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Mission members still hope to aid Haitians Earthquake that claimed Yvonne Martin hasn’t dampened the resolve of surviving members of mission team It was like being in a canoe on a rolling ocean. When the earthquake rocked Port-au-Prince on Jan. 12, Marilyn McIlroy, Deb Paton and Lois McLaughlin were standing on a third-floor balcony overlooking their guest house. “Get down!” McLaughlin called as the balcony heaved beneath their feet. The three women were thrown around like rag dolls, and McIlroy began praying out loud. Sitting beside the pool, Marilyn Raymer, Alice Soeder and Laura Steckley were tossed back and forth in their deck chairs. Water slopped out of the pool and soaked their legs. Very quickly, the women realized they needed to get away from the building. The wall was cracked and pieces of cement were falling onto the aluminum awning above them. They scrambled over the wall that surrounded the
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BACK ON SOLId GROUNd marilyn mcilroy, Alice Soeder and marilyn raymer were relieved to return home after going through the destructive earthquake in Haiti last week. They were part of a local mission group that arrived in the country just before disaster struck.
compound and a few minutes later, the trio from the balcony joined them. That was when they realized that the seventh member of the group, Yvonne Martin, was missing. She had gone inside to change and was in the guest house when it collapsed. Looking at the five foot-high pile of rubble where the twostorey building had stood, they knew she was somewhere in there. “It just pancaked,” Raymer said. “I knew right from the beginning that Yvonne could not possibly have gotten out.” Raymer, Soeder and McIlroy sat around Soeder’s kitchen table Tuesday, piecing together the events around the magnitude-7 quake. The seven women were in Haiti to set up clinics in rural villages in the northern part of the country. McIlroy and Raymer are both nurses from Elmira and Steckley is from Bamberg. McLaughlin, a doctor, has a practice in Waterloo. Paton is See HAITI page »02
Woolwich property taxes to climb by 4.48% Average bill to go up $23 a year; big jumps approved for water and wastewater charges in 2010 STEVE KANNON Having opted against developing part of Victoria Glen Park, Woolwich will instead cover the $1.5-million shortfall by borrowing more money to pay for its recent building spree. That move will increase taxes by another 0.79 per cent, put-
ting the tax rate hike at 4.48 per cent for 2010. The jump will add $23.46 to the Woolwich portion of the average tax bill, based on a home valued at $214,000. The budget tentatively approved by township council Tuesday night includes a 1.69 per cent increase in the basic tax rate and a two-per-cent
special levy for capital facilities. This is the last year of that program. Also approved was a waterrate increase of 7.26 per cent, to $1.33 per cubic metre from $1.24. That represents about a $16- to $22-per-year jump for the average household. The wastewater rate will climb by 10.1 per cent, to $1.63 per cu-
bic metre from $1.48, adding about $27 to $36 per year to the average annual cost. Much of the water and wastewater cost increases are based on similar jumps in costs charged to the township by the Region of Waterloo, explained treasurer Richard Petherick. While the cumulative ef-
fect of the budget increase is almost 4.5 per cent, chief administrative officer David Brenneman noted the basic increase, leaving aside the capital building requirements, is 1.69 per cent, much closer to the Consumer Price Index, currently hovering around one per cent. See BUDGET page »02
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Budget: Additions to fire service part of new expenses » From cover
Given that the special levy for facilities has been in place for a few years, and the Victoria Glen decision forced the township to borrow more money, councillors appeared resigned to this year’s increase; the budget was passed with no debate. A report presented by Petherick shows that even with a 4.48 per
cent jump, only North Dumfries residents pay less than Woolwich taxpayers – $355.60 versus $523. 50 – on the municipal portion of the taxes on an average home. Wellesley Township residents pay $728.74; Wilmot $614.97; City of Waterloo $906.16, Kitchener $964.65 and Cambridge $970.25. Nearby municipalities outside Waterloo Region are also
higher: Centre Wellington at $681.11 and Mapleton Township $745.80. Driving part of this year’s increase are higher costs for staff salaries and wages, which account for more than half of the overall budget. Pay increases alone will amount to more than $120,000, and new hires at the Woolwich Memorial Centre will add another burden of $134,000.
To put those figures in perspective, each one percentage point increases in taxes amounts to about $60,000. While the township again put aside plans to hire three additional support staff, there will be new additions in the Woolwich Fire Department, which plans to add a new substation in Breslau. One of the department’s older trucks
Haiti: An even greater desire to assist » From cover
from Barrie and the only non-local woman on the trip, but used to live and work in Waterloo. Soeder, the only non-medical member of the team, was getting a taste for mission work with her first trip overseas. Soeder had never been through an earthquake before and couldn’t process what was happening. “I couldn’t believe it. ‘This can’t be an earthquake. No one said anything about earthquakes when I signed up for this.’” The street outside their guest house was in chaos after the quake. Houses had collapsed, sending clouds of dust into the air; people were running down the street and vehicles were trying to make their way through the debris. The group headed back inside the compound, where guests and staff converged on the parking lot. Worried about aftershocks, they spent the night there, sleeping outside. Some of the guests and staff were injured in the quake and the nurses switched into medical mode. Their clothes were buried in the rubble but the suitcases that held their medical supplies
were in the building that was still standing. Raymer took on the job of letting people back in Canada know that Yvonne was in the guesthouse that collapsed and the rest of the group was safe. With no way to recharge the phone, she used it sparingly, not realizing that her brief texts were the main source of information coming out of the country. In the morning, the manager of the guesthouse brought what food he could find – cheesies and crackers – and the news that they were to go to the Canadian embassy. The group was reluctant to leave while Yvonne’s body was still under the rubble, but there was no food or water at the guesthouse and the manager was concerned about their security. The Canadian embassy had also been damaged by the quake, so staff were sleeping in their cars and meeting on the tennis court. It was a sign of how disrupted communications in the capital were that embassy staff didn’t know whether the airport was functioning. There were around 100 Canadians on the embassy grounds, wait-
ing for flights out of the country. A number of the people were injured and had just been left. The embassy had six or eight first-aid kits so the medical team set up a makeshift hospital in a tent, settled their patients on lounge chairs and started cleaning wounds and splinting fractures. Treating their fellow Canadians was some consolation for not being able to do more and having to abandon their original mission. The villages on their itinerary are 75 miles from Port-au-Prince and weren’t damaged by the earthquake but will be feeling its effects in different ways. Fuel and food – including essentials like rice, corn, flour and sugar – are imported through the capital. Even if the team could get from Port-au-Prince to their destination, the villages wouldn’t have the food and supplies to support them. Wednesday night was spent on the embassy grounds. On Thursday, they were among a group of Canadians loaded in a bus and SUVs and taken to the airport with a UN escort. They spent the afternoon on the tarmac waiting to hear when and how they would re-
turn home. Hot, hungry and dehydrated, they were grateful for the shade of a giant mango tree. Finally around 7 p.m., a C-17 military cargo plane was loaded up. Among the passengers were several injured patients and the crew didn’t have enough medical personnel to look after them. The Elmira contingent volunteered to help and spent the flight to Montreal holding IV drips and checking vital signs. In Montreal, the Red Cross gave them food and hotel vouchers. They were also offered vouchers for clothes but decided getting home to their families was more important. The devastation that spread out below them as the plane took off isn’t the last the women will see of the country. McIlroy wants to see their original mission completed and medical care delivered to the rural villages. Raymer’s husband Bob is determined that they will help the country rebuild. And Soeder still has yet to experience a real mission. “I would like to try the mission again. If we can get through an earthquake, surely we can get through a mission.”
will be stationed in the village and five additional volunteer firefighters will staff the location at a cost of about $19,000 a year. The location will be a satellite operation of the Maryhill station, explained fire chief Rick Pedersen. Longer-term, the township has plans for a permanent station as Breslau continues to grow.
Across the department, firefighters this year will receive a three-per-cent pay increase and standby fees will go up by $50 a year, adding $14,000 to the budget. In a symbolic gesture, Woolwich councillors voted to freeze their pay for 2010. Last year, the mayor was paid $23,114, while the four councillors each received $11,557.
Wellesley taxes to go up by 2% Councillors aim to find balance between restraint and funding reserves in passing 2010 budget KATIE EDMONDS Wellesley homeowners will pay another $9 in taxes to the township this year, the result of a two-per-cent tax increase given tentative approval this week by township council. The increase brings to about $700 the township’s share of property taxes applied to an average home assessed at $214,000. “I think this is a responsible budget,” said Coun. Jim Olender. “Staying where we are is important. We have to keep our reserves going or we would be in trouble down the road.” The two-per-cent figure allows the township to cover its increased costs and contribute to its reserve funds, rather than draw on them in the current economic situation. Chief administrative officer Susan Duke said the budget was closely examined by councillors
before they gave it their seal of approval, adding she did not think any the budget could be further trimmed or altered. Among its larger expenditures, Wellesley plans to spend $2,321,860 on capital roads projects including some $585,000 for surface asphalt and line painting on Hessen Strasse and Weimar Line. Also included in this total is surface asphalt for Greenwood Hill and Gerber roads, a Broadway/Steffler Road upgrade, and repairs to the sidewalks in Heidelberg. Additionally, the township is now in the process of converting what was once a part-time position, the bylaw enforcement officer, to a full-time role, amounting to $35,000 in associated costs, alongside an additional $30,000 being allocated for expenses related to this year’s municipal election. “We are in good stead right now and hopefully we can keep things this way and not slide back,” said Olender. Before giving final approval to the budget, councillors will hear from residents at a public meeting at the Crosshill chambers.
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A passion for feathered friends Heidelberg father and his sons take their birdwatching seriously, turning it into a scientific pursuit JONI MILTENBURG When Ken Burrell was about 10 years old, his father Jim took him and his brother Mike to the Wrigley Corners outdoor education centre in North Dumfries Township. The boys were dedicated birdwatchers even at that young age, so when a brilliant gold bird flew up to Ken, they knew something out of the ordinary had happened. The bird was a prothonotary warbler, a bird native to the eastern United States and found in Canada only in the most southern reaches of Ontario. It certainly shouldn’t have been flying around Waterloo Region. “That was the bird that hooked Ken,” Jim said. The boys, now in their 20s, inherited their fascination
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with birds from their father. Jim has been a birdwatcher since he was a boy going on fishing, hiking and hunting trips with his father. “My younger brother and I spent a lot of time in duck blinds with nothing much to do. We weren’t very good hunters,” he chuckled. Jim’s interest in birding grew after he moved to the Waterloo area. The Burrells’ Heidelberg property is planted with trees and shrubs that provide shelter and food for birds. It was Mike and Ken’s job to monitor what species were at the feeders for Project Feeder Watch. In the mid-1990s they started going to Point Pelee in May to catch the spring migration of birds returning from Central and South America. “That one-day excursion has now grown into a full month,”
Jim said. In fact, Ken will be doing data gathering for his bachelor’s thesis at Point Pelee this year. He’s working on a degree in environment and resource studies and wants to examine a phenomenon known as reverse migration. Occasionally birds that should be migrating north in spring will reverse direction and fly south in masses. It’s behavior the Burrells have seen for themselves: throngs of birds so thick they were flying straight at them, almost engulfing their bodies. Ken believes it’s linked to bad weather, and wants to find out what variables – wind speed, temperature, cloud cover, barometric pressure – influence spring migration the most. “Mike and Ken have far surpassed me,” Jim said of their
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interest in birding. For the younger Burrells, their trips to Point Pelee led into Bird Studies Canada’s young ornithologists program, where they learned how to band birds and volunteered at the organization’s Long Point station. That subsequently led to membership in the Kitchener-Waterloo Field Naturalists. For the past few years, Mike has coordinated the Christmas bird counts in Kitchener and Linwood. The counts happen across North America; volunteers count species and numbers of birds within a 15-kilometre radius over one day. The information is collected into a database that shows the population trends of winter birds over time. The Kitchener count has been happening since the 1930s, while the Linwood
count started in 2003. With its open fields, Linwood sees large numbers of wintering raptors – it’s one of the top five regions for certain raptors in North America. Eagles, rare in this area, are common in Linwood and one overwinters every year on the Conestogo River. The Burrells also lead outings for curious birdwatchers. The next one happens Jan. 24 in Wellesley Township, where they’ll be trying to spot wintering raptors. This winter has not been a good one for wintering birds; the cool, wet summer didn’t produce enough food for them and many opted to pass by or stay up north. Nevertheless, they’ll be hoping to spot rough-legged hawks, red tailed hawks and perhaps even the eagle on the Conestogo River.
