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Plenty of suggestions for redrawing the lines around Woolwich communities STEVE KANNON THE ADAGE ABOUT IT being better to give than to receive isn’t on the radar as Woolwich looks at redrawing the boundaries of its settlement areas: there are plenty of people looking to have their land included inside the new lines, but very few willing to be on the outside. That’s a problem for planning staff, as the exercise requires no net increases in the total size of settlement areas – hamlets, villages and towns – in the township. Some of the requests will have to go unfilled, and everyone wants somebody else to be on the outside looking in. The process, the subject of a public meeting Tuesday night, has been underway since 2012, Woolwich looking to bring its planning documents into conformity with the new regional official plan (ROP). It’s the region that’s decreed no net gains as

the township revises community boundaries in three classes: rural (the small centres such as Conestogo, Floradale and Maryhill), township urban (Elmira and St. Jacobs) and urban, the new designation for Breslau, where much of the growth, particularly industrial, is expected. The designation also applies to the stockyards area south of St. Jacobs on the Waterloo border. Looking to make better use of developable land, Woolwich proposes to rationalize the boundaries of settlement areas. The official plan amendment discussed at council Tuesday night essentially proposes to remove some land from the settlements, replacing it with other properties with great development potential. Of all the areas, the greatest diversity of future change will be found in Breslau, which is earBOUNDARIES | 2

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LACK OF SNOW DOESN’T STOP THE FUN IN LINWOOD

Connor Niven, 7, gets a green lizard painted on his face by Kricket and Krew at Linwood Snofest on Saturday afternoon. The day started with a hearty breakfast served up by local firefighters, and the ever-popular sno-pitch tournament. [LIZ BEVAN / THE OBSERVER]

All rural policing now dispatched from Elmira detachment LIZ BEVAN PASSERSBY WILL BE SEEING a few extra police cruisers sitting outside of the Waterloo Regional Police detachment in Elmira now that the New Hamburg station isn’t dispatching officers. The New Hamburg detachment has changed functions, acting as more of an office front, and is no longer dispatching officers to rural locations. Now,

all rural officers are dispatched from Elmira. There was some question as to whether this would affect response times, or police coverage from both Wilmot and Wellesley townships over the past few months, but Staff Sgt. Michael Hinspberger says that isn’t the case. Along with reducing duties from the New Hamburg station, the dispatch schedule and rural coverage assignments have changed, allowing for

more effective policing. “Basically what we have done is amalgamated the cruisers from both south and rural north divisions and with zone realignments, we have actually been able to decrease the number of required cruisers for the entire rural area,” he said, adding that with the new system, officers are policing more effectively. “Before, because of the resource challenges with holidays, sickness and

everything else, you had to try and bring someone in from the city to cover, oftentimes if they didn’t have somebody, a zone would sit empty. Because of that, we would have to have an officer from a neighbouring zone, if there is a call, to head to that zone, and then of course, when you do that, you are leaving one zone to go to another, there is that bandPOLICE | 2

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Townships to see expanded curbside waste services starting next spring Changes to schedule, range of items for pickup come with the start of a deal with a new contractor LIZ BEVAN NEARLY 1,500 WOOLWICH TOWNSHIP addresses will be receiving expanded waste management services starting in the spring of 2017. The move is part of Waterloo Region council’s changes to waste collection, including awarding the pickup work to new contractors. New services will be extended to 4,346 residences in Woolwich,

Wellesley and Wilmot townships. The expanded services include the introduction of the green bin program, biweekly large item pickup and biweekly seasonal yard waste collection. Regional councillor Tom Galloway says the idea behind the changes in the region’s waste management plan is to extend the life of the Erb Street landfill site as much as possible. “We have 20 years left on

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this landfill and the program expansion will allow us to keep that 20 years for the foreseeable future, especially with this extra diversion,” he said. “We don’t want to have to go and look for a new landfill site, which would be a very long and expensive process.” The new plan also gives tax payers more bang for their buck. “We are trying to provide a consistent level of service for everyone in the region,” said Galloway. “People are paying for the service through their property taxes and we are trying to divert more materials with the green bins and recycling programs.” The new program starts

up in March 2017, and along with expanded waste management pick-ups, there will be a new company driving the streets of Woolwich, collecting garbage, compost and recycling. The region tendered the new contract to Halton Recycling Ltd., also known as Emterra Environmental for an agreed upon period of 84 months with the option to renew the contract for one year. The tender amounted to $4,168,308.04 per year – an amount Galloway says is a big savings for the region. “At the end of the day, it is a $3 million savings per year over the existing contract,” he said, adding that the company will be com-

ing on when the service changes start in 2017. The current holder of the contract, Plein Disposal, based in Elmira, didn’t bid this time around, according to Galloway, but an affiliate company, Provincial Waste Systems, put in a bid that was “significantly higher than other bidders,” he shared, adding that the bid was actually the highest of all the companies putting their hat in the ring. Plein Disposal had been working with the region for decades and will be closing up shop at the end of the contract, but longevity and the future of a company weren’t factors in decision making for the region. It is

mostly about dollars and cents. “It was primarily based on price,” said Galloway. “The actual service itself has been predetermined and then it is put out to tender with very specific terms – once a week for this, every second week for that, once a month for this. Then it is just a matter of price. There are some references required to show that companies have done this before and doing an adequate job in other municipalities.” Galloway says that he could see employees from Plein Disposal and the company’s affiliate, ProvinGARBAGE | 5

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marked by Waterloo Region as a growth centre, fueled by future industrial land development. New homes, offices and retail space are also on the horizon, with some of the rationalization changes currently proposed playing a part in that. In the near term, retail development is expected in the form of a power centre to be built by SmartREIT, which owns the big box project anchored by Walmart to the south of St. Jacobs. The company owns land on the north side of Victoria Street, bounded by Ebycrest Road on the west side. The area is slated for commercial development. Anne Messore of SmartREIT/Breslau North Development Inc. (BNDI) said the company’s holding originally totalled 57 acres, of which about 20 acres is

inside the current settlement area. It lost nine acres expropriated by the province for the new Hwy. 7, bifurcating part of the land and making it unusable. They would like to see all of their property inside the settlement area, but would settle for a reworking of the parcels to maintain 20 acres in a more useful configuration. Some of the company’s land falls outside the settlement area, and it would eventually like to see it included, she said. Thomasfield Homes, a major developer in the Breslau area, is one group looking to give more than it gets. Seeing no short-term development on much of a 77-acre parcel east of the village, south of the railway line, it is willing to put that back into the pot, while asking for the inclusion of a pair of smaller properties to the north of Victoria

Street, in the vicinity of Ebycrest Road and the new Highway 7 configuration, said planner Bill Green of the GSP Group. In Elmira, the proposed changes primarily address consolidation of future industrial land to south or, more likely, the southeast side of the town. Conceptual maps presented at the meeting also include options for a bypass road that would route traffic, especially trucks, well east of the downtown core, an alternative to Arthur Street. The requested additions outnumber the potential subtractions in St. Jacobs, as well, led by a request from Home Hardware for some 50 acres near its Henry Street headquarters to be made available. “The need for the Home Hardware land is now,” said Scott Patterson of planners Labreche Patterson.

With others looking for their land to be included in the redrawing of St. Jacobs, and the township having identified some 68 acres with the potential to be removed from inside the village boundary, there’s another area where demands will have to be weighed, noted Woolwich senior planner Jeremy Vink. “We’ll have to look at what’s the most appropriate to add in,” he said of the eventual process to decide what stays and what goes. Though ongoing for a few years, the process is still in the early stages. Vink stressed that the suggested changes and accompanying maps presented this week are a starting point. Planners expect to receive plenty of input and go through at least one more public meeting before solidifying a plan and bringing recommendations back to council.

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aid effect. With the current deployment model, it has gotten rid of that and really improved our coverage.” The new schedule even allows for officers to do some extra work without cutting into regular patrol shifts. “It is really helping the amount of proactive police work the officers are able to do. Some of the extra things they like to do, whether it is enforcement, or R.I.D.E., or some of the community requests for speakers, we are able to do those things that before the officers were just too taxed to do,” he said. Superintendent Barry

Zehr, the neighbourhood policing commander with the WRPS, says the New Hamburg building had a few different problems that required a change of plans going forward. “The New Hamburg division had some health and safety concerns. It needs to be a bit modernized to make a good workplace,” he said. “There is only one way in and out, and most buildings, for fire code nowadays, you need more than one. The other thing that has been referenced a few times are the male and female change rooms and the way that the building is laid out and the size of it doesn’t really allow for

an equal workforce when it comes to gender. One of the change rooms was being used by both men and women.” The New Hamburg station will still be open, and actually more often during the week, but no officers will be dispatched out of that office. Instead, the building will be used for office work. He says it works with the new policing strategy set out in the new year. “We don’t police from bricks and mortar anymore. A lot of things can be done from cars now, in fact, almost everything. They have full queries, they can access their

emails, and all of their communications,” he said, adding that officers don’t always stop in at the division between calls, making the dispatch point less important than in previous years. “Even though the driving time, if you were to directly drive from Elmira division to right to the New Hamburg division is about 38 to 40 minutes depending on traffic, technically, they don’t always go to the division.” The new strategy and shift system has been in effect for just over a month, and will be put under a review in March to examine how effective implementation has been after 60 days.

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Ariss and Maryhill Lions event to put the fun in Family Day on Feb. 15 WHITNEY NEILSON THERE WILL BE NO shortage of activities on Family Day for the annual Ariss and Maryhill Lions Club Family Fun Day. Hosted at the University of Guelph’s Gryphon Field House, there will be the ever popular bouncy castles along with face painting, plenty of food, and all sorts of demonstrations. The event provides an opportunity for families to spend some quality time together on the statutory holiday and generate funds for essential projects supported by the Ariss and Maryhill Lions Club. “It was important to all of us that we do something in the community and of course you try to aim everything you can for the youth because they’re our future,” said past district governor, Larry Wainwright. “It’s turned out to be quite successful. This will be the second year we’ve moved it to the university. It’s a larger facility. We were getting to the point that we were probably going to soon be achieving capacity at the Martin facility.” At the original location they had to have the food booth upstairs, which was difficult for accessibility. With the field house they can have everything on the one floor. Every child will receive a draw ballot for either a child’s BMX bicycle donated by BackPeddling Bicycle Shop, a child’s electric car donated by E-Ride Electric Bikes, the use of a bouncy castle for a special event donated by Kiddies Fun Trak, or a three-month certificate from Peak Performance Centre. “It’s very important that we do something like this in the community especially for the youth and totally family oriented. There’s something for everyone.

We’ve got interesting displays as well as the bouncy castles and games and other activities. We have some demonstrations like Cats Anonymous, they do face painting,” Wainwright said. He says the bouncy castles are the most requested activity for the event. They have about a dozen different ones and there are always lines of kids waiting to bounce off some energy. “They have the jousting game where they can get up on the pedestals with these big powder puff type things where they try to knock each other off their pedestals. They can toss basketballs, have little competitions amongst themselves,” Wainwright said. They’ve kept the price at $5 per person as in previous years because it’s important to keep the event affordable, he explains. Some of the sponsors who help keep the price of admission down are Royal Distributing, Linamar, Shaw Direct, Guelph and District Association of Realtors, Trimaster Industries, Meridian, MacKinnon Transport and Dr. Maura McKeon. “We see a lot of single moms, single dads there with their children and a family of five can come for $20. It’s not a heavy burden. What a great opportunity for everybody just to have a great time,” Wainwright said. The first year they held the event at 9 a.m. and there were 400 people waiting outside to get in. Last year they saw 1,500 despite bad weather. They usually have 2,000 to 2,500 people show up to the event. “It’s a terrific community effort all the way around,” Wainwright said. The event requires a large number of volunteers, so anyone looking to help out can contact Wainwright at 519-843-4516 or email lionlrw@yahoo.com.

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Rare old photographs to go on display in Wellesley

Exhibition of pictures of the township from the turn of the last century WHITNEY NEILSON RARELY BEFORE SEEN PHOTOGRAPHS of Wellesley have made their way to the Wellesley Township Heritage and Historical Society and will be on display in the historical room in conjunction with Heritage Week starting Feb. 15. The historical room is open the last Saturday of every month to the public, but they’ll be opening it specially for Family Day to give families a chance to see some 40 photos of the township taken by Charles Ottmann Jr. in the early 1900s. “A descendant in B.C. was doing his family history online and he came across our site incredibly,” said curator Nancy Maitland. “On our family history page was a picture of his family, of the Ottmann family. He was quite excited and emailed us and said he had these photos and thought we might be interested.” He scanned an album full of photos to be displayed in the historical room, which were taken between 1902 and 1906. Ottmann’s father was a saddler and harness maker in Wellesley. Charles Jr. was listed in the 1901 census as a saddler. Shortly after that he became ill and had to give up the heavy work of making saddles, instead turning to photography. Some of his photos were made into postcards, which he sold in his gallery. He photographed a variety of subjects, including lots of views of Wellesley Village. “We’ve only got one example of his work

outside the village. That’s building the big railway bridge that was going in Wallenstein about 1905. That was published. He was trying I think to get some commercial work. He was advertising in the Wellesley Maple Leaf that he would take portraits of children or any photos that people wanted. I do have some references of him taking a couple of wedding photos. And then he did a lot of family photos,” Maitland said. There are several photos of people in the album, which she guesses are his family. Another one which has been published before shows the Ottmann family at a butchering bee with a large pig on a table and people standing around with cleavers, carcasses and all sorts of things. One photo shows the school, another a horse auction.

