charged with careless driving. [ELENA MAYSTRUK / THE OBSERVER]
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7:00 PM | A 60-year-old Kitchener man was arrested and charged after he exposed himself to several people at Snyder’s Flats nature area in Bloomingdale at around 7 p.m. Two women were swimming in the area’s pond when they noticed the man taking pictures of them while dropping his pants and allegedly exposing his backside to passersby at the same time. When one of the swimmers confronted the man and ran after him, the man got into his vehicle and left. He was arrested by police about an hour later.
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4:04 PM | A hit-and-run was reported at Lobsinger Line between Herrgott Road and Charles Street in Wellesley Township. A female driver told police that her vehicle was damaged in a parking lot, but due to a language barrier, officers have yet to determine what had happened. Police say it likely occurred on private property.
4:40 PM | A man sustained serious but non-life-threatening injuries after falling into the moving blades of a hay bale machine on a farm in Wellesley Township. He and another man on the Line 86 farm were attempting repairs at the time. The man was at the top of the machine when he was knocked off balance and fell. He was transported to Grand River Hospital for treatment.
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Council must increase its oversight role IF NOTHING ELSE, CHANGES to Woolwich’s recreation department make it less top-heavy, the goal being to replace managerial functions with more frontline duties. It’s hard to argue with that. There is an argument to be made, however, for looking at how the restructuring came to pass. Specifically, in council’s effective rubber-stamping of the plan, with absolutely no discussion at this week’s meeting. That’s not uncommon – and that’s just the problem. It happens far too often. The changes approved in short order – very short order – see the elimination of an unneeded deputy director’s position vacated earlier this year. As well, the township recently let go the long-time aquatic supervisor. Now, some new jobs will be added, and others reworked, including those that still have not been justified as good value to the citizens who pay the bills. The move essentially takes all of the savings from eliminating a couple of jobs and expands an ever-bloating payroll, including long-term liabilities that amount to many more times the dollars paid out in wages. Did staff come up with exactly the right re-allocation of the freed-up money? Possibly. Likely not, given all the possible options. But by failing to question the report, councillors are essentially complicit in any failures or inefficiencies. Worse still, there was no discussion about where that money could have been put to better use, including essential infrastructure or simply returning it to taxpayers. If any alternatives ever crossed a councillor’s mind, there was certainly no indication of it around that table Tuesday night. We’ve long decried the lack of oversight in Woolwich council, which has been far too compliant with staff proposals. Councillors have had their moments, but there is typically little debate. We’ve advocated a more confrontational spirit in the interest of fostering greater accountability. So far, that’s not been the case, to the detriment of the public interest. As the still-troubled economy has made painfully clear, nowhere is that more apparent than in the financial burden government imposes on citizens. Now more than ever, it’s time to focus on why local government exists in the first place: providing services to residents at a manageable cost. With spending outpacing inflation and the falling standard of living of many taxpayers, something has to give. Reversing the longstanding trend of increased spending and taxes is essential, as is ensuring good value for every dollar spent. Cutting what’s unnecessary means more money available for essential expenditures, such as dealing with aging infrastructure. It’s council’s job to challenge reports and recommendations brought forward by staff. Bureaucracies are inherently self-aggrandizing and self-serving, something that has to be kept in check by elected officials. The latter group is prone to the same faults, though much less so at the level of small municipalities, but the tendencies shouldn’t be in sync with the administrators. For the system to work well – or better, at any rate – there should be a steady pushback by councillors against staff. It would be wrong to assume every recommendation is the best option, or even to assume it’s good for the public. That’s why ideas need to be vetted in a public forum. Luckily, that’s what council meetings are for, even if the current bunch seem to have forgotten that fact.
With Capital Paving's decision to withdraw its gravel pit application, residents of West Montrose can finally break out the champagne ... and the bad puns. WORLD VIEW / GWYNNE DYER
Draconian U.S. snooping laws strangling the internet business WORLD AFFAIRS Edward Snowden is safe from American “justice” for the moment, and he will certainly go down as the most effective whistle-blower in history. His revelations are going to cause a wholesale restructuring of the world’s most important communications system, the internet. And that, rather than his whereabouts and fate, is now the real story. On August 8, Lavabit, a U.S.-based email service provider that promised to keep its clients’ communications private, closed down. The U.S. National Security Agency approached it about six weeks ago demanding the same access to its customers’ emails that it has already extorted from big American internet companies like Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Amazon and Microsoft. The company’s owner, Ladar Levison, is under an NSA gag order, but he wrote to his clients: “I have
been forced to make a difficult decision: to become complicit in crimes against the American people, or walk away from nearly 10 years of hard work by shutting down Lavabit. I would strongly recommend against anyone trusting their private data to a company with physical ties to the United States.” Jon Callas, co-founder of Silent Circle, another encrypted email service that has just shut down because it cannot protect its clients’ data, went even further. “Email (that uses standard internet protocols) ... cannot be secure,” he wrote. The mass surveillance being carried out by the NSA not only gives the U.S. government access to everything Americans say to one another. It also destroys everybody else’s privacy, because the standard internet routing protocol sends messages not by the shortest route, but by whichever route is fastest and least congested. That means, in most cases, through the United States, and therefore straight into the hands of the NSA. Snowden’s revelations so far have told us about two
major NSA surveillance programs, both probably illegal even under American law. The first collects the mobile phone records of over 200 million Americans. Don’t worry your pretty head about that, darling, said Senator Dianne Feinstein, chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee: “This is just metadata, there is no content involved.” The NSA isn’t actually listening to your calls. Well, of course it isn’t listening to billions of calls. Machines can’t listen to calls, and who has the manpower to do it with human beings? But machines can quickly use the call logs (metadata) to identify everybody you ever talked to, and everybody they ever talked to, and so on out to the fourth or fifth generation. If one of those thousands of people ever spoke to somebody abroad with a Muslim name (or somebody who works for Siemens, or Samsung, or some other industrial competitor of the United States), they may take an interest in you. If you’re an American who
has never had direct phone contact with anybody abroad, they may then apply to access the content of your calls and emails under the Prism program. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court which reviews such applications has refused precisely 10 of them (out of 20,919) since 2001. Besides, the content of most Americans’ messages can probably be examined without recourse to the judges under one of the blanket authorizations issued by FISC. And if you’re not American, or an American resident who once spoke to somebody abroad by phone, then you’re in a free-fire zone. If you are American, you probably don’t care about that, because you are mesmerised by the guff about a huge terrorist threat that the security barons use to justify the endless expansion of their empire (now almost a million employees). A recent opinion poll by the Pew Research Centre found that 62 per cent of Americans think “fighting terrorism” is more important than worrying about DYER | 8
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THEIR VIEW / QUESTION OF THE WEEK
With its ongoing financial woes, has Blackberry being in the region affected your choice of smartphone?
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I love the iPhone.
I’m with Samsung.
I’m an Apple user from way back, so I just stuck with that.
We get Blackberry through work.
I don’t even have a cell phone, so it’s fine with me.
"What’s needed is a big investment in internet switching capacity in countries where the spies are not completely out of control." Gwynne Dyer | page 6 HIS VIEW / STEVE KANNON
Ottawa should see that the failing U.S. justice system is no role model EDITOR'S NOTES It would be cynical to say that finances, not enlightenment are behind U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s pronouncement this week that spending on prisons is no longer sustainable. His country spends more than $80 billion a year on keeping behind bars the most inmates in the world – with five per cent of the planet’s population, the U.S. is home to 25 per cent of its prisoners. The prison-industrial complex south of the border is big business, funneling tax dollars into the hands of some well-connected companies that in turn finance many political campaigns while lobbying for a law-and-order agenda that just happens to lead to growing numbers of prisoners ... and yet more profits. Holder’s suggestion that the government needs to tame the “unsustainable” growth in the prison
population would seem to take aim at an industry that has been one of the fastest-growing segments of the economy in the past two decades in particular. The number of people imprisoned under state and federal custody increased 772 per cent between 1970 and 2009, largely due to the influence private corporations wield in the American legal system. Because judicial leniency and sentencing reductions threaten the very business models of these private corporations, millions have been spent lobbying state officials and political candidates in an effort to influence harsher zerotolerance legislation and mandatory sentencing for many non-violent offenses. Relaxing some of these harsher trends is what Holder suggests might reduce the incarceration rate and, thus, the amount of money spent on the prison system. That’s not going to be taken lightly by the private companies that dominate the system in the U.S. The private
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tive ear in the Harper government, which has been pushing for mandatory minimums, more prisons and the involvement of private companies in housing inmates. Just a coincidence, no doubt. It will be interesting to see if Ottawa takes note of the growing concern in the U.S. about the failure of the hard-line policies currently espoused by the Conservatives. They should take note of Holder’s words: “Too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long and for no good law enforcement reason,” Holder said at a legal conference in San Francisco this week. “We cannot simply prosecute or incarcerate our way to becoming a safer nation.” As critics in the U.S. have noted for years, the legal system is heavily biased against the poor and minorities. For instance, blacks, who represent 12 per cent of the American population, make up 40 per cent of the prison population. They’re incarcerated at seven times the rate of whites.
The poor, often minorities, are worth more to corporations as prisoners than as free people, suggests outspoken author and journalist Chris Hedges. “Poor people, especially those of color, are worth nothing to corporations and private contractors if they are on the street. In jails and prisons, however, they each can generate corporate revenues of $30,000 to $40,000 a year. This use of the bodies of the poor to make money for corporations fuels the system of neoslavery that defines our prison system,” he writes in a recent column. Beyond the transfer of taxpayers’ money to private hands to house them, the prisoners also provide a boon to a wide range of companies: cheap labour. For sometimes just pennies an hour, inmates assemble large quantities of military and commercial equipment, including electronic devices. The growing labour pool not only benefited defence contractors such as Lockheed Martin and Ray-
theon Corp., but also the likes of IBM, Microsoft, Dell, Compaq, HewlettPackard, Lucent Technologies, Intel. Even the retail trade has got in on the action over the years, Nordstrom’s, Revlon, Macy’s, Pierre Cardin, Victoria’s Secret and Target Stores among them. Not only do such practices undermine the jobs and wages of working Americans, they reinforce the need to keep putting more people in jail – private profits, social costs. The situation in the U.S. should serve as a warning to the Harper government, which seems intent on following that bad example. Facing billions of dollars in unnecessary spending on prisons and law enforcement, Canadians can only hope Stephen Harper starts paying attention to what the numbers have been saying for decades: crime rates are falling. Critics have condemned government KANNON | 8
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With each percentage point cut in the corporate tax rate, the federal government loses $1.6-$1.7 billion. Fully reversing Harper’s corporate tax cuts to restore a general rate of 22% would increase annual revenues by $11 billion or $12 billion.