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The real issue is Haiti’s long-term prospects All of the efforts in Haiti are directed at immediate humanitarian aid, as is appropriate. Before long, however, some longer-term planning will be needed to help put the country back on track – restoring it to what is was doesn’t make much sense, as what it was is not what anybody wants it to be. The poorest country in the hemisphere, Haiti has seen many disasters in its history, including hurricanes, floods and landslides brought on by massive deforestation (take a look at satellite photos online to see the marked contrast between Haiti and the neighbouring Dominican Republic). But the earthquake that literally tore the place apart last week has been more devastating than anything before it. Current estimates put the number of dead at more than 200,000, with 1.5 million people left homeless. Much of the infrastructure has been laid to waste. The widespread devastation is tied to the nation’s woeful history. Buildings were not of a standard to withstand a natural disaster such as the magnitude-7 quake that struck Jan. 12. The government, largely disrupted by the emergency, had no resources to deal with what happened. A legacy of colonial rule, foreign intervention, U.S. occupation, aggressive neo-liberal economics, ruthless dictators and political infighting have left Haiti in a
deplorable state. The most recent low point came following the ouster of president JeanBertrand Aristide in a 2004 rebellion. The first to be democratically elected, Aristide had been president on three occasions, twice removed by a coup. Instability was the order of the day following the rebellion, with corruption rife and suffering reaching new levels. Under new president René Préval, a longtime Aristide ally, the situation had improved somewhat. The country relies on UN troops and police officers to maintain order, with more now on the way to assist with disaster relief efforts. For Timothy Donais, a professor in the Global Studies department at Wilfrid Laurier University, what flows from the massive international response to the earthquake could help decide Haiti’s future. Despite all the problems there, he remains optimistic about its prospects, at least under circumstances different from what’s happened in the past. “Given a sustained period of stability, there is hope for Haiti. It’s not a hopeless place, not a basket case,” he says. The rub comes in achieving that stability. It will mean less interference, but plenty of financial support from the international community, allowing Haitians to build a viable economy where none has ever really existed. Donais’ area of study includes postconflict peace-building, which includes research into what happens following war and strife in such places as Afghanistan, Bosnia and Haiti.
Having first travelled to Haiti for research in 2005, he saw marked improvements on his next visit in 2007, thanks to the work being done by the Préval government. With the president unable to run again when his term expires, Donais is concerned about what might happen to even those small reforms. “The big test over the next year is the next round of elections. They were supposed to be held next month, but I’d guess they’re going to be postponed.” In a country where a small minority is very wealthy, and the vast majority live in extreme poverty, an elitist system developed whereby inequity was widespread. Aristide’s election was seen as a victory for democracy, a chance for the vast numbers of poor to see a more level playing field, but things didn’t pan out as planned, leading to more unrest. With some much-needed international attention on Haiti, and the aid money flowing in, there’s an opportunity to help residents reconstruct not only the infrastructure but the system of government. “There’s a need to rebuild the Haitian state, which seems to have collapsed along with the buildings in the capital,” he says. Both the physical reconstruction and
a new government model will take time – a long-term commitment is required, he adds. The international community has to be in it for the long haul, as there are no short-term solutions – “It has to be measured in decades.” “There’s no shortage of good ideas. The question is, who has the wherewithal to ... see it through?” New infrastructure – buildings, water supplies, electrical systems – will demand a considerable amount of foreign money. Leonel Fernandez, president of neighbouring Dominican Republic, estimates Haiti would need $10 billion over five years. Just as important, however, says Donais, is the need to invest in basic social services, particularly health care and education. Only with that kind of “key economic development” will Haiti be able to develop a sustainable economic system. Even before the earthquake, Haiti was so poor it didn’t have the basics to form a viable economic system, and it couldn’t provide the basics without an economy to sustain itself – “it’s caught in a Catch-22 situation.” If history is any guide, the kind of change he advocates is not the most likely outcome of this latest relief effort.
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Another $505,242 rolled into Centre Wellington Township coffers this week, the latest installment of its share of revenues from slot machines at the Grand River Raceway. The payment represents five per cent of the revenues generated in the third quarter (October to December 2009). To date, the township has received more than $11.2 million in non-tax gaming revenue since the operation was forced to move from Woolwich Township. Slots at Grand River Raceway opened on Dec. 4, 2003. Since that time, it has attracted more than 3.6 million visitors. The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation issued more than $17.4 million in revenue last quarter to 23 host communities of slots at racetracks and charity casinos. To date, those communities have collected $670 million. The tracks themselves receive 10 per cent of the gross slots revenue, with another 10 per cent going to the horse-racing industry.
Woolwich puts up $1,000 for Haiti Woolwich will make a $1,000 donation to support relief efforts in Haiti in memory of Yvonne Martin, the retired Elmira nurse who was killed in the Jan. 12 earthquake. Mayor Bill Strauss tabled the idea Tuesday night during the review of the 2010 budget. Although supportive of the cause, Coun. Sandy Shantz voted against the contribution, saying she struggled with the idea because council had recently turned down grant requests from worthwhile local agencies. Strauss also urged residents to donate to the Haitian relief efforts, noting the federal government will be matching contributions made to authorized groups.
Wellesley Tree of Light shines with $3K Two organizations operating in Wellesley Township received some welcome funding this week from the Wellesley Tree of Light. On Jan. 19, Marilyn Bisch, organizer of the Tree of Light campaign, presented cheques totaling $3,000 to the Community Action Program for Children and Meals on Wheels. The money was raised through donations and the sale of light bulbs for the tree.
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Community rallies to support victims of Haitian earthquake Woolwich residents undertaking a variety of measures to raise funds for disaster relief KATIE EDMONDS The images and news coming out of Haiti following the Jan. 12 earthquake were shocking, but also served as an immediate call to action, one local residents have been quick to answer. From the well-established aid response of the Mennonite Central Committee to the efforts of school kids, the community has rallied in support of those devastated by the natural disaster. In Floradale, Steve Bauman and his brother-inlaw Kevin Coates have organized a benefit concert. Coates is a pianist, and the two men have gathered up some of their musician friends and are planning a night of music at the Floradale Mennonite Church on Jan. 30, with all proceeds going to the MCC. “When Yvonne Martin died, I think it hit a lot of people in the Elmira area,” explained Bauman. “It hit home a bit more than it might have if we didn’t have that personal connection to it.” The group is happy that the event came together as quickly as it did, so
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that the donations they raise can be given to the group while the government of Canada is offering to match any donation made to Haiti relief. Ottawa will match dollar-for-dollar all donations to endorsed national charitable organizations from Jan.12 to Feb. 12. “Any money we raise is for the people of Haiti,” said Bauman. “Ninetynine per cent of us will
probably not ever get to Haiti but if we can do something that can make their lives better, I think it is up to each of us to try and do that, whatever that means in our own world.” As the Mennonite Central Committee ramps up its response to the devastation in Haiti, its aid workers in the country are already assisting as they are able. “We didn’t sleep last
JONI MILTENBURG The Wellesley splash park committee will kick off its business fundraising campaign Monday. The committee is looking to raise approximately $200,000 towards the construction of the splash park. Community fundraisers and a pair of
grants have so far netted approximately $52,000 toward that goal. The committee received grants totaling $20,000 from Farm Credit Canada and the Kitchener-Waterloo Community Foundation. Other grants are still pending, including an application to the Ontario Trillium Foundation.
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The MCC has been providing aid in Haiti since 1958. Resource development director Dan Driedger explained that they are not typically a ‘first responder,’ but rather a medium- to long-term responder which will provide aid and support for a number of years, rather than all the money being spent immediately. The MCC disaster response team travelled to Haiti at the end of last week. They are currently assessing the situation and reporting back to the committee here in Canada as to what their response should be. Almost immediately, 1,000 water filters were purchased and are now awaiting shipment to Haiti. Driedger said that drinking water will be a significant issue given the collapse of water collection systems. “They are known around the world for putting the pieces together in Third World countries,” said Bauman of MCC. “We are going to give the money to them and I know that they will find the best way to use the funds.” At Elmira District See RELIEF EFFORTS page »07
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Statistics Canada reported that in the Kitchener area, which includes the townships, construction began on 2,299 homes in 2009, down from the 2,634 units started in 2008. Starts were lower for all housing types in 2009. Single-detached starts decreased to 1,162 units in 2009, down from the 1,446 homes started in 2008. But for Woolwich, results showed just the opposite effect. “When we were looking ahead last year, I budgeted for the same amount as in 2008 but we actually exceeded that,” noted Vanderbeek. Although the number of available lots in Elmira is not nearly as high as it has been in previous years, he predicts that Breslau will continue to boom with new lots from both Empire Communities and Thomasfield Homes drawing large numbers of people to the township.
The number of new total residential dwelling units in the township jumped to 265 from 247 between 2008 and 2009, an increase of 6.79 per cent, while the rest of the province saw a decrease of approximately 33 per cent during the same period. The number of total permits issued in Woolwich was an even greater increase of 9.9 per cent, and the total value of construction projects in the township leapt to $83,279,139 from $74,021,543, an 11.12 per cent difference. Vanderbeek said the number of houses to be built in Elmira will depend on how many of the applications for subdivisions which are currently under review get approved, but he noted that if this year is anything like last year, he is not worried. “It’s like the recession did not even exist in this area in terms of housing.”
Conestogo effort returns school crossing guard STEVE KANNON Without a crossing guard, or even school crossing signs, since 2007, the road in front of Conestogo Public School will soon have both. The school’s parent council, through its Conestogo pedestrian safety committee, has arranged to staff the crosswalk, and Woolwich council this week approved a temporary school crossing until the end of the year. The township is responsible for hiring crossing guards, and officially scratched the Conestogo location from its list in 2008 after trying for more than a year to hire someone for the job. Concerned about the safety of some 40 children who cross Sawmill Road daily to attend classes, the parents’ group searched far and wide for crossing guards, eventually submitting four names to the township. A number of parents have also signed on to a roster to cover any shifts that need to be filled due to illness, for instance, explained Sherrie Cochrane, who lives opposite the school, which her three children attend.