Photographs of Wellesley taken by Charles Ottmann Jr. in the early 1900s show many rarely-before viewed scenes, like the building of a bridge in Wallenstein and construction on what is now Nafziger Road. They’re on display at the Wellesley Township Heritage and Historical Society’s Historical Room, which is open on Family Day. [SUBMITTED]

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REAL LIFE / SHARING WITH OTHERS

Catharsis in putting her story on paper Elmira woman finds it helpful to chronicle story of abuse and healing in new book, Saving Catherine

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Elmira resident Angela Harrison has written a book about her struggles growing up in a dysfunctional family in hopes that readers can relate and heal from their own experiences. [SUBMITTED]

LIZ BEVAN THIS IS THE STORY of Angela Harrison’s life: dealing with mental illness, abuse and uncertainty in her family, and coming to better understand her mother’s struggle throughout the years. A resident of Elmira, Harrison went through hell and back as a child, and into her early adult years, and just recently, she decided to put her experiences on paper with a self-published book, Saving Catherine. The book is available on Amazon for Kobo readers and details the tumultuous

ride that is her life, starting with the unchecked mental illness, her father’s schizophrenia and its impact on her mother, detailing the difficulties she faced when confronting her sexual abuser from childhood and reading her mother’s journals, gaining a new perspective on the life they both lived, and much, much more. She says she wanted to write the book to let others understand that there was a light at the end of the tunnel, but also to help her move forward in her journey of healing. “I often find, now, with people that have read the

book, they will come to me and they tell me they can’t get there, (to a point of healing). They don’t know how you get through that,” she said, adding that she has had readers and friends call her at all hours, expressing their sympathy and empathy for her past. “I have reached this point in my life where I am okay with my past. It was hard at the time, but you learn how to cope. It is not about sympathy, though. I don’t need sympathy. What I want is to relate with other people who have gone through something similar.” One of the more touching parts of the e-book is

the section which describes Harrison’s experience in court, taking the stand to tell the world what she had gone through at age seven. She told the Observer about the healing effect just telling people about the past abuse had on her life. “I was 17 and it was totally random. I hadn’t even planned on telling,” she said. “But, up until that point I was stuck. I was stuck in this darkness. I couldn’t get out of it and I didn’t know how. Then one day, I was just done. I thought, ‘just say it and it will be done.’ The biggest impact for me was that there were probably other

people being assaulted by the same person and that bothered me. That is a big burden to carry.” A common theme throughout Saving Catherine is the presence of Harrison’s mother: a woman subject to emotional and physical abuse at the hands of her husband, and a neglectful mother who was going through her own immense struggles. While she was still a teenager, Harrison found her mother’s well-hidden journals, gaining valuable insight to a woman that she had previously misunderstood. Her BOOK | 28

Concert is something new for Elmira’s Trinity United Church WHITNEY NEILSON TRINITY UNITED CHURCH’S UPCOMING “Resonate” concert will be nothing like your typical church sing-a-long. Arranged by the Elmira church’s music director Becky Reesor, the concert is largely interactive, and incorporates both classical and contemporary music, along with mixed media. “Some of the music’s played interactively with the audience and some of it’s just performed. The audiences are given some activities to do during some

of the music so they can interact with it and explore our walk in life a little bit,” said Reesor. The concert will serve as the church fundraiser as well. Typically they do a talent and dessert night, but when Reesor brought the interactive concert idea to the church council, they were on board, said Randy Warren, church council member and finance and property chair. “Becky is phenomenal and just added a whole new element to the church. People thoroughly enjoy her and love her music and her

approach to everything. There’s a huge interest from the church congregation of attending the event and hearing her in a different setting, other than a church service, hearing her take on music and some of the stuff she’s doing is more jazz, which does not happen in a church service,” Warren said. Reesor says she’s been interested in this kind of interactive concert for a long time. While completing her undergraduate piano degree in Winnipeg the students were encouraged to think about the signifi-

cance about what they’re doing. As a piano player she challenges herself to see how she can get anybody to interact with music, regardless of what they know about music already. She followed up her degree with an interactive concert series. “I just experimented with different ways of getting people to be able to awake their imaginations, to be inspired, or we talk about different issues with the music like peace or grief or even just the imagination in general, just different topics that can be

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explored when people are given some ways to listen to the music. It’s kind of like when someone looks at an art piece and even if they don’t know anything about art they can still feel like they’ve engaged with that art piece and they’ve got something from it or it sparks something in the conversation or the way they think about something in the world. Music can do the same thing but you have to find ways to give people tools to do that,” Reesor said. CONCERT | 28

RENOWNED HUMANITARIAN STEPHEN LEWIS joins Mennonite Central Committee in Waterloo next month for their signature event focused on the Syrian refugee crisis and the partnerships being made both locally and internationally. Lewis has spoke at MCC events in the past in Western Canada, but MCC executive director Rick CoberBauman says they’ve never brought him to Ontario. The former politician and UN ambassador’s charitable efforts have been focused on HIV/AIDS through the Stephen Lewis Foundation, which was founded in 2003 and helps those in Africa affected by the disease. “We wanted someone who was also committed to at least part of our international program commitments,” Cober-Bauman said. “We’ve had a long commitment to working with HIV/AIDS, both the people living with HIV/ AIDS but especially grandparents and orphans and people that were for so many years left behind by the deaths of HIV/AIDS.” He says MCC’s and Lewis’ similar roles in empowering women in health, education, and economics made him an ideal choice. “He is an excellent communicator that we continue to hear people say they’re eager to get a chance to hear him. That’s an important part that he’s someone that people actually will pay attention to and want to hear,” CoberBauman said. LEWIS | 19

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Woolwich passes 2016 budget

Fees stopped for Crime Stoppers

Woolwich council made the township’s 2016 budget official this week, approving a 2.88 per cent tax hike – a general 1.33 per cent increase, and 1.5 for a special infrastructure levy. The budget contains operating expenditures of $15,300,150 and capital spending of $13,198,919. Property taxes levied on residents will bring in $9,347,067. This year’s tax increase will add $19.67 a year to the township portion of the tax levied on a home assessed at a value of $302,000, the region’s household average.

What started out as a thank-you event for the community’s response following the 2014 vandalism of the Woolwich Memorial Centre has become a popular day of activities hosted by Crime Stoppers of Waterloo Region. The event’s third outing is set for Apr. 10. Meeting this week, Woolwich council agreed to waive rental fees for the day. Instead of paying some $1,875 for the use of the two ice pads, swimming pool and community and meeting rooms, organizers will be able to put more resources into the day’s activi-

ties. On tap are hockey skills sessions for minor hockey players, a free public skate and swim, seniors centre activities including presentations on fraud, a barbecue, raffles and draws, among a list of other options.

Bloomingdale residents to shed some light More streetlights in Bloomingdale? Yes or no? Township officials will be turning to residents to find out what they think. As Woolwich council prepared to pass its 2016 budget, Ward. 3 Coun. Larry Shantz suggested the township look

into adding streetlights in conjunction with a plan to retrofit all of the fixtures in the township over the next couple of years. Council committed $432,500 in 2016 and again in 2017 to convert all of its streetlights to LEDs. As well, the Region of Waterloo is planning to reconstruct a portion of Sawmill Road in the community, which would also be a good time to make additions, Shantz suggested. Coun. Murray Martin noted that in a past public meeting, residents indicated they weren’t interested in more streetlights, especially if the project came with a price tag to individual homeowners. Director of engineering and planning

Dan Kennaley said his department would work out some costing for additional lights prior to revisiting the issue with residents at a future date. With the LED project, the goal is to replace all 2,100 streetlights in Woolwich with more efficient units to save energy and maintenance expenses.

Home sales, prices up in Jan. Homes sales through the Multiple Listing System (MLS) of the KitchenerWaterloo Association of Realtors in January were up 29.8% compared to January of last year. A total of 309 residential properties

were sold compared to 238 the same time last year in Kitchener-Waterloo and area. Residential sales in January included 205 single detached homes (up 33.1% from last January), 14 semi-detached (down 17.6%), 21 townhomes (up 31.3%) and 67 condominium units (up 31.0%). Single detached homes sold for an average price of $409,101, an increase of 10.5% compared to last year. The average sale price for a condominium was $214,464 a decrease of 7.6%, while townhomes and semis sold for an average of $311,509 (up 12.4%) and $283,966 (up 10.0%) respectively. The average sale price of all residential sales through the MLS system increased 8.2% to $353,514 compared to January 2015.

POLICE BLOTTER

Police target cyberbullying in bid to make the Internet safer IN CONJUNCTION WITH INTERNATIONAL Safer Internet Day (Feb. 9), police are promoting cyber safety awareness by encouraging young people and their families to T.H.I.N.K b4 U Send to ensure their safety in the online world. International Safer Internet Day was created to promote safer and more responsible use of technology, especially among children and young people around the world. The theme for Safer Internet Day 2016 is “Play your part for a better Internet.” One of the growing concerns associated with the Internet and mobile devices include cyberbullying, police report. Cyberbullying happens when people use computers, cellphones or other devices to embarrass, humiliate, torment, threaten or harass someone else. With the rapid advances in technologies, cyberbullying is happening to more and more people every day. Another increasing con-

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cern is the issue of self/ peer exploitation. Also known as “sexting,” this behaviour is commonly defined as youth creating, sending or sharing sexual images and/or videos with peers via the Internet, social media sites and/or electronic devices, say officials, who are encouraging everyone to apply the T.H.I.N.K test before posting or sending a cyber message or photo. If it doesn’t pass the T.H.I.N.K test you may be breaking the law.

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8:22 AM | Police received a call regarding numerous Canada Post Superboxes (mailboxes) being entered throughout Wellington County as well as in other jurisdictions including Waterloo Region and the City of Guelph. Investigation revealed that sometime overnight on Jan. 31 unknown persons gained access to numerous Superboxes by prying open the main door and accessing the mail. Not all the mailboxes were successfully entered which resulted in the main door being bent outward and deep gouges on the outside of the mailbox, below the main door. It is unknown how much mail has been taken or the estimate of damage done to the mailboxes. Any person with information regarding these incidents is asked to contact the Wellington County OPP at 1-888310-1122. Should you wish to remain anonymous, you may call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS) or submit a tip on-line at www. csgw.tips. You may be eligible for a reward from Crime Stoppers of up to $2,000. FEBRUARY 4

9:55 PM | Wellington County OPP officers responded to a driving

complaint about a 2012 Hyundai on Highway 7. Police located the vehicle and spoke with the female driver who showed signs that she was impaired by alcohol and was arrested. The 49-year-old driver was taken to a local OPP Operations Centre for testing and subsequently charged with ‘impaired driving’ and ‘over 80 mgs.’ Her driver’s licence was suspended for 90 days and the vehicle impounded for a period of seven days. She is to appear in Guelph Criminal Court on Mar. 22.

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Dangled savings no reason to cede our civil rights WHO COULD ARGUE WITH the idea of getting fitter and healthier? It’s fine advice coming from the healthcare system or from someone who cares about you, but not from a corporation looking to poke around in your life ... and fatten their wallets while stripping you of your privacy with the unspoken intent of finding ways to deny insurance claims. Manulife Financial Corp. is looking to extend to Canada a program it started in the U.S. whereby it offers financial incentives for leading a healthier lifestyle, one that they will monitor electronically and by accessing your medical records. Much like the purported savings on auto insurance that come with installing a tracking device on your car, the loss of privacy is enough to say no. Governments, in fact, should outlaw such practices. They’re unsafe, unprincipled and unhealthy for our society. That their sole intent is to benefit corporate interests adds to the shady nature of the practice. You shouldn’t hold your breath waiting for regulators to act in the public interest, however. That goes double if you opt to plug into such programs, as your physiology will be watched (literally, via wearable devices). Governments are already the worst offenders for attacking our privacy and civil rights. They’re also complicit in allowing private companies to do the same. That’s unlikely to change, and many of us are blithely unaware of frittering away our own privacy. Some of us, though, are concerned about governments, police agencies and private businesses – none acting in our best interest – spying on us. Our carelessness with social media, for instance, further erodes our privacy, while making it easier for the aforementioned groups to keep tabs on us ... and sell us stuff. Add to the list of threats against your privacy – and even your safety – the technology we insist on surrounding ourselves with. Everything from our smartphones to our cars and even our TVs can and will be used against us. Sometimes, as in the use of GPS technology in phones, our movements are easily tracked, the better to offer up individualized ads. Out running errands and decide you want to grab a bite somewhere? Your mobile device will pinpoint your location and offer up restaurant suggestions, likely ones from establishments that have paid the search provider. Seems convenient and innocuous enough, right? But that information is also being stored in perpetuity, to be added to the vast array of data collected about you, as well as feeding the overall statistics of not only the service provider, but any group to whom it chooses to sell the data. Theoretically, with your smartphone on, you can be tracked everywhere you go. That information used as a sales tool, and also scooped up by government agencies, with or without legal standing. The same caveats apply to your car and its telematics – essentially, black box information gathered by the onboard computer systems. Insurance companies – ever vigilant for new ways to make money, gouge customers and invade their privacy – are making a play to gather the information collected by your car’s systems. Under the guise of premium discounts, they’ll gain access to where you go, when you drive, total mileage, speed travelled, use of accelerator and brakes, and a host of other data. That information, too, will be sold to third parties. And likely subject to sweeping seizure by authorities. Some convenience and the savings of a few dollars will end up costing us exponentially more down the road.

Facing ever-growing water and sewer bills, some people come up with alternatives to government forcing them to flush their money away. WORLD VIEW / GWYNNE DYER

North Korea’s nuclear aspirations make sense in some ways WORLD AFFAIRS HERE WE GO AGAIN. North Korea launched a ballistic missile of intercontinental range on Sunday (saying it was just putting up a satellite) only weeks after it carried out its fourth nuclear weapons test (which it claimed was a hydrogen bomb). The United Nations Security Council strongly condemned it, and even the People’s Republic of China, North Korea’s only ally, expressed its “regret” at what the country had done. There will certainly now be more UN sanctions against Kim Jong-un’s isolated regime. But there have already been four rounds of UN military and economic sanctions since North Korea’s first nuclear test in 2006, and Pyongyang just ignores them. Clearly, this is something that the North Korean regime wants so badly that it is willing to endure considerable punishment in order to get it. But why is this very poor country spend-

ing vast sums in order to be able to strike its neighbours – and even the United States, for that is what the intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) are about – with nuclear weapons? Well, here’s a clue. What the North Korean government said after last month’s hydrogen bomb test was this: “The DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) is a genuine peace-loving state which has made every effort to protect peace on the Korean Peninsula and security in the region from the vicious U.S. nuclear war scenario.” “The U.S. is a gang of cruel robbers that has worked hard to bring even a nuclear disaster to the DPRK. ... By succeeding in the H-bomb test ... the DPRK proudly joined the advanced ranks of nuclear weapons states ... and the Korean people demonstrated the spirit of a dignified nation equipped with the most powerful nuclear deterrent.” Never mind the stilted rhetoric and gutter abuse; North Korean propagandists always talk like that. Listen to the key words that

are almost buried under the surrounding invective. North Korea’s nuclear weapons program, they say, is meant to “protect ... the region from ... the U.S. ... nuclear war scenario” by creating a “most powerful nuclear deterrent.” Really? Do they actually fear that the United States might use nuclear weapons on them, and that they can only be safe if they have their own hydrogen bombs and ICBMs? Are they doing all this purely as a defensive measure? Of course they are. However bad-tempered and impulsive they sounded, the men of the Kim family, father, son and grandson, who have ruled North Korea in dynastic succession for the past 68 years were not crazy. They never started a war, because they knew they would lose it, and the current incumbent is certainly not going to start a nuclear war. He would have to be crazy to do that. North Korea lacks the resources to build more than a few bombs a year, and it does not have the technologies to ensure that the missiles it may one day have won’t

get shot down. It will probably never be able to guarantee that it can strike even South Korea or Japan with nuclear missiles, let alone the United States. Everybody in the North Korean hierarchy (along with some millions of other North Koreans) would certainly be dead only hours after the regime launched nuclear weapons at any of those countries. The United States has literally thousands of nuclear weapons. It would take only a few dozen quite small ones to virtually exterminate the entire ruling elite, and North Korea would have no way of stopping them. A few not-very-high-tech nuclear weapons would give Pyongyang no usable ability to launch a nuclear attack against the United States or its allies. They would, however, give it a pretty credible nuclear deterrent. Launching a few nuclear weapons against a major nuclear power is suicidal, but those same few weapons can be a perfectly good deterrent against a nuclear attack by that same power, DYER | 8

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THEIR VIEW / QUESTION OF THE WEEK

What are you planning for Family Day?

