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Move afoot to keep grocery store in Elmira core Residents, BIA and township all have an interest in convincing Sobeys to put off moving Foodland MARC MIQUEL HELSEN Sobeys Inc.’s decision to close its Price Chopper in Elmira and transfer the Foodland operation to the south-end location is meeting with some resistance. Downtown residents and businesspeople are looking to launch a petition campaign, and Woolwich officials are concerned about the move’s impact on the core.
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Province uses surplus to give municipalities a shot in the arm with one-time grant for big projects VANESSA MOSS Woolwich and Wellesley townships were offered a double shot of government money this week through two joint federal-provincial infrastructure initiatives. The first, announced Monday, is part of the Investing in Ontario Act, and will see Woolwich receive $941,385 and Wellesley $468,777 for new and/or existing capital projects. Provin-
cially, a total $1.1 billion will be allocated, including more than $45 million for communities in Waterloo Region. This one-time investment was derived from the province’s $1.7 billion surplus for the past fiscal year. Once the cheques are handed out in September, it will be up to the municipalities to decide how best to spend the money, said Leeanna Pendergast, MPP for Kitchener-Conestoga.
They will be held to accountability requirements however, through reports to the province about how the funds were used. For Woolwich, the timing of this announcement is perfect as council recently endorsed the development of a fiveyear, detailed capital budget, said township chief administrative officer David Brenneman. “That [funding] will allow us through that [budget] process as well to be able to take a very informative report to council on the priority infrastructure projects that we think we should go ahead with. “We’re not unlike other municipalities: this funding is welcomed, muchneeded and certainly there is a number of infrastructure projects that I’m sure once we have this … budget prepared, will be spelled out in much greater detail.” Although Pendergast said that the sooner this money is put to use, the better, because it will create more jobs for area residents, in Woolwich there is too much construction already on the go to add any more this fall, Brenneman said. “We certainly have a full slate of projects and then some on our work schedule for this year, so certainly anything that we’re planning or prioritizing now is for 2009.” In Wellesley Township,
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visibly seeing the difference it’s making to our infrastructure projects in the municipalities.” Further supporting this assessment was the second announcement made this week that the townships could be eligible to receive even more money. Ontario communities with populations under 100,000 can apply for portions of $724 million in funding from the Communities Component of the Building Canada Fund (a joint provincial-federal Infrastructure Framework Agreement worth $6.2 billion). In the program’s first stage, a total $200 million will be handed out. If a community project receives approval, two thirds of the cost will come from the higher levels of government and the municipalities must chip in the final chunk. Projects will be evaluated by a federalprovincial committee to determine if they qualify under the 17 eligible categories of infrastructure, including areas like drinking and waste water, public transit, sport, tourism and airports. “These are the things that we constantly are trying to get attention for in our small local communities,” Pendergast said. “So, this is further going to support us.” Again, Brenneman noted the convenient timing of this funding that can
now be included in Woolwich’s capital budget. “We will have some good priority infrastructure projects to make application for.” That said, he is anxious to learn more about the eligibility requirements to determine if some of Woolwich’s big plans meet the criteria. “We’re hoping certainly that the federal government will also allow for some funding or program funding that would help with the completion of, for example, the Woolwich Memorial Centre. … We’re holding out some hope; whether we’ll be successful or not remains to be seen.” Duke said that Wellesley Township has yet to decide how it will respond to this application-based funding; with a population of about 10,000, the area might be at a disadvantage once again. Defining small communities as those with under 100,000 people is too broad a classification, she said. “Has a movement [to lower the population thresholds] been made? Yes it has. Has it satisfied everybody’s objectives? Possibly not, but it’s getting better.” Applications for and more information about the Communities Component of the Building Canada Fund will be released Sept. 12 on the Ontario BCF Communities Component website.
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HEAD TO HEAD Sarah Van Allen, David Skinner and Sarah Runstedler will compete in the Wellesley-North Easthope Agricultural Society fair ambassador contest Sept. 9 at the Wellesley Arena.
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Three vie for ambassadorship Candidates hope to represent the area by claiming title at Wellesley-North Easthope fair VANESSA MOSS This year’s Wellesley-North Easthope Agricultural Society fair ambassador contest will see a wrestler, an allaround athlete and a budding entrepreneur face off under the arena lights. Wellesley’s David Skinner, St. Clements’ Sarah Runstedler and Crosshill’s Sarah Van Allen are set to take the stage Sept. 9, presenting a two-minute speech on a topic of their choice, followed by an impromptu question-andanswer session. This year, event organizers encouraged residents from normally underrepresented areas like Crosshill and St. Clements to sign up and they got what they asked for: three candidates from different areas with varying interests. Having competed in the event last year, Skinner feels more confident this time around. The 17-year-old musician (he plays guitar, piano and the violin), said
he has the well-rounded personality needed to be a successful ambassador. Currently holding three jobs – at Leis Feed and Supply and the Loft Eatery and Pub in Wellesley and as a guitar teacher – Skinner has aspirations of opening his own business or businesses so he can be his own boss. As a member of the DECA group at his school, he is learning about the business and community service worlds. Last year he placed first in Waterloo Region and 12th in Ontario in a DECA fast food management contest. “They [DECA] teach things like ethics for potential entrepreneurs. They’re also really big with community work too so they encourage their members to go out and help others … It’s also good at teaching how to think up a solution to problems potentially in short time periods,” Skinner said of the organization. He plans to use these newly-acquired skills in the ambassador role as he
meets and helps people in the community. “You’re a role model of sorts for where you come from,” he said of the title’s significance. Second in line for the coveted spot is Van Allen, a 17-year-old Elmira District Secondary School student. Her list of interests, volunteer experiences and achievements is long, underscoring her dedication to working hard and doing her best. Helping out at the Grand River Regional Cancer Centre, the food bank, camps and her church are just a few of the items on Van Allen’s resume. She said she plans to draw from her past experiences to help her as the ambassador. “I am proud of whom I am as a person and I feel that I am a great role model for young people in our community,” she wrote in her autobiography. One example of this is Van Allen’s small business: Neighbours Care Ser-
vice. She and some friends help neighbours with their yard work in exchange for whatever customers can offer; they do the work to help others, not to make a profit. Like Skinner, Van Allen plays the piano and violin, as well as the flute. She also step dances, maintains a 90 per cent average in school and plays “every sport on the face of the earth,” according to her dad. If she is chosen as this year’s ambassador, Van Allen promises to “show our community that you can never give up and being through hardships in my life taught me that.” Last in the list is Runstedler, who is sponsored by Linwood Veterinary Services. She enjoys hockey, wrestling, and, like the others, music. If she isn’t spending time drawing, she might be found unleashing her inner daredevil: skydiving is next on her list of things to do.
