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Move to full cost-recovery process, massive infrastructure requirements means users will pay higher rates for foreseeable future
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STEVE KANNON
CATCH FLAME park manor public school got in the olympic spirit thursday morning with a visit from elmira torchbearer Laurel martin and former olympian Rowan Barrett, who was captain of the 2000 men’s basketball team. above, elaura Clements and katie morden got to hold martin’s olympic torch.
Water and sewer rate increases well above inflation will be the norm for at least the next decade as Waterloo Region looks at making the system self-sustaining. By provincial mandate, municipalities must work towards having user fees cover all operating expenses and, more expensively, future infrastructure upgrades to treatment plants, water pipes and sewers. That means fees rather than general tax revenues will have to help pay for spending in the region estimated at $1.2 billion over the next decade alone. For 2010, the region has pushed up water rates by 6.9 per cent and wastewater 9.9 per cent. As the upper tier looks after those services in Wellesley Township, residents there will see the same increases. In Woolwich, which buys water from the region and runs the distribution systems itself, council has given preliminary approval to water rate hikes of 7.26 per cent, to $1.33 per cubic metre from $1.24 (a jump of $16 to $22 per year) and wastewater increases of 10.1 per cent, to $1.63 per cubic metre from $1.48 ($27 to $36 per year). The Woolwich fees reflect the fact regional billing is the big-
gest-single component of the township’s costs, said director of finance Richard Petherick. Rates will continue to rise in reaction to the infrastructure requirements; upgrades to Kitchener and Waterloo wastewater treatment plants alone are expected to cost $300 million and $120 million respectively. “The main driver of [rate] increases continues to be our capital program,” said Thomas Schmidt, Waterloo Region’s commissioner of transportation and environmental services. Facility upgrades, for instance, are needed to meet new provincial and federal regulations for processing bio-solids and improving the quality of water discharged back into the Grand River system, he explained. The rolling 10-year capital forecast calls for $480 million in spending on the water side, and another $716 million for wastewater projects. Given annual operating revenues of $88 million, those capital spending needs represent significant multiples of the budget. Already pressed under current guidelines – Bill 175, the Sustainable Water and Sewage Systems Act, requires municipalities to run those services on a cost recovery basis. Additional costs
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Water: Rates have no place to go but up
St. Clements puts a hand up for Haiti
ALL HANDS ON DECK Last week the ‘helping hands for haiti’ fundraiser kicked off at st. Clement Catholic school, bringing in more than $5,300, a donation being made to the organization development and peace for shelter, food, medicine and water for victims of this month’s earthquake. students, parents and teachers could donate money and write their name or a message on a cut-out hand print to add to the school’s lobby; one message read ‘santa help haiti’. in this photo are student council members Carly Bender, samantha haid, anna-marie Reiner, Chelsey Lobban, Rebecca Clarke, sydney nosal, Jennifer michi, Laura Runstedier and steph Ringrose.
and paperwork came with Bill 195, the Safe Drinking Water Act that followed the Walkerton tragedy – municipalities can expect more legislation and the costs that come with it, even if the rules aren’t needed or practical from an operating standpoint. Excessive water testing, for instance, has driven up costs without providing any improvement in service. “I’ve never known a regulation to reduce costs,” said Pat Vanini, executive director of the Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO), a non-profit group representing most of the province’s 444 municipal governments. While the organization has pressed the province for more manageable guidelines, much of the regulatory framework was implemented without consultation with the municipalities – the province was determined to bring in new rules. This regulatory burden, added to the full costrecovery funding model, has put more demands on local governments. “There is a lot of pressure on municipalities’ water and sewer systems,” she said, noting the cost of water and sewer upgrades is part of an estimated $60 billion infrastructure deficit, money that should be spent over the next decade. Municipalities, some acting sooner than oth-
ers, now have to start building reserves with money from today’s bills to pay for tomorrow’s expensive repairs and upgrades – “It’s not cheap.” “This is a real challenge for municipal governments.” Waterloo Region is close to getting its system to be self-sustaining, but big rate increases will have to continue to help reach that goal, said Schmidt. The region is aiming to have water rate increases down to 2.9 per cent a year by 2017 to 2019. On the wastewater side, that goal is 7.9 per cent by 2018, 5.9 by 2019. Because rates were essentially “flat-lined” through the mid-1990s and into the early 2000s, the region is now playing catch-up, which has meant hikes of about 10 per cent annually for the past few years. The transition from cheap water and sewer rates, a luxury when infrastructure wasn’t crumbling and costs were covered largely from general coffers, to a self-financing system with much higher fees is bound to be rough, Vanini explained, adding it’s prudent to set aside money for future costs, just as a homeowner might set aside money for replacing the roof at some point down the road. “The question is, Do we have any responsibility to invest in the future as current users?”
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“They will have a whole range of opportunities that their parents didn’t have.” Peter Ringrose
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HAPPY TO HELP after 30 years at Family and Children’s services, including 25 as executive director, peter Ringrose is retiring. this was his last week on the job.
Thirty years of child welfare
Heidelberg’s Peter Ringrose retires from post as executive director of Family and Children’s Services JONI MILTENBURG Thirty years ago, the kids who grew up in the care of the Children’s Aid Society rarely went to college or university. If they somehow did make their way to school, they were saddled with huge OSAP loans and worked two part-time jobs to pay for it. The agency just didn’t have the resources to help them. “There were huge obstacles,” said Peter Ringrose, executive director of Family and Children’s Services of Waterloo Region. “We didn’t expect many of our kids would go on to higher education. We didn’t encourage them the way we do now.” All that has changed. Now the agency actively encourages young people to go on to higher education, and helps them pay their expenses through its charitable founda-
tion. Between 20 and 25 students head off to college, university, beauty school or trade school every year. “They will have a whole range of opportunities that their parents didn’t have,” Ringrose said. Of all the changes he’s seen over three decades, seeing the kids have a chance at an education has left him the most satisfied, Ringrose noted as he prepared to retire this week after 25 years at the organization’s helm. Ringrose started his career in England. He stumbled into social work purely by chance, after volunteering at a children’s residence. The work appealed to him and he enrolled in a master’s degree program. He and his family immigrated to Canada in 1976. They lived first in Port Hope, where he was a front-line social worker, then moved to Water-
loo Region in 1979 when he became the first supervisor of the Cambridge office of Family and Children’s Services. He now calls Heidelberg home. While the legal framework for child welfare is very similar between Canada and England, the way services are delivered is quite different. In England, social services are delivered by municipalities and the mandate is much broader, including seniors, the mentally ill and other groups. There’s a significant advantage to delivering child welfare through not-for-profit community agencies, Ringrose said, because people are far more likely to volunteer or donate money to local agencies. “People don’t generally give time and money to government,” he said. In his three decades with the agency, Ringrose has seen a huge growth in the number of
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families served and the size of the agency. When he started in 1979, FCS had about 85 staff; it now has 450. And in 1985, when he became executive director, the agency received 3,150 referrals; last year they had 7,106. There has also been an increase in the range of programs offered, with new courses on parenting skills, social skills for children, family violence and families with addiction problems. One way FCS has been able to expand its services is by delivering programs in partnership with community agencies like the John Howard Society and the Women’s Crisis Centre. A major turning point in the agency’s history was a series of inquests in the late 1990s into the deaths of 10 children whose families had contact with children’s aid at the time of their deaths. Those inquests
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led to an overhaul of children’s welfare services, including the introduction of new standards, better risk assessment and standardized funding. New funding formulas were a huge benefit, Ringrose said, because the agency had traditionally been very frugal and its ongoing funding levels reflected that. The funding increases introduced after the inquest are now in jeopardy, because the provincial government has cut funding to Children’s Aid Societies. FCS faces a deficit of $900,000 this year, putting at risk the new programs introduced over the past decade. The agency has faced funding shortfalls in the past, but none as bad as this, Ringrose said. “It’s just unacceptable to everybody,” he said. “We’ve got to stop the posturing and get back around the table and work this out.”
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Tax changes are not all they’re cut out to be business savings with that move were rarely passed on to consumers fuels the current skepticism.) At any rate, organizations such as the Ontario Chamber of Commerce are calling on the province to lower corporate taxes even further, while the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, for instance, wants more corporate handouts to implement the changes despite Ontario businesses standing to gain $5 billion just from the tax change. As well as those direct savings on PST applicable to investment and operations costs, businesses will also save on lower costs from suppliers, which will no longer be subject to PST. Add in another $500 million for lower administrative costs – one tax-remittance process instead of two – and you can see why the business community is eager for the HST. Of course, that’s not enough. Lobbyists and special interest groups continue to push for lower corporate tax rates. Competitiveness is the mantra: we’re told taxes must be lower or businesses will flee the province or country, and that new ventures will go elsewhere. The argument has been successful, as rates fall year after year, though the promised investment and other dividends rarely appear. In years past, groups such as the chamber of commerce and right-wing think tanks such as the Fraser Institute stressed that our corporate taxes must be competitive with the United States. We’ve now got rates lower than the U.S., our major trading partner. Not
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surprisingly, the comparisons began with other countries, initially with the 29 other members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). As Canada’s rates fell below the average of those industrialized nations, the net was cast wider still. In that vein, the C.D. Howe Institute – another pro-market organization funded by businesses – releases a tax competitiveness report that now encompasses 80 countries, including developing nations with programs and infrastructure requirements completely different from Canada’s. Even then, when weighted averages are used to compare the disparate economies, the 2009 marginal effective tax rate in Canada was 28 per cent, slightly lower than the 28.7 per cent average, concludes economist Erin Weir. The Canadian rate is expected to fall to 19 per cent over the next three years, part of a trend will see the federal corporate income tax rate cut in half between 2000 and 2012. Those changes have come with a cost. The tax burden has been shifted to individuals instead. A similar
change has been seen in municipal property taxes, where homeowners are bearing costs transferred from commercial and industrial users. OECD data show that over the past 15 years, tax revenue in Canada has dropped to 33 per cent of GDP from 36 per cent of GDP. Those three percentage points amount to a loss of nearly $50 billion a year in public revenue. Think of that in terms of the deficits we’re now running. And speaking of that deficit – both federal and provincial – the reality is we’re all facing years of increased taxes and lower service levels to bring budgets back in balance and to pay down the accumulated debt. No matter how much we complain – and we will, both businesses and individual taxpayers – that’s just how it’ll have to be if we want to get our financial house in order. Anyone saying we can do it without tax increases – see Harper, Stephen – is dreaming. Anyone saying we can do it by cutting taxes and still spending as the Conservatives have done throughout their tenure is delusional – just look at the thoroughly messed-up American situation to see how that fantasy plays out.
