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MOE gets cracking over a few bad eggs STEVE KANNON

SUMMER IN BLOOM Janice Malloy of Elmira was the winner of the Observer’s Summer Fun Photography Contest with this shot titled Blue Skies & Sunshine. The winning photo garnered the most votes of the 139 entries. View the top 10 photos on pages 8-9 and online at www.ObserverXtra.com.

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A foul smell of rotting eggs that wafted over parts of Elmira early this week was just that: eggs.

Several residents reported the odour Monday and Tuesday, contacting the Ministry of the Environment, which traced the problem back to Lashbrook Egg Products on Bonnie Crescent.

The odour occurred when a treatment method failed on some new equipment designed to process eggshells. The company, a division of Gray Ridge Egg Farms, is in the egg-breaking business, providing egg blends and products such as egg whites and yolk extracts.

Informed of the issue, the company immediately shut down the process, said Gary Tomlinson, supervisor at the MOE’s Guelph district office.

The new quipment had only been in operation for a week or so.

In looking into the odour, however, officials noticed the company did not have a certificate of approval for the new process, which involved the installation of a dehydrator to convert eggshells into a feed additive rather than sending the waste to landfill. Neither the company nor the Danish manufacturer of the equipment was aware of the requirements, and the line has been idled until the company goes through the official paperwork, said Tomlinson.

The odour complaints caught Lashbrook off guard – as an egg company, it’s never had any MOE issues, unlike some of the neighbours in that eastside industrial area.

“It’s not an issue any longer, said Scott Brookshaw, the firm’s vice-president of operations.

The company is now looking at improvements going forward.

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Charges follow Northfield Dr. rollover

REPERCUSSIONS FOLLOW Speed and alcohol were cited as factors in a single vehicle rollover Wednesday afternoon on Northfield Drive near Jigs Hollow Road.

An 18-year-old Waterloo man travelling south in a Honda Accord lost control of his car while overtaking another vehicle, left the roadway and rolled over in a farm field. A passenger, a 15-year-old Waterloo girl, was transported to Grand River Hospital by ambulance with non-life-threatening injuries. The vehicle was demolished. The driver was arrested at the scene and subsequently charged with ‘careless driving,’ ‘class G2 licence holder with BAC over zero,’ ‘driving motor vehicle with open liquor’ and ‘possessing an illegal driver’s licence.’

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“I love to fill each day with as much fun as possible, because this is all we have, right?

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IN THE GAME Deb Kilimnik was gardening outside her Winterbourne home when she heard a call for contestants on a Kitchener reality show. The mother of two had a blast filming a pilot of “Renaissance,” a show designed to find a winner who excels at mental, physical and spiritual challenges.

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Winterbourne woman takes part in pilot episode of Renaissance, a local reality TV show JONI MILTENBURG When the producers of a reality show asked Deb Kilimnik if there was anything she wouldn’t do, her mind went to other reality shows she‘d seen.

“I said I didn’t really want to put anything icky in my mouth, like bugs or worms,” she said.

They assured her that there would be no eating bugs. If she’d known that pole dancing was what they had in mind, she might have put that on the list too.

Earlier this month, Kilimnik spent three days shooting a pilot for a made-in-Kitchener reality show called Renaissance.

The premise of the show is to challenge body, mind and soul to find the true Renaissance

man or woman.

Kilimnik heard a call for auditions on the radio but got the name of the show wrong and couldn’t find it when she tried to look it up on the Internet.

“I thought oh well, it wasn’t meant to be,” she said.

The next morning her husband Don was reading the newspaper and blurted “Hon, you’ve got to try this.”

“Is it a reality show?”

“Yes, how did you know?”

“Because I tried to find it yesterday. And I went OK, I guess it’s meant to be,” Deb chuckled.

She sent in a short essay about herself and was called for an interview. After the interviews, the producers narrowed the contestants down to the final five: Courtney Willock, a 23-year-old server;

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former pro wrestler J.P. Parsonage, 35; 28-year-old Sam Gardner, a model/accountant; Andy Garnett, 34, a standup comic and bouncer; and Kilimnik, 52, a Winterbourne homemaker who teaches craft lessons.

“I love to fill each day with as much fun as possible, because this is all we have, right? I love meeting new people, I love spontaneity – and this was certainly spontaneous,” Kilimnik laughed.

The surprise element was her favourite part of the show; the producers gave them no clue what they’d be doing.

The first challenge turned out to be a physical one, and the contestants donned football gear and trotted onto Wilfrid Laurier University’s football field to toss the pig-

skin. Next up was a creative challenge; Kilimnik thought her crafting might give her an edge but found herself painting a still life, a skill that is not her forte.

For the final “ultimate” challenge, the contestants were allowed to vote for physical, mental or spiritual. The men voted for a physical challenge, expecting it would be something like football. Instead, they were taken to Impact Movement Studios and given a quick lesson on pole dancing, then turned loose to show off their skills to Joe Cocker’s “You can leave your hat on.”

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Kilimnik was impressed with the professionalism of the crew, made up of Conestoga College students and Rogers Cable volunteers.

Kilimnik doesn’t know when the show will air, if ever; the producers plan to shop the pilot around to the networks after the editing is finished.

They also talked about screening it at the Princess Theatre or Molly Bloom’s pub, where Garnett works.

“I’m just glad I did it, because it was enjoyable. I haven’t seen any of the filming yet, so I say I’m glad I did it; we’ll see when they’re finished editing and everything if I’m still happy about it,” she laughed.

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» FROM THE EDITOR | STEVE KANNON

An election nobody really wants, including politicians It’s the political silly season as MPs travel around on the barbeque circuit, so we have to take with a grain of salt the latest election rumours. The Liberals, we’re told, are eyeing a November

vote.

Leaving aside the presumption that the other opposition parties will join in to vote against the Conservative government in a confidence matter, the big question remains, ‘why?’ That is, why do we need an election? And why would people vote for Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff, who has so far failed to make a mark on the public psyche?

Certainly Ignatieff is no Stéphane Dion, and he projects an image that is a big improvement over Stephen Harper, but that’s not enough just yet to risk an election.

Polls have consistently shown the two major parties running neck and neck, with neither seen as capable of winning a majority.

Harper has been underwhelming, but has done little to really tick off Canadians, who, of course, vote out the bums rather than voting in a new group.

Therein lies the rub for the Liberals, says David Docherty, a political science professor and dean of arts at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo.

“People may be looking for a way to vote out the Conservatives, but they don’t have anywhere to go. Ignatieff hasn’t struck enough chords for peo-

ple to vote him in.”

In other words, Ignatieff and his party haven’t grabbed the public’s attention. Nor have they made a compelling case for an election to toss out the bums now at the helm in Ottawa.

Moreover, nobody seems particularly interested in an election.

“Both the Liberals and the Conservatives are gearing up for an election that the public doesn’t really want,” he says.

The Liberals have been making periodic noises about an election, going back to the coalition averted by Harper’s hail-Mary prorogation of Parliament. The Conservative mishandling of the recession – Harper’s claims last year the worst was over, and a host of other missteps – lent a small window opportunity.

While many Canadians became excited at the prospect of removing Harper, there were lingering reservations about the coalition (based, in part, on Harper and his followers misleading Canadians about the nature of our parliamentary democracy). Ignatieff appeared wary of the long-term impacts of a decision that might have brought short-term gain: his ascension to the prime minister’s job.

That moment having passed, today calls for tweaking Employment Insurance just aren’t stoking election fever.

Nobody’s mad enough just now to want a vote. And Ignatieff hasn’t unveiled policies to differentiate the two parties, nor to galvanize voters in favour of a new direction.

Harper is seen as weak. Not a leader, his skills are said to be managerial,

a role he’s fumbled continually. Still, none of the other party leaders has been able to step up to fill what is essentially a vacuum.

Harper got a free ride when Dion was around. Ignatieff showed himself to be a completely different kind of leader in the immediate wake of the leadership change, but has since tapered off.

Of the other parties holding the balance of power, says Docherty, leadership also remains an issue.

The Bloc Quebecois can be counted on to vote against the Conservatives, but outside of Quebec its policies are irrelevant. For Jack Layton, who also prefers to vote against the government, waffling between seeking power and trying to influence policy has left him looking weak.

Recognizing its limited appeal, the NDP has typically sought to influence the government, especially in minority situations. That’s the position Layton could have staked out when Paul Martin had a minority government, he says. Instead, Layton paved the way for a Conservative minority, one from which he was shut out.

Having just come through a convention where the status quo was enshrined, Layton and the NDP – not the DP – will remain in the same position on the outside looking in.

Clearly it’s incumbent on Ignatieff to offer up a vision that distinguishes the party from the Conservatives, and gives Canadians a reason to care about the prospect of yet another election.

The key to that, ironically, is to stress that we don’t need an election, says Docherty. The catch is adding some ifs to the equation: if the government meets Canadians’ wishes on Employment Insurance reform, health care and the environment, for instance.

Set the tone of the debate by staking out a place in line with the public’s desires on these topics – Harper is out of sync, even if his desire to hold onto power has him toeing the line – then wait to see if the Conservatives fail to comply.

“If the government goes too far, then he can say ‘we can pull the plug on this government,’” says Docherty of Ignatieff.

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Hockey season. The NHL season in general, plus I’m going to be playing with the Woolwich juvenile team.

How long have you worked here?

This will be my fourth summer.

Do you play golf yourself?

One of the perks of working here is free golf, so I play as much as I can.

What’s the toughest part of this course?

I’d say number 11, when they have the pin behind the sand trap, and number 16 green because it’s got quite a slant to it.

Is there anything you’re looking forward to right now?

What do you think of Balsillie’s bid to bring the Coyotes to Hamilton?

It’s almost like they’ve got a personal vendetta against him … why they won’t let him do it is just mind boggling.

What NHL team do you cheer for?

The Toronto Maple Leafs.

How do you think they’re going to do this season?

I’m hoping they at least make the playoffs this year; it would be an improvement over what they’ve done.

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Hockey groups receive $2,000 Woolwich Minor Hockey and the Woolwich Girls’ Minor Hockey Association are each $1,000 richer in the wake of last spring’s Hockeyville excitement, in which the community earned a top-five finish.

At that time, Rosanne Moore, local hockey mom and cafeteria supervisor at Home Hardware Stores Ltd., entered Home Hardware’s cafeteria in the “Kraft Hockeyville Your Establishment” competition, which was open to all foodservice operators in Canada. As the grand prize winner, Home Hardware received $2,000 to be awarded to local minor league hockey groups.

Hawkesville to sport a new multi-use pad

On Tuesday, Wellesley township council approved the construction of a multi-use sports pad at the Hawkesville Community Centre.

The successful bid came from Frey Construction, which submitted a tender of $57,200 plus $2,860 in GST, with funding to come from the 2009 Recreation Capital Reserve account.

The 18.6 by 36.6-metre pad will be used as an outdoor ice rink and ball hockey rink, with the possibility of being used for basketball, tennis, volleyball and skateboarding in the future.