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Life’s full of little risks ... even going to the deli I’ve made a point this week of going out and having a few deli sandwiches, the listeriosis scare be damned. As with the madcow incident of a few years back, I don’t care to overreact. Yes, some people have died and others have become ill, but when you consider the amount of food we go through on any given day, the risks are almost infinitesimal. That said, it seems we are increasingly risk averse when it comes to commonplace situations. The listeria outbreak is symptomatic of an inspection system that went off the rails – the Harper government will have to rethink its industry-self-policing ideology. Our reaction, however, is akin to SPF 300 sunblock, gourmet water and carting around a wad of hand-sanitizers. We will eat a peck of dirt, add to our coffee milk past its best-before date and drink right from the bottle being passed around. We will live. Which takes us to the public toilet. There is no place more terrifying for the germaphobe than a public washroom. From the god-only-knows-who’sbeen-here-before stalls to the liquid soap oozing onto the countertop, there are a multitude of concerns even in the tidiest of facilities. The worries go off the charts with some of the worst places, the ones that assault your nasal passages long before you get near the door. Venturing in, you’re over-
whelmed by the multi-coloured grout, the I-think-it’s-supposed-to-be-white sink and nearly opaque mirror before noticing you’re standing in an inch of water. The assortment of tissue paper and paper towels strewn about weren’t put there to sop up the runoff. As the song asks, should I stay or should I go? Or, more to the point, do I really have to go that badly? You’ve undoubtedly run across these places. Maybe it was a gas station restroom. Or the bus depot. Or that restaurant you’ll never eat at again. Upon arriving home, a shower and a good scrub brush were the first order of business. Chances are you weren’t taking such a big chance after all. OK, germs aplenty lurk in the most offensive of public facilities. But the toilet may not be the worst offender. “The funny thing is, what many people consider to be the germiest surfaces may not be so bad, while some of the most germ-ridden areas are not what most people expect,” says University of Arizona microbiologist Charles Gerba, known as Dr. Germ. “Most people consider Port-a-Potties and other public toilets to be the worst places in terms of surface germs. But in reality, they don’t even come close to what you’ll find on ATM machines, phone receivers, and elevator buttons. That’s because those toilets are cleaned and disinfected regularly. But when was the last time a typical phone or buttons on an ATM machine or elevators were?” In fact, germs are everywhere, com-
pletely unavoidable. Usually, we shouldn’t worry too much about it, but it’s a good idea to take precautions – Gerba himself is careful when using public washrooms to handle faucets and doorknobs with a paper towel. Outside of the bathroom, there are other places to be wary of. Most people think that toilet seats are off-the-chart germ wise -- but picnic tables actually have more germs, plus traces of bodily fluids including urine, mucus and saliva. At work, phone receivers harbor more germs than any surface -- even more than the toilet seats. Desktops, keyboards, and elevator buttons are also on the workplace top germ-covered list. “There are actually 200 times more fecal bacteria on the average cutting board … than the toilet seat,” says Gerba, who’s conducted thousands of surveys and swabbed all kinds of surfaces to discover what’s lurking out there. Yes, home is no refuge.
The worst culprits can be found in your kitchen. Sink drains, clothes and sponges all harbour a plethora of germs. An international study released last month found that 90 per cent of kitchen cloths, 46 per cent of kitchen sinks, 38 per cent of bathroom sinks and 14 per cent of children’s toys failed the test swab test, meaning they had a total bacteria count of more than 100,000 per square centimetre. Salmonella and E. coli were common pathogens, likely carried in by food, children or pets. The bottom line, your kitchen sink might not be a clean as your toilet. You chastise the dog for lapping out of the bowl, but have no qualms about heading to the tap. Go ahead and swish some bleach around, but the fact you’ve survived this long means the germs you’re surrounded by aren’t as we’re led to believe. Perhaps coating anything and everything with antibacterial sprays, foams and wipes is a bit over the top.
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Ontario students are maintaining key skills over time, according to Education Quality and Accountability Office results released this week. Grade 3 students showed similar levels from last year in all three categories: reading, writing and mathematics. Sixty-one per cent of students met or exceeded the provincial standard in reading compared to 62 last year; 66 in writing (64 last year) and 68 in math (69). Up three levels to Grade 6, all three areas showed improvement: 66 in reading (64), 67 in writing (61) and 61 in math (59). In the Grade 9 assessment of math, 75 per cent of academic students met or exceeded the provincial standard compared to 71 per cent last time; 34 per cent of applied reached that level (35 last year).
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With water exports to the U.S. under discussion – in the latest round, the Montreal Economic Institute this week issued a report calling for Quebec to sell some of its water – Wellesley council weighed in on the issue. Meeting Tuesday, councillors backed a resolution from the Township of Galway Cavendish & Harvey, declaring that water “is a valuable natural resource in Ontario and Canada, and plays a critical role in our history, recreation, livelihoods and health.” The resolution calls on the federal and provincial governments to “protect Canada’s water sources from export discussions and … to protect Canada’s fresh water lakes and rivers from being used as toxic dumps for mining and oil refinery industries.” Copies of the resolution will be forwarded to MP Harold Albrecht and MPP Leeanna Pendergast.
$45K for area RIDE program The Waterloo Regional Police Service will receive $45,000 to support year-round spot check activities, part of $2.4 million in new provincial funding. The money helps police services cover officers’ paid duty and overtime for RIDE activities. Last year, police conducted more than 500,000 RIDE spot checks throughout Ontario, resulting in 466 drivers charged. “Working together with our police partners to reduce impaired driving continues to make our community a safer place,” said Leeanna Pendergast, MPP for Kitchener-Conestoga.
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Protect water, say councillors SHE’S THE ONE Mandy Martin shows off her prize-winning calf – Hiddenspring Redesign Saturn – this week in Elmira. Martin and two fellow 4-H club members picked up a variety of awards at the Floradale Dairy 4-H Club Show in Elora Aug. 16.
Woolwich competitors have strong showing at 4-H event Grand champion calf, dairy showman among titles claimed VANESSA MOSS For the past 10 years, Elmira’s Mandy Martin has been working towards a goal. On Aug. 16, she accomplished it, taking home the Grand Champion Calf prize at the Floradale Dairy 4-H Club Show in Elora. “I was hoping to do well with her [Saturn]. I wasn’t expecting to be the best of the club, but yeah, it was a good feeling: I was glad,” Martin said. Other club members posting strong results among the 16 competitors included Maryhill’s Emily Strenzke, who was named the Grand Champion Dairy Showman,
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these members progress over the past four years and was pleased with their recent results. “They’re starting to get some good experience now.” The contestants were judged on how well they cleaned and prepared their calves and then displayed them to the judges. The calf ’s body proportions, size, height and neck length were all taken into consideration, Drummond explained. The night before and morning of the show are spent brushing and washing the calf until she is shiny and ready to go, Mandy said. “You want everything just to be perfect.” As well, “you want them to have a ‘dairy’
look to them,” she said, which is hard to explain, but noticeable when you compare dairy to beef calves. Mandy began preparing for this show in early May by walking Saturn four or five times a week as training. Every year Mandy’s dad picks a calf for her to work with as a fun hobby. “I just enjoy everything. I enjoy getting ready for the show and before the shows, kind of just hoping to do well and then I love doing well too.” Having competed since the age of five, the now14-year-old said she plans to keep it up until she can’t anymore at age 21. “I enjoy it for a summer project.”
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Sobeys: No decision on Foodland building this development is going to have the effect of causing people to drive more – that is not a good thing.” That said, if Sobeys, which has a five-year lease on the Freiburger building, chooses to move in another grocery-type business, the change could be beneficial for locals, said George Read, president of the Woolwich Seniors Association. That group is lobbying council for the creation of a seniors’ apartment building on the vacant lot formerly home to Procast Foundries on Church Street East and Memorial Avenue. One of the advantages of the location is that it’s within walking distance of downtown shops, including the current supermarket. If Foodland moves, the prospect of a Giant Tiger store would meet some of the grocery as well as retail needs, but if the store remains vacant, that could prove devastating to residents, especially seniors, said Read.
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shoppers driving horseand-buggies will have to head southwards to the town limits to shop will also prove problematic. Noting Sobeys is entitled under the planning act to make the move, it isn’t in the community’s best interest, said Dan Kennaley, the township’s director of engineering and planning. “I don’t think it’s going to be good from a community planning perspective. I can appreciate that the supermarket chain involved has to make a decision from a business perspective, but I wish they would take into account and give greater weight to community planning concerns at the same time,” he said. “This is not a good situation for them; everybody’s going to have to drive further and from an environmental perspective, in terms of pollution and so forth, ideally we want to be driving less not more, and I think
For their part, the people at Sobeys are convinced their studies of the issue show they are on the right track for serving Elmira residents. “We understand the importance of a vibrant downtown and we’re currently working with possible partners for opportunities for that site,” spokesperson Tracy Chisholm said in an earlier interview. Cressman, however, remains unconvinced. “It boggles my mind to think that they’ve done their homework, because moving that store impacts so many people in this area,” he said. “The company officials who made the decision to move it, I don’t believe for a moment, understand the dynamics of a small community.” While Weltz and Cressman will take their petition to council in the near future, they lament the poor foresight that allowed for so many
grocery stores to conglomerate in the town’s southern end. “They did it backwards; the planning department put the cart before the horse again …,” said Weltz. “Now we have three grocery stores and there was only room for two.” The township has its own concerns about the current arrangement, and will be approaching Sobeys to find a solution. “We’re certainly going to talk with them and see if anything can be done. I’m not optimistic, but, nonetheless, we will do what we can to persuade them to achieve a better balance between economic concerns and community planning,” said Kennaley adding that the township will look at the possibility of adding a provision to its official plan that would prohibit the creation of another supermarket in Elmira unless it were located in the downtown area.