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Ontario’s new harmonized sales tax will, we’re told, make businesses here more competitive. Consumers – that’s you and me – will pay lower prices because those businesses will pass the savings on to us. So far, so good. Ontarians remain skeptical that anything of the sort will happen. We’re certain only that come July we’ll be paying an additional eight per cent on a whole bunch of goods and services currently exempt from the provincial sales tax. The government maintains that a combination of tax adjustments and credits will keep the impact fairly neutral even though we’ll be paying considerably more in sales taxes. Naturally, we don’t believe them. There are, however, independent studies that show the HST, while more regressive, will have a relatively minor economic impact on individuals once all the other measures are taken into account – plus or minus about $80 a year on average, according to a study by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, for instance. Leaving that aside, the more troubling aspects lie with the attitude of business organizations, who have been pushing for harmonization for years. In fact, that was the goal when the Mulroney government introduced the GST in 1991 to replace the hidden manufacturer’s sales tax. (That the
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Nominees for C of C awards the greater kitchener Waterloo Chamber of Commerce will mark its annual Business excellence awards gala on mar. 3 at Bingemans in kitchener. the awards recognize companies and individuals that have made exceptional contributions through their community involvement and leadership through the chamber. this year, there are 72 nominees in 10 categories, including Breslaubased enerliv inc. and stemmler meats & Cheeses of heidelberg in the environment award category, and machelle denison of denison print in Breslau for the michael R. Follett Community Leader award. as well, the Waterloo Wellington Flight Centre, based at the Region of Waterloo international airport in Breslau, is nominated for the non-profit/Charitable award.
Quilters lend a hand to Haiti
the elmira mennonite Church was filled with quilters on monday evening as a number of members of the elmira needle sisters Quilt guild gathered together to assemble relief kits to donate to the mennonite Central Committee. each year, the quilt guild comes together to create a community project; previous projects included bibs for nursing homes, comfort quilts for community living centres and placemats for meals on Wheels, to name a few. this year, the group decided that after the earthquake in haiti, their services would be best used to make approximately 200 fabric bags which the mCC can use for health kits and school kits.
It’s all pun and games for inventor KATIE EDMONDS George Seibel of Listowel was driving along Highway 10, north of Orangeville when he noticed a sign at the side of the road and said to his wife, “This place could be called ‘a finished physician’.” Or in other words, a “done doc” or Dundalk, a town in Ontario. From there, Seibel has turned his quick car game into a full-blown board game called ‘Nyms du Geo’ with more than 400 different puzzles about towns in Ontario. Seibel said he took inspiration for the game from a whole host of other games. “The game teaches us about the counties and the names of towns in Ontario,” explained Seibel. “The name of the game comes from ‘homonyms, synonyms and antonyms of the earth’.” The game took Seibel about a month to create, and six months to get produced. The Ontario edition is one of six prototypes – the others including three provinces
PLACES TO GO george seibel has come up with a series of geography games he’s dubbed nyms du geo.
and two states. Seibel also sees the sale of his game as an opportunity to raise some money for causes which he values; Autism Canada in honour of his granddaughter Eva, and the Mennonite Central Committee to help fund Haiti relief efforts. The game is to be sold at hockey venues around
Woolwich and Listowel – and at the Zehrs supermarket in Listowel on Feb. 6 – for $30, $10 of which will be donated to the MCC and another dollar going to autism research. “I would like to keep fundraising until everyone in Haiti has the same standard of living as I do – so forever.”
New statue to keep vigil in Elmira cenotaph STEVE KANNON The soldier atop the cenotaph in Elmira – currently missing in action – will be replaced this spring by a sturdier doppelganger. Twice vandalized and repaired, the marble statue has also suffered from exposure to the elements after almost nine decades of watching over the war memorial. Removed last month, the soldier is now being replicated in bronze by sculptor Timothy Schmalz, an Elmira native. “He’ll be recreating the existing soldier,” explained Larry Devitt, Woolwich’s director of recreation and facilities. The new statue is part of some planned upgrades for the cenotaph site, the scale of which will depend on funding from Veterans Affairs Canada, he added. The cost for replacing the soldier has been estimated at $35,000. While the original statue, in place since 1923, has been expertly repaired following acts of vandalism, years of exposure to the elements have taken a toll on the soft marble material,
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three of the five current members of Woolwich council have now thrown their hats in to the ring for this year’s municipal election: mayor Bill strauss, Ward 2 Coun. mark Bauman and Ward 3 Coun. murray martin. the only newcomer so far is Jim david, 51, seeking one of two Ward 1 seats available. the two incumbents – sandy shantz and Ruby Weber – have yet to declare. strauss, 68, has been mayor for four terms, and was acclaimed to the job in the previous election in 2006. he served as a councillor from 1985 to 1994. a Conestogo resident, martin, 61, was first elected in 1994, while Bauman, 53, of st. Jacobs has served since 2000. those interested in running in the election, set for oct. 25, have until sept. 10 to file nomination papers.
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DUTY DONE the Carrera marble soldier that’s adorned the elmira cenotaph since 1923 will be replaced by a bronze replica.
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MP offers up coffee and a chat KATIE EDMONDS Responding to the general notion that “politicians simply aren’t accessible to the general public,” KitchenerConestoga MP Harold Albrecht will be making himself available to constituents beginning in late February in a series of ‘coffee dialogues’ across the riding. Albrecht said that by
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Bowling for smoothies at EDSS Automation class lets students try their hands at different projects JONI MILTENBURG Elmira Bowl has competition. There’s a new five-pin bowling lane in Elmira, but you’ll have to make your way to the automation class at Elmira District Secondary School to bowl a game. Nathan Harris, Matt Quenneville, Brandon Chambers and Alex Dunn designed and built a five-pin pinsetter for their Grade 12 automation class. The automation class wrapped up work on their three projects this week, completing and testing the pinsetter, a crane and a smoothie machine. The Grade 12 class builds on the theory that students have learned in earlier years. After a month of theory and safety – “the ‘don’t kill yourself stuff,’” said Dwight Martin – they pitch ideas for their projects and go to work. Teacher Ron Fletcher said he tries to let the students do as much as possible. That also means letting them go ahead with ideas that he might be skeptical about. “Part of the learning process is even failure,” he said. “Sometimes it’s letting them run with an idea that I think ‘I don’t know if it’s going to work.’” Their projects have to be automated, they have to incorporate program-
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BOWLED OVEr BY TECHNOLOGY nathan harris, alex dunn and matt Quenneville display the pinsetter they designed and built in the grade 12 automation class at elmira district secondary school.
mable logic controllers (PLCs) and they have to meet certain safety requirements. They are somewhat restricted by parts, but otherwise Fletcher only vetoes a project if they’re planning to build something that could pose a safety hazard, such as a machine that chops wood. Some of the students plan to do apprenticeships after they finish high school, and the au-
tomation class provides a good foundation. Even those who don’t plan to go into trades agree that they’ve learned valuable skills. The projects are too big for one person to tackle, so the students have to work together as a team to design and build components and solve problems. “In my mind, they’re learning a lot more than technology,” Fletcher said. About 90 per cent of the
parts in any of the projects have been donated by companies like Rockwell Automation and ATS Automation Tooling Systems. The school board simply doesn’t have enough money for the class to purchase the electrical components, which can run into thousands of dollars. It isn’t just automation companies that offer a helping hand. The group that built the smoothie machine went to Keybrand Foods in Kitchener to see the packing plant and get ideas for their project. Making everything out of foodgrade parts was the most difficult aspect, Kyle Uttley explained; Norwell Dairy Systems came through with food-grade materials. And rather than sabotaging the ‘competition,’ Elmira Bowl gave the pinsetter group a helping hand, allowing them to study a pinsetter to see how it worked and donating the pins and a bowling ball. The project is a popular one with students who pass by the classroom and try their hand at bowling a strike. Eventually, though, it will meet the same fate as most of the projects built by the class: it will be dismantled and the parts recycled into future projects. “For now, we’re just giving Elmira Bowl a run for their money,” Dunn joked.
Snow or shine, fest will go on KATIE EDMONDS We may not have seen much of the white stuff so far this winter, but members of the recreation committee in Linwood continue to gear up for the annual Snofest happening Feb. 6. The Linwood Recreation Centre will be bustling with activity starting at 8:30 a.m. with the popular Fireman’s Breakfast. For those who aren’t up quite early enough to catch the breakfast but don’t want to miss out on the fun, a Co-ed Sno-Pitch Tournament starts around 9. “It’s basically baseball in the snow,” explained rec. committee member Sandi Albrecht. “There is not as much snow as there used to be. We used to have a ton of snow on
the ground and when we played Sno-Pitch it was up to our waists – we could hardly run, it was just a riot. The more snow we have on that day, the better, so we are hoping for a good snowfall before then.” From there, visitors can come inside and enjoy live music during the Music with Brian session, face painting and crafts for the kids, and a Solo card tournament. Additionally, aspiring young talent, air bands and solo performers can have their chance to perform and compete in this year’s Snofest Idol. And the day of fun does not stop there. In the evening, people of all ages can come out and enjoy the music of local band Blackwater Draw. “We really try to cre-
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Albrecht and the community more fluid, and he said he looks forward to hearing questions, comments and concerns on any number of topics. “I just want people to tell me what they’re thinking – positive, negative, whatever. We are here to listen.” Albrecht will be available for discussions in Woolwich and Wellesley at the following times
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8:30 AM | The window of a silver Chevy Cavalier was found smashed sometime overnight behind the Bargain Shop on Arthur Street in Elmira. There are no suspects. 11:40 AM | Neighbours reported seeing a man checking vehicles parked at the Woolwich Memorial Centre. The man was described as between 30 and 45 years of age, white, 180 lbs, wearing either a grey or a black jacket, and with a grey bicycle. He was last seen heading from the high school towards downtown Elmira. 11:58 PM | A resident of Golf Course Road in Conestogo arrived home late in the evening to find the front door standing open and lights on in the house. The resident was sure that they had locked the door upon leaving the house. There was no apparent damage or theft.
