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Search for person in river at Conestogo comes up empty ELENA MAYSTRUK Police suspended a search for a person who was reportedly seen swimming the Grand River in Conestogo on July 9.

A woman who had been driving across a bridge reported seeing what she thought was a swimmer, wearing a red shirt and snorkel, in the water. When she turned her car around and went back to the bridge the figure was gone. She said there was also a canoe on the riverbank. She called the police immediately at about 4:20 p.m. Woolwich Township, Kitchener and Cambridge emergency crews responded to the Sawmill Road Bridge near Golf Course Road, where rescuers spread out from Conestogo to the Bridge Street span over the Grand in Kitchener.

Crews scoured the banks and used the Cambridge Fire Department’s boat to check the water for most of the evening but failed to locate anything except a beached canoe. The search continued until about 8 p.m., turning up nothing, said Woolwich deputy fire chief Dale Martin.

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Dane Howlett spoke of his sister Erin’s life this week at the Robin’s Nest in Elmira. Continuing to receive an abundance of support from the community, the family hopes sharing her story will help to shed some light on the investigation into the young woman’s death.

[ELENA MAYSTRUK / THE OBSERVER]

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Public outpouring follows identification of Erin Howlett as woman found in Grand River ELENA MAYSTRUK

Rescue crews gathered on Conestogo bridge July 10 to search for a person reported swimming in the high water. Nothing was found, and the search was called off.

[ELENA MAYSTRUK / THE OBSERVER]

Family and friends in the community were grieving this week following the discovery of an Elmira woman’s body in the Grand River July 5.

Police are treating the death of Erin Howlett, 28, as suspicious.

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On June 27 Erin Howlett told her family she’d be leaving for Toronto. She was trying to make a career change, her brother Dane Howlett said, and headed to the city

for an exam. When she didn’t return after the long weekend her family reached out to friends and social media. They became concerned when she failed to return their messages.

“We don’t know if she ever made it there or not,” Dane Howlett said. He had spoken to her on the previous Sunday during a HOWLETT | 2

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Her body was found at approximately 4 p.m. July 5 in the Grand River, a few hours after she was reported missing, by a group of teenagers who were swimming near the Walter Bean Trail next to Riverbend Drive in Kitchener. They immediately called the police.

The following day, police identified the woman as Howlett, in part using a distinctive constellation tattoo. Deemed suspicious, her death was turned over to the homicide squad.

While the investigation continues, family and friends have been coping in the aftermath of the news.

Howlett will be remembered for her “zest for life” her brother said. She was a strong baseball player and worked as a waitress at Elmira’s Sip ‘n Bite Restaurant for several years where she was popular with customers.

“In that time she got to know a lot of the community, made a lot of new friends. Even I’m surprised at the number of people who thought well of her and considered her a friend

– she touched the lives of a lot of people,” said Dane Howlett.

“Erin’s a wonderful girl, just a wonderful person. We believe her story is something the community would like to know. Certainly, if we can shed more light on her story it’s possible we’ll get some more answers: what happened?” he said at The Robin’s Nest, one of Erin Howlett’s favourite Elmira spots, on July 10.

Her death has triggered an outpouring of support in the community and on social media. The Facebook page, In Loving Memory of Erin Howlett, continues to

fill up with messages from friends.

“I wish I would have told you how much I love you.

Your positivity was infectious as was your sense of humour,” posted Krysta Cronin.

A funeral was held on Friday at Lions Hall in Elmira. Howlett felt strongly about women's empowerment and her family asks that any donations in her memory be made to Women’s Crisis Services of Waterloo Region.

“The outpouring of love and support from this community has touched my family deeply,” Dane

Erin Howlett Howlett said.

Police are seeing many people come forward with information but they need more, Heinzel said.

“Investigators are still in need of additional in-

formation, so anyone who has any knowledge of her activities, no matter how small they may think that piece of information is, we would encourage to contact investigators.”

WRPS are waiting for the results of further forensic analysis to determine a cause of death.

Police are looking for more information on Howlett’s activities between June 20 and the time of her discovery on July 5. Tips can be called in by contacting the homicide branch at 519-650-8500, ext. 8642 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS.

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The canoe was retrieved from the river and was claimed by its owner, who was not related to the incident.

“There were no missing persons reported that we were aware of, the police had checked that, and we had no signs of anybody.

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A part of Sawmill Road at and around the bridge was closed for the search, causing some traffic delays along the bridge.

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All is good under Bob Mair’s hood at the Triumph Classic Car Show in St. Jacobs, which brought out more than 30 Triumph sport cars to Riverside Park on July 6.

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Rural areas have own path as Waterloo Region’s population evolves, says study WILL SLOAN Non-metro populations in Ontario have grown in every five-year period since 1986, to the point where these areas are now home to 2.6 million of the province’s residents (or, roughly the same size as Toronto). These are the key

findings of the Rural Ontario Institute’s “Focus on Rural Ontario” fact sheets, released by the Guelph organization on June 26 and analyzing a five-year census period from 2006 to 2011.

The 2.6 million figure (20 per cent of Ontario’s population) includes 1.1

million people in smaller cities (populations between 10,000 and 99,999), and 1.4 million in rural and smalltown areas (populations under 10,000). Much of the increase has come close to home.

“Waterloo Region has been growing steadily,” said Norman Ragetlie, director

of policy and stakeholder engagement for the Rural Ontario Institute. “I think there were only two times in the last 16 measurements when it didn’t grow. Generally speaking, it’s one of the most continuously growing regions in the province.

“Migration to the region is the primary driver, rather

than natural increase. But parts of Waterloo Region, specifically [Woolwich and Wellesley] have higher birth rates than other parts of rural southern Ontario – largely because of the rural Mennonite populations, who have larger families.”

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urban centre with a population of at least 100,000, including those who live close enough to commute to work. Toronto, Ottawa, and Hamilton are among the cities classified as Metro census division. Waterloo Region (population: CENSUS | 4

New cookbook compiles the flavours of Wellesley WILL SLOAN

of the fair’s organizers.

Richardson was immediately enthusiastic and, with Wellesley Is editor Larry Kryski, went to work collecting the recipes beginning in May 2012.

“I think people are happy to give their recipes – ones that they use every day, or at special gatherings or events,” said Richardson.

“It’s just a matter of sitting down and doing it – nobody has the time these days to actually sit down and write out a recipe.”

Wellesley may be known for its apples and cheese, but the township’s culinary heritage has never been properly documented. That’s an oversight that the Wellesley-North Members of the Woolwich Kin Club – Warren McNeil, Tina Littler, Kassandra Wallace, Bill McBay, Brenda McBay, Earl Cabana – at the West Montrose Family Campground, where the Family Easthope Fall Fair hopes Fun Weekend takes place June 19-20. [WILL SLOAN / THE OBSERVER] to change with Flavours of Our Townships, a new cookbook bringing together more than 300 recipes from the area.

The idea had been perfestivities were inspired of property.” popular TV game show to WILL SLOAN colating with township by a weekend canoeing For the first few years, the water, mud, and marsh financial clerk Gillian Nagy and camping trip McBay participating canoeists of West Montrose. To date, As the Kin Club of WoolCOOKBOOK | 4 ever since relatives from raised money for Big Broth- the Amazing Race has wich’s West Montrose Fam- took with his son, fatherScotland came to visit her in-law, and brother-in-law. ers Big Sisters of Waterraised more than $60,000 ily Fun Weekend gears in Wellesley.

McBay felt the scenic area loo Region. After adding for Women’s Crisis Serup for its 13th year, “While they were here I deserved to be experienced Women’s Crisis Services of vices. founder and Kin Club wanted to give them by more people.

Waterloo Region in 2006, Other activities include member Bill McBay something from “We had such a good the weekend began incorbarbeque lunch and dincharts the event’s our area,” time I said, ‘We should do porating carnival rides and ner, a silent auction, carevolution. she rememthis again,’” McBay remem- other festival activities. But nival midway, casino, and Certainly, the bered. “I was bered. “So the next year we it was 2007, when the festilive music and comedy. event has expanded going through had, I believe, nine fatherval entered into a $125,000 So, with a 13th outing since its first installWellesley trying son combos, and that was pledge to the capital camimminent, McBay offered, ment in 2001, but one to find things, the beginning of what paign of Women’s Crisis “Our niche right now is: thing has but I couldn’t started as the big-person/ Services, that it became the charitable individuals that remained find a cooklittle-person canoe trip, festival we know today. are willing to go out and consisbook that and then turned into the “It became so much run a race and have a great tent: its represented family weekend. more than canoeing,” said afternoon of fun. … It’s not use of the township.

“We’ve been everywhere McBay. “And when we engoing to cost you anything the West So I was a little in that park,” he continued. tered the $125,000 pledge, to get in, and you can get Mondisappointed at “It’s probably the nicest it wasn’t just to raise some free entertainment. You trose that.” piece of property on the funds for whatever – it got come down, watch, and Family The idea Grand River, and it’s just real very quick.” enjoy.”

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Mandated improvements to 9-1-1 service has taxpayers on the hook ELENA MAYSTRUK Federally mandated changes to the 9-1-1 system will mean higher costs for the Waterloo Regional Police and, thus, all taxpayers in the region.

The Canadian Radiotelevision Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) requires a province-wide implementation of the Next Generation 9-1-1 (NG 911) system by 2015, allowing callers to also send photos and texts to a dispatcher.

Modernizing a 40-yearold system will be a costly

endeavour, Police Services Board chair Tom Galloway said this week.

Hardware and software costs that form phase 1 of the project will cost the police $265,000.

“When we actually have to start staffing it and implementing it in 2015 we are quite concerned about the increase in operating costs,” he said on July 10.

Currently if a 9-1-1 call is less than three seconds long police don’t have to respond. These are often pocket dials or people changing their minds, Galloway explained. In the

future the requirement will be to follow up on all calls.

“That could potentially increase the number of calls by about 1,500 a month. ... That’s going to increase the work load considerably.”

As the provider of 9-1-1 services, the police are expected to cover the costs, but Galloway notes the police budget is already overstretched.

“One of the discussions that we had at the police board is about who should be paying for this. Because the police, of course, provide this service for all

emergency services, should we have to pay for all of this when in fact there’s the ambulance and fire departments that also use the 9-11 service?”

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by Waterloo Regional Police, yet about 30 per cent of 9-1-1 calls are non-police calls, he added.

Though it ultimately won’t make a difference to the amount paid by taxpayers, the board is entertaining the idea of splitting the bill and starting discussions with municipalities, fire and ambulance services, and regional government

about how the costs of equipment and operational costs might be shared.

“The police budget is under pressure. We had to reduce the number of constables by nine in this current budget year, and the next couple of years won’t be any easier for the police budget,” he said.

Galloway added that the future operating costs are the most crucial issue as it concerns increased workloads and regular increased expenses. Though there is little choice in the matter – the CRTC is mandating the change province-wide – he

said it’s hard to gauge the cost/benefit ratio of the system overhaul despite some apparent advantages.

The new system will provide options for disabled callers and the rest of the public to communicate via a variety of media platforms.

“How do you measure the value in terms of could this potentially save a life?

The responding unit could actually prepare for what they are going to arrive at, actually have a visualization of what the scene looks like. Will that save a life? It’s hard to say.”

Careless smoking causes $100K in damage to Elmira home WILL SLOAN The two occupants of 4 South St. W. were hospitalized after a fire in their Elmira house this weekend.

The blaze, which began at 12:48 a.m. on July 7, spread from the back of the house while the two occupants attempted to stop it.