Pool: Request for zone change comes as township reviews its existing policies ing the health unit to make evaluations based on hydrogeolic requirements. The applicant has already submitted documentation to the health department regarding the suitability of the site and the department has accepted the analysis that there would be adequate room on the property for a pool and a reserve area for a septic bed. “The regional health department reviewed an analysis of the soil conditions on the property. …
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would seek to expedite feedback from those agencies with the intention of having a report ready for council by midSeptember. The main reason that pools are not permitted in this area has to do with servicing issues. Part of a subdivision that was approved in the early 1990s, when knowledge of the hydrogeologic impacts from septic tank installations was not what it is today, the area was subjected to a set of standards established by Waterloo Region’s public health department, chief administrative officer Susan Duke explained in an interview. With no sanitary sewers in the area, the township decided each property should provide enough room for: an existing tile field, an additional redundant tile field in event that the first one failed, and a septic system. In order to ensure space for all three components, pools were eliminated from the list of permitted uses. Despite the abundance of tertiary treatment systems, in 2006, the council of the day revisited the matter and chose to continue with the status quo so as to ensure a doublecheck mechanism, leav-
[A]fter the pool is constructed there would be room on the property for a new septic bed to be constructed,” Jefferson told council. Bruns’ request comes as the township is reviewing its policies about pools, particularly enforcement of building permits and its pool fence bylaw. Earlier this month, Wellesley resident Kim Ruthig approached council requesting it return the $125 build-
ing permit fee he paid when installing a pool last spring, noting others in the township have simply gone ahead with projects, not bothering to conform to the requirements that pools deeper than 30 inches be surrounded by a secure, fivefoot fence. At that time, councillors directed staff to prepare a report, which is due Sept. 2, dealing with issues relating to building permits, fees, the payment of fees and penalties.
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RARING FOR THE WEEKEND Despite a wet start to the festivities, a group of kids gathered to kick off the eighth annual Family Camping Weekend at the West Montrose Campground Aug. 15. A car rally, poker run and canoe trip all contributed to generating about $10,000 for Women’s Crisis Services (WCS) of Waterloo Region. The event is one of many to come in support of the WCS’ $4.2 million capital fundraising project to build a new shelter in KW. From left: Wesley Gray, MiKayla Cooper, Brianna Bettridge, Erin McCarthy, Sarah Bates, Ashley Bott, Lauren Gies, Tyler Gies, Madison McBay, Nicolas Cooper.
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2:32 AM | A West Montrose resident was driving his silver Honda northbound on Lundy Road when he swerved to miss a deer, lost control, left the roadway, struck a mailbox and telephone pole. The driver admitted to consumption of alcohol and was given a roadside test. He was subsequently issued a 12-hour suspension. 10:44 AM | Police were called to the scene of a hit-and-run at the St. Jacobs Farmers’ Market. The driver of a grey Honda entered the congested parking lot and stopped while waiting to turn into one of the stalls when an unknown vehicle struck it. The vehicle then reversed and fled the scene leaving extensive damage to the entire left side of the Hon-
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On Aug. 24 at approximately 5:41 p.m., police received a report a youth was observed suspiciously stashing a backpack in the area of Raising Mill Gate in Elmira. When police located the bag they found it contained some drug paraphernalia. The suspect was described as a young, white male, approximately 14 years old, 5’11� tall, of a slim build with shoulder length scraggly hair. He was riding a mountain bike and wearing blue jeans and a grey T-shirt at the time. Police encourage the rightful owner of the bag to claim its contents at the 3A detachment. da. The suspect vehicle could have been an SUV or an SUVstyle vehicle. Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS or division 3A at 519-570-3000, ext. 3319. 2:00 PM | The owner of a beige Jeep parked in the parking lot at No Frills in Elmira returned from shopping to find damage to the rear of her vehicle. Police continue the investigation. 3:56 PM | A Kitchener man was driving home from work in his truck when he stopped at a red light on Arthur Street South and Listowel Road in Elmira. He was then struck from behind by another vehicle being driven by a Drayton man; the driver of the white pickup was experiencing back and neck pain and was taken to the hospital for examination. 7:41 PM | An Elmira resident reported to police that both his front and rear license plates were stolen. The plates bear the marker ALDC489. 7:45 PM | An Elmira man parked his Jeep outside the Elmira Library, leaving his windows down and doors unlocked. When he returned three minutes later his wallet, containing a driver’s license, a health card and other identification, had been stolen. Police
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11:23 AM | People in the process of moving into a new home on Northside Drive in St. Jacobs contacted police to report some vandalism: holes in the walls, a broken window and liquor bottles, drug paraphernalia, and pillows and blankets strewn across the house. 6:42 PM | A trailer parked in the driveway of a Heidelberg residence bearing the marker A9 15OL was stolen from the driveway some time between Aug. 20 and 21. 9:38 AM | A man operating his motorcycle on Line 86 hit a deer. The animal was killed due to the impact. The rider was airlifted to the hospital, where he remains in critical condition. The family of the individual wants to thank the community for its support.
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7:49 AM | Police received a report of a break-and-enter at the Guys and Dolls Spa in Elmira. An employee came into work and noticed that a front glass door to the shop had been smashed. Several items were taken. The inves-
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10:27 AM | Police received a report of a collision on Hawkesville Road near the St. Jacobs village limits, where a van had rolled into a ditch. The occupants of the vehicle were able to get out of the vehicle. A four-year-old was taken to the hospital as a result of a bump on the head. Charges are pending and the investigation continues. 10:33 AM | A driver was caught speeding, traveling 133 km/h in an 80 km/h zone. The driver was subsequently charged with stunt driving; his driver’s license was suspended for seven days and his vehicle seized for the duration. 11:58 AM | A UPS driver was travelling westbound on Schummer Line in Wellesley Township when the vehicle collided with a cement guardrail, rolling the truck. As a
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5:23 PM | A vehicle flipped over near the West Montrose Campground. The driver swerved to miss an animal. There were no injuries but the vehicle was destroyed. 7:28 PM | There was a motorcycle theft from Herrgott Road in St. Clements. Taken was a black and blue 1993 Harley Fat Boy bearing the license plate 226 C9. The bike is worth approximately $20,000 and was taken some time between the previous afternoon and the time of the report. The investigation continues.
report of lost property. The complainant had spent the afternoon in Winterbourne when they lost $300 worth of cash that had been in a bank envelope in a back pocket. Anybody who finds this wad of cash is asked to contact police to ensure that it is returned to its rightful owner. 3:48 PM | Police were called to Line 86 near Halm Road in Woolwich Township as a result of a collision involving two vehicles. One vehicle had been stopped on the shoulder of the road, facing westbound on Line 86, and another vehicle was travelling westbound on Line 86 when the first vehicle conducted a u-turn in front of the second vehicle, causing it to swerve to avoid a collision, lose control, ending in a ditch. There were no injuries, but property damage was reported. The driver of the first vehicle was charged with ‘turn not in safety.’