"I have been forced to make a difficult decision: to become complicit in crimes against the American people or walk away from nearly ten years of hard work by shutting down Lavabit. After significant soul searching, I have decided to suspend operations."
The townships, along with most of southern Ontario and the eastern U.S., were brought to a virtual standstill by a massive power blackout August 14. The blackout, the second most widespread in history at the time, affected an estimated 10 million people in Ontario and 45 million people in eight U.S. states.
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than comply with draconian snooping laws enacted by the government, recommending against anyone trusting private data to a company with physical ties to the U.S.
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personal privacy. But if you belong to the great majority of internet users who are not American, are not in a perpetual sweaty panic about “terrorism,” and have no protection whatever under American law from the NSA’s spying, then you will want ways to avoid it. So the market, or other governments, will create such ways. What’s needed is a big investment in internet switching capacity in countries where the spies are not completely out of control. Then non-Americans can just join one of the many servers that will spring up to meet an exploding demand for secure internet services. Finnish internet servers are already emphasising the security of their services. Germany, whose memories of the Gestapo and Stasi secret police make it particularly sensitive about the NSA’s spying, may take the lead in building non-
U.S. internet capacity, or it may be big countries like Brazil and India that are relatively invulnerable to U.S. pressure. But this is a huge market opportunity, and it will get done. And the losers? The big U.S. internet providers, who will find that few of their customers want to store their data in American “cloud” services. “If businesses or governments think they might be spied on,” said Neelie Kroes, vice-president of the European Commission, “they will have less reason to trust the cloud, and it will be (American) cloud providers who ultimately miss out.” As Jennifer Granick, director of civil liberties at the Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, put it recently: “America invented the internet, and our internet companies are dominant around the world. But the U.S. government, in its rush to spy on everybody, may end up killing our most productive industry.”
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plans, saying they fly in the face of what’s really happening. Having made a big deal of the fearbased policy, however, the Conservatives are eager to press ahead solely to show follow-through on the pledge. Statistics, need and fiscal constraints don’t figure into the picture. What we’re seeing here is yet another ideological move from the Harper government: it’s not about facts, but about personal priorities. Planning to spend $10$13 billion on prisons is excessive. Doing so after running up a record deficit is folly.
Harper, however, seems intent on pandering to his base, spouting toughon-crime rhetoric. He also does the public a disservice by promoting fear merely to justify spending massive amounts of money. Looking at the situation to the south, that’s certainly a model we don’t want to follow. The U.S. has the highest documented incarceration rate in the world – about 750 of every 100,000 people in the country, about seven times greater than in Canada – yet it’s unclear what, if any effect that’s had on the crime rate. Certainly, no one is going to argue the U.S. is safer than Canada.
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Weeklong series of events in the ENDURrun will test the mettle of even the most seasoned joggers WILL SLOAN Organizers of the annual ENDURrun call it “the ultimate test of endurance” and “the Tour de France of marathons,” and it’s not hard to see why. Spanning the Waterloo Region over seven stages, with events ranging from a 16km hill run to a 25.6km alpine run to a concluding 26-mile marathon, this weeklong endurance test promises to challenge even the most determined runners. With a 6-10km time trail departing from Elmira on Saturday at 8 a.m., and the concluding marathon beginning in Conestogo on Sunday at 7:30 a.m., runners could use a little advice on how to keep going. Lloyd Schmidt, ENDURrun’s race director, has some pointers. “Stay hydrated, don’t go out too fast, and know the course,” he said of the Conestogo marathon. “It is a hilly course, not a flat course, so you’ll want to prepare for that. And look at the temperature that day, because the forecast says it will be pretty hot. “If you take all those considerations into account, that should be able to help you get through it.” While ENDURrun mostly attracts seasoned runners, Schmidt said that neophyte marathoners are often
caught off-guard by their first 26-mile jaunt. “It’s all a learning experience,” said Schmidt. “Your first marathon, you’re probably not going to do it right. You’re either going to go too hard or go too slow or not drink enough. You learn from it, and try to do better the next time.” How exactly does one make it to the point where one can run 26 miles without collapsing into a puddle of sweat and shame? As you might expect, it’s a long process. “There are a number of different programs, like 20week programs where they build up each week,” said Schmidt. “They gradually build up, increasing their longest run every week by a couple of kilometres. They hit about 30km about two weeks before the race, and then they taper off and rest for the final two weeks. “They don’t go too far past 30 in their preparations, because that takes a lot out of you and you still have to train.” Schmidt estimates that at least 95 per cent of marathon participants in the ENDURrun make it to the finish. “For the weeklong event, if you run all six stages before the marathon, it’s pretty rare that they’ll drop out then. They’ve gone so far, they’re going to gut it out until the end.”
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Not that long ago, someone made note of the fact that the number of fish photos sent online might rival that of cats. It was an astounding claim to make. But, judging from the email I have received from friends and fellow anglers in the last little while, I think there might be some truth to this. It seems that every time I open an email photo attachment, there’s a photo of a friend of mine holding or releasing a fish – and very few of them posing with kittens. In theory, I’ve got nothing against this. Having said that, I worry because I’m pretty sure that this is how the whole kitten photo craze started. First, it was innocent enough. Some proud cat owners posed with what they thought was the cutest feline in the world. (Needless to say, they’ve never seen my Mumbles.) Then, someone decided that it was time to one-up that. So, for their cat to stand out in the crowd, they decided to dress it up, say as one of Santa’s elves or as the baritone in a barbershop quartet. The rest, as they say, is GALEA | 11
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Kings look to be in game form as preseason approaches Roster has a few spots for those who show will and determination at training camp, which opens Tuesday WILL SLOAN With their first exhibition game set for August 22, the Elmira Sugar Kings are lacing up for another year. And general manager Paul Jennings expects the GOJHL team to be ready from the get-go. “We want to be a big, physical, tough team to play against, both at home and on the road,” said Jennings. “It’s a high expectation to play here, and most of our guys come highly recruited. We compete for the best players in the region and across Ontario.” Does that sound like you? One of the most competitive junior teams in the province will be looking for a few good men to join them on August 20, as the Dan Snyder Memorial Arena opens its doors for the 2014 training camp. “We’ve left some space available for some guys
that can come in and work hard and show us how much they want to be Kings,” said Jennings. “I remember when Cass Frey was in his first year,” he continues, referring to the Kings forward now entering his fourth year. “He told the staff here that this was the only team he ever wanted to play for, and he went out and he proved it. Those are the types of players we’re looking to find in our training camp. We may only find one or two, but that’s why we go through our camp.” Plenty will be new for the team this year, with Jeff Flanagan, formerly of the Listowel Cyclones, coming onboard as head coach. But with 18 returning players joining the new recruits, Jennings said there will be some carry-over from last season. “The calling card of the club has always been a
Rob Kohli, Cass Frey, and Adam Campagnolo put on their game faces for the Elmira Sugar Kings’ 2013-2014 season. [WILL SLOAN / THE OBSERVER] hard-working team, and they get their chance they work ethic and desire to be that’s not going to change. have to do what they can.” here. I don’t think there’s Our work ethic will be a “I’d say you have to show really a position we’re lookhigh priority.” class to prove yourself,” ing for so much as a certain So, what should the added player Rob Kohli. type of player. aspiring Sugar King do to “You’ve got to have deter“We’re going to be really make an impression on the mination, skill, class.” strong down the middle. coaching staff? Jennings noted, “We’re That’s the key thing we’ve “Just make every shift looking for a couple of role built on this year – our count,” said Cass Frey. “It’s guys to jump forward. We’re strength in centre ice.” a short camp, they don’t looking for somebody who One of this year’s new have much time to show can come to the camp and recruits is Adam Campagwhat they’ve got, so when really impress us with their nolo, joining the team from
the Waterloo Siskins (who traded him for former Sugar King Matt Schieck). “I was looking for a new start, and talking to some of the players, they said how great it was here,” said Campagnolo. “Just from the word around the league, it’s a great organization. They treat you well, they treat you fair.” When asked if there’s anything that aspiring Kings do wrong at the training camp, Jennings said the answer isn’t so simple. “I don’t think it’s what you do wrong. It’s about your competition level – how bad you want to be here, and what you’ll do and what role you’ll take to be on the hockey club.” The Kings’ first exhibition game against the Kitchener Dutchmen will take place August 22 at the Woolwich Memorial Centre. The puck drops at 8 p.m.
Welland golfer runaway winner at Elmira tournament Stefanie Markovich claims title at the Ontario Women’s Mid-Amateur Championship held in Elmira ELENA MAYSTRUK Maybe local golfers didn’t snag many wins last week at the Investors Group Ontario Women’s MidAmateur Championship, and maybe they’ve had better games in the past, but one thing most of the players from all over Ontario could agree on is the Elmira tournament was fun while it lasted August 7-9. Jennifer Blom of St. Clements and the Whistle Bear Golf Club says that her game could have been
better over the three-day tournament, but like many of the players she enjoyed the balmy weather and the conversation. “I thought it went very well. The course was in great shape and it was a great time,” she said this week. Stefanie Markovich of Welland ran away with this year’s title by 10 shots. She began the game on a high note with an even-par 70, a shot off the women’s course record (69) held by 14-time Ontario Women’s Mid-Amateur champion
Mary Ann Hayward, in the first round on Wednesday. Markovich posted a 78 the next day, followed by 71 in Friday’s closing round for a total of 219 (+9). Behind, 10 points below and taking runner-up status, was Audrey Akins of Lasalle, Ontario with a total score of 229 (+19), followed by Judith Kyrinis of Thornhill finishing with 232 (+22). “It’s a huge honour. I’ve been working very hard to control my nerves and that was my focus today. I’m very proud of myself
for staying patient, and I’m very happy to have stayed in the moment and focused on each shot,” said Markovich while picking up her trophy last week. With a few tournaments under her belt over the years, this was Blom’s second year playing in the championships. Blom played her best game on the opening day in round 1 with an 81, and finished the tournament with 256 (+46) after scoring 91 and 84 on Thursday and Friday respectively.