“We feel very strongly that this position is important enough to put in a significant effort,” she told councillors Tuesday night. With a crossing guard in place, the Region of Waterloo will replace the pavement markings and crossing signs removed in 2007. Although parents had been calling for the crosswalk to be reinstated, regional policy demands an adult supervisor be present if such markings are to go in, explained township clerk Christine Broughton. A traffic study carried out recently indicated a crosswalk may not be warranted, but council agreed with parents’ safety concerns. The new crosswalk – the region is likely to put in temporary lines and signage – will be monitored for staffing and usage until the end of the year. If the numbers warrant, permanent measures may be put in place in time for the next school year. Coun. Mark Bauman said the onus is on the Conestogo community to step up to provide staffing – “it needs to be consistent.” The cost of staffing the crosswalk will be an estimated $3,800 a year.
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Relief efforts: Devastation touches a chord in the community Secondary School, students were able to donate a dollar (or more) Friday to wear a hat or a jersey to school. The proceeds of the fundraiser are headed to the Foundation for Interna-
tional Development Assistance, the charitable organization that owned the guesthouse where Yvonne Martin and a team of nurses were staying while in Haiti. In the Life Skills class, instructor John Parsons
has spent the week baking with his students, and selling the goods outside the school cafeteria in order to raise funds. The students have raised more than $160 to date, including the sales of several dozen donuts
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3:30 PM | There was damage to the BMW driven by a 41-year-old St. Jacobs man when he was unable to stop and collided with the back of a 37-year-old Drayton woman’s Chevy after she stopped on Arthur Street near Pintail Drive in Elmira. There was no damage to the woman’s car and no charges were laid.
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8:00 PM | Police were called to the Linwood Community Centre on Ament Line to break up a fight between two 17-year-old Linwood women. The verbal fight apparently broke out between a girl and her ex-boyfriend’s sister and developed into a more physical altercation. The two parties were separated by police, each suffering very minor injuries. No charges were laid but both were issued warnings. 9:00 PM | A 33-year-old St. Clements woman was driving on Moser-Young Road near Weimar Line in Wellesley when she struck a deer that emerged from the west ditch. The deer ran off after the accident but was later found dead. There was significant damage to the front of the woman’s vehicle.
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11:00 AM | There was minor damage to a vehicle parked on Hampton Street in Elmira when a 69-year-old woman backed out of a driveway and struck the car. No charges were laid.
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9:40 AM | Sometime overnight, a Canada Post mailbox was dumped on the front lawn of a
A lug nut on the wheel of a van parked at Elmira District Secondary School was loosened by vandals sometime overnight. This discovery about 5 a.m. Jan. 15 marked the second time that this has occurred with this particular vehicle and the third time a crime of this nature has been reported to police recently. Police say that they take this type of vandalism very seriously as the culprits are putting lives in danger. Anyone found tampering with vehicles in this manner would be deemed to be endangering life and dealt with severely. residence on Nightingale Crescent in Elmira. There was no damage to the property and the box has since been replaced. 12:40 PM | A 49-year-old New Hamburg woman caused minor damage to both her vehicle and another one parked on the street nearby when she backed her Pontiac Montana out of the driveway and into a parked car. 8:00 PM | A black Chevy Silverado bearing the license plate 957 8VK was stolen sometime over the weekend from a company lot on Arthur Street North in Elmira. The vehicle was left in the lot on Friday and missing on Sunday evening when the owner returned to retrieve it.
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2:20 AM | A 47-year-old Mississauga man was pulled over twice in 20 minutes for two separate speeding offences on Arthur Street. 3:00 AM | A-26 year-old Elmira man was stopped by police on Arthur Street near Sawmill Road after he was recorded driving at 134 km/h in an 80 km/h zone. The man received a three-day suspension for hav-
ing a borderline illegal amount of alcohol in his blood and was charged with ‘stunt driving.’ 9:30 PM | A Ford pickup truck being driven by a 17-year-old Elmira man went out of control on Reids Wood Drive near Line 86, slid into the ditch and rolled over into the snow, landing on its roof. There was significant damage to the vehicle, but the driver was not charged as conditions were icy.
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add up the funds, we are just trying to keep our heads above water at the moment.” In addition to donations of money, the MCC is asking the public to supply 20,000 relief kits and 10,000 cotton sheets to be sent to earthquake survivors. Relief kits include personal hygiene supplies, laundry soap, towels and bandages. People who donate kits are asked to provide only the specific items on the list of relief kit supplies that can be found at www.mcc.org/kits. Flat sheets, which also will be used as mosquito netting, can be double-, or 1:14 king-PM size. 1queen1/18/10 Page Sheets, with at least a
300-thread count, should be new, cotton and lightcolored, which are not as attractive to mosquitoes. Additional aid for Haiti in Woolwich: On behalf of its local staff at the St. Jacob’s location and across the country, Home Hardware will donate $25,000 to the MCC. Donations can be made to the MCC at Brian’s Photo in downtown Elmira. Donations can be made to the MCC directly: • www.mcc.org • 1-800-313-6226 • Mennonite Central Committee, 50 Kent Ave., Kitch1 ener, ON N2G 3R1 • MCC Thrift Shop
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3:40 AM | Another driver was arrested and charged with ‘stunt driving.’ This time, a 28-year-old Elmira woman was recorded driving at 144 km/h in an 80 km/h zone. The woman’s license was suspended for seven days and her vehicle was impounded. 9:00 PM | A woman arrived at the front door of a home on Greenwood Hill Road in Wellesley looking for assistance. The woman said that she took the wrong bus, got turned around and had been walking for six hours from Kitchener. The woman was very cold, but unharmed and taken to hospital for assessment.
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donated from the Elmira Donuts and Deli, all proceeds going to the Canadian Red Cross. Linda Taylor, of Taylor’s Bridal Shop in Elmira, is planning to donate five per cent of all the proceeds of the store’s sales in January and February to support Haiti. “I just felt as though it was something that I had to do,” said Taylor. “If we can help in this way, then we will.” Becky Ribble of Elmira and her sons, Jackson, 6, and Ben, 8 are organizing a toy and bake sale at their 51 Stillwater St. home on Jan. 30, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. “We have been talking to our kids about what has been going on in Haiti and both of them have pretty heavy hearts,” said Ribble. “They feel like we need to do something to help.” Driedger said that the support from the community so far has been very encouraging, but that he does not know exact figures as to how much money has been raised for relief efforts in Woolwich so far. “The response so far has been overwhelming. IA furniture sale:Layout Instead of stopping to
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» EDITORIAL
CHL part of battle over gravel pits Confusion abounds over Woolwich’s plan to look at a cultural heritage landscape (CHL) designation for an area surrounding the historic covered bridge in West Montrose. From the numbers in the audience at Tuesday’s council meeting and the pushback from opponents, you would think councillors were making a final decision rather than simply starting the formal process to investigate the possibility of a CHL. Residents are understandably leery of any potential controls on what they can do with their properties, with some arguing the bridge itself already enjoys a heritage designation so there is no need to do more. At this point, however, the township is only investigating its options, as planning staff have determined a study is necessary under provincial regulations. Long before any changes are made, West Montrose residents will have their say about the issue. And even if a CHL designation is to be made, the scope will be determined by the township in consultation with residents. That some people have confused the CHL process with the much more rigourous
and restrictive cultural heritage district designation has not helped the situation. Although the latter was mentioned in the report by Dr. Robert Shipley of the Heritage Resources Centre at the University of Waterloo, the township is not considering that option. While some residents worry about the long-term impact of any heritage designation, the most pressing issue related to the CHL study is the fate of Capital Paving’s application to develop a large gravel pit near the bridge site. The company sees the CHL process, which could take up to a year to complete, as delaying its plans. With Woolwich pondering an interim-control bylaw to freeze larger-scale development in the area for the duration of the study, the company sent solicitor Jonathan Kahn to challenge that notion. Kahn called the proposed bylaw “unwarranted and inappropriate,” and warned the company would be forced to launch an appeal to the Ontario Municipal Board if the township did not move quickly on its application. Capital Paving has just seven months left on a twoyear window to file documents related to
» VERBATIM “Ninety-nine per cent of us will probably not ever get to Haiti but if we can do something that can make their lives better, I think it is up to each of us to try and do that, whatever that means in our own world.” Floradale resident Steve Bauman on local support for relief efforts in Haiti
the gravel pit with the Ministry of Natural Resources. Although the township would prefer to avoid an OMB hearing, that seems inevitable. Whatever council ultimately decides, someone is going to challenge the outcome. The same applies to the proposed Hunsberger pit near Conestogo. If council sides with the developers, resident groups in both communities have built war chests in preparation for a legal battle. If the township supports its citizens, the developers will take their cases to the OMB and MNR. And, if history is any indicator, both those agencies will sweep aside municipal decisions and the wishes of the majority in opposition. The poor provincial record of respecting local wishes is magnified in the case of gravel pits, where the Aggregate Resources Act is practically a cudgel, and the Ministry of Natural Resources seen as a defender of operators, not Ontarians. Currently, provincial policies favour developers, putting far too much power in the hands of the OMB. Opponents such as Gravel Watch Ontario say the same is true of the aggregate policies. The battle is just beginning.