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No mood for another election The prospect of choosing between Tweedledee and Tweedledum has few Canadians eager for an election. Stephen Harper’s latest round of brinkmanship and posturing is nothing we haven’t seen before. And partisans aside, the rest of us would prefer to enjoy the remaining days of summer, especially now that the weather has become more cooperative. Polls routinely show the Conservatives and the Liberals with about 30 per cent of decided voters. Consistently we’re told an election would generate another minority government. In looking to force a vote, Harper is playing the odds: the longer he’s around, the less likely he is to win a majority. Make no mistake, an election call would be all about the ego boost of winning control of the House, not making democracy work or whatever excuse is floated. It’s the thought of what the micro-managing Harper would do with a majority that keeps Canadians from going down that road. The Conservatives gained power not because we wanted them, but because we were punishing the Liberals. While Harper has attempted to stay under the radar,
his government has made many poor decisions, been involved in scandals and has shown a complete lack of depth. With an early election, the prime minister hopes to shuffle all of that under the rug, concentrating on attack ads aimed at Stéphane Dion. The Liberal leader has proven to be a boon for Harper. Ineffectual and largely invisible, Dion has not translated the goodwill he generated when assuming the leadership into revamping the Liberal image, let alone formulating a platform around which voters can rally. Rather than running on their own accord, Liberals will have to run as the only viable choice to having Harper remain at the helm. Luckily for them, there is plenty of ammunition to use. The Conservatives have messed up from day one – the David Emerson defection and the Senate appointment of Michael Fortier were immediate signs openness and accountability were only words. The GST was cut, with no visible impact on the economy or people’s net taxes. Likewise, the government went ahead with its $100-a-month child-care allowance, resulting in no discernible increase
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in daycare spaces. After killing Liberal programs aimed at reducing energy consumption and the resultant environmental impact of greenhouse gases, the Tories realized they dropped the ball, bowed to public pressure and re-introduced the measures. We had the spectacle of Finance Minister Jim Flaherty advising businesses not to invest in Ontario. Decrying opposition stalling tactics, the Conservatives secretly developed a manual on how to disrupt Parliament. On the scandal front, the investigation continues into whether the government tried to bribe MP Chuck Cadman, dying from cancer. The government is also under investigation for the so-called in-andout scandal. Poor judgment and partisanship – not to mention Harper’s penchant for control – were on display yet again in the Chalk River fiasco, where the government bypassed nuclear safety guidelines. These are all signs the Tories are not fit for a majority. While the Liberals regroup, the status quo remains the best option until Canadians are ready to pull the plug on the ill-fated Harper experiment.
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» HARD TALK | RAFE MAIR
How I changed libel law: a victory for free speech I won a lawsuit! In itself that’s so rare that I can’t help myself from telling you about it. And I hope you’ll pardon my cheek in telling you what I think it means. I genuinely feel for the plaintiff, Kari Simpson, because it shouldn’t take nine years, and I assume six figures worth of costs, to find out whether or not you’ve been libelled. Justice delayed is justice denied. For me, it was very satisfying to get near the end of the line knowing that I am connected to a legal decision that truly has changed the law for the better, and actually may have stopped the decline of free speech. I’m not going into the case itself – you can easily “Google” it – except to say that the lead judgment of Mr. Justice Binnie made me very angry when he referred to the kind of work I did as “shock jock,” something not even my worst enemy would accuse me off. I have written the judge, giving him a resume of my media career and asking that he change that part of the judgment. Not even the trial judge – we shared a mutual loathing – said that about me, contenting herself to smile sweetly and tell me that she always listens to the CBC (not when I’m on, I’m guessing). This judgment sets forth the standards for defamation to be found in areas of public interest and they are: (a) the comment must be on a matter of public interest; (b) the comment must be based on fact;
(c) the comment, though it can include inferences of fact, must be recognizable as comment; (d) the comment must satisfy the following objective test: could any man honestly express that opinion on the proved facts? (e) even though the comment satisfies the objective test, the defence can be defeated if the plaintiff proves that the defendant was actuated by express malice. Although this falls short of the American standard (see Sullivan vs. New York Times) it goes a long way towards killing “libel chill.” Let me explain. Until now, the inhibitor of free speech was not just the fear of losing a lawsuit, but in being in one in the first place. The Simpson case gives you some idea of how long a lawsuit can last and how much it can cost. If you are a large corporation or a very rich person you can say to someone wanting to sue you, “Go ahead ... be my guest,” because access to the law is confined to those with money or power or both. In the perfect world, if A alleges harm to him by B, someone judges the matter quickly and effectively and that’s that. In the real world, the commencement of a libel suit starts you down a very long, slippery slope and there’s no backing up. It can be a ruinous process for most individuals, for even if you win, your legal bill will be the size of some small country’s annual budget. The high cost of litigation has given rise to what is called a “SLAPP suit” (strategic lawsuit against public participation) or a threat of a lawsuit that is intended to intimidate and silence critics by burdening them with
the cost of a legal defence until they abandon their criticism or opposition. Winning the lawsuit is not necessarily the intent; often the plaintiff ’s goals are accomplished if the defendant succumbs to fear, intimidation, mounting legal costs or simple exhaustion, and abandons the criticism. SLAPP suits are wonderful ways for the big and the strong to shut up critics, and in a country where free speech has been on the decline, a great tool for the establishment. Paradoxically, SLAPP suits are a boon for mischief makers who often could wheedle a settlement out of a shaky case simply because the defendant – often a newspaper, radio or TV company – would pay a modest sum to get rid of a pest. I am not saying that Kari Simpson’s suit against me was a SLAPP suit. However, the standards laid down by the Simpson case should make it easier for the media to analyze and editorialize on public affairs. Now that the standard is, roughly, that an honest belief and absence of malice is a good defence, perhaps we will start having the sort of public discussions a free country should revel in. The Simpson case tells us something else of equal, if not greater, importance: we must overhaul our civil justice system. When one reads, as I did the other day, that young lawyers should, after two or three years, make around $200,000 a year, you have to give your head a shake. Where is it written that lawyers providing a service sheltered by a legal monopoly can charge not what the service is worth, but what the traffic will bear?
For as long as I can remember, people have been examining the legal system with an eye to meaningful reform – such an exercise is now in progress – and nothing of substance happens. No matter how the rules of procedure for civil suits are juggled and amended, they still provide lawyers the roadmap for stretching cases on interminably. I know whereof I speak because I was once in the game and played it very well. The incentive to a lawyer is not to shorten proceedings and save costs, but quite the opposite. One is not paid to be a great lawyer but a great biller. In the firm meetings, no one cares that you did a fine job on a pro bono (free) case, but how much you billed. Indeed the stories are legion of lawyers charging out more billing hours than there were hours to bill! While, not unnaturally, I’m glad I won my lawsuit and glad that the plaintiff lost, I come away from the case with this nagging thought: how did it take nine years, God only knows how many hours in examinations for discovery, plus a hugely expensive paper war and 13 judges for the plaintiff, in this case where the facts were uncomplicated, to find out she had no case? The Supreme Court of Canada has clarified the law of libel and made it much easier for people like me to comment on public affairs. That’s how it should be in a society that has shut up all muckrakers and tenderized all public comment. We needed that. Now we need a system where access to law is not denied to all but the wealthy.
» INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS | GWYNNE DYER
Steady as she goes for foreign policy under Obama Barack Obama, we are told, chose Joe Biden to be his running mate because he needed an older man, more experienced in foreign policy, to fill the gaps in his resume and reassure American voters that the United States would be safe under an Obama presidency. That’s true, but it is assumed that he also chose him because Biden’s views on foreign policy are not radically different from his own. Since American foreign policy still affects almost everybody in the world, that makes Biden’s views very interesting. Joe Biden, now 65, has been a senator since he was 29. For almost half that time he has been a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which he now heads. He has been around long enough to leave plenty of evidence about his view and his reflexes, and it is safe to say that he qualifies as a liberal interventionist (or, as they say on the other side of the Atlantic, a liberal imperialist). He has never met an international problem that he didn’t think the U.S. should help to solve. Unlike the neo-conservatives, who are brothers under the skin to the liberal interventionists, Biden does not
believe that every problem in the world can be solved by the application of U.S. military power, but he does think that many of them can. He backed the U.S. military intervention in Bosnia, the bombing of Serbia during the Kosovo crisis, the invasion of Afghanistan after 9/11, and the invasion of Iraq (although he subsequently had the grace to admit he was wrong and apologize for that). Indeed, the Democratic vice-presidential candidate has even called for the use of U.S. troops in Sudan, unilaterally if necessary. He would doubtless agree with Obama’s famous remark (over Iraq) that he was not against all wars, just against dumb ones – but Biden’s criteria for which wars are dumb wars are not very discriminating. A unilateral U.S. military intervention in Sudan would make the Iraq fiasco look like a wise act of statesmanship. On larger issues, by contrast, Biden has usually been a voice of moderation among the chorus of Democratic hawks vying to outdo their Republican colleagues in their hostility to Russia and their enthusiasm for the “war on terror.” He did support the expansion of NATO right up to Russia’s frontiers (and visited Georgia immediately after the recent fighting), but he has resisted the temptation to paint Russia as the Soviet Union in sheep’s cloth-
ing. And his contempt for the “war on terror” has been consistent and exemplary. “Terror is a tactic,” Biden has said. “Terror is not a philosophy.” It is a mantra that everybody in U.S. politics should be required to chant each morning before work, even if it is slightly inaccurate. (“Terror” is actually an emotion. “Terrorism,” however, is a tactic – a political tool or technique, more precisely – that can be used in support of a wide variety of causes. It is as misleading to declare war on terrorism as it would be to declare war on propaganda.) Knowing this has enabled Biden to concentrate (most of the time, at least) on the need to eliminate the particular groups of terrorists that had attacked the United States, who were mostly located in Afghanistan and Pakistan. When he briefly supported the invasion of Iraq, he did not do so out of
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an ignorant belief that Saddam Hussein had links with those terrorists. It was his liberal interventionism that drove his decision, combined with a naive belief that the U.S. intelligence services would not bend the evidence on Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction to serve the president’s purposes. So that is Joe Biden’s take on foreign policy, and it probably isn’t vastly different from Barack Obama’s. The difference lies mostly in the “experience” factor, which tells you all you needed to know about the value of experience in these matters. It is Biden’s long residence at the heart of the Washington political/military/intelligence machine that makes him such a conventional character. All that stuff about Obama being “not See DYER »10
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ready to lead� is simply a coded warning that he might not lead in the time-honoured, conventional way. John McCain certainly would, and so would have Hillary Clinton if she had won the Democratic nomination. The selection of Joe Biden as his running mate is intended to allay those fears by linking Obama to someone who is deeply embedded in the conventional wisdom, but it doesn’t actually prove that Obama is too. There is still room for suspicion that Barack Obama harbours
a secret desire to move American foreign policy in a quite different direction, away from the traditional great-power realpolitik and the occasional forays into liberal interventionism. That would probably appal Biden, and it would horrify the rest of the Washington establishment. Vice-presidents don’t have a veto, so the choice of Biden poses no problem there. But the Washington establishment probably does have a veto, so whatever Obama intends, Biden will not be disappointed by the outcome.
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Seniors, non-drivers need access to a grocery store To the Editor, We are seniors living at the north end of Elmira. We are dependent on the grocery store at the north end of town because we no longer drive. We visit the store two or three times a week, keeping the loads very small. The news that Foodland is moving to Elmira’s
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Chemicals in tap water make it unsafe for drinking, cooking To the Editor, Regarding the editor’s column in last week’s issue (Observer, Aug. 23/08), I agree, that not enough plastic and other materials are recycled, ending up in landfills. But, trying to ban our only source of safe drinkable water? I cannot agree with that. Our municipalities try to make us believe that our drinking water is safe. Maybe they even believe it. Would anybody in their right mind drink ammonia? No. But that’s what they put in our drinking water, in form of chloramine, a sanitizer. Chloraminated water is dangerous for infants, can cause skin rash and itching, can kill the fish in your fish tank and attacks rubber (how many toilet flappers have you had to change, getting totally
black soiled fingers?). Chloramine is a hazardous substance according to Environment Canada. Chloramine is banned in many European countries because it is not a safe sanitizer. Chloramine cannot be removed by boiling, or by standing uncovered. With chloramine in the water, I have a hard time keeping our hot tub’s water stable, and my wife always has itchy skin after a shower, which does not happen when she showers at our trailer with its well-water supply. I am really worried about our tap water; we buy bottled mineral water for drinking and cooking, and it looks clear in a glass and not greenish.
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Âť HARVEST TIME
Like us, crops feeling let down by the weather
Farmers see lower yields as they bring produce on stream; effect of rain and cooler temperatures felt at the market
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TO MARKET St. Clements farmer Hugh Nauman says it has been a tough year for farmers throughout the region. Cold and wet weather has affected many crops.
Tuesday brought plenty of sunshine and a cloudless sky, drawing big crowds to the St. Jacobs Farmers’ Market. Customers happily strolled around outside, checking out the wide array of produce on offer. An idyllic picture, but one that hasn’t been played out very often this summer, as unsettled weather wreaked havoc on shoppers and farmers alike. The cold and wet weather this summer has been bad for business for more than just summer revelers looking for some outdoor fun: farmers throughout the entire province have had to deal with adverse weather conditions all summer long. “The weather’s been crappy, and it’s been tough on every crop ‌ too much rain,â€? St. Clements farmer Hugh Nauman said, as he too enjoyed the sun Tuesday. The heavy summer rains and cool temperatures have saturated the ground and sucked away the heat pumpkin and squash crops need to grow steadily. “It’s just been a tough year, and I think if you talk to most farmers and they’re honest they’re going to tell you the same thing: in this province
it’s been too cool because there hasn’t been enough sunshine,� said Nauman, who also grows rhubarbs, strawberries, raspberries, and gourds, predicting his yields will be down a third from last year. Environment Canada data back up what farmers already know: it’s been an exceptionally rainy season. Last month, the Waterloo-Wellington area experienced the most rain in 20 years: 203.5 millimetres, more than double the usual July total of 91.8. For Bruce County farmer George Voisin, a regular at the Tuesday market in St. Jacobs, some of the worst damage to his crops was caused by sporadic hailstorms, particularly those that came early in the season. “A cold, wet spring accompanied by about 90 per cent of Ontario getting hit with hail once or twice in the year. Imagine something getting ice thrown at it and shredding leaves and hitting product and people saying, ‘there’s blemishes on that thing,’� said Voisin, who lost two crops of peas to hail. For market neighbour and Mount Pleasant grower Joe Nemeth, the hail meant the loss of two tomato fields, roughly 30 per cent of his total. “It’s very sporadic where it
hits, but there’s been so much of it this year everybody seems to have gotten a little bit.â€? While the hail might have had the most drastic effects on farmers’ crops, so too have consistently cold and wet temperatures affected their work. Strong winds have made it difficult to spray fertilizer and insecticides, and heavy rains have washed them away; hot, moist days followed by cold nights have caused some blighting, encouraging bacteria growth, said Nemeth. The rising costs of oil and fertilizer coupled with the relatively stagnant prices have also put the squeeze on farmers. “Everything’s just been bizarre,â€? he said, adding that uncharacteristic summer weather has also affected the number of customers visiting the market. “For many growers it has been a challenging year,â€? said Elaine Roddy, a vegetable crop specialist with the Ontario Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Rural Affairs, noting specific statistical information concerning crop yields likely won’t be released by Statistics Canada until mid-winter. “It’s too early to say because everything’s still being harvested at this point; we still See CROPS Âť12