“The back shed and the kitchen are where the damage was done,” said Woolwich deputy fire chief Dale Martin, one of 20 firefighters who arrived at the scene. “The whole kitchen needs to be redone. The back of the house has a little mudroom built onto the house, and that’s [been

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Martin confirms that the blaze was the result of a lit cigarette. “It would have been careless smoking,” he said. “They had a smoking area in the back room, but we’re not sure what all transpired back there.”

Damage assessment has been completed, with the estimated total being $100,000 ($75,000 in property damage, $25,000 to contents). The occupants were treated for smoke inhalation symptoms, and will be living with family until repairs are finished.

An investigation has shown that the house had working smoke detectors.

In a statement released July 8, Mayor Todd Cowan urged Woolwich residents to “have working smoke and carbon monoxide detectors

in their homes and to not attempt to fight fires in your

home unless you have been properly trained.”

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During 2006-2011, the Waterloo Region has also experienced a relatively high natural increase of five per 1,000, as well as a

high net in-migration of seven per cent. Woolwich specifically grew at a very high rate of 17.7 per cent, owing in large part to the recent residential developments in Breslau and Elmira.

However, growth in nonmetro areas from 2006 to 2011 in general was a relatively modest 0.5 per cent

(compared to 8.8 per cent from 1986 to 1991). One reason for this is that borders are anything but static: between periods of analysis, non-metro areas may be rebranded as metro if the population grows large enough, while some areas bordering metro areas may be incorporated by the centres in future surveys.

Explained Ragetlie, “There was a lot of change between ’91 and ’96, because places like Guelph, Barrie, Brantford all went over the 100,000 population mark, so they became classified as Metropolitan areas. That pulled a lot of the surrounding geographies up into the metro classification.”

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As a result, the entry period stretched from the original deadline of June to November 15, but in the end, all were happy with the contributions. “We got them from all over – we got some from Hawkesville, St. Clements, Linwood, Perth East, and Wellesley, of course,” said Richardson.

“It’s really nice to see,” said Nagy. “We have people

that have been in Wellesley Idol and people from the fair. The mayor has recipes in there, and fire chiefs’ wives, and people from all the different farms.”

She continued, “You’re getting recipes that are tried and true. … There are recipes that have been passed down from grandmothers’ grandmothers – and those are always the best.”

“For me, it’s brought the township together,” added

Richardson. “Through the recipes, I’ve got to know more people throughout the township, as opposed to just one little Wellesley Village.”

All of which is of secondary importance to the burning question: any recipes in the book that are particularly tasty? Take note: Nagy had a good experience with the chicken antojitos, and Richardson enjoys the “Pulled Pork with Wellesley

Flair” The “Wellesley Flair” is apple butter.

The cookbook can be purchased at the Linwood, St. Clements, and Wellesley libraries, the Corner Store in Linwood, Bulk Pantry in Wellesley, Stemmler Meats in Heidelberg, the St. Agatha Meat Market, and Oak Grove Cheese in New Hamburg. All funds will go to the Wellesley-North Easthope Fall Fair (to be held on September 10 and 11).

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Church Street construction starts Monday The reconstruction of a portion of Church Street West in Elmira, which will require full closure of the road at times, is set to begin on Monday.

Construction will be carried out in a series of stages, with the first stage of work planned between Herbert Street and Raising Mill Gate. Following completion of the underground work in this stage, the contractor will start work in the section of Church

Street between Killdeer Road and Poffenroth Path.

During road closures, local traffic will be detoured along Barnswallow Drive and First Street to connect to Arthur Street. Trucks and other vehicles passing through Elmira will be directed to Floradale Road/Listowel Road or Floradale Road/Reid Woods Drive to link up with Arthur Street to the south or north respectively.

The Region of Waterloo project involves a full reconstruction of the surface and underground services, including new storm sewers, curbs and gutters, sidewalks and on-road

cycling/buggy lanes. At the township level, new storm and sanitary sewers, watermain, utility conduit installation and municipal services to existing residential and commercial properties will be carried out.

A full road closure will be required at times to allow for the installation of sewers and watermains. Vehicular access will be maintained to local residential and commercial properties at all times except for short-term closures at individual driveways during deep excavations or concrete curing. Following these stages of the work, two-way traffic will be

reinstated on or about September 3, and will be maintained until the project is complete in November.

Region picks Bombardier to supply trains Having already dumped some money into the controversial light rail transit scheme, Waterloo Region has now rolled the dice on an estimated $92.4 million to purchase 14 light rail vehicles (LRV) from Bombardier. The deal is being done in conjunction with Ontario transit agency

Metrolinx.

The 56-seat vehicles, with a capacity of 200 people, will be built at Bombardier’s Thunder Bay facility starting next year, with delivery in 2016. All of the vehicles for the LRT line, dubbed ION, will feature low floors for accessible boarding.

The vehicles make up part of the $818-million rapid transit scheme, with $265 million coming from the federal government and $300 million from the province, while local taxpayers are on the hook for at least $253 million, plus operating costs.

The senior-government funding

covers only the first stage of the project, a 19-kilometre light rail transit route from Conestoga Mall in Waterloo to Fairview Park Mall in Kitchener and 17-kilometre route of adapted Bus Rapid Transit (aBRT) from Fairview Park Mall to the Ainslie Street Terminal in Cambridge. The aBRT service is expected to begin operating in late-2014 or early-2015.

Stage 2 will convert the aBRT line to LRT, creating a 37-kilometre system for ION with 23 stations between Cambridge and Waterloo, though there is no money or timeline for that project.

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Conestogo man succumbs to injuries following collision Brandon Nickel, 20, was fatally injured July 5 when the Saturn Ion he was driving Westbound on Sawmill Road west of Conestogo went off the road and struck a hydro pole.

The Conestogo man was heading to work at approximately 6:19 a.m. when the single-vehicle collision occurred. He was airlifted to Hamilton General Hos-

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pital’s trauma center, succumbing to his injuries over the weekend.

Flowers, photos and other mementos quickly appeared at the site of the accident, with family and friends marking the young man’s life in a memorial service Thursday at Lions Hall in Elmira.

Police, meanwhile, continue to investigate.

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1:03 PM | The female driver of a Land Rover travelling southbound on Herrgott Road in Wellesley Township drove through the stop sign and hit a pickup truck that had been westbound on Lobsinger Line. Both vehicles sustained damage but there were no injuries. The woman was charged with failing to yield to through traffic.

occurred at Max’s Golf Centre on King Street in St. Jacobs. Suspects entered the premises, caused property damage and stole several resin animals from the mini-golf area. Anyone with information is requested to contact police at 519-570-3000, ext. 4320 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS.

Sawmill Road west of Conestogo was closed to traffic on the morning of July 5 when Brandon Nickel’s car struck a hydro pole. The Conestogo man later died in hospital. The location of the accident quickly became a memorial site.

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4:30 PM | A car passenger was taken to Grand River Hospital

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5:37 PM | The driver of a blue Ford Ranger pickup truck was uninjured when the vehicle rolled on Kossuth Road near Wellington Rd. 124. The driver was travelling southbound and lost control due to water pooled on the roadway, hitting a curb and rolling the truck. No charges were laid.

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A Volkswagen sedan and a GMC pickup collided on Highway 85 at the Sawmill Road roundabout near St. Jacobs at about 4:30 p.m. on July 8. There were no injuries. [ELENA MAYSTRUK / THE OBSERVER]

4:15 AM | An early-morning crash led to a fatality on July 8 on Erbs Road, near St. Agatha. Arthur Campbell, 35, of Kitchener was travelling westbound in a 2000 Chevrolet Cavalier when the vehicle left the roadway and struck a tree at approximately 4:15 a.m.

Emergency crews responded and his body was extricated

from the vehicle by firefighters, after which he was pronounced dead at the scene. The regional coroner attended the scene. Police continue to investigate the cause of the collision and are appealing for witnesses. Anyone with information is asked to contact WRPS Traffic Services 519-653-7700, ext. 8856 or email traffic@wrps.on.ca.

4:30 PM | A red Volkswagen sedan collided with the back of a GMC pickup truck on Highway 85 at the Sawmill Road roundabout in St. Jacobs. Both vehicles sustained moderate damage.

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Driving on rural roads requires more caution AS FATAL COLLISIONS IN Woolwich and Wilmot townships remind us, the picture of idyllic rural life doesn’t apply to the roadways – statistically, you’re more likely to be killed or seriously injured in an automobile accident on rural roads.

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

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

The agency says that about two-thirds of fatal and 30 per cent of injury collisions in Canada occur in rural areas, and these collisions often involve speeding, alcohol use and nonuse of seat belts. In 2010, for instance, there were 834 fatal accidents in urban areas, but 1,131 in rural areas. For cases of personal injuries, the numbers were 91,434 and 29,716 respectively.

The number of fatalities was significantly higher, while the gap in injuries was much smaller than the difference in population.

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

Studies show that driver behavior greatly influences the collision rate on rural roads. Motorists tend to think they are safer on rural roads since there is much less traffic, forget they have to share the roads with farm vehicles and animals, and tend to speed since they know that speed enforcement is lax.

Alcohol and illegal substance abuse and lack of seatbelt use are often contributing factors in injuries and fatalities.

The numbers do explain the commonly expressed feeling that Woolwich has seen an extraordinary amount of tragedy – we have, in fact, had a more-than-average number of incidents over the years. It’s not just perception.

That said, much of the heartache is avoidable: as officials point out, the term “accident” is a misnomer. If a collision is deemed preventable – the result of speeding, inattention, driving inappropriately for road conditions, drinking or drugs, and the like – there’s nothing accidental about the results.

The good news is those numbers and the terrible human cost they represent – behind every statistic there are real people dealing with real consequences – can be reduced by individuals making better choices when they get behind the wheel. The summer travel season is in full swing, and despite clear skies and ideal road conditions, avoidable collisions do occur at this time of year.

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

A wet spring and summer has many of us here grumbling, but as others can attest, it could be worse.

WORLD VIEW / GWYNNE DYER

Egypt's woes don't signal the end of the Arab Spring WORLD AFFAIRS If the people in charge of the various opposition parties in Egypt had any strategic vision, they would not have launched the mass protests that caused the army to oust president Mohammed Morsi on July 4. They would have bided their time and waited for the next election. Because there is probably still going to be a next election in Egypt, despite the coup, and now the Muslim Brotherhood might actually win it.

There is a good deal of chatter in the media at the moment about the “end of the Arab Spring,” some of it by commentators who can barely conceal their delight. Egypt, with almost one-third of the world’s total Arab population, was the great symbol of the democratic movement’s success, and now Egyptian democracy is in a mess.

But the drama still has a long way to run.

Morsi is now under ar-

rest, as are many other leading members of the Muslim Brotherhood, and the passionate demonstrations and counter-demonstrations in the streets of Egypt’s cities make it hard to imagine that any compromise is possible.

Indeed, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin warned last weekend that Egypt risks stumbling into a civil war like the one that has devastated Syria.

Opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei, on the other hand, justified the military coup by claiming that it had been the only alternative to civil war – which could, he said, have been as bad as Somalia.

Really? One suspects that he doesn’t know much about Somalia. Indeed, one suspects that he doesn’t really know much about his own country either (he has spent most of his career abroad).

There was no risk of civil war in Egypt before last week’s military intervention, and there is no risk of civil war now either.

What we are seeing is a no-holds-barred struggle for power between rival political movements, in a

system where the political rules are newly written, hotly disputed, and poorly understood. And all the players have made some serious mistakes.