» Ken Lubert

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“I am going up to the far north to visit my dad “I am running a try-before-you-buy lacrosse and play in the snow.” clinic for girls at Bechtel Park.”

» Dominic Ostrom

» Bob Phillips

» Abby Burkholder

“Football training.”

“I am going to be finishing up report cards.”

“We will be celebrating my brother’s birthday.”

“North Korea is not a crazy state plotting a nuclear holocaust at the cost of its own extinction.” Gwynne Dyer | 6 HIS VIEW / STEVE KANNON

Bureaucracies have way of leading to undemocratic, if not evil outcomes EDITOR'S NOTES RECENT GOINGS-ON IN BRESLAU are a microcosm of the trouble with bureaucracy and a lack of accountability to the public. Take, for instance, last week’s council discussion of the Breslau secondary plan. All of the delegates were those with vested interests – they want rules that will clear the way for them to profit from their holdings in the community. Lawyers, planners and other experts were trotted out to support a request that the township adopt planning goals conducive with their own. If things don’t go their way, the developers have the time, the motivation and the money to press ahead with legal action. The general public has had very little input in the process. Not because they haven’t had the opportunity, but because they don’t see any reason to get involved, as is the case with the many bureaucratic as-

pects of governance. Contrast that with the potential sale of land in Breslau Memorial Park for a school project. In that case, many people did make themselves heard. Most of those who got involved opposed the project, seeing it as a threat to the community park. There was enough of an issue to overcome the usual apathy and indifference accorded to political issues for many years now. In this instance, the public was successful in overturning the project, largely because the intended beneficiary, the Catholic school board, did send out lawyers and teams of experts to threaten, cajole and influence council. That made it much easier to weigh the public’s position, not that of other interests, even if staff (the bureaucrats) were pushing for it, counting the money offered up by their counterparts at the board (other bureaucrats). With the development issues, the people involved are acting in their own interests. The bureaucrats are largely disinterested. Rather, they have their own

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one policy decision can make sense. Or at least be internally rationalized as making sense. At the risk of invoking Godwin’s Law, that puts us on the same slippery slope that led to the atrocities of the Nazis and countless other tyrannies. Today’s bureaucracies are similar in nature if not in degree to those groups. Coining the phrase “banality of evil,” political theorist Hannah Arendt posited that most Nazis weren’t psychopaths and madmen, but simple men who just carried out orders in their little slice of the bureaucracy that evolved. The system was everything, and following it was the road to career advancement. Unspeakable things were done by ordinary people. Her theories suggest that bureaucracies, though generally benign, offer up the same kind of structures that exist under totalitarianism. Breaking issues down into small steps, disallowing anyone to see the big picture, and discouraging individual thought is precisely the bureaucratic

mindset so prevalent today. We see that the factory floor and fast-food counter are managed that way, but that way of thinking has been applied much more broadly such that a holistic approach is typically discouraged. Dystopian writers such as George Orwell and Aldous Huxley saw the threats of a mindless, mechanized, bureaucratized world. Often, it’s a slow, reasoned slide into a place we never wanted to go. “I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of ‘Admin.’ The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid ‘dens of crime’ that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like

the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern,” writes author C.S. Lewis in the preface to The Screwtape Letters. In covering the trial of the Nazi Adolf Eichmann, Arendt wrote of the normalness of those involved in the horrendous acts. “The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, they were, and still are, terrifyingly normal. This new type of criminal commits his crimes under circumstances that make it wellnigh impossible for him to know or to feel that he is doing wrong.” Unlike the Nazis and a handful of tyrants since, most of those who contribute to the decline of our society today aren’t held accountable. Rather, the real threat comes from politicians and bureaucrats who craft rules to avoid responsibility and to justify their decisions, no matter how poor, wasteful or harmful – there’s no need KANNON | 8

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THIS WEEK IN HISTORY

Demand for child and youth mental health care has been steadily rising throughout Ontario’s health care system, with the biggest growth being felt in Ontario’s emergency departments. From 2006 to 2011, mental health-related emergency room visits rose from 14.6 to 19.3 per 1,000 people (from 36,229 to 49,294), an increase of 32.5%. Hospitalizations increased by 53.7%. Office-based physician visits increased by 15.8%.

“Sure, they’re not slapping unions in the face or sticking thumbs in their eyes, as the Conservatives were so intent on doing – the humiliation, not consulting, not even going through the motions. The approach has been replaced with a friendlier tone. But the substance has not changed. The challenges workers have been facing are not going to go away. If they’re going to achieve greater gains, it’s only when people really fight and push.”

Plans to hike taxes by 5.25 per cent and hire two more staff members won’t be challenged when Woolwich moves to make official the 2012 budget, suggests Mayor Todd Cowan. A vote is expected Feb. 21, but no further review seems likely, council having completed its budget deliberations.

» The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)

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because they give the weaker party a capacity for “revenge from the grave.” Even a country as powerful as the United States will behave very cautiously when faced with the possibility that an opponent might land even one or two nuclear weapons on its territory. North Korea has lived under the implicit threat of U.S. nuclear weapons for almost seven decades, and the United States has never promised not to use those weapons against it. It’s almost surprising that we haven’t seen North Korean nuclear weapons before now. North Korea is just doing

the same thing that Pakistan did in the 1980s and 90s out of fear of Indian nuclear weapons, and that Iran was doing in fear of both Pakistani and Israeli nuclear weapons in the last 15 years. The Security Council is quite right to try to block North Korea’s nuclear weapons program, and the successful use of international sanctions to stop Iran offers some hope that it may succeed. But North Korea is not a crazy state plotting a nuclear holocaust at the cost of its own extinction. Its nuclear weapons program is a perfectly rational – although highly undesirable – policy for a small country with a big problem.

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Kings forward Ethan Skinner gets the puck past Brampton, and went on to score one of the team’s 6 goals against the Bombers on Sunday at the WMC. [LIZ BEVAN / THE OBSERVER] game, coming from Adel ing sure they aren’t getner), Quinten Bruce (from Zivojevic, assisted by Brad ting thrown off their game Peterson and Hoelscher), Bollet and Patrick Zilak. It which can easily happen two in a row from Skinner was the only goal of the secwhen you’re getting hit and (unassisted, then on the ond period. checked every time you powerplay from Coulter Heading into the third touch the puck. I think that and Kohli), and the fifth is the type of playoff hockey period with a four goal from Ryley Cribbin (Ryan lead, Skinner rubbed salt that happens – there is not Maksymyk and Soper). in Brampton’s wounds by a lot of space, so it was a It seemed that Brampton notching another goal, good test for us. It worked finally took notice of the his third of the game, asout pretty well for us,” he score nearing the end of sisted by Coulter and Ryan said. “At times it is tough to the first, and began to fight Walsh. In a final ditch efhave that intensity for 60 back, allowing fewer shots fort, Brampton’s Jordan minutes, but we definitely to make it to the net, and Kreller, sunk a powerplay let them back in the game checking, checking, checkmarker, helped in by Bollert ing. Canal says the intensity and we have to give them and Yianni Liarakos, but credit for continuing to batcoming from the visitor’s it certainly wasn’t enough tle and, you know, it was a bench gave the Kings good to change the direction of good little second and third practice for playoff style the wind at the Dan Snyder for us to be able to fight hockey. Arena - too little, too late. back through that.” “Brampton definitely The final score was 6-2 for The game turned into a plays hard, they finish Elmira. decent back-and-forth in checks and things like that, Canal says that with the the second period, with so it was a good test for our Brampton scoring one of guys to stay composed and KINGS | 10 their only two goals of the stay disciplined and mak-

A FRIEND AND I recently began planning a canoe trip for early spring. It started out as an intimate, fastmoving little affair: basically two guys, one canoe, one tent, two fly rods, all the accompanying gear and an agenda that included fishing at two or three secret lakes where brook trout are big and plentiful. Believe it or not, there are problems with a trip such as this. The first is that it sounds too nice. The second is because it actually is so nice (we did it last year) you want to tell people about it. Then, naturally, those people you told about it want to come along on the next one. That’s what happened here. As a result, our intimate little trip looks like it just might soon double in size. Two more friends of my friend want to join in on the adventure. That means one more canoe, two more anglers and the commensurate amount of accompanying gear will be with us. On the surface, that’s not a bad thing. It’s always nice to have a few more likeminded people on a trip such as this – especially if they are good at cooking and doing dishes. What I do worry about, however, is whether or not they will take kindly to padGALEA | 11

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a minute later, Kings’ forward Kyle Soper doubled the team’s lead with help from Fitzpatrick. In a moment of weakness, the Kings let Cambridge’s Sean Ross score shorthanded, bringing the scoring a bit closer, with help from Kyle Heitzner and Matt McKay. Twenty seconds later, Fitzpatrick scored the Kings’ fourth powerplay goal of the game, assisted by recently returned Klayton Hoelscher and Alex Peterson. To clinch the lead, Coulter scored his third of the game, earning himself a hat trick, on an empty net after the Winter Hawks pulled their goalie. Sugar Kings’ head coach Ty Canal says that even with the win, the game started out slow for his squad. “At Saturday’s game, I don’t think we came out too strong,” he said, adding that Sunday’s game on home ice was a completely different story, referencing the five unanswered goals in the first period. “I thought our start on Sunday was obviously very good. We came out of the gate strong, and after Saturday, it was nice to come out on the strong side and put the puck in the net like we did.” During Sunday’s matinee game, the Kings dominated the first, with goals from Jeff Jordan on the powerplay (MacSorley and Skin-

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Jacks and Braves even at 1-1 in first round of playoffs Home crowd had plenty to cheer about in opening-game win, but Tavistock had the edge the following afternoon game, Spencer Brick added a goal to Wellesley’s side of the score board, with help from Brady Gerber and Braidon Kerbs. The Braves quickly shot back with another from Borys just 10 seconds later, assisted by Jacob Rooke and Check. Then, things started to get rough in the second, with 11 penalties from Wellesley, and only three from Tavistock. Head coach Brad Gerber says the emotional play was to be expected with such a young team. Many have never been to the playoffs at this level of hockey before. “What we’ve learned from this past weekend is that we have to worry about ourselves. Let’s just play our game, don’t let the emotions get to us. It was the first time at the playoff level in this league for a lot of our players on the team, and you know, I think the emotions got to them a bit at times,” he said. “There is nothing wrong with that, but there is a fine line and we have to keep it under control, especially with penalties

LIZ BEVAN THE WELLESLEY APPLEJACKS HAVE started the 2016 playoffs with a win and a loss over the weekend against their firstround matchup, the Tavistock Braves. After opening with a 6-4 victory, the Jacks dropped the second game 5-4, with both games at the Wellesley arena. On Saturday night, the Applejacks fought hard on home ice for a win in the first game of the postseason. It was a passionate and emotional game for the boys, with the team racking up 54 penalty minutes to Tavistock’s 28 penalty minutes. Saturday started on a high note for the Jacks, with Jake Wilkinson scoring the first goal of the game less than one minute after the puck dropped, assisted by Brenden Goran and Nick Palmer. Tavistock wasn’t having it, however, and quickly followed up with a goal of their own from Josh Borys (Ocean Check, Cody Bateman). After a nearly evenly matched back and forth

and stuff. Again, five-onfive we are a good team and if we can stay out of the box, we are going to be just fine.” Tavistock took over the second period, getting two goals ahead of Wellesley, the first on the powerplay from Jake Wiffen, from Borys and Kieran Van Boekel just 21 seconds into the period. The second goal from the Braves was put in the net by Jamie Shoemaker, assisted by Wiffen. Alex Uttley, a veteran on the Applejacks, brought Tavistock’s lead down to one with a short-handed, unassisted goal at 15:50 in the second. Gerber says Uttley is a vital part of the team’s lineup and adds valuable experience to the ice and the locker room. “He just has that drive,” said Gerber. “You can tell he has played hockey before and that is so important. We definitely need our veterans to help us through and help the young guys get their feet wet. Once they get there, they will be fine. It is a different kind of intensity (in the playoffs).”

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Applejacks goalie Ryan Hergott on the verge of making a big save in Saturday night’s playoff win against the Tavistock Braves. The team won on first night, losing the second during last weekend’s play at the Wellesley arena. The teams reconvene in Tavistock this weekend for games three and four of the series. [LIZ BEVAN / THE OBSERVER] Heading into the third, the Applejacks must have felt a strong wind behind them. Penalty minutes were minimal, and the team scored three goals, bringing the game to the win column with a final score of 6-4. Cal Jefferies, assisted by Nick Mercier and Uttley scored quickly, just 40 seconds in. Shaun Pickering scored unassisted, and Mercier, also unassisted, guaranteed the Applejacks win with a powerplay goal at 17:57. On Sunday afternoon, Wellesley wasn’t as successful, but still played in a high scoring game, which is unusual for playoff hockey. The game ended with a score of 5-4 for Tavistock, tying up the series early. The Braves got the momentum going in the first with a goal from Angus Rowland on the powerplay, assisted by Borys and Check, while Shoemaker was sitting pretty on a hooking call. Wellesley fired back with a goal from Goran, assisted by Uttley and Justin Lebold just before the period ended. The Braves dominated

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left off after last Saturday’s win. “We definitely want to get that momentum back. We had it after game one, but they took it from us. “Leading into the weekend, we just need to worry about ourselves and stay out of the penalty box,” he said, adding that playing in Tavistock could actually give the Jacks a bit of an advantage this coming weekend. “We don’t mind playing in Tavistock. The ice surface is a little bit bigger and I think that gives us a little bit of an advantage actually. We don’t mind playing on the road at all. Our road record has been as good as our home record all season long and I think sometimes, getting on the road, the boys have a bit of a different game prep and it doesn’t bother us one bit. It doesn’t matter where we are playing, the boys are ready to go.” The series moves to Tavistock this weekend. The fun resumes on Friday night at 7:30 p.m. The second game of the weekend starts at 8:30 p.m. on Feb. 14.

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the second, with two goals. The first from Maverick Petrie on the powerplay with an assist from Rooke, and Rowland’s second of the game, assisted by Petrie. Heading into the third period down by two goals, Wellesley did what they could, but the Braves got two more goals past goalie Ryan Hergott, both from Rooke. The last 10 minutes of play, the Applejacks made a last-ditch effort to overcome their four goal deficit, but only managed three. Goran scored two, rounding out the game to earn himself a hat trick, both assisted by Uttley and the second also assisted by Jefferies. Uttley, on the powerplay and with an extra attacker on the ice, scored with just 20 seconds left in the game, closing the goal gap to one, but it just wasn’t enough. This coming weekend, Wellesley will be traveling to Tavistock to take on the Braves for games three and four of the series, and Gerber hopes the team can get their penalties in check, and pick up where they

winning weekend behind them, the boys have a week off before hosting Kitchener at the Woolwich Memorial Centre, and will be practicing maintaining the momentum from the last two games. Playoffs are at the forefront of everyone’s mind, with only six games left in the regular season. “I think it is just progressing on what we have been working on in the last little while. There isn’t a lot of time left before playoffs, so it’s definitely something that we are working hard on, as well as skating and

fine tuning areas of the game that we need to and to make sure that when the week of Mar. 1 comes along, we’re going in the right direction and getting as close to 60 minutes of hockey as we can,” he said. A highlight of the weekend for Canal was watching the boys play off each other and smoothly cycling through lines. Working together is key to the team’s success. “The big thing for us, especially in that first period on Sunday, was the momentum that went from line to line, which we have been working on the last

couple of weeks. It was very nice to see the guys run off one another in the first period,” he said. “The second we did give up scoring chances, that next line that was out, they were able to slow the pace down, which is something that we have been talking about for a while. It was a good team game this weekend, which obviously helped us on the score board.” The next home game for the Kings (21-17-1) is on Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14, at 7 p.m. when they will be hosting the Conferenceleading Kitchener Dutchmen (39-4).

