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Wellesley backs call for environmental rights to be included in Constitution

Police make arrest in dumping of toxins in Conestogo

SCOTT BARBER Wellesley council is on board with David Suzuki’s “Blue Dot” movement, which aims to enshrine environmental rights in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Councilors meeting Tuesday evening in Crosshill voted in favour of supporting a declaration on the topic put forward by the Region of Waterloo earlier this year. The declaration says, in part, that “the Regional Municipality of Waterloo and its constituent area municipalities, have for many years striven within their respective areas of jurisdiction to maintain a healthy environment for all our citizens through initiatives including, but not limited to, official plan policies and bylaws protecting agricultural land and natural areas, making efficient use of urban land and infrastructure, the provision of clean and safe drinking water, sustainable use of water and energy, air quality and climate action plans, waste reduction strategies, transit and active transportation, promoting food safety, and providing outdoor recreational opportunities.” Supporting the movement was a no-brainer for Mayor Joe Nowak. “I supported this at the region and I am certainly willing to support it here,” he said. “Coun. (Herb) Neher BLUE DOT | 4

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A 51-year-old Kitchener man charged with dumping toxic waste at a Conestogo-area sugar bush was remanded in court this week, but there could be others involved in the incident not yet in police custody, property owner Michelle Shannon and Kitchener-Conestoga MPP Michael Harris say. Waterloo Regional Police charged Donald William Hector with mischief over $5,000 on July 10, following an investigation into the case of 24 barrels containing oily water, waste grease, acid powders and polychlorinated biphenyl, surreptitiously stashed at the end of a farm lane at Michelle Shannon and John Weber’s Weeby Place property in May. Hector’s case was remanded at the Waterloo Regional Courthouse in Kitchener Monday morning, expected to be picked up again Thursday after-

noon by video link from the Maplehurst Correctional Complex in Milton. WRPS spokesperson Olaf Heinzel said the arrest was the result of “good detective work and information from the community” adding that, “The investigation is continuing and investigators have not ruled out further charges if appropriate.” But according to Shannon, police told her they know that others were involved in the incident. “My understanding is that the person that they charged is the person who did the actual dumping, he was the mover, but it was not his waste,” she said. “He was hired for that job. And so the person who generated that waste is not being charged by the police because, I guess, what he did, he didn’t break any laws. But my guess is he had to have known that it wasn’t being done legally.” TOXIC WASTE | 24

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Improvements continue as trail group takes over rail line Bridges top fundraising list of organization that’s taken on lease from province for Goderich to Guelph route SCOTT BARBER After officially taking over the lease on the entire 127-kilometre abandoned rail line stretching Goderich to Guelph from the province on July 1, the G2G Rail Trail organization is busy working towards two more goals on the path to a fully operational, continuous trail from downtown Guelph to the shores of Lake Huron. By the end of this summer, the group is planning to install way finding signage along the whole line, and before the end of next summer, they are hoping to complete stone dusting and grading for the route that includes the Kissing Bridge Trail here in Woolwich and Wellesley townships. “July 1 marked the date that we took over the lease, as far as officially taking on the unleased portions of the land between Milbank and Auburn,” G2G executive director Doug Cerson of West Montrose explained. “Up until this point, there were sections in the east and the west ends that were unleased and some smaller portions in municipalities like Blyth and Milverton, and those leases are now under G2G as kind of an

oversight group to be able to bring everything together.” The trail runs along the former Canadian Pacific Railway bed, which was abandoned and turned over to the province in 1988. Since then, numerous steward group have emerged, looking to utilize the trails for hiking, biking and recreational purposes. The Kissing Bridge Trail group for example, launched in 1998 and has maintained a 45-kilometre stretch from Guelph to Milbank with support from the Elmira and Linwood Lions Clubs, the ConestogoWinterborne Optimist Club, the Golden Triangle Snowmobile Association and the Guelph Hiking Trail Club. In the early 1990s, the G2G group was formed to try to connect the Kissing Bridge Trailway with the western portion of the rail line, including the Lake Huron Route and the Perth Harvest Trailway. But it hasn’t been an easy road. While the rail bed makes for a relatively smooth and ideal trail – the grade doesn’t exceed three degrees – there are several bridges that were destroyed, including a large passage over the Grand Riv-