» THE MONITOR Consumer prices rose 1.3% in the 12 months to December, following a 1.0% increase in November. The rise in the all-items Consumer Price Index (CPI) was due primarily to gasoline prices. In December, gasoline prices were 25.6% higher than they were in December 2008. Statistics Canada
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» HARD TALK | RAFE MAIR
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Some belated musings at the rollover of a new year I know I’m a bit late. I was in London celebrating my birthday (my 39th Celsius). But this is still the season to take a bit of a look back, fortified with some prognostications. First let me tell you a bit about Dec. 31, my birthday, which I spent at a lovely Italian restaurant in London with dear friends Geoff and Erin Chutter, she being one of my sidekicks on CBC Early Edition on Monday mornings. By talking excessively about sex and religion we managed to miss politics. Having that birth date, I hate it when the year is a “9” going into a “0” as it just was. Led by a media that must have failed Grade One “number work,” many people took 2009 as the end of the first decade of the 21st century, which it clearly is not. That will expire as Dec. 31, 2010 turns into Jan. 1, 2011. You can imagine what my year was like in 1999 when most of the world celebrated the millennium a year too soon. Zero, standing alone, signifies no quantity at all and just as we don’t
start each month with January “0,” etc., we start counting at year “1.” Somehow some people count years differently than they count bottles of single malt Scotch. However, if you can show me I’m wrong I will I will immediately send you “0” cases of your favourite tipple. Out on the coast, 2009 was a terrible year for those who care for their environment and for public power, as the Gordon Campbell government won the May election, which they will take as a mandate to continue destroying our rivers and the ecologies they support. They will take it as a mandate to continue forcing B.C. Hydro to pay independent power producers double what they can sell that power for, power Hydro can’t use because at the time of year (spring and summer months) when private power is produced, Hydro has lots of power and full reservoirs. The good news is that people all around the province are waking up to the fact that this power “plan” is hugely harmful, and are fighting back on all fronts, though it’s a bit like locking the barn door after the horse has been stolen. This year will see the public getting angrier and angrier at Kim Il Camp-
bell who will, in the fall of 2010, bow out, saying it’s time for new blood. After a short, decent interval, I think Campbell will move into a cushy six-figure salary in the energy field alongside his former colleague, Ralph Klein. Federally, Stephen Harper perfectly fits the wisdom of Mair’s Axiom II, namely you don’t have to be a 10 in politics: you can be a three if everyone else is a two. Harper is a three in a sea of twos. He will win an election next fall but will be denied a majority. About the only interesting political watch will be the Liberal Party, which is privately urging Michael Ignatieff to go back to Harvard while publicly fearing a leadership bloodbath to be won by Bob Rae. The dreaded “C” word will be back for the first time since the 1992 Charlottetown Accord, which split the nation, leaving wounds still unhealed. The prime minister simply doesn’t understand that an elected Senate, with the present make-up, would be disastrous. It would be disastrous for every province but Ontario and Quebec because it would give electoral approval to an upper house that is grossly skewed in favour of Central
Canada. Harper simply doesn’t understand that if we’re to change the way the Senate is constituted we must first construct a senate which gives regional balance to smaller (in terms of population) provinces against the unfairness of “rep by pop.” The bigger problem will be Alberta and her tar sands. To Alberta (and to B.C. as well), provincial control over resources is an essential ingredient of the federalism that is Canada. The National Energy Program of the ‘70s will never go away, and any attempt by Ottawa to gain control of the tar sands, either by taxation, power over exports or environmental moves will cause big trouble and seriously threaten national unity. We continue our fiscal policy of self-gratification and refuse to understand that the basic problems underlying the world’s economy remain unsolved. Indeed those problems are aggravated by the fact that the mighty engines of corporate America and elsewhere, like the Bourbons, have learned nothing and forgotten nothing. They remain awash in debt with the only difference being that their maSee MAIR page »10
» INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS | GWYNNE DYER
Senegal’s offer no real solution to the failures in Haiti Is it megalomania or just a political stunt? Senegal’s President Abdoulaye Wade may not even know the answer himself, but his offer to let quake-stricken Haitians resettle in his West African country certainly qualifies as the most flamboyant response to the tragedy in Haiti. “The repeated calamities that befall Haiti prompt me to propose a radical solution: to take measures to create, somewhere in Africa, the conditions for Haitians to return,” the 83-yearold Senegalese president said last weekend. “They did not choose to go to that island. It is our duty to recognize their right to come back to the land of their ancestors.” Well, some of their ancestors, anyway. The slave populations of all the Caribbean islands were deliberately drawn from different parts of the west African coast, so that they would speak a variety of languages and find it harder to rebel. But the
» LETTER TO THE EDITOR Time to hold the line on spending To the Editor, Over the past few years, Woolwich Township has been able to embark on several capital projects that gave us great facilities, but have also taxed our financial resources. The world’s economy has changed in the last 12 months.
vocabulary of Haitian Creole suggests that there were many Wolofspeakers (the most widely used indigenous language in Senegal) among the slaves of Haiti. Educated Haitians also speak French, of course, as do educated Senegalese, so it’s not as though Turkey or Sri Lanka were to offer a new home to Haitians. But it is nevertheless mighty peculiar: just where does Abdoulaye Wade propose to put them all? He does sound serious about his offer, and he says that large numbers would be welcome. His spokesman, Mamadou Bemba Ndiaye, explained that “The president is offering voluntary repatriation to any Haitian that wants to return to their origin. If it’s just a few individuals, then we will likely offer them housing or small pieces of land. If they come en masse we are ready to give them a region.” Now, it’s true that 90 per cent of Haitians would leap at the chance to leave their country, the poorest in all the Americas, but the destination they have in mind is Miami or Mon-
treal. Senegal is one of the best-run and most democratic countries of Africa (though both qualities have been badly damaged during the 10year rule of Abdoulaye Wade), but it does not feature prominently on Haitian wish-lists. It is also true that most Senegalese feel that their country is quite full enough without a large influx of Haitians. There are 14 million people in Senegal, and the population is still growing fast. There are 10 million people in Haiti, and its population is growing fast too. Moving a million Haitians to Senegal would relieve the intolerable pressure on Haiti’s badly degraded land for less than a decade – and it would cause chaos in Senegal. Of the offer to give large groups of Haitias their own region, the president’s spokesman said that it would be in a fertile part of the country rather than in its parched deserts. But there is no fertile region of Senegal that is not already fully populated by people whose families have lived there for many generations. Where is the president planning to
put them? So yes, it is a stunt, not a real offer, and what gives the game away is the fact that Senegal is offering “voluntary repatriation” to Haitians, not assisted passage. They are welcome to come to Senegal if they can find the money for the airline tickets – but how many Haitians can do that? Abdoulaye Wade is big on stunts and dramatic gestures. His last one, now nearing completion, is an enormous bronze statue overlooking the capital, Dakar, that is higher than the Statue of Liberty in New York harbour. It is called the African Renaissance Monument, but it is being built by North Koreans. It actually looks like one of those Socialist Realist groupings of statuary, all windswept hair and eyes fixed confidently on the future, that littered the old Soviet Union. Only bigger. Maybe he should build one overlooking Port-au-Prince too. It would be about as much use to Haitians as his offer of new homes for them in Senegal. Abdoulaye Wade is showing more and more signs of the “Big
Everyone – business, government and individuals – needs to realize this and work within it. After reading the article about the new wage agreement for Woolwich workers, I can’t help but wonder if the deal was made without considering this new reality. How many residents of Woolwich will expect three-percent wage increases annually for the next three years?
Every day hard decisions are being made on how to do more with less. While not pleasant, they are necessary. Yesterday’s thinking of annual increases in salaries and staffing levels must be replaced with innovation to cut costs while maintaining the services that our township values. To do otherwise means passing large tax increases onto the residents of Woolwich. Clearly, this is a different direc-
tion than council has had to lead staff in over the past term. I encourage council to remember this new reality when looking at any expenditure. I also encourage fellow residents of Woolwich to communicate with council that we need to hold the line on spending.
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Eric Schwindt Elmira
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Dyer: Little chance international offers will benefit Haitians » From page 9
Man” syndrome that has wrecked so many African countries that once had quite functional governments. From Sudan to Zimbabwe and from Sierra Leone to Somalia, we have watched them fall into tyranny and chaos. Senegal may be next. And what of Haiti? As hard as you might look for signs of hope amid the ruins, you will not find any. The earthquake is a dramatic interlude of natural disaster in a long history of tragedy whose sources were mostly human. What has devastated Haiti is politics, much of it imposed from outside by foreign governments: the French in the 19th century, the United
States in the 20th and 21st. No honest and competent Haitian government has ever survived more than a couple of years. The denuded land, the runaway population growth, the unskilled and illiterate population, the universal corruption: all these are due to failures of policy, not to some fundamental flaw in the character of Haitian people. But by now there have been generations of despair and neglect, and it is getting harder and harder to see how Haitians might turn it all around. No wonder most of them want to leave. But most of them never will.
THE OBSERVER | Saturday, January 23, 2010
» OBSERVER Q&A
Given the economy, should municipal government freeze property taxes?
“I believe it’s out of hand in a lot of cases anyways, so given the current circumstances that would be one way that the government could help the average citizen out.”
“I think it’s easy to criticize, and it’s hard to know what the right thing is to do; it is tough to be on the municipal side. The money has to come from somewhere!”
“There are pros and cons to both sides.”
“It’s always a struggle to increase a wage, but our expenses continue to rise. As long as the tax is within a percentage of the average wage increase, then the expense is attainable.”
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Mair: Outlook is not overly optimistic » From page 9
jor creditor is the U.S. government. The United States still has staggering trade deficits, national deficits and national debt. To confuse a recovering stock market with a recovering economy is a fatal miscalculation, and like other methods of selfgratification brings (so I’m told, at any rate) intense pleasure followed by intense letdown. This is particularly so for British Columbia, whose incompetent government was completely fooled by the prosperity prior to 2008, grossly miscalculated its budget requirements
and now must bear the hangover of the 2010 Winter Olympics. I offer no advice. I’m in no position to do so. Neither are the stockbrokers, who are the only ones assured of a profit whenever you buy or are forced to sell. I can only tell you that our modest savings will remain in cash as we watch those naïve enough to think that anything has really changed, suffer the traditional fate of fools. Oh, yes. A very Happy if not Prosperous New Year in this, the last year of the decade.
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» LETTER TO THE EDITOR Cuba well-placed to help Haiti if U.S. cooperates To the Editor, I believe that Cuba has an opportunity right now to work with the U.S. in helping Haiti. How could you get the U.S. to lower its prejudices and cooperate? I am a Canadian who would love to see Cuba accepted as an equal in
the world community. I have met U.S. citizens who went to Cuba for free medical care when their own country refused to help. In Canada we have a health care system that is public, and it seems shocking to me that people go bankrupt in the U.S. due to expenses for ev-
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eryday medical issues or go without and suffer. Cuba is stable and has expertise. This is how a small country can be huge in shaping the world’s history. It also might mean work for Cubans and help change American views about
Cuba. How could Cuba host the international community to help Haiti or help by hosting Haitians for medical care? What other ways could Cuba be the best partner possible for the world community in helping Haiti? Mike Clancy St. Jacobs
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Successful ventures take the details into account Specific, well-communicated goals put everyone on the same page, says tech specialist Tim Jackson It’s important to set goals, but it’s equally important to communicate those goals to every member of your team. That’s the main message that Tim Jackson will be delivering to a Chamber Young Professionals event organized by the Greater Kitchener Waterloo Chamber of Commerce Jan. 27. Jackson is one of the founders of Tech Capital Partners, a venture capital firm that invests in fledgling technology companies in Waterloo Region. He’s slated to speak about goal setting, how he does his yearly planning and how it has helped his success. Jackson noted that it’s important to set goals to give yourself a meter to measure success by. “If you just let things happen as they happen, you really don’t have a measure of whether you got where you expected to be or not.” Setting firm goals also allows you to share your vision with others and ensure that everyone is one the same page. Having served on the boards of a number of
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GOAL-ORIENTED Tim Jackson, a founder of Tech Capital Partners, will be sharing his thoughts about what it takes to succeed in a high-tech world as the Greater Kitchener Waterloo Chamber of Commerce hosts an event in St. Jacobs Jan. 27. technology companies and not-for-profits, he stresses that it’s equally important to communicate – and over-communicate – to the other people involved. “You can’t just ask people to do something or say ‘this is the goal or the objective,’ you’ve got to go the next step and explain
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because this has got to get out the door, she understood what promises we’d made to our investors. So what the goal was for the quarter, but more importantly she understood what impact that had on stocks she owned in the company and her stock options. “Why is the objective to
grow sales by 20 per cent this year, or why is the objective to increase volunteer hours by 15 per cent? Having a number for the sake of having a number doesn’t do anything, but it’s the why that’s important.” Jackson chairs the boards of the Waterloo Public Library and Cen-
tre in the Square and is president of the Food Bank of Waterloo Region. A graduate of the University of Waterloo, he also sits on the university’s board of governors and works with the Research and Technology Park. The goal for Tech Capital Partners is to build world-class companies in Waterloo Region and make the region the best place in the world to live for people of all ages, he said. The region’s technology industry has emerged from the economic downturn better than any other in the country, mostly due to its diversity. Jackson points to companies working in hardware, software, wireless technologies and medical imaging, among others. In fact, his firm is seeing an increase in entrepreneurship, as people who lost their jobs look to selfemployment as an alternative. “We are seeing lots and lots of opportunities to finance companies. The entrepreneurial bug is out there.” The Chamber Young Professionals event takes place Jan. 27 from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Best Western St. Jacobs Country Inn.