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dling and portaging blindfolded as we head towards the secret lakes. I’ll be the first to admit it won’t be easy, especially at the rapids or as we approach that portage just before those roaring falls. Then again, nothing worthwhile is ever easy. Yes, that will be the main point of my argument.

Hopefully, they’ll also understand the need for blindfolds as well as the legally binding confidentiality agreements. Or the large financial penalties for illegal disclosure of the lakes to others. I know few people abide by blood oaths these days, but we’ll have one of those anyway, just in case. Otherwise it will simply be con-

sidered a symbolic gesture. It would be good if they are also fine with the no GPS, no camera clause in the contract too. I consider non-compliance with that a deal-breaker. When you think about it, it’s a really small price to pay. I mean, we are going to take them to a couple of nice brook trout lakes. A lot of non-anglers

might be wondering about these precautions and perhaps even consider them a little too harsh. Well, let me just explain it this way. Those lakes are not too far off the beaten path so the utmost in discretion is required. You see if we take them there and they know how to return the next time, they might tell friends,

who’ll tell friends, who’ll tell friends, who will eventually tell you about your secret lake. And will then offer to take you there if you agree to be blindfolded, take a blood oath and sign a bunch of silly contracts. Who wants that? Besides, secret brook trout lakes get that way precisely because of forward thinking like this. Confiden-

tiality saves them from too much fishing pressure and it saves you from listening to other guys brag about catching bigger brook trout than you caught this year. So it’s a win-win. Clearly, it would be different if we were taking them to a secret trophy walleye spot. Then they would have to go through the obligatory police check too.

Local hockey tournament has Zambian connection There’ll be no shinny in the African nation, but event helps young couple on a mission to lend a hand LIZ BEVAN ON A SUNNY MORNING Jan. 25, the Hawkesville Community Centre was packed with friends and family of Nathan and Emma Harris, all for a friendly three-on-three hockey tournament. Dubbed the first annual Harris Winter Classic, the tournament saw four teams face off on homemade ice to vie for the hand-carved trophy, all while raising money for the Harris’ outreach trip to Africa. Nathan Harris was born and raised in Zambia, living there with his parents, while Emma, a registered nurse, has been working at a rural hospital in the African country for the past two years. The trip is a kind of scouting mission to look at longer term options to continue their outreach work. The hockey tournament was a surprise for the newly married couple, and to see their friends and fellow community members

come together to support their trip to Zambia was a “humbling” experience – one they are grateful for. “It is a hometown thing. Our friends here were interested in what we were doing, and it is really cool to see,” said Nathan. “So many of these people have never been to Zambia, or know much about it, but it is really neat that they are lending their hands.” Emma shared how much the event meant to her. “It is humbling, and it is cool to know that our friends came together to do this for us,” she said. “It means a lot.” Their trip to Zambia, they left on Jan. 26 is relatively short-term and will give the couple a chance to do some work at the rural bush hospital and check out future, longer term options. Nathan says there is a sense of familiarity in Africa. “My parents were missionaries. I am one of three siblings and I am the only one that keeps going back.

It feels like home when we go there,” he said. The Harris Winter Classic also gave people living in Wellesley and Woolwich townships a chance to contribute to the work the Harris’ will be doing. “Not everyone is able to go to Africa and yet everybody here has a part in sending us out there,” she said. “In that way, they are helping Zambia too.” For those wondering why the Harris’ want to go to Africa and lend their expertise to those in need, Nathan says it is about spreading the fortune and love that we in Canada are so lucky to have. “It is definitely a faithbased thing for us. We believed that God blessed this country so much, and the work that God has done in our lives, we want to go share that with people who really need it,” he said, adding that a lot of the players in the hockey tournament were from the cou-

The winning team poses with their trophy and Nathan and Emma Harris at the end of a tournament put together Jan. 25 by friends to raise money and awareness for their mission trip to Zambia. [LIZ BEVAN / THE OBSERVER].

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Cold and snow no impediment to this bike race Sugar Shack Hustle Fat Bike Scramble returned for a second year to township roads WHITNEY NEILSON AH, NOTHING LIKE A refreshing bike ride through the snow. At least that’s what the 75 participants of the second annual Sugar Shack Hustle Fat Bike Scramble thought on Jan. 28 as they hit the trails at Shady Grove Maple Farm. Put on by King Street Cycles, participants rode fat bikes six laps through a course with numerous different challenges. “It sold out really fast last year with 50 participants, and everyone seemed to have a great time and really enjoyed it and everyone seemed really keen and was asking when the next one was,” said Andy Cox of King Street Cycles. “So we decided we’d do another one and we actually bumped participation up from 50 to 75 and started selling online registration earlier and sure enough sold out 75 spots this year. Everyone’s really excited.” Fat bikes have larger tires and rims than a normal off-road bicycle and they were created to allow for cycling in winter or on other unstable terrain. They spent a few Sundays setting up the course and the weekend before the event they let interested participants come do a preride of the course. “On our event Facebook page people are actually offering to pay more than the original price for anybody

that wants to sell their spot, which is pretty funny. I’m surprised at how popular it is but I’m happy about that,” Cox said. Some of the prizes included fat bike wheels, fat bike tires, winter clothing, and high end lights that allow you to ride at night. The event is intended to be a low-key fun event. More women signed up than he thought would last year, and they suggested having a women specific category. So this year participants were divided into men and women. There were first, second, and third prizes for the fastest women finishers and a first, second, and third for the men. “We didn’t want to make it too serious with different age categories. It’s more about having some fun out in the snow and enjoying some riding when typically you wouldn’t be riding,” Cox said. The course definitely has its challenges and Cox says this allowed for people to excel in different areas. One section has a lot of blown in snow, meaning it’s deep and hard to ride through. Another portion is through the woods where the snow is packed down nice and it’s a scenic ride under the sap lines. Then in the middle of the woods there’s been no grooming at all, but this is where these bikes do well. A normal mountain bike would never make it through the snow. And lastly they rode

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Brave cyclists hit the trails at Shady Grove Maple Farms on Jan. 31 for the second annual Sugar Shack Hustle Fat Bike Scramble. [WHITNEY NEILSON / THE OBSERVER]] along the side of the road where the faster cyclists were able to speed up with nothing in their way. “Seeing as it’s sort of a new style of riding and a new style of bikes it does seem to be a fairly mixed crowd. We have some people who have been doing it for a long time and cycling in general for a long time and then we have people that just got their first bike this season and are brand

new and they just want to go out and enjoy the day with like-minded folks. So it’s really quite a mixed bag,” Cox said. Laura Jean’s Cookhouse was there with pancakes and sausages, and a bonfire was set up with marshmallows for roasting. Those who weren’t able to register this year are more than welcome to drop by King Street Cycles to test out a fat bike, which continues

to grow in popularity. “A lot of times when we live in this area we typically think of January and February as a time when there’s not a lot of riding going on. This has really opened up these winter months for people. These bikes go through the snow quite well and it allows people to get out and enjoy the outdoors and enjoy the cycling that they love in a new time of year,” Cox said.

ple’s church community. The couple is planning on working in Africa on a long-term basis and say having the community behind them lends to their success in Zambia. “Knowing that this community is here, it kind of keeps you accountable for the things you do over there. It is not just a vacation for us,” said Nathan. Emma echoed her husband’s comments. “People are sacrificing to send us out there and it makes you think seriously about how you spend your time and your resources,” she said. The couple is more than grateful for the work put into the tournament and pizza lunch put together by their friends, mentioning this was one of the bigger going away to-dos they have ever had. “It was unexpected for us. We have travelled there before and normally, we just head out,” he said with a laugh. Emma shared how happy she was to be a part of a community that could put something like this together. “We love the small town thing. This is so typical of Elmira and Hawkesville and we are just so happy to a part of it,” she said.

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THE SCORE

WOOLWICH WILDCATS

Tyke Select Feb. 6 vs Brampton Home: 3 Visitor: 1 Goals: Coleton Benham (2), Mitchell Krasovec Assists: Wade McKenzie, Cam Dawson (2), Mitchell Krasovec

Tyke Select Feb. 7 vs Garden City Home: 6 Visitor: 4 Goals: Mitchell Krasovec (6) Assists: Carter Weir, Lucas Benham, Luke Wood, Spencer Hume, Alex Veitch, Gabe Reitzel, Cam Dawson, Mac Zettel, Wade McKenzie, Tristan Hill

Novice: MAJOR

Atom: MINOR A Jan. 29 vs Guelph Home: 7 Visitor: 0 Goals: Liam Wood, Ian Leech (2), Stuart Sinclair (2), Mitchell Walker, Eric Kane Assists: Mitchell Walker, Pacey Camm, Andrew Chumley, Eric Kane, Stuart Sinclair, Isaac Lopers, Liam Wood, Nathan Martin Shutout: Tyler Fisher Jan. 31 vs Milton Home: 4 Visitor: 1 Goals: Pacey Camm, Brady Martin (2), Mitchell Walker Assists: Mitchell Walker, Ian Leech, Michael Gear, Nathan Martin

Atom: MINOR A

Novice: LL #2

Atom: MINOR AE

Novice: LL #2 Feb. 7 vs Ayr Home: 2 Visitor: 1 Goals: Ben Lowther, Hunter Lance Assists: Lucas Hubbard

Novice: LL #3 Feb. 6 vs Twin Centre #1 Home: 5 Visitor: 4 Goals: Adam Lavigne (2), Carson Staken (2), Gavin Sager Assists: Luke Forbes, Declan Martin, Owen McAdam, Carter Crummer, Brodi Gibson, Casey Dronick, Haiden Wagner

Novice: LL #3 Feb. 7 vs Woolwich #4 Home: 5 Visitor: 2 Goals: Carson Staken (3), Taylor Weber, Adam Lavigne Assists: Gavin Sager, Carter Crummer

Atom: MINOR A Jan. 23 vs Halton Hills Home: 9 Visitor: 1 Goals: Nathan Martin, Michael Gear, Eric Kane (2), Pacey Camm, Mitchell Walker (2), Isaac Lopers, Stuart Sinclair Assists: Brady Martin (4), Nathan Martin, Liam Wood, Mitchell Walker

Atom: MINOR A Jan. 24 vs Halton Hills Home: 5 Visitor: 0 Goals: Brady Martin, Eric Kane, Nathan Martin, Stuart Sinclair, Liam Wood Assists: Nathan Martin, Isaac Lopers (2), Liam Wood, Michael Gear, Pacey Camm, Brady Martin, Mitchell Walker Shutout: Tyler Fisher

Atom: MINOR A Jan. 27 vs Halton Hills Home: 7 Visitor: 1 Goals: Andrew Chumley, Brady Martin (2), Pacey Camm, Mitchell Walker, Liam Wood, Ian Leech Assists: Mitchell Walker (3), Liam Wood, Brady Martin

Feb. 5 vs Milton Home: 4 Visitor: 3 Goals: Pacey Camm, Brady Martin, Evan Passmore, Eric Kane Assists: Pacey Camm

Feb. 6 vs Caledon Home: 3 Visitor: 1 Goals: Ben Witmer, Matt Fleischmann, Brett Allen Assists: Brett Allen, Jarrett Anderson

Bantam: LL #1 Feb. 5 vs New Hamburg #1 Home: 4 Visitor: 2 Goals: Noah Bauman (2), Nathan Taylor (2) Assists: Adam Anstett, Sullivan Keen The Woolwich Wild Midget B squad were the gold medal winners at the Orangeville Sweetheart Tournament Jan. 31. Front row: Autumn Campbell, Abby Ziegler,Leah Bauman, Gracie Durrer, Briana Kuchma, Cia Hea, Hannah Bettke. Back row: Greg Kaufman, Al Morrison, Stephanie Benninger, Abigael Martin, Taylor Duench, Rod Weber, Jaycee Kaufman, Jessica Bitton, Morgan Douglas, Victoria Weber, Steve Hanley, Abby Hanley, Jennifer Mitchell, Jennifer Hea. [SUBMITTED]

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Feb. 3 vs Stoney Creek Home: 5 Visitor: 2 Goals: Seth Shantz, Josh Uhrig, Kane Kruschat, Tyson Roth, Daniel Kochut Assists: Cale Waechter, Seth Shantz, Owen Weber

The Woolwich Wild Atom LL were silver medalists at the Stoney Creek Sweetheart Tournament, Feb. 5-7. Front: Makenna Kroetsch. Second row: Tiana Bender, Reese Talbot, Emily Martin, Katie Brubacher, Bella Roth, Nora Beatty. Third row: Kelsey Brubacher, Claire Jacklin, Karli Gingrich, Hailey Brubacher, Emily Sargent, Alison Martin, Kyla Bloch. Coaches: Brad Talbot, Joe Jacklin, Kirby Gingrich, Ken Martin. [SUBMITTED]

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Jan. 30 vs St. George Home: 0 Visitor: 0

Feb. 4 vs Burlington Gold Home: 2 Visitor: 6 Goals: AJ Shaw-McMahon, Haley Clemmer Assists: Zack Bender, Lucas Carson

The Woolwich Wild Novice team travelled to London Feb 5-7 for a tournament. The girls brought home silver after playing double OT and a shootout in the finals. Front: Sam Weber. Middle row: Kara Macpherson, Nora Hanley, Ella Hicks, Sara Forwell, Kayleigh Futher. Back row: Emma Mccoubrey, Claire Catton, Charlotte Mcmillan, Olivia Straus, Kayla Sargent, Hailey Mueller, Carrie Schwindt, Kylie Rayfield. Coaches: Amy Forwell, Clinton Rayfield, Craig Hanley, Brian Straus, Chris Mcmillan, Eric Schwindt. [SUBMITTED]

PeeWee: MINOR A Feb. 6 vs Burlington Home: 4 Visitor: 3 Goals: Adam Shapcott, Lucas Carson (3) Assists: Brett Moser, Carter Rollins, Zack Bender, Lucas Carson, Corbin Schmidt, Nolan Bridge

PeeWee: MINOR A Feb. 7 vs Burlington Gold Home: 1 Visitor: 6 Goals: Lucas Carson

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PeeWee: MINOR AE Feb. 5 vs Caledon Home: 2 Visitor: 3 Goals: Sam Siopiolosz, Griffin Boerner Assists: Lucas Radler

PeeWee: MAJOR AE Jan. 23 vs Owen Sound Home: 5 Visitor: 3 Goals: Kieren Oberholzer, Danny

Soehner, Simon Shantz, Mac Benham, Conner Waters Assists: Mac Benham, Ben Fretz (2), Conner Waters (2), Gavin Wislon, Kieren Oberholzer, Andrew Weber