er near West Montrose and another over the Conestogo River near Wallenstein that still need to be reconstructed to eliminate major detour routes. Currently, the Region of Waterloo is working on a $40,000 engineering study at the West Montrose location, with a similar study expected for the Wallenstein bridge in the near future. Those projects – G2G envisions small suspensionstyle bridges – could cost some $800,000 each, Cerson said, and the G2G continues to fundraise and look for partnerships with local service clubs and stewardship groups. Another issue recently spotlighted on local television is that of unhappy property owners, concerned about privacy and trespassing on their farms. One group in Huron County is planning to raise their concerns to their local council. Cerson says G2G is always willing to work through issues with property owners, and he urges anyone with concerns to reach out to the group. “First of all and foremost, the rail line went through

Members of Woolwich Healthy Communities enjoyed the Kissing Bridge Trailway during the G2G fundraiser “Spring on the Trail” back in May. [FILE PHOTO] their properties approximately 120 years ago and since 120 years ago, those properties have changed hands and those properties, in some cases, are severed by the rail tracks and that is a very small percentage of land,” Cerson said. “That swath of land has been a piece of private land that has been sitting vacant, if it has been unleased, since 1988, which would have been the last time that they had anything go through there. And it’s no differ-

ent, in our mind, than any other piece of property that is being purchased, you know, you have your private land and I’m moving beside you then I’m your new neighbour. And that’s the approach that we took four years ago by going to Huron and Perth Counties and asking them to make sure to be inclusive with local groups and along the way, starting four years ago, we got representation for the agricultural community landowners association

and representation from municipalities and we also formed a working group between Huron and Perth County, by ourselves and the agricultural community and the landowners and some of the municipalities and have already drafted an agreeable plan on how to operate the trailway.” He continued, “Unfortunately, since the advent of the reality of the lease going in, we have seen a handful of landowners bind together and put a message out there that is opposing the trailway. I don’t know that I can comment accurately because the group hasn’t reached out to us, they have only gone to the media and now they are going to Huron County council to tell their story. We are completely open and transparent and completely welcoming and encouraging to any landowner or any group who has concerns to forward their concerns to us.” In the meantime, the G2G group will continue installing signs, clearing overgrowth and stone dusting the trail while encouraging Southwestern Ontarians to get outdoors, walking, biking and staying active.

Local chamber echoes provincial concerns about rising electricity rates in Ontario WHITNEY NEILSON Should homeowners pay more for electricity to spare businesses facing growing costs? The Greater Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber of Commerce says yes, supported by a report released last week by the Ontario Chamber. The study suggests companies will fold and Ontario will lose out to lower-cost jurisdictions when it comes to attracting new business. It emerges as the province faces escalating electricity rates and a government plan to sell off 60 per cent of Hydro One to pay off debt and

fund a long list of transit schemes. Under worsening circumstances – rates are expected to climb another 40 per cent in the short-term – something must be done, the business organization stresses. “It’s generally reflective of the entire business community. We’re part of the Ontario business community, so I think it’s pretty well reflective of the position of the local businesses here in Waterloo Region,” said Art Sinclair, the local chamber’s VP of public policy and advocacy, of the Ontario Chamber’s report. Sinclair says the overrid-

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ing issue is the cost of electricity is too high. And as the report suggests, there’s a possibility of businesses shutting down because of the prohibitive cost of doing business because of hydro rates. As for if he’s heard of any businesses who’ll have to shut their doors if hydro rates are jacked up, not yet. But with no indication what the new rates would be, it’s hard for anyone to determine what the extra costs will add up to. “But certainly there’s a concern as there is across the province, generally about the price of electricity. It’s a fixed cost. Sure

you can do a lot of things at your organization to cut the amount of electricity that you’re using but for the most part, you pay what you’re billed. The approach to addressing this is to be more energy efficient and a lot of businesses are doing that,” Sinclair said. The Ontario Chamber’s report states 38 per cent will have to delay or cancel investment in the future because of rising electricity costs. Sinclair says the business community just wants equity, and for everyone to share equally in paying down the $284-billion plus debt Ontario has racked up. The debt retire-

ment charge, 0.7 cents per kilowatt hour of use, will be phased out next January. It was instated to help pay down the debt of the old Ontario Hydro. “It’s pretty clear what this is being done for is to generate some revenue for the province of Ontario. It’s being done to drive the revenue stream. It’s some quick cash for the provincial treasuries and of course with provincial debt and deficit levels at the levels that they are I think a lot of people can understand why the province is moving in that direction,” Sinclair said. But the funds they’ll

generate from the privatization of Hydro One are just a drop in the can when it comes to the province’s debt. It will bring in one lump sum, rather than nearly $1 billion annually to the province. And selling off a public utility is always a touchy subject. “A lot of people have always looked at it from a broader perspective. Generally in the Region of Waterloo businesses pay about twice what the residential sector does in terms of property taxes. From that perspective, businesses generally feel HYDRO | 4