The project was previously tendered in 2008, but deferred because the tenders submitted were too high.

New asphalt to be tested

John Place in Heidelberg is set to be resurfaced with an experimental tar and chip treatment called Fibre Mat. Wellesley Township council awarded the project to Norjohn Contracting for a sum of $11,071 plus tax.

The Fibre Mat treatment is similar to a tar and chip surface that was applied to Pine Street in Linwood and Nafziger Street North in Wellesley in 2007. However, glass fibres are applied during the tarring process and covered with a specialized stone called “trap rock.” The layer prevents cracking in the seal following cracks in the underlying asphalt.

If the application on John Street is deemed successful, the material could be used on the parking lot of the Wellesley Community Centre, as the treatment is much cheaper than asphalt.

Increased traffic has Duke Street resident worried about safety of neighbourhood JONI MILTENBURG When Arthur Street closed for construction, Lee Ann Smith wasn’t surprised to find more traffic coming down Duke Street. The work on Arthur started at First Street, so it was easy for drivers to turn right on First and take Duke through town.

Smith expected cars would resume using Arthur when the road reopened. Instead, she found the increase in traffic remained and there were still large trucks, including fullsize tractor-trailers, coming down the street.

Concerned about what could become an ongoing issue, Smith has asked the township to look into the matter.

The Smiths moved to Duke Street four years ago. Part of the draw was the large fenced

backyard that made the house ideal for raising children. Now Smith, mother of a three-yearold and a six-year-old, is a little less happy with the location.

“A lot of speeding goes on; it’s because there’s only one stop,” she noted. “As a parent, you’ve got to be watching your children anyway, but I’m concerned even when I’m out front with them.

“There’s a lot more young families on our street than there used to be, so I’m sure I’m not the only one who’s concerned about it.”

She would like to see a second four-way stop installed at the corner of Duke and Park streets to dissuade large trucks and force speeders to slow down.

Rod Kruger, Woolwich’s manager of engineering, said the street may still be seeing some ex-

SAFETY FIRST Lee Ann Smith keeps a close eye on kids Tyler and Nicole these days, concerned about the increase in traffic and large trucks she sees driving past their house on Duke Street.

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tra traffic as a result of the construction at the corner of Church and Arthur, where regional crews are putting in a right-turn lane.

“I have a suspicion that some of this may still be lingering as a result of the partial closure at Church and Arthur,” he said. “I suspect once … that gets reopened up, that things will all settle down and kind of go back to normal.”

Before the township takes any measures to control traffic, Kruger wants to know just what is rolling along the street. The township will be installing monitoring equipment along Duke Street to collect data on how much traffic is passing through and what kind. After a month, township staff will have a clearer picture of just how many cars and trucks are using the roadway.

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Stimulus spending accelerates Wellesley infrastructure plans Township projects 10 years ahead of schedule JONI MILTENBURG While the economic recession cast its cloud over Wellesley, it had the proverbial silver lining: the township has used stimulus dollars from upper levels of government to tackle road projects that have been on the wish list for years.

“They’re long overdue,” said public works director Will McLaughlin. “It’s brought the Township of Wellesley at least 10 years ahead, maybe more.”

The township has also been lucky in that a

number of those projects are now wrapping up ahead of schedule.

The $2.2-million road reconstruction project in Hawkesville that got underway last fall is nearly complete, with only surface paving that will be done next year remaining.

East of Hawkesville, contractor Steed and Evans has finished ditching and paving a 3.8-kilometre section of Broadway and Steffler roads.

On Weimar Line, replacement of the 1941 bridge is nearly complete. McLaughlin is hoping the span will

be paved before school starts Sept. 8.

The Weimar Line bridge was one project that could have easily been derailed by the storms that have rolled through the region this summer, but each time the wild weather missed them.

“We were very vulnerable there a couple of times with the footings dug out and not poured yet … and thank goodness it bypassed us.”

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DOG DAYS Ula Pepper holds Banditt, a rare piebald barbet, or French water dog. Pepper was one of about 200 people who participated in Hugs for Hounds, a fundraiser for pet rescue groups held Aug. 22 at the Bridgeport Rod and Gun club. The event raised about $600.

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Shop addition Wellesley township council approved a zoning bylaw amendment for 3002 Broadway Street to allow the addition of office space to a shop owned by Enoch and Lucinda Martin.

The property owner was the only person in attendance at a public meeting Tuesday night. While there are issues to be dealt with, including the location of a fire reservoir and proposed grades, staff advised that those problems could be dealt with through a site plan and building permit.

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The Wellesley council chambers in Crosshill will be keeping their current décor for the foreseeable future, as council voted down another resolution on redecorating the space.

Coun. Herb Neher put forward a motion, which was supported by Coun. Jim Olender, to replace the tile flooring, paint the interior and replace the shutters and chairs.

Councillors Paul Hergott and Shelley Wagner voted against the motion, arguing the township should spend the money that has been set aside and do a more thorough job.

Mayor Ross Kelterborn felt the proposed renovations were too extensive, and the motion was defeated.

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The idea came from Betty Ann Spink, who spearheads fundraising at Gale Presbyterian.

Last spring she approached the two community agencies about doing a joint fundraiser,

with the proceeds to be split three ways.

“For us, it’s a great opportunity to get our name out there and tell people what services we offer,” said Kelly Christie, community resources coordinator at WCS. The fish fry is scheduled for Sept. 19 at Elmira Lions Hall. Dinner will be served between 4:30 and 6:30 p.m., with bidding on silent auction items. Howell’s Fish Fry will be serving up the meal, which will include salads, dessert

and drink. At 7, there will be a performance by the Waterloo Regional Police Male Chorus, followed by a live auction at 8 p.m.

The Lions Hall has a capacity of 400, but Christie is hoping to get closer to 500 people out, expecting that some will eat and leave early while others come later for the chorus and live auction.

Tickets are $15.

Christie said WCS’ share of the funds will go toward programs that aren’t funded by

the United Way or provincial government. Between 45 and 50 per cent of the agency’s budget comes from community donations and fundraisers like this one.

Tickets are available at WCS, the counselling centre and the Gale Presbyterian church office.

Organizers are still looking for more donations for the live and silent auctions. For more information on donations, contact Christie at 519-669-5139 or email kelly_wcs@yahoo.ca.

Kiwanis Club gives lake property to YMCA JONI MILTENBURG The Kiwanis Club of Kitchener-Waterloo has gifted the Paradise Lake property outside St. Clements to the KitchenerWaterloo YMCA. The property is valued at $600,000, making it the largest gift in the history

of either organization.

The Kiwanis Club first leased the property in 1924 to operate a camp in partnership with a number of other organizations. The club bought the property in 1938, and in 1942, the camp became officially known as Camp Ki-Wa-Y. The Kitchener-Waterloo

YMCA has been the property’s sole tenant since 1972. Along with the camp, the YMCA operates the Outdoor Centre, where visitors can learn about green living.

The gift secures the future of the camp and the outdoor centre.

Malcolm Shantz, president of the Kiwanis

Club, said the YMCA has been a good tenant over decades of use, getting thousands of kids active in the outdoors and learning about nature and the environment.

The best way to continue the site’s tradition of camping, the club felt, was to give the YMCA the property.

Stimulus: Moving up project timelines » From page 05

Glaister Line are being replaced, and the pavement extension on Hessen Strasse and Weimar Line will be sent out to tender shortly.

All of the construction projects together carry a hefty tab of $6 million.

Other than the reconstruction of Hawkesville, which was covered by the province’s Municipal Infrastructure Investment Initiative, funding for the projects

has been split equally between the federal, provincial and municipal governments. That works out to $2.5 million in grants, with Wellesley on the hook for the other $1.3 million.

The township is covering its share with gas tax funds and money saved by being frugal over the years.

McLaughlin noted that the township is still waiting to hear back on the results of another

grant application for work on Streicher Line from Hutchison Road to the boundary with Perth County.

“It’s like a lottery,” he said. “You wait and see if you’re picked, if the powers that be in the federal and provincial government like what you’re presenting and decide it’s a worthwhile project.”

The public works director explained that the township focuses on

improving roads that will benefit the township economically, either because industries are located along them or because they’re transportation corridors to other centres.

“They’re all roads that we would have done ourselves anyway, we just don’t have the funding up here to do them.”

“They’ve been on the list for years under the title of someday, and now’s the time, apparently.”

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12:11 PM | A hit-and-run occurred on Bricker School Line in Wellesley Township. A pickup truck was seen pulling a van out of a field after the van crashed through a guardrail, damaging three posts.

Both vehicles fled the scene before police arrived. The investigation continues.

11:40 PM | A cab driver who had picked up a fare at the bus station on Charles Street in Kitchener was left without payment when the passenger bolted on Arthur Street in Elmira. The suspect is described as a heavyset woman – about 5’2” and 150-160 lbs – with black hair and wearing a white shirt.

She left behind a black shirt, a pair of sunglasses and a watch.

Police continue to investigate.

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12:42 PM | An Elmira resident reported the theft of a snow-

been banned from the store for similar offences. The owner recovered the merchandise.

When police arrived, they found the two with a group of other youths, four of whom admitted to stealing. All were dealt with under the Youth Criminal Justice Act. 8:19 PM | St. Teresa school in Elmira was hit by vandals, who used red and orange paint to write obscenities on the gym wall. There are no suspects.

»» SCATTERED DEBRIS Emergency crews converged on Boomer Line and Moser-Young Road Wednesday morning, treating three children injured when their horse-drawn cart was hit by a pickup truck. None of the four occupants of the truck, being driven by a 35-year-old Elmira-area man, was injured. The cart, operated by an 11-year-old girl, had passed through a stop sign.

mobile from a shed on a rental property on Northfield Drive.

The machine, a green 1995 Polaris 400, was taken some time over the previous six weeks.

4:30 PM | A transport truck travelling southbound on Katherine Street was struck by the driver of a red Pontiac making a right turn off of Lundy Road. Damage to the car was reported as moderate, while the truck suffered only light damage. The driver of the car, a 66-year-old area woman, was charged with ‘turn not in safety.’

5:30 PM | Police received a report of a theft of gasoline from a Spring Street address in St. Jacobs. A suspect was caught on video.

11:00 PM | A home on Oakcliffe Street in Elmira was egged.

At least four eggs hit the front porch. Police have suspects in mind.

11:50 PM | Three 16-year-old boys were stopped for not wearing helmets while bicycling on First Street in Elmira.

One of the three was found in possession of a drug scale with residue on it. One was subsequently charged with the helmet offence.

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7:20 AM | Some time overnight, a vehicle parked at a Floradale Road address had dirt thrown on it and in the interior. Something was also burned inside the vehicle. Police have no suspects.

12:53 PM | A 28-year-old man was charged with ‘careless driving’ following a three-vehicle chain-reaction collision on Arthur Street near Scotch Line Road south of Elmira.