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10:30 AM | A 66-year-old Kincardine woman was driving her Ford Focus on Line 86 near Herrgott Road when an 18-year-old Linwood woman in a Chevy SUV clipped the side of her car when trying to pass. There was minor damage to both vehicles and the younger woman was charged with ‘improper passing.’
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QUILTED CANADA elmira quilter deb Biernes displays the piece she is currently working on – a depiction of Canada including a strip for each province. Biernes is currently participating in an art and quilting show which runs until Feb. 2 at 158 king st. W.
rIGHT OFF THE rOAD no one was injured when the driver of this car lost control on an icy stretch of new Jerusalem Road near elmira Wednesday afternoon, subsequently rolling into a ditch. next morning to file the report. Floradale. The vehicle was seHe was charged with ‘failing verely damaged and after the to report’ as he did not notify incident, salters were called police of the incident when it in to help with icy road conditions in the area. happened. 6:00 PM | A 20-year-old Lis»» JANUARY»27» towel man was travelling northbound on Arthur Street 9:30 AM | A 37-year-old man at Regional Road 15 when was driving westbound on a 27-year-old Wallenstein Line 86 in a Volvo when a man driving a 1998 Ford LSS 43-year-old Kitchener man swerved to avoid hitting him driving a GMC Safari attempted when he braked quickly. The to pass him, hit a patch of ice Ford clipped the first vehicle and slid into the side of the first and then drove into the ditch. vehicle. There were no injuries The Wallenstein man was and only minimal damage to charged with ‘careless driving.’ the Kitchener man’s vehicle. 1:00 PM | A woman driving a »» JANUARY»25 yellow Mini Cooper on New 5:00 PM | A 53-year-old wom- Jerusalem Road lost control of an and her two passengers her vehicle in icy road condiwere unharmed when her grey tions and rolled the vehicle into Nissan Pathfinder flipped off a ditch. There was damage to the road and into the ditch on the vehicle but, there were no Floradale Road, just north of injuries to report.
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8:00 AM | A 35-year-old Guelph man was driving eastbound on Line 86 at Sideroad 16 when he lost control of the vehicle and rolled into the ditch. The Ford struck and damaged a nearby fence, leaving the vehicle severely damaged. The man claimed to have been driven to the hospital without requiring an ambulance and came into the police station the
looks OK to look at, but I’m not an expert on these things. The idea is to replace it in bronze.” The granite base, along with granite additions installed to commemorate those who died in the Second World War and the Korean War, remain in good shape. The soldier was crafted from Carrera marble in Italy.
The original cenotaph was unveiled on Aug. 5, 1923, having been built for $1,200. The Second World War memorial, added at a cost of $800, was dedicated in 1957. The Korean War portion was dedicated in 1988 at a cost of $744. “Soft white Italian marble was a good material from which to quickly carve a memorial figure, but this material is sub-
ject to deterioration. No one in 1923 would have thought about the ravages of acid rain or road salt blowing on the wind to erode a statue that is 15 feet high,” Ash notes in a history of the cenotaph. The marble figure is now in storage. The Legion has requested the original soldier be placed in the Woolwich Memorial Centre.
Road conditions take a toll
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Police responded to reports of a smashed front window at Peak Realty on Church Street in Elmira about 11 p.m. Jan. 22. Stolen from the location was a flat screen TV. The thief cut his hand as he punched through the window and police were able to follow the trail of his blood to another address on Church Street where they arrested a 24-year-old Elmira man. As the man was being led away from the building, he kicked the stolen television with his steel-toed boot and broke it, adding a charge of mischief on top of his previous charges of ‘break and enter’ and ‘theft.’ The total damage was valued at $2,500.
OUT OF SErVICE the driver of a service van lost control on deborah glaister Line near manser Road in Wellesley township monday afternoon, after freezing rain made road conditions icy.
lessons and discovering a love for the game. That’s why Tim Hortons is proud to support the boys and girls who play Timbits hockey in the St. Jacobs and Elmira communities. © Tim Hortons, 2007
The first goal is having fun.
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Paying for past neglect, future use Once upon a time, we drove large cars fueled by cheap and plentiful gasoline. In that time we also built poorly insulated homes, simply cranking the heat provided by cheap heating oil, natural gas and, yes, even electricity. It was also then that we ran sprinklers all day, flushed with abundance. Those days, as we well know, are long gone. The real costs of scarcity and environmental damage are now showing up in conventional energy prices. And for some years now, water has edged into that territory, no longer simply taken for granted and priced accordingly. Again this year, rates for water and sewers are soaring. We ignored the deteriorating infrastructure that brought us fresh water and piped away what we had used. We paid scant attention to the ecological system that provided the supply and absorbed our waste. No more. Prices are rising now to make up for years of neglect – the relatively free ride is over. By now, Woolwich residents are no strangers to large increases in the price of water – the township has been hiking rates to reflect changes in provin-
cial rules. In approving the 2010 budget, Woolwich council endorsed a water-rate increase of 7.3 per cent and boosted wastewater fees by 10.1 per cent. The Waterloo Region rates are up 6.9 per cent and 9.9 per cent respectively; with Wellesley provided services by the upper tier government, fees there will rise in accordance with a rolling 10-year plan that will see increases well above today’s inflation rates. With the region planning for ongoing significant jumps in its rates, you’ll continue to see those expenses appear on your municipal water bill. Over the next few years, rates could essentially double, the region claiming major work is needed to deal with aging infrastructure and to accommodate population growth. However, necessary or not, increases do not play well with the public, the people who have been digging deeper into their pockets to pay for water. Part of the problem, of course, stems from a public perception that water is just there for taking. Because it seems like we’re always paying more, but receiving nothing more in
» VERBATIM “The Canadian people have been so generous. I’ll bet you on a per-capita basis they’re the number one in the world in helping Haiti. Probably because of the prime minister’s matching-grant program, but for whatever reason, the Canadians have all given money, and all want to support it. And you should be very proud of that.” Former U.S. president Bill Clinton at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland
return – at least not much that we can see – the increases rankle. While we can’t see where our cash is going, Woolwich and all other Ontario municipalities have been incurring increased costs due to government rules, much of it knee-jerk reaction to what happened in Walkerton. For communities with safe drinking water, the extra layer of red tape has served only to boost costs, with no effect on the product that pours out of our taps. Regulations governing water testing – warranted or not – have helped boost costs, but nothing like the infrastructure upgrades that will be needed in the coming years. Again, some of those are the fault of the province, which has changed the way municipalities must handle water and sewage. The province hands out rules but no money, leaving the municipalities responsible for passing on the costs to its residents. The bottom line is you’ll be paying more this year and every year for the foreseeable future. And just wait until growth demands a pipeline to service our water-poor region. Have your chequebooks handy.
» THE MONITOR Even as the EI system became easier to access the number of unemployed Canadians not in receipt of EI benefits jumped to 777,400 in October 2009 from 650,760 in October 2008. It is estimated that as many as 500,000 Canadians who initiated an EI claim in 2009 will exhaust their benefits because new jobs remain very difficult to find. Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
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War on drugs a failure, new tactics are needed “The War on drugs fails, and is doomed to perpetual failure, because it is directed not against the root causes of drug addiction and of the international black market in drugs, but only against some drug producers, traffickers and users ... the War is doomed because neither the methods of war nor the war idiom itself is appropriate to a complex social problem that calls for compassion, self-searching insight and factually researched scientific understanding.” – Dr. Gabor Mate, Vancouver physician and author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts. In the early 1930s, the United States was moving towards repealing Prohibition. In the New Yorker appeared a cartoon that showed a large truck, obviously laden with contraband booze, sailing down the highway with a bumper sticker that said “DON’T REPEAL,
ENFORCE.” The booze criminals obviously had more reason to see alcohol prohibited than did the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, which started it all back in the mid-1800s when Carry Nation busted up saloons with her trusty axe. During the period of Prohibition, more liquor was sold than ever before. Smuggling liquor became an art form that made several men rich, vaulting them to the top of the social ladder. I have now been on this planet a remarkable number of years considering how I spent my youth and early manhood and thus have watched the drug scene since the 1940s. Then, the byword was “enforce.” As, lamentably, it’s been ever since. In all those years, the only thing that hasn’t been tried has been legalization or decriminalization. Our society is, of course, as hypocritical as hell as it peddles well-advertised alcohol, the most dangerous of all drugs. The cost of alcohol to society is in the billions and even then things like broken homes, single parent fami-
lies, costs to business operations and so on make it impossible to even come up with an educated guess at the real cost of booze to society. Yet no one seriously says we should go back to Prohibition and bring back the illegal stills, bootleggers, rum runners and dives or speakeasies that do so well when their product is illegal. Logically, the legalization or, at least, decriminalization of drugs makes sense. The beneficiaries of our present system are criminals, the same criminals in large measure who are responsible for the ubiquitous shootings is reminiscent of Chicago of the 1920s. The cost of enforcing drug laws, according to research, is mind boggling. Federally, 11 departments and agencies spend approximately $500 million annually to address illicit drug use in Canada. Since 1997, most of the government’s legislative changes related to illicit drugs have focused on supply reduction (enforcement), not demand reduction. While estimates vary, the United Na-
tions believes that the annual global sales of illicit drugs are between $450 billion and $750 billion. In Canada, the government’s estimates of sales range from $7 billion to $18 billion. For the roughly 50,000 persons charged, 90 per cent of the charges related to cannabis and cocaine. Cannabis accounted for more than two thirds of the charges, and about half of all charges were for possession. An estimated 125,000 people in Canada inject drugs. The economic costs, including health care (for example, HIV/AIDS and hepatitis), lost productivity, property crime and enforcement, are estimated to exceed $5 billion annually. Let me pause here and say that hard numbers are difficult to assess but I quote the above to give readers some idea of what we’re spending in public money. If, then, we take the profit motive out of drugs, have we solved our problems? Of course not. Addiction, whether to See MAIR page »10
» INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS | GWYNNE DYER