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Earl Fries show likely to pack ‘em in at Gore Park for Sunday’s summer concert WHITNEY NEILSON Grab your lawn chair and free up your Sunday night because Earl Fries and the Chaparrals are coming to Elmira for this weekend’s free concert in Gore Park. A local country music favourite, Fries is best known for playing guitar on the Silver Bar Ranch show with the Silver Bar Ranch Boys, before founding The Chaparrals. Fries will be accompanied by a full band, including his son Greg. His granddaughter and her husband will

also perform. “They’re going to hear some good old country music, that’s about what they’re going to hear, and a couple of my original songs,” Fries said. He spent 14 years on the road performing for a living, before returning home to Kitchener. He’s also performed in Maryhill recently and the Waterloo Rod and Gun Club on the odd Saturday afternoon, with tunes like The Snakes Crawl at Night, and Hank Williams material. Fries also received the

Pioneer Award this June from CKNX and the Barn Dance Historical Foundation. “The CKNX has been around for a long, long time. They used to have a TV show and I appeared on there a couple of times. They travel around and do shows periodically and they’re the ones that gave me the award,” Fries said. Past recipients include Paul Weber, Gordie Tapp, and a long list of others since 1997. As a self-taught musician, Fries says he got into music

because he enjoyed it, but didn’t start entertaining until he was 19. He learned the guitar when he was 18, in order to accompany himself. When asked why he was given the award, he’s quick to reply. “Because I’ve been around so long,” Fries laughs. “I’ll be 80 next month, so that’s the reason. I was overseas, Japan, Thailand, the Philippines. We played for the United States armed forces. We did that three years in a row. I had the group called the Chap-

arrales at that time.” They also played at the Calgary Stampede for nine consecutive years – a highlight for Fries. They’d play at the Calgary Inn and do radio shows during the day. He originally planned to play for the summer concert series in Gore Park last year, but was rained out. “They asked if whether I’d consider a later date in September because they’re normally done by that time. We had it another date and that worked out pretty good,” Fries said. He says people who come

to the concert this Sunday will recognize songs like Don’t Chase Each Other Around The Room Tonight. And while his touring days are behind him, he plans to continue singing his country tunes around Waterloo Region for years to come. “I’m going to keep going as long as I can, as long as my voice hangs out,” Fries said. Earl Fries and the Chaparrals will play Gore Park on July 19 from 7-9 p.m. and you’re asked to bring your own lawn chairs.

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raises the possibility that this could open some legal challenges, but to me, that would only be an indication that it is working properly, because if somebody is taking advantage of our clean water or our safe food in any which way, they should be challenged. So to me, this is an obvious decision.” Ward 3 Coun. Peter van der Maas agreed. “We don’t have the right to clean air or the right to clean water, at the moment we really don’t have

these rights assured to us,” he said, noting how little private companies pay for access to massive amounts of water, as an example of what these rights could address in the future. “(There is a) tremendous amount of water that has been taken out of the aquifer, even in this region, to be used by private concerns. They are taking the water that we have a right to drink and turning it into a profit through plastic water bottles and there are incredible amounts of water being wasted that way. That’s our

water and our rights to that water have been absconded (with).” Neher abstained from the vote after raising concerns about the potential citizens could use the declaration as the basis for litigation against the township. “My concerns are with the long-term implications of this, because everybody is concerned about health and all of these things and we have organizations out there that are concerned about health and the environment and the air and I’m not too sure what I’m

declaring here; that it’s a part of human rights? When you get into that, my concern is that somewhere down the road we are going to open up a Pandora’s box of legal actions coming down the pipe.” Ward 4 Coun. Carl Smit voted in favour, while Ward 1 Coun. Shelley Wagner was not present. Local representatives of the Blue Dot movement are visiting municipal councils across the country, looking to build a consensus that environmental rights, like the right to free air and