PeeWee: MAJOR AE Jan. 24 vs Caledon Home: 2 Visitor: 1 Goals: Ben Fretz, Simon Shantz Assists: Tyler Brubacher, Keith Mikel

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PeeWee: B

Jan. 30 vs Owen Sound Home: 5 Visitor: 1 Goals: Andrew Weber (2), Gavin Wilson, Ben Fretz (2) Assists: Kieren Oberholzer

Feb. 6 vs Ayr Home: 5 Visitor: 1 Goals: Maddy Goss, Sydney Dettweiler, Delaney Keen, Delaney Jacklin, Charlise Roth Assists: Carly Bauman (2), Delaney Keen, Jocey Pickard, Jane Hinsperger, Delaney Jacklin (2), Karissa Schouppe (2), Maddy Goss

PeeWee: MAJOR AE

PeeWee: B

Jan. 31 vs Caledon Home: 3 Visitor: 5 Goals: Cody Kroetsch, Ben Fretz, Kolin Weigel Assists: Danny Soehner, Ben Fretz

Feb. 7 vs Waterloo Home: 3 Visitor: 0 Goals: Jane Hinsperger, Ella Campbell, Delaney Keen Assists: Ella Campbell, Karissa Schouppe, Charlise Roth, Jocey Pickard Shutout: Bethany Hebbourn

Jan. 26 vs Hespeler Home: 0 Visitor: 2

PeeWee: MAJOR AE

Atom: LL #1

PeeWee: MINOR A

PeeWee: MAJOR AE

PeeWee: MAJOR AE

Atom: LL #1

Jan. 28 vs Halton Hills Home: 1 Visitor: 1 Goals: Lucas Carson

Feb. 3 vs Milton Home: 2 Visitor: 5 Goals: Riley Runstedler, Chase Mooder Assists: Cole Altman, Austin Flaherty, Nick Ravelle

Jan. 31 vs Beverly Home: 3 Visitor: 2 Goals: Hayden Fretz, Luke Decorte, Nick Kieswetter Assists: Sammy Huber, Matt Greene

Feb. 3 vs Oakville Home: 6 Visitor: 3 Goals: Eric Hutton, Ethan Bickerton, Isaiah Reitzel, Jordan Chang, Joe Martin (2) Assists: Ethan Bickerton, Mason Spark, Denver Martin, Joe Martin, Ryan Brubacher, Jordan Chang, Isaiah Reitzel

PeeWee: MINOR A

Midget: MINOR A

Midget: LL #2

Atom: MAJOR A

Feb. 6 vs Woolwich #2 Home: 2 Visitor: 2 Goals: Jamie Ferretti, Tanner Armstrong Assists: Tanner Armstrong, Evan McDowell (2), Jamie Ferretti

Feb. 7 vs Hespeler #1 Home: 0 Visitor: 2

Feb. 7 vs Hespeler Home: 5 Visitor: 3 Goals: Nathan Horst, Conner Goss, Aaron Crawford, Alex Metzger, Ben Bishop Assists: Alex Metzger, Nathan Horst, Nick Campagnolo

Feb. 6 vs Ancaster Home: 3 Visitor: 1 Goals: Josh Uhrig, Kane Kruschat, Preston Hackert Assists: Kane Kruschat, Owen Tettman, Josh Uhrig, Owen Weber, Cale Waechter, Seth Shantz Jan. 30 vs Oakville Home: 5 Visitor: 1 Goals: Jordan Chang (2), Joe Martin (3) Assists: Ryan Brubacher, Joe Martin, Keenan Martin, Drew Birmingham (2), Denver Martin, Mason Sparks, Isaiah Reitzel

Bantam: LL #1

Midget: LL #1

Atom: MINOR AE

Atom: MAJOR A

Battler, Ethan Murr Assists: Ryan Curtis (2), Turner Duldhardt, Liam Moyer, Cole Brubacher

Bantam: MINOR A

Atom: MINOR A

Feb. 2 vs Brampton Home: 4 Visitor: 2 Goals: Sam Ratcliffe, Josh Carson, Cameron Beisel, Danny Schaefer Assists: Ethan Burkholder, Connor Goebel, Sam Ratcliffe, Josh Frey Feb. 6 vs Ayr Home: 2 Visitor: 2 Goals: Ben Hibbard, Ben Lowther Assists: Carter Lipp

A SWEETHEART OF A WIN FOR MIDGETS

Feb. 6 vs Milton Home: 2 Visitor: 1 Goals: Gavin Wilson, Simon Shantz Assists: Gavin Wilson, Simon Shantz

PeeWee: LL #1 Feb. 6 vs St. George Home: 4 Visitor: 1 Goals: Turner Duldhardt (2), Liam Moyer, Ryan Curtis Assists: Jackson Dumart, James McCormick, Ethan Murr, Weston Bradley

PeeWee: LL #1 Feb. 8 vs Twin Centre Home: 3 Visitor: 2 Goals: Weston Bradley, Owen

PeeWee: C 7105 Feb. 5 vs Cambridge Home: 1 V isitor: 1 Goals: Lexi Runstedler Assists: Teesha Weber

HOCKEY TOURNEYS

Novice: B

London Tournament London Feb. 5-7 Game 1 vs Burlington Home: 4 Visitor: 0 Goals: Sara Forwell, Claire Catton, Olivia Straus (2) Assists: Olivia Straus, Sara Forwell (2)

Shutout: Sam Weber Feb. 5 vs Aurora Home: 1 Visitor: 2 Goals: Olivia Straus Assists: Claire Catton, Sara Forwell Feb. 6 vs Oakville Home: 1 Visitor: 1 Goals: Claire Catton Assists: Olivia Straus Feb. 7 vs Whitby Home: 3 Visitor: 1 Goals: Sara Forwell (3) Assists: Olivia Straus (2), Carrie Schwindt, Kayleigh Futher Feb. 7 vs Aurora Home: 3 Visitor: 4 Goals: Sara Forwell (2), Kayla Sargent Assists: Olivia Straus, Hailey Mueller, Claire Catton

Atom: LL

Sweetheart Tournament Feb. 5-7 Stoney Creek Game 1 vs Lakeshore White Home: 4 Visitor: 0 Goals: Claire Jacklin (2), Kyla Bloch, Alison Martin Assists: Kyla Bloch Shutout: Makenna Kroetsch Feb. 6 vs Burlington Home: 8 Visitor: 0 Goals: Claire Jacklin (5), Alison Martin (2), Kelsey Brubacher Assists: Claire Jacklin, Nora Beatty, Katie Brubacher, Emily Martin, Kelsey Brubacher Shutout: Makenna Kroetsch Feb. 6 vs Stoney Creek Home: 5 Visitor: 0 Goals: Alison Martin (2), Claire Jacklin (2), Hailey Brubacher Assists: Karli Gingrich (2), Nora Beatty, Emily Sargent, Emily Martin Shutout: Makenna Kroetsch Feb. 7 vs Wilmot Home: 5 Visitor: 0 Goals: Kyla Bloch (2), Claire Jacklin (2), Alison Martin Assists: Emily Martin (2), Alison Martin, Kyla Bloch Shutout: Makenna Kroetsch Feb. 7 vs Lakeshore Blue Home: 1 Visitor: 3 Goals: Claire Jacklin

PeeWee: LL 7130

Sweetheart Tournament Feb. 5-7 Stoney Creek Game 1 vs St. Thomas Home: 0 Visitor: 2 Feb. 6 vs Stoney Creek Home: 1 Visitor: 4 Goals: Annie Sargent Assists: Sarah Button Feb. 6 vs Waterloo Home: 0 Visitor: 4

WATERLOO WOLVES

Atom: MAJOR AA Feb. 3 vs Woodstock Home: 3 Visitor: 0 Goals: Jackson Heron, Josh Dierickse, Matt Anderson Assists: Dimitri Eleftheriadis (2), Josh Dierickse

Atom: MAJOR AA Feb. 6 vs Kitchener Home: 1 Visitor: 3 Goals: Matt Anderson Assists: Josh Dierickse, Dimitri Eleftheriadis

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Local labour council welcomes changes to federal legislation New government moves to repeal bills C-377 and C-525, laws introduced by Harper Conservatives WHITNEY NEILSON THE ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE federal government last month to repeal two pieces of legislation introduced by the previous Harper government, which placed restrictions on unions, is unsurprisingly welcome news for the Waterloo Regional Labour Council. Group president Marc Xuereb says the bills were “attacks on labour,” and showed the Conservatives’ disdain for organized labour. Bill C-377, An Act to Amend the Income Tax Act (requirements for labour organizations), was touted as making unions accountable to the public, but Xuereb says it imposed very onerous requirements in terms of reporting on the unions, which aren’t required of multiple other organizations in Canada that have the same tax treatment that unions do. “The Conservative line was that because union dues are a tax-deductible expense on people’s income tax statements, that therefore the entire public had the right to every financial report of every union. That is not imposed on any of the other organizations that have the same kind of tax break that unions do have, for example members of the Canadian Medical Association or the Canadian Bar Association,” Xuereb explained.

Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Labour MaryAnn Mihychuk introduced the legislation to repeal bills C-377 and C-525 on Jan. 28. Repealing the bills was included in the mandate letters of Mihychuk and Minister of Public Services and Procurement Judy Foote by PM Justin Trudeau. “Our government recognizes that unions play an important role in protecting the rights of Canadian workers and in helping the middle class grow and prosper. That’s why we’re proud to be pursuing our commitment to help restore a fair and balanced approach to labour relations in Canada by repealing Bills C-377 and C-525,” Mihychuk said. Bill C-377 came into force on Dec. 30, 2015. But because the new Liberal government intends to repeal it, the Minister of National Revenue waived the reporting requirements associated with the bill for the 2016 fiscal periods. Xuereb says they think introducing the bill was the first step in trying to embarrass unions for the kinds of things that they spend their resources on. “They were trying to make us distinguish between legitimate union business and so called political union business. But if you know anything about the labour movement we take our responsibility to the interests of all workers

Marc Xuereb, president of the Waterloo Regional Labour Council, will be glad to see two bills imposed on unions repealed by the federal government. [SUBMITTED] seriously, not just unionized ones. That’s why we get involved in campaigns to raise the Canada Pension Plan. Most of our members have their own workplace pension plan, but the majority of workers do not. We get involved in issues like that because they further the interests of all work-

ers,” Xuereb said. The bill would have forced unions to have their financial statements public, even though they’re already directly accountable to their members. Xuereb says any member of any union can go to a meeting or the office where their executive holds the

Stepping up the measures to reduce barn fires

books and ask for access to see how all their dues are spent. “There was no need for this. Unions weren’t the only people to speak out against Bill C-377. There were all kinds of other organizations concerned about the privacy implications of the bill. They were certain it was going to be struck down if it came to a challenge in the courts. Many Conservative senators spoke up against it and the only reason it passed when it did was because the Harper government rammed it through in their last days of last summer,” Xuereb said. The Senate had sent it back to the House of Commons for significant amendments and the Harper government used their majority to send it back to the Senate without those amendments a second time, and then forced the hand of the Conservative senators to push it through, says Xuereb. “Labour has been lobbying MPs for years on this bill. We were successful in delaying it several times. I think the first time that we reached out to MPs about this was two, if not three, years ago. We’ve been talking to our members about Bill C-377 for a long time,” Xuereb said. Bill C-525, the Employees’ Voting Rights Act, only affects the feder-

THE NEW YEAR GOT off to a terrible start for the Ontario equine sector. On the evening of Jan. 4, a fire engulfed a barn at an elite stable facility in Puslinch, killing 43 horses. Then 10 days later, near Mount Forest, a dozen more horses died in a barn fire. Distance wise, the two tragedies were a mere 45 minutes apart. Even seasoned professionals who’ve experienced barn fires before were exceptionally rocked by the loss, by the proximity of the affected stables and by the fact so little time had passed between them. “I am concerned by any loss of life or property resulting from fire, and distressed by the recent animal deaths,” said Ross Nichols, the provincial fire marshal and chief of emergency management. Unfortunately, barn fires are an annual occurrence. From 2012-2014, barn fires have represented an average annual loss of more than $25 million in Ontario. And that’s not counting livestock, farm equipment or commodities or products in storage. Firefighters battle at least 135 barn fires every year. Most

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often, the causes cited are mechanical or electrical failure, misuse of an ignition source or equipment, or a design, construction or maintenance deficiency. After the Mount Forest fire, the province issued a plea reminding farmers to be vigilant against fires, and how best to manage their operations to avoid such tragedies. Nichols said the tragic January

incidents underscore the need for owners and operators to identify – and eliminate – potential fire risks on agricultural properties, including in their barns and stables. He outlined several steps that are considered the best practices to follow to reduce barn fire risk. Addressing the main cause of the fires, he said barn owners should have qualified professionals

complete assessments of all farm buildings. All electrical equipment should be inspected yearly by a licensed electrical contractor, including wiring, mechanical and heating systems. And when heat lamps are required, the immediate area should be protected with non-combustible sheathing, keeping the area around the heat lamp clear of clutter or bedding materials that

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ally regulated sectors, like aerospace and transportation for example. Most employees are regulated by provincial employment law. He says it undid gains of the labour movement in the past, including changing the requirements for reporting unsafe work conditions, and at what point an employee has the right to refuse unsafe work. The legislation made it a lot more difficult for employees to speak out on health and safety issues. It also made it harder to organize unions in the federally regulated sectors. “The federally regulated sector has card check cer-

tification, which basically means that as soon as you get 50 per cent of the employees in a workplace to sign cards then they automatically become unionized,” he noted. “In the provincially regulated sector in Ontario there has to be a vote on top of that, which we’re pushing to get rid of because it gives the employer an unfair advantage because they have far more power to communicate with their employees during a union campaign vote and they use it to their advantage always to smear unions and to fear monger basically that you’re going to be worse off if you vote for the union.”

Xuereb says if after talking to employees 50 per cent decide to willingly sign a card then that should be good enough. Bill C-525 got rid of card check certification and they’re relieved to see the back of that bill too. “We’re just glad to see the end of this. The Liberal government, kudos to them for actually seeing the bill for what it was and restoring some balance to the relationship between labour and employers in this country.” One bill is in second reading now to repeal both Bill C-377 and Bill C-525. “We have every confidence it will go through,” Xuereb said.

could catch fire. Other tips include checking exposed electrical equipment for corroded parts, avoiding storing dangerous fuels and chemicals such as gasoline, cleaning fluids or solvents inside barns, and always keep a fire extinguisher on hand. Education is a key to prevention. At the University of Guelph, as part of Canada’s only degree program dedicated to equine management, students take a fire safety course offered through the fire department. “They focus on facility design with a conscious regard for building fire safety measures into construction or renovation of horse barns as part of their degree studies,” says program coordinator

Prof. Katrina Merkies of the Department of Animal Biosciences. Gayle Ecker, director of Equine Guelph, encourages horse facility owners to invite their local fire prevention officer to their barn, to walk through it and help them identify fire risks and how to reduce them. As a lead-up to the huge Can-Am Equine Expo in April in Markham, Equine Guelph will be leading a social media fire prevention campaign called #nobarnfires. Tweets with fire prevention tips along with a video will be going out shortly. Equine Guelph will also be offering an online course shortly called Equine Behaviour and Safety, which includes fire safety.