It was also the first time the games have been held in Elmira, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the Elmira Golf Club. “It was only my second year playing in it but I did a lot better than last year. I finished 70th last year or something, it was awful,” she chuckled. Out of the local ladies, Wellesley’s Karen Snelgrove of the Stratford Country Club, scored highest with a 251 (+41). Blom was two spots down followed by Denise Schafer of
Kitchener and the Elmira Golf Club with 257 (+47). Blom says good things about the golf culture in the townships; it’s easy to find a number of local women who enjoy the sport, and she’d like to see more. As for last week’s games, they presented players with an air of friendly competition. “Even though it was a tournament, the ladies are always so friendly and nice…it’s a great time and a great bunch of ladies to get together and golf with,” Blom said.
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history. Now, if you open enough emails you’ll see photos of cats dressed in every possible variation. If this continues, they’ll soon have to make a separate internet for cat photos. What’s this got to do with fish photos? Well, the idea of sending a fish photo is in some ways very similar. Es-
sentially, it is meant to show the world that a) you caught a fish and b) it is a truly exceptional one. Right now, a fish is deemed exceptional strictly based on its size or how far forward the angler is holding it away from his body. But what if some enterprising angler decided to take a different approach? What if he dressed the next
mediocre bass he caught as a mermaid? Or, if I can’t get the wig to stay in place, pose it with a ball of yarn? Suddenly, that fish will look exceptional for other reasons. Because of this, it will get sent all over the internet, get more likes on Facebook and be re-tweeted everywhere. Needless to say, this could have a revolutionary effect on the face of modern angling.
But is this what we want? Look, it’s bad enough that we have to carry out several tackle boxes every time we spend a day or two on the water. But if this trend takes off, we’ll have to add another box full of cute costumes for the fish we catch. I could just imagine walking into my favourite outdoors store if this takes hold.
“Can I help you?” the sales associate might ask. “I’m going bass fishing this weekend,” I’d say. “Oh,” she’d reply, “we’ve just got in a new line of bass tutus that are really photogenic….” “That’s ridiculous,” I’d respond, “unless, of course, you have matching ballerina slippers for its tail.” And, of course they will. Now, I ask you, is this the
kind of world you want to live in? Are we that desperate to get fellow anglers to look at the fish we’ve caught? Do we really want to degrade the fish by dressing it up in a ballerina costume that matches the one we’re wearing? The answer, of course, is no. We have to draw the line somewhere. I’m thinking at mermaid ...
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Woolwich Youth Soccer’s U11 girls went 4-0 to sweep their age division during last weekend’s Woolwich 2013 Invitational Tournament in Elmira. In their fourth game they beat Fergus Elora 1-0. Back row: coach Gerard Douglas. Third row: Mirembe Scheele, Lydia Wilson, Abbey Israel, Megan Bartley, Kalie Nelson, Alana Bauman. Second row: Sandra Wilson, Kambel Beacom, Ali Harnock, Delaney Douglas, Abby White. Front row: Hannah Carr, Darci Moher, Absent Taylor Payne, assistant coach Sean Beacom. [SUBMITTED]
The Woolwich U15 boys started off last weekend’s 2013 Woolwich Summer Tournament bright and early against Orangeville at Lions Park. Games went on for two days in Elmira. [ELENA MAYSTRUK / THE OBSERVER]
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Computers are the core Core Central Computers, a small Arthur-based company, sets up shop in Elmira location ELENA MAYSTRUK Manager Calum McGeachie may be on his own for now at Core Central Computers’ new location just outside of Elmira, but he has big dreams for the three-man, Arthurbased company that has recently expanded to Woolwich Township. McGeachie, owner Corey Bilton and head technician Chris Finn have been in business since 2008 and have enjoyed a good relationship with Arthur’s clientele. A company that mostly caters to a rural population of homeowners, businesses and the farming community, Core Central Computers has tapped into a market where the rule of thumb is to maximize customer relations and cater equally to both highand low-tech customers, McGeachie said at the 270 Arthur St. N. location this week. “We have probably tripled in business now. We started out as a ‘breakfix’ model with people,
local residents in Arthur. Then, we started doing more businesses and that’s kind of where you want to be is focusing on business relationships, so that’s one reason why we are here in Elmira.” The company is familiar with slow-but-steady changes to technology in the farming industry, with more and more farmers starting to use digital tools. McGeachie said that once one farm client got a computer the flood gates opened and more producers wanted to jump on the technological bandwagon. “At our Arthur location we actually have quite a few farmers who purchase their first PC through us. And then they become very reliable customers, always calling us up and we are helping to talk them through it. We have a lot of farmers who are keeping track of their cattle using software on their first PC, so that’s fun,” he said. A “small-town oriented” company, its three employees have definitely found a
niche in the rural community McGeachie said. While they are able to cater to high-tech businesses, they also understand the world of farming and the sometimes lower-tech computer needs of that sector. To that end, Core Central has developed a certain level of trust with clients and an expertise that has perhaps been lost by big-city tech companies. “A lot of times [farmers] are on dial-up [internet connections] as well, so we are helping them with that. “It’s funny, when we have gone to conferences in the city, we are talking to people who are talking about the cloud and how everything should be moving towards a cloud and the internet ... and we are saying, ‘Well, a lot of our clients are on dial-up,’ and they are like, ‘Really?’ That’s a bit of a funny thing between the rural environment and the city.” The company already enjoys patronage from
Manager Calum McGeachie awaits the company of new clients as he mans the new Core Central Computers location in Elmira. [ELENA MAYSTRUK / THE OBSERVER]
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research-based ways to keep a closer eye on their part. However, practically and culturally, there’s a long ways to go. For example, many of the procedures in place are related to hazards and disasters, rather than everyday production. They concentrate broadly on identifying sources of problems once they’ve occurred, rather than addressing potential problems. Worse, they’re seen as an added cost of doing business, as more red tape imposed by the government. Of course, there are two sides to this view. Govern-
ments impose demands in response to what people (i.e. voters) want. And the demand for safe food and an honest, open system is growing. Scandals such as the horsemeat switcheroo in the UK don’t help consumers anywhere feel confident that the industry is being watched or is looking after itself, even though the percentage of safe versus unsafe food consumed is exponential. Food production starts on the farm. And so should traceability, according to a new report released earlier this week by Canadian traceability expert Brian Sterling and value chain leader Martin
Gooch. They say at the farm level, traceability, like quality, should be viewed as a core value and standard operating practice, not as some extra expense. In fact, they argue traceability is free … or should be viewed that way. They liken it to the “quality is free” notion that drove improvements in the automotive and aerospace industries. They suggest a similar approach – that is, “traceability is free” – become the mindset in the agrifood sector, too. The key, though, is cooperation throughout the sector. Farmers can produce the best com-
modities, but without effective transportation, processing, manufacturing and retailing, their efforts are weakened. As Sterling says, by working together, businesses unlock the value in chains in which they operate. And in so doing, traceability becomes part of an overall and considerably more effective management system. Sterling and Gooch say governments too have a role in this process, by supporting the agri-food sector’s drive towards core-value traceability. Farmers, processors and manufacturers should all be encouraged to approach effective food
traceability “as an outcome of a disciplined, professionally managed approach to data gathering, retention, analysis and collaboration, performed simultaneously at all points along the value chain,” they say. That’s a broad brush, and it will indeed need research support. One of the most promising traceability technologies I’ve seen is DNA barcoding developed at the University of Guelph. With only a small fragment of any organic matter, researchers can match its DNA “barcode” against a worldwide database they’ve taken a lead in developing. It’s partic-
ularly effective in identifying food fraud, such as the Horsegate scandal, which unfortunately is more prevalent than we think. Over the next little while, some dramatic and shocking research results about food fraud will be published, and they are going to rock the food sector like never before. But again, this is mainly related to food that’s on the market, or about to enter it. How about support for this level of traceability and quality assurance throughout the food chain, before it becomes a problem? That’s what’s needed now. That’s what people want, and expect.
The Arthur-based company expanded to Woolwich at 270 Arthur St. N. to be closer to its current local clientele and to mingle with the area’s businesses. [ELENA MAYSTRUK / THE OBSERVER]
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eight Elmira clients and has set up the building as a service location rather than a store. The move was partially made to be closer to Core Central’s local clients. The cozy, yellow, cottagestyle building is part of a property owned by Thur Transport, one of Core Central’s customers. As the most experienced marketing man out of the three, McGeachie looks after the one-man local operation but also hopes to get some help in the future. For now he is busy connecting faceto-face with area residents. “The most challenging part so far has been getting our name and location out into Elmira. I spent the first week in mid-July going around to the local industrial businesses and downtown handing them out a flyer. That’s kind of our main struggle, starting
to get people coming in the door, which is understandable for any new business in a small town.” When it comes to working with businesses, trust is a huge factor, said McGeachie, especially when it comes to working with confidential files. “There is definitely a trust that has to be built up, and a lot of that trust will come from our current clients here recommending us. A lot of it is also meeting face-to-face, and that’s why I went out to all of the different businesses and chatted with people and put a face behind the name. It’s a lot better to have a face to put with the name for the trust factor. “I think I have a trustworthy face,” he quipped. At the Elmira location, the company will conduct computer repairs and will focus on relationships with local businesses. The com-
pany offers everything from basic service such as virus and spyware removal, to full sales and servicing of computers, including building custom systems. Part of their success, McGeachie said, is a phone support system that focuses on providing solutions. “A lot of times people would then relate that with ‘Hey, these guys are here to help us, not to just take money from us,’ and that’s one thing we really feel bolstered our business.” So far, two locations are working out for a three-man operation. Though “the shoe strings are a bit tight right now,” McGeachie said they are making a go of it, continuing their slow-and-steady approach. “What we are looking forward to is expanding our business here, as any entrepreneur is, and helping others in the community.”