clean drinking water, need to be added to the charter. Jim Marston spoke to council on behalf of the organization. “There are 149 nations across the world that currently recognize their citizens’ right to live in a healthy environment,” he said. “In over 80 per cent of those countries, having entrenched those rights at a national level has led to stronger environmental laws and improved protections for the environment. Canada isn’t one of those nations and that really is

the goal of the Blue Dot movement, to protect Canadians’ environmental rights at the national level, ultimately through the Charter of Rights and Freedoms that is a part of our Constitution.” The name “blue dot” comes from the way the Earth looks to astronauts in space. Wellesley is the first township in the region to officially support the cause, joining Waterloo and Kitchener as well as the Region of Waterloo as proponents of the movement.

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Housing projects officially opened Four developments, split between Wellesley and Woolwich townships, were among the seven affordable housing projects in Waterloo Region whose official openings were celebrated this week in a ceremony involving the federal and provincial governments. There were two MennoHomes projects – David Street, in Wellesley received $240,000 for two units for low-income families, Elmira 2 received $360,000 for three units for low-

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Kudos for St. Mary’s hospital St. Mary’s General Hospital has been

awarded accreditation with commendation by Accreditation Canada, which recognizes the hospital has gone beyond the agency’s requirements and is to be commended for its commitment to quality improvement. During a four-day on-site survey at St. Mary’s in June, Accreditation Canada surveyors evaluated 1,877 criteria, 200 more than the last survey in 2011. St. Mary’s met 1,863 of the criteria and surveyors described St. Mary’s score of 99.4 per cent as “exceptional,” the hospital reports. Accreditation is an ongoing process over a three- or four-year cycle that helps healthcare organizations review

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7:30 PM | Two scooters taken from the library on Henry Street in Wellesley were located at a location on Nafziger Road prior to police arrival. All property was recovered and returned to the owners.

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Hot weather poses danger to dogs left in vehicles While summer has just began, police have responded to several reports of dogs being left inside vehicles on warm days, prompting them to issue a reminder to residents of the dangers of doing so. The temperature in a parked car, even in the shade with the windows partly open, can rapidly reach a level that will seriously harm or even kill your pet. With only hot air to breathe, a dog’s normal cooling process – panting – doesn’t work. A dog can withstand internal body temperatures of 40 degrees Celsius for only a few minutes before heatstroke, brain damage or even death occurs. The older or more vulnerable the animal, the more susceptible they are. It is against the law to leave a pet unattended in a parked vehicle in a manner that endangers the health or safety of the animal and the owner may face criminal charges.

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7:48 AM | A 42-year-old Elmira man was charged with ‘failing to stop for a red light’ after his Nissan was t-boned by a Ford in the intersection of Whippoorwill Drive and Arthur Street in Elmira. Total damage was estimated at $10,000.

10:31 AM | Police are investigating an incident in which stones were thrown at cars parked at a dealership on Sawmill Road in Bloomingdale. Four windshields were damaged at a total cost of $1,200. 3:24 PM | A 44-year-old Listowel man was charged with ‘careless driving’ after a collision on Line 86 in Woolwich Township. 5:21 PM | A 2008 Toyota suffered damage to the front grill and radiator after striking a raccoon on Crowsfoot Road at Beitz Road in Woolwich Township. Damage was pegged at about $3,000. J U LY 8

1:00 PM | A Floradale Road, Elmira industrial site was broken into overnight, with suspects unknown making off with some $1,000 in copper wire. 1:59 PM | A licence plate was stolen from a vehicle parked at a residence on Flamingo Drive in Elmira. 2:07 PM | A rock flew off a passing dump truck and struck the roof of a pickup truck as it travelled on Sawmill Road in Woolwich Township. The amount of damage is still unknown. 7:50 PM | A 71-year-old Grand Valley man driving a Chevrolet van was charged with turning left in front of an approaching Chevrolet Cavalier and causing a collision at Arthur Street and Florapine Road north of Elmira. Total damage was estimated at $3,000.