Ecker says most horse owners rarely get any training on this critical area of responsibility as an animal owner. “We are working to give them the tools and educational opportunities so they can reduce the risks on their own property through safety audits of their barn,” she says. Finally, the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs offers a number of fire prevention resources, including a publication called Reducing the Risk of Fire on Your Farm, for livestock owners and crop farmers alike. With all these efforts underway and resources available, hopefully the rest of 2016 will be in sharp contrast to its unfortunate start.

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An afternoon of classic country and square dancing The Golden Country Classics Band takes to the stage Feb. 21 at the Commercial Tavern in Maryhill The Commercial Tavern welcomes the Golden Country Classics Band to Maryhill next weekend for an afternoon of country music and square dancing. [SUBMITTED]

Caledon, including current band drummer Stevenson. A few years later they added another monthly jamboree to their agenda in Alton, and another in Erin a couple years after that. The band officially formed due to Neelands wanting them to play at the Erin Fall Fair, which has become an annual event for them. “We’re going to have old time country music, fiddle, piano, vocals as well. And there will be square dancing. A lot of people don’t do it anymore. And when there’s people who still do

it they want to go out and participate,” Salisbury said. Some of the music they cover include Hank Williams, Charlie Walker, Charlie Pride, and Tommy Jackson-style fiddle. The fiddling will be performed by Leitch, who used to tour with Stompin’ Tom Connors, and recorded two albums with him. Salisbury notes the old country music is all about weaving a good tale. “It tells a story, whether it be hurtin’, cryin’, there’s not much cheerful in country music. It will be an afternoon for all ages to come

out and hear,” Salisbury said. It’s likely they’ll feel right at home in Maryhill, as they’re all “farm boys,” Salisbury adds. And the connection to the old hotel isn’t just through a love of quality country tunes. Leitch also just so happens to be tavern owner Paul Weber’s fatherin-law. Weber’s wife Donna will even make an appearance on piano. “We really enjoy Paul’s style of music and him and his family as a whole, great musicians as well,” Salisbury said.

They perform a few times a month at barbeques, dances, jamborees, and always at the Caledon Fair. They’ve even played for former Ontario premier David Peterson. And Salisbury promises it will be a toe-tapping good time. “If you’re a lover of oldtime country music straight from the heart, that’s how we play,” Salisbury said. Doors open at the Commercial Tavern on Feb. 21 at 2:30 p.m. The show runs from 3-6 p.m. and cover is $10. For a full list of upcoming shows visit www.commercialtavern.ca.

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Salisbury plays piano, Lionel Gidney is on bass, Sam Leitch plays fiddle, Wib Tupling is their rhythm guitarist, and Brian Stevenson rounds out the band, keeping time on the drums. The band formed about eight years ago. Since then, one band member has passed, Tom Neelands, who was their original rhythm guitarist. Salisbury first learned how to play the piano and fiddle in 1994 and started performing with a group of musicians every month at a fundraising jamboree in

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You have a friendly and helpful attitude towards customers, are able to multi-task, and have good computer, mathematical and communication skills. Availability to work weekends is required. Previous sales experience is an asset. We offer a competitive salary and great working conditions. If you are interested in becoming part of Home Hardware, please forward your resume, quoting Furniture Sales Associate (#962) to: Human Resources Department, Home Hardware Stores Limited, 34 Henry St. W., St. Jacobs, ON N0B 2N0 E-mail: hr@homehardware.ca (Microsoft Products Only)

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Responsible to the Home Furniture Store Manager for providing professional, courteous and efficient customer service, while selling furniture, appliances and accessories. You will process customer purchases, orders and returns; organize and count inventory on a regular basis and assist with arrangement of attractive merchandise displays, along with other duties as assigned by the Manager.

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HELP WANTED AZ - DRIVERS Wanted @ CAT Inc! Steady year-round miles! Sign-On bonus! Long haul Canada/US. Monthly/ Annual bonuses! Great pay & benefits. 877-758-3905. FULL-TIME SPRAY PAINTER WANTED for equipment by Weberlane Manufacturing in Listowel. Call 519-291-5035 for an interview. LOCAL MANUFACTURER HIRING WINDOWS and doors technician for full time position. Call 519-669-3872. WANTED FOR ELMIRA LOCATION - a prep person. Must have knowledge of many recipes and familiar with in house bakery ovens and catering. 519-589-7547.

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FOR SALE MEDICAL SUPPLIES: KANGAROO Joey internal feeding pump and aluminum IV pole with base $450 O.B.O. Transporter wheelchair $250 FIRM. 2 bed rails $30 each. Toilet seat arms $30 each. All items only 6 months old. Call 519-884-5594, leave message.

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FOR SALE SOFTNER SALT - 20KG bags, minimum 25 bags, skid lots of 56. Delivered in St. Jacobs, St. Clements, Elmira & Linwood areas. Call George Haffner Trucking, 519-574-4141 or 519-6692045. 3 CYCL DIESEL engine. Completely rebuilt, Mitsubishi, all OEM components. Approx. 33 HP, can be heard running, originally installed in CAT mini excavator. Asking $3500. Call 519-8465587. SPRING SALE AT COUNTRY Lane Fabrics Feb. 8 - 20. 10% less on all fabrics, quilt batts, gloves, table slex, hosiery, boxed cards, rubber stamps and accessories. Specials at $6/yard, selected items 1/2 price.

AUCTION SALE OF 200 plus farm & other toys, farm literature & memorabilia, antiques, household goods & miscellaneous items, to be held at the K.W. Khaki Club, 2939 Nafziger Rd. 2 miles south of Wellesley, for Bert & Naomi Frey, Hawkesville, Ron & Pauline Weber, Palmerston, and additions, on Saturday, February 13th @ 9:30 am. Gerber Auctions Ltd. 519-699-4451. SAT. FEB 13 AT 10:00 AM - Clearing auction sale of household effects; antiques; collectables; utility trailer; riding lawn mower; lawn and garden and shop tools and miscellaneous items to be held at 5 Ferland Dr. in Conestogo for Rick and Marg Martin. Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 519-656-3555. www.jantziauctions.com MON FEB 15 AT 4:00 PM -Toy Auction sale of farm toys; precision; tractor trailers; literature; banks; and Nascar to be held at the St. Jacob’s Community Centre in St. Jacob’s for area collectors. Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 519-656-3555. www.jantziauctions.com FRI. FEB 19 AT 11:00 AM - Annual Charity heifer auction to be held at the Carson Sales arena 5531 Perth Line 86 Listowel consisting of approx 100 heifers, embryos, wooden cow carvings etc. for the Mennonite Central Committee. For more info contact Clarence Diefenbacher at 519-6692164. Janzti Auctions Ltd. 519-656-3555. www.jantziauctions.com WED. FEB 24 AT 10:00 AM - clearing auction sale of furniture; antiques; collectibles; hand, power, and garden tools and miscellaneous items to be held at the St. Jacob’s Community Centre in St. Jacob’s for an area estate with additions. Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 519-656-3555. www.jantziauctions.com

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AUCTIONS WED. MAR 2 AT 10:00 AM - Clearing auction sale of furniture; antiques; collectables; primitives; glassware; household effects and miscellaneous items to be held at the St. Jacob’s Community Centre in St. Jacob’s for a Waterloo area estate with additions. Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 519-656-3555. www.jantziauctions.com AUCTION SALE OF TRACTORS, skid steers, combine, machinery, feed, household effects and miscellaneous items, to be held at 7368 8th Line of Mapleton Twp. (4 miles northwest of Floradale or 6 miles southeast of Drayton, for Gladys & The Late Lorne Martin and Sons, on Saturday, March 5th @ 9:30 a.m. Gerber Auctions Ltd. 519-699-4451.

FARM EQUIPMENT JOHN DEERE TRACTORS AND bobcat S300 for rent. 45 150 hp. Rent by day, week or mos. Great rates. 519591-1274.

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NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS Claims against the Estate of Irene Margaret Dietrich, late of St. Clements/Waterloo, who died on December 19, 2015, must be in our hands by April 19, 2016, after which the assets of the Estate will be distributed. Estate Trustees c/o 139 Gerber Meadows Drive Wellesley, ON N0B 2T0

FARM SERVICES BAGGED PINE SHAVINGS AGRICULTURAL Spray Lime, 22.5kg. bag; feed grade lime, 25kg. Delivered. Call George Haffner Trucking, 519-574-4141 or 519669-2045.

AUCTION SALE Of Ross Butler collection, antiques, household goods and miscellaneous items, to be held at The K.W. Khaki Club, 2939 Nafziger Rd. 2 miles south of Wellesley, for Stan & Liz Hierons, and additions, on

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20TH @ 10:00 A.M.

ANTIQUES/COLLECTIBLES:

Ross Butler Percheron plaster statue 19 X 19in. – good. Ross Butler aluminum Percheron statue 12 X 12in. – good. Metal silhouette of Percheron horse on wooden base 11 X 12in. Black Horse Ale rubber molded statue 15 X 14in. – good. Black Horse Ale half horse aluminum statue on mirror base. Ross Butler prints including Canadian Mare (Rare!), Yorkshire sow, plus numerous mare, stallion, cow & bull combinations. Note – Majority of prints are in good condition. Butler print titled “1975 AllCanadians”. Plaqued Butler print “Royal Review”. Butler Australorp Poultry print. Butler collector plate of Holstein “Charity”. 50 prints (one missing) from Ontario Dept. of Agriculture. Dow, Beck’s & Dawes Black Horse beer trays (Leo Magnus). Black Horse calendars. Black Horse Ale plastic sign. Dawes Brewery beer bottle Percheron. Horse books, older Feather & Fetlock, etc. Picture of grey Percherons. Numerous horse drawn sleighs, wagons and implements (some hand carved by various artists). See web site for details. Old calendars. Royal Winter Fair posters. 1947 Marx trains set with buildings. 5 - 1/16 scale toy tractors. Loctite metal tractor trailer – good. CNR locomotive water can & cup. Tractor books. 3 antique phones. 4 Royal Doultons. Operator’s headset & dry cell batteries. Impressive Moorcroft 15in. high X 10in. wide vase – a must see! Post card album. Kitchen collectibles. Water colours & prints. Old dolls & clothing. Betty Boob service doll. Early cane wheel chair – good. Snow shoes. Budweiser & Anheuser/Bush bar signs. Powell & Hammer bike light. Log rulers. Oil flare. Old surveyors chain & rod. Working Kist clock. Oil lamps. Milk bottles. Broad axes. Glass basket collection. Depression, cornflower, etc. ANTIQUE FURNITURE: Unique large oak china cabinet/bookshelf, raided panels, bowed sides. Oak china cabinet with claw feet bowed sides & front, nice carving. 2 oak china cabinets with bowed sides & front. 5 tiered barristers bookcase with drawer – excellent. Cherry Desk. Refinished foundry cart – nice. Refinished floor model scale with brass beam – nice. Few household goods, etc. Furniture sells after 1:30pm.

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35th ANNUAL HEIFER SALE (A sale of the Ontario Mennonite Relief Sale Inc.)

To be held at CARSON AUCLTION FACILITIES, LISTOWEL, ON. (approx. 100 head)

Friday, February 19th, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. A FEW HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE: *Welane G.W. Atwood Arie, a Feb. ‘15 heifer by “Atwood” out of a VG 87 “Altaiota” with 3-2P 244 11554 457 4.0 353 3.1 kg. (248-267-239) BCA. Next dam Poly-kow Shottle Arabel EX-91 4.0 365 13602 585 4.3 456 3.4 kg. (252-290-258) BCA. Arie has PA LPI 2654, a brother by “Enforcer” at Semex. Arie’s dam is 7th generation VG or EX same family as Durham Atlee. *Earlen Doorman Chenzie, a Sept ’14 heifer by “Doorman” out of a VG-86 “Lauthority” with 3-01 364 15364 628 4.1 523 3.4 kg. (291-311-304) BCA. Next dam is an EX-91-3E with 4-06 365 17852 554 3.1 442 2.8 kg. (322-275-263) BCA . Chenzie has PA LPI 2783 and her dam is 13th generation VG or EX from the same family as “Aeroline”. The 3rd dam has 6 EX & 6 VG daughters. *Fradon Goldchip Aubrey, a Mar. ’15 “Gold Chip” out of an EX-94-4E-3* “Gibson” with 10-01 365 13879 584 4.2 449 3.2kg. (236-266-238) BCA. The 2nd dam is a VG-88-4* “Prelude”, 3rd dam EX5E-6*, 4th dam VG-86 “Aubrey” has PA LPI 2215. *Fradon Goldchip Janette, a Mar. ’15 “Goldchip” out of a VG-86 “Sanchez” with 4-03 365 14762 454 3.1 425 2.9 kg. (257-209-229) BCA. Dam of calf selling is 9th generation VG or EX. 2nd dam is EX-913E-7* with 8-08 365 14526 608 4.2 463 3.1 kg. (244-280-241) BCA, & also the dam of 6 EX & 22 VG daughters. Janette has PA LPI 2204. *Bosdale Seaver Elise B, a Mar.’15 “Seaver” out of an EX “Dundee” with 4-05 365 14697 567 3.9 505 3.1 kg. (263-270-252), 2nd dam Wedgwood Elise Marksman EX-2E-12* has 4.01 365 14969 721 4.8 499 3.4 kg. (261-339-267) BCA . Elise B’s 6 nearest dams are EX-90, EX-2E-12*, EX-90-7E-11*, EX2E-2*, EX-2*, EX-3E-4*. Elise B has PA LPI 2077. *Riverdale Doorman Olive, an Aug.”14 “Doorman” out of an EX-90-2E with 6-06 351 14563 566 3.9 479 3.3 kg. (269-279-274) BCA, 2nd dam EX-91-3E-6* with 4-11 365 18690 801 4E 588 3.1 kg. (314361-312) BCA. Next dam VG Olive PA LPI 2564. *Trinal Armani Dazzle, a July “15 “Armani” out of an EX-92-2E with 4-06 365 14660 554 3.8 461 3.1 kg. (252-254-246)BCA. Dazzle’s 7 nearest dams are EX-92-2E, VG-86, EX-93-2E, EX-94-2-E, VG88 DOM, EX-94-2E DOM 8*, EX-94-2E DOM 4*, Starbuck Ada family Dazzle’s PA LPI 2443. SEMEN: 10 units Lirr Drew Dempsey, 5 units De-Su Gillespy, 10 units Mister. 8 units sexed Chap, 5 units Genervations Epic, 5 units Coyne Farms Eaves, 4 units Windhammer, and 8 units Comestar Lauthority. 5 units Bookem EMBRYOS: 3 embryos Cycle Doorman Jacoby X Co-Vista Atwood Desire, 1 embryo Let It Snow X Jameston Outside Daffy. 3 #1 embryos Ms Atlees Sht Aftershock X Fradon Goldwyn Adeal. Carvings, Etc.: Crokinole board ( Holstein Canada colours & logo) - Willard Martin. Holstein True Type Cow hand carved & painted -Harold Erb. Robert Duncan Farm colour prints “Anniken & the Cows” & “Morning Walk”. Julien Dupre print “Two Ladies Milking”. Teat Dip 55 litre jug (pre or post iodine based). Note – Of the 100 head selling many have full pedigrees and above average production -- some out of multiple VG & EX Star Brood Dams. Some have been leucosis tested and approximately 30 are bred heifers checked pregnant. Sires represented are Doorman, Chelios, Brawler, Dempsey, Goldchip, Atwood, Fever, Aftershock, Seaver, Armani, Lavanguard, Sanchez, Darcy, Impression, Windhammer, Sammy & other popular sires. Offering also includes several Red & White heifers.