The Muslim Brotherhood, on the basis of last year’s 51.7 per cent majority for Morsi in the presidential election, assumed that it had the unquestioning support of half the population. This was probably not true.

Many voted for Morsi in recognition of the Muslim Brotherhood’s long resistance to six decades of military dictatorship. Others voted for him in gratitude for the Brotherhood’s unfailing support for the poor, or in disgust at the fact that Morsi’s only opponent in the second round of the election was a left-over from the Mubarak regime.

Perhaps as few as half of them actually voted for the Brotherhood’s core project of Islamising Egyptian law and forcing its own version of Islamic values on Egyptian society – but the Brothers seemed to think they all had. Even if that had been true, trying to impose fundamental

changes on a country with the support of only half the population was not wise.

Some of the constitutional changes that Morsi imposed, and some of his tactics for pushing them through, may actually have been the result of political compromises within the Brotherhood, where he constantly had to fend off the fanatics who wanted even more extreme measures. Nevertheless, the secular opposition parties inevitably saw him as an extremist, and genuinely feared that he would somehow manage to force the whole package on Egypt.

So the secular parties responded with extra-constitutional tactics of their own: mass demonstrations that were explicitly intended to trigger a military take-over that would sideline Morsi and the Brotherhood. In only four days of demos, they succeeded, in large part because the army, a resolutely secular organisation, had its own grave misgivings about where Morsi’s government DYER | 8

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THEIR VIEW / QUESTION OF THE WEEK

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We're cottoning on to the fact corruption is systemic here, not just elsewhere EDITOR'S NOTES More than half of Canadians think corruption has become more common here over the last two years.

That may be shocking to some, but the real surprise is that more of us don’t feel that way.

Senate rot extending into the prime minister’s office, questionable procurement policies, election scams, bribery allegations, double-dipping politicians and bureaucrats and a host of other illegal and unethical practices make government a prime target for our suspicions.

Add in corporate greed and collusion, and corruption cuts a wide swath through society.

The findings of Berlinbased Transparency International – released this week in the organization’s 2013 Global Corruption Barometer – put Canada’s 52 per cent perception of worsened corruption just about on par with the global average. We’re doing

much better than the likes of Algeria (87 per cent) and perennial scam hotspot Nigeria (84 per cent), but nowhere near as well as the likes of Belgium (11 per cent).

The group’s findings are based on surveys of approximately 1,000 people from each of the 107 countries polled between September 2012 and March 2013.

In Canada, 62 per cent of respondents felt that political parties were corrupt/ extremely corrupt, with 48 per cent sharing the same opinion of the business community. Some 47 per cent of us think Parliament and provincial legislatures are corrupt or extremely corrupt. The media didn’t fare overly well, with 39 per cent having that opinion of what pass for ink-stained wretches in the digital age. Religious bodies (33) and police (27) fell further down the list of those deemed corrupt.

Canadians are not alone in distrusting authorities.

The Global Corruption Barometer 2013 also found that in too many countries the institutions people

HOW TO REACH US

nization suggests. The study shows a crisis of trust in politics and real concern about the capacity of those institutions responsible for bringing criminals to justice. In 51 countries around the world political parties are seen as the most corrupt institution. Some 55 per cent of respondents think government is run by special interests.

Politicians can lead by example by publishing asset declarations for themselves and their immediate families. Political parties and individual candidates, meanwhile, must disclose where they get their money from to make clear who funds them and to reveal potential conflicts of interest, Transparency International argues.

Around the world, people’s appraisal of their leaders’ efforts to stop corruption is worse than before the financial crisis began in 2008, when 31 per cent said their government’s efforts to fight corruption were effective. This year it fell to 22 per cent.

Clearly, systemic corrup-

tion is not reserved for dictatorships in basket-case locales in Africa or Asia.

In the West in general, and right here in Canada, the illusion of democracy isn’t enough. To be sure, we’re democratic on the surface.

And we don’t live under the kind of oppressive, dictatorial regimes seen in the Middle East, though the West is much to blame for the state of those nations.

But our democratic freedoms are always imperiled by our own complacency, allowing power-hungry politicians and greedy corporations to wield increasingly more influence over our system of government.

It’s no wonder we’re losing respect for institutions such as government, big business, the legal system and, truth be told, the media.

In other studies, fewer than 40 per cent of Canadians trust the legal system, for instance. That number drops below 30 for business and union leaders, as well as the media. It’s lower still for government, with trust for politicians typically hovering in the 10 per cent range, pretty much at

the bottom of the list.

In the 1960s, 80 per cent of Canadians trusted governments to ‘do the right thing’. These days, the level of support has fallen to less than 30 per cent.

Most Canadians distrust government and big business and their cynicism towards politicians is increasing. Trust in government has plummeted from a high of 58 per cent of Canadians in the late 1960s less than a quarter of us today who’ll state that they trust government always/ most of the time.

There’s something intrinsically Canadian about deferral to authority. We’ve long assumed government, business and other institutions are doing what they’re supposed to do. Add to that an increasing sense of disconnectedness and shrinking sense of community and you have a recipe for a world in which few in power are looking out for your best interests.

It’s surprising some of us still think any of our leaders will in fact look out for anybody other than number-one.

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rely on to fight corruption and other crime are themselves not trusted. For example, 36 countries view police as the most corrupt, and in those countries an average of 53 per cent of people had been asked to pay a bribe to the police.

In 20 countries, citizens view the judiciary as the most corrupt, and in those countries an average of 30 per cent of the people who had come in contact with the judicial systems had been asked to pay a bribe.

“Governments need to take this cry against corruption from their citizenry seriously and respond with concrete action to elevate transparency and accountability,” says Huguette Labelle, the chair of Transparency International. “Strong leadership is needed from the G20 governments in particular.

In the 17 countries surveyed in the G20, 59 per cent of respondents said their government is not doing a good job at fighting corruption.”

Politicians themselves have much to do to regain trust, the orga-

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THE MONITOR

VERBATIM

THIS WEEK IN HISTORY

In June, employment was virtually unchanged and the unemployment rate remained at 7.1%. In the first half of 2013, employment growth averaged 14,000 per month, slower than the average of 27,000 in the last six months of 2012. Over this 12-month period, employment grew by 1.4% (+242,000), and the total number of hours worked increased by 0.6%.

“The prime minister can’t escape this because he misled Canadians.

His key ministers misled Canadians. For the prime minister to say at this time that Nigel Wright acted alone, it’s preposterous.”

The came to honour Dan Snyder, and left $125,000 to help fund a new recreation complex in Elmira. The first annual Dan Snyder Memorial Golf Tournament was held July 13, 2004. Among the 148 golfers were some of Snyder's former Atlanta Thrashers teammates, other NHLers and two members of The Tragically Hip, Paul Langlois and Gord Sinclair.

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end of democracy in Egypt FROM | 6

was taking Egypt.

But the army hasn’t actually seized power. It has appointed Adly Mansour, the head of the Constitutional Supreme Court, as interim president, with the task of organizing new parliamentary and presidential elections. It will not be possible to exclude the Muslim Brotherhood from those elections without turning the whole process into a farce – especially since the Brotherhood will probably be going through some changes of its own.

The Muslim Brotherhood took little part in the 2011 revolution, and the men at the top, including Morsi, were utterly unprepared

for power. They are now likely to be replaced by a younger generation of leaders who are more flexible and more attuned to the realities of power. They might even win the next election, despite all Morsi’s mistakes this time round.

That’s the real irony here. If the opposition parties had only left Morsi in power, his unilateral actions and his inability to halt Egypt’s drastic economic decline would have guaranteed an opposition victory at the next election. Now it’s all up in the air again.

But democratic politics is far from over in Egypt.

Foolish things have been done, but the Arab Spring is not dead.

YOUR VIEW / LETTER

Many better uses for money than logo contest To the Editor, Admittedly there is not a lot of money at stake, but it is the perception of poor judgment with which I am having trouble.

The notice of a competition for the design of a new Woolwich Township logo strikes me as frivolous and wasteful. We already have an official logo. Does the township really need “rebranding,” especially when the cost of implementing it will be much more than the $1,000 prize?

Laurel Davies-Snyder, economic development and tourism officer, needs to provide a better rationale for what appears to be her initiative.

Unless there is a better reason than “re-branding”

for such a change, this is money poorly spent. Instead of superficial imagery whose value is highly dubious, could not council allocate the money in a manner that tangibly benefits residents? Additional funding for more sidewalks in Winterbourne, renovation of Mill Street, doing something with the washrooms in Bolender Park, or any number of maintenance projects would seem to be more appropriate.

Heck, let’s earmark the funds for a legal challenge to the biased OMB with regards to gravel pits around Conestogo and West Montrose – now that would send a signal.

Setting proper priorities is not in evidence with this decision; it appears to be more a reflection of insider politicking and poor judgment.

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Last year, the focus was on “Farm” including implementation, documentation and training. And this year, emphasis is on “Safety” including assessment, improvement and further development of safety systems. A download of Canada FarmSafe is available at www.planfarmsafety.ca.

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SPORTS SAILING / COOLER BY THE WATER

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Senior coach Sam Parker and head instructor Spencer Gough will take you out on the water at the K-W Sailing Club on Conestogo Lake. The organization offers a youth camp and adult evening lessons.

Setting sail for summer fun

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K-W Sailing Club offers up camps for kids, lessons for adults from location on Conestogo Lake ELENA MAYSTRUK Whereas many summer activities have been interrupted due to the rainy weather, wetness alone doesn’t faze the K-W Sailing Club’s daycamps and lessons. In fact, getting into Conestogo Lake is precisely the goal.

Hot and sunny weather, however, are likely big motivators for those looking for a summertime diversion. Learning to sail is a fine idea for kids and adults alike, suggests the club’s sailing teachers.

Head instructor Spencer Gough and senior coach Sam Parker note that parts of sailing just come naturally.

“The first day you’re out on the water. Sailing, if you think about it theoretically it’s kind of hard to grasp the physics and all, but once you get out in the boat and there’s an instructor to help you along, it comes along pretty quickly,” Parker explained on July 9.

Gough and Parker sat at

a picnic bench beneath the club house’s upper deck on Conestogo Lake, as their students sailed on the lake in front of them. Gough’s beginner students were on the lake on Tuesday afternoon.

“They are out sailing around right now and they are having no trouble at all going around the course, but when I start quizzing them on the sail theory – say, ‘what part of the boat is this?’ – sometimes they are a little bit lost,” he said.

To get an idea of what the sport is about, prospective students can get a free boat ride on the weekends before signing up for lessons. Gough and Parker both agree nothing compares to the feeling.

“There are a lot of people that get into it for cruising, that relaxing-sunset kind of thing. But there are people like us who got into it – well, I got into it because I was afraid of water and my parents bought a boat – but it’s the rush when you know you are going really

fast,” Gough said.

“Sailing is a sport where it doesn’t matter who you are, how old you are, if you are disabled or not. I’ve seen people paralyzed from the neck down sailing.

You can do endless different modifications to your boat,” Parker added.

The average day at the youth camp starts with a shuttle bus that picks up kids from Kitchener at the Aud, Waterloo at Ecole L’Harmonie near Bridgeport Road, and Elmira on the way up to Conestogo Lake.

Lessons are the first order of business, followed by some sailing time, lunch, more sailing and games in the afternoon. A favourite with the students is dodgeball.

“On a rainy day we’ve got a big upstairs area with a TV so we can do some sailing videos and some indoor games we can play as well,” Gough said.

It’s not all fun and games, however: there’s always theory and skill to be taught as well, as students move through CANSail levels.

The club harbours a collection of boats for its members and students.