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He feels lucky to be manning an outpost of traditional country music Paul Weber, who keeps the sounds coming at the Commercial Tavern in Maryhill, will perform at summer concert series WILL SLOAN It has been almost 17 years since musician Paul Weber gave up a life on the road to run the Maryhill Commercial Tavern. Still, old habits die hard, and at age 57, he finds that music is still running through his veins. “Every morning I wake up and check if I can still sing,” said Weber with a laugh at the tavern, a village landmark. “I’ve been very lucky over the years – there’ve been times that I can’t talk, for whatever reason, but I can still sing.” That’s good news, because on August 25, he’ll be taking the stage at Elmira’s Gore Park for the Elmira Showcase Concert series. Weber, who performs regularly at the tavern, has become a regular attraction at the annual concert series. “I’ve known Paul for many years … Paul’s a great entertainer – good musician, good vocalist,” said Lynn Russwurm, organizer of the series. Weber began touring fulltime as a vocalist and bassist in 1974 at age 18. For close to eight years, he toured with Joe Firth and Promised Land, until setting out on a solo career in 1981. The following year, he earned a Juno nomination for Best Country Male Vocalist, and in 1983, he was nominated for three awards by the Canadian Country Music Association for his debut album, Two Bits Worth of Hurtin’.
“I spent 22 years on the road,” he remembered. “We worked extensively, coast to coast and in Europe, playing six or seven nights of the week, 50 weeks of the year. I took a week at Christmas off and a week in June, and the rest of the time I worked. “I always thought that we worked harder than most bands, and on the road we had to,” he continued. “There were bands coming in to different parts of western Canada that had offstage sound, which we didn’t have. They’d have bigger PAs than what we had, and I knew we’d have to work them. I wouldn’t be able to out-dazzle them, so we worked harder, rehearsed a lot, the band was always good, and we started doing long sets.” But things started to change, and Weber decided to settle down. “Bars that were six or seven nighters were cutting back to four nights … I though I’d quit the road before it quit me.” In 1996 he took over the Commercial Tavern, the venerable eatery that has been in Maryhill since 1854 (his uncle owned it in the 1960s). “I kinda shot myself in the foot, because nowadays with the drinking and driving awareness, it’s tough to get people to travel,” he has noted. Still, the tavern continues to fill an underserved niche: it is a rare venue for traditional country music. “Traditional country is
Paul Weber spent 22 years on the road before settling into Maryhill to take over the Commercial Tavern in 1996. He won’t have to travel far on August 25 for the Elmira Showcase Concert series in Gore Park. [WILL SLOAN / THE OBSERVER] just about gone, other than Legions and places like that. So we’re pretty proud of the fact that we still do that and bring a lot of stuff in,” said Weber. “It’s a one-of-a-kind place,” added Russwurm. “It’s an old-fashioned bar the way they would have been 30 years ago. It’s the only one of its kind in existence anymore.”
What keeps Weber coming back to country? “I’ve always loved the lyrical part of our songs,” he said. Most of our songs make sense, and yes, a lot of them are hurtin’ songs, but there’s a lot of hurt goin’ on in the world. “It’s all therapy. People say that it’s therapy to listen to, but it’s therapy to deliver to those people as well.”
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OBSERVER SERVICE DIRECTORY AUTOMOTIVE SERVICES
TIRE Complete Collision Service
WHERE TIRES
THOMPSON’S
Auto Tech Inc.
ARE A
SPECIALTY, NOT A SIDE LINE. 101 Bonnie Crescent, Elmira, ON N3B 3G2
519.669.8330
Farm • Auto • Truck Industrial On-The-Farm Service
FAX: 519.669.3210
35 Howard Ave., Elmira
AFTER HOURS
519.669.8917
519-669-3232
Providing the latest technology to repair your vehicle with accuracy and confidence.
RUDOW’S
AUTO CLINIC
CARSTAR COLLISION CENTRE
21 Industrial Dr. Elmira
24 Hour Accident Assistance Accredited Test & Repair Facility
519-669-4400 30 ORIOLE PKWY. E., ELMIRA www.thompsonsauto.ca
1-800-CARSTAR 519-669-3373
519-669-7652
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BODY MAINTENANCE AT:
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CARSTAR COLLISION CENTRE
Call Us At 519-669-3373 33 First Street, East Elmira, ON
GENERAL SERVICES
MARTINS CUSTOM WOODWORK INC.
CNC ROUTER MACHINING
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WE CAN DO SOLID WOOD, PLYWOOD OR PLASTIC MACHINING.
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• Carpet & Upholstery Cleaning on Location
• Janitorial
NEW CLIENTS
• Area Rug Cleaning Drop-off / Pick up Service • Carpet Repair & Re-Installation • Bleached out Carpet Spot Repair
PHONE: 519 669-0111
• Pet deodorization • Floor Stripping
www.completecarpetcare.ca
FAX: 519 669-0087
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669-3332
ORTLIEB CRANE & Equipment Ltd. • 14 ton BoomTruck • 40 ton Mobile Crane
519-664-9999 ST. JACOBS
24 Hour Service (Emergencies only) 7 Days A Week
GENERAL SERVICES PC TUNE UPS | REPAIRS : IN-HOME | ON SITE OR FREE PICK UP / DELIVERY ELMIRA AREA
MUSIC-LOVER GIFT ALERT!
COMPUTER RUNNING SLOW? From
COUNTR Y
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Call Us For Pickup / Delivery ELMIRA & AREA
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Various sizes & rates
CLEAN • DRY • SECURE Call
Boat Covers | Air Conditioner Covers | Small Tarps Storage Covers | BBQ Covers | Awnings & Canopies Replacement Gazebo Tops | Golf Cart Enclosures & Covers •Ratches, Hooks, Straps, Webbing etc. •Canvas, Vinyl, Polyester, Acrylic Fabrics
519-669-4964
General Repairs
519.595.4830 6376 Perth Rd. 121 Poole, ON
100 SOUTH FIELD DRIVE, ELMIRA
GENERAL SERVICES
MarTarp
CUSTOM TARPS & COVERS
Sew Special
BAUMAN PIANO
SERVICES
Custom Sewing for Your Home
TUNING & REPAIRS
CUSTOM SEWING AND REPAIRS
Custom Drapery
Gravity Box, Mesh Tarps, Shelters, Tent Repair etc.
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4445 Posey Line Wallenstein ON.
BICYCLE SALES & REPAIRS PROFESSIONAL BIKE MECHANIC ON STAFF
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Custom Blinds
In Home Consultations Over 20 Years Experience
JAMES BAUMAN Craftsman Member O.G.P.T. Inc
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22 Church St. W., Elmira
Tel:519-669-5537
Elmira
GENERAL SERVICES
STORE HOURS: M-W: 8-6, TH-F 8-8, SAT, 8-6, SUN 12-5
Plumbing and Maintenance Inc.
Ltd.
RESIDENTIAL & AGRICULTURAL
Driveways • Sidewalks • Curbs • Barn Renovations Finished Floors • Retaining Walls • Short Walls Decorative/Stamped and coloured concrete
519.669.5313
QUICK LOCAL SERVICE | 245 Labrador Dr., Waterloo
www.UniTwin.com | 519.886.2102
HOME IMPROVEMENTS SERVICES
Steve Co. The Sharp Shop | 112-D Bonnie Cres., Elmira
TROPHIES | CUPS | PLAQUES | MEDALLIONS RIBBONS | NAME TAGS | NAME PLATES DOOR PLATES | CUSTOM ENGRAVING
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RECOGNIZE OUTSTANDING EFFORT!
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RESIDENTIAL • COMMERCIAL • INDUSTRIAL
For all your Plumbing Needs. 24 HOUR SERVICE Steve Jacobi
ELMIRA
519-669-3652
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John Schaefer Painting FREE ESTIMATES Interior/exterior Painting, Wallpapering & Plaster | drywall Repairs
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Frameless Showers & Railings
Table and shelf glass Ask for a quote… we install
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FREE IN-HOME CONSULTATIONS
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AMOS
READ’S DECORATING
• Residential • Commercial • Industrial
SINCE 1961
R O O F I N G
Specializing in Paint & Wall coverings
INC
BLINDS, SHADES, SHUTTERS, DRAPES
• Specializing in residential re-roofs • Repairs • Churches
Randy Weber
A Family owned and operated business serving KW, Elmira and surrounding area for over 35 years.
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FOR ALL YOUR HOME DECORATING NEEDS.
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27 ARTHUR ST. S., ELMIRA
519.669.3658
18 Kingfisher Dr., Elmira
In Business since 1973 • Fully Insured
HOME IMPROVEMENT SERVICES
IRA HOME COMFORT M L E (519) 669-4600
COMMERCIAL • RESIDENTIAL
ST. JACOBS GLASS SYSTEMS INC.
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
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Home Improvements
FREE ESTIMATES
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1 Union Street, Elmira
TEL:
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General Construction | 12 Years Experience
WINDOWS & DOORS
Residential & Agricultural • Barns / Shops Decks & Railings • Poured Concrete • Driveways & Sidewalks Siding, Fascials, Soffits • Interior Renovations
ROOFING | SIDING | SOFFIT & FACIA DRYWALL INSTALLATION
Call Lawrence Metzger
MURRAY MARTIN | 519.638.0772
(226) 789-7301
7302 Sideroad 19 RR#2., Alma, ON, N0B 1A0
HOME IMPROVEMENT SERVICES 100% SUPERIOR QUALITY CUSTOM WOODWORKING
WEICKERT& MEIROWSKI
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Concrete Foundations Limited
$225.00/OUT (1800 Gallon Residential)
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YES... WE DO RESIDENTIAL WORK!
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or
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800-232-6396
20B ARTHUR ST. N., ELMIRA
www.biobobs.com
OUTDOOR SERVICES No job too small.