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Maple Leaf disaster should make us look in the mirror I used to take my agricultural communications students to an annual pork producers’ top-performers’ recognition dinner at the Tavistock arena, to see how agri-food communications professionals orchestrated such a show. There was little glitz; the several hundred producers who attended the early-summer event were quite content to line-up with plates in hand outside the arena, the spot where the Zamboni normally dumped snow, to get whatever the catering company was barbequing. Newcomers were surprised to see their towering Toronto-based host for the evening, Michael McCain of Maple Leaf Foods, wading in among them. McCain always had time to talk to farmers (and the media), and was pleased to be gladhanding and rewarding with farmers whose hogs were the top performers and consistently met the company’s processing specifications. Fast forward to a student-run initiative at the University of Guelph involving new uses for rendered meat products, wholly sponsored by a then-subsidiary of Maple Leaf Foods. Students were encouraged to turn the likes of feather
meal and bone meal into something useful. For example, one group from the Ontario Agricultural College found a way to make amazingly durable recycled fence posts out of feathers. Again, handing out cheques to the top performers, shaking their hands and posing for photos was Michael McCain –prospecting, always recruiting, showing support for leading students. He hoped they might someday consider a career with Maple Leaf, like the Guelph food science alumnus who’d come up with the creative recycling project in the first place, hired by McCain with a free reign to develop products or uses others had missed. So in the wake of one of Canada’s worst food-related calamities, what happens to the years McCain spent generating goodwill, building relationships, nurturing careers, and most importantly, feeding Canadians? The company seems determined to survive, based on statements McCain’s been making about rebuilding trust and winning back consumers’ confidence. But it’s in for the challenge of its 100-year life. I can only imagine how deep Maple Leaf ’s pockets are. It sold $5.2 billion worth of products in 2007. The clean up and recall will cost an estimated $20 million. I suspect it can weather tough storms, but this is the Hurricane Ka-
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trina of food safety disasters. Maple Leaf ’s recovery plan is winning praise. The company’s acknowledged there’s a connection between the harmful bacteria that’s being blamed for the food-related illness and death, and the bacteria found in its plant. It recalled everything produced at its problematic Toronto plant, even though the offending products seem to be restricted to two lines. McCain has put himself out there, apologizing, accepting responsibility and vowing to get it right. But who knows if consumers will come back to Maple Leaf ? A lot won’t, perhaps because the exact source of the problem may always be a mystery. This bacteria is everywhere, and some experts have said its entry point may never be found, which is little comfort to those who got sick, knew someone who did, or worse. The situation’s ugliness is amplified by
its magnitude, and anyone who vilifies agribusiness is having a heyday. But this kind of problem is not restricted to giant companies such as Maple Leaf. Local meat shops with a handful of employees can get walloped with the same bacteria as Maple Leaf. That’s why governments lay down food safety rules for all processors, and create enforcement and bureaucracies that try to prevent such problems from happening. In the drive for solutions, let’s also consider whether the price we pay for food is adequate to ensure quality, safety and availability. Every one of those aspects has a cost, and if we maintain our national obsession with cheap food, something has to give. As farmers’ and processors’ expenses increase, along with our needs and expectations, how can we moan about paying what food really costs?
Crops: After some dry seasons, rain's too much of a good thing » From page 11
have a big chunk of the season left, so it’s really too early to say where the yields have come in compared to our five-year average yields,” she said. However, the diversity of regional crops and the sequential planting means that farmers throughout the region have been well prepared to deal with the negative conditions. Despite the setbacks, there have been some certain positives this summer:
according to Nelson Wideman of the Elmira Produce Auction, strawberries enjoyed a bumper crop; except for the early hailstorms, peas also proved to grow well. For Nemeth, his crops of “monstrous” and tasty watermelons experienced “unbelievable” and “phenomenal” growth. This season, Nauman found himself looking for a silver lining. “My father always had a saying: ‘there’s always next year.’”
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Âť MAKING HER PITCH
Wallenstein woman captures horseshoe title
It all comes down to this
Lucille Leis returns victorious from Calgary, having posted a 14-1 record
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Lucille Leis likes the camaraderie that’s prevalent at national horseshoe tournaments. She enjoys meeting and chatting with old friends and sharing a passion for the game. But when the contest begins, and the pressure’s on, look out, because Leis is there for one reason. “I enjoy meeting the people; we’re great friends, all of us. But when it comes down to horseshoes, you’re by yourself – it doesn’t matter whether she’s a friend or not, you still want to beat her. You want to play your best,� said the Wallenstein-area resident. “I just like the competition. You’ve only got yourself to blame if you don’t do well. You can’t blame it on someone else. I like the one-on-one competition.� Recently returned from the Canadian Horseshoe Pitching Championships in Calgary (Aug 12-16), Leis was rewarded for her no-nonsense attitude toward the game, earning a trophy for first place in the Ladies “A� Class division. En route to claiming her hardware, Leis, who uses Elmer Hohl shoes made in Wellesley, tossed her way through three days of action, or 15 games in a triple round-robin. She won 14 contests and lost just one on the way to the title. Though she played baseball and basketball in high school, Leis wasn’t
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Kings have a look at young prospects Coach looks for those with scoring touch to replace departed snipers from last year’s roster VANESSA MOSS Hoping to build on last year’s positive season, the Elmira Sugar Kings invited about 40 top prospects out to their train-
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Âť THE NOT-SO-GREAT OUTDOORSMAN | STEVE GALEA
In the birthing ritual, a man’s place is far, far away Here’s something exciting to report: our Labrador retriever Dixie should be having pups within the next week or two. Great huh? Well, yes and no. Everyone loves puppies, of course; the downside is the birthing experience. My wife and youngest daughter are looking at this as an opportunity to witness one of nature’s most wondrous miracles – seeing a grown man turn pale and faint. I, on the other hand, just want to do what men used to do in the good old days at times like these – leave the premises, have a celebratory drink or two, and return when all screaming is done. I’m sorry, but I just think it’s better that way. I speak from experience, too. I was there for the births of my three children,
they’ve ever seen. They’re lying. I don’t doubt that the outcome surely was, especially after the medical people wipe the baby down and cut the cord. But the birth process? That is another story altogether. Childbirth is not attractive. It is difficult, messy, hard work that forces people to assume undignified and uncomfortable positions generally in front of a group of total strangers. It causes whimpers, tears, and screams of utter pain and terror. And that’s just from the fathers. Furthermore, we’re encouraged to say silly things like, “Breathe� or “Push� – two things that women have been doing forever without us, you’ll note. All this happens while our spouses are swearing at us like drunken sailors. No sir, not beautiful. Okay, I know that birthing puppies is a totally different scenario. For one thing, we’re used to seeing dogs in undignified
for several kittens, and even a couple of calves, and I can honestly say that I was no help for any of it. Okay, I yanked on the legs of a calf or two but that was only because someone told me to. Otherwise, I would have run from the premises screaming. Rest assured that birthing anything is not up there on my top-ten experiences. That’s the difference between men and women. The latter consider birth, whether child, puppy, or salamander, a wondrous event that any person would be fortunate to attend. That’s because they can empathize with the mother and the heroic struggles that accompany delivery. Men, on the other hand, treat birth as if it were a bomb – which explains why they just want to clear out of the room. Oh, I know we all know a few men who say that the birth of their child was the most beautiful and miraculous thing
Prospects: Kings rebuilding offence, solidify defence corps The players invited to last weekend’s training camp were recruited by scouts in North Bay and throughout Waterloo Region, as well as by Haddaway and the Kings’ general manager Keith Stewart, who watched games last winter. In May, the Kings held a rookie camp to determine the best prospects, who were then invited back to the Elmira rink this past week. The coaches hope to have a tentative lineup ready in the next few days. As for how the new captain will fare, Haddaway said he is making a great start. “It’s early but Pat [Shantz] really established the level of play on the weekend. He looks really good on the ice; we expect a lot from our captain on and off the ice and I’m really confident that Pat’s going to be able to fulfill that role well.�
On the bench this year, Haddaway has added some new assistant captains and a goalie coach: Kyle Campbell joins the team from the Kitchener Dutchmen, Jim McEachern formerly worked with the Guelph Dominators and netminder helper Marc McCallum comes from the Minor Midget ranks in Kitchener. Other changes this year involve the team’s schedule, which will now include six more games than last season with teams from the Golden Horseshoe and Western conferences. There will also be a showcase weekend Oct. 11-12 in St. Catharines that will count in the standings and a Midwestern Conference AllStar game on Dec. 8 in Listowel. This new interlocking schedule means the Kings will get more practice against clubs they are not used to playing against, which should be good, Haddaway said.