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9:50 PM | The driver of a 2003 Volkswagen travelling on Middlebrook Road lost control on a curve, entered a ditch and rolled over. Only minor injuries were reported, but the car was severely damaged. No charges were laid.

Collision at farmer’s market

SIDESWIPED Emergency workers were called to the scene of a collision at the corner of King Street and Farmer’s Market Road in St. Jacobs shortly after 2 p.m. Aug. 20.

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All Waterloo Region schools will be open on Tuesday, September 8 to welcome students to the beginning of the 2009-10 school year.

Students should be at their school at the regular starting time.

All school buses will be running and it is a good idea to be at your bus stop a little early. Buses will leave schools to deliver students home at regular times.

Elementary school classes will be held all day.

Junior and senior kindergarten students will have staggered entry times over the first two weeks of school.

Secondary schools have planned various opening day programs. Each student should bring along an appropriate school lock or money to purchase one.

It isn’t too late to register!

All schools will be open starting August 31 for students who haven’t yet registered. If you aren’t sure which school you should attend, visit our web site at www.wrdsb.ca and click on School Finder or phone 519 570-0003 ext. 4349.

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6:22 PM | A vehicle parked on Peregrine Crescent in Elmira has its front grill damaged when someone threw an apple at the car. The incident may have occurred the previous Saturday, the complainant reported. Police have no suspects.

2:30 AM | Following numerous reports of vandalism at

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a College Street, Elmira residence, police apprehended a suspect in relation to the latest incident. Using the canine unit, officers tracked and arrested a 26-year-old Elmira man, charging him with ‘mischief.’ The investigation continues into the previous five incidents.

12:20 PM | A portable and storage shed at Riverside Public School in Elmira were spraypainted with graffiti. There are no suspects.

6:20 PM | Two 12-year-old boys were caught stealing at an Arthur Street, Elmira business. They had previously

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4:00 PM | A vehicle parked at an address on Arthur Street, near Riverside Drive in Elmira, had the tires and rims stolen from it. The vehicle was set to

be scrapped prior to the theft.

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Three children were injured when a pickup truck hit a horse-drawn cart at the intersection of Boomer Line and Moser-Young Road in Wellesley Township just after 10 a.m. on Wednesday.

The pickup was westbound on Boomer Line when the buggy, northbound on Moser-Young Road, passed through a stop sign and into the path of the truck. The cart was destroyed, throwing all three occupants into the roadway. The small horse, however, took the bulk of the impact: the animal was dragged about 50 yards from the intersection before the pickup came to a stop. All three children – ages 11, 4 and 2 – were transported to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Police put down the horse at the scene. The truck suffered significant damage. No charges were laid.

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Rural roads not as safe as they seem

The idyllic rural life doesn’t apply to the roadways – statistically, you’re more likely to be injured in an automobile accident on roads in the townships.

Part of the problem stems from a false sense of security: we’re driving on lightly travelled roads, so we tend to let our feet get heavier, and our minds wander. The result is that we suffer more injuries and fatalities when collisions occur – there are no fender-benders at 80 km/h.

While most traffic accidents happen in busy city areas where the speed limit is 60km/h or less, most of these accidents are not serious enough to cause death. On the other hand, two-thirds of all “deadly accidents” happen on rural roads, in the country, where speed limits are faster and the roads aren’t as well-lit as they are inside the city. Drivers are more likely to find poor or unexpected conditions on rural roads, than in the city, and there’s always the danger of coming across animals that can appear out of nowhere, reports Transport Canada. (Across the country, on average of eight Canadians die in road crashes every day. Many more are seriously hurt.)

That was certainly in evidence lately with a rash of collisions, including two

involving Mennonite buggies. One woman was killed when the buggy she was riding in was hit from behind. Just this week, three children were injured when their horse-drawn buggy was hit by a pickup truck.

Distractions appear more plentiful on rural roads: on busy urban streets, we have to focus our attention on driving because there is so much going on around us; out in the countryside, police surmise, we’re less attentive – moving at greater speeds, we have less time to react when something happens, and we’re less likely to be aware of a possible problem until it’s too late.

A Manitoba study, for instance, shows that driver behavior greatly influences the collision rate on rural roads. Motorists tend to think they are “safer” on rural roads since there is much less traffic, forget they have to share the roads with farm vehicles and animals, and tend to speed since they know that speed enforcement is lax. Alcohol and illegal substance abuse and lack of seatbelt use are often contributing factors in injuries and fatalities.

The numbers do explain the commonly expressed feeling that Woolwich has seen

» VERBATIM “Stephen Harper has called the Senate a 19th-century relic. He has declared to the Canadian public that he would not name unelected people to the Senate. Yet here he is again doing just that. His word means less and less every day he’s in office, and he’s behaving more and more like the Liberals.”

NDP leader Jack Layton takes aim at the latest round of Senate appointees

an extraordinary amount of tragedy – we have, in fact, had a more-than-average number of incidents. It’s not just perception, it’s fact, as witnessed by the death earlier this month of a pedestrian struck by a pickup on Church Street in Elmira.

That said, much of the heartache is avoidable: as officials point out, the term “accident” is a misnomer. If a collision is deemed preventable – the result of speeding, inattention, driving inappropriately for road conditions, drinking or drugs, and the like – there’s nothing accidental about the results. In that vein, a single-vehicle rollover on Northfield Drive Wednesday evening fits the bill.

The good news is those numbers and the terrible human cost they represent – behind every statistic there are real people dealing with real consequences – can be reduced by individuals making better choices when they get behind the wheel.

The summer travel season in full swing – give or take the outrageous price of gasoline – and despite clear skies and ideal road conditions, avoidable collisions do occur at this time of year.

With that in mind, now is a good time to tweak our awareness out there on the roads.

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» HARD TALK | RAFE MAIR

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Action in the North is all about Arctic oil Even as Stephen Harper goes north to bolster Canada’s claim on the Arctic, there’s a scramble on for Arctic oil, the real reason behind much of the international squabble over the territory.

It’s interesting how this all got started.

It was strictly in the interest of science whereby the U.S. Geological Service teamed up with the British oil giant BP and Statoil, a huge Norwegian oil conglomerate, to do a survey on global warming, especially in the Arctic.

Since they believe they might find some oil under the ice, they decided, apparently as an afterthought, that as long as they were there anyway, they might as well look for a little oil while they were at it. (If you believe that, I have a lovely bridge just waiting for you to buy.)

The U.S. Geological Survey estimates that a quarter of the world’s petroleum reserves lie under the Arctic Ocean.

And there are other players like Russia

involved, big time. When I heard about the scientific front for this undertaking, I couldn’t help thinking of Japan slaughtering hundred of whales each year for “scientific purposes.”

Here is the good news. Oil exploration will become more and more feasible in the Arctic as the ice cap recedes and the companies can do their drilling on dry land. And in fact, the news here is very cheery because it’s estimated that the Arctic Ocean will be free of ice in summertime by 2060.

Now here’s where you come in. Global warming, as we know, is dependent on emissions from cars and others exploiting the universe as a huge garbage dump so conveniently put there for the consequences of our greed. Think of what we could do if we all just added, say, 10 per cent to our fossil fuel consumption and waste expulsion. Why, I bet we could lower the time for an ice free Arctic back to 2050, or maybe, 2040!

All we need to do, really, is concentrate on buying all those SUVs that GM and Ford have overstocked. We could have bumper stickers saying “Save the Arc-

tic from the bears and Inuit – buy a gas guzzler.”

Whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. The gods must have been working overtime on this generation of Earthlings. As Stephanie Tumore from Greenpeace has noted, “Why are we going looking for more fossil fuels when what’s happening in polar regions just proves that it is devastating and we cannot continue to do that?”

Why indeed?

I can see some benefits that Greenpeace and others have overlooked. On the assumption that even in summer there will be some ice at the North Pole, we could put in an airport and fly tourists in to look at the zoo where the last of the polar bears live alongside the last remaining walrus, narwhals and caribou. At this tourist site there would be a real live imitation Inuit village where the inhabitants put on their old sealskin clothes and rush to the airport to rub noses with the visitors. I mean, what a tourism experience for those who have been everywhere.

But as I say, folks, the good old oil com-

panies can’t do it all by themselves. So rush out today, get the gassiest of gas guzzlers and help get rid of that stupid ice cap that’s getting in the way of the oil barons who so badly want to put more and more fossil fuels in our hands.

Let’s all keep that neat cycle where gases clobber the environment enabling the oilmen to get oil more easily to clobber the environment and so on. Moreover, with lovable old Petrocan in there carrying the flag for us, surely it’s our patriotic duty to pitch in and help.

Growing need for electoral reform I have this feeling that we need a national task force looking at electoral change.

With several provinces committed to a look-see, Stephen Harper knows that there is an appetite for change – not a ravenous one to be sure but perhaps an unstoppable one in the long term.

Any sort of proportional representaSee MAIR »12

» INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS | GWYNNE DYER

Case of Libyan convicted of bombing more than it appears Abdelbaset Ali alMegrahi was an intelligence agent.

Since he worked for the Libyan government, he probably did some bad things.

But he probably did not do the specific bad thing for which he was sentenced to 27 years in prison in Scotland.

He only served eight years. He was released on compassionate grounds last week by the Scottish Justice Secretary, Kenny MacAskill, and flew home to Libya. He is dying of cancer, but his release outraged the Americans whose relatives died aboard Pan Am Flight 103 in December 1988. They believe that Al-Megrahi is a mass murderer who should die in jail – but that is not necessarily so.

There were also British victims of the attack, and almost none of their relatives think that al-Megrahi should have been in jail at all. As their spokesman, Jim Swire, put it, “I don’t believe for a moment that this man was involved (in the bombing).”

THE PRIME SUSPECT Back in 1988-89, Western intelligence services saw the bombing of Pan Am 103 as an act of revenge. The U.S. warship Vincennes had shot down an Iranian Airbus five months before, killing all 290 passengers, and the Ira-

nians were getting even. (The U.S. was then secretly backing Saddam Hussein’s war against Iran, and the Vincennes, operating illegally in Iranian territorial waters, shot down the airliner thinking that it was an Iranian fighter.)

There was some evidence for this “Iranian revenge” theory. In 1989 German police found the same kind of bomb that brought down Pan Am 103 in a house in Frankfurt that was used by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command.

The PFLP-GC was based in Syria, and Syria and Iran were allies, so maybe ...

THE SWITCHEROO But then, in 1990, Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. Washington needed Arab countries like Syria to join the war against Saddam so that the liberation of Kuwait looked like a truly international effort. Syria’s price for sending troops was removal from America’s most-wanted list. Suddenly Syria was no longer the prime suspect in the Pan Am case – and if Syria was out, so was Iran.

But more Americans died on Pan Am 103 than in any other terrorist attack before 9/11. Somebody had to take the fall. Libya was the obvious candidate, because it had supported various terrorist attacks in the past.

Soon new evidence began to appear.

It pointed to Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, who had been working as a security

officer for Libyan Arab Airlines in Malta in 1988. A Maltese shopkeeper identified him as the man who bought children’s clothing like that found in the suitcase that contained the bomb that brought down Pan Am 103.