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» FOOD FOR THOUGHT | OWEN ROBERTS
Arm in arm, farmers demand more research money When it comes to research, farmers have been unwavering supporters. In straw polls, they say research is even more important than direct subsidy payments from governments, and that it should be top of mind when deciding where to direct public resources for agriculture. This hasn’t been lost on federal and provincial governments. Across Canada, they pour billions of dollars into agricultural research every year, with fantastic
results. Sometimes research yields products and processes, such as omega 3 eggs and DHA-enhanced milk, created locally in laboratories at the University of Guelph, at its campuses and at its area field research stations. Many times, though, consumers are less aware of breakthroughs, such as new soybean varieties, or potatoes, or barley. Nonetheless, plants and plant products that are readily consumed here are often from Ontario farms, or farms from other Canadian provinces. So, what’s it take to keep it that way? What will ensure Ontario’s farm sec-
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tor stays productive and vibrant, as pressure mounts from imports, climate change and low prices, to name but a few of farmers’ challenges? Well, to start with, more research. So say 100,000 Canadian farmers – about a third of all farmers – who virtually joined hands from coast to coast last week and unveiled a new Guelph-based organization dedicated to lobbying for agricultural research money. It’s called Farmers for Investment in Agriculture, consisting of the Grain Growers of Canada, the Grain Farmers of Ontario, the Fédération des producteurs de culture commerciales du Québec and the Atlantic Grains Council. And it’s not just asking for more research money, it’s demanding it. Here’s why. The group says every dollar the government puts into research turns into a $10 economic benefit for Canada. That advantage might come in the form of lower food costs, or increased exports, for example. And given those figures, they’re confused about why public research funding for agriculture in Canada has dropped by what they claim is 40 per cent since 1994. They want trend to stop – Ottawa, in particular, should double its support over the next 10 years, to get funding back to at least 1994 levels, they say. This initiative’s timing is not haphazard. Ottawa is starting to prepare its next five-year plan for agricultural support, and it will be approached by many groups with specific agendas. However, it’s more efficient to meet the needs of a
collective than individual organizations, so top marks to these farmers for setting aside regional differences and coming together as a whole. And more are on their way. Agriculture is in the middle of two of the world’s biggest challenges: climate change and starvation. When the Copenhagen climate change summit failed so miserably in the fall, everyone started looking for alternative ways of working together. To that end, last week in Germany at International Green Week, the national government torqued up the profile of its annual Berlin Summit of Ministers of Agriculture, by hosting twice as many international ministers as usual. After the meeting, the ministers issued a call to action that included more emphasis on international technology transfer. Technology comes from research. It is all connected. As the new Farmers for Investment in Agriculture groups says, research is more important than ever, given population projections and the potential for worldwide crop disease outbreaks. International development is more important than ever, too. Canada used to be so committed to it. Now, it’s not what we’re known for anymore. We need to refocus. In Germany, China’s agriculture deputy minister Dun Niu said developed nations have an obligation to provide developing countries with the necessary technical and financial support to help them address climate change. The same goes for addressing hunger. Research will lead us to solutions.
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THE OBSERVER | Saturday, January 23, 2010
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» NOTHIN’ BUT NET
PHOTO | KATIE EDMONDS
Conestogo student aces local free-throw competition
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TAKING IT TO THEM Elmira’s Zach Salomon takes a spill into the Kitchener netminder’s zone during home game Sunday. The Kings won the match 6-1.
KATIE EDMONDS
Kings continue to roll in 2010
PHOTO | KATIE EDMONDS
THE RIGHT TOUCH Aidan McLennan of Conestogo PS went 15-for-15 Jan. 17 to claim the crown at the Knights of Columbus free throw competition.
After stealing one from Guelph, team puts up a convincing win against Dutchmen
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Conestogo Public School student Aidan McLennan, 10, set a new record at the Knights of Columbus free throw competition last Sunday, sinking 15 of 15 opportunities, perhaps a first in the event’s long history. “NBA players don’t manage this,” remarked McLennan’s mother Paula Raymond, “We are incredibly proud of him and his school for their success.” Some 560 students from Conestogo, St. Jacobs, Park Manor Senior, Wellesley, and Riverside public schools and St. Teresa School took part in the competition at Elmira’s Park Manor. Each participant got 15 tries to sink as many baskets as possible. The first and second-place winners at the council level – the Fr. Hugh McKinnon Council, in this case – were presented with gold and silver medallions. All winners have been invited to represent Council 8192 at the district level competition to be held Jan. 30 at St. David Catholic Secondary School in Waterloo.
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With two more wins last weekend, the Elmira Sugar Kings extended their winning streak to five, but head coach Geoff Haddaway hasn’t started celebrating just yet. While Sunday’s 6-1 victory over the Kitchener Dutchmen was sweet, the coach still had a sour taste in his mouth from the previous night’s 2-1 decision against the Guelph Hurricanes. That first W wasn’t due to his team’s exceptional play,
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THE OBSERVER | Saturday, January 23, 2010
» THE NOT-SO-GREAT OUTDOORSMAN | STEVE GALEA
The magic of bringing a new rifle into the world Last weekend several members of our hunt camp decided to trek halfway across the province on a pilgrimage to one of our favourite gun shops. The object was to bring back provisions for the upcoming hunting seasons, as well as belch, eat greasy food, and espouse narrow-minded worldviews. My wife referred to it as a man date. Personally, I take offence to this. If it had been a date of any sort, we would have felt obligated to dress up, shave and drive to some place that couldn’t possibly interest a real man. While there, we would have submitted to societal pressures that forced us to spend lots of money on silly types of food that were arranged fastidiously. While this was happening we would have been required to listen to lounge music we didn’t like, use manners we
didn’t know we had, eat slowly and chew and talk about the chick flick we were just forced to see. Instead, we watched one of our buddies purchase a new rifle. Watching a friend purchase a new rifle is one of those beautiful, miraculous events that you sometimes hear about on the nature channel but get to never actually watch because suddenly they pre-empt the program with footage of childbirth. In this case, we stood around and provided all the support we could while a professional delivered the rifle from the back room. My job was to tell Jerry to breathe. Of course, other things were purchased too. I ended up coming home with reloading components for my rifle. Brent bought scope rings and mounts, a cleaning rod and other little things that he’d been waiting his whole life to meet. And while all this was nice, it was the rifle we were all most proud of. Walking towards the cash register,
even as part of the new rifle owner’s entourage, is an enriching experience. You can practically feel the testosterone coursing through your veins. That’s because the implication is clear. It says, “No, I didn’t buy this rifle, but I know the guy who did and he might let me shoot it one day.” It truly is the next best thing to purchasing your own. Just walking beside a friend who is experiencing the joy of new riflehood is an uplifting and joyous feeling. Typically, he lets you hold it and nod approval just before the clerk packs it back in the box. Then as a group you all gush eloquently about the merits of the calibre and the nice feel of the trigger. As you can see, this is the furthest thing from a date there is. For one thing, you are free to adjust yourself any time you feel like it. Of particular note was the fact that one of the younger members of camp was there. Gord is at that impressionable age where he still looks up to us older guys and truly believes that there’s nothing wrong with sopping gravy up with your sleeve, as we sometimes do at hunt camp. It was a pleasure not only to watch Gord’s eyes light up at the miracle of rifle purchase, but also to see him first look upon the rifle that one day, if he finds the right woman, he will surely own. Watching that young hunter check out that firearm provided a rare glimpse into the spark that accompanies love at first sight. I wept openly. Okay, maybe it was a little like a date.
Wideman pledges $250,000 to Woolwich Memorial Centre fund JONI MILTENBURG Boston Bruins defenceman Dennis Wideman is giving back to his hometown in a big way with the announcement of a $250,000 donation to the Fit for the Future campaign. Wideman’s donation of $50,000 a year over the next five years brings the campaign within striking distance of its $5.5 million goal. “It brings us so close to the actual goal that, with interest, we’re probably where we need to be,” said Paul Bossenberry, chair of the Woolwich Community Recreation Foundation. When the township agreed to build a slate of new recreation facilities, including the new twinpad Woolwich Memorial Centre, council asked the community to step up
and undertake a major fundraising drive. Community groups committed to raising more than $5.5 million – an ambitious goal in a centre of 20,000 people. Wideman’s donation is the largest contribution from an individual that the campaign has received, Bossenberry said. Wideman grew up in Woolwich and played for the Elmira Sugar Kings in 1998-99. He has maintained close connections to the Kings and minor sports in Woolwich over the years. “Being able to share some of my success with the hockey community in Woolwich is very exciting,” Wideman stated in a release. “In particular, being connected to the memory of such great people as Dan Snyder and Jim McLeod is a great honour.” See WIDEMAN page »16
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Ringette enjoying big surge in numbers Push to save sport in Woolwich pays big dividends as organization is now looking to ice more teams The rumours of ringette’s impending demise have been laid to rest. Following an information and sponsorship campaign in the fall, the sport is off life support: registration numbers have tripled over last year and sponsors are breathing new energy into the program. “We had a lot of new people just saying, ‘wow, I never knew. I didn’t know it was an option, didn’t know it was still here,’” explained Minor Ringette’s Carole Schwartz. Before the season started, the organization was looking at having to move players around to make two teams. Now they have three teams, each with a healthy number of players. “Had we known at the beginning of the year how good the reception would be, we could have easily made four teams,” Schwartz noted. The organization drew
PHOTO | JONI MILTENBURG
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BACK IN THE RING The Storm Novice ringette team has a healthy number of players this season, thanks to a push by Woolwich Minor Ringette to renew flagging interest in the sport. With registration numbers up and more sponsors, the organization is looking at expanding the number of teams taking part. new players with open registration, a free ‘come try ringette’ event and a skating development clinic included in the cost of registration. Woolwich Minor Ringette also secured spon-
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“It was just basically one request and people were very willing to come on board,” she said. That sponsorship included a new logo designed with the help of a local shirt supplier,
website development and a pamper night at Guys and Dolls Salon and Spa. Some of the sponsorship dollars were used to buy new shirts for the Bunny teams, replacing shirts that were ragged with
years of use. “I think I probably wore them when I was young,” Schwartz said. Most of the money went towards covering costs in order to keep registration fees low. The organization is focused on keeping costs down, she said, “so it’s an option for families who might not be able to afford a $500 registration.” Ringette hopes to build on the momentum next year and add a Petite team for the first time in a number of years, expanding from three teams to four. With so many new players on the ice, the start of the season posed a bit of a challenge for the Woolwich teams. That said, the Bunny teams have coaches on the ice with them to help them learn the game, and the Novices have enjoyed some success on the ice recently. “It’s overwhelming to be learning to skate and learning the game all at once, but they’re doing great and they’re having fun,” Schwartz said.