This new element along with the fact that the team now has to defend its 2008 Cherrey Cup should lead to highly competitive games all year long. “Yeah, we had a great season last year but it’s over with, it’s done with and they’re going to keep playing us hard. The only thing that [the Cup] does is probably put a bigger target on our backs this year. ‌ We’re going to have to work harder than we did last year,â€? Haddaway said. With those focuses in mind, the coaches were looking for a mix of individual talent and ability to work well as a team in practice games this week. “Our goal and I hate to be boring about it, but our goal is going to be no different than eight other teams and that’s to win the championship. I mean, if you have any other goal, I’m not sure why you’re even starting the season.â€?
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positions. For another, a dog won’t say those awful things about you. They understand that this was not your fault. Even so, I don’t want to be there. I know my place, and it is far away. I’d rather leave this to the experts – my eight-year-old daughter, for instance. She has already read a book on the subject and assembled a birthing kit. The end result, we hope, will be a litter of beautiful purebred labs, each from solid hunting stock. At least three are already accounted for, but I expect we’ll have approximately 42. We’re keeping one, I suspect, because my wife thinks poop-and-scooping is something I can’t get enough of. Between you and me, I think it is actually revenge for me asking, “Is this going to take much longer?â€? during the birth of our daughter. By the way, after that, it didn’t. Okay, I was some help ‌
OUT ON TOP The Elmira Sports U9/10 Girls rejoice in their year-end 2-1 tournament win over the Woolwich Observer team Aug. 23 in St. Jacobs. Front: Katelyn Bartley, Maddie MacLean, Kate Mackenzie, Megan Goar, Lauren Winfield-Ward, Alyssa Winfield-Ward. Middle: Taylor Wetzel, Abigail Hamann, Mikayla Ruppe, Shelby Falkenberg, Natasha Good. Back: coach Michael MacLean, assistant coach Gilbert Hamann.
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Turning life into lyrics
Jeff Tanner finds plenty to write about as he works on his new album A project originally created as a keepsake for his daughters has turned into a hit for St. Clements’ Jeff Tanner, who released the first single off his new self-titled album in May and is busy recording the rest. His debut song, “Round and Round,” can be heard on some 20 stations across Canada and is quickly gaining attention. “I’m very happy with it,” Tanner, 35, said of the work. Although he has been playing in bands since the age of 13 – after years of playing guitar around the kitchen table and campfire – he took a break for a while after his daughters were born. It wasn’t until the girls – Jade, 9, and Kodylyn, 7 – took an interest in music that Tanner got back to performing gigs. “That’s when I really started hitting it hard again.” Having played in rock bands in his youth, Tanner switched to country after a trip to Nashville got him hooked. Luckily, country happens to be his girls’ favourite music too: “same as their dad,” he said.
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BACK IN THE SADDLE After taking a break from music to spend time with his daughters, St. Clements’ Jeff Tanner is now back performing and writing. Having released the first single, “Round and Round,” off his album in May, he is currently working on the rest.
These days, Tanner works as a fulltime carpenter and weekend country artist, performing with the Jeff Tanner Band at various festivals, bars and dances in the area. “Seeing the people sing and dance and have a good time … I like to be surrounded by people, so I enjoy that.” When he began working with friend Fred Hale from Heidelberg on an album for his daughters, it quickly turned into a
much bigger project. “Once we started writing it and getting into the studio, we realized ‘hey, it turned into something a little more than I expected’ and we decided to release it.” The first single was written for Tanner’s wife, Linda, whom he met in high school in Stratford. “It’s about a couple breaking up and getting back together, like all high school sweethearts do,” Tanner said of the
song. “There were many fights [with Linda] that ended at the locker.” Like most of Tanner’s music, “Round and Round” has a folk-country feel to it, which is one of many styles he enjoys performing. When he is on stage at a dance for instance, he belts out an array of selections from various artists: currently his favourite is “Good Old Boys” by Waylon Jennings.
People always enjoy the cover songs, he said. Originally from Milverton, Ontario, Tanner derives most of his musical inspiration from country life. “It’s hard to write without experience,” he explained, adding that one song on the new album will outline the changes he’s noticed in farming over the years. Although Tanner’s style of writing and singing has remained consistent over time, the topics
have changed based on different periods in his life. Right now, his focus is on three special women. “Everything I do is for my family. I feel everybody seems to be selfish and I got back into music because of my girls. I do love playing music, but probably if it wasn’t for my girls I probably wouldn’t have got back into it as heavy as I did, so family’s number one on my list.”
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Northeast Industrial Park Ltd. (Zone Change 11/2008) The Township of Woolwich will hold a Public Meeting, under Section 34 of the Planning Act, to consider the following Zone Change application. No decisions 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. The Township has received a Zone Change application from MHBC Planning on behalf of Northeast Industrial Park Ltd. for the 13.2 hectare vacant property located on Kenning Place, Elmira (see Map 1). The property is described as GCT Part Lot 89, Plan 58R15315 Parts 2 and 3. The majority of the property is designated Industrial Land Use Area and within the North East Policy Area in the Elmira Settlement with a portion of the property outside of the Settlement Area designated Rural Land Use and Restricted Land Use in the Township Official Plan. The entire parcel is zoned Agricultural (A). The purpose of the application is to rezone the property as follows: s 0ART ! n REZONE APPROXIMATELY HECTARES OF LAND WITHIN THE settlement boundary) from Agricultural to Industrial Business Park (M-6) to facilitate the conveyance of these lands as a lot addition to the industrial property at 30 Martin’s Lane; s 0ART " n AMEND THE !GRICULTURAL ZONING WITH A SITE SPECIlC PROvision to permit a reduced lot area of approximately 2.5 hectares for the proposed retained lands (outside the settlement boundary); and s 0ART # n REZONE APPROXIMATELY HECTARES OF LAND WITHIN THE settlement boundary) from Agricultural to Industrial Business Park (M-6) with a Holding Provision (h) to create a new vacant industrial lot.
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BACKS TO A PARK! Maple kitchen with hardwood flr. Main flr laundry. Laminate flooring in L.R + D.R. W/O from rec room to backyard. 4 Bdrms, 2 baths - garage, shed and deep driveway. New furnace and A/C. Extensively renovated. Close to downtown! MLS $244,900. EXISTING CHURCH- Seating capacity 175+. Major addition at rear in 1986, incl. full basement. Ideal for office, lofts, etc. C-1 Zoning. MLS $649,000.
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Ed and Barb Speers of Elmira, Richard Ernst and Christine Fisher of Kitchener and Ron and Elaine Lewis of New Hamburg would like to congratulate their children on their upcoming marriage on September 12th, 2008.
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for as little as KRASOVEC, Rod and Gail are thrilled to announce the arrival of their baby boy, Mitchell Rodney. Born at GRH on July 26th, 2008, weighing 6lbs 10oz. Proud Oma and Papa are Ron and Anni Gowing of Elmira, Proud grandparents are Kathy Krasovec of Elmira, and Frank Krasovec of Kapuskasing. A huge thank you to all 4th floor nursing staff.