It was pretty flimsy evidence, but Colonel Gaddafy, Libya’s ruler, was desperate to end the Western trade embargo against his country. He never admitted blame in the Pan Am affair, but he handed al-Megrahi and a colleague over for trial in a Western court.

THE KANGAROO COURT Al-Megrahi’s trial took place in 2001. His colleague was freed, but he was jailed for 27 years (in Scotland, because Pan Am 103 came down in Lockerbie). As time passed, however, the case began to unravel.

The Maltese shopkeeper who had identified al-Megrahi, Tony Gauci, turned out to be living in Australia, supported by several million dollars that the Americans had paid him for his evidence.

The allegation that the timer for the bomb had been supplied to Libya by the Swiss manufacturer Mebo turned out to be false. The owner of Mebo, Edwin Bollier, revealed that he had turned down an offer of $4 million from the FBI in 1991 to testify that he had sold his MST-13 timers to Libya.

One of Bollier’s former employees, Ulrich Lumpert, did testify at al-Me-

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grahi’s trial that MST-13 timers had been supplied to Libya – but in 2007 he admitted that he had lied at the trial.

And this year it was revealed that Pan Am’s baggage area at London’s Heathrow airport was broken into 17 hours before Pan Am 103 took off on its last flight. (The police knew that 12 years ago, but kept it secret at al-Megrahi’s trial.) The theory that the fatal bag was put on a feeder flight from Malta became even less likely.

All of which explains why the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission announced in 2007 that it would refer al-Megrahi’s case to the Court of Criminal Appeal in Edinburgh because he “may have suffered a miscarriage of justice.”

THE DEAL The Review Commission’s decision caused a crisis, because a new court hearing would reveal how shoddy the evidence at the first one was. Happily for London and Washington, alMegrahi was now dying of cancer, so a deal was possible. He would give up his plea for a retrial, no dirty linen about the original trial would be aired in public, and he would be set free.

A miserable story, but hardly a unique one. A man who was probably innocent of the charges against him, a loyal servant of the Libyan state who was framed by the West and hung out to dry by his own government, has been sent home to die.

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Mair: Politicians use the system to block attempts at reform » From page 11

tion gets the insiders upset because they lose control for the same reason prime ministers and premiers do. When there’s a minority government such as will certainly happen under proportional representation, the MPs gain power at the expense of the government, which is to say the prime minister and cabinet – especially the prime minister.

I don’t have the passion for majority government that many Canadians do. I think that many Canadians are far more concerned with “peace, order” than with “good government.” They like things settled – who it is they like, who it is they hate.

The picture in our minds of one Mountie leading Sitting Bull and 10,000 braves out of the country is hard to shake even though it’s not true and the real story is better.

Suffice it to say that we weren’t born out of the crucible of violent revolution but a series of deals, some good, some lousy. Having sprung from the loins of the Law of Contract we tend to look for loopholes rather than pistols when disputes arise, which is perhaps more civilized but it does tend to ex-

tend the lives of terrible deals, such as the Senate, equalization and an electoral system that gives 100 per cent of the power to 50 per cent plus one of the vote.

The trouble is that politicians and judges can maintain the status quo by using the very places we need to reform, such as the Senate, the House of Commons and the Supreme Court.

In effect there can be no meaningful change without the unanimous consent of all the provinces and the federal government. It takes a very special sort of politician to propose changing the way he got elected for a system wherein he might lose. And the Canadian woods aren’t full of such people.

Given that there is no way to get change, and the need for change is already critical and will increase, Canadians should ask themselves this: what happens in the days to come? If our country can’t remedy its own system of governance, how does it deal with the concomitant anger that will, for different reasons in different regions, surely seriously threaten the unity of the country?

Maybe we’ll just muddle our way through ... though I wouldn’t bet on it.

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» OBSERVER Q&A Do you think we need a federal election in the fall?

I don’t think we do.

I don’t think we do. It’s expensive, and the way the public is split right now, it would probably result in another minority.

No we don’t, because the Liberals aren’t going to help us.

No. I think it’s too soon to be calling for another election.

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HEIDELBERG TEA PARTY Becky Strauss long ago discovered that there’s nothing like a nice cuppa. Now she’s happy to share her passion working with the Steeped Tea company.

A business that’s just her cup of tea Growing popularity of loose teas provides a family-friendly opportunity for Heidelberg woman JONI MILTENBURG When it comes to tea, Becky Strauss thinks outside the bag.

The Heidelberg woman is a consultant for Steeped Tea, a Hamilton-based company selling loose tea and accessories.

Tea is the most consumed drink in the world after water.

Although coffee is the beverage of choice for most North Americans, tea is gaining in popularity on this continent and specialty teas are the fastest growing sector.

Strauss sings the praises of

loose tea, which she says offer higher quality and richer flavour than teabags. She’s been a tea lover since she was a young girl, and selling tea was a natural fit. Strauss learned about Steeped Tea from a friend who had gone to one of their tea parties. First she hosted a tea party of her own, then decided to become a consultant herself.

“It’s new, it’s fun, and I was sure I wasn’t the only one looking for a good cup of tea,” she said.

Steeped Tea was started in 2007 by Tonia and Hatem Jahshan. The company offers more than 60 varieties of loose

tea, including white, green and black tea, herbal and fruit teas, rooibos (bush tea) and oolong.

Strauss has tried nearly all 60 of the varieties, and her favourite is Crème Carmello. The rooibos tea has a rich caramel scent and Strauss likens it to “liquid dessert.”

Strauss has been in direct sales for 12 years, selling Tupperware, candles, scrapbooking supplies and now tea.

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Regional strengths are good for farming research In the spring, Ontario farmers planted more soybeans than they ever had before. Their 2.4 million acres of soybeans was a 14.3 per cent jump over the previous year, and a full 100,000 acres more than the previous record in 2004. Soybeans have become Ontario’s leading cash crop, and it’s in the province’s best interests to help look after them.

Case in point: A devastating plant disease called Asian soybean rust. It arrived in Brazil in 1979, rode tropical winds north to the U.S. in 2004 and finally showed up in Ontario in 2007.

Thankfully, it can’t overwinter here, so it takes something such as a tropical storm to blow its spores up from the southern U.S., where it lives yearround on soybeans and host plants, particularly on something called kudzu.

That said, it’s a constant worry. Under the right conditions, Asian soybean rust can devastate yields. Imagine what that could do to Ontario’s already strained economy, with its biggest farm commodity wounded by disease.

The good news is soybean rust can be successfully controlled with a fungicide, if it’s applied just before the spores arrive.

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The members of the network, many of whom are meeting this week for a workshop at the University of Florida’s Quincy research station (the North American centre of soybean rust research), can use various advanced techniques to monitor the movement and appearance of the disease’s spores.

With exceptional coordination, they can predict the spores’ arrival anywhere in the U.S. and Canada based on weather forecasts, and help Ontario farmers be prepared to battle the spores if and when they arrive.

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Which leads me back to Asian soybean rust. It’s just one of hundreds of examples of important challenges that are not within the Big 5’s culture or expertise. Maybe they could develop it, in time. But why? It already exists elsewhere. Their parochial approach would duplicate efforts, shut down effective and valued regional programs and create the same kind of inefficiencies the Big 5 are trying to avoid.

Farmers should be blowing their lids over the Big 5 concept and letting their MPs know what they think about it. There’s no question I’m biased, but with all due respect to the University of Toronto, in Ontario I like farming’s chances of being understood better at the University of Guelph.

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here will be nothing but smiles when the township celebrates the official opening of the Woolwich Memorial Centre Sept. 12, but the road hasn’t always been so agreeable.

A recreation master plan approved by councillors in June 2003 called for the aging Elmira pool to be replaced in 2014, with a new arena slated for 2017. That decision set off a storm of protests from user groups, beginning a three-year process that eventually led to plans for what is now the WMC.

Eventually agreeing to build a multi-purpose recreation facility in Elmira, and to accelerate the timeline, council was then embroiled in a battle over whether the building would house one or two arenas. The debate even became an issue in the 2006 municipal election.

That process, sometimes vocal, led to a much better product in the end, suggests one of the early critics who went on to head the community’s fundraising efforts for new recreation projects, including new community centres in Maryhill and Breslau.

“The fighting and discussions from six years ago is all water under the bridge.

But those early conflicts led to us having a better facility,” Paul Bossenberry said this week.

Bossenberry, chairman of the Woolwich Recreation

Facility Foundation, was involved in the process from the beginning, and saw how a sometimes bitter dispute evolved into a communitywide effort with everyone reading from the same playbook.

“It’s phenomenal how the community got behind these projects. When all is said and done, everybody did a wonderful job.”

Those sentiments were echoed by Graham Snyder.

At the time, he was the general manager of the Elmira Sugar Kings hockey club, and became one of the first to react to the 2017 target for a new arena.

Six years ago, he called on council to show some vision by building new and better facilities sooner rather than later. When councillors in turn asked the community groups to undertake a major fundraising drive to show their

passion, Snyder, Bossenberry and a host of others answered the call.

“I think it’s wonderful. It’s really a credit to the community for getting behind it and making it a reality,” said Snyder of the effort that went into building the WMC, now open for business.

“We showed the passion … that councillors asked for.”

All told, community groups have committed more than $5.5 million toward a slate of new recreation facilities in the township, anchored by the $23-million Woolwich Memorial Centre.

That was a major accomplishment for a township the

size of Woolwich, said Coun.

Ruby Weber, originally the lone voice on council calling for the timely construction of a new facility, one with twin ice pads.

While its finished form isn’t exactly what all of the user groups asked for – the wish list was scaled back due to budget constraints – the final product is bound to impress, she added.

“We have a beautiful facility, and it’s going to serve our needs for quite some time.”

User groups such as the Kings, minor hockey and figure skating club that were upset with the construction timelines approved in 2003 eventually got

a great deal of say in how the project came together, walking the talk by rallying behind fundraising efforts, she explained.

From the very beginning, both the timelines and budgets identified in a recreation needs study proved out of touch with the community.

“Those original budget numbers were pure fantasy,” she said of a study predicting the replacement cost of the pool and arena at $3 million apiece.

Budget forecasts that swelled as the projects drew closer were the norm for every one of the buildings, recreation or otherwise, that Woolwich has tackled in recent years.

The Woolwich Memorial Centre ended up with a budget of $22 million, up substantially from the $12 million forecast in 2005 – even without the addition of a second ice pad, the project would still be set at $18 million.

While smaller in scale, the other projects all experienced cost overrun issues.

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$925,000 has been revised to $2.2 million.

The Maryhill Heritage Park Community Centre saw the original budget of $350,000 swell to $876,000, though actual tendered costs came in under that, at $660,000.

What was to be a small upgrade at the Woolwich Township Arena in St. Jacobs blossomed in scope and cost. With a budget that eventually hit $210,000, new estimates saw that figure revised upward to $467,000.