Human foibles do not alter the reality of climate change Last November we had “Climategate,” in which somebody hacked into the emails at the University of East Anglia and discovered that Professor Phil Jones, head of the university’s Climate Research Unit, had been trying to exclude scientific papers he regarded as flawed from being considered by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). “I can’t see either (paper) ... being in the next (IPCC) report,” Phil Jones wrote in 2004. “Kevin (one of Jones’s colleagues) and I will keep them out somehow – even if we have to redefine what peer-review literature is!” Bad Phil! Slap wristies! Scientists can be rather unworldly, but within their own little world they are highly competitive and capable of considerable nastiness towards their competitors. (Q: Why are scientific politics so nasty? A: Because the stakes are so small.) It is not clear whether Phil Jones was being serious or only mock-serious in his e-mail, but he certainly could have been planning to do exactly what he said. Jones was forced to step down as head
of the CRU, the hacker (probably a Russian) walked away counting his money – and the blogosphere lit up like a Christmas tree with claims that this incident proved that climate change was a fraud. Now we have “Glaciergate,” in which it is revealed that a prediction in the last IPCC report that the Himalayan glaciers could all disappear by 2035 was wildly exaggerated. Some of the biggest glaciers in the Himalayas are so massive and so high that it would actually take them 300 years to melt. It was a grievous error, and the way it got into the IPCC’s 2007 report only compounded the offence. It was based on a casual remark by a single Indian scientist, Syed Hasnain, that found its way into a World Wildlife Fund study (which gave it the respectability of appearing in print), and thence into the IPCC’s 2007 report. Very unprofessional, and particularly so on the part of IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri, who initially dismissed the work of the geologists who challenged the IPCC’s assertion about glaciers as “voodoo science.” The blogosphere went wild – and a recent opinion survey in the United States showed that only 57 per cent of adult Americans accept the scientific evidence for global warming, down from 77 per cent two years ago. Worse yet, only 36 per cent of
Americans believe that human activity is the primary cause of the warming. People who know science and scientists will be disappointed both by the behaviour of Phil Jones and by the glacier incident, but they will not be surprised. This sort of thing happens from time to time, because we are dealing with human beings. But it does not (as the denial brigade insists) discredit the whole enterprise in which they are engaged. Not all the Himalayan glaciers will be gone by 2035, but a lot of the ones at lower altitudes will – including some of the ones that keep the great rivers of Asia full in the summertime. That is important, because when they are gone, people start to starve. And we have all met people who are clever in theory but stupid in practice, like Foolish Phil. The weight of the evidence rests overwhelmingly on the side of those who argue that climate change is real and dangerous. Ninety-seven or 98 per cent of scientists active in the relevant fields are convinced of it; all but a couple of the world’s 200 governments have been persuaded of it; public opinion accepts it almost everywhere except in parts of the “Anglosphere.” The United States, and to a lesser extent Australia, Britain and Canada, are the last bastions of denial. From being the least ideological coun-
» LETTERS TO THE EDITOR mean to shoot the puck in the diNo intent to do wrong, not rection of the referee. I meant in no Parliament should be way to harm anyone; it was a selfish says netminder and undisciplined action that I com- made to work To the Editor, Anyone who was at the Jan. 10 game between the Elmira Sugar Kings and the Stratford Cullitons might have seen the Elmira goalie shoot the puck after a controversial goal. Other people may have heard of this incident. The goalie was ejected from the match and received a two-game suspension. I want everyone to know that I did
mitted. I should not have even touched the puck. I would like to apologize to the fans of the Elmira Sugar Kings, to all the kids that come out to the game and look up to us as players, and lastly to the referee. Again, I did not mean to shoot it in the direction of referee. Nick Horrigan Elmira Sugar Kings
To the Editor, Most Canadians know something that Stephen Harper does not: government is a very different entity from Parliament. Our Conservative government represents 38 per cent of the voters (5.2 million Canadians), governs with a minority of seats (46 per cent), and answers to its leader and his partisan agenda. Parliament, on the other hand, repre-
tries 50 years ago, when much of the rest of the planet was drunk on Marxist theories, these countries have become the most ideological today. Disbelief in climate change has been turned into an ideological badge worn by the right, and evidence is no longer relevant. This wouldn’t matter much if the countries in question were Bolivia, Belgium and Burma, but one of them is really important. Without the United States, we are not going to get a worthwhile global agreement on cutting greenhouse gas emissions. It is starting to look like we won’t have the United States on board. President Obama will do what he can, but his chance of getting even a very modest bill on emissions cuts through the Senate this year has just dwindled to near zero. The American public, worried about its jobs and its healthcare, doesn’t want to hear about it – and if it does hear, it doesn’t believe. If the United States is out of the game, then China is out too. Without the participation of the world’s two biggest polluters, jointly accounting for almost half of the human race’s CO2 emissions, there’s not much point in trying for another Kyoto-style deal, even a much better one. If you have any money lying around, put it on geo-engineering techniques for keeping the heat down. We’re going to need them.
sents 13.8 million voters, and indeed all 33.5 million Canadians. Parliament bears the responsibility of bringing citizen concerns to government’s attention and more critically holding government to account. Under prorogation, Parliament essentially ceases to exist. Most Canadians admit that Parliament is not an ideal institution but also realize that between elections it is our only federal instrument of democracy. It is upsetting then when a partisan government unilaterally shuts it down. See LETTER page »10
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Mair: Time to look at the alternatives » From page 9
alcohol or so-called hard and soft drugs, will always plague society. What it will do is vastly reduce crime. That is certainly the experience in Holland. Studies across the EU since 2000 show that The Netherlands ranks seventh in the use of marijuana -- after Cyprus Spain, the U.K., France, Germany and Italy. The prevalence is similar for other types of drugs. There is another cost being ignored and it probably can’t be quantified using precise figures as they would include the death, maiming and psychological damage to our soldiers. The main cash crop for Afghanistan, Burma, Colombia and other countries is drugs. The Taliban/al Qaeda forces in Afghanistan, who kill our soldiers, are, ironically, partly funded by drug sellers and users in Canada. If the United States, the EU and Canada decriminalized drugs, those exports would cease. As I mentioned, Canadians have a thing about drugs and are pretty blasé about alcohol. I have trouble with the thought that it’s perfectly legal for people to drink themselves into a stupor yet illegal to use any other drug. If we were really concerned about alcohol and cigarettes, we’d treat them as we do cocaine and heroin. We don’t because we know that banning these substances would increase
the supply because the public demand would increase. Since we know prohibition of “legal drugs” would increase smuggling, crime costs and health-related costs, then why do we think that prohibiting other drugs would be any different? To embark on a program to decriminalize drugs by taking the profit out requires a plan that deals with health, welfare and education. It would also take government commitment, a change in law enforcement culture and popular understanding of the solutions proposed and why it would improve our health and reduce gangs and shootings. I don’t believe for a moment that if you decriminalized drugs that there would be a massive march into the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver by people wanting to try them, which is the image the enforcers display. I hate to say this but could it be that those in the large “drug enforcement profession” don’t want their jobs threatened by taking away their “clients”? Considering the abject failure, over decades, of enforcement standing alone surely we should try a new approach as Holland has done. It could hardly make things any worse.
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What do you think of the Wellesley Applejack’s chances of making it to the playoffs?
“I think they have a good chance by hitting hard and playing a good game.”
“I am not sure. Probably not so good.”
“It’s going to be tough, but they’re still in the running.”
“I think they are getting better and better.”
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Political parties and politicians seem bent on further degradation of Parliament. Daily, Canadians suffer through blatant lies, direct contradictions of statements made sometimes only days before and endless evasions. Also troubling are the “whipping” of members, the reduced influence of backbenchers, the almost total control that the prime minister
now wields, the reduction in influence of independent watchdogs, and the farce that is question period. Canadians need true leadership from our Prime Minister – leadership that is not built around partisanship, fear, repression, and political advantage. We need leadership that is honest, a bit humble, yet confident enough to honestly listen to all Canadians.
Our leaders must encourage committees to work collaboratively, be willing to accommodate different views, and recommend policy even if credit may have to be shared with opposition members. We need leaders who recognize the Senate as a chamber of “sober second thought” and stack it, not with cronies toeing the party line, but with intelligent, thoughtful
and expert Canadians regardless of their politics. We need leaders of all stripes who will look beyond the next election, commit to make Parliament work to the benefit of all Canadians, and repair our tattered image on the world stage. We need our leaders to stop being politicians and become respected statespersons. Paul Marrow Winterbourne
Woolwich doing just fine without slots To the Editor, As is its custom, the Observer continues to remind the folks in Woolwich how much Centre Wellington Township has received in revenue sharing from the slots since the Elmira Raceway “was forced to move from Woolwich
Township.” The undertone seems to be that this was a bad decision by Woolwich council to pass on the slots. Those of you who regularly read the Observer will know I have always maintained that this move has ultimately benefited Woolwich by allow-
ing for the development of our raceway lands into new neighbourhoods, a recreation centre and a football field and track. What I found most fascinating in the Jan. 23 issue of the Observer was the tax comparisons between the townships. The Observer reports
that even with our 4.8% tax increase we will pay less municipal taxes than, you guessed it, Centre Wellington – 30 per cent less to be exact. Life in Woolwich keeps getting better and better (even without the slots). Trevor Bauman Elmira
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New venture to promote local produce
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JONI MILTENBURG A new produce venture is hoping to cater to wholesale buyers looking for something other than an auction format. Nelson Wideman, one of the organizers behind St. Jacobs Produce, said the new business should complement the Elmira Produce Auction rather than compete with it. Where the produce auction runs two or three days a week, the wholesale operation would cater to buyers who need produce on a daily basis or don’t have time to attend the auction. “There’s two different groups of buyers and sellers,” Wideman said. “Some really like the auction concept and some do not. I see no reason why there’s not room for both businesses working side by side.” The organizers hope to have the new produce venture up and running in time for this summer’s harvest. About 30 local farmers have expressed interest in the venture, although none have committed yet. “I’d say that’s a start and we can grow from there.”