CANSail Dinghy Progamming was updated in 2012 for Canadian sailing schools. The new rules take into account the traditional White, Bronze, Learnto-Race, Silver and Gold program created by the Canadian Yachting Association (now Sail Canada) and were formed to teach proper yacht handling skills. The K-W Sailing Club teaches levels one through four of the program. This means youths and adults can move from the basics to beginner racing techniques.

The youth day camp runs 8:30 a.m. - 4:45 p.m., with evening adult lessons on Mondays and Wednesdays and all-day Saturdays for students over 18.

On Tuesdays the instructors run a training night for students who want tips on their sailing. Gough monitors the sailors and comes around to their boats while they try their hand at various techniques.

For more information, visit www.kwsailing.org.

As someone who spends an awful lot of time fly fishing from a canoe, I don’t know much about jet skis.

Heck, I have never even been on one.

Some people would call that a character flaw, I suppose.

I have avoided the craze partially because I believe it would be hard to fly cast out of one but also because I’m a bit of a traditionalist and paddling a jet ski is awkward, to say the least.

Having said that, I have had countless encounters with jet skis over the years, so I believe I’ve learned a thing or two that might come in handy to anyone thinking about buying one.

Here, then, is a fly fishing canoeist’s guide to jet skis.

The first thing I notice, practically every time I bob up and down in the wake of a passing jet ski, is that these machines – perhaps because of some design flaw yet to be worked out – cannot go in a straight line from point A to point B – unless, of course, a fly fisherman in a canoe happens to be at one of those points or midway between.

Then they can do it quite well. Most times, however, jet skis do small circles, apparently waiting for a fly fisherman in a canoe to show up on the horizon.

This seems to be the main thing to take into account before buying one. If you don’t like doing small, fast circles in the middle of the lake, perhaps a jet ski is not for you.

Of course, who doesn’t dream of getting close to nature by spending leisure time running at top speed in small, noisy, bonejarring circles in the middle of a lake?

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Some 200 competitors tried to lasso their steers and hang on to their bulls at the first annual Mapleton Rodeo, which rode into Moorefield July 5-7. The event was a collaboration between Moorefield’s Optimist Club and Drayton’s Kinsmen.

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fore, multiple circles are even more fun.

The sad part is that, if my observations are correct, the average jet ski can only do 4 to 5 circles in one spot.

I believe this is a safety feature that prevents the rider and machine from being sucked down into a whirlpool of their own making. But, sadly, I could be wrong.

In any case, after a few fun circles, some guidance system on the machine moves it in a straight line – usually towards the nearest canoe. Then, after showing

the canoe what speed is all about, the jet skier will do 4 to 5 more highly entertaining circles. Again, more fun.

Not to oversell these things, but if you can’t see the appeal in this, you’re just not looking hard enough. We’re talking about circles, for god’s sake.

There’s more to it, though! Jet skis are loud, too. And just name me one person who doesn’t love continuous loud noises when they are visiting a secluded lake?

Forget that; have you ever considered that jet

skiers provide a public service? I mean, how can you truly appreciate the peace and quiet of a pristine lake or the call of the loon, if you hear it all the time?

And how can you not appreciate circles – big, loud circles.

You can’t.

So to recap, if you want to get to know all the local canoeists and help fellow residents of the lake appreciate the silence of your particular water body, buy yourself a jet ski. And hopefully you’ll meet other jet skiers – or at least the ones who travel in the same circles.

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We’ll all scream for ice cream Elmira student ready to get rolling with his bicycle-powered vending cart, doling out frozen treats ELENA MAYSTRUK Hot, hazy and humid – not the overabundance of rain we’ve already had, please and thank you – would be welcomed by many fans of real summer weather. You can probably put Elmira’s Andrew Brubacher at the top of that list, as he prepares to launch his summer ice cream business. He is yet another recruit for the Waterloo Region Small Business Centre’s Summer Company program.

Having won approval last month from Woolwich council to ply his trade in Elmira, Brubacher is embarking on the creation of Ice Cream! Ice Cream!

Ice Cream!, a seasonal ice cream vending business set to get going this month.

“I always kind of liked the food vending idea, so ice cream is an easy way to get into it,” he said this week of his new business.

Brubacher thought of starting his own venture after seeing Cupcakes!

Cupcakes! Cupcakes!, another Summer Company program at the St. Jacobs Farmers Market and the brainchild of young entrepreneur Tiia Planert.

Along with the paperwork, a delegation at the township, permits and setting up bank accounts, getting the business rolling is going to require some legwork for the Conestoga College business undergrad. He enlisted the help of his father and brother to fix up a bike-powered ice

cream cart. With two wheels at the front to support a a refrigerated ed cart and one at the back, the apparatus was hard to find.

“That’s kind of what we’re working on right now, to get it going.”

The upside of the lucky find is that it’s light on the budget – the program gives business owners $1,500 to start with – but proper pedals, brakes, gears and freezer functions need to be fixed before the cart is roadready. After the restoration process is done, he hopes for a gleaming vehicle complete with colourful airbrush signage, an umbrella and tinkling music to herald the coming of tasty treats.

“This is kind of just more experience for me going into the future. I thought it would be a good idea to see how running your own business is. I saw a lot of shows on TV of people who have different food trucks – I always liked that kind of idea of a mobile vending business. I always like to try new food and recognize stuff that people put spins on,” he said.

Though it’s his first go at a business of his own, Brubacher isn’t flying blind: he has seen the benefits of the Summer Company program through a friend’s experience with a mobile repair business.

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Andrew Brubacher will be taking to the streets of Elmira this summer with his bike-powered ice cream cart. The Conestoga College student is part of the Waterloo Region Small Business Centre’s Summer Company program. [ELENA MAYSTRUK / THE OBSERVER] “He did it last year in Hamilton and he just kept going this year; it’s doing really well,” Brubacher said, noting he hopes to continue in the ice cream trade if business is good this summer.

As a business model the project is partly a question of proper marketing and gauging some simple consumer demographics.

With a muggy summer in the forecast, does he dread the armies of hungry kids or the possibility of cranky parents arguing his prices?

“I’m kind of nervous about the amount of customers; you don’t know

how it’s going to go at the start until you really get into it – things that work and things that don’t work,” he said.

The plan so far is to incorporate creamy, chocolate-covered treats for the adult with a sweet tooth and colourful, fruity frozen snacks for the tots.

Brubacher’s Twitter page, @IceCreamElmira, will let customers know the cart’s location as he cycles through town and visits summer hotspots like the down town section of Arthur Street, soccer fields, the Woolwich Memorial Centre and Lions Park.

Brubacher will also be awarded an additional $1,500 through the program to continue his studies.

Having finished his first year of the international business management program at Conestoga College, his future in business looks open to possibilities.

The 19-year-old hopes the mobile business will help to narrow down his goals.

If all goes well, Ice Cream!

Ice Cream! Ice Cream! is set to start operating from July 15, running to the beginning of September. For hours of operations and locations, follow @IceCreamElmira on Twitter or listen for the bell.

Driving around Waterloo Region, it may not be obvious that four out of every five farms have voluntarily developed their own environmental plan for sustainability. Some farms have roadside signs designating their status; most, however, don’t. And the improvements they’ve made aren’t visible from the end of the lane.

But it’s one of the biggest – and most unheralded – success stories in Canadian agriculture. The farm plan, which traces its beginnings in Ontario back to 1991, has been a hit with farmers here and, indeed, right across the country. Ontario’s template has been adopted for local conditions in most other provinces.

That said, change is in the air.

Here’s what’s happening.

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experts. Recommendations are made for improvements where needed, and with support from the province and from Ottawa, some financial assistance is provided.

The 35,000 or so Ontario farmers who have completed the plan have made an average of $70,000 worth of what are broadly called environmental improvements to their farms. Most of those have been done with their own money.

Now, it’s being held out for a new and very logical further use. The Guelphbased agri-food think tank, the George Morris Centre, says in a new report that with a bit of tweaking, the plan could offer the agrifood system greater insight into farm-specific environmental sustainability.

It could address one of

the industry’s most burning issues – that is, identifying sustainability practices in the entire value chain, starting with farmers.

Sustainability has become an imperative with consumers. They want to know farmers are practicing good land, water and air stewardship and preserving the environment.

That’s had a ripple effect on food processors, retailers and food service operators. They also have their antennae up, as do some of Canada’s trading partners.

But how do processors and retailers know who’s being a good steward, and who isn’t? They’ve been scratching their heads, trying to determine how to locate and work more intimately with farmers who do – or will – provide the desired soil, water and air characteristics that contribute to sustain-

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Of course, sustainability is a huge area, and people have different ways of defining it. But generally, the farm plan helps farmers achieve what most people would agree is a higher form of environmental responsibility. And if that’s not in place, sustainability, however it’s defined, is a non-starter.

The Guelph-based Ontario Soil and Crop Improvement Association, which administers the plan for Ontario, with support from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food and Ministry of Rural Affairs, says the plan can help communicate and identify sustainability.

“For more than 20 years, farmers have embraced the [plan] as their guide to defining environmental sustainability,” says the association’s executive director Harold Rudy, one of report’s steering committee members. “It would not require a lot of tweaking to incorporate additional components to satisfy the value chain.”

The report’s lead author Claudia Schmidt agrees.

She says by simply beefing up the plan’s questionnaire, farmers could voluntarily complete an addendum specific to a market or buyer’s requirements.

A lot of research at the University of Guelph and elsewhere went into creating the plan – working with farmers, determining the right questions to ask, and figuring out what to do with the answers.

Twenty years later, it’s clear environmental steps forward have been taken.

Now it’s time to let the plan grow into something that is even more useful to the industry, and in particular, to build consumer confidence.

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In search of comedy’s Holy Grail Iconic Monty Python characters meet Broadway glitz in Drayton Entertainment’s staging of the hit musical Spamalot WILL SLOAN Surprise is one of the essential elements of comedy – this we know. Monty Python, the revered British comedy troupe, began their BBC show Monty Python’s Flying Circus in 1969 as a conscious attempt to surprise viewers – doing away with recurring characters, catchphrases, narrative logic, and even punchlines. And yet, much of the appeal of Spamalot, the enormously popular Broadway musical based on their film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, is in its comforting familiarity.

“One of the first speeches I made to the entire cast on that first morning of rehearsals was, ‘This piece is so iconic that we really can’t stray too much from it,’” said Alex Mustakas, director of Drayton Entertainment’s production of Spamalot. “If people saw the movie, what they saw in the movie they’re going to see on stage.”

Scripted by troupe member Eric Idle and “lovingly ripped off” from Holy Grail, Spamalot combines the basic plot of the 1975 film (King Arthur and his knights search for the Holy Grail) with Broadway razzmatazz (Arthur realizes the only way to find the Grail is to stage a Broadway musical, and goes searching for Jews to fund it).

Much of the show sees familiar bits brought out in new forms – “I’m not dead yet!” is now the title of a song, and the sinister Black Knight is now disemboweled on a stage. Explained

Mustakas, “In film, you can cut and paste, right? But the Black Knight – he gets both his arms cut off, and both his legs, and a knife goes through his stomach.

Well, we actually do that onstage, with some magic and sleight of hand – no pun intended.”

For a comedy phenomenon founded on surprise, it is ironic that Monty Python is most vigorously appreciated by those who find it most familiar. Anyone who has ever lived in a university dorm room knows that Monty Python fans will watch and re-watch favourite films and TV episodes so often that they can recite entire scenes (often in appalling fake-British accents).