With most of the hard work behind it – only the Breslau centre remains outstanding, with construction due to finish by mid-December – the township is dealing only with some outstanding fi-

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Discussions with the groups that will be using the new facility show most are eager to make the move to the WMC. “We have a good relationship with the community groups, and I think the groups will be happy with the centre.”

“I’m very excited for the public to finally see it,” added Bossenberry who, like most of those involved since the initial talks, is eager to move on to the most enjoyable part of the undertaking: using the new building.

“Many people put in a lot of time and effort. I hope everybody enjoys the facility.”

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Township caps attendance to BBQ, dance; pool expected to be ready Curious about what’s going on inside the new Woolwich Memorial Centre in Elmira? While the official opening doesn’t take place until Sept. 12, the building is now operational and open to the public.

The ice is in at both arenas – the first-ever event rental took place Monday morning – while work continues on the pool and other amenities. On that front, too, there is progress.

Organizers of both

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Having the pools filled for the official ceremonies will also make the tours more interesting, said Coun. Ruby Weber, who’s spearheading plans for next month’s festivities.

Given the public response so far, she expects a big crowd Sept. 12. The township has already capped at 1,100 the number of people who can attend the barbeque and dance portion of the day.

The decision was made partly due to budget constraints and to the fact that about 1,100 people can fit on the floor of the Dan Snyder Memorial Arena.

“We can’t licence the seats or other areas of the arena, so we have to stay on the floor area,” she explained this week.

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There is a waiting list should spaces become available.

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For those who obtained wristbands, the noon-hour barbeque will offer free food, music and entertainment for the kids, including jugglers and magicians. That will be followed by the official ceremonies, then tours of the facility. In the evening, a dance starts at 7 p.m., aimed at families. At 9 p.m., the festivities become a licensed event.

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The Kings have only two 20-year-olds committed to the team at this point – captain Jeff Zippel and forward Michael Therrien – and only three or four 19-year-olds.

“That doesn’t bother me; I like that. I like the fact that we’re going to be young,” said head coach Geoff Haddaway.

There are some significant gaps to fill with the prospects, particularly on the offensive lines.

Several key players, including former captain Patrick Shantz, graduated out of the system last year, while others opted to play tier two hockey instead.

“I would say five of our top six offensive players – [Brent] Freeman, [Josh] Ranalli, [Kyle] McNeil, [Kyle] Blaney, Trent Brown – that was most of our offence right there.”

That said, Haddaway liked the energy and enthusiasm he saw when the team hit the ice on Monday.

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Looking to enjoy fishing with the kids? Don’t bet on it Last week, I thought I’d do the right thing and take my kids fishing. At least it was the right thing as far as my wife was concerned.

That’s because she has never actually been on a fishing trip with any child. Or maybe she has and is getting back at me for something.

Forget about all that wholesome stuff that anglers say, if our government asked me to design a program to toughen up our troops mentally in the face of enemy interrogation, I wouldn’t have to think twice. I’d have each soldier take my daughter fishing for a day.

It’s not that Carm is a bad kid – that’s beside the point. It’s just that she takes her fishing trips very seriously.

For instance, on that day I announced our customary first fish/biggest fish bet in which I put up a loonie for the person who caught either of those categories.

I had hardly uttered the words when my little girl yelled out, “Got one!”

Call me cynical, but I’m reasonably certain that she had it on all the time and was waiting for me to start the contest. My little girl is like that.

Having no real proof however, Ryan and I just looked at each other and took comfort in the fact that we’d at least have a shot at the big fish portion of the program. So we tied on big fish lures and prepared ourselves to bear down.

That’s when Carm raised her rod and yelled, “Dad, I’ve got a good one on.”

The good one turned out to be a 14-inch smallmouth bass, nothing huge, but certainly respectable for that little lake.

“I guess, I’ve won both loonies,” she quickly announced, as she put away her fishing rod, and held out her hand.

“We can beat that,” Ryan announced. “There are better fish here.”

With that, we continued angling, hoping to land something marginally better. And we almost did too.

A short while later, we got into a school of bass each

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son moves through stages, from the prospects camp to the training camp and then ramping up to the season with an exhibition game against Cambridge on Wednesday. He’s watching to see how the players respond to each new challenge.

“Every time you hit this new stage … the competition gets better and faster and stronger and so you have to be prepared for that next step. That’s what we’re hoping to see, that guys are able to meet that challenge.”

With a practice Thursday and two more exhibition games Saturday and Sunday, Haddaway expects the coaching staff will have a good idea of the lineup by the end of the weekend. The regular season kicks off next weekend, with the home opener in the new Woolwich Memorial Centre set for Sept. 13.

Haddaway said the

team is enjoying the new facility, and he’s hearing lots of good comments from players and parents. The new arena has also played into the team’s pitch to prospective players.

“For sure the facility was a selling point or one of the main selling points for the recruit we brought in from up north. It certainly wasn’t the only thing, but when he saw the arena, he was very impressed.”

The Kings have also added a new face to the coaching bench with the addition of assistant coach Ryan Alischer. Alischer was Haddaway’s assistant when he coached the Kitchener Dutchmen, before coming to Elmira.

As the regular season approaches, Haddaway said the coaches are infected with the same excitement as the players.

“We’re all excited and we can’t wait to get it going.”

threatening that magic 14-inch mark.

But suddenly, Carm started holding her tummy.

“Daddy,” she whimpered, “I’m not feeling very good.”

“You’re not just saying that because we’ve found a good school of bass are you?” I asked.

“No dad,” she said, “I think I should have had more for lunch. I’m real sorry.”

It was one of those moments that defines you as a parent. On one hand, you have a potentially sick and hungry child, on the other a really nice school of smallmouth bass.

The decision was not an easy one.

“Dad,” she said, with pleading, sad eyes. “Please reel in and take me home.”

Her words broke my heart but only because they

caused me to miss a really good strike.

It was then that Carm turned up the heat. “I need to go home Dad. Really.”

I looked at her brother, shrugged, and turned the boat towards home.

All the way back, loud moaning, teary eyes, and ghastly complaining emanated from our boat – but Ryan and I eventually collected ourselves.

As we reluctantly packed our gear and trailered up, Carm sat quietly in the back seat, holding her tummy.

Even so, I believe I detected a slight grin and, by the time we pulled in our driveway five minutes later, she had recovered completely.

There’s no doubt she was probably faking, but, in the end, I still felt bad about the whole situation. I should have told her about the guiding fee.

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Labour Day competitions are annual festivities in Wellesley

Tournament win for U-11 girls soccer The Woolwich Wolfpack under-11 girls claimed the trophy in a Kitchener recreational tournament last weekend.

in their opening game and following that up with a 1-0 win over Dundas and 2-1 victory over Windsor.

More than 100 teams from across the province played in the tournament, ranging in age from U-10 to U-18.

Based on that performance, the girls advanced straight to the finals Sunday morning. After a scoreless game and two periods of overtime, Woolwich prevailed in a shootout, coming out on top 3-1.

The U-11 girls won their division in round robin play, tying Georgetown

JONI MILTENBURG Before the kids head back to school, the village of Wellesley wants them to enjoy a day full of good old-fashioned fun.

On Labour Day, the village plays host to two annual crowd-pleasing events: the Lions fishing derby and the soapbox

derby.

This is the fifth year for the fishing derby, which was started by a private citizen, Paul Weinstein. It proved more popular than he expected and quickly became too much for one person to organize. First the Optimists and then the Lions Club took it over.

The derby operates on a

catch and release policy, with trophies awarded in five categories. There is also a prize for the first person to catch a tagged fish released by the Ministry of Natural Resources.

The $5 registration fee includes lunch for the kids, and there is a food booth set up with coffee and drinks.

The derby is held at the

Albert Erb Conservation Area at the Wellesley Pond. Registration opens at 8 a.m.; the derby starts at 9 and wraps up by noon.

Any funds coming out of the derby go toward youth projects in Wellesley, which in the past have included renting portable skateboard equipment and supporting a battle-ofthe-bands competition.

BUS SAFETY TIPS School is starting and the first lesson is:

BUS SAFETY! Most school bus accidents happen when students are getting on and off the bus.

With school starting up again, it’s time for a refresher course on school bus safety for everyone.

DRIVERS; be extra aware when you’re around school buses. It’s illegal to pass one that’s stopped to pick up or drop off children. Use caution and care - the kids may not be watching out for you.

PARENTS; make sure your children have enough time to get to the school bus without rushing. Remind them to watch for cars and cross only at the corners.

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STUDENTS; always look both ways before crossing the street, cross at least 10 feet in front of the bus and wait for the driver’s signal that it’s safe. And stay clear of the rear wheels of the bus AT ALL TIMES!

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Notice of Information Centre NOTICE OFPublic A COMMUNITY SERVICES PROPOSED REGION OF WATERLOO COMMITTEE PUBLIC INPUT SIGN BY-LAW MEETING REGARDING The Region of Waterloo will be holding a public information centre to introduce a draft A PROPOSED LIVING POLICY Regional By-law respecting signs on Regional roads.WAGE The proposed Sign By-law addresses all types of unofficial signs on Regional roads including election signs, business accessory The Region of Waterloo hold aaccessory Community Services Input signs.

Meetsigns, farm accessory signs,will mailbox signs, open Committee house signsPublic and poster ingproposed to discussSign a proposed Living Wage policy.

The By-law establishes requirements for unofficial signs including: • Location and placement; The Publicshape, Input Meeting is scheduled for: • Size, construction and content; • Impacts to the function of the road; • Number of signs and timing of placement; and Wednesday, September 16, 2009 • Sign removal.6:00 p.m.

Regional Municipality ofRegion’s Waterloo Staff are also proposing an amendment to the Tourism and Essential Services Council Chamber, 2nd Floor Administration Building Signing Policy to allow tourism signage on Regional roads for agri-toursim activities.

150 Frederick Street, Kitchener When: Tuesday, June 17, 2008, drop in 4:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Place: Regional Administration Headquarters (lobby) A copy 150 of the staff report outlining the four proposed Living Wage policy options is Frederick Street, Kitchener available on the Region’s website or by contacting Nicole Francoeur at 519-575-4757 This public information centre is being held for the purpose of providing information and Ext. 5372. receiving comments from the public. A copy of the draft By-law is available for review in the Clerk’s Office, Region of Waterloo, 2nd floor, 150 Frederick Street, Kitchener or on the If you wish to speak Region’s website at: at the Public Input meeting, please register as a delegation with the Region’s Council and Administrative Services Division at 519-575-4420 by 12:00 www.region.waterloo.on.ca - tab Newsroom, tab Public Notices noon on September 10, 2009.

If you have questions concerning the By-law, please contact Nancy Button, Manager, Engineering at Act, 519-575-4520 or by email at This noticeTransportation is in accordance with the Municipal 2001. bnancy@region.waterloo.on.ca If Kris you Fletcher require accessible services to participate in this meeting, please contact the above Director, Council and Administrative Services/Regional Clerk noted person

by Tuesday, June 10, 2008.