The business will cater to anyone that buys wholesale produce, Wideman said, from restaurants and stores to distributors and market vendors. The operation format will be flexible, with buyers able to call ahead and have orders prepared or simply walk through the doors and buy what they need. Prices at the wholesale outlet will largely reflect wholesale prices in Toronto, with some room for adjustment according to local supply and demand. They already have a location picked out: a 12,917-square-foot, climate-controlled potato packing warehouse on Hawkesville Road, just west of St. Jacobs. The owner, Stuart Martin, is phasing out potatoes in favour of crop production for cattle. The idea is to have some produce available year-round – things like potatoes, cabbage, squash and onions – that can be stored through the winter. “We won’t be selling any imported strawberries in December,” Wideman said. The business will also sell hanging baskets
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An EPAC founder, Nelson Wideman set his sights on another way to connect farmers with buyers
GOING BEYOND POTATOES Stuart Martin’s potato packing warehouse on Hawkesville Road west of St. Jacobs is set to become the location of a new wholesale produce business.
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a recommendation from planning staff to amend the zoning bylaw for the property. The temporary-use bylaw allows the site to be used for a wholesale produce operation for three years. Wideman was one of the planners behind the Elmira Produce Auction Cooperative, which launched in 2004. Over the six years it has been in operation, he realized there was demand for another type of produce business. “I was just seeing too many markets that weren’t being serviced with just the one business. I was hoping if EPAC can keep on serving their group of buyers, the new business would capture some of the markets that were missing.” The “buy local” movement has boosted demand for local produce, Wideman said, but price is often the determining consideration. “Sometimes people really want to support local produce, but when it comes down to price and they realize they can get it elsewhere, the temptation is still there to buy for price rather than local.”
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Âť FOOD FOR THOUGHT | OWEN ROBERTS
Choose science, not pies, to make point I see more evidence of agricultural groups turning to science for solutions to problems. That’s a progressive, defensible approach – more mature and enduring than, for example, throwing a pie in someone’s face, like a seal hunt protester did in Burlington Monday. And science-based solutions resonate more and more, as the challenges and opportunities grow. Canada is facing a huge challenge as it prepares to develop a national food
policy, to try to add stability to the market and let our trading partners know where we stand. The Liberals have been working on one for a year or so; the Conservatives can’t ignore it much longer, particularly as the federal drive intensifies towards new agricultural priorities. And as the respective parties do their research, they’ll find attitudes about science are changing. In Europe, for example, the precautionary principle was once the norm. No matter if something had proven to be scientifically sound elsewhere, such as in North America, as a precaution it might not be accepted by European regulatory authorities un-
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til it had been aired out more. That’s been a sore point between Canada and the European Union. Canada wants more trade with Europe, in agriculture and food. But Europe’s irked at how Canadian farmers embraced genetically modified crops – ironically, crops that let farmers use fewer and more targeted pesticides. Europeans have traditionally been against them. But that’s softening, and it’s related to science. Recently, at an event called Green Week in Berlin, Germany, I was part of an international delegation who met with Ilse Aigner, Germany’s minister of food, agriculture and consumer protection. She’s a key influencer, because what Germany thinks counts in agriculture and food. Indeed, the country is considered a bellwether for all of Europe. It’s the largest food and beverage market in the EU, and behind France, the secondlargest agricultural producer. When the rest of the world wants to know what Europe thinks about the sector, it listens to Germany. And in doing so, it often listens to German agricultural reporters – Germany has more agricultural journalists than anywhere in the world, and sports the biggest guild in the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists, with nearly 650 members. Minister Aigner, and the rest of the EU, is taking a new and broader view on genetically modified food. In Berlin, she said the acceptance of genetically modified food into the EU would be
“based on scientific findings.� It would be up to each country to accept or reject the food, she added, but clearly the rigidity is falling away. And Aigner said acceptance would grow more if consumers saw an advantage to genetically modified products. Right now, she said, they think all the advantages go to farmers – although if they thought it through, they might conclude that using less herbicides and in a more targeted way is indeed good for consumers. But there’s more at work here. Globally, the question of how we’re going to feed the world may be changing views on genetically modified food, too. For example, earlier this week Bill Gates, in his annual message from the Bill and Melinda Gates’ humanitarian foundation, explained his support for adding new genes to conventional crops. “This is the approach that is still controversial for some people,� he says. “But with the proper safety reviews, this technique can help create diseaseresistant and drought-tolerant crops that could not be created any other way, protecting billions of dollars of harvest and increasing the food supply by millions of tons each year.� Innovation can make a big difference between a bleak future and bright one, says Gates. He certainly knows what it can do for an individual. But can new innovations help with hunger? Sure they can. But if they get “pied� before they get anywhere near the table, we’ll never know. Let’s stop throwing things at each other, and talk instead.
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Still in it mathematically, but loss to Braves puts team on the brink KATIE EDMONDS CLINGING TO HOPE Wellesley’s Justin Roeder takes the puck down the ice towards the Tavistock net during last Saturday’s game. The Jacks lost 4-3 in overtime, effectively dashing their playoff aspirations.
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The Wellesley Applejacks’ chances of making it to the Southern Ontario Junior Hockey League playoffs next month faded a bit Jan. 23 after a tough 4-3 overtime loss to the Tavistock Braves. The team twice clawed back from deficits to tie it, but would not lead at any point. Tavistock is the team to beat at this point, sitting eight points ahead of the Jacks in the Bauer Conference standings. In order for Wellesley to have a chance, they will need to win every one of the five games left in their season, with wiggle room for only one overtime loss. In addition, Tavistock would have to lose every one of their upcoming games. “Mathematically we still have a chance of making the playoffs,” explained Wellesley coach Kevin Fitzpatrick, “But in reality it’s not likely. We really needed to win that game.” The first period of last Saturday’s game opened with a bit of an uncoordinated effort from the Jacks, with the team turning over the puck a few times in the neutral and the defensive zones. Only five See JACKS page »15
Sugar Kings split a pair in weekend play After shutting out Listowel, Elmira gets same treatment from Brantford to end winning streak JONI MILTENBURG After shutting out the Listowel Cyclones 3-0 Jan. 22, the Elmira Sugar Kings suffered the same fate at the hands of Brantford last Sunday. The 3-0 loss to the high-flying
Golden Eagles ended the Kings’ recent winning streak at six games. After giving up a pair of goals in the first period, the Kings stepped up both offensively and defensively but couldn’t get anything past Brantford keeper Daryl Borden. It was Borden’s
eighth shutout this season and fourth in the past seven games. “You have to give credit to Brantford, to their goaltending,” said head coach Geoff Haddaway. “Daryl Borden is as good as there is in our league, and they played a strong game in front of him.”
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Brantford claimed an early lead courtesy of a marker from Chris Dunham at 3:01 in the first period. With two minutes remaining in the first, Matt Hill snagged the puck off the faceoff and pressed to the net, scoring unassisted to put the Golden Eagles up 2-0.
Haddaway felt that the team could have come out stronger in the first period, when they fired just three shots to Brantford’s 15. “The first period, I think it was a matter of us not believing that we could win,” he said. See KINGS page »16
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As I write this, snow is coming down hard and the temperature is far too cold for licking any of the shiny, new metal hydro poles that they’re installing out on the highway. Don’t ask me how I know this. From here, in my office atop the hill, visibility is cut down to less than 100 yards, thus reducing the size of my already tiny world to the length of a single football field in any one direction. And, to be honest, today, that suits me fine. At times like these, almost smack dab between the demise of winter and the birth of spring, a fellow like me develops a touch of cabin fever. I want to go out and enjoy the white season, but converging deadlines combined with temperatures that are too ridiculous for open-air ice fishing, snowshoeing or rabbit hunting make me think twice – which, as my wife will attest, is two more than I normally think. There’s good reason to stay inside by the heat of a woodstove today. Heck, even the animals are hunkered down in weather like this and I’d like to think I’m a little bit smarter than a snowshoe hare – although my past few hunts have provided no real indication of this. Furthermore, the weatherman says that, in my neck of the woods, we’re in for temperatures of minus-24 Celsius by this evening and throughout the weekend. Outside the kitchen window, the thermometer’s red line is already shrinking and the wind is gusting, so, for once, I suppose, he’s guessed correctly. On the other hand, by next week, I should have finished all my work and gained a brief reprieve, provided I sit at my desk and bear down on my work today and tomorrow.
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Of course, it’s more complicated than that. I’ve just ordered a new reloading press, which is due to arrive any time now. Also, a quick inspection of my fly boxes tells me that I’m dangerously short on Parachute Adams and a slew of other patterns, the possession of which will allow me to sleep much better at night. All this leaves me with no other choice but to get out my fly tying vise so that I can build me a dozen or so. And, if that new press shows up, well, I’ve got 100, 58-grain bullets that need to be set into shiny brass cases. If this is cabin fever – as I suspect it is – at least it’s the good kind where dreams of trout fishing, turkey hunting, and chasing coyotes provide comfort from the cold and refuge from the things you must do to earn a living. By the time the weekend has passed, there will be fewer than 50 days to spring. Around here, that magic season is punctuated by the arrival of woodcocks and robins. Last year this happened in mid-March, when only patches of earth were uncloaked and rivulets of water rushed down to the lowlands. And, soon after their arrival, one last big snowfall covered those. Yet, those hardy little birds seemed to endure it. Shortly thereafter, my little girl and I watched woodcock sky dance (part of their courtship ritual) in the field across the way from our home. The thought of it, even now, makes me smile. Despite all that we have to look forward to, however, there’s no use in wishing the winter away. So, on Monday, I’ll drill a few holes at a favourite lake, lower a minnow and jig a spoon, and hope that I’ll hook another lake trout or two for the pan. Because, you know, with all due respect to dreams of spring, there’s just no better cure for cabin fever than stepping outside.
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A POINT FOR HIS EFFORT Applejack Read Shantz nabs the puck from a Tavistock player, eventually picking up an assist in the third period of the Jan. 23 home game.