Consider Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl, a concert film from late in the Pythons’ partnership, edited from four stage performances held in 1980. One by one, iconic Python sketches – the Ministry of Silly Walks, the Lumberjack Song, “Nudge Nudge,” et. al. – are revived, and the audience roars with laughter and applause at the opening line, even if the opening line (“Is this the right room for an argument?”) is not intrinsically funny. The sketches then consistently play to silence, until they are over, and are met with enormous and sincere applause.

“It’s so iconic that there are people that come that recite the entire show, so we can’t stray too far from it,” said Mustakas. “And I remember the movie [Holy Grail] – in my early years

The cast and crew of Spamalot (shown here with director Alex Mustakas, front) will always look on the bright side of life during the Monty Python play’s run at the St. Jacobs Country Playhouse, which gets underway July 17. [SUBMITTED] I would be reciting scenes from it with friends, so I’m very familiar with it.”

What to make of Spamalot’s unprecedented success? While most Python material (including the later films Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life) met with cult-sized popularity upon initial release, Spamalot has been a box office juggernaut since its debut in 2005. Why is this, exactly?

“I think it engages an entire audience, not just the Monty Python fans, because it’s a big, bold Broadway musical,” said

Mustakas. “It’s a spoof on the legend of Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, but also, it pokes fun at the whole genre of musical theatre, especially Broadway shows. In Grand Bend, our matinee audiences are quite elderly, and they really enjoyed this the most.

“I tried to analyze it, and I think it’s because Canadians have more of a sensibility to British humour and British history. So, this whole notion of Arthur singing and dancing, it’s funny.”

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“But the ones that are, I’ll tell you, last Saturday we had a group of 20 people that showed up [at a Grand Bend performance] in costume, carrying coconuts …”

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“It pokes fun at itself, which I find really funny myself,” said Mustakas.

“We laughed so much in rehearsal, with the actors and the creative team, and we knew we had a hit.

It has been accessible to those who aren’t really as familiar with Monty Py-

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Beloved husband of Helma (Morris) for 65 years. Cherished father of James (d.1973), Maryellen (Gerry) Hahn, Michael (Judy) Mayne, Catherine (d.1956), Patricia (Randy) Berdan, Stephen (Ferne) Mayne, Gerald (Helen) Mayne, Margaret (Bill) Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neill, Mark Mayne (Winnie), and Greg Mayne (Dara). Much loved grandfather of 20 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren.

Wilfred is also survived by his brother Joseph Mayne, sisters-in-law Peggy Morris, Maizie Morris, Marcia Morris, and Mary Lou Armstrong. He will be fondly remembered by many nieces and nephews. Predeceased by his parents Oscar and Bridget (Mulhall) Mayne, brother Austin Mayne, and sisters Blanche McDermott and Clara Forwell. Our family would like to acknowledge Dr. J. Craig, the Elmira Medical Clinic staff, Dr. Donna Ward, CCAC Case Manager, Maria Strickland, Care Partner nurses, Red Cross homemakers, and Hospice Wellington staff for their exceptional care and compassion. Our family has been truly blessed.

The family will receive their relatives and friends at the Dreisinger Funeral Home, Elmira on Friday (today) from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Parish prayers will be offered at the funeral home today at 3:45 p.m. Funeral mass will be celebrated at St. Teresa of Avila R.C. Church, Elmira on Saturday, July 13 at 10:00 a.m. Donations to Hospice Wellington or St. Teresa of Avila Churchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s building fund would be appreciated as expressions of sympathy. What gives a man dignity is not his wealth or good fortune, or noble birth, but a worthy and virtuous life, and the dignity of his labour. Pope John XXIII-1946

Passed away suddenly as the result of a motor vehicle accident on Saturday, July 6, 2013 at Hamilton General Hospital. Brandon, at the age of 20 years, of Conestogo, was the beloved son of Brad and Penny (Mills) Nickel and dear brother of Brittany and Bailey, both at home. Brandon will be sadly missed by his girlfriend Sam Nosal of St. Clements. Loving grandson of Faerlene (Best) Nickel and the late John Nickel (June 21, 2013) and Bill and Joan (Holler) Mills, all of Tara. Nephew of Joleen (Tom) Port Elgin, Bev (Nancy) Chesley and Joni Johnston (Bev) Owen Sound.

Cousin of Lindsay George (Randy) and their children Griffin and Khloe George, Jordan, Brady and Nicole Johnston.

Brandon will always be remembered by his relatives, many friends, teammates and co-workers. Cremation has taken place. There will be no funeral home visitation. A memorial gathering to celebrate Brandonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life was held at the Elmira Lions Hall, 40 South St. W., Elmira on Thursday, July 11, 2013 at 2 p.m. followed by a time of remembrance and fellowship. In Brandonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s memory, donations to the Trillium Gift of Life Network or Hamilton General Hospital ICU would be appreciated as expressions of sympathy and may be obtained by calling the Dreisinger Funeral Home, Elmira (519-669-2207).

July 7, 2013 at Lanark Heights Long Term Care at the age of 81 years. Local relatives are his brother Carl and Gwen Foell of RR 2, Wallenstein and Stan and Dorothy Foell of Elmira.

GRIFFIN, CHARLES (CHUCK) | Passed away peacefully, on

Thursday, July 4, 2013 at Heritage House in St. Jacobs at the age of 85.

LINDNER, DORIS EDITH | Born in Tavistock on January 31,

1922 and passed away on July 2, 2013 at Heritage House in St. Jacobs.

MANN, JEAN | At home, surrounded by her loving family,

on Saturday, July 6, 2013, Mrs. Eleanor Jean (Sangster) Mann of Fordwich, formerly of Elmira, one day before her 77th birthday.

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ZETTEL, MIRIAM KATHLEEN| Peacefully at Nithview Homes,

New Hamburg, on Sunday, July 7, 2013, Miriam (nee Norman) in her 93rd year. Local relatives are her son Charles and his wife Irene of Floradale and her daughter Elizabeth and Daniel Diebolt of Wellesley

Howlett, Erin Died at the age of 28 years. Erin was the beloved daughter of Cathy Howlett and the late Dan Howlett (2002), and dear sister of Dane all of Elmira. Loving granddaughter of Helen Rook and the late Stuart Rook. Niece of Larry and Anne Rook of Nova Scotia, Pat Rook of Newmarket and Chris Howlett of Elmira. Erin will be remembered by her relatives and many friends. Predeceased by her grandparents Herbert and Mayme Howlett, uncle Jim Howlett, aunt Eleanor Voisin and her husband Ron. Cremation has taken place. The family received their relatives and friends for a memorial visitation at the Dreisinger Funeral Home, Elmira on Thursday, July 11, 2013 from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. A gathering to celebrate Erinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life will take place on Friday, July 12, 2013 at Elmira Lions Hall, 40 South Street West, Elmira at 1:30 p.m. followed by a time of sharing stories with Erinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s family. In her memory, donations to Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Crisis Centre would be appreciated as expressions of sympathy.

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•Natural & Interlocking Stone •Retaining Walls, Walks & Patios •Help for Top Water & Drainage issues •Rain Water collection systems

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BACKHOE SERVICES • Specializing in farm drainage repair/installation • Footing / cellar / eavestrough / drains • Stump removal FOR RENT

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Make Your Next Home Your Dream Home! $464,000 $475,000

$184,500 $189,900 LUXURIOUS CONDO LIFE!!

Kitchener - This updated Modern Condo features 2 large Bedrooms, 2 Bathrooms, Separate Dining Room and In-suite Laundry. Laminate flooring, Bathrooms 2013, Kitchen cabinets 2009.

Building amenities include: Controlled entry, Underground parking, exercise room, pool, sauna, elevators, controlled entry, party and games room.

Close to: Conestoga College, shopping, Easy 401 access and close to trails. MLS 1324629. Call Paul or Alli Direct.

THIS HOME HAS IT ALL!

Waterloo - Crisp kitchen featuring island &

breakfast bar, walk-out to relaxing deck overlooking in-ground heated kidney shaped pool w/stamped concrete patio. Vaulted ceiling in family room w/gas fireplace. Master bedroom w/double walk-in closets & sunk-in ensuite complete w/whirlpool tub and separate shower. 3 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms & Main floor laundry. Finished rec room w/separate entrance. Close to schools, Conestoga Mall & expressway. MLS 1325108. Call Paul or Alli direct.

$265,000

$245,000 SEPARATE WORKSHOP

Drayton - Room for the kids to run on lg

165ftx66ft yrd. 4bdrms, 2baths, & main flr lndry. Spacious front foyer , lg LR w/heating stove. Side entrance to lg functional kit & huge sep DR. Plumbing/electrical updated. Lifetime roof. 200amp service. 32ftx16ft Sep workshop w/9000lb, 2 post hydraulic hoist, gas/water heated cement flr & 100amp. MLS 1324398.

Call Paul or Alli direct.

Elmira

INDUSTRIAL

- Zoned M-2, This 1850 sqft: Industrial/Mfg 1,460sqft, Office 400sqft. Bay Size 18.5X32'.

Power/Amps: 208/220 Volts/200.

Furnace 2007, East Roof New 2013, West roof 2004.

New Windows 2012, Soffit 2012. Office & Warehouse Space 31x60 Building. Features: Ceiling Fans, Natural Light - Windows, Suspended Ceilings, Finished Office Space, Air Lines, Floor Drains, Fenced Yard, Paved Yard. Including: Hot water heater, air compressor. MLS 1321454. Call Paul or Alli direct.

$500.00 DONATION will be made with every home bought or sold by Paul or Alli in Woolwich.

Paul Martin

Alli Bauman

CALL DIRECT

519-577-6248

SALES REPRESENTATIVE

519-503-9533 www.homeswithpaul.ca

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$286,000 $289,000

$259,000 $419,000 $289,000

COMPLETELY FINISHED

-CLOSE TO PARK Elmira - Excellent opportunity! This 3

Elmira - Completely finished top to bottom 4 level back split. This spacious semi is a match for anyone with 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, living room, family room and rec room! Eat in kitchen is equipped with hardwood floors, breakfast bar, open to family room with gas fireplace and Sliders off dinette with wrap around deck to large 12 x 22 ft deck and fenced yard. MLS 1327060 Call Paul or Alli direct.

Solid Gold Realty (II) Ltd., Brokerage

bedroom home is equipped with huge living room addition (2004) lots of windows, cathedral ceiling and walk out to two tier deck.

Big dinette, main floor master bedroom and main floor laundry! Large finished rec room and games room. Corner lot with mature trees Located on a quiet street close to park. MLS 1324819. Call Paul or Alli direct.

$289,000 $419,000 UPDATED TIMELESS BEAUTY

Elmira - Exceptional home with many updates including: electrical, plumbing, bathrooms, windows, roof, fenced yard, and more. Main Bathroom has been totally renovated. 9 ft ceilings on main floor and main floor laundry. Carpet free with original hardwood floors throughout. 22 ft x 12.5 ft garage with basement walk up. Close to recreation complex and amenities. MLS 1322135 Call Paul or Alli direct.

3 Arthur St. S., Elmira | 519-669-5426

Independently Owned and Operated

FIND YOUR DREAM HOME IN CANADA’S BEST COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER

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BROKERAGE

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COUNTRY LOT .5 ACRE | $73,500 Country lot .5 acre don't miss this chance to enjoy sunrises and sunsets. Within 40 minutes KW, or Guelph. High speed internet is available with fibre optic.

45 Arthur St. S., Elmira Office:

519-669-2772 OPEN HOUSE NEW PRICE

BUILD TO SUIT

$299,000

$599,900 $289,000

WEST MONTROSE Home of the historic world renowned ‘Kissing Bridge’. Vistas from your own 3/4 acre ‘staycation’ backyard include covered bridge, huge deck w/ gazebo, pool, fish pond & gardens galore. Fantastic 4 bedroom home with oversized double garage.