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THE OBSERVER | Saturday, January 23, 2010
Lack of focus proves costly to Jacks JONI MILTENBURG
» From page 13
PHOTO | JONI MILTENBURG
A third-period lapse in focus Jan. 15 cost the Wellesley Applejacks two points they can ill afford to lose. The Jacks nipped at the heels of the Lambeth Lancers through two periods but allowed four goals in the third on their way to a 9-5 loss. “We played well for two periods and then some of our guys got away from our systems at the start of the third and it cost us three goals,” said coach Kevin Fitzpatrick. Lambeth leapt out to an early lead with an unassisted goal from Kent Utman five minutes in. Two minutes later, Kevin Pennington made it two for the visitors. Wellesley got on the board with a backhand goal from Justin Roeder on a feed from Shawn Fitzpatrick and Chris Armstrong. With a minute to go in the first, Pat Doyle wired the puck to Eric Parr, who sent a cross in front of the net for Ben Jefferies to put away, tying things at two apiece. Lambeth surged out of the gate in the second period, scoring a pair of goals 40 seconds apart to make the score 4-2. Nik Sakellis scored his second for the Lancers at 11:38, widening the gap to three. The Jacks finally chipped away at that lead in the last two minutes of the second. Parr, from Roeder and Rob Hinschberger, put one past Lambeth’s Nick Trudell at 18:09. With 30 seconds left on the clock, Jefferies intercepted the puck, deked around the defenders and fed it to
SWEEPING TO THE NET Wellesley’s Eric Parr dekes around a Lambeth defender on his way to the net Jan. 15. Parr picked up an assist on the play when Ben Jefferies put the puck in the net for Wellesley’s second goal in a 9-5 loss. Read Shantz, who put it away. The Jacks were within one when the teams headed to the dressing rooms. The third period followed the pattern of the first two, with Lambeth notching a pair of goals in the first three minutes. They followed that up with another at 11:56, capitalizing on a turnover in front of the Wellesley net. The Jacks scored once more at 13:35, with Parr (Matt Aspden) notching the point to make the game 8-5. But a comeback proved too far out of reach this time, and Lambeth capitalized once more on the power play at 18:15 to make the final score 9-5. Wellesley fired 41 shots to Lambeth’s 32, but couldn’t capitalize on some juicy rebounds from Rudell. “We missed way too many wide open nets,” Fitzpatrick
said. The Jacks barely saw the inside of the box in the first two periods but racked up penalty minutes in the third as tempers flared. Both Kurt Martin and Luke Zehr struggled in net for the Jacks, allowing nine goals between them on 32 shots. Fitzpatrick wasn’t about to single out his goalies, noting that they’ve kept the team in many games this season and also watched some defensive breakdowns in front of them. “I don’t think either one of them thought that was their A-game but there’s no reason to second-guess themselves. We’ve got to play better in front of them. There’s five other guys on the ice before the puck goes in the net.” Lucky breaks have been few and far between for the Jacks this season and they didn’t
get any Jan. 15. In a season already plagued with illness and injury, they lost Josh Herd for the rest of the season with a torn ACL. The Jacks, 7-18-5, are seven points back of Tavistock. With only six games left in the regular season, they need every point they can scrape up and they also need Tavistock to lose a few in order to secure a playoff spot. “We’ve got a schedule that we could run the board, but we’ve got to play better for 60 minutes,” Fitzpatrick said. The first test happens tonight (Saturday) when the Jacks host Tavistock. The traditional rivalry between the teams will be given an extra edge as the Jacks try to steal a playoff spot and the Braves look to make sure that doesn’t happen. Game time is 7:30 p.m.
Wideman: Supporting a hometown project
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Wideman’s donation will be acknowledged in the Jim McLeod Memorial Arena at the Woolwich Memorial Centre. McLeod was equipment manager for the Kings for many years, and Wideman knew him from his days with the team. “He felt it was a way to give back to the community but also to recognize the special contributions that [Dan Snyder] and Jim did for him and his career,” said Rick Weiss, an advisor with RBC’s sports professionals program who has worked with the Dan Snyder Foundation. Bossenberry was delighted to receive such a large donation so late in the campaign, when the building is already up and running. “I was really quite overwhelmed because it was very unexpected,” he said. “It’s a great donation from a really nice guy.”
Kings: Right time to be stepping it up
BIG NUMBERS Bruins defenceman Dennis Wideman (middle) made it worthwhile for Graham Snyder and Paul Bossenberry to take a trip to Boston, pitching in $250,000 for the Woolwich Memorial Centre fund.
replied at 14:38 with a power play marker. Tyson LeBlanc’s goal at the halfway point of the second, assisted by Sonnenburg, was the last bit of scoring in the game. The Hurricanes outshot the Kings 42-30. “Guelph probably deserved a better fate,” said Haddaway. “There were moments when we were good and we did good things, but for the most part it was a case of us stealing two points.” At home on Sunday, the Kings got off to a slow start, with Haddaway noting that there seemed to be a lack of energy coming from the team. Luckily, Kitchener was on the same page. In a scoreless first period, the Dutchmen outshot the Kings 10-8. But from the opening minutes of the second frame, Elmira found its game, beginning its eventual dominance with a goal by Brad Kraus at 1:49. Brennon Pearce picked up the helper. The rest of the period was packed with stellar goaltending on each end but it was Elmira getting the better chances, racking up four times the number of shots on goal that Kitchener did, 24-6. Of Kitchener’s six shots, one came off of a costly giveaway on an Elmira power play, but Brandon Gorecki stepped up with a big save to keep the Kings ahead 1-0 going into the second intermission. The Kings kept up the pressure in the third, reaping the rewards early and often. The Dutchmen soon wilted. “That was probably as a result of pushing so hard against them in the second period: eventually it wears them down,” said Haddaway. “If you’re constantly forechecking, and getting on top of their defence, and getting pucks to the net, it can really wear a team down.” Of Elmira’s 14 shots, five of them hit the back of the net, pacing the team to a 6-1 rout. Sonnenburg (Lukas Baleshta, Jeff Zippel) started the period off for the Kings, going top-shelf from the slot at 1:11. Kitchener’s response less than two minutes later was a close as it got. The Kings refused to sit back and relax and kept on pushing hard. Zach Salomon’s individual efforts paid off shortly after, as he pushed through the defence to tip a puck off the defenseman and past the netminder. The following ten minutes were filled with great puck possession, hard-fought battles in the corner, great shooting, and some strong individual efforts, which eventually wore the Dutchmen down. Baleshta (Jarred Parent, LeBlanc) cashed one of those chances at 17:18, making it 4-1. At that point, Kitchener pulled goalie Kyle Ruhl, a strategy they would eventually regret as Elmira’s Salomon scored his second goal of the night into an empty net. Finally, it was Woolley’s great effort in the offensive zone keeping control of the puck, applying great pressure while being shorthanded, that put Elmira up by five in the last minute of play. The Kings delighted fans by winning most of the battles to the puck, applying pressure on Kitchener’s goaltender throughout the game. The team worked well together on the power plays, and kept the Dutchmen scoreless on seven penalty-kill assignments. After facing the Cyclones in Listowel Friday night, the Kings are home Sunday to welcome the Brantford Golden Eagles. Game time is 7 p.m.
SCORECARD WESTERN REGION RINGETTE WOOLWICH U10 Jan. 13
Woolwich 6, Elora-Fergus 1 Goals: Maddy Waters x3, Ava Henderson, Alison Schultz, Cassidy Moser (Hannah Bettke, Kate Martin, Maddy Waters, Hannah Gramlow) Jan. 16
Woolwich 4 Owen Sound 4 Goals: Maddy Waters x2, Aristana Paleczny, Alison Schultz (Cassidy Moser x2, Alison Schultz, Aristana Paleczny)
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Goals: Rachel Weber, Maddie Wang (Emily Schuurmans, Jessica Townsend) Shutout: Alyssa McMurray Jan. 15
Woolwich 4, Milverton 3 Goals: Emily Schuurmans x2, Megan Thoman, Meghan Martin (Syndey Meunier x3, Megan Thoman x2, Emily Schuurmans x2, Maddie Wang) Jan. 17
Woolwich 2, Twin Centre 0 Goals: Maddie Wang, Jessica Townsend (Emily Schuurmans x2, Sydney Meunier, Rachel Weber) Shutout: Alyssa McMurray
Woolwich 3, Dundas 1 Goals: Spencer Young, Blake Roemer, Isiah Katsube (Trevor Ferretti, Brett Allen, Brady Brezynskie)
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Woolwich 4, St.Thomas 0 Goals: Emily Willms, Michelle Bauman x2, Kendra Harold (Kendra Harold, Megan Lair x2, Taylor Rempel, Landis Saunders) Shutout: Dana Colombo
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Woolwich 8, Paris 1 Goals: Jake Bruder x2, Isaac Fishbein x2, Matt Greene, Keaton Sanders, Dylan Arndt, Luke Charter (Dylan Arndt x2, Kyle Konrad x2, Mackenzie Turchan x2) Woolwich 3, Plattsville 2 Goals: Brody Keen, Isaac Fishbein, Dylan Arndt (Dylan Arndt x2, Christopher Taylor, Matt Greene, Keaton Sanders, Isaac Fishbein)
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St. George 2, Woolwich 1 Goal: Riley Shantz (Devin Williams) Jan. 15
Woolwich 3, New Hamburg #1 1 Goals: Riley Shantz, Noah Scurry, Luke Haugerud (Devin Williams, Bruce Martin, Bryce Sellars, Noah Scurry) Jan. 16
Woolwich 1, New Hamburg #3 1 Goal: Riley Shantz (Nick Ravelle)
WOOLWICH MAJOR ATOM A BOYS Jan. 17
Woolwich 3, Caledon 0 Goals: Sheldon Metzger x2, Jacob Uridil (Connor Martin, Keagan Saunders, Owen Read, Jonah Boehm, Mitch Rempel) Shutout: Alex Metzger
WOOLWICH PEEWEE C GIRLS Jan. 13
Woolwich 2, Wilmot 0
Jan. 6
Dundas 6, Woolwich 0 Jan. 17
Woolwich 1, Wellington 0 Goal: Troy Nechanicky (Aaron Weigel) Shutout: Kordic Weigel
Bradley Thomas, Kyle Arsenault (Cole Burkhart, Spencer Inglis, Bradley Thomas x2, Brett Kaiser, Nigel Baldin x2)
Jan. 9
Wellington 2, Woolwich 1 Goals: Jason Gamble (Alex Uttley) Woolwich 3, Hespeler 2 Goals: Matthew Leger, Alex Uttley, Grant Kernick (Cole Conlin, Harrison Clifford, Matthew Leger x2)
WOOLWICH BANTAM BOYS LL#1
Game 3
Jan. 17
Thornton 2, Woolwich 1 Goals: Lucas Nosal (Bradley Thomas)
Twin Centre 3, Kitchener 1 Goals: Janessa Heywood, Hannah Snider, Katie Uberig (Sarah Van Allen, Shannon Lorentz, Jayme Marshall, Ally Guenther)
Woolwich 5, Burlington 3 Goals: Riley Runstedler x2, Cade Schaus x2, Jordan Lee (Cade Schaus x2, Jordan Lee x2, Riley Runstedler x3)
WOOLWICH MAJOR MIDGET A BOYS
Woolwich 3, Guelph 3 Goals: Jordan Lee, Matthew MacDonald, Austin Whittom (Riley Runstedler x2, Garrett Reitzel, Brad Hale, Jordan Lee, Cade Schaus)
WOOLWICH BANTAM BOYS LL#2
St. George 6, Woolwich 2 Goals: Marty Metzger x2 (Kyle Arsenault, Colton Williams)
Jan.15
Woolwich 1, Embro 3 Goals: Jordan Aivaliotis ( Marty Metzger, Cole Burkhart) Stayner tournament Jan. 9-10
Woolwich 6, New Hamburg 0 Goals: Sam Maier, Zeke Schneider, Jordan Ardnt, Cole Martin, Grady Keen, Kyle Brubacher (Arndt x3, Conner Vanier, Sam Maier, Thomas Bromberg, Zeke Schneider, Cole Martin, Brent Eby)
WOOLWICH MINOR BANTAM A BOYS Jan. 16
Game 1
Woowich 8, Orangeville 2 Goals: Spencer Inglis, Lucas Nosal x4, Nigel Baldin,
Wellington 6, Woolwich 1 Goals: Alex Albrecht (AJ Good, Brandon Brubacher)
Kincardine 3, Woolwich 1 Goal: Colton Williams (Bradley Thomas)
Jan. 15
Jan 16.