THE TOWNSHIP OF GUELPH/ERAMOSA NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING The Township of Guelph/Eramosa has received an application (File No. ZBA 01/14) to amend the Township of Guelph/Eramosa Zoning By-law 57/1999. The Council of the Corporation of the Township of Guelph/Eramosa will hold a public meeting to advise the public of the application and to obtain public input prior to making a decision. THE PUBLIC MEETING will be held on Monday, March 7th, 2016 at 7:00 p.m. at the Marden Community Centre located at 7368 Wellington Road 30, Guelph/Eramosa, to consider an amendment to the Zoning By-law of the Township of Guelph/Eramosa pursuant to Section 34 of the Planning Act, R.S.O., Chapter P.13, as amended. The proposed amendment applies to the property, municipally known as 6939 Wellington Road 124, and legally known as Guelph Div B SE Side of RD from Guelph to Waterloo Pt Lots 17 and 18 Pt RD Allow RP 61R10539 Parts 5 to 9 14 to 21 26 and 27 RP 61R20096, former geographic area of the Township of Guelph, now in the Township of Guelph/Eramosa. The proposed area of extraction (being Part of Lot 14 - 16, and Lots 17 & 18, Division B) is currently zoned Agricultural (A). THE PURPOSE OF THE APPLICATION is to amend the Township of Guelph/Eramosa’s Zoning By-law 57/1999 to permit an aggregate extraction operation on the site. The area of the proposed extraction is 36.85 hectares and may increase to 42.25 hectares if the conditional limit of extraction is included. Upon completion of the extraction operations, the area of the extraction is proposed to be rehabilitated to agriculture. ANY PERSON may attend the public meeting and/or make written or verbal representation in support of or in opposition to the proposed amendment. Written submissions and requests to be notified for the passing of the proposed Zoning By-law Amendment should be directed to the Township Clerk at the address shown below. If a person or public body does not make oral submissions at a public meeting or make written submissions to the Corporation of the Township of Guelph/Eramosa before the by-law is passed, the person or public body is not entitled to appeal the decision of the Council of the Township of Guelph/Eramosa to the Ontario Municipal Board. If a person or public body does not make oral submissions at a public meeting, or make written submissions to the Corporation of the Township of Guelph/Eramosa before the by-law is passed, 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 do so. The above information is being collected pursuant to the Planning Act, R.S.O. 1990, CHAPTER P.13, Section 34. Information, including opinions, presentations, reports, documentation, etc., provided for or at a Public Meeting is considered public records. This information may be posted on the Township of Guelph/ Eramosa website and/or made available to the public upon request. Questions about this collection should be directed to the undersigned.

All money raised at the heifer sale is forwarded to Mennonite Central Committee (www.mcco.ca) for relief work around the world. We encourage business corporations and others to attend, buy a heifer and re-donate her to enhance the sale proceeds. This is an excellent opportunity to help those in greatest need. We are counting on you. Cash donations payable to “Ontario Mennonite Relief Sale Inc.” are also accepted.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION regarding the proposed amendment is available for inspection between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. at the Township of Guelph/Eramosa Municipal Office as of the date of this notice and on the Township’s website at www.get.on.ca/tricity.

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LEWIS: Response to Syrian refugee crisis has raised the profile of MCC and the work it does FROM | 4

This will be the first time MCC has done an event of this scale here with such large sponsorships. Their fundraising goal is $100,000 and the funds aren’t allocated for any particular project, but rather to wherever they’re needed for MCC work. He says the event is a way to grow their exposure in the community by bringing in people who aren’t as familiar with MCC’s work. “I was with a gentleman yesterday who is part of a company that does business with MCC and I said we’d love for you to buy a table as a company and bring eight or nine people

who don’t know MCC that well because this is a means to try to reach out to people who might know something about us but we’d really like them to come closer and become deeper engaged with MCC,” Cober-Bauman said. For their regular events they tend to see the same people who are already fairly familiar with them, as part of their ongoing constituency. While they definitely want those people to come to this new event, there’s lots of room for new faces. “I said this to another woman who has been a longtime supporter of MCC. I said I hope you’ll consider buying a table

and bring eight people who don’t know us very well. She said it’s going to be hard to find people in this community who don’t know MCC,” Cober-Bauman said. Despite this, he says they know they’ve still got lots to do, even though they appreciate that they do feel well known and respected in the community. MCC has seen nearly 4,000 new people donate to their organization in the past few months because of their refugee sponsorship work. They’ll be focusing on partnership at the event and they’re going to be asking Lewis to add that element in his talk. “Our own program that

surrounds Mr. Lewis’ presentation will be focused on international partnerships, but also local partnerships and the really major focus of that will be private sponsorship of refugees because it’s been such a major focus for us for the last few months. We think that for the person who is new to MCC and maybe has given a gift for sponsorship this is an opportunity for this person to come a little closer to MCC and understand us better,” Cober-Bauman said. As of Feb. 4, roughly 657 Syrian refugees have relocated to Waterloo Region. Of them, 22 are in Elmira, he says. That doesn’t necessarily mean that their

permanent homes will be in Elmira. There is still a need for close to 30 larger housing units. Those would be three or four bedroom units. The issue is finding those types of housing that also fit into the cost factor of their support package from the government, since they’re government sponsored refugees and not privately sponsored. Through all the community efforts to find homes for the refugees, CoberBauman says the region has become better for it. “What I’m starting to hear now is we hope that when the focus on Syria - when we’ve moved on from that - we’ll be a stron-

ger community for all the inter-agency cooperation that has happened here. This will have some lasting effect on community service agencies,” CoberBauman said. The Power of Partnership: An Evening with Stephen Lewis is hosted by Mennonite Savings and Credit Union. It will be held March 30 at the St. George Banquet Hall in Waterloo. The reception is at 6 p.m. and the dinner and program begin at 7 p.m. Tickets are $150 or $1,300 for a table of ten. Each ticket bought is eligible for a $75 charitable tax receipt. Tickets are available at www.powerofpartnership2016.ca.

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This will be structured as a PUBLIC MEETING to: Review private sector opportunities for the ELMIRA WASTE TRANSFER STATION and to receive feedback from the public on the information obtained from potential private-sector owners The Special Council Meeting concerning the potential future of the Elmira Waste Transfer Station will be held on:

Tuesday, February 16, 2016 at 6:00 p.m. in the Community Centre at the Woolwich Memorial Centre 24 Snyder Avenue South, Elmira The agenda package for the meeting will be posted on the Township website on Friday, February 12th by 2 p.m. You do not need to register as a delegation. However, if you would like to register and be listed as a delegation for the meeting please contact 519-669-6006 or toll free 1-877-9690094 extension 6006. If you have any questions regarding the meeting, please contact the Chief Administrative Office at 519-669-6002 or toll free 1-877-969-0094 extension 6002.

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The family of Bill Hergott wishes to thank those who helped make the service so special. Thank you to the organist, the choir and Father Martin Mikulski. To all of our family and friends for your support. We deeply appreciated the tribute to Bill with the guard of honour by the Fire Fighters.

February 14, 2016, 2-4 p.m. @ Grace Christian Fellowship, 35 Farley Rd., Fergus (Beattyline & 18th Side Road) Best Wishes Only

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CAUDLE, NORMAN RONALD | At St. Mary’s General Hospital on Friday, February 5, 2016 at the age of 75.

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DAVIS, JESSIE | After a

brave, defiant fight with leukemia, surrounded by her loving family, it is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Jessie A. Davis, age 74.

Saturday, February 20, 2016 at the Elmira Legion, 11 First St. East (downstairs) from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Best wishes only please.

HUTCHINSON, ELIZABETH (BETTY) (NEE WANLESS) |

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HUNTER, RUTH | Passed

away on Saturday, February 6, 2016 at St. Mary’s Hospital at the age of 86 years. KAMMERER, GWEN | At her

home in Mount Forest on Saturday, February 6, 2016. Gwen Lorraine (Machan) Kammerer in her 57th year. Local relatives are her sister Marjorie Martin and husband Barry of Elmira.

OBITUARY

Hunter, Ruth

Schmidt, Richard Dale

Passed away on Saturday, February 6, 2016 at St. Mary’s Hospital at the age of 86 years. Beloved wife of the late Erwin Hunter (1985). Dear mother of Margaret Weber and Gene Arsenault of Kitchener, Marlene and Robert Hackert of Comox, BC, Jim and Dianna Hunter of Waterloo, Mary and Jamie Hunter-Rhodes of St. Jacobs. Lovingly remembered by her grandchildren Sonya (Josh), Christopher (Celina); Tate, Mandy Mae; Luke, Avery; Quinten, Quade and Quary and by her great grandchildren Katerina, Zoey and Brian. Ruth will be fondly remembered by her nieces and nephews and their families, and by her sister-in-law Marion Hunter of Mount Forest. Predeceased by her parents William and Margaret (Rhame) Robertson and her sister Verna Wooley. The family will receive their relatives and friends at the Dreisinger Funeral Home, Elmira on Thursday, February 11, 2016 from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Funeral service will be held at Trinity United Church, Elmira on Friday, February 12, 2016 at 11 a.m. Interment in Elmira Union Cemetery. In Ruth’s memory, donations to Trinity United Church would be appreciated as expressions of sympathy.

It is with sad hearts that we say goodbye to Dale Schmidt of Conestogo, who passed away on Thursday, February 2, 2016 at the K/W Health Centre of Grand River Hospital, Kitchener. Husband and best friend to Barbara (Braniff) for 55 years, devoted father to Susan Schultz (Todd), Bradley Schmidt (Estella), Richard Schmidt and Jay Schmidt (Kelly). Grandpa to Murray Walter, Amy Ray (Chad), Jed Schultz, Shannon Schultz, Rory Schmidt, Alex and Kiera Schmidt and Angelica Schmidt. Baboo to Caleb, Hudson and Lily. Predeceased by his father Albert, mother Florence and brothers William and Colin, and sister-in-law Dorothy. Fondly remembered by his sister-inlaw Marg, niece Jan and nephews Bill, John, Gordon and Todd. Dale loved life and music. He played in many bands in the 40’s. He was band leader of the Waterloo Region Police band for many years, also leader of the Concordia Band and had his own band, “The Brass ‘n Blue”. He was the proprietor of the Trail’s End Hotel from 1960 to 1980 and the builder of the Black Forest Inn. He loved holidaying in Manitoulin Island with his family and in his later years going to Myrtle Beach with his love, Barbara. Our heartfelt thanks goes out to the ICU Team at Grand River Hospital for their excellent care and support. A celebration of Dale’s love of life will be at the Waterloo Rod and Gun Club, 1075 Bo De Lane, St. Jacobs, ON on Saturday, February 13, 2016 between 1-7 p.m. where his family and friends can come and share stories and love of his music and we will give cheers to one heck of a good guy. As Dale would say … “Keep Swinging … Oh Ya!” Condolences for the family and donations to the charity of your choice, may be arranged through the Erb & Good Family Funeral Home 171 King St., S., Waterloo at 519-745-8445.

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Of Waterloo and formerly of Elmira and Wallenstein passed away peacefully at the Village at University Gates on Friday, February 5, 2016 in her 86th year.

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For my Father I would give up every possession I have just to hug you one more time. I remember the last time I held your hand and how you looked at me in the eyes. If only I could turn back the time. I would have never let you go. I felt the world stop 8 years ago when they told me you’re gone. How I wish I was only dreaming. Like the rain, tears fell down from my eyes. I couldn’t speak for a while. Thank you dad, for always understanding, listening, caring and love me all my life. The greatest gift God gave me was you my dad. I must return the gift God gave me. Till then, see you in heaven. All our love, you daughter Sharon, son in law Peter, your granddaughters Angie and Natalie and great Grandsons.

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OBITUARY Martin, Earl J. Passed away on Friday, February 5, 2016 at Grand River Hospital at the age of 65 years. Beloved husband of Joyce (Brubacher) Martin of RR 2, Elmira. Dear father of Jason and Linda Martin of RR 2, Elmira, Joel and Sharon Martin of RR 1,Waterloo, Romayne and Cleon Lichty, Justin and Carolyn Martin all of RR 2, Elmira. Fondly remembered by his 13 grandchildren. Loved son of Loreen Martin of RR 2, Alma and son-in-law of Vera Brubacher of RR 1, St. Jacobs. Brother of James and Mary Martin of RR 1, Westmeath, Gladys and Gordon Bauman of RR 2, Alma and Stuart and Fern Martin of RR 1, St. Jacobs. Brother-in-law of Willard and Diane Brubacher of RR 3, Moorefield, and Sharon and Dale Martin of Elmira. Predeceased by his father Noah Martin (1990), his father-in-law David Brubacher (2009), his sister Pauline (1988) and his brother-in-law Maurice Shantz (1985). Visitation took place on Monday February 8, and Tuesday, February 9 from 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. at the Dreisinger Funeral Home, 62 Arthur St. S., Elmira. A family service was held at the funeral home on Wednesday, February 10, 2016 at 9 a.m., then to Montrose Mennonite Meeting House for burial and public service.

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www.erbgood.com OBITUARY Harold Brenner Harold Brenner passed away suddenly at his home in Marchand, Manitoba on Friday, January 30, 2016. He is survived by his mother Margaret Faulhafer of St. Jacobs, Sister Pauline Wright/Lindsay of Westmeath, brothers Peter Brenner and Francis Brenner/ Catherine Baessler and sister Claudia Dorscht/James. Hi is preceeded by his father Claude Brenner and his sister Bernice Basler and Joseph Basler. He will be missed by many nieces and nephews. Funeral service will take place on February 8 at La Broquerie Catholic Church. Cremation to follow. Spring interment.

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much in the way of equipment, and wear more than one work hat in putting to use their limited resources. “Their calls would be more of what we deal with here in Wellesley. They wouldn’t do as much city work and in that aspect we are similar,” he said from the Linwood fire hall, adding that there were differences, however. “They do a lot of medical calls there. That is the difference between us and them – they are also paramedics. They are the only paramedics. They do what they can with what they have got.”

THERE CAN BE LOTS of resentment about Valentine’s Day and the commercialization that comes along with it. The boxes of chocolate and flowers are nice, but we don’t have to celebrate our loved ones with something we bought. More exciting and special is something that you made. It could be a dinner, breakfast or perhaps a dessert. If you are single, make a fun batch of cookies and drop them off at an unexpected place, somewhere you have relationships and feel the love. In a world full of phones, computers and technology we have wi-fi but have lost connection with each other. That old saying “you get what you give” has always been in my head. If you want to feel the love you have to give it. Enjoy your Valentine’s and Family Day, a reminder of what is important in life. To my family you are always my number one, I love the memories we share! Happy Valentine’s Day!