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7:37 AM | Following a rear-end collision at Fountain and Victoria streets in Breslau, a 29-year-old Kitchener man was charged with ‘careless driving.’ 11:31 AM | A collision occurred at the roundabout near St. Jacobs when a 75-year-old Rosslyn man driving a 2002 Chevrolet attempted to make a U-turn from the shoulder of the road and was struck by a 2010 Toyota driven by a 75-year-old Wallenstein man. The Rosslyn man was charged with ‘failing to yield to traffic on a through highway.’ Damage to the two vehicles was estimated at $2,500. 2:29 PM | A vehicle backing out of a parking space on Welwood Avenue in Wellesley struck a passing vehicle. J U LY 1 0

5:30 PM | Police received a call of a pickup truck and trailer all over the road and into oncoming lanes and hitting the shoulder while coming south from Wellesley. Officers located the vehicle in St. Agatha and the 42-year-old male driver from Guelph was charged with two counts of driving suspended and not having annual inspections on the truck and trailer. Alcohol was not a factor.

2:24 AM | Wellington County OPP were conducting RIDE spot checks on Highway 7 at the Woolwich-Guelph-Eramosa Townline when a 2010 Subaru that entered the checkpoint while driving erratically. Officers detected the odour of alcohol on his breath and believed that his ability to operate a motor vehicle maybe impaired by the consumption of alcohol. The driver failed the standard field sobriety tests at the scene. The driver was transported to a local OPP operation centre for further testing. the 21-year-old Guelph man was subsequently charged with ‘impaired driving’ and ‘over 80 mgs.’ His licence was suspended for 90 days and the vehicle impounded for a period of seven days. He is scheduled to appear in Guelph Criminal Court on July 31 to answer the charges. 9:44 AM | A house on Maplelawn Drive in St. Jacobs was egged. The youth involved was subsequently identified and the parents of the offender worked things out with the homeowner. 10:27 AM | A licence plate was stolen from a boat trailer parked at a Woolwich Street, Breslau address. The complainant wasn’t sure at what point the theft occurred. J U LY 1 2

7:25 PM | Police received a report of damage related to three parked cars struck by a moving vehicle in a farm field on private property on Kraft Drive in Woolwich Township.

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No conspiracy, but expense woes must be addressed REMOVED FROM HER JOB as Woolwich mayor, Sandy Shantz is likely to be reinstated by a judge, as was the case with Ward 2 councillor Mark Bauman. As with Bauman, Shantz lost her seat due to the expense filing provisions of the Municipal Elections Act. Fellow councillor Scott Hahn is currently undergoing an audit for his statement of expenses related to last fall’s election. In each case, blame lies squarely on the candidate’s shoulders. That said, there does not appear to be malfeasance in any instance, nor gain. And the outcome of the election was not influenced in any way by the subsequent failure to file proper paperwork. The removal of Shantz and Bauman was automatic – the provincial act is black-and-white on that front. Whether that’s appropriate will be determined by the current review of the regulations, but those are the current rules. As noted, there’s very much a tendency to shoot the messenger, especially as it was the same rather ill-regarded messenger that identified problems with the paperwork for both Bauman (rule changes for candidates acclaimed to council) and Shantz (accounting for monies in the wrong place, leading to a lack of audited statement). There’s no love lost between complainant Alan Marshall and either Shantz or Bauman, but he was correct in noting the violations of the rules, whatever motivation he may have. Marshall continues to press the point, seeing wrongdoing and conspiracies in Bauman’s quick reinstatement and the decision by the Municipal Elections Compliance Audit Committee (MECAC) to forego an audit of Shantz’s elections expenses. He’s calling for Woolwich to get involved with legal action of its own when clearly there’s no place for the township in the Shantz case. Hers was a violation of provincial rules, with recourse to the courts. Now a private citizen, Shantz will petition for reinstatement. A judge will decide. If, as expected, she’s returned to office, then council business goes on. If not, then the township will have to act to fill the vacancy. Where Woolwich does need to act, however, is in ensuring that there’s not a repeat of the embarrassing spectacle of half of council caught up in paperwork snafus. Hahn’s filing was clearly inadequate – it ought to have been flagged. Bauman didn’t file an expense report because he had never done so when acclaimed to his seat, but the rule changes weren’t caught by either staff or the candidate – that’s clearly a staff failure, too. Shantz’s filing failed on technical grounds that may not have been caught by the same cursory examination that might have helped in Hahn’s case, but staff was unclear on the situation. In each case, the township ran to its lawyers, with bills running into the tens of thousands of dollars that might have been avoided. For that, council must see changes put in place to avoid a repeat. And while the issues with the three council members are fairly minor technicalities compared to the type of abuses and outright fraud that are commonplace with politicians, that’s no reason to scoff at the legitimate concerns about the process. The rules are ostensibly in place to ensure accountability, an open system whereby finances are laid out and we have an idea to whom politicians might be beholden for monetary support. If the province is reviewing the act, eliminating some technical annoyances is fine, but there should be tighter rules to ensure fairness and transparency. Better still if donations were completely removed from the equation, but there we’re straying into fantasyland.