2nd Floor, Administration Building All comments and information received from individuals, stakeholder groups and agencies regarding this 150 Frederick Street, Kitchener project are being collected to assist the Region of Waterloo in making a decision. Under the Municipal Act, personal information such as name, address, telephone number, and property location that may be 519-575-4420 included in a submission becomes part of the public record. Questions regarding the collection of this information should be referred to the person indicated above.

All comments and information received from individuals, stakeholder groups and agenNancy Button this matter are being collected to assist the Region of Waterloo in makcies regarding Manager, Transportation Engineering ing a decision.

Under the Municipal Act, personal information such as name, address, Region of Waterloo telephone number, and property location that may be included in a submission becomes 150 Street, 7th Floor regarding the collection of this information should partFrederick of the public record.

Questions Kitchener, N2G 4J3 Clerk’s Office. be referredON to the Regional Accessiblity: This event is accessible for people with disabilities. Accessible Parking is available. If you require assistance to attend or participate in this meeting, or to access information in alternative formats, please contact Regional Staff (as above) at least five days prior to the meeting.

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THis position requires experience with Microsoft Word and Outlook along with excellent typing and organizational skills. Insurance experience and a RIBO licence are not required but would be an asset as would experience with the Power Broker system. This is a full time salaried position and includes a benefit package. Please email resume to juliez@josslin.com, fax to 519-6623361 or drop off at 11 Arthur St. S., Elmira.

»»30” Frigidaire Stove, almond and black. Solid burners $125. 3 air conditioners $25 each. 3 Look Communications receivers and remotes $25 each. Cash only.

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Household items, pots, dishes, Tupperware, footwear, toys, baby items, large selection of good used “Living Books”.

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Produce

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MONDAY AUGUST 31, AT 5:30 P.M.

SALE CONSISTS OF: Ass’t Furniture Items; Water Coolers; Ass’t. Electronics; BBQue; Lawn Mower; Bike; Umbrellas; Watches; Swar; House wares; Kid's & Adult Clothing; Toys; Linens; Hardware Items; Books; Candy; Consumer Goods; Plus a Large Selection of Other Misc. Items.

LUNCH BOOTH TERMS; Cash, Interac, Visa, M.C. NOTE: Clothes will be sold in large lots, list subject to additions & deletions. Viewing from 4:00 P.M. day of sale. Owner or auctioneer not responsible for accidents day of sale.

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Community Information Page THE TOWNSHIP OF WOOLWICH "Proudly remembering our past; confidently embracing our future."

P.O. BOX 158, 24 CHURCH ST. W. ELMIRA, ONTARIO N3B 2Z6 WEBSITE: www.woolwich.ca

TEL: 519-669-1647 or 519-664-2613 FAX: 519-669-1820

AFTER HOURS EMERGENCY: 519-575-4504

NOTICE OF COMPLETE APPLICATION AND PUBLIC MEETING Tuesday September 22, 2009 7:00 p.m.

Township Council Chambers 24 Church Street West, Elmira Regarding

Ruth Demandt - Zone Change 10/2009 Take Notice that in accordance with the Planning Act, R.S.O., 1990, as amended, the Township of Woolwich has received a complete application for the above noted proposed Zoning By-law amendment as detailed below.

Please be advised that Notice of a Complete Application does not indicate whether the municipality is in support of, or in opposition to the proposals. That determination will be made at a later date.

The Township of Woolwich will hold a Public Meeting, under Section 34 of the Planning Act, to consider the following zone change application. No decision will be made at this meeting; its purpose is to provide additional information to the public and agencies and to receive comments and information from them.

Any person may attend the public meeting and make written and / or verbal representation either in support of or in opposition to the proposed applications.

Ruth Demandt - Zone Change 10/2009 The Township has received a Zone Change application from Ruth Demandt for a 33.8 hectare property located at 6270 Crowsfoot Road and described as Crooks Tract Concession 3 East of the Grand River Part Lot 3 (see Map 1).

The property is designated Rural Land Use and Restricted Land Use in the Township’s Official

Plan and is zoned Agricultural (A) with site specific provisions permitting a mobile home as a Temporary Use until September 30, 2009.

The purpose of the application is to extend the Temporary Use By-law for an additional three-year period to allow the mobile home to remain on the property. The mobile home is currently occupied by the applicant’s sister.

Please Note: APPEALS: If a person or public body that files an appeal of a decision of the Council of the Township of Woolwich in respect of the proposed zoning by-laws does not make oral submissions at a public meeting or make written submissions to the Council of the Township of Woolwich before the proposed zoning by-law amendments are passed: a) the person or public body is not entitled to appeal the decision of the Township of Woolwich to the Ontario Municipal Board; and b) the person or public body may not be added as a party to the hearing of an appeal before the Ontario Municipal Board unless, in the opinion of the Board, there are reasonable grounds to add the person or public body as a party.

NOTIFICATION: If you wish to be notified of additional Township public meetings or Township staff reports regarding these

ThE TOwNshIP OF wOOLwICh Tender: 2009-26 Project: Snider Park and Arena Drainage, St. Jacobs Scope: The project includes storm sewer and grading for Snider Park and the St. Jacobs Arena. The storm sewer installation includes approximately 145 metres of sewers and structures. Construction to start approximately October 5, 2009.

Closing Date: Sealed tenders shall be accepted until 2:00 pm on Thursday September 10, 2009 at the Township Office, located at 24 Church Street West, Elmira, Ontario, N3B 2Z6, P.O. Box 158. Tenders shall be opened publicly thereafter in the Council Chambers.

D o c u m e n t s : Te n d e r f o r m s a n d specifications will be available beginning August 27, 2009, between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. and may be

obtained from Meritech Engineering’s Office at 1315 Bishop Street North, Suite 202, Cambridge, Ontario, N1R 6Z2, (519) 623-1140. A cheque in the amount of $20.00 G.S.T. included, made payable to Meritech Engineering is required for each set of tender documents. The cheque is non-refundable.

Bonding: A certified cheque or bid bond as specified in the documentation must accompany each tender. The successful bidder will be required to provide a 100% performance and labour and materials bond upon execution of the contract agreement.

Lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted.

applications you must make a written request to Engineering and Planning Services at the Township of Woolwich at the address shown at the top of this page.

If you cannot attend the meeting, you can express your concerns/comments about the proposed change in writing to the Township of Woolwich. Any comments received on or before September 15, 2009 (Note that this date is before the public meeting) will be included in a report prepared by Engineering and Planning Services and presented at the Public Meeting.

Any comments received after the Public Meeting, but prior to Council making a decision on the applications, will also be considered.

Questions or written submissions may be directed to: Township of Woolwich Nancy Thompson, Planning Assistant Engineering and Planning Services Department Box 158 24 Church Street West Elmira, Ontario N3B 2Z6 Telephone: 519-669-1647 / 519-664-2613, extension 6040 or email: nthompson@woolwich.ca Dated at the Township of Woolwich this 29th day of August, 2009

The personal information accompanying your submission is being collected under the authority of the Planning Act and may form part of the public record which may be released to the public. Questions about this collection should be directed to the Records and Freedom of Information Officer at 519-669-6005 or 519-664-2613 ext. 6005.

MORE INFORMATION: The public may view planning documents and background material relating to this application at the Township of Woolwich, Engineering and Planning Services Department between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, or on the Township website at www.woolwich.ca.

TOwNshIP OF wOOLwICh TENDER 2009-24 FOR the SUPPLY and DELIVERY of a 2009 ARTICULATED MOTOR GRADER Sealed Tenders clearly marked as to contents, will be received by the undersigned until: Friday September 11, 2009 at 12:00 p.m.

Further details and specifications with respect to specifications, Form of Tender and Information to Bidders, may be obtained as noted below: Finance Department Township of Woolwich 24 Church Street West Elmira, ON N3B 2Z6 Fax: (519) 669-9348 Email: rpetherick@woolwich.ca Lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted.

ThE TOwNshIP OF wOOLwICh has the following positions available in Recreation and Facilities Services.

PART-TIME AQUATIC STAFF FALL/WINTER/SPRING Applicants must be willing to work evenings, weekends and statutory holidays.

Job description can be viewed on the Township website: www.woolwich.ca under Job Opportunities.

Send resume to: Annette Levean, Human Resources Township of Woolwich P.O. Box 158, 24 Church Street West, Elmira, Ontario, N3B 2Z6 alevean@woolwich.ca Deadline: Friday, September 4, 2009

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$349,000

ELMIRA Retirement at its best, Let Huron Homes build this beautiful bungalow for you. It features 2 bedrms on main floor and if you like 2 more in the basement, along with a large rec. rm.

Dble garage. Backs on to green belt.

$359,000

BRESLAU 2100 sq. ft. almost brand new beauty!

Open concept mnflr, large kitch. (upgraded cabinets), extra large patio dr, 3 large bdrms, loft area on second flr, master ensuite boasts large windows, whirlpool tub and walkin closet.

KITCHENER Gorgeous backyard w/ inground pool.

Roof ‘05, ceramic tile & carpet lower level/marble bar, 3pc bath ceramic shower/glass door all in ‘09. air/furnace ‘09. hardwd ‘01. wood & electric fireplace.

Kitchen ceramic/island.

$339,900

RECREATIONAL LOT! 6.5 acres on the Conestogo River. Excellent camping and/or seasonal property ideal. Services (gas, telephone, hydro) available at road side Line 86. MLS.

$189,000

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PRIVATE SALE Spacious country home on 4.3 acre lot with mature trees and stream, tennis court, and barn.

2600 sq.ft. of finished living area with 5+ bedrooms.

Linwood area private sale. $499,000. (519)698-2558

FANTASTIC UPGRADES 50’ lot frontage, 2350 sq. ft. built by Virina Homes, 4 bdrms, 3 baths, 2 storey home. Main flr formal dining rm, 2nd flr laundry. M/bdrm with luxurious 5 pc ensuite.

Natural stone tiles (Travertine) & maple hrdwd flrs, stairs & railing. Gourmet Maple kitchen family rm with corner gas fireplace. Modern lighting throughout. Asphalt driveway.

TARION Warranty. MLS.

Victor Elgawly Jim Reitzel Sales Representative Broker of Record

$410,000

OPEN HOUSE

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LEON MARTIN

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

New three bedroom bungalow on half acre lot with highspeed internet access. Don’t miss this opportunity to own a little piece of country. $311,900. MLS. .43 acres with mature trees on the edge of a quiet village. 3+2 bedroom, rec. room, 2 baths, municipal water and sewer, only 22 years old. $279,000. MLS. ADDRESS: 4-B

Arthur St. S., ELMIRA • EMAIL: leonmartin@remax.net • OFFICE: 519-669-5426

DIRECT: 519-503-2753

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LOTS FOR SALE Country Lots with high speed internet access, 40 to 45 minutes from K/W or Guelph. They are located in the small hamlet of Carthage. Individual well and septic. Great opportunity to build your own house or get us to customize a home for you. For more information please call Leon MLS.