Since
1998 •Final grading •Lawn repair & complete seeding •Well equipped for large stoney areas •Spike Aerator/Overseeding •Site prep for Garden sheds, sidewalks etc. •Natural & Interlocking Stone •Retaining Walls, Walks & Patios •Help for Top Water & Drainage issues •Rain Water collection systems
Murray & Daniel Shantz
ALMA, ONTARIO | PHONE: 519.846.5427
CFB
Mini Excavator Available
Outdoor
BACKHOE SERVICES • Specializing in farm drainage repair/installation • Footing / cellar / eavestrough / drains • Stump removal FOR RENT
•Tamper (Jumping Jack) •Power Drain Cleaner (Electric Snake)
6656 Sideroad 19 | RR#2 Wallenstein ON N0B 2S0
Call Clare at 519-669-1752
Services
> Commercial & Residential > Fully Insured > WSIB Clearance > Senior Discount
Lawn Maintenance Programs | Spring Clean-up Flower Bed Maintenance Programs Leaf Clean-up and Removal | Soil & Mulch Delivery & Installation | Snow Clearing & Removal | Ice Control 27 Brookemead, St, Elmira P: 519-669-1188 | F: 519-669-9369
kdetweiler@rogers.com
KEVIN DETWEILER
OWNER-OPERATOR
WE’RE AT YOUR SERVICE. We specialize in getting the word out. Advertise your business services here. Get weekly exposure with fantastic results. Call us at 519.669.5790.
OUTDOOR SERVICES
COMMERCIAL & RESIDENTIAL SERVICES
YOUR SOURCE FOR YEAR-ROUND PROPERTY MAINTENANCE • Lawn Mowing Packages • Lawn Maintenance & Landscaping • Top Dressing/Overseeding • Mulch Delivery & Installation • Commercial & Residential Full Flower Bed Maintenance • Snow Plowing & Ice Control • Tractor Snowblowing
Call Jeff Basler, Owner/Operator, today 519.669.9081 mobile: 519.505.0985 fax: 519.669.9819 | ever-green@sympatico.ca
LANDSCAPE MAINTENANCE & CONSTRUCTION
OFFERING A QUICK AND EASY WAY TO RECLAIM UNUSED LAND
Got long grass? Our tracked skid steer equipped with a forestry brush mower can handle ANY long grass!
- Trail Maintenance and Development - Wooded Lot Thinning - Pasture Reclaimation All other - Orchard Maintenance tracked skid - Industrial Lots steer services are available - Real Estate Lots
Maintenance Full lawn maintenance programs | Spring & fall clean up Cutting, trimming & fertilizer | Lawn rolling, aeration, dethatching | Garden creations | Seeding Weeding & Mulching
Construction Interlocking Stone | Concrete work | Retaining walls | Patios Flagstone | Garden construction | Natural stone placement Decks | Fences | Pergolas | Landscape lighting
For a FREE Quote
Call Trevor at
519-669-4161
Just Gardens Complete Garden and Lawn Maintenance
Anita Soehner Clean Up | Mulch
Planting | Garden Design Lawn Maintenance All Your Gardening Needs
226.476.2039
Cell | 519.504.5934
rozell_soehner@yahoo.ca
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REAL ESTATE LISTINGS
Make Your Next Home Your Dream Home! NEW PRICE
POOL!
THIS WEEKS OPEN HOUSE
$459,000
NEW PRICE
NEW LISTING
NEW LISTING
$182,500
$215,000
$354,000
Waterloo - Crisp kitchen featuring island & breakfast bar, walk-out to relaxing deck overlooking in-ground heated kidney shaped pool w/stamped concrete patio. Vaulted ceiling in family room w/gas fireplace. Master bedroom w/double walk-in closets & sunk-in ensuite complete w/whirlpool tub and separate shower. 3 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms & Main floor laundry. Finished rec room w/separate entrance. Close to schools, Conestoga Mall & expressway. MLS 1325108. Call Paul or Alli direct.
Sun. Aug. 18th, 2-4pm 487 ACADIA ST. WATERLOO
$500.00 DONATION will be made with every home bought or sold by Paul or Alli in Woolwich.
Paul Martin SALES REPRESENTATIVE
CALL DIRECT
519-503-9533 www.homeswithpaul.ca
Alli Bauman SALES REPRESENTATIVE
CALL CALL DIRECT DIRECT
CONDO LIVING AT ITS BEST!
GREAT STARTER HOME
COUNTRY LIVING AT ITS BEST!
Kitchener - Featuring controlled entry in welcoming lobby. Casual Elegance in this updated 2 bdrm, 2 bath, condo complete w/sep DR & in-suite laundry. Excellent location w/easy access to 401, shopping, Conestoga College & close to trails. Well maintained building w/indoor pool, exercise rm, party rm, sauna & underground parking! Recent updates: Laminate flooring, Baths 2013, Kit cabinets 2009. All appliances incl’d. Just move in & enjoy! MLS 1324629. Call Paul or Alli Direct
Elmira - Beautifully updated home. Located on Substantial lot backing onto schoolyard. This Carpet free home is complete with 3 bedrooms including main floor master. Open eat in kitchen to living room. Side entrance to office or large mudroom. Recent updates include: All new windows 2013, All flooring 2012, New wiring throughout and panel 2012. All appliances included. MLS 1334425 Call Alli or Paul direct.
Drayton - Seniors dream come true, Don’t wait! Sizeable bungalow on mature lot backing onto green space, open concept kit & FR featuring walkout to 11x24 partially covered deck. Sep DR & LR allows entertaining without being crowded. MF also boasts laundry & mudrm plus master w/ens. Out of town family & friends will enjoy this Basement equip’d w/kit, lg bdrm, full bath, fin RR & exercise rm. MLS 1334266 Call Alli or Paul direct
519-577-6248
D L SO
www.elmiraandareahomes.com
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$409,000 LOCATION! LOCATION! Elmira - Sought after quiet Southfield subdivision located on the edge of town and backing onto park. This 4 bdrm, 2100sqft family home is complete with spacious bright kitchen, separate dining room open to living room with gas f/p, convenient main floor laundry, side and garage entrance into mudroom, and upper family room. Large foyer with ceramic tile and 12x10ft deck overlooking attractive landscaped yard. Master ensuite equipped with whirlpool bath. MLS 1334004 Call Paul or Alli direct.
Solid Gold Realty (II) Ltd., Brokerage Independently Owned and Operated
$239,000
$286,000
ALSO AVAILABLE FOR SHORT TERM RENTAL
IMMEDIATE POSSESSION
Drayton - Room for the kids to run on lg 165ft x 66ft yrd. 4bdrms, 2baths, & main flr lndry. Spacious front foyer, lg LR w/heating stove. Side entrance to lg functional kit & huge sep DR. Plumbing/electrical updated. Lifetime roof. 200amp service. 32ftx16ft Sep workshop w/9000lb, 2 post hydraulic hoist, gas/water heated cement flr & 100amp. MLS 1324398. Call Paul or Alli direct.
Elmira - Completely finished top to bottom 4 level back split. This spacious semi is a match for anyone with 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, living room, family room and rec room! Eat in kitchen is equipped with hardwood floors, breakfast bar, open to family room with gas fireplace and Sliders off dinette with wrap around deck to large 12 x 22 ft deck and fenced yard. MLS 1327060 Call Paul or Alli direct.
3 Arthur St. S., Elmira | 519-669-5426
FIND YOUR DREAM HOME IN CANADA’S BEST COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER FAMILY ALBUM ANNIVERSARY
Happy 50th Anniversary Mom & Dad
BIRTHDAY
50th Wedding Anniversary
Aug 17, 1963 - Aug 17, 2013
Aug 24, 2013
DEATH NOTICES JOHNSTON, MARY ELIZABETH |
Happy 1st Birthday Emma Kelly! Love you lots, Mommy & Daddy
Peacefully with her daughters at her side at Winston Park Long Term Care Centre, at the age of 80 years. Beloved wife of the late Dennis Sutherland Johnston (1989). Dear sister of Sandy Kalbfleisch (Paul) of St. Jacobs. The funeral service will be held August 18, 2013. MEYERS (GROPP), LENORE | Passed
DEATH NOTICES ROBB, RANDY | As the result of a motorcycle accident,
Love from all of us.
Love from Anita and Nicole
Mr. Randall George Robb of Kitchener and formerly of Listowel, suddenly, on Sunday, August 4, 2013 in his 48th year. Randy will be sadly missed by David and Janet Robb of St. Clements and Gordon and Tracy Robb of Moorefield. Funeral service held on Wednesday, August .
away on Sunday, August 11, 2013 at Stratford General Hospital. Lenore resided at Knollcrest Lodge, Milverton and was born 88 years ago in Milverton. Loving mother of Ron (Phyllis) of Wellesley. Sisters Joan Stinson of Milverton; Shirley (Bob) Ziegler of Milverton. Funeral service held Wednesday, August 14.
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REAL ESTATE LISTINGS
BROKERAGE
We support Woolwich Community Services through
100
R.W. THUR REAL ESTATE LTD.
YEARS
SINCE 1913
Elmira Real Estate Services Independently Owned & Operated, Brokerage
45 Arthur St. S., Elmira Office:
90 Earl Martin Dr., Unit 4, Elmira N3B 3L4
519-669-3192
519-669-2772
BRAD MARTIN Broker of Record, MVA Residential
Res:
519.669.1068
JULIE HECKENDORN Res:
Broker
519.669.8629
TRACEY WILLIAMS Sales Rep.
Cell: 519.505.0627
CENTRAL LOCATION – Close to schools, downtown & WMC. Spacious LR/DR. Eat-in kitchen. Main flr. washroom. 3 good sized bdrms. Walkup attic. Newer furnace. Metal roof. Lots of potential in unfin. bsmt. Single garage. MLS
$299,900 LOCATION!! Spacious, custom built home nestled in the trees and backing to farmland. Hardwood & ceramics. Gas fireplace in LR w/16’ ceiling. Main flr. fam.rm. open to 26’ kitchen w/2 dishwashers. Large dining rm. FOUR bdrms.- master suite w/walkin closet & ensuite. Upper level media room. Fin. bsmt. w/oversized windows & separate entry. A must see!