No matter how often politicians try to change the channel, the truth will always come out, from miscues to outright malfeasance. WORLD VIEW / GWYNNE DYER

For Serbs, like others, it’s the hardest word to say WORLD AFFAIRS It’s hard to say sorry, but it’s even harder to say you’re sorry for a genocide. The word just sticks in the throats of those who should be saying it, as the Turks have been demonstrating for the past hundred years in the case of the Armenians of eastern Anatolia. And the Serbs have just shown themselves to be just as tonguetied in the case of the Bosnian Muslims slaughtered at Srebrenica. Last Saturday was the 20th anniversary of the murder of between 7,000 and 8,000 people when Srebrenica was taken by Bosnian Serb forces in 1995. The town’s population was swollen by refugees who had fled there to escape the “ethnic cleansing” that was being carried out against Muslims elsewhere in eastern Bosnia, because it was a United Nations-designated “safe area” defended by NATO troops. Or rather, not defended.

When the Bosnian Serbs, having surrounded Srebrenica for three years, finally moved to take it in July 1995, the UN and NATO commanders refused to use air strikes to stop them. And the Dutch troops who were there to protect the town decided they’d rather live and let unarmed civilians die. So all the Bosnian Muslim men and boys between the ages of 14 and 70 were loaded onto buses – the Dutch soldiers helped to separate them from the women and children – and driven up the road a few kilometres. Then they were shot by Serbian killing squads, and buried by bulldozers. It took four days to murder them all. The crime has been formally declared a genocide by the UN war crimes tribunal for former Yugoslavia. Both the Bosnian Serb president of the time, Radovan Karadzic, and the Serban military commander at Srebrenica, General Ratko Mladic, are awaiting verdicts in trials for directing genocide. You would think that even the Serbs cannot deny that it was a genocide, but you would be

wrong. There are certainly some Serbs, like journalist Dusan Masic, who are willing to call it what it is. His idea was to have 7,000 volunteers lie on the ground before the National Assembly in Belgrade on Saturday, symbolizing the approximate number of Muslim victims at Srebrenica. “On July 11, while the eyes of the whole world are on the killing fields near Srebrenica,” he said, “we want to send a different picture from Belgrade.” “This will not be a story about the current regime, which has failed to define itself in relation to the crime that happened 20 years ago,” he continued, “or about a place where you can still buy souvenirs with images of Karadzic and Mladic. It will be a story about ... a better Serbia.” But the better Serbia has not actually arrived yet. Serbia’s interior minister, Nebojsa Stefanovic, didn’t like the picture Masic wanted to send. When right-wing groups threatened to disrupt the demonstration, Stefanovic banned it in order to guarantee “peace and security in the

whole of Serbia.” And the Serbian government had already asked Russia to veto a UN Security Council resolution describing the Srebrenica massacre as a “genocide.” Russia was happy to oblige, and vetoed it on July 8. Maybe Moscow was just sucking up to the Serbs, whom it would like to steer away from their current ambition to join the European Union – but maybe President Vladimir Putin was also thinking that he didn’t want any precedent for some future attempt to describe what he did during the second Chechen war in 1999-2002 as a genocide. Words matter. Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandr Vucic, who seems to have changed his mind about Srebrenica since his early days in Serbian politics, still cannot bring himself to use the word “genocide” when he talks about it. Back in 1995, Vucic was a radical nationalist who declared in the Serbian National Assembly, only a few days after the Srebrenica massacre, that “If you kill DYER | 8

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Nazi hyperbole aside, there’s a message here about the perils of corporatism EDITOR'S NOTES Germany’s involvement in the Greek tragedy that came to a head this week practically invited comments about fascism – Godwin’s law notwithstanding. Germany, specifically Chancellor Angela Merkel and finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble, were seen as the hardliners advocating punishing austerity measures to keep Greece in the eurozone. While the deal perhaps staved off a collapse of the Greek banking system, it was a bitter pill for the people of the country being visited by the ghosts of poor governance past. Besides, entitlements are hard to give up. The crisis is typically framed either as the Greeks finally having to pay the piper after years of profligacy, or as an attempt by technocrats to sacrifice the people to the banks and the overarching corporatist state. In reality, it’s a little from column A, and a bunch more from column B.