Countryside living at its best! MLS 1324499

DIRECT: 519-572-2669 OFFICE: 519-669-5426 BRAD MARTIN Broker of Record, MVA Residential

Res:

519.669.1068

JULIE HECKENDORN Res:

Broker

519.669.8629

TRACEY WILLIAMS Sales Rep.

Cell: 519.505.0627

Saturday July 13, 2013 2-4 p.m.

1121 Geddes Street, Hawkesville 100+ yr. old home is loaded with character! Backs to a wooded area.

Lovely hardwood floors. Spacious dining room PLUS eat-in kitchen. Main floor den. Woodburning fireplace in living room. Walkout from fam. rm. to elevated deck. Gas furnace (2011). Lots of living space. 2 bathrms. Walkout basement.

MLS

$689,900

LOCATION!! Nestled in the trees and backing to farmland. This custom built home offers over 3000 sq.ft. of living space. Hardwood & ceramics. Gas fireplace in LR w/16’ ceiling. Main flr. fam.rm. open to 26’ kitchen w/2 dishwashers. Large dining rm. FOUR bdrms.- master suite w/walkin closet & ensuite. Upper level media room. Fin. bsmt. w/separate entry. A must see! New MLS

$419,900

HAWKESVILLLE BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY - Operate your own business & live in the spacious 3 bdrm. att’d dwelling.

Well maintained.

Presently a catering business (seats 54) but this property has endless opportunities! 1400 sq.ft. of commercial space.

Single garage + lots of pkg. A unique opportunity. MLS

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FREE Market Evaluation New Price

$40,000

BUSINESS FOR SALE!

Located in a multi unit building this is ideal for a hobbyist or a retired person. Price includes inventory, shelving and display units. MLS. Call Bert for more information.

LEASE SPACE!

Three units consisting of 144 s/f, 800 s/f and 2400 s/f located in a busy plaza only 15 minutes to K-W. All units have central air and can be modified to suit your needs. Lots of free parking and some store front. MLS. Call Bert for more information.

Your referrals are appreciated!

PRIVATE SALE | ELMIRA Solid brick home on large lot in a desirable location in Elmira.

Walking distance to schools, Memorial Centre, parks, downtown. 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, living room, dining room.

Call for viewing 519-669-0503

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We support Woolwich Community Services through

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50+ years of combined service to HELP you!

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Bonnie Brubacher Broker of Record / Owner

Monique Roes

Sales Representative / Owner

OPEN HOUSE | Sun July 14 2-4pm

Shanna Rozema Jason Shantz Broker / Owner

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“Helping you is what we do”

NEW LISTING!

46 Spring Wagon Lane, Elmira

NEW LISTING | DRAYTON $444,900. Drayton. Stunning custom bungalow with numerous features;

NEW LISTING!

vaulted and boxed ceilings, 3 gas fireplaces, arches and pillars, speakers wired for most rooms, gourmet kitchen with granite countertops, hardwoods and ceramics, amazing ensuite, large fenced lot. Call Dale. MLS 1331348

DREAM HOME | DRAYTON Custom built all stone exterior. Extensively landscaped with walkways, deck, gazebo. patio. larger trees, and a relaxing front porch for those warm summer evenings. Hanover custom kitchen cabinets on both levels. 2 gas fireplaces. Walkdown from oversized garage. Call Dale. MLS 1327519

$489,000.

OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS | BRUSSELS $449,000. 19 acre parcel backing onto Maitland river with beautiful

building site, 500 apple tree orchard with 4000 sq ft store front and cold storage, cider press, implement shed, dry storage building big enough to hold up to 25 cars/vehicles for extra income. Good solid brick house. Lots of potential. 13 acres cultivated. Market gardening? Call Dale. MLS 1327067

DESIRABLE LOCATION $312,000. Beautiful 2 storey backsplit

with vaulted ceilings. Main floor layout blends elegance with practicality. Large deck; storage shed; many upgrades throughout. Quick closing available.MLS

PARADIGM (ELMIRA) HOMES PRESENTS ...

2 MODEL HOMES FOR SALE!

garage/workshop. Gas fireplace. New windows. Roof 07, new hot water heater owned, nice yard. Call Dale. MLS 1327520

$1,250,000.

BACKSPLIT | $374,900. Offers a unique

layout on a corner lot, 3 bdrms, ensuite, maple kitchen, hardwood floors, family rm w/gas fireplace & walk-up to the rear yard. EXCLUSIVE.

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413 Albert Street, Waterloo

Wed July 17th 4 pm Ammco #4100 Disc & Drum Brake Lathe Ammco #4500 Alignment Machine 2 – Ammco 6Ton 4-post Car Hoists & 2 – Axle Lifts 2-Ammco 9,000 Lbs 2 post Car Hoists Brake Washer * 71/2 hp (1ph) Air Compressor

Pearson #MC59 Hydraulic Tube/Pipe Bender Spring Compressor * Engine Hoist * 3 High Jack Stands Snap-On SOLUS Scanner * 2 – Lincoln Mig Welders (1ph) A/C Machine, Sniffers & Detectors * Battery Charger Chop Saw * 2-Sawzalls * Bench Grinder Work Bench * Headlight Aimer Kit * Arb Press * 2 Torches Dexion Shelving & Mezzanine * High Oil Catcher* Bench Grinder * Redi-I-Rack Quantity of Mufflers, Pipes, & Hardware * Office Equip Check Website for pictures - www.mrjutzi.ca

PARTIAL LIST ONLY!!!

No Buyer’s Premium!

VIEWING: Wed. July 17th, 2013, 2:00 pm to Sale Time TERMS: $500.00 Cash Deposit on Major Units, Balance by noon July 18th,

by Cash, Interac or Bank Draft or as announced.

M.R. Jutzi & Co

PROFESSIONALS IN THE ORDERLY LIQUIDATION AND APPRAISALS OF COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRIAL, CONSTRUCTION, MUNICIPAL EQUIPMENT & VEHICLES 5100 FOUNTAIN ST. NORTH, BRESLAU, ONTARIO, N0B 1M0

www.mrjutzi.ca

519-648-2111

1/2 ACRE PROPERTY IN TOWN! $359,900. Gorgeous landscaping and

ground pool! Bungalow style home with living room, kitchen, dinette with walkout, sunroom, and newly finished basement w/woodstove!

Many inclusions. Call to view. MLS

country feel backyard. Raised bungalow at the edge of town that you won’t want to miss. Spacious lower level family room w/gas fp & games room Call to view! MLS

RESTORED CENTURY HOME $399,900. The home offers a blend of modern

CHARMING BUNGALOW $344,900. In nice Elmira neighbourhood! Beautiful

BUNGALOW | $346,000. Stunning cherry kitchen (cream stain), large island & bonus cabinetry, livingrm has gas fireplace, hardwood & walkout, main floor master offers ensuite, main floor laundry. EXCLUSIVE.

FAMILY RETREAT | BRUCE PENINSULA 2000 Ft waterfront on quiet Gilles Lake about 1 hr north of Wiarton. Set on 25 acres of bush, this property boasts 2 cottages and 2 bunkies, SAND BEACH, panoramic views out 3 sides, amazing sunsets, quality fishing, star filled night skies, campfire outings. This property has only been owned by 2 families since 1917. Make your own memories. Call Dale.

MLS 1327059

HORSE LOVERS WILL ADORE $464,900. This 4.5 acre hobby farm with an in

and Wednesdays | 5-7pm

$215,000. Lots of value in this bungalow on edge of town. Detached

$525,000. This purpose built 8 plex boasts a $37,000 net profit. Do the math. Most of the baths have been redone, some kitchens and windows have been replaced. Has a good rental history. Appliances and coin laundry included. Separate hydro meters installed 6 years ago. Roof 2 yrs old. Worth a look. Call Dale. MLS 1321715

street! Many features including dbl heated garage, large porch, hardwood & ceramic floors, finished rec room, beautiful backyard with pond. Many updates complete. MLS

OPEN HOUSE | Saturdays 12-2pm

GOOD STARTER | DRAYTON

QUALITY INVESTMENT | MILVERTON

MATURE STREET IN ELMIRA! $447,000. Lovely 2-storey on a sought after

0.44 ACRE PROPERTY $434,900. Spacious 2318 sq.ft. bungalow only 15 minutes from Elmira! 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, detached heated garage/shop backing onto picturesque farmer’s field. Impressive basement that you MUST see. NEW MLS

HELP WANTED FULL TIME CASHIER We are currently looking for a full time cashier to join our friendly, customer focused team. Your abilities would include: previous retail experience; an ability to communicate well; you are a team player and are friendly with a helpful mature attitude; you learn quickly, follow direction and have previous computer skills: you are reliable, hard working and able to work weekdays, evenings and weekends You may apply through our website www.elmirahomehardware.ca , or directly to Elmira Home Hardware, 22 Church St., Elmira, attention to Louise Bexton, Store Manager.

finishes and characteristics of a century home.

Soaring 10’ ceilings on the main and upper levels.

Finished basement and an unfinished attic; large detached garage/workshop; 2 stained glass windows, pocket doors to family room; MLS

patio, mature trees, and attractive hedge surrounding property! Open concept living and dining room, lovely kitchen, 3 bdrms, 2 bths, finished basement, and many updates completed! Call to view. MLS

Call for your FREE Market Evaluation.

COMING EVENTS

PUBLIC NOTICE

KIDS CAMP IN Conestogo, TBall July 15 19, Science Aug 12 16, Dance July 20 - Aug 1, Sports Week Aug 26 30. Call 226-7506265.

GARAGE SALES ESTATE SALE - Sat. July 13, 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.

5976 Line 86, 10 miles east of Elmira.

Antique dining chairs, fainting couch, kitchen table & chairs, desk, chrome chairs, fridge and other items.

GARAGE SALE - Sat. July 13, 2013, 8a.m.

- 1 p.m. 20 Centre St. Elmira. Toys, bike, dresser, lamps, antiques, nerf guns, something for everyone.

GARAGE SALE - Sat. July 13th, 7a.m. - 1 p.m. 166 First St. W. Elmira. Childrens items only; toys, little people, and more.

MOVING SALE - 14 Charles St., Elmira. Sat. July 13, 8-2. Furniture, collectibles, baby items and more.

MULTI FAMILY INDOOR & Outdoor Sale.

Thurs. July 18th noon - 8; July 19th 8-8; July 20th 8 noon. 26 Hampton St. Elmira.

Rain or shine!

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COMMITTEE OF ADJUSTMENT NOTICE OF HEARING On July 29, 2013 at 5:30 p.m. the Committee will meet to consider the following applications. All persons interested in the applications may attend and may contact Nancy Thompson regarding meeting details or visit the Township Webpage – News and Events – Current Public Notices.

The Committee will also consider submissions for or against the applications if submitted to the Township of Woolwich no later than 5:00 p.m. on July 23, 2013. Submissions can be forwarded to Jeremy Vink at the address noted at the top of this page, by email jvink@ woolwich.ca or by fax 519-669-4669.

Minor Variance Application 17/2013 – 793335 Ontario Limited (Conestoga Meat Packers), 313 Menno Street Conestoga Meat Packers is an abattoir and meat packing facility which consists of a processing plant and office area with an associated waste water treatment system. The Zoning By-law requires the abattoir, meat packing facility and all accessory uses to be contained with an identified area of operation, located on a portion of the property.