$689,900
50+ years of combined service to HELP you!
Elmira@royallepage.ca
Bonnie Brubacher
www.elmirahomes.ca
Broker of Record / Owner
Monique Roes
Sales Representative / Owner
Shanna Rozema Jason Shantz Broker / Owner
Broker
“Helping you is what we do”
OPEN HOUSE | 38 Knapp Road & 150 Brookmead Street, Elmira | Wednesdays 5-7pm & Saturdays 12-2pm PARADIGM PRESENTS OUR TWO MODEL HOMES WITH IMMEDIATE POSSESSION!! Two wonderful model homes for sale. VISIT BOTH! Bungalow offered at $346,000 with hardwood and ceramic floors, gas fireplace, master ensuite, main floor amenities, custom cherry kitchen with large island. Sidesplit offered at $374,900 has hardwood & ceramic floors, master ensuite, family rm. w/gas fireplace, custom maple kitchen. 4 APPLIANCES INCLUDED! Call today for further details. MLS
REDUCED PRICE!
$289,900
100+ YR. OLD HOME is loaded with character! Backs to a wooded area. Lovely hardwood floors. Spacious dining room PLUS eat-in kitchen. Main floor den. Woodburning fireplace in living room. Walkout from fam. rm. to elevated deck. Gas furnace (2011). Appliances incl. Lots of living space. 2 bathrms. Walkout basement.
$419,900
Hawkesvillle Business Opportunity
WELL MAINTAINED $349,900. ELMIRA Wow! Spotless home,
welcoming entrance into this 3 bedroom, 2 bath raised bungalow, walkout off dinette to the private backyard, beautifully landscaped ½ property, newer décor, large finished basement w/walk-up. MLS
IMPECCABLY MAINTAINED! $316,900. ELMIRA Just move in and enjoy!
Finished top to bottom, hardwood & ceramic flrs, maple kitchen w/appliances included, walkout to deck, fenced yard & shed, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, rec room, office, central air, double driveway. MLS
AWESOME LOCATION! $437,000. ELMIRA This attractive 2 storey is
situated on a tree lined street and backs onto mature trees. Close to school and parks in a fabulous family neighbourhood! 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, updated kitchen with bright dinette, hardwood & ceramic flrs, walkout off the family rm/den to the patio. MLS
Operate your own business & live in the spacious, well maintained, 3 bdrm. dwelling. Presently a catering business (seats 54) but this property has endless opportunities! 1400 sq.ft. of commercial space. Single garage + lots of pkg. A unique opportunity. MLS
LET OUR 50+ YEARS OF EXPERIENCE WORK FOR YOU!
www.thurrealestate.com
GEOTHERMAL
OBITUARY Martin, Valina Peacefully passed away on Thursday, August 15, 2013 at Heritage House, St. Jacobs at the age of 95 years. Valina was born in Woolwich Township on July 24, 1918 and lived in the Floradale, Elmira area for most of her life. Dear sister of Lucinda Martin of Wichita, Kansas, Viola Martin of St. Jacobs and “Butch” (Floyd) Martin of Waterloo. Lovingly remembered by her nieces and nephews Kathleen Snyder, Stuart Snyder, Brenda Hallman, Don Hoffman, Phyllis Schmidt and Kelly Martin, and by their families. Predeceased by her parents Blandina (Gingrich) and Seranus Martin, siblings Lena (John) Snyder, Elmer (Mabel) Martin, Ida Martin, Naomi (Ephraim) Hoffman, Willard (Melba) Martin, sister-in-law Ethleen “PeeWee” Martin, nephews James Snyder and Larry Hoffman. Valina was an active, lifelong member at the Floradale Mennonite Church. At Valina’s request, cremation has taken place. There is no funeral home visitation. A celebration of Valina’s life and faith will be held at the Floradale Mennonite Church on Sunday, August 18, 2013 at 4pm. In her memory, donations to the Floradale Mennonite Church or MCC would be appreciated as expressions of sympathy. Arrangements entrusted to the Dreisinger Funeral Home, Elmira.
SPRAWLING BUNGALOW $434,900. VILLAGE OF HESSON! Centrally located
to KW, Stratford & Listowel on almost ½ acre. Geothermal heating/cooling w/air exchanger by Bostech!! 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, HUGE newly finished basement in 2010 ideal for entertaining! 12’x20’ workshop, double garage triple concrete driveway+++ MLS
COMPLETELY UPDATED!! $344,900. ELMIRA An impressive bungalow inside
and out! Add a garage or large shed on this 135’x75’ corner lot! Inviting flagstone front patio & covered front porch, hardwood & ceramic floors, modern kitchen w/moveable island, great finished basement with lots of space! MLS
STONECROFT COMMUNITY $434,000. NEW HAMBURG Adult lifestyle living.
This beautiful 1587 SQ.FT open concept bungalow offers hardwood and ceramic flrs, walkout to covered back deck, wonderful amenities included are the recreation centre, library, walking trails + much more. MLS
PHASE 1 CURRENTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION IN DRAYTON! DRAYTON RIDGE - EXECUTIVE TOWN HOMES - LOFTS
PRICED FROM $349,900
PRIDE IN OWNERSHIP $339,900. ELMIRA Lovely updated bungalow,
double drive, single garage with concrete walkway, newer windows, roof/10, super clean home with 3 bdrms, 4 piece bathroom, spacious living, kitchen and dining area. Huge finished basement. NEW MLS
Exceptionally appointed, 1286 SQ.FT– 2046 SQ.FT (most with lofts), offering fully finished basements, 2+ bdrms, 3+ bathrooms, double car garage & deck on all units, gorgeous custom kitchens, hardwood, ceramic plus many other features. CALL FOR DETAILS. EXCLUSIVE
Call for your FREE Market Evaluation.
www.dreisingerfuneralhome.com
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 15 AUCTIONS FRI. SEPT 27 at 4:30 PM Auction sale of approx 300 toys including farm; precision; air plane collection; cars; banks; and other collectables to be held at the St. Jacob’s Community Centre in St. Jacob’s for an area collector with additions. SAT. SEPT 28 at 3:00 PM Property auction of a 3 bedroom 2 storey house situated in a desirable area of Kitchener to be held at 441 Franklin St. north in Kitchener for Donald Kaufman.
SAT. SEPT 7 at 11:00 AM Clearing auction sale of antiques; Waterloo County furniture; collectables; household effects; and miscellaneous items to be held at the St. Jacob’s Community Centre in St. Jacob’s exclusively for Wendy and the late Cameron Bolt. WED. SEPT 25 at 10:00 AM Clearing auction sale of household effects; furniture; antiques; tools; collectables; and miscellaneous items to be held at the St. Jacob’s Community Centre in St. Jacob’s for a Waterloo area estate with additions.
RENTALS HOUSE FOR RENT in Elmira. Three bedroom, two storey, single garage, double wide driveway, finished basement, appliances included, on ground heated pool with wrap around deck. Available September 1st $1500.00 plus utilities. If interested please call 519-239-5151 or email genxer1966@ hotmail.com
TRADES & SERVICES SEAL COATING FOR Asphalt driveways/ parking lots. Protect and Extend the life of your asphalt by applying a sealant. Our high solids refined tar based sealer protects against damaging effects of gas & oil, sun, oxidation and water. Seal coating by Terry (15 years experience). Call Black Bear Sealing 519-748-9821. Mention this ad and receive 10% off regular pricing.
GARAGE SALES
HORSES
GARAGE SALE - Thurs. Aug. 22, 7a.m. - 5 p.m. and Sat. Aug. 24, 8 a.m. 2 p.m. 20 Bauman St. Elmira. Hockey equipment and MANY more items.
CO-BOARDER WANTED FOR 3 year old western ridden quarter horse. Farm located in Elmira area. Call Steve, (519) 669-2328.
MULTI-FAMILY GARAGE SALE at 165 Porchlight Drive in Elmira on Saturday August, 17th from 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. Join us rain or shine.
100% LOCAL
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Stolen, Recovered, Lost & Found | Special End of Summer
POLICE AUCTION For the
WATERLOO REGIONAL POLICE
To be held at BRESLAU AIRPORT ROAD AUCTION COMPLEX | 5100 FOUNTAIN ST, North, BRESLAU (Kitchener)
Saturday August 24th at 9 am 200+ Bikes - Mountain, Racing, Hybrid Only Bicycles for this auction!!! VIEWING & REGISTRATION: Fri. Aug. 23RD, 2013, 1 p.m to 4 p.m., Sat 8am to sale
TERMS: CASH & CARRY - Cash, Interac/Debit, MasterCard & Visa
M.R. Jutzi & Co
www.mrjutzi.ca | 519-648-2111
The Corporation of
the Township of Wellesley Wellesley Community Centre Sports Pad SEALED TENDERS, clearly marked as to contents shall be received by the undersigned, until 2:00 p.m.,
Monday August 26, 2013 for the construction of a new outdoor sports pad at the Wellesley Community Centre, 1000 Catherine St., Wellesley, ON. in accordance with the tender documents. Tender forms and specifications may be obtained by contacting Brad Voisin, Director of Recreation at the address below. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted.