Jan. 13
Caledon 2, Woolwich 1 Goal: Alex MacLean
Jan. 9
Caledon 3, Woolwich 1 Goal: Brandon Brubacher (Kyle Uttley, Ryan Bauman) Jan. 14
Brampton 4, Woolwich 3 Goals: Justin Van Elswyk x2, Ted Sebben (Ryan Bauman x2)
WOOLWICH MINOR ATOM BOYS Jan. 12
Jan. 16
Jan. 17 – OMHA playoffs
Woolwich 5, Owen Sound 4 Goals: Cole Altman, Riley Runstedler x3, Nolan McLaughlin (Tegan Schaus x2, Daniel Carr, Cole Altman x2, Chase Mooder, Sammy Huber, Cade Schaus, Jordan Lee)
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WOOLWICH MINOR PEEWEE BOYS Jan. 13
Oakville 4, Woolwich 3 Goals: Tyler Moser, Greg Huber, Mathieu Fife (Kelby Martin x2, Tyler Moser) Jan. 16
Caledon 4, Woolwich 3 Goals: Mathieu Fife, Connor Bauman, Connor Goss (Colby Bond, Connor Goss, Brant McLaughlin, Greg Huber) Jan. 17
Brampton 7, Woolwich 2 Goals: Mathieu Fife, Connor Bauman (Jayden Hipel x2, Connor Goss)
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WOOLWICH MAJOR PEEWEE A BOYS Jan. 8
Woolwich 6, Burlington 3 Goals: Harrison Clifford x3, Alex Uttley, Adam Jokic, Evan Martin (Grant Kernick x3, Adam Jokic,
ment of the day by guaranteeing themselves a berth to the Ontario Winter Games. The team is made up of Sarah Adams, Sarah Bainwohl, Deanna Holt-Schmitt, Raelyn Judge, Lauren Lindner and Emily McKenzie. The Jungle team, coached by Meghan Uhlman and Sarah Sararu, rose to the challenge and captured the silver medal and the only other qualification position in their age group. Jungle team members include Hannah Atkins, Alicia Boatman, Shannon Fitzgerald, Samantha Helm, Mackenzie Meek, Madelyn Steiss and Kayleigh Veitch. All three teams move on to the Ontario Winter Games to be held Mar. 4-7 in Bracebridge.
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Twin Centre 3, Woolwich 0 Goals: Katie Uberig, Kaitlyn Jantzi x2 (Shannon Lorentz, Sarah Miltenburg, Kim Finn, Katie Uberig, Carling Cisecki)
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Synchro club sending three teams to Bracebridge The Waterloo Regional Synchro Swim Club entered three teams in the Western Ontario Winter Games Trials held in Guelph last weekend and came out on top, earning three of the four qualification spots in a field of 13 competitors. Waterloo’s 12 & Under team, coached by Kelly McDonnell and Erin Noll, started the day off en route to the club’s goal by swimming to a gold medal finish and earning one of the two qualification positions in their age group. The team includes Katrin Bender, Zoe Kreze, Allison Payne, Jenna Schell, Kate Steinbach, Kelly Thurlow and Jessica Tvrdon. The 13-15 year olds, a team coached by Brittany Orton and Jill Boa, continued the excite-
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Woolwich 3, Guelph 0 Goals: Meghan Mathieson, Caitlin Pickard, Megan Chapman (Megan Chapman)
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Folk players on stage by request
Fans select three pervious opening-act performers for latest show in Folk Night at the Registry series Opening for other acts at points during the first three years of the Folk Night at the Registry series, three singer-songwriters whose performances resonated with audiences will headline the next show. Laura Bird, Nonie Crete and Brad Nelson were selected by fans of the series, put together by The Old Chestnuts Song Circle. “These artists proved to be very popular … when opening for other performers here – we decided they needed a show of their own,” said organizer Jack Cole. The concert Jan. 30 will showcase their talents as singersongwriters in the intimate space at the Registry Theatre, he explained. Growing up as part of a musical family in Gananoque, Ontario, Laura Bird was steeped in the folk tradition at a young age. She got her first guitar at 10, and was performing by 11. She began attending the Mariposa Festival in the early ‘70s, taking in the sounds that IT’S ALL ABOUT THE SONGS Laura Bird (left) and Nonie Crete will be joined by Brad Nelson in a by-request show Jan. 30, the would shape her own musical latest offering in the Folk Night at the Registry series. directions as an adult. Those early influences included the ing and performing at college performances. Strains of the sounds have seen her perform blues, folk, Celtic music and and tour with a variety of playlikes of Emmylou Harris, John pubs. Her arts studies are reflected Cajun rhythms run through ers, from Clannad and Altan Hartford, John Prine and Joni in songs full of imagery. Now her songs, which run the range to Pamela Morgan and Lee Mitchell. Aaron, Tommy Makem to the By her mid-teens, Bird was living in Orangeville, Bird has from sorrowful to gritty. Based in Fergus, many of her Blind Boys of Alabama. playing in her first acoustic released two albums, DreamCrete has released seven alfolk-roots/bluegrass band, walker and The Water In Be- songs are influenced by place making appearances at local tween, the latter included in and community, along with bums, most recently 2008’s Cofall fairs and The Wintario Penguin Eggs magazine’s DJ themes woven from family, love min’ Home. and loss, and life’s discoveries A popular performer in a vaShow. Later in the ‘70s, as a stu- top-ten favourites of 2008. Where Bird’s sound is tradi- – what she calls “the landscape riety of area venues, Crete will dent of fine arts and graphic be showcasing her storytelling design in Kingston, she made tional, Nonie Crete combines of the heart.” M&T Business Card Ad:Layout 1 04/03/09 10:22 AM Page 1 Her diverse influences and and songwriting at the Regisher first foray into songwrit- a variety of genres in her
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try show, punctuated by her harmonica and guitar playing. Unlike the two women who’ll be sharing the stage, Brad Nelson has performed few public gigs in recent years. The Cambridge singer-songwriter has remained active, including taking part of the song circle. Nelson has been playing folk music since he was 10. As part of the maritime folk group The Ferriers in the 1970s, he had the pleasure of joining Stan Rogers and others at a charity concert for an impromptu rendition of Barrett’s Privateers. Well known as an interpreter of songs, Nelson was part of the ensemble cast that presented Folk Night’s tribute to Stan Rogers in 2008. “Brad is a guy that many people may not have seen, but he’s a great songwriter. He’s got that Celtic, East Coast sound going for him,” Cole explained. Put together on the bill, the three performers will provide for an entertaining evening of folk music, he added. “This is a diverse group of players. They’re a nice mix – complementing each other.” The Encore! By Request show hits the stage Jan. 30 at 8 p.m. at the Registry Theatre, 122 Frederick St., Kitchener. Tickets are $14 ($16 at the door), available at the Centre in the Square box office by calling 578-1570 or toll free 1-800-265-8977 or online at www.centre-square.com. For more information, check out www.folknight.ca. This is the second show in the Folk Night at the Registry series. Next up are Katherine Wheatley and Wendell Ferguson, who’ll perform Feb. 13.
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Mennonite Savings and Credit Union is a progressive and visionary organization founded on values of integrity, compassion and responsible stewardship. From our modest beginnings in 1964, we have grown in size to $680MM in assets under administration, and rank 8th among credit unions in Ontario and 32nd in Canada. We provide a full range of services to over 16,800 members of Mennonite, Amish and Brethren in Christ churches in Ontario through our eight full service branches.
Local & Long distance. Livestock experience an asset but will train. Competitive wages & benefits.
We are pleased to announce that Dale Snider, Elmira Branch Manager, has accepted the position of Chief Operating Officer at MSCU. Therefore our Elmira Branch is currently seeking a
Branch Manager Reporting to the Manager of Branch Operations, this role is responsible for providing leadership and direction to the branch staff creating an environment of enthusiasm, courteous & efficient member service. In the daily management of the branch they will provide an integrated delivery of financial services and products, including customized lending, cash management, and investment management to our diverse membership. The successful candidate will possess: •
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A university degree or work-related experience. Courses in business, finance and economics are viewed as relevant; Strong interpersonal, communication and leadership skills; be able to handle detail work with care and precision
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Interested persons should send their resume by Monday, February 1, 2010 to: Mennonite Savings and Credit Union 1265 Strasburg Rd., • Kitchener, ON N2R 1S6 Fax: (519)772-5841 Email: talent@mscu.com
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Busy local hardware store looking for energetic, team players for various positions. Applicant must be willing to work weekends and day time hours. A general knowledge in hardware and electronics as well as some computer skills would be an asset. Please apply in person at 22 Church St. W., Elmira, or fax resume to 669-3981 attention Wayne.
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PHOTOS | PAT MERLIHAN
Cubs find themselves on a roll
Local thinkers to speak at fundraiser for WCC Author Malcolm Gladwell and Roger Martin, dean of the Rotman School of Management, will be the keynote speakers at a fundraising event for the Woolwich Counselling Centre. In taking part in the event, the two men are honouring and supporting their mothers, both of whom have been involved with the centre. Joyce Gladwell was WCC’s first
executive director and its new building bears her name. Delphine Martin was on the board of the centre and a room in the building will be named for her. Both men will be speaking at a dinner at Floradale Mennonite Church on Mar. 5. Gladwell will also be speaking at Waterloo Mennonite Brethren Church the following morning, Mar. 6. “I think that we will chat about whatever strikes our fancy,” Martin said in an
e-mail. “There will probably be some reminiscing, some politics, some business, some sports, some book writing.” Gladwell is a staff writer at the New Yorker and has written three bestselling books. Both men were named to the “Thinkers 50” list of 2009, a list of the world’s top business thinkers. Mary Wilhelm, executive director of the Woolwich Counselling Centre, said she hopes to direct the funds to expanding
NOTICE TO RESIDENTS TAKE NOTICE that the Council of the Township of Woolwich intends to adopt the following 2010 budgets as required by section 290 of the Municipal Act, 2001, as amended: • • • •
Tax-supported operating budget; Water operating budget; Wastewater operating budget; and Capital budget;
at its regular meeting on February 9, 2010 commencing at 7:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers, Municipal Office, 24 Church Street West, Elmira. Richard Petherick, CMA Director of Finance & Treasurer
‘ROUND ABOUT Tak Shibayama dribbles around a Grand River player during the junior boys’ basketball game Tuesday. The juniors lost 81-28. The senior boys’ squad, meanwhile, upset Grand River 61-58.
counselling programs in elementary schools. “Depending on what we raise, we might be able to help other groups,” she said. “I’d like to sell out both events.” Tickets for the Mar. 5 event are $125 per person for speakers and dinner or $100 each for just the speakers, available by calling 519-669-8651, ext. 100. Tickets for the morning event Mar. 6 are $100 each, available at the Centre In The Square box office, 519578-1570.