Jacks: Team’s fate not in its own hands » From page 13
minutes into the frame, netminder Kurt Martin lost track of the puck for a moment behind the net and a crashing Tavistock player, Sean Leslie, pushed the biscuit past him for the game’s first goal. The period would end 1-0. The Jacks stepped up their play a bit in the second frame, but it was Tavistock that scored first, at 12:43. The goal came on a power play marker by Blair McKay on the tail end of a 5-on-3 opportunity with two Jacks in the sin bin. The two-goal lead lasted just over a minute, however, as the Jacks capitalized on a man-advantage of their own. Throughout the power play, Wellesley had impressive puck possession in the offensive zone and enjoyed some of their first real scoring opportunities of the game. Eventually Rob Hinschberger brought them back within one at 13:51, assisted by Chris Armstrong and Shawn Fitzpatrick. The third period proved to be an entertaining one for the throngs of Jacks and Braves fans crowding the Wellesley Arena. It was a chippy affair, with the home team making a game of it at 11:12 when Pat Doyle (Ben Jefferies, Jake Albrecht) scored a shorthanded goal to make it 2-2. Shortly thereafter, however, the Jacks were assessed a bench minor for too many men on the ice, sending the Braves to the power play for the sixth time. Just seconds later, things went from bad to worse when Doyle was given two minutes and a 10-minute misconduct for a head-contact infraction. Tavistock needed only another 11 seconds to go ahead 3-2 on a goal by Devin Berg.
“Two goals, including the winning goal deflected off our players,” noted Fitzpatrick. “They were wide of the net and in both cases our guys weren’t even looking at the play.” With five minutes left in the game, the Applejacks looked down, but not out. They played aggressively, and it was all hands on deck when Eric Parr managed to net one with help from both Read Shantz and Doyle when the team was shorthanded, deadlocking the game a three apiece and sending the match into the extra frame. In overtime, Tavistock mounted the more sustained pressure – shots were 4-2 – and dashed Wellesley’s come-frombehind hopes at 3:12 when Dan Kalbfleisch beat Martin. Fitzpatrick noted that the disappointing prospects for this year’s playoffs are especially tough for those players who will be graduating from the team this year: Doyle, Armstrong, Chris Givlin and Rob Bolger. “I was disappointed for them,” said the coach. “Those guys have really contributed to the program, they have done everything we have asked of them, and they deserved a better fate than what we have given them.” Although the team still has a slim chance at coming back from behind, Fitzpatrick said that it will be a tough battle from this point. “It was a pretty somber dressing room on Saturday, but we have two away games this weekend and there is still a chance for us to come back. We will just have to see what happens.” The Jacks’ next home game is Feb. 6 against the Ayr Centennials.
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Kings: Four games in seven nights as playoffs get closer
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TOUGH BATTLES ALL NIGHT Elmira’s Lukas Baleshta carries the puck past Brantford defender Sam Milligan last Sunday. The Sugar Kings were shut out 3-0 by the visiting Golden Eagles.
“We addressed that after the first period and I thought in the second and third period, it was a pretty exciting hockey game.” The Kings peppered Borden with 24 shots in the second period, but couldn’t get the puck across the goal line. Some close chances and a few ringers off the pipes had the crowd of 800 groaning in dismay. The Golden Eagles also demonstrated why they
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have the best penaltykilling percentage in the league, stymieing the Kings on nine power plays, including a pair of five-on-threes. Despite the lack of results, Haddaway was pleased with the effort on the power play. “I thought we were a little bit unlucky, because that was the best our power play’s looked in a while,” he said. “Sometimes … your power play looks not very good and you’ll score goals [but on Sunday] a couple of our units were really moving the puck well and getting the puck to the net with traffic but just didn’t score.” After the first period, the Kings succeeded in shutting down the Golden Eagles’ offence. Brandon Gorecki made 32 stops, including a highlight-reel diving glove save to stop a slapshot in the third period. With 13.6 seconds remaining, Josh McQuade slid the puck into the empty net to cap the win for the Golden Eagles. On Jan. 22, the Kings earned their first shutout of the season against the Listowel Cyclones. Nick Horrigan stopped 33 shots in his first game back after serving a two-game suspension for slapping a puck toward a referee. “Obviously you have to tip your hat to Nick, but the entire team played well,” Haddaway said of the shutout. “We had a re-
JONI MILTENBURG The Elmira Sugar Kings edged a little further up the standings Tuesday night with a narrow 2-1 win over the Kitchener Dutchmen. The win gives the Kings an 18-18-4 record and 40 points, just three points back of Listowel and four points behind Cambridge in the Midwestern Conference standings. The Kings started the game with a string of power plays, but it was the Dutchmen who drew first blood. Mark Scheifele scored shorthanded on an assist from Tanner DeWitt at 12:53 in the first period to put Kitchener up 1-0. The Dutchmen held on to the one-goal lead through most of the second period, successfully
killing three more penalties. With four minutes to go and Kitchener on a power play, Brad Kraus, assisted by Josh Woolley, notched a shorthanded goal to even things at one apiece. The two teams were neck and neck through the third period until 16:04, when Andrew Smith, from Riley Sonnenburg and Brennon Pearce, scored the game winner. The Kings maintained their perfect penalty killing performance, stoning Kitchener on five power play attempts. The Kings have not allowed a power play goal in their last four games, and after Tuesday’s game, were tied with London for the fifth best penalty killing percentage in the Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League.
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SCORECARD Jan. 20
Woolwich 2, Waterloo 1 Goals: Mya Brubacher x2 (Liette Fife)
Woolwich 1, Woodstock 0 Goal: Megan Thoman (Emily Schuurmans) Shutout: Alyssa McMurray
Jan. 17
LL#1 3, LL#2 0 Goals: Delaney Douglas x2, Mya Brubacher (Hannah Carr) Shutout: Holly Faries
TWIN CENTRE NOVICE BOYS LL#1 Jan. 22
Twin Centre 8, Tavistock 0 Goals: Olivia Bolender x2, Hayden Martin, Ben Bauer x2, Cade Homanchuk x3 (Jade Lipczynski x2, Olivia Bolender x2, Hayden Martin, Jack Wolf, Sam Donsig x2, Ben Bauer, Cade Homanchuk) Shutout: Liam Dietrich
Jan. 23
Woolwich 2, Waterloo 1 Goals: Marlowe Schott, Meghan Martin (Michelle Wang, Erika Morrison, Rachel Weber)
WOOLWICH PEEWEE BOYS LL#1 Jan. 22
WOOLWICH NOVICE BOYS LL#2
LL#1 6, LL#2 2 Goals: Trent Thompson, Matthew Lalonde x3, Alex Taylor, Spencer Andersen (Adam Elliott x2, Carter Hanley, Spencer Andersen x2, Jacob Cornwall, Nick Berlet, Austin Horst, Jeff Talbot x2, Kyle Ropp, Matthew Lalonde)
Jan. 23
Jan. 23
Woolwich 10, Ayr 1 Goals: Ryan Belanger x3, Cameron Maillette x3, Cal Schell x2, Nathan Curtis, Jacob McDonald (Shae-Lynn Martin x2, Nicholas Lee x2, Nathan Curtis)
Woolwich 8, Paris 0 Goals: Jacob Cornwall, Austin Horst x2, Joseph Hanley, Trent Thompson, Matthew Lalonde x2, Jeff Talbot (Trent Thompson x2, Jeff Talbot, Alex Taylor, Matthew Lalonde x3, Matt Jessop) Shutout: Wyatt Whitby
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Cooksville 6, Woolwich 0
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LL#1 6, LL#2 2 Goals: Kyle Conrad, Brody Keen (Luke Charter, Dylan Arndt)
Woolwich 4, Erindale 0 Goals: Brendan Grant, CJ Sider, Jackson Hale, Kyle Rintoul (Owen Hill-Ring, CJ Sider, Travis Weber) Shutout: Ryle Demers
WOOLWICH RUSSELL PEEWEE AE BOYS Jan. 23
Jan. 23
Ancaster 7, Woolwich 5 Goals: Aaron Weigel x2, Connor Pierson, Nick Keiswetter, Bradley Mathieson (Bradley Mathieson, Jordan Shantz, Gareth Rowland)
Woolwich 6, St George 0 Goals: Simon Zenker, Brendan Gilles, Jackson Hale x3, Matthew Dunn, ( CJ Sider x4, Cole Campbell, Ben Martin, Corbin Kaufman, Brendan Gilles, Kyle Rintoul)
Jan. 24
Caledon 5, Woolwich 2 Goals: Aaron Weigel, Troy Nechanicky (Nick Keiswetter, Jordan Shantz, Tyler Martin, Bradley Mathieson)
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Hespeler 4, Woolwich 0
Game 3
Meadowvale 4, Woolwich 1 Goal: Jackson Hale (Matthew Dunn, Ryle Demers)
Jan. 24
Woolwich 2, Dundas 0 Goals: Brett Allen, Kyler Austin (Isiah Katsube, Ryan Elliot)
WOOLWICH MAJOR NOVICE A BOYS OMHA playdowns Jan. 23
Woolwich 13, Owen Sound 0 Goals: Brody Waters x3, Austin Cousineau x3, Josh Martin x3, Kurtis Hoover, Justin Taylor, Lucas Shantz, Mitch Lee (Josh Martin x3, Jacob Code x2, Sam Davidson x2, Mitch Lee x2, Mackenzie Willms, Kurtis Hoover, Justin Taylor, Brody Waters) Shutout: Cyrus Martin
Jan. 26
WOOLWICH MINOR PEEWEE BOYS Jan. 20
Woolwich 5, Hespeler 1 Goals: Greg Huber, Mathieu Fife x2, Connor Runstedler, Connor Goss (Danyal Rennie x2, Colby Bond, Connor Runsteder, Kelby Martin x2, Jayden Hipel, Blake Doerbecker, Tyler Moser) Jan. 23
Burlington 6, Woolwich 3 Goals: Tyler Moser, Connor Runstedler, Greg Huber (Danyal Rennie, Greg Huber, Mathieu Fife)
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Woolwich 5, Owen Sound 1 Goals: Brody Waters, Jacob Code, Griffen Rollins, Josh Martin, Sam Davidson (Josh Martin x2, Mitch Lee x2, Jacob Code x2, Lucas Shantz, Mackenzie Willms, Seth Morrison)
Woolwich 4, Brampton 3 Goals: Grant Kernick, Cole Lenaers, Alex Uttley, Matthew Leger (Grant Kernick)
WOOLWICH ATOM BOYS LL#1 Jan. 23 Paris 4, Woolwich 1 Goal: Walker Schott
Jan. 24
Woolwich 4, Brampton 2 Goals: Jason Gamble x2, Luke Brown, Matthew Leger (Luke Brown, Alex Uttley x3, Jason Gamble, Adam Jokic) Jan. 25
Woolwich 5, Ancaster 0 Goals: Harrison Clifford, Adam Jokic, Ja-
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WOOLWICH MINOR ATOM BOYS OMHA playdowns Jan. 21
Woolwich 3, Caledon 1 Goals: Chase Mooder, Jordan Lee (Sammy Huber, Cade Schaus, Riley Runstedler, Daniel Carr Jan. 23
Woolwich 3, Caledon 2 Goals: Riley Runstedler x2, Jordan Lee (Cade Schaus x2, Jordan Lee, Riley Runstedler) Jan. 24
WOOLWICH PEEWEE B GIRLS Jan. 23
Woolwich 1, South Huron 1 Goal: Taylor Rempel (Amber MacPherson, Emily Willms)
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WOOLWICH BANTAM B GIRLS Jan. 24
Woolwich 2, Milverton 0 Goals: Rebecca Luis, Emily Chapman (Sarah Church x2, Jenna Martin x2) Shutout: Lizzie VanDerStam, Lauren Lawson Jan. 26
Woolwich 2, Wilmot 0 Goals: Lauren Lawson, Jenna Martin (Jennifer Norris, Sarah Church, Rebecca Luis) Shutout: Lizzie VanDerStam
WOOLWICH BANTAM BOYS LL#1 Jan. 23
Woowich 8, New Hamburg 1 Goals: Jordon Aivaliotis x2, Bradley Thomas, Lucas Nosal x3, Colton Williams x2 (Colton Williams x3, Marty Metzger, Lucas Nosal x4, Bradley Thomas x3, Nigel Baldin x3, Kyle Arsenault)
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THREE-PEAT The Twin Centre Novice Rep team notched a hat trick with their third A division championship this season. The Novice team clinched their third gold medal at a Durham tournament Jan. 16. Back row: coaches Jim Solomon, Jamie Hislop, Paul Schnarr and Rick Roes. Second row: Jacob Voisin, Daniel Rudy, Eric Roes and Nolan Hislop. Third row: Griffin Hergott, Joshua Hubert, Bart Scherer, Parker Solomon, Brandon Parnell, Tyler Munro, Ben Hayden and Gabe Leis. Front: Brett Springer and Jack Weber.