$329,800 - Unique property, two semidetached residences under one ownership. Live in one, rent out the other. lot size approx 175’ x 165’.

Separate driveways, hydro and heating. Two car garage plus larger single detached garage. Brick home is immaculate with a fully finished basement. A rare opportunity. $329,800.

4B Arthur St. S. Elmira • www.remaxsolidgold.biz

Gayle Draper, Sales Representative

OFFICE: 519-669-5426

Modern Thinking - Traditional Values!

Tel: 519-500-6004 Email: gdraperteam@rogers.com

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LEASE SPACE! Approximately 2,000 s/f of commercial space in busy plaza only 10 minutes to Waterloo. Currently setup as offices and warehouse. Zoning allows numerous businesses. MLS. Call Bert for information.

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R.W. THUR REAL ESTATE LTD. 45 ARTHUR ST. S., ELMIRA

519-669-2772

BROKERAGE

BY THE NUMBERS EASY

BRAD MARTIN Broker of Record

JULIE HECKENDORN Broker Res: 519-669-1068 Res: 519-669-8629 MVA Residential

ALLI NORRIS Sales Rep. Cell: 519-577-6248

BILL NORRIS Sales Rep. Cell: 519-588-1348

90 Earl Martin Dr., Unit 1, Elmira N3B 3L4

open House | sun aug 30 2-4pm

industriaL space - Approx.

WeLcome Home!!!. Beautiful 3 bdrm, 10,000 sq.ft. divided btwn - 2 BONNIE BRUBACHER Broker of Record

SHANNA ROZEMA Broker.

DARREN ROMKEY Sales Rep.

LAURIE LANGDON Sales Rep.

DALE KELLER Sales Rep.

MONIQUE BRUBACHER Sales Rep.

2bth former model home. Great room. Large kitchen opening to spacious deck overlooking oversized, 144’ deep lot. Stainless appliances incl. eXcLusive $278,500.

bldgs. 20’ and 12’ ceiling height.

Lots of yard space. Office. Seller will rent one bldg back from new owner. neW mLs. $329,900.

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OPEN HOUSE - SAT & SUN 2-4 PM 42 ROBERTA STREET, ELMIRA

ELMIRA RACEWAY ESTATES

$332,250 | Model Home Bungalow including upgrades and appliances, 2 Storey 1775 sq ft $326,700 and 2 Storey 4 Bedroom 1950 sq ft $336,000 in process to be built. Visit our open house for details. MLS.

park-Like grounds. 11 mature Lot backs to greenspace.

acres, mixed bush, pond! Lovely updated bungalow w/ great room. Min’s from Elmira/K-W & Guelph. mLs $595,000.

Main floor family room, office & laundry. Walkout bsmt. w/sliding door & extra-high ceilings. Inground pool. Most windows updated. mLs reduced to $379,900.

great famiLy Home 4 level backsplit offers a huge kitchen w/ open concept to family room w/ stone fireplace & lge. windows.

Office & den in lower level. 2 baths.

Dble. Garage, concrete driveway mLs. $349,000.

Backing to farmLand custom built bungalow, better than new!

Hardwood/ceramics. Open concept. W/o to partially covered patio. 3rd bdrm & bthrm finished in basement. Insulated garage w/220 hydro. mLs $389,000.

GREAT FAMILY HOME $189,000 DRAYTON | This bright and spacious home has a large fenced yard, ceramic floors, professionally finished rec room with gas fireplace; 3 bedrooms and 3 baths; steps to school and park; and has loads of storage. NEW MLS.

FAMILY HOME ON EDGE OF TOWN $189,600 PALMERSTON | This home backs onto farmland and includes 5 bedrooms with walk-in closets; main entrance split staircase from garage entrance and deck off kitchen. MLS

TRACEY WILLIAMS Sales Rep. Cell: 519-505-0627

519-669-3192

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DEATH NOTICES

REV. WILLIS HUNKING PARK LIKE SETTING $226,000 NEW HAMBURG | Brick bungalow located on a quiet street, within walking distance to down town and easy access to expressway; potential in-law suite; fold-down attic; freshly painted NEW PRICE MLS. WOW!!!TOTALLY REFURBISHED $265,000 STRATFORD | Shows like a new home; custom kitchen with granite counters; hardwood and ceramic floors; all new passage doors; most updates completed in 2008. NEW MLS. DESIRABLE RURAL SETTING $329,000 DRAYTON | Attractive cape cod home with country kitchen; natural hickory cabinets; walk-out to deck; walk-down from garage; open and treed property and picturesque view of valley from 2nd floor; NEW MLS. QUIET COUNTRY LOCATION $334,900 DRAYTON | 1/2 acre lot overlooking farm and country. Beautiful spacious home with open concept kitchen/ dinette & family room, natural oak cabinets, walk-in pantry; fully finished lower level, huge deck and enclosed hot tub room. NEW MLS.

1921 - 2009

4-pLeX centrally located in St. Clement’s. 1/3 acre lot w/ nice gardens. Let your new rental income pay your mortgage! Easy to rent! mLs. $311,900.

investment property 5 plex, always fully occupied! Lots of parking. Shows a good return on your investment! mLs $479,000.

www.thurrealestate.com

Free plays, tickets to hockey games, prizes, contests & more!

ALL THIS COULD BE YOURS $389,000 DRAYTON | This home features ceramic and hardwood floors, upgraded lighting, front porch, landscaped and fenced yard, custom kitchen with island, tool shed and partially finished basement. MLS Elmira@royallepage.ca | www.royallepage.ca/elmira

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Passed away suddenly and peacefully at home, Emmanuel Village, Kitchener on Wednesday, August 19, 2009 at the age of 88.

Missionary, Pastor and Friend. Willis will be deeply missed by all.

Willis is survived by his beloved wife of 60 years, Marion, his children Bryan (Judy) Hunking, Faye (Rev. Mark) Chester, Garth Hunking (Pilar Parades) and Mary Hunking and 12 grandchildren and four greatgrandchildren. He is also survived by his brother Elmer Hunking and sisters Ivadel Wragett, Bertha (Harold) Jackson and Elva (John) Crawford. Willis was predeceased by his parents Charles and Elizabeth (nee: Allan) Hunking, daughter Patricia Hunking, his siblings Leaman (Dorothy) Hunking, Sadie (Telford) Ferris, Clarence (Dorothy) Hunking, sister in law, Margaret Hunking, and brother in law Carman Wragett.

Friends shared their memories of Rev. Willis with his family during visitation at Emmanuel Village, 1250 Weber Street East, Kitchener on Sunday, August 23, 2009 from 1–4 pm and 7–9 p.m. The funeral service to celebrate his life and faith was held at Faith Evangelical Missionary Church, 3849 King Street East, Kitchener on Monday, August 24, 2009 at 2 p.m. with Rev. Mark Chester officiating. Cremation followed with a private family interment at a later date.

Condolences for the family and donations to U.M.C.A. Nigeria or World Missionary Press may be arranged through the Erb & Good Family Funeral Home, 171 King Street South, Waterloo at www.erbgood.com or 519.745.8445.

In living memory of Rev. Willis a donation will be made to the Trees for Learning Program by the funeral home.

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AIRPORTS CHAUFFER SERVICES We will drive you and your party(ies) in YOUR CAR To the airport, return your car to your driveway and pick you up on your return.

Waterloo Int’l. $20.00 – Pearson $45.00 Hamilton - $35.00 Buffalo - $105.00 One – Way Trip Cost - Plus your gas Book early – avoid disappointment

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HEARING ASSISTED

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Welcome to

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building relationships with God, one another and the world

Upbeat Family Worship & Sunday School 10:00 am

Wheelchair accessible • Nursery Care provided • Hearing Assisted

Sunday, August 30, 2009 10:00 am “Public Declarations” 200 Barnswallow Dr., Elmira • 519-669-1296 Check out our website www.woodsidechurch.ca

Trinity United Church ELMIRA

Minister: Summer Worship Rev. Dave Jagger June 28 - Sept. 6 10 a.m. at Trinity Sunday School During Worship

Visit our website at: www.wondercafe.ca 21 Arthur St., North • Church Office 519-669-5560 “Our mission is to love, learn and live by Christ’s teachings”

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SUNDAYS, 8:30 & 11:00AM WEDNESDAYS, 7:00PM (with Childrens’ Programs) IMPACT YOUTH (GR 7-12): Fridays, 7:30pm TWENTY20 (GRADS & TWENTIES): Visit www.kcf.org/twenty20 for details

Pastors Steve & Beth Fleming

850 Sawmill Rd, Bloomingdale 744-7447 www.kcf.org

Sunday Aug. 23, 10:30am Life Lessons for the iPod Generation This week: iForgive REACH WITH LOVE. TEACH THE TRUTH. SEND IN POWER. 290 Arthur St. South, Elmira • 519-669-3973 www.ElmiraAssembly.com (Across from Tim Horton’s)

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Hypocritical People Sundays @ 10:30am John Mahood PS

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Bloomingdale Mennonite Church Sundays - 9:45 am Family Worship Service 11:00 am Sunday School for all ages

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“Making Faith Live” Sunday Worship 9:30 am - 10:30am

2 First St., Elmira • 519-669-5030

St. Teresa Catholic Church

No God, No Hope; Know God, Know Hope!

Celebrate Eucharist with us Mass times are:

Sat. 5pm, Sun. 9am and 11:15am

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17. Two long oval leaves, spikes of white bell-shpaed flowers (4wrds) 20. Ornamental carp 21. Be exultant 22. Its motto is “Industry�

23. Japanese-American 25. Jurisdiction of a bishop 28. Wall Street workers 31. Wreath for the head 32. Cheat 33. Cool 34. Discouraging words 35. “Is that ___?�

36. ___ sauce 38. Car accessory 41. Breathalyzer attachment 44. “Andy Capp� cartoonist Smythe 46. Latitude 47. Ride, so to speak 50. Electro-acoustic transducer held over or inserted into the ear 52. Marking the beginning of

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56. Color of honey 58. “Help!�

61. A stone laid at a ceremony to mark the founding of a new building 65. Dusk, to Donne 66. Foreword, for short 67. Relating to a specific unit of electrical resistance 68. “Far out!�

69. Porterhouse, e.g.

70. Crows’ homes

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Sleep determines when you’ll be in a good mood rans, “Conan the Bacterium,” which can tolerate radiation thousands of times what a human can and is actually able to repair damage to its DNA. “Inspectors found this tough customer in a can of meat that had been sterilized with radiation but spoiled anyway.”

Then there’s the “microbial Godzilla” tardigrade, no bigger than the dot above an “i” but with five body segments, four pairs of ragged claws, a multilobed brain. It can handle temperatures from -328 F. to 302 F (-200 C to 150 C), and can absorb 1,000 times the radiation that would kill any of us.

All of these make it more plausible that similar life could exist in Martian permafrost or in the frigid oceans of Europa.

Q. How big a hit did the trees of the world take in the printing of the estimated $830 billion worth of U.S. money currently in general circulation, two-thirds of which is held overseas?