The applicant is proposing to allow a portion of a new clarifier tank and fenced area, being 7.5 m by 24.4 m (182 sq m), outside the area of operation. The works are part of a proposal to upgrade the waste water treatment system including the addition of the clarifier tank, pump house and associated fenced area. The pump house will be located within the area of operation.

The 41 ha property is zoned Agricultural with site specific provisions permitting an abattoir and meat packing facility. The property contains the existing Conestoga Meat Packers operation and accessory shed.

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LIVING HERE FUNDRAISING / A PERSONAL MOTIVATION

CHEF’S TABLE/ RYAN TERRY, FLOW CATERING

Building on courageous fight by friends’ 11-year-old daughter, Elmira couple is helping in efforts to raise money for non-profit group in support of pediatric cancer research in Memphis

In memory of a great friend and loyal diner

Cancer battle goes to next stage WILL SLOAN Ryan Christian was only 11 years old on January 24 when she died after a three-year battle with pediatric cancer. All throughout the struggle, Ryan and her parents Jeff and Dorie had worked to raise money and awareness for cancer charity, and now that the struggle is over, the Team Ryan Charitable Foundation for Pediatric Cancer Research has only begun.

In Elmira, close friends of the family Andrew and Courtney Lackner are raising money with Team Ryan for the St. Jude Memphis Marathon in December.

“Ryan is a very special girl who got taken away from us way too soon,” said Andrew Lackner. “But not only for Ryan, this is for all kids and everyone suffering from cancer. For us, if this is a little thing that we can do to help out, it’s a very touching subject.”

The Lackners and Christians first met when Andrew, a former Sugar King, and Jeff were playing professional hockey in Tulsa, Oklahoma. There, the Lackners became acquainted with Ryan before her cancer diagnosis. The families met up again a few years later when Ryan was undergoing cancer treatments in Kansas City, Missouri. Ryan had been diagnosed with stage IV pediatric adrenal cortical carcinoma, a cancer that strikes only one in three million children.

“Ryan and I had a pretty inseparable bond – she was

Elmira couple Andrew and Courtney Lackner will be running in this year’s St. Jude Memphis Marathon in memory of their young friend Ryan Christian.

[WILL SLOAN / THE OBSERVER] the highlight of my wedding,” remembered Courtney Lackner. “She was the only other person allowed to wear white to my wedding. I said, ‘If anybody is going to upstage me at my own wedding, it’s Ryan.’”

At the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Ryan received extensive surgery to remove a tumor from her adrenal gland, and was briefly declared cancer-free, but this miraculous turnaround came to an end after nine months, when the cancer returned to her lungs.

“Ryan did everything

that the doctors told her to do,” said Jeff Christian from his home in Columbus, Ohio. “She took all the medicine, took all the surgeries, and she did it with a smile. We truly believed we were going to beat this, and we had to – that’s how we dealt with it.”

During her life, Ryan worked hard to raise awareness to the disease, appearing on The Today Show and in a Dolly Parton music video as part of her work.

Through his struggles, Jeff Christian draws strength from memories of his daughter’s fortitude.

“To think about what she went through and how she went through it, it’s so inspirational to everybody who knew her. There wasn’t a lot of ‘Why me? Poor me.’ She was just like, ‘What’s next?’”

“What’s next?” for Jeff and Dorie Christian turned out to be the Team Ryan Foundation, a non-profit organization founded in Ryan’s memory to raise money for pediatric cancer research and families suffering from the disease. While the family had used the

The

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“Team Ryan” name for fundraisers throughout Ryan’s illness, it is now pending approval as an official charitable organization.

For now, the Christians and the Lackners will be raising money for St. Jude Hospital. For the third year in a row, the Lackners will travel to Memphis in December to join Team Terry for the St. Jude Charity Run for Children with Cancer, to raise money for the hospital that treated Ryan and other children suffering from cancer.

“It takes $1.7 million a day to run that hospital, and the amount of research and dedication – and the bond that Ryan had with her nurses – to see that kind of organization, there’s no way I wouldn’t spend the rest of my life fundraising for St. Jude,” said Courtney Lackner.

“The thing about hockey is, you’re travelling and you can never be with your real family. They are and forever will be our hockey family,” she added of the Christians.

For the marathon, the Lackners have set their fundraising goal at $2,500, but hope to far exceed it.

You can donate to their campaign at www.stjude. org, or by visiting www. teamryanfoundation.org.

Andrew and Courtney Lackner will also be holding a fundraiser for Team Ryan at 16 Raising Mill Gate in Elmira August 10. All are welcome, and the Christians will be travelling from Columbus to attend.

JULY Dinner Specials

Available after 4:00PM MONDAYS & WEDNESDAYS 2 Piece Liver | $8.25

TUESDAYS

Spaghetti w/Meat Sauce | $7.75

615 Davenport Rd., Waterloo | 519-886-4752 | Hours: Mon. - Sat. 7am-9pm; Sun. 8am-8pm

RECIPE NOTES It is with deep sadness that we say goodbye to our good friend Erin Howlett this week. She made frequent visits to our café and, naturally, we all got to know her quite well.

Our friendship only blossomed from there. Erin was so interested in what I was cooking in the back and often would come straight into the kitchen and make herself at home.

She was always up for trying new things and she had a real appreciation for good food.

This week we decided to share with you one of Erin’s favourite dishes, the Flow Omelette. She would always order this and end up leaving her toast crusts behind. So eventually, I just remembered to cut off her crusts – she really liked that. We also wanted to do something that represented her sweet and caring personality, so we came up with the Peach Crepe. We will miss seeing Erin at the café and do hope her family can find comfort in knowing how much of a positive impact she made on everyone she knew.

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635 Hawkesville Rd., St. Jacobs

519-664-3041

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Skilled craftsmanship. Quality materials.

CONSTRUCTION STARTS HERE.

Kleensweep Carpet Care

3435 Broadway St. Hawkesville 519-699-4641

Rugs and Upholstery

•Mattress Cleaning •Residential •Commercial •Personalized Service •Free Estimates

COMMUNITY EVENTS CALENDAR

West Montrose, ON

T. 519.669.2033

COLLEEN

JULY 12

Cell: 519.581.7868

ELMIRA LEGION PASTA DINNER & Salad; 6 p.m., 11 First St. E., downstairs.

JULY 14

Truck & Trailer Maintenance

HUNGRYMAN BREAKFAST, ELMIRA LEGION Ladies Auxiliary, 11 First St. E. Serving 8:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.; $6/ person. All you can eat!

Cardlock Fuel Management

JULY 16 BIRDS OF PREY AT 2:30 p.m. at Wellesley Branch Library. This show is recommended for children 5 and up. Tickets are $3 per person or two for $5; everyone attending the show must have a ticket.

For more information please contact the Wellesley Branch Library at 519-656-2001 or wellslib@ regionofwaterloo.ca. Tickets are limited.

COMMERCIAL 24 CARDLOCK FUEL DEPOT HOUR

JULY 17 DINOSAUR WEDNESDAYS 1-2 P.M. Take a journey back in time with us and learn about the Dinosaurs, the Ice Age and everything in between. Earth Sciences Museum, 200 University Ave. W., Waterloo. Children free.

M&G MILLWRIGHTS LTD. • Design • Installation • Custom Fabrication

6 P.M.: TWO RIDES! A shorter and a longer versionyour pick! Elmira-Hawkesville-Yatton-Floradale-39.6 km. Ride starts at Woolwich Memorial Centre (WMC) 24 Snyder St. S., Elmira. Free parking and washrooms available. All paved route through Mennonite countryside. Look for horses on the roads, in the fields or farm yards. Easy ride with light traffic. Cue sheet and map for this ride are found at:

MATERIAL HANDLING & PROCESSING SYSTEMS

519.669.5105 1540 FLORDALE ROAD P.O. BOX 247, ELMIRA

www.mgmill.com

KIN KORNER

www.freybc.com

E-MAIL: ads@woolwichobserver.com

http://ridewithgps.com/routes/1975718. For more information please contact ride organizer and leader, Patrick Gleeson at 519-669-2317 or pagleeson29@ gmail.com.

ELMIRA-HAWKESVILLE-YATTON RETURN-25 KM. RIDE starts at Woolwich Memorial Centre (WMC) at 24 Snyder St. S., Elmira. Free parking and washrooms available. All paved route through Mennonite countryside. Look for horses on the roads, in the fileds or farm yards. Easy ride with light traffic.

Cue sheet and map for this route are found at http://ridewithgps.com/routes/1975687. For more information please contact ride organizer and leader, Patrick Gleeson at 519-669-2317 or pagleeson29@ gmail.com.

GRAND RIVER AMAZING RACE - The third annual Grand River Amazing Race will take place with teams starting from West Montrose Family Campground on Saturday July 20. You can register a team and get more information by visiting grandriveramazingrace.ca.

JULY 24

JULY 25

FAMILY FUN WEEKEND – the 13th annual Family Fun Weekend takes place at West Montrose Family Campground in support of multiple local charities.

There is a Children’s Carnival and Entertainment. Free admission. More information at woolwichkin.com.

JULY 20

JULY 26

BOARD GAMES IN BRESLAU. Enjoy or interested in playing board games? Come out and meet others in your community who share a similar interest. There will be a wide variety of games to play including “euro” games, war games, strategy games and party games; 1-11 p.m., Breslau Community Centre, 100 Andover Dr., Breslau. Admission $2. Children under 16 welcome to attend and participate if accompanied by a parent who is also participating. New people are always welcome!

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CAPTAIN CORBIN THE MAGICAL Pirate at 3 p.m. This event is free for children of all ages. Space is limited so pick up your complementary ticket today! The show is sponsored the Optimist Club of St. Jacobs.

For more information please contact the St. Jacobs Branch Library at 519-664-3443 or stjaclib@ regionofwaterloo.ca.

CAPTAIN CORBIN THE MAGICAL Pirate! at 10:30 a.m.

This event is free for children of all ages. Space is limited so pick up your complimentary ticket today!

This show is sponsored by the Paradise & District Lions Club. For more information please contact the St. Clements Branch Library at 519-699-4341 or stclemlib@regionofwaterloo.ca.

JULY 19

Check Us Out Online!

H.U.G.S. PROGRAM – MEET with other parents to discuss parenting and child health issues. Topic: park day in St. Jacobs. Meet at the park on Water Street at 10 a.m. No childcare; bring your own snack. Return to Woolwich Community Health Centre in case of rain.

No registration required. Call Heidi at 519-664-3794, ext. 237 for more information.

21 INDUSTRIAL DR. ELMIRA

519-669-2884

CORPORATE WEAR PROMOTIONAL APPAREL WORK & SAFETY WEAR | BAGS T-SHIRTS | JACKETS | HATS

245 Labrador Drive | Waterloo

519.886.2102 www.UniTwin.com

SUBMIT AN EVENT The Events Calendar is reserved for Non-profit local community events that are offered free to the public. Placement is not guaranteed. Registrations, corporate events, open houses and the like do not qualify in this section.

“Serving the Community”

24-HOUR EMERGENCY SERVICE

TOTAL

NANCY KOEBEL

HOME ENERGY SYSTEMS

RESIDENTIAL & COMMERCIAL

Bus: 519.744.5433 Home: 519.747.4388

Individual life insurance, mortgage insurance, business insurance, employee benefits programs, critical illness insurance, disability coverage,

New to the Community?

Do you have a new Baby?

Hands on therapy

• Muscles, Nerves & Stress

It’s time to call your Welcome Wagon Hostess.