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Wellesley firefighters James Gingerich, Matt Karley, Tabitha Siegfried, Shannon Martin and Rich Hurren are getting ready to head to Guatemala next month to help train local fire departments and provide donated equipment. [LIZ BEVAN / THE OBSERVER]

LIZ BEVAN RURAL LIVING IN GUATEMALA is bound to be a somewhat different than it is here in Waterloo Region. Ditto for the firefighting services. Five Wellesley volunteers are about to find out just how different. James Gingerich, Matt Karley, Tabitha Siegfried, Shannon Martin and Rich Hurren are gearing up to head down south with Firefighters Without Borders Canada and lend a helping hand, training firefighters in out-of-the-way areas of the Central American country. “This is my first time do-

ing this, but it is something that I am looking forward to,” said Gingerich, captain at the Linwood fire station, and a native of Guatemala. “(We are going to be sharing) techniques and just how to be able to respond better to their emergency situations, which are very similar to situations we are involved in here in Wellesley.” Not only will they be taking with them their experience and knowledge as rural firefighters, the group is also bringing a shipping container full of equipment their Guatemalan counterparts may not have at their disposal.

“Hopefully (the container) will be leaving soon. It is ready to ship,” he said. “There is everything fire related in there. We have hoses, gear, hand tools, auto-extrication equipment, nozzles – things we use here.” Before they set off, however, the Linwood fire station is hosting a fundraising night to raise money for the trip, and awareness of the Firefighters Without Borders Canada (FWBC) initiative. The evening event takes place on Feb. 19 and runs from 6-8 p.m. “We are trying to make people aware of the organization and hoping to get

a few donations for our trip,” said Gingerich. “This way, the community can be involved in our trip as well. We as firefighters are part of the community and if they know what we are doing to help others, they are willing to support us in other initiatives.” The idea for the aid trip came from a meeting between (FWBC) and Gingerich, while the group was picking up donated equipment last fall. The plans fell into place from there. Gingerich says that Wellesley firefighters are in a unique position to lend a helping hand with rural firefighters, who don’t have

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FEBRUARY 11 NEW HORIZONS WELCOMES ALL zoomers, boomers and seniors. Enjoy coffee or tea and a delicious snack. Topic: Protecting Ourselves and Others, presented by Dennis Aldous, fire prevention officer for Woolwich Township; $2 per person, 10-11:30 a.m. at the Maryhill Community Centre. For more info call Joan Haid at 519-648-2742 or email at jehaid@xplorenet.ca. SENIORS LUNCH CLUB AT noon. Breslau Community Centre, 100 Andover Dr., Breslau. Cost $6. Join us for a noonday light lunch and fellowship. Call Community Care Concepts at 519-664-1900 or toll free 1-855-664-1900 for more information. WOODSIDE EVERGREEN FELLOWSHIP FOR Seniors, 200 Barnswallow Dr., Elmira at 10:30 a.m. “Missions in Ghana and Around the World” Phil and Andrea Bauman. Music Joyce Ruppert - soloist. Suggested donation $7/person - includes hot lunch. For more information contact Reta Malloy 519-669-8752. HUGS (HEALTH, UNDERSTANDING, GROWTH, Sharing) 9:30-11 a.m. on the second and fourth Thursday of every month at Breslau Community Centre, 100 Andover Dr., Breslau. For parents and children (0-5 yrs). Upcoming sessions: Feb. 11 What can you claim on your taxes? Feb. 26 - Car Seat Safety: How to install. For more info call Heidi at 519-664-3794, ext. 237.

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community comes together to meet and eat.” Hosted at Trinity United Church, 21 Arthur St. N., Elmira, dinner is served from 6-7:30 p.m. Pay what you can. Menu: roasted pork & apple stuffing. This event is offered the second Friday of every month. For more information call Kelly at WCS 519-669-5139 or the church office 519-669-5560. HUGS (HEALTH, UNDERSTANDING, GROWTH, Sharing) 9:30 - 11 a.m. on the second and fourth Friday of every month at Woolwich Community Health Centre, 10 Parkside Dr., St. Jacobs. For parents and children (0-5 yrs). Upcoming Sessions: Feb. 12 - What can you claim on your taxes? Feb. 26 - Childhood Illnesses/Potty Training. For more info call Heidi at 519-664-3794, ext. 237. SENIORS INFORMATION & ACTIVE Living Fair. Join us for this free event taking place on Tuesday, Mar. 1, 9 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. at the Breslau Community Centre. The fair will feature presentations and displays geared towards providing local seniors with important and supportive information. The session will include speakers, lunch and snacks as well as door prizes. To register for this event please call Community Care Concepts toll free at 1-855-6641900 by Feb. 16.

FEBRUARY 13 MARYHILL KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS & CWL Valentine Supper at the Maryhill Community Centre. Doors open at 4:30 p.m., two sittings, 5 & 7 p.m. Rolled ribs, mashed potatoes & all the fixings followed by coffee, tea & dessert. Tickets $17.50 per adult; $8 for children 6-11, five and younger free. Advance tickets

only, must state what time you would like to come. Mike Runstedler 519-648-3394; Doug Zinger 519648-2939, Mary Campagnaro 519-822-9287.

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STRANGE BUT TRUE / BILL & RICH SONES PH.D.

Miss Piggy and kangaroos among those up for the Left-Handers Hall of Fame WEIRD NOTES

Q. When the editors of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mental Flossâ&#x20AC;? magazine set out to â&#x20AC;&#x153;peopleâ&#x20AC;? the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Left-Handersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Hall of Fame,â&#x20AC;? who did they choose for the distinction â&#x20AC;&#x201C; using the word â&#x20AC;&#x153;peopleâ&#x20AC;? loosely? A. The delightful Muppet Miss Piggy is a lefty, since â&#x20AC;&#x153;puppeteers tend to use their right hand to control the head, the left for arms.â&#x20AC;? Then, too, as pointed out by the journal â&#x20AC;&#x153;Current Biology,â&#x20AC;? kangaroos have a strong preference for left forelimb use, employing their left hand 95% of the time (scientists

speculate this is due to their bipedal posture). From the artistic world, writer Eudora Welty was left-handed, as were her mother and uncle, but her father taught her to be ambidextrous. And pianist Leon Fleisher performed with just his left hand after losing control of his right hand. Surprisingly, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jimi Hendrix restrung his guitars and flipped them upside down to play lefthanded.â&#x20AC;? Now perhaps youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a lefty but canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get used to the scissors youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re using: Then give thanks to Quincy Hershey, who in 1931 filed patent US1846867A for â&#x20AC;&#x153;convertible right- and left-handed scissors.â&#x20AC;? Finally, if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a college-bound lefty, you

may want to keep in mind Pennsylvaniaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Juniata College, where each year two incoming southpaws are given scholarships of up to $1,500. Q. How might a quick electric zap to the brain put a stop to oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s customary puking system?

before feeling sick (from the journal â&#x20AC;&#x153;Neurology,â&#x20AC;? as reported in â&#x20AC;&#x153;New Scientistâ&#x20AC;? magazine). Q. Geniuses come in all ages, even under 17 years old. Can you cite any of the achievements of these youngsters?

A. Motion sickness was

the age of 17 DJ Kool Herc (Clive Campbell) mixed isolated beats with funk and soul albums to create the genre of hip-hop, then went on to develop a new dance style known as break-dancing, reports â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mental Flossâ&#x20AC;? magazine. Also 17 was medical diagnostic pioneer Brittany Wenger, who won the Google Science Fair by developing and programming â&#x20AC;&#x153;a minimally invasive test in 2012 that can

the puke prompt in question, as a team at Imperial College, London, put volunteers into a special chair designed to bring on puking almost without fail. To half the volunteers, the researchers attached a cap that applied an electric current to a brain area that deals especially with balance. As it turned out, those that wore the zapper lasted much longer in the chair than the others

detect breast cancerâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;with 99.11 percent accuracy.â&#x20AC;? Advocating for child victims of war, poverty and violence, 12-year-old Gregory Smith was nominated by the Nobel Peace Prize committee and before age 20 was nominated three more times. A molecular chemistry pioneer at the age of 10, Clara Lazen of Kansas City used ball-and-stick models to visualize molecules, putting together carbon, nitrogen and oxygen atoms to form tetranitratoxycarbonâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;a new moleculeâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;though initially her fifth-grade teacher was unsure of it. Once holding the record for the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s highest IQ (210), Seoul native Kim Ung-Yong was hired by

A. In the Bronx in 1973, at

NASA when he was only eight. Ten years later, he quit to go to college. And, finally, genius Shakuntala Devi, or the â&#x20AC;&#x153;human computer,â&#x20AC;? by age 5 was â&#x20AC;&#x153;supporting her family counting cards during gambling games with her father in 1930s India. She went on to beat a UNIVAC computer at calculating numerical roots as an adult, and set a world record by multiplying two 13-digit numbers in 28 seconds.â&#x20AC;? Quipped the magazine, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Harry Potter, meet your match.â&#x20AC;?

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

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Dave and Esther Weber cruising the Romantic Rhine River on an Avalon River Boat through Switzerland, France, Germany and Holland.

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WELLESLEY: Township’s past

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Martin is one of the five going on the weeklong trip that starts on Mar. 12, and she says it is natural for those with more to share with those who have less. “I just hope that we can give them some of the knowledge that we have so they can advance their services and help the people to the best of their ability,” she said, sharing that firefighters across the world are part of a larger entity. “It is what we do. Firefighters are really a part of a larger community. We spread from Canada over to other countries because we can.” Martin has been on mission trips before and couldn’t say no to the chance to go to Guatemala. “I received an email from James asking to go on the trip with them and I said yes, obviously. You don’t pass up an opportunity like this,” she said, adding that the week-long training session is short, and sweet. “I just love helping out and spreading knowledge. It is never as long as you want to go for. You have to cram a bunch in a small period of time.”

“There’s one of a great big group of men and some of them are even blurry with people moving. It’s taken from a little bit high up and it’s a horse auction outside the saddle shop. There’s men in big fur coats and big fur hats and it’s really delightful. I think he was being a little experimental taking a group like that,” Maitland muses. Some of them aren’t posed shots, but rather of people doing things. One of them is a group of people putting up a new chimney. Other shots show Nafziger Road torn up, near where the Schmidtsville Restaurant is. You can see the old factory very faintly in the distance with some men working and others looking at the camera. “It’s just a moment caught in time. They really are wonderful scenes,” Maitland said. She says the photos will be of interest to many local people who know the village, but for people who study photography it will also be interesting because there’s very little known about Ottmann. He died in 1906 at the age of 27.

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Chocolate Cookie Hearts 1/2 cup butter, softened 1/3 cup sugar 1 egg yolk 1/2 tsp. vanilla 1 cup all-purpose flour 1/3 cup sifted cocoa 1/4 tsp. baking powder 1/4 tsp. ground cinnamon Pinch of salt 8 oz. melted white chocolate Valentines sprinkles to decorate

Beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg yolk and vanilla. Whisk together flour, sifted cocoa, baking powder, cinnamon and salt. Stir into butter mixture until combined. Divide dough into two balls and flatten. Wrap in cellophane and rest in refrigerator for at least 2 hours. Allow to soften at room temperature to roll flat. Roll on flour-dusted counter until about 1/8” thick. Cut into heart shape using a cutter and place on parchment lined cookie sheet. Bake in oven at 350 F until the cookie has risen and crisp

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“There are a lot of people who studied photographers. For instance in Kitchener/Berlin and Waterloo people have done a lot of work on those photographers. They know from this year to this year this was their address. When people have photos they can kind of date them because people have done a lot of work on when photographers were active and where their studio was. These photos were often imprinted in the corner with the name of the photographer or studio,” Maitland explains. He started first as Otter Portraits and then his later work has the Charles Ottmann Jr. imprint as he expanded his work. She’s hoping families will come check out the photos on Family Day, to get a sense of what Wellesley used to be like more than a century ago. The historical room will be open Feb. 15 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and is also open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the last Saturday of every month except December. It’s located in the Wellesley Branch Library on Henry Street.

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Her concerts in Winnipeg included things like live painters and a lecture. At an interactive concert in Listowel last year she used an actor and a live painter. And audience reaction has been positive. She says people are used to going to a recital hall to hear classical music and the most interaction they have is maybe some notes about the music in the program. By engaging with the audience it becomes like a choose your own adventure book, she explains. “You choose the things that capture your attention and then the listener is free to latch on to whatever gets them and then they have a whole different type of experience that they wouldn’t have if they just sat and listened to the music,” Reesor said. Of course, audience members are always welcome to just listen if that’s what suits them. She says she anticipates this type of concert going over well in Elmira. “You hear a lot it’s nice to have some variety, have something different. So this is something that appeals to not only classical, but also folk and jazzy genres as well. My own compositions are more in that style, as well as some of the more interactive pieces I do are just songs that people already know and they can sing along with. That appeals to a wide range of people,” Reesor said. Regardless of what anyone coming to the concert might believe she says it’s not a religious concert. Since she is a spiritual person it will be spiritually inspired though. “During the time I have been at Trinity they have

mother has read the book and reacted with surprise and understanding. “I read it to her and she was blown away. When you put the story down all in one spot, and this is just some of the story, it reaches the point where you just find that connection,” she said, adding that her mother had no idea Harrison had been reading her journals for all those years. “She loved it. You have to find that connection.” For those who take the time to read through all 17 chapters, Harrison wants to impart a message of hope and healing. She has come to terms with her upbring-

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to not just sit and listen but be a participant. She also hopes that something will spark their interest or imagination and they’ll be challenged and inspired by the music, as she has been. Everyone is welcome to attend the concert. “We’re opening it very wide up open up to the community,” Warren said. “We’ve been very fortunate to have Becky with us and we think it would be great for the rest of the community to see her and hear her in concert.” Elmira Trinity United Church presents Resonate – An Innovative Concert Experience with Becky Reesor on Feb. 20 at 7 p.m. The concert will be followed by dessert and coffee. Tickets to the concert, including dessert and coffee, is on a pay what you can basis, with a recommended payment of $10 to $25. Tickets can be purchased by contacting the church office or at the door the day of the concert.

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ing and later struggles, and now she wants the same for others. “I want people to see that it is okay and to understand mental health issues. Not everybody who is dealing with mental health has a mental illness. There is a difference between the two. It is okay to look after yourself. If you need to take a day, just process. Everybody does,” she said, adding that she is more than pleased with the reaction she has received from readers thus far. “Often times, people will come to me with their stories and sometimes they haven’t even told anyone else and I think that is amazing.”

Harrison didn’t set out to write a book or to make money from publishing a book. The process all started when she just started putting her thoughts down on paper. “The process was cathartic. Once you start pouring all that stuff out, you don’t care about punctuation or anything - that stuff comes after. This book was kind of incredible in that while I was writing, I didn’t think about it and what was coming out,” she said. The book is available for purchase in a digital copy through Chapters-Indigo website at www.chapters. ca by searching for Saving Catherine.

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