Woolwich Atoms win tourney
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JONI MILTENBURG
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MOTOR CITY Elmira Cubs gathered at John Mahood PS Jan. 20 to race Kub Kars they constructed from blocks of wood. Twenty-five racing enthuXxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx siasts were whittled down to three over the course of the evening. The final showdown ended in an exciting battle for first which included (from xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx right) Zach Radford (2nd), Justin Read (3rd) and Jacob Fulcher (1st). Joseph Ptsuka won for “Best Design” and Jamie Tomindini won an award for “Most Creative Car”. The Elmira circuit was a warm-up for the regional races to be held at Conestoga Mall Jan 26.
ON THE PUCK Kambel Beacom corrals a puck during the Woolwich Atom B girls’ game against Kitchener Jan. 9. Woolwich won the game 5-3 en route to a first place finish in the Guelph tournament.
OVERNIGHT PARKING BAN The Township of Woolwich has an overnight parking ban in effect from December 1st to April 1st from 2:30 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. No parking overnight is permitted on Township streets between these times. Any vehicles in offense of this parking ban may be ticketed or towed under the authority of By-law 70-2006. Please note that the Region of Waterloo has an overnight parking ban on all Regional roads year round. For further information please call 519669-6106.
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Unique century home 3bdrms, 2baths, eat-in kit, sep DR, 4 season sun rm, bsmt workshop, sngl detached garage, lg lot, w/established trees/gardens, close to ammenities. Updates: roof ‘09, wiring, plumbing, lighting, wndws. Imm poss’n avail. MLS Great location on quiet cul-de-sac. This bright home has 3+1 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, seperate dining room, double garage and driveway. Main floor recently redone. Central air and vac. Large established lot. MLS
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Retirement at it’s best. Let Huron Homes build this beautiful bungalow for your needs. 2 bdrms on main flr, if you like 2 more in bsmt, with a lg rec. rm. lg master w/ens. Dbl garage. Backs on to green belt. MLS
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Build your dream home! Why buy resale when you can build on this 50ft lot backing onto green belt? 4 bdrms, 3 baths, mn flr lndry, Master w/ens and walkin closet. Hrdwd/ceramic throughout mn flr, maple kit cabinets. MLS
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Tim Lichti and Annie McKay Passed away on Monday, January 18, 2010, at Freeport Health Centre. Audrey was a long-time resident of Elmira. She was born in 1922 in Fergus, and was the daughter of the late Walter and Alice (Flood) Sadler. Audrey was a graduate of Wilfrid Laurier University with a Bachelor of Social Work. For many years she was an executive secretary for the Waterloo Board of Education. She used her keen intellect and educational resources to help those who needed advice and encouragement. Audrey devoted her life beyond educational pursuits to social activism. Audrey fought and won court cases to ensure pay equity for women. She also was founding director of Anselma House. As of this year, at 87, she still was advocating on behalf of seniors benefits and pensions. Audrey was a Beatty War Worker during World War II and would be a founding charter member of Elmira Legion Auxiliary. Audrey’s feisty spirit was evident as she was a two time breast cancer survivor and despite a massive brain aneurysm would fight back to complete her university degree at age 57 and continue to take post graduate courses. Audrey is lovingly remembered by brothers David (Ann), and Kenneth, and by sisters, Darlaine Quenneville, and Gloria Sadler. She was predeceased by brothers, Cecil, Harold, Walter, and William and sister, Betty. Audrey is survived by daughter, Gaye (Tom) Diezel of Marathon, Florida, sons Robert (Becky) of Parry Sound, and John (Sherry) of Listowel. She will be sadly missed by seven grandchildren and twelve great-grandchildren. Friends and relatives may call at the Dreisinger Funeral Home, Elmira, on Thursday, January 21, from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. The Funeral Service will be held on Friday, January 22, at 11 a.m. at Trinity United Church, Elmira, with Rev. David Jagger officiating followed by interment in Belsyde Cemetery, Fergus. As expressions of sympathy donations in Audrey’s memory may be made to Grand River Regional Cancer Centre. Audrey’s family wishes to express their gratitude to the staff of St. Mary’s Hospital, Grand River Hospital, Freeport Hospital, Dr. Scott Morlock at the Elmira Medical Centre and staff for their professional and compassionate care. We also wish to thank the many volunteers, drivers, church visitors, Meals on Wheels and Community Care Concept staff who helped enrich Audrey’s life by enabling her to live independently and fully at her home.
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Mr. & Mrs. Melvin Knorr and Mr. & Mrs. Lamar Freeman are pleased to announce the marriage of Rhonda Knorr to Gary Lamar Freeman Sat. Feb. 6/10 at 1:00p.m. at Crystalview Mennonite Church Floradale Ont.
Death Notice
Martin, Lois Yvonne
While serving the Lord and following her passion in Haiti on Tuesday, January 12, 2010, age 67 years. Yvonne Martin (nee Farr) is the beloved wife of Ron Martin of Alma, Ontario. Loved mother of Luke and his wife Sheri of California, Dean and his wife Christine of Kitchener, and Terry and his wife Melanie of Elmira. Loving grandmother to: Olivia, Maya, Frida and David; Rowan, Sonya and Ciara; Eve, Jesse and Asia. Dear sister of Jim and his wife Shirley, Margie Pellegrini and LaVerne and his wife Brenda, all of Alberta. Also lovingly remembered by Arlene Holland and the Beisel family. Predeceased by her parents Fred and Elizabeth Farr. The family received their friends and relatives at the Waterloo Mennonite Brethren Church, 245 Lexington Road, Waterloo, on Tuesday, January 19, from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. where funeral service was held on Wednesday, January 20, at 2 p.m. Interment will take place in Elmira Union Cemetery. The family requests that you consider both the immediate and long-term needs in Haiti. Donations can be made to the Red Cross or the Mennonite Central Committee for the current earthquake relief effort. In the spirit of continuing Yvonne’s vision for Haiti, the family requests that contributions be sent to Evangelical Missionary Church of Canada, 130 Fergus Avenue, Kitchener, ON N2A 2H2 or donate online at www. emcc.ca. Please mark your donation: Martin Memorial Haiti. Funds will be used in Haiti in memory of Yvonne under the Friends of Haiti Project. Arrangements entrusted to the Dreisinger Funeral Home, Elmira.
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Family and friends celebrated with Tim & Annie as they were married on a beautiful sunny, Sat. June 27, 2009 at Calvary United Church St. Jacobs. Their dinner and reception was held at the Linwood Community Centre. Annie also graduated from Wilfred Laurier with her Master of Social Work on Oct. 30, 2009. Congratulations on your marriage and graduation! Well done, God bless.
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 Pork Dinner and an evening of music. Trinity United Church, 42 Arthur St. N., Elmira. Featuring The Twin City Harmonizers. Tickets for dinner & show $20 each. Show tickets only, $10 each. Dinner served 5:30-7 p.m. Show at 7:30 p.m. Tickets call 519-669-5560 or 519-664-2772. JANUARY 24
 “The Voyage that Shook the Worldâ€? – a 52-minute documentary, special video presentation; 7 p.m., at Wallenstein Bible Chapel. The Voyage that Shook the World retraces Darwin’s journey, exploring the places and discoveries crucial to the formulation of his theory of evolution. No charge, everyone welcome. For more information call 519-669-2319. JANUARY 30
 Spaghetti Dinner & Salad Bar; two sittings, 5 and 7 p.m. Tickets purchased in advance at the Legion call 519-669-2932. Adults $10; children 5-10 years $4; under 5 years $2. Royal Canadian Legion, 11 First St. E., Elmira. JANUARY 31
 Heading Home Trio, 7 p.m. Waterloo North Presbyterian Church, Northfield Drive at Westmount Road. Come enjoy a beautiful evening of music ministry and worship. A free-will offering will be received. For more information call 519-888-7870.  Family Literacy Day at Conestoga Mall 10:30 a.m. – 3 p.m. Events include the “The Record Breaking Read-inâ€? at 1 p.m., Boggelmania tournament for both children and adults at 10:30 a.m., entertainment and more. Visit the Region of Waterloo Library booth to make a children’s craft and gather items for a free take-home bag. For more information contact your local library.
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 160th Anniversary Concert Series at St. James Lutheran Church, 60 Arthur St. S., Elmira; 3 p.m. the Cambridge Male Chorus. Free-will offering, handicap accessible, refreshments will be served following concert. For more information call 519-669-5591.  Hilltop Vocal Band, 7 p.m. at Waterloo North Presbyterian Church, Northfield and Westmount Road. Free-will offering. For more information call 519-888-7870.  Hungryman’s Breakfast in support of The Children’s Wish Foundation. 8:30 a.m. – 1 p.m., Elmira Legion Branch 469, 11 First St. E., Elmira.
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 Spaghetti Dinner at St. Teresa of Avila Church, 19 Flamingo Dr., Elmira. Continuous from 6-7 p.m. At 5:45 p.m., pre-purchased take-out orders can be picked up. Tickets available by contacting the parish office at 519669-3387, Mon. – Fri. 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. Adults $8.50; children (6-12) $4.50; children (5 and under) free. Family ticket $25.
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 Maryhill C.W.L. & K. of C. Valentine Supper. Ham, scalloped potatoes with all the fixings and a flower for your lady; 5:30-7 p.m. at Maryhill Heritage Community Centre. Adults $14; children $7; 5 + under free. Must have tickets in advance. Mike Runstedler 519-648-3394, Mary Campagnaro 519-822-9287, Bob Lehman 519-836-8271, Tim Vegh 519-648-3952.
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 Presentation and Fundraiser – Malcolm Gladwell and Roger Martin, Dean of the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. Floradale Mennonite Church, 22 Florapine Rd., Floradale. Hosted by Woolwich Counselling Centre. To purchase your ticket(s) or for further information, please contact the Woolwich Counselling Centre, 519-669-8651.
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 Woolwich Community Lions present The Dancing Under the Stars Dance. Live band, Moonshine; $15 per person (lunch included). Doors open 8 p.m. (no reserved tables), band starts 9 p.m., prize table, Lions Hall, Elmira. Tickets available at Pampered & Polished Spa, Brown’s Menswear, or call Julie 519-669-8629, or Denise 519-669-0003. All proceeds to community betterment.
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 Canada Blooms Bus Trip. Pick up Elmira Pentecostal Church 7:45 a.m., return approx. 6 p.m. Cost $40 Elmira Horticultural Society members, $50 non members. Call Diane 519-669-8217. Submit calendar listings to info@observerxtra.com
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