Township of Wellesley 4639 Lobsinger Line, R.R. 1 St. Clements, Ontario, N0B 2M0 Telephone: (519)699-3944 | Fax: (519)699-4540
Notice OF of Public Centre NOTICE STUDYInformation COMMENCEMENT PROPOSED REGION OF WATERLOO
Class Environmental Assessment Study SIGN BY-LAW Conestogo Plains Water Supply System The Region of Waterloo will be holding a public information centre to introduce a draft Regional By-law respecting signs on Regional roads. The proposed Sign By-law addresses
Background all types of unofficial signs on Regional roads including election signs, business accessory
Conestogo West Montrose are two rural communities the north-east area ofsigns. the Resigns, farm and accessory signs, mailbox accessory signs, open in house signs and poster gion of Waterloo (Region), the Township of Woolwich Water services to these The proposed Sign By-law in establishes requirements for (Township). unofficial signs including: communities areand provided through a coordinated effort between the Region, responsible • Location placement; for •the supply, and the Township, responsible for the distribution. The Conestogo Plains and Size, shape, construction and content; the•West Montrose Water Supply Systems are two separate groundwater systems servicing Impacts to the function of the road; Number ofof signs and timing placement; andcommunity of West Montrose, the•western part the community of of Conestogo and the • Sign removal. respectively. Staff are also proposing an amendment to the Region’s Tourism and Essential Services
In January 2013, the Region completed theRegional West Montrose Environmental AssessSigning Policy to allow tourism signage on roads forClass agri-toursim activities. ment (Class EA) study to address water supply issues and operational challenges experiWhen:in the Tuesday, June 17, 2008, dropThe in 4:00 8:00 EA p.m. enced West Montrose water system. 2013-Class recommended a permanent Place: Regional Administration Headquarters (lobby) connection150 from West Montrose to the Conestogo Plains water supply system to ensure a Frederick Street, Kitchener sustainable, long-term water supply solution to the community of West Montrose. The ConThis public information centre is being heldoperates for the purpose of providing information and estogo Plains water supply system currently well below its existing rated capacity receiving comments the public. A copy good, of theproviding draft By-law is availableto foralso review in and the water qualityfrom is considered generally an opportunity supply the West Clerk’s Office, Region Waterloo, 2nd floor,in150 Street, Kitchener or on the the Montrose systemofand some properties theFrederick Conestogo community currently on Region’s website at: private wells. www.region.waterloo.on.ca - tab Newsroom, tab Public Notices
Class Study for theconcerning Conestogo Water Supply System If youEAhave questions thePlains By-law, please contact Nancy
Button,
In advance Transportation of implementa- Engineering at 519-575-4520 or by email at Manager, tion of the recommendations bnancy@region.waterloo.on.ca of the 2013 West Montrose If you require accessible services to participate in this meeting, please contact the above Class EA study, the Region has noted person by Tuesday, June 10, 2008. identified the opportunity to All comments and information received from individuals, stakeholder groups and agencies regarding this undertake a holistic approach project are being collected to assist the Region of Waterloo in making a decision. Under the Municipal to assessing the overall serAct, personal information such as name, address, telephone number, and property location that may be vicing both part of the public record. Questions regarding the collection of this includedrequirements in a submissionfor becomes information should be referred to the person indicated above. the Conestogo Plains and the West Montrose service areas Nancy Button in a socially,Transportation environmentally Engineering Manager, and financially responsible Region of Waterloo 150 Frederick Street, 7th Floor manner. Kitchener, ON N2G 4J3
NOTICE TO RESIDENTS OF
the Township of Wellesley Municipal Law Enforcement staff of the Township of Wellesley is responsible for the investigation of requests concerning application and enforcement of The Townships By-Laws. Staff works to resolve infractions or violations of the Township’s By-Laws through education and cooperation. Failure to achieve voluntary compliance may lead to further action which may result in fines or initiating court proceedings. When considering contacting Municipal Law Enforcement staff, please note that only Municipal By-law related requests can be investigated and that legal advice will not be provided. The names of all parties initiating or subject to a review or investigation are received and kept in confidence, unless disclosure is required by the courts. Clean Yards By-Law 41/2010 Please remember every owner, tenant or occupant shall maintain their property clean and free from refuse and/ or debris. This includes but is not limited to: Garbage, rubbish, junk, litter. Discarded appliances, tires, furniture, unused/abandoned/dismantled or inoperative vehicle, or any vehicle which is not currently licensed. Furthermore every owner, tenant or occupant shall cut grass, weeds or noxious weeds or brush which has reached heights higher than 20 cm (7.87 inches) in height. The above are noted sections and are not to be interpreted as the By-Law in its entirety. Always remember good communication with a neighbour can be the first step to a healthy and happy community environment.
For more information on the Township of Wellesley By-Laws please view them at: www.wellesley.ca or contact the Township of Wellesley Municipal Law Enforcement Officer. Email: bylaw@wellesley.ca | Telephone: (519)699-3942 | Fax: (519)699-4540
As such, the Region is initiating a Class EA study to complete a comprehensive examination of the water supply alternative solutions for the Conestogo Plains and West Montrose areas. This Class EA study is being conducted in accordance with the requirements of a Schedule B project of the Municipal Class Environmental Assessment document (Municipal Engineers Association, October 2000 as amended in 2007 & 2011). The feasibility of connecting West Montrose to the Conestogo Plains water supply system and other alternatives including a potential connection to the Integrated Urban System will be considered during the Conestogo Plains Water Supply System Class EA study.
Your Opinion Matters The Region will consult with the public and review agencies throughout the Class EA study. Public Consultation Centres (PCCs) will be held to provide information on the study progress and to facilitate your input. We will publish invitation notices to the PCCs in local newspapers. More information about this project will be available on the Region’s website (www.regionofwaterloo.ca/water).
Contact Us We are interested in hearing any comments or concerns that you might have about this project. Please contact either of the project team members below if you have questions or comments, wish to obtain more information on the project, or would like to be included on the Project Contact List: Dominika Celmer-Repin, Ph.D., P.Eng. Project Manager, Water Services Division Region of Waterloo 150 Frederick Street Kitchener, ON N2G 4J3 Tel: (519) 575-4818 ext.4095 Fax: (519) 575-4449 Email: DCelmer-Repin@regionofwaterloo.ca
Eric Tuson, P.Eng. Project Manager CIMA 3027 Harvester Road, Suite 400 Burlington, Ontario, L7N 3G7 Tel: (289) 288-0287 ext. 6839 Fax: (289) 288-0285 Email: eric.tuson@cima.ca
This notice is being provided pursuant to the Environmental Assessment Act, the Municipal Engineers Association’s Municipal Class Environmental Assessment, dated October 2000, as amended in 2007 & 2011 and the direction of the Ministry of Environment. Notice date: August 7, 2013
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A long, bumpy road for park
A time of year when everything is just peachy
Current members of the Conestogo Recreation Association will see the fruit of many years’ labour when worn-out park is finally revamped WILL SLOAN Improvements are coming to the Conestogo Community Park, including a new tennis court and multi-use sports pad, with a design to be completed by September 30. And it only took nine years to get there. Woolwich council’s August 6 decision in favour of renovations is the climax of a campaign launched in 2004 by former Conestogo Recreation Association chair Adrian Conrad, and continued for the past two years by present chair Sherri Cochrane and vicechair Lisa MacDonald. “It brings youth together,” said Sherri Cochrane. “It gives them an opportunity to enjoy recreational facilities that they wouldn’t have access to unless they were driven.” She continued, “It’s nice that every community has a park. We’ve always had a park – whether it’s been usable space is the debate.” The sports pad, which will operate all year, will include hockey and basketball nets with rink boards, and the tennis court will have a new lighting system. For residents of Conestogo, these upgrades have been sorely needed. “It was a park that was put in place 20 years ago, and not much was done since,” said MacDonald. “The Optimists here in town, they were constantly
giving to the park … But when you donate to a charity, it has to go to something. If nothing’s [being renovated], they can’t really attach a donation to it.” Last week, township council allocated $336,000 for improvements and gave organizers permission to negotiate with Endure Sports Management Inc. Some $87,000 comes from the township’s budget, $206,000 from the infrastructure reserve fund, and $43,000 from the Conestogo Recreation Association. (The association already has $25,000, with an additional $18,000 pledged by the Conestogo-Winterbourne Optimist Club). In recent years, the park’s few renovations were implemented by community volunteers. Last year, they repainted and upgraded the park’s two playgrounds, and have helped the park adapt to the changing seasons. “We have volunteers right now in the village that put a lovely rink every winter for the kids here, and this surface will actually be better for that – it will have proper boards for safety,” said MacDonald. “This truly is a community park, and we’re excited to make it even better,” added Cochrane. The road to renovations has not been without bumps. Cochrane and MacDonald made the park a regular subject of discus-
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Lisa MacDonald and Sherri Cochrane of the Conestogo Recreation Association campaigned for a new tennis court and multi-use sports pad at the long-neglected park. [WILL SLOAN / THE OBSERVER] sion at Woolwich council meetings, where they reminded council that five per cent of revenue from building permits in the area was supposed to go to a local park. In October 2012, MacDonald joined representatives from Breslau and Bloomingdale to reprimand recreation and facilities director Karen Makela for poor communication, though MacDonald says relations have since improved. “She was new to the job, and anybody new to the
job has to get her feet wet, I can fully understand that,” said MacDonald. “Conestogo Rec. Association and all the other park associations always looked after themselves, so whatever moneys came into the park, that’s what ran the park. … That was being changed by the township.” MacDonald and Cochrane see the park renovations as a multi-phase process (for the next round of changes, the recreation association hopes to build a splash pad where a vol-
leyball court is currently, and possibly rubber mulch to replace the gravel on the playgrounds). For now, MacDonald sees an investment in the park as an investment in a positive lifestyle for Conestogo’s youth. “We don’t have transportation for our kids. That’s a lifestyle that we here in the village have chosen for our children – we wanted the country for our children to grow up. It’s a wonderful place to live.”
When I started thinking about this week’s column, I knew it was going to be a peach. My daughter came running into the kitchen screaming, “Mom, I just planted a peach tree, all by myself!” Her excitement was refreshing after a crazy week of catering conferences. The peach is one of my favourite fruits. Sweet and tender, a tiny bit difficult to get to the perfect ripeness for the entire basket – which leaves us with more for the days coming. These tasty treats can be roasted, poached, baked, put in a chutney or smoothie. The freestone peach for canning is the perfect choice, as it is firmer and easier to cut and chop for your canning pleasure. My favourite sound in the kitchen is the “ding” the jars make after the water bath has taken place. The sound confirms the August harvest has been preserved for the upcoming months. Cobbler is a wonderfully simple dessert to be enjoyed anytime of the year – just switch up the fruits. A true comfort on a cool August night. So life is a peach: flexible
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AUGUST 21 MUSICIAN PAUL DROOG ON Wednesday, August 21 at 1:30 p.m. as part of the TD Summer Reading Club closing party. This show is free for all children registered in the TD Summer Reading Club. This show is sponsored by the Paradise & District Lions Club. For more information please contact the St. Clements Branch Library at 519-699-4341 or stclemlib@regionofwaterloo.ca. MARYHILL PEACH SOCIAL – The fun starts at 5 p.m. BBQ fare served with fresh homemade salads, home made shortcake topped with fresh peaches and ice-cream. Live music for your entertainment. Rain or shine. Call Marg Brown at 519-648-2915.