A. Actually, paper money isn’t made

from trees at all but rather contains 75% cotton and 25% linen, says Jason Stahl in Discover magazine.

If you happen to be holding some of that “filthy lucre” just now, you may be interested to know that one study found more cocaine residue on U.S. bills than on any other currency; and worse, staphylococcus bacteria was discovered along with fecal matter. “Hey, kids, don’t put that money in your mouth!”

This may explain why for a period around 1916, you could take your cash to Washington, D.C. to have it washed, ironed and reissued.

Q. When you need to ask a big favour of your spouse, friend or coworker, you want to find the person in a good mood. Does it matter what time of day you choose, from a good psychology standpoint?

A. Time of day isn’t as critical as the number of hours since the person got up from bed, according to psychologist David Watson, who sampled nearly 4,500 mood reports from 150 people.

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He found that mood ratings tend to start low at waking (-3 rating), steeply climb for the first few hours, peak by 6-8 hours (+4), then plummet once again late in the diurnal cycle (-4).

So for someone who gets up at 7 a.m., 2 p.m. or 3 p.m. would be a good time to ask when steering for a good mood. For later sleepers, closer to dinnertime might be a better bet. Levels of negative emotions tend to stay steady throughout the day, with a blip up roughly 12 hours after arising, or the wearying evening hours for most of us.

Also, you might consider the “feelgood, do-good phenomenon,” one of the most consistent findings in all of psychology, adds Hope College’s David G. Myers. When we feel happy, we’re more often willing to help others. So if you can, try to wait until your potential good Samaritan is having a really good day.

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Q. As NASA prepares to spend billions on the search for life elsewhere in the solar system, it’s worth recalling a few of the exotic and weird life forms right under our noses. Where?

A. Earth’s own “extremophiles” have adapted to the most inhospitable environments, says Chris Impey in Astronomy magazine.

Meet Bacillus infernus, the “bacillus from hell,” able to withstand great heat, pressure, acidity. This hardy microbe turned up in Virginia living in rock several miles underground, where the pressure is hundreds of times greater than on the surface. It exists independent of the sun’s rays, without photosynthesis, consuming no organic material and dividing only about once every thousand years.

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 Much Music Retro Dance for National Service Dogs. Wellesley Community Centre, 8 p.m. – 1 a.m. Tickets $12 single; $20 couple. For tickets and more information call Tammy at 519-656-1038.

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 Keg Turkey Dinner, baked potato and vegetable; $6. Elmira Legion, 11 First St. E., Elmira; 6 p.m.

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SEPTEMBER 1

 Caregiver Coffee Hour will meet at Chateau Gardens from 10-11:30 a.m. in the activity room. Kathy Hirsch from Home Instead will speak on the topic of ‘Communication Strategies for Alzheimer Care.’ For more information call Lorraine at 519-664-3794 or Cara at 519-742-1422.

SEPTEMBER 2

 Wellesley Township Caregiver Group will meet at the health centre in Wellesley from 2-3:30 p.m. Paul Kett and Anne Fowler will present the topic ‘Reaching Out for Assistance.â€? For more information call Lorraine at 519-664-3794 or reception at 519-656-9025.  Leisureworld Elmira is hosting a community corn roast from 5-7 p.m. There is no charge, but it is a fundraiser by donation and proceeds will be forwarded to Woolwich Hospice. There will be music by the Starlight steel drum band, corn, BBQ hot dogs and dessert. This is a rain-or-shine event.

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 Rev. Robert will be sharing his testimony: How he became a Christian and what led him into the ministry. An evening interspersed with gospel music and hymn singing featuring Toyosi at the grand piano; 7 p.m., free-will offering. Waterloo North Presbyterian Church, wheelchair accessible. For more information call 519888-7870.

SEPTEMBER 7

 Wellesley and District Lions Club Annual Fishing Derby at the Albert Erb Conservation Area at the Wellesley Pond; $5 fee per angler, catch-and-release policy in force. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m., derby underway by 9 a.m., concluding by noon. Lunch booth on site, prize table, cash will be awarded for tagged fish, and trophies will be awarded in five categories. For more information please contact Chris Larochelle at 519-656-2716 or e-mail chrisandlaurie@cwisp.ca

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 2009 Wellesley Soap Box Classic, 2 p.m. on Labour Day. Start: ramp opposite First St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Nafziger Road. Finish: Nafziger Road at Lawrence.

Come out for an afternoon of racing and fun. More information call Wellesley Service Centre at 519-656-2725.

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 Hillbilly Dance – DJ Gary Cooper, $8/person or $15/couple. Royal Canadian Legion, 11 First St. E., Elmira; 8 p.m. Tickets sold in advance of event.

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 Fundraising BBQ presented by St. Clements Rec. Board. Bake sale and coffee 8 -11 a.m., BBQ 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. at St. Clements arena. For more information call Deb Harte 519-699-4732 or Trevor Hehn 519-699-5792.

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 S.S. #3 Peel School Reunion. 1 p.m. - ?? held at the farm of Carl & Carolyn Israel, 7874 4th Line, Mapleton Township (former Peel Township) just west of the old #3 schoolhouse, which is now a private home. Bring lawnchairs, school mementos, food for potluck supper and your own cold drink; coffee, water and tea provided. Potluck supper at 4:30 p.m. Free-will offering to help defray costs (any amount above expenses will be given to local charity). Come rain or shine!  Free Family Fun Day at Linwood Branch Library. Drop in from 9:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Music With Brian will perform at 10:30 a.m. Gift bags, family reading corner, new mural, local displays and more. For more information call the library at 519-698-2700.

SEPTEMBER 13

 We would like to invite you to a special musical service featuring Hank and Janet Sonnenberg. St. Peter’s Lutheran Church, 1046 Gordon Hain Street, Linwood – 10:30 a.m. Lunch to follow.

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DEATH NOTICES FIERLING, Howard W.

FREY, John

Suddenly at his home in Wellesley, as a result of a heart attack, on Thursday, August 20, 2009 in his 74th year.

Was born January 9, 1961 to Amsey and Ina Frey and Grew up on the family farm, attending Linwood P.S and EDSS. He died on August 6, 2009.

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 Pancake Breakfast at the Alma Community Hall from 8-11 a.m.;$4/adult; $2/ child. All proceeds to the Alma Community Recreation Association (ACRA) playground fund. For more information, contact Doug at 519-846-0764.  West Montrose Cultural Heritage Landscape presentation, 7 p.m. in the West Montrose Covered Bridge. Should this popular tourist stop be protected as a Cultural Heritage Landscape (CHL)? Does a recent application for a gravel pit near the bridge threaten CHL? Dr. Robert Shipley of the University of Waterloo’s Heritage Resources Centre presents findings based on a multi-year study of the area. Presented by BridgeKeepers. Contact: info@bridgekeepers.ca.

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                                            

                         

                                                      M&T Business Card Ad:Layout 1 04/03/09 10:22 AM  Page 1       

NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNERS

The First Installment of the 2009 Final Tax Bill Is due 2, 2009       September  

                      

                             

                             

                                                       Montgomery  BIG AIR Miranda Hancock and Kellie hurtle down an inflatable slide at the Family Camping Week end carnival held in West Montrose last weekend.

PHOTO | JONI MILTENBURG

                                      

              

        Taxes  are payable at the   Township of Wellesley Municipal Office (4639 Lobsinger Line) by cheque,       money order, cash or debit; after hours mail box at the Office (no cash allowed in mailbox), at Financial Institutions  Township      located within of Wellesley, Telebanking, Internet Banking or by      the Township          Pre-Authorized Payment.

CREDIT CARDS ARE NOT ACCEPTED.    Postdated cheques for the due dates are accepted.     Tax  Payments may also be mailed to:         Township of Wellesley    4639 Lobsinger Line      R.R. #1 St. Clements, ON N0B 2M0

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Note: Persons who have aquired properties and have not received a tax bill should contact the Municipal Office. Failure to receive a tax bill does not relieve a taxpayer from responsibility for payments of taxes, nor from penalty for late payment.

Theresa Bisch Deputy Treasurer | Tax Collector       of Wellesley Township     Telephone 519-699-4611

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Quad Cab has Best-In-Class†† interior volume

Segment exclusive** five-link coil spring rear suspension

RamBoxTM Cargo Management System available on Crew 1500

WE ARE BUILDING A NEW CAR COMPANY. COME SEE WHAT WE’VE BUILT FOR YOU. VISIT YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD CHRYSLER, JEEP® , DODGE RETAILER OR CHRYSLERCANADA.CA

Wise customers read the fine print: *, †, ♦ These limited time offers apply to retail deliveries of selected new and unused 2009 models purchased between August 1st and August 31st, 2009 from participating retailers. Retailer trade may be necessary. Offers subject to change without notice. See participating retailer for specific details and conditions. *$19,998 Purchase Price applies to 2009 Dodge Grand Caravan (24F) only and includes $6,500 Consumer Cash Discount. $28,488 Purchase Price applies to 2009 Dodge Ram 1500 Quad Cab SLT 4x4 (25G+ XFH) only and includes $7,500 Consumer Cash Discount. See participating retailer for complete details. Prices exclude freight ($1,400), licence, insurance, registration, any retailer administration fees and other applicable fees and applicable taxes. Retailer trade may be necessary. Retailers may sell for less. †0% purchase financing for 36 months available through Royal Bank of Canada and Scotiabank on selected new and unused models to qualified customers on approved credit. Example: Dodge Grand Caravan (24F)/Dodge Ram 1500 Quad Cab SLT 4x4 (25G + XFH) with a Purchase Price of $19,998/$28,488 financed at 0% for 36 months equals monthly payments of $555.50/$791.33; cost of borrowing of $0 and a total obligation of $19,998/$28,488. Excludes freight ($1,400), licence, insurance, registration, any retailer administration fees and other applicable fees and applicable taxes. Retailer trade may be necessary. Retailers may sell for less. ♦ Consumer Cash Discounts are manufacturer to retailer incentives which are deducted from the negotiated price before taxes. Discount amounts vary by vehicle. See your retailer for details. ††Based on Automotive News segment, full size extended cab pickups. **Based on Automotive News full size pickup segmentation. ΩRam 1500 offers the most powerful V8 under 6.0 litres in its class. ° Dodge Ram 1500 Winner Strategic Vision’s 2009 Total Quality Awards® For Best Full-Size Pickup Ownership Experience. See Strategic Vision’s website (www.strategicvision.com) for additional information about the study. √Based on January through May 2009 R.L. Polk sales total registrations. ΔBased on 2009 EnerGuide Fuel Consumption Guide ratings published by Natural Resources Canada. Transport Canada test methods used. Your actual fuel consumption may vary. ‡Based on U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) scoring system for 2009 model year Dodge Grand Caravan and Ram 1500. ™SIRIUS and the dog logo are trademarks of SIRIUS Satellite Radio Inc. ®Jeep is a registered trademark of Chrysler LLC.

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