YOUR OIL, PROPANE, NATURAL GAS AND AIR CONDITIONING EXPERTS

RRSPs, RESPs, RRIFs, LIFs and Annuities.

Grant’s

• Family Discounts

VERMONT Castings

• Home Visits Provided

11 HENRY ST. - UNIT 9, ST. JACOBS

Suite 102, 40 Weber St. E., Kitchener

SHARON GINGRICH 519.291.6763

519.664.2008

psgingrich@hotmail.ca

Grant Brubacher, Elmira ON

cell: 519-577-3251 WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE

PLACES OF FAITH | A DIRECTORY OF LOCAL HOUSES OF WORSHIP

10:00am Worship Service

St. Teresa Catholic Church No God, No Hope; Know God, Know Hope!

Celebrate Eucharist with us Mass times are:

Sat. 5pm & Sun. 10am

22 Florapine Rd., Floradale • 519-669-2816 www.floramc.org

SANYO CANADIAN

MACHINE WORKS INCORPORATED

• Old & New Injuries

Elmira & Surrounding Area

19 Flamingo Dr., Elmira • 519-669-3387

Sunday, July 14th The Restless Soul

Zion Mennonite Fellowship -The JunctionWorship Service 10:00am Finding The Way Together 47 Arthur St., S. Elmira • 519-669-3153 www.thejunctionelmira.com

Service at 10:30am Rev. Paul Snow

33 Industrial Dr., Elmira 519.669.1591

NURSERY PROVIDED

SUNDAY SCHOOL

HEARING ASSISTED

building relationships with God, one another and the world

SUNDAYS - 9:00 & 11:00AM WEDNESDAYS - 7:00PM 850 Sawmill Rd, Bloomingdale, ON N0B 1K0 (519) 744-7447 | kcf@kcf.org | www.kcf.org

REACH WITH LOVE. TEACH THE TRUTH. SEND IN POWER. 290 Arthur St. South, Elmira • 519-669-3973 www.ElmiraAssembly.com (Across from Tim Horton’s)

www.kcf.org/academy

Sun., July 14, 11am

Is Your Neck Stiff?

Matt Robinson

FIND ANSWERS TO LIFE’S GREAT QUESTIONS.

Sunday, July 14th, 2013 10:00 AM

Summer Psalms “One”

SUNDAYS @ 10:30AM Services at Park Manor School 18 Mockingbird Dr., Elmira • 519-669-1459 www.elmiracommunity.org

Speaker: Randy Baker 200 Barnswallow Dr., Elmira • 519-669-1296 www.woodsidechurch.ca

Discovering God Together

4522 Herrgott Rd., Wallenstein • 519-669-2319 www.wbconline.ca

St. Paul’s Lutheran Worship Service 10am Pastor: Richard A. Frey Church Sharing the Message of Christ and His Love 27 Mill St., Elmira • 519-669-2593 www.stpaulselmira.ca

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

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A. Forget sprinting, weight-

lifting, gymnastics and jumping, since â&#x20AC;&#x153;pound for pound, a chimp is about four times as strong as a human. Our jumping and gymnastic abilities are similarly weak, and we are sluggish sprinters,â&#x20AC;? says Graham Lawton in â&#x20AC;&#x153;New Scientistâ&#x20AC;? magazine. But there are two areas where humans could contest for gold: long-distance run-

ning and throwing. At marathons, a well-conditioned athlete can do 20 kilometres per hour (12 mph) for several hours, comparable to a wild dog, zebra, antelope or wildebeest.  â&#x20AC;&#x153;This talent of ours depends on special adaptations of the feet, legs, hips, spine, even the rib cage. We are specialized for long-distance running, perhaps as an early adaptation for hunting or scavenging.â&#x20AC;?     And while marathon glory is possible, the javelin gold is a certainty. Other primates can fling objects with force but only humans have the shoulders and wrists to launch a spear or rock with power and precision. Evolutionary biologist Paul Bingham has argued that our accurate overarm throw was the key factor in human

evolution, allowing us to hunt for all-important protein, which in turn helped drive critical brain adaptations for fine-motor control, technology, language. Cooperation among humans led us toward civilization.

Concludes Lawton: â&#x20AC;&#x153;So, give your amazing physique the credit it deserves. Human achievement is not the product of brains alone.â&#x20AC;?

Q. This is not a trick question, but how fast does a 90-mile-per-hour (mph) fastball actually travel?Â

A. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pressure dragâ&#x20AC;? slows the

flight of almost any ball moving faster than a snailâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pace, says Louis A. Bloomfield in â&#x20AC;&#x153;How Things Work: The Physics of Everyday Life.â&#x20AC;? As a result, baseball pitches slow significantly during their flight to home plate, and

THE CHALLENGE

CREPES: Something in memory of a friend FROM | 24

Assembly of omelette:

The Flow Omelette

1 tbsp canola oil 2 oz grated Swiss cheese 1/2 cup roasted mushrooms

2 tbsp canola oil 1 tbsp butter 2 cups sliced of any kind of mushroom 2 tsb garlic, chopped 2 sprigs of fresh thyme, chopped Salt and pepper

Place a large pan on high heat, add oil and the mushrooms, sautĂŠ until golden brown; Add garlic and butter, then season with salt and pepper; Fold in chopped thyme and set aside.

Omelette: 2 local eggs 2 tsp heavy cream Salt and pepper

Beat eggs and cream, season with salt and pepper and set aside.

A. Roughly 60,000 words is

likely your vocabulary in your native tongue, though about half of what you say uses only the most common 150 words of all those you know, says David G. Myers in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Exploring Psychology:Â Ninth Edition.â&#x20AC;?

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 60,000 words over 17 years, or 3,500 per year; now dividing 3,500 words by 365 days in a year yields about 10 words you learned every day. â&#x20AC;&#x153;How you did it -- how those 3,500 words could so far outnumber the roughly 200 words your schoolteach-

On medium to low heat, place a small non-stick pan; add oil, let heat for 1 minute; add egg/cream mixture.

Peach Crepes 1 cup milk 4 eggs 2 cups sifted all-purpose flour 1 tbsp sugar 2 tbsp butter, melted 1 tsp vanilla extract

Peach filling: 2 tsp butter 6 fresh peaches, sliced 2oz peach schnapps 1/2 cup water 1/2 cup sugar 1/2 tsp cinnamon

In a large bowl whisk together milk, eggs, flour, sugar, butter and vanilla; Cover and refrigerate for 1 hour; Meanwhile, in a large

saucepan, heat peaches with butter cooking on medium heat for 3 minutes, then add sugar and schnapps: be careful, the schnapps might catch fire; Sprinkle with cinnamon, then place the peaches into a container. Cover and refrigerate; Heat a lightly greased 10inch non-stick skillet over medium heat; pour about 2 tablespoons of batter into the center of skillet. Lift and tilt pan to coat bottom evenly. Cook until top appears dry; turn and cook 15-20 seconds longer; Remove to a wire rack.

Repeat with remaining batter, greasing skillet as needed; When cool, stack crepes onto paper towels, with one between each crepe; Spoon filling over crepes; roll up; top with whipped cream and nutmeg if desired.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS Chef Ryan Terry owns FLOW Cafe & Catering in Elmira. More information can be found at his website www.flowcatering.ca

ers consciously taught you each year -- is one of the great human wonders,â&#x20AC;? Myers marvels.

This astonishing human facility for words also extends to our effortlessly assembling them with near-perfect syntax and spewing them out three words a second in sentences we organize on the fly as we speak -- all the while adapting our utterances to our social and cultural context. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Given how many ways there are to mess up, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s amazing that we can master this social dance.â&#x20AC;?Â

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

ACROSS 1. Defeatistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s word 7. Large two-handed saw 13. Not just â&#x20AC;&#x153;aâ&#x20AC;?

16. Iroquoian language 17. Green 18. Battering device 19. Largest tuna 21. Priestly garb 22. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Kingâ&#x20AC;?

23. Adjudge 24. Used for seasoning 26. Meaning literally â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;bornâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 27. Blue 29. Elmer, to Bugs 31. Drunk, in slang 32. A family of Afroasiatic tonal languages 35. Having the character of loam 37. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is fun!â&#x20AC;?

39. One who has left school 44. Charged, in a way 46. Formal wear, informally 47. A Nightmare on ___ St. 48. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Aladdinâ&#x20AC;? prince 49. Kama ___ 50. Beauty 52. Heirloom location

54. â&#x20AC;&#x153;... ___ he drove out of sightâ&#x20AC;?

55. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no ___!â&#x20AC;?

58. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Absolutely!â&#x20AC;?

60. Hackneyed 61. Speech or thought in its original form 65. Decorated, as a cake 66. Approval 67. Kind of center 69. A New Zealand parrot 72. Addis Ababaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s land: Abbr.

74. An end to sex?

75. â&#x20AC;&#x153;ERâ&#x20AC;? network 78. Boredom 79. Course 81. Harness racer 83. ___ lab 84. Disinfect with an antiseptic 88. Statehouse V.I.P. 89. Just out 90. Narrow ridge found in rugged mountains 91. #13 92. Put away 93. The chief source of beryllium DOWN 1. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Suzanneâ&#x20AC;? songwriter

HOW TO PLAY: Fill in the grid

Mushrooms:

ceed this value,â&#x20AC;? Bloomfield adds.

Q. How many words would you guess you learned between your first birthday and your highschool graduation?

OBSERVER CROSSWORD PUZZLER

SUDOKU

so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the numbers 1 through 9 only once.

Each 3x3 box is outlined with a darker line. We have got you started with a few numbers already placed in the boxes.

the faster theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re thrown, the more speed they lose. So a 90-mph fastball moves at 90 mph only early in its flight, then loses about 8 mph along the way (a 70-mph curveball loses about 6 mph), giving it an average speed more like 86 mph.

A batted ball fares slightly better proportionally, or hitting a home run might become impossible. Still, the drag on horizontal velocity is so great that a long fly ball tends to drop almost straight down into the outfielderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s glove. Drag also limits the downward speed of a falling ball to about 100 mph -called â&#x20AC;&#x153;terminal velocity.â&#x20AC;?  â&#x20AC;&#x153;Even dropped from a plane, its velocity wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ex-

2. Lizards, ability to change skin colour 3. Provides information and control 4. Not yet final, at law 5. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Potemkinâ&#x20AC;? setting 6. Cap 7. Brownish purple 8. Signed 9. Vibrating effect 10. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dearâ&#x20AC;? one 11. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tarzanâ&#x20AC;? extra 12. Mat placed outside an exterior door 13. Bring up the rear 14. Bisect 15. Put in 20. Hound 25. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hey!â&#x20AC;?

28. Infomercials, e.g.

30. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Unforgettableâ&#x20AC;? singer 33. Prince of Wales, e.g.

34. To drink very fast 36. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Is that ___?â&#x20AC;?

37. Past participle of wise.

38. Voluptuously beautiful young woman 40. Daisy variety

41. Capital of State of Vatican City 42. A-list 43. Like some potatoes 45. Caucasoid race 51. Convene 53. Barberâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s job 56. Chester Whiteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s home 57. â&#x20AC;&#x153;___ quam videriâ&#x20AC;? (North Carolinaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s motto) 59. Subsist on a meagre allowance 62. Biblical birthright seller 63. Slightly intoxicated 64. Consumes 68. Strike caller 69. A small anchor 70. Bother 71. Jack 73. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Siddharthaâ&#x20AC;? author 76. A sloping edge on a cutting tool 77. Salad green 80. Abbr. after many a generalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name 82. Maple genus 85. After expenses 86. Quip, part 3 87. Bar bill

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