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Woolwich 4, Oakville 2 Goals: Timmy Shuh, Johnny Clifford, Owen Griffiths, Alex MacLean (Alex MacLean, Adrian Gilles, Mike Martin, Timmy Shuh)
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Woolwich 4, Kitchener 1 Goals: Tyra Cabeldu, Stacy Thompson, Sam Grace, Ashley Bauman (Sam Grace x2, Lara Bisbee, Emilie Fife) Jan. 23
Woolwich 1, Waterloo 0 Goal: Nikki Bisbee
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Kyla Kowalik memorial tournament Jan. 23 – Game 1
Twin Centre 4, Wilmot 0 Goals: Cassie Hergott, Jayme Marshall, Kim Finn, Sarah Van Allen (Carling Cisecki x2, Katie Uberig x2) Shutout: Amanda Runstedler MVP: Katie Uberig Game 2
Twin Centre 1, Guelph Hanlon Well Drilling 0 Goal: Sarah Van Allen Shutout: Amanda Runstedler MVP: Amanda Runstedler Jan 24 - Game 3
Twin Centre 5, Guelph Investors Group 0 Goals: Janessa Heywood x2, Sarah Van Allen, Katie Uberig, Cassie Hergott (Shannon Lorentz, Cassie Hergott, Hannah Snider) Shutout: Amanda Runstedler MVP: Janessa Heywood Final
Twin Centre 2, Guelph Hanlon Well Drilling 0 Goals: Katie Uberig, Janessa Heywood (Jenna Dietrich, Kaitlyn Jantzi) Shutout: Amanda Runstedler MVP: Emily Detzler Jan. 24
Twin Centre 7, Waterloo 0 Goals: Sarah Van Allen, Hannah Snider, Cassie Hergott x2, Jayme Marshall, Kait-
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OWNING THE TOURNEY The Twin Centre Midget Hericanes posted four shutouts in a row to win the Kyla Kowalik Memorial Tournament in New Hamburg Jan. 24. Back row: Lorrie Detzler, Jay Churchill, Terry Cisecki and John Miltenburg. Second row: Alanna Harte and Sarah Van Allen. Third row: Sarah Miltenburg, Cassie Hergott, Jayme Marshall, Ally Guenther and Shannon Lorentz. Fourth row: Jenna Dietrich, Carling Cisecki, Hannah Snider, Emily Detzler, Kim Finn and Callie Churchill. Front row: Becky Cornwall, Katie Uberig, Amanda Runstedler, Janessa Heywood and Kaitlyn Jantzi. lyn Jantzi, Alanna Harte (Hannah Snider x2, Kaitlyn Jantzi x2, Emily Detzler, Katie Uberig x2, Jayme Marshall x2, Alanna Harte) Shutout: Amanda Runstedler
WOOLWICH MIDGET BOYS LL#2 Jan. 15
Woolwich 4, Paris 2 Goals: Aaron Burkhart x2, Scott Young, Aaron Hoffer (Dan Faries, Dave Hahn x2, Aaron Burkhart)
WOOLWICH MINOR MIDGET A BOYS OMHA playdowns Jan. 18
Woolwich 4, Brampton 3 Goals: Jordan Moore x2, Clinton Dechert, Ryan Ament (Alex David, Justin Neeb, Lo-
gan White) Jan. 20
Woolwich 4, Hespeler 1 Goals: Dalton Taylor, Ryan Ament, Weston Morlock x2 (Clinton Dechertx2, Ryan Ament x2, Logan White, Justin Schlupp) Jan. 23
Owen Sound 5, Woolwich 4 Goals: Justin Neeb, Jordan Moore x2, Clinton Dechert (Jake Kernick, Jordan Moore, Logan White x2, Ryan Ament) Jan. 24
Woolwich 4, Hespeler 2 Goals: Dalton Taylor x3, Weston Morlock (Stephen Kardasz, Justin Schlupp x2, Jake Kernick) Jan. 26
Woolwich 4, Owen Sound 2
Goals: Jake Kernick, Ryan Ament, Alex David, Jordan Moore (Stephen Kardasz, Clinton Dechert x2, Jordan Moore)
WOOLWICH MAJOR MIDGET A BOYS Jan. 20
Woolwich 3, Caledon 2 Goals: Justin Van Elswyk, Jake Radcliffe, RJ Good (Ryan Bauman, Andrew Brubacher, RJ Good, Josh Wade x2, Ted Sebben) Jan. 23
Woolwich 2, Brampton 1 Goals: Ted Sebben, Justin Van Elswyk (Alex Albrecht, Kyle Uttley, Ryan Bauman, Jake Radcliffe) Jan. 24
Wellington 4, Woolwich 1 Goals: Alex Albrecht (Ted Sebben)
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Green, curling team heading to nationals
SILVER LINING The Woolwich Novice LL#2 team finished second in a Clifford tournament Jan. 16.
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Local athlete Norm Green will be travelling to Ottawa Feb. 7 to compete in a national curling championship like no other. A resident of St. Clements, he will be skipping the team in its third bid for a national title alongside the other K-W Blind Curlers at the Canadian White Cane Blind Curling Championships, a five-day national competition. Joining Green, who has curled for more than 15 years, are lead Jim Stephens, second Carrie Speers and vice Len Cooper. Stephens is a B1 classification, someone with no vision. Each team must have a B1, a B2, who has less than five per cent vision, and a B3, who has five to 10 per cent vision. Green, who is totally blind in one eye and has four per cent vision the other, is considered a B2 after he lost his vision in 1992 when he fell 18 feet onto his head from a catwalk at work. He can see enough to sweep, but when curling he can’t see the rock past the second hog line. Green was actively involved in sports his whole life, acting as a referee for many years before losing his vision. “My whole life changed after the accident.” Now after reaching the provincial level of competition, the team is facing another hurdle, the national championships which they have attended twice before. Green and his crew at the K-W Granite Club curl against sighted people
on Sunday afternoons and have competed in the provincial championships several times. Two years ago they travelled to Ottawa for the first time, but lost in the semi-final round after defeating the eventual winners, Team British Columbia, in round-robin play. Last year they came away with a silver medal, and this year the team is hoping for their big win. “We have worked our way up, so I hope we can get to the top of the ladder now,” said Green. Granite members Wendy Simpson and Ralph Fritz will be going to Ottawa as the coach and guide respectively. The team can have one sighted person to act as a guide. The guide describes the shot to the curler and ensures they’re lined up correctly in the hack, but they aren’t allowed to sweep, call the line, or touch the curler once they’ve started to deliver the rock. “The guide is able to give us a bit of guidance, she helps us differently based on our level of sight,” Green explained. “For the completely blind they will say ‘Come to my voice. A little to the right … I like it.’” Green’s wife, Carol, will be accompanying the team to Ottawa – she almost never misses one of his matches, said Green. “It’s amazing to see the blind curlers,” she said. “It’s amazing what they can do. Anybody with a disability needs something to do, they can’t just sit at home and this has been great.”
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WOOLWICH MEMORIAL CENTRE
LOOKING FOR PHOTOS OF WOOLWICH VOLUNTEERS!
Join us for Family Day!
Summer Playground Supervisor May 3 to Sept. 3 (16 weeks) Deadline for applying: Friday February 5, 2010 - 4:00 pm
Swimming 9 – 9:45 am Aquafit 10 am – 3:15 pm Family*/Lane Swim *All children must be accompanied by a parent or caregiver
Assistant Playground Supervisor June 28 to September 3 (10 weeks) Deadline for applying: Friday February 19, 2010 - 4:00 pm
Skating 9:30 – 10:20 am
To honour and recognize our volunteers in Woolwich, Township staff will be compiling a photo collage of volunteers. We need your help!