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Back before the back-to-school rush
Annual Labour Day festivities see fishing derby followed by soapbox racing in the village MARC MIQUEL HELSEN In what has become a Labour Day classic, eager roadsters and their fans will line the makeshift racetrack in Wellesley Village to watch gravitypowered vehicles rip down Nafziger Road. Starting out at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church at 2 p.m. Monday, the contestants will race their wooden, homemade or kit-prepared soapbox race cars. Sponsored by the Wellesley and District Board of Trade (WDBT) and a number of other local businesses, the day’s activities will kick off with a fishing derby in the morning at the Wellesley pond, followed by the soapbox derby now in its fourth year. Last time around, the event drew some 1,000 spectators, 53 drivers and 22 cars, up significantly from 2006’s figures, which saw 19 cars and 40 racers compete. The projected turnout for this year is even greater. Using perhaps the greenest of fuels – gravity – the wood vehicles can reach zippy speeds: last year a local police officer clocked one of the vehicles at a top speed of 39 km/h. “The cars themselves have evolved considerably” said Terry Dennerley, board of trade treasurer. A fan of the tradition for some years now, Dennerley noted that some of the vehicles that enter the race are often “pretty slick.”
IT’S THAT TIME AGAIN Jen Mc Cabe, a kindergarten teacher at Riverside Public School in Elmira, prepares her classroom Monday for the invasion of students set to arrive this coming Tuesday. Inset: Riverside custodian Walter Plein makes sure the kids have a clear view of the playground.
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Generally made from kits – others are homemade – the only regulation is that each car must be inspected by a licensed mechanic before racing: naturally, there are car specifications that have to be fulfilled for safety reasons. Starting off with a ramp, the approximately 250-metre racetrack will run along Nafziger Road, from St. Paul’s Lutheran Church to Lawrence Street. Four race classes will be determined by age (8-10, 11-13, 14-17 and 18 +). Prizes will be awarded including ribbons for all, trophies for first, second and third place finishers of each class, and prizes for “most original” and “best in show.” Hats and shirts as well as refreshments are also on tap. Prior to the racing, the annual Labour Day fishing derby takes place in the morning at the Albert Erb Conservation area at the Wellesley Pond. Sponsored by members of the Wellesley and District Lions Club, the event will garner funds destined for youth programs and activities throughout the community. Registration begins at 8 a.m.; the derby gets underway at 9 and concludes at noon. Cash will be awarded for tagged fish, and trophies will be awarded in five categories. There will also be a prize table. For more information, call 519-656-2716.
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NO QUESTIONING THEIR RESULT The Woolwich U7/U8 Dentech Electric Inc. team celebrates its recent championship win. Front: Chantal McMurray, Katherine Ormson, Caitlyn Nelson, Myra Scheele, Myra Scheele. Back: Tiadora Ruza, Hannah Bettke, Lauryn Ali, Alenna Martin. Missing: MacKenzie Beacom, Kambell Beacom, Erica. Coaches: Allan McMurray, Sean Beacom.
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WOOLWICH MEMORIAL CENTRE ICE TIME
Call Recreation Office 519-669-1647 ext. 259 to request ice at the NEW COMPLEX starting in September 2009.
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Attractive 1 bedroom apartment, appliances included, no pets, no smoking. Available now. 519-669-5657. Bright, Spacious, 1-bedroom apartment in quiet building. Ideal for non-smoking mature tenant. Close to downtown. Phone 519-669-3423. Elmira - One bedroom, $495 + utilities, no pets. Downtown location, immediate. 519-669-5431 or 519-669-8074.
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DEATH NOTICES Bearinger, Noah W.
Kurtz, Florence Ethel
- On Tuesday, August 26, 2008 at his home, RR1, Wallenstein, Noah W. Bearinger, in his 88th year.
– Peacefully, went to be with her Lord,, on Tues, August 26, 2008, at age 100. Local relatives are Ann and Abner Martin of Elmira. – (nee Ferguson). June 20, 1952 – August 22, 2008. Passed away peacefully, with her family by her side, after a courageous battle with cancer, at Uxbridge Cottage Hospital. Local relative is sibling Mary (Raymond) Mercey of Elmira.
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 Applefest – Hergott Cider Mill and Products Ltd. Cider pressing, Children’s activities. Free admission, however we are accepting non-perishable food donations for the House of Friendship; 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; 928 Erb St. W., Waterloo. Call Gerrie for more information, 519-885-2306.  The Kingsway Quartet in concert – Waterloo North Presbyterian Church. Starts at 7 p.m. at 685 Highpoint Ave., Waterloo, Northfield and Westmount roads. Wheelchair accessible. Free-will offering. For more information, call 519-888-7870.  Free dinner to introduce Christianity Explored, a 10-week informal study held Sunday evenings. Ask questions and hear what it is all about. Everyone welcome, but pre-registration for dinner is requested. Wellesley Alliance Church, 3158 Nafziger Rd., just south of Wellesley; 519-656-2767 or 519-656-3571.
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 Linwood Branch Library Local Food Night – Region of Waterloo Library. In partnership with the Wellesley Township Community Health Centre. If the recent popularity in local food interests you, come from 6:30-8:30 p.m. to discuss the 100-mile diet, nutrition, environmental benefits, and rural farming in Waterloo Region. Local snacks will be provided. Enter to win a draw prize that can help you eat locally; 5279 Ament Line, Linwood. For more information and to register with Lisa, call 519-575-4590.
SEPTEMBER 10
 Woolwich Community Garden Party – Community Care Concepts. For seniors and adults with a disability in partnership with the Village Manor Retirement Residence; 29 Albert St., St. Jacobs. BBQ lunch, and entertainment by Geoff Brown. Rain plan – the event will be held at the Calvary United Church, 48 Hawkesville Rd., St. Jacobs. Call 519-669-3023.  Smart Serve Program being offered at the Royal Canadian Legion, 11 First St. W., Elmira at 7 p.m. Cost $40. Must register in advance by Sept. 5. Call to reserve your spot at 519-669-2932 after 3 p.m.
New to the Community? Do you have a new Baby? It’s time to call your Welcome Wagon Hostess. Elmira & Surrounding Area If you’re not long distance to Elmira, you are welcome to a visit.
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– Peacefully, went home to be with the Lord, on Tuesday, August 26, 2008, at Chateau Gardens, Elmira. Leah (Snyder) Martin, in her 91st year of Elmira.
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 Caregiver Coffee Hour at Chateau Gardens – Woolwich Community Health Centre and Alzheimer’s Society of KW; 10-11:30 a.m. Lynelle Drudge will present the first of a DVD series called The Alzheimer Journey. Call Lorraine for more information 519-664-3794, ext. 229.
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 Heidelberg Fun Day – Heidelberg Parks and Recreation Association. Entertainment by Erick Traplin, Kiddies Fun Trak; 1-6 p.m. Bouncy castles, mini golf, fish pond, family games, weather permitting, our famous downhill slip n’ slide, food and raffle. All proceeds go towards park improvement and year round programs.  Memorial Stone Dedication – Riser/Reschly Burial plot. Everyone is welcome to attend; 2 p.m. Dedication ceremony, at Faith Mennonite Church, ChalmersForrest Road, Kingwood at 3 p.m. Unveiling of the memorial stone at Riser/ Reschly Burial lot, Deborah Glaister Line, West of Kingwood at 4 p.m. Potluck lunch at Faith Mennonite Church, Chalmers-Forrest Road, Kingwood. Bring food, plates, cups and cutlery. For more information, call Irvin and Ellen Jantzi 519656-3223.  Third annual Rock and Roast Community Event – Foundation Christian School. Join us from 2-6 p.m. for roast pork, corn on the cob, desserts, live music, games, activities, fun and fellowship. Free-will offering accepted. For more details, visit www.onarock.ca; 28 Katherine St. S., Winterbourne.  Fireman’s 100th Annivesary Breakfast $5 – All you can eat; 7-10 a.m. Royal Canadian Legion, 11 First St. E., Elmira.
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