AUGUST 23 THE ELMIRA LEGION, 11 First St. E., is hosting at Cold Plate Dinner at 6 p.m. featuring 2 meats and 3 salads for $6. H.U.G.S. PROGRAM – 9:15-11:15 a.m. Woolwich Community Health Centre, 10 Parkside Dr., St. Jacobs. Meet with other parents to discuss parenting and child health issues. Topic: Creating your own unique family traditions: How to make memories with your children. Clothing exchange day. Bring gently used items to trade or exchange.
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SEPTEMBER 7 WOOLWICH COMMUNITY LIONS CLUB is hosting two events in the Foodland parking lot (Arthur St., Elmira) on from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Drive a Ford event - come out and take a car for a test drive (one test drive per household). Ford will donate $20 to Woolwich Lions for each test drive up to a maximum of $6,000. Classic Car Show and Shine from 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. - $5 entry fee/dashboard plaque for the first 50 cars. BBQ, children’s games, prizes. Family fun day. Classic car registration call Sandy 519-638-2523. Live band - Cowboy Up. All proceeds to Elmira District Community Living van project (for the purchase of a Ford wheelchair van).
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SEPTEMBER 11 SENIORS COMMUNITY DINING AT noon (doors open at 11:30 a.m.) Calvary United Church, 48 Hawkesville Rd., St. Jacobs. Cost: $11. Community Care Concepts invites you to join us for a hot noon day meal, fellowship and entertainment. Call 519-664-1900 for more information.
SEPTEMBER 14 YOUTH OUTDOOR DAY AT Luther Marsh. Free for youth 10-16. Try archery, fishing, build a bird feeder. Volunteers required. Call OJ MacDonald at 519-2651681. Online registration required by Aug 31 at www. youthoutdoorsday.com.
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Some experts see bugs as a much better source of protein than livestock WEIRD NOTES
Q. Consider what life
would be like if people were really rational about what they’re eating, at least according to advocates of entomophagy?
A. That’s the term for eat-
ing insects, which makes a lot more sense than what we’re currently doing, argues Glenn Zorpette in “IEEE Spectrum� magazine. For instance, cows, pigs, sheep, and chickens are fed on corn and soybeans, which are valuable crops we humans can eat. Cows and sheep also require great amounts of water and grazing land and, before being slaughtered, produce environmentally damaging
solid and gaseous wastes. “Insects, on the other hand, can consume organic refuse, including spoiled food, rotted carcasses, even animal excretions. And the protein in an insect is every bit as healthy as what you’re taking in now.� Insects have long been on the menu in less developed parts of the world, says Arnold van Huis, of the Wageningen University & Research Center in the Netherlands. He’s coauthor of an insect cookbook and envisions big factory farms raising grubs, mealworms, and other larvae for human consumption. Every day, he says, he gets mail from somewhere in the world expressing interest in entomophagy. Mail, yes, counters Zorpette, but “I don’t have the heart to tell him it’s only because people think his taste
for bugs is so bizarre.�
Q. When researchers did a study of baseball players, was it the homerun hitters who tended to live the longest?
A. As much as homerun
hitters have going for them, it was the players who hit it off well with others, and hence with life, who tended to gain the extra years, says David G. Myers in “Exploring Psychology: Ninth Edition.� It has been manifestly confirmed that happy people tend to be healthier and to outlive their unhappy peers. Even a big, happy smile can forecast longevity, as researchers discovered when examining photos of 150 Major League baseball players who had appeared in the 1952 “Baseball Register� and who had died by 2009 (Abel & Kruger, 2010). “On
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JalapeĂąo peach jelly 2 lbs peeled pitted and chopped peaches 1 cup cider vinegar 3 fresh jalapeĂąos, seeded and coarsely chopped 5 cups sugar 3 oz liquid pectin
In a large stainless steel pot, crush peaches with a potato masher, add vinegar and pepper; bring to a simmer for 20 minutes; Strain through a colander lined with cheesecloth. There should be about 2 cups of liquid left after straining. Discard the solids;
In the same pot place the liquid and the sugar. Bring to a full boil over high heat. Stir constantly and skim off foam with a metal spoon. Ladle into hot jars (leave a half-inch head space) and wipe off the rim of the jar; Place jars in a water bath and boil for 12 minutes, remove and, once cooled, check the seal. Allow jelly to stand for a day.
Peach blueberry cobbler 6 peeled peaches, sliced and pitted 1 cup blueberries 2 tbsp all-purpose flour 3 tbsp brown sugar 2 tbsp local honey 1 knob of butter 1/2 tsp ground ginger
Place peaches, blueberries, flour, ginger, butter, honey in a glass pan. Toss
2 cups all-purpose flour 2 tbsp sugar 4 tsp baking powder 1/2 cup butter 1 tsp vanilla 3/4 cup whipping cream
Combine dry ingredients in a bowl, add butter and combine to a crumb texture; Add whipping cream and combine – don’t over-mix; Place on top of peach blueberry mix. Bake at 350 F until golden and peaches are tender; Serve warm with custard, yogurt, cream or ice cream. Enjoy.
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100%, not even a superball which will return about 81% of its height off a hard surface, says Louis Bloomfield in “How Things Work: The Physics of Everyday Life.� An ideally elastic ball would have a ratio of exactly 1, rebounding to its initial height, but a real ball wastes some of its collision energy and rebounds to a lesser height. For example, a racquet ball will return 72%, a golf ball 67%, a basketball 64%. The loss of energy (and speed) during the collision
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of a basketball with the backboard makes it easier for the ball to drop into the basket after it bounces than before. As for the baseball, its rebound energy is only 0.3 times its collision energy, so it will rebound to only 30% of its original height. “Without that dramatic energy loss during a bounce, baseball pitchers would need to wear armor ... Baseballs could be made so lively that every game would be a homerun derby. Just think of all the asterisks!�
A. No ball will bounce back
more ways than one. Q. Is it possible for a ball to bounce higher than the height from which it was dropped? How would a baseball do in such a test?
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average, the nonsmilers had died at 73, compared with an average 80 years for those with a broad, genuine smile.� On the other hand, pessimism can be toxic. As noted by Laura Kubzansky and colleagues, even after other risk factors such as smoking have been ruled out, pessimists are twice as likely as optimists to develop coronary heart disease.  Other studies have shown that in the year following a heart attack, depressed people were about four times more likely to experience further heart problems. As Myers puts it, “depression is disheartening.� Or think of it this way: Happiness is heartening in
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ramtruck.ca/offers Wise customers read the fine print: €, •, *, », ♦, § The Trade In Trade Up Event offers are limited time offers which apply to retail deliveries of selected new and unused models purchased from participating retailers on or after August 1, 2013. Offers subject to change and may be extended without notice. All pricing includes freight ($1,595 – $1,695), air tax (if applicable), tire levy and OMVIC fee. Pricing excludes licence, insurance, registration, any retailer administration fees, other retailer charges and other applicable fees and taxes. Retailer order/trade may be necessary. Retailer may sell for less. €$10,750 in Cash Discounts are available on new 2013 Ram 1500 models (excluding Reg Cab) and consist of $9,250 in Consumer Cash Discounts and $1,500 in Ram Truck Loyalty/Conquest Bonus Cash. See your retailer for complete details. •$24,995 Purchase Price applies to the new 2013 Ram 1500 Quad Cab SXT 4x4 (23A+AGR) only and includes $9,250 Consumer Cash Discount and $1,500 Loyalty/Conquest Bonus Cash. *Consumer Cash Discounts are offered on select 2013 vehicles and are deducted from the negotiated price before taxes. »$1,500 Ram Truck Loyalty/Conquest Bonus Cash is available to qualified customers on the retail purchase/lease of any 2012/2013 Ram 2500/3500 models (excluding Cab & Chassis models) and 2013 Ram 1500 (excludes Reg Cab models) and is deducted from the negotiated price after taxes. Eligible customers include current owners/lessees of a Dodge or Ram pickup truck or any other manufacturer’s pickup truck. The vehicle must have been owned/leased by the eligible customer and registered in their name on or before July 1, 2013. Proof of ownership/lease agreement will be required. Additional eligible customers include licensed tradesmen and those working towards Skilled Trade certification. Some conditions apply. See your retailer for complete details. ♦4.99% lease financing of up to 60 months available on approved credit through WS Leasing Ltd. (a wholly owned subsidiary of Westminster Savings Credit Union) to qualified customers on applicable new 2012, 2013 and 2014 models at participating retailers in Ontario, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. Retailer order/trade may be necessary. Retailer may lease for less. See your retailer for complete details. Example: 2013 Ram 1500 Quad Cab SLT (25G+XFH) with a Purchase Price of $26,374 leased at 4.99% over 60 months with $4,599 down payment, equals 130 bi-weekly payments of $119 with a cost of borrowing of $4,699.50 and a total obligation of $17,539.60. 22,000 kilometre/year allowance. Charge of $0.18 per excess kilometre. Some conditions apply. §2013 Ram 1500 Crew Cab SLT with optional equipment shown. Price including applicable Consumer Cash Discount: $44,785. ≠Based on Automotive News classification and 2013 Ram 1500 3.6 L V6 4x2 and 8-speed transmission. 11.4 L/100 km (25 MPG) City and 7.8 L/100 km (36 MPG) Highway. Based on 2013 EnerGuide fuel consumption guide ratings published by Natural Resources Canada. Government of Canada test methods used. Your actual fuel consumption will vary based on powertrain, driving habits and other factors. Ask your retailer for complete EnerGuide information. ΩBased on 2012 Automotive News full-size pickup segmentation and competitive information. TMThe SiriusXM logo is a registered trademark of SiriusXM Satellite Radio Inc.
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