Fitness Centre Open 9am to 5pm
Please send your electronic photos to aroberts@woolwich.ca OR deliver photographs to 24 Church St. W., Elmira by February 12. Questions? Please contact Ann at 519 669-6027 or 519 664-2613 x 6027
Parent & Tot Skate – FREE! (for parents and children 6 and under) 10:30 – 11:20 am Family Shinny – normal rates apply 12 – 2 pm Public Skate – normal rates apply Please note: Helmets are mandatory for children 16 and under
Playground Leaders June 28 to September 3 (10 weeks) Deadline for applying: Friday February 19, 2010 - 4:00 pm For detailed job descriptions please visit our website at www.woolwich.ca or call the Human Resources department at 519-669-6015.
Walking Track Open 6:30 am to 10 pm
REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL 2010-02 Multi-media Advertising for the Township of Woolwich: Woolwich Memorial Centre & Woolwich Township Arena In keeping with the philosophy of “Open to all and accessible to everyone”, the Request For Proposal process will be open and transparent in order to explore all options and involve all interested partners in the process of selling advertising space at the Woolwich Memorial Centre and the Woolwich Township Arena. The primary objective of the Request For Proposal is to obtain proposals for the development and implementation of an ad-
vertising sales campaign for the Woolwich Memorial Centre: Dan Snyder and Jim McLeod arenas, located in Elmira and the Woolwich Township Arena located in St. Jacobs. SEALED PROPOSALS will be received by the Director of Finance & Treasurer at the Finance Department, Main Floor, 24 Church Street West, Elmira, Ontario, N3B 2Z6, until 2:00 P.M. local time on Friday February 19, 2010
Requirements and proposal forms may be obtained from the Township of Woolwich, 24 Church Street West, Elmira, Ontario, N3B 2Z6, Fax 519-669-9348 or Email dennisk@woolwich.ca As its best interest may appear, the Township of Woolwich reserves the right to, at any time during the selection process, reject any or all proposals, either in whole or in part.
REQUEST FOR QUOTATION 2010-05 Custodial Cleaning Services for: Maryhill Heritage Park Community Centre & Breslau Community Centre This QUOTATION is for the custodial cleaning of the community hall, public washrooms/change rooms and servery areas at the Maryhill Heritage Park Community Centre, 58 St. Charles St. E. in Maryhill and the Breslau Community Centre, 200 Woolwich St. in Breslau. The Service Co. shall provide cleaning services within the Owner’s premises. The Service Co. shall provide all necessary
equipment, labour, labour supervision, porter service, occasional labour and additional services as required and as specified herein.
Requirements and quotation forms may be obtained from the Township of Woolwich, 24 Church Street West, Elmira, Ontario, N3B 2Z6, Fax 519-669-9348 or Email dennisk@woolwich.ca
SEALED QUOTATIONS will be received by the Director of Finance & Treasurer at the Finance Department, Main Floor, 24 Church Street West, Elmira, Ontario, N3B 2Z6, until 2:00 P.M. local time on Thursday February 25, 2010
As its best interest may appear, the Township of Woolwich reserves the right to, at any time during the selection process, reject any or all quotations, either in whole or in part.
NOTICE OF THE PASSING OF HERITAGE BY-LAWS TAKE NOTICE THAT at the regular Council meeting held on January 19, 2010 at 7:00 p.m. Council passed the following By-laws: » By-law 6-2010, a by-law to officially designate the building at 69 Arthur Street South in the Township of Woolwich, in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, to be of cultural heritage value, or interest pursuant to the provisions of Section 29 of the Ontario Heritage Act, as amended; and
» By-law 7-2010, a by-law to officially designate the building at 1924 Sawmill Road in the Township of Woolwich, in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, to be of cultural heritage value, or interest pursuant to the provisions of Section 29 of the Ontario Heritage Act, as amended.
Further information relating to these properties and designations can be viewed at the Township offices during regular business hours.
Notice of the passing of these by-laws has been sent to the Ontario Heritage Trust and registered on title of the subject lands.
Jeremy Vink, Senior Planner Township of Woolwich
Dated this 30th day of January, 2010.
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We wish to express a heartfelt thank you for the many offers of assistance over the past month following our, Justin’s car accident and hospitalization due to a serious head injury.
She came to help make our life easier. To us the infirm and broken and the bright light of the week. Oh do I miss you, God bless you and keep you Trudy F.
FREY, Matilda (nee Bast)
NOLL, Ronald Keith
– Born August 19, 1916, in Crosshill, passed away peacefully at Caressant Care Home in Listowel on January 26, 2010.
– Passed away at his residence in Elmira on Saturday, January 23, 2010 in his 79th year.
GUBLER, Barbara Gwyen
– Passed away suddenly on Friday, January 22, 2010 at Hamilton General Hospital in her 70th year. Local relative is her daughter Debbie Bardon of Breslau.
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PERKINS, Wallis “Wally”
– Of Oshawa and formerly of Kitchener and Drayton passed away suddenly at Lakeridge Bowmanville Hospital on Friday, January 22, 2010 in his 87th year. Local relatives are his brotherin-law Howard Reist and his wife Aleda of Elmira.
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Q. Though English spellings are notorious for their irregularities and exceptions, how are people today voting with their fingers for real spelling reform? A. Which “people”? In Middle English, the word had a variety of spellings, such as peple, pepule, pepille and pepyll, says David Crystal in Walking English: A Journey in Search of Language. Today there are spelling principles that can be learned but none of them work all the time. We are bedeviled by “silent letters,” as in debt and island, or by non-phonic words like the, of, one, two, could, should, might, ought and write -- among the most frequently used in the language. These just have to be learned as wholes. “You will never solve the spelling of ‘could’ by trying to relate its letters to its sounds.”
Generally American English is still stuck with what Noah Webster introduced in the late 1700s. Or is it? The Internet may be changing things in a rather grand way. Most of the writing we see in e-mails, chatrooms, instant messaging, texting and blogging has received no adulteration by editors but is written English in its most naked form, incorporating such simplifications as rubarb, autum and zylophone. Typing “peple” into Google will get hundreds of thousands of hits; a few are proper names but most aren’t. “Did you mean to search for ‘people’?” asks the Google software, wistfully. “These new spellings have little influence at the moment, but how about in 50 or 100 years? Might some of them come to be universally adopted? I think so.” Q. What’s some really GR8 news for worried parents in these days of the exploding Internet, emailing, cell-phoning, You-tubing, tweeting and the like? A. It’s that “txting cn b gd 4 ur kds,” and that “textisms” like “CUL8R” and
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Âť 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. Âť 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., Bogglemania 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. FEBRUARY 2
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Âť Free up the child in you! Laugh! Every Friday in February, Family Friendly Movie Nights. 7 p.m. at the Junction, 47 Arthur St. S., Elmira. Feb. 5 – “Up.â€? Invite others to join you at the Junction for movies, popcorn and a fun time! Info: Marilyn 519-669-5548. FEBRUARY 7
 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 519888-7870.  Hungryman’s Breakfast for Children’s Wish Foundation; 8:30 a.m. – 1 p.m., $5 all you can eat. Royal Canadian Legion, 11 first St. E., Elmira.  Gospel Sing – a Vesper Hymn Sing, 7 p.m. at Elmira Mennonite Church, 58 Church St. W., Elmira. Join song leader Mark Diller Harder, pianist Charlene Nafziger and musicians Linden Gossen, Ann Weber Becker, Donna Mathies and the Menno Singers for a roof-raising gospel hymn sing. Suggested donation $10 adult; $25 family.
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Vitamins give you the fuel to do the things you love to do everyday. Fresh fruits and vegetables that soaked up sunshine while they grew are now full of vitamins. Vitamin C is one of these vitamins – and also one of the most exciting!
Have you ever gotten a scrape on your knee, and soon after, the skin started growing back? Faster than you can say ascorbic acid*, your knee was good as new.
Vitamin C helps boost your body’s immune system, which is your body’s toolkit for fighting off infections and viruses. It can help you recover from colds and flu. This vitamin is especially important in the winter, during flu season.
Check off the ones you eat, and put a smiley face next to the ones you really like.
You owe that to vitamin C; it helps your body heal cuts and scrapes quickly, so you won’t have to wear bandages forever! *The technical term for vitamin C.
Our friend vitamin C also helps your body absorb calcium, a nutrient your body gets from milk, cheese and other foods. Calcium helps your bones grow strong and keeps your teeth healthy.
the orange juice you drink. Orange juice packs a wallop of vitamin C. But oranges are just one of the many foods that can give you this important nutrient.
You may know our good ol’ pal vitamin C best from
Today, you can find fruits and veggies at your local supermarket. But it wasn’t always so easy to get vitamin C.
Long ago, sailors and explorers, traveling in ships for long periods of time, couldn’t get
Want to make orange juice a bit more exciting? Add a bit of plain soda water to it and enjoy a fizzy, vitamin C-packed drink any time of the day!
the vitamin C they needed. This caused them to contract a disease called scurvy. In 1795, the British Navy began giving sailors lime juice to keep them healthy. That’s why British sailors are sometimes called Limeys.
Look at the list of foods that are high in vitamin C in the Word Search list. Using one page of the newspaper, find the letters to spell every word. Circle each letter, and then connect the circled letters with different colored lines.
The dreaded disease scurvy (which is very rare today) also became an insult that pirates used – “Avast, ye scurvy dogs!”
One of the foods with the most vitamin C, the Kakadu plum, is a fruit grown in Northern Australia. Add up the numbers to find out how many oranges you would have to eat to get the amount of vitamin C found in just one Kakadu plum.
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Find the words in the puzzle. Then look for pictures of each on today’s Kid Scoop page.
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S N I T O T A M O T
SPROUT
L E G A B B A C S U
CABBAGE
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ORANGE PEACH Try this game of dexterity and speed to power-up with Florida orange juice at www. kidscoop.com/kids
PEPPER POTATO RASPBERRY
Vitamin C is called a water soluble vitamin. This means that your body will use what it needs and release the rest when you go to the bathroom. Since your body doesn’t build up a secret stockpile of vitamin C and your body cannot store it, you need to eat foods rich in vitamin C every day.
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