There are plenty of examples – retiring at 50 on a 90 per cent pension, widespread tax evasion – to show the Greeks are the authors of their own misfortune. Why, critics ask, should the thrifty Europeans pay for the spendthrifts in Greece to continue on an unsustainable course? Fair enough. But the larger question is one of predatory lending – common practice for the financial services industry, the 2008 meltdown being a revelation, but changing nothing – and the sacrificing of human and humane systems to money and the police states it engenders now. It’s corporatism that has eroded the middle class, subverted democracy, fostered inequality, stolen billions of dollars and led to an unproductive economy where money and power is increasingly held by a small minority. In that context, echoes of Nazism and fascism, though spoken in anger and frustration, make perfect sense. “Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.”

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border and elsewhere, but that’s nothing the current government can take credit for. We’ve been sheltered partly because of our resources and, more to the point in a discussion of the economic crisis, by the fact previous governments refused to go along with the kind of deregulation we see in the States. We weren’t immune to the meltdown in 2008. Despite what the federal government claims, we did have a bank bailout of our own. The federal Conservatives used the public’s money through the Canadian Mortgage Housing Corporation to bail out Canada’s big banks by buying $70 billion of home mortgages from the banks, and also used the Bank of Canada and other subsidy programs to help the banks, for a total of almost $200 billion in subsidies in 2009 – yet they did not require anything from the banks in return. In looking at the anticorporatism backlash that’s developed, organizations such as Democracy Watch see the fruits of years of deregulation and lack of government oversight. Incredibly, the group

maintains, the laws and enforcement of parking a car illegally are stronger than most corporate responsibility and bank accountability laws and enforcement systems in Canada, and in some cases the penalties for parking illegally are higher than for corporate executives who act dishonestly, unethically, secretively, irresponsibly or wastefully. Those who argue that regulation only hinders capitalism – often the same people who wrongly equate capitalism with democracy – miss the point of a so-called free market. The idea of a freemarket economy is to let the market decide what will be made and in what quantity, rather than the central planning of the communist system, for instance. It doesn’t, however, mean free from regulation. How many people would argue that business should be “free” to use slaves or child labour? That was once the case in the West, but has been regulated out of the mix. Once we’ve established that the market is an artificial construct that we’ve devised, we’re free to shape it in such a way that it

provides only benefits to society, not harms. The deregulation that fuelled the corporatism of the last few decades – think of the rise of globalization, monopolies and oligarchies and the resultant decline in our quality of life – followed a postwar boom that was shaped by a market system that was devised with the broad public in mind. It wasn’t perfect by any means, but far more equitable than is the case today. Deregulation killed that. New regulations controlling the excesses of the financial sector are needed to put us back on track. The same goes for removing corporate influence in the political system. In Greece, they voted for a new government earlier this year after years of austerity measures led only to woes, with contraction of the economy and unemployment topping 25 per cent. With this week’s bailout, the Greeks are going to be subjected to more of the same, the outcome likely painful. But that’s the new normal, as other countries in the West are discovering. We’re no exception if the corporatism continues.

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Not the words of the Occupy Wall Street movement, which aims to counter undue corporate influence in politics, but of one Benito Mussolini, written in 1935’s The Doctrine of Fascism. He’s someone who knew a thing or two about fascism – as veterans of the Second World War could tell you. The burgeoning middle class, equitable society and philosophy of the common good that developed in the postwar years were a testament to the values of those who came through war, financial excess, Depression and another great war: they were eager to do away with the scourges of the past and to create a better society for themselves and, more pressingly for their children. The next three decades saw that happen. The last three have seen that steadily eroded by the rise of corporatism, including its wholesale purchase of the political system, particularly in the U.S., an undemocratic trend that is being reflected here by Harper government policies. Sure, Canada has been spared some of the economic impacts seen south of the

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“We should begin to worry that Toronto’s elite is now talking about a possible bid for the Olympics. If the idea of a bid gets off the ground, we need some new rules. First of all, participating countries should share some of the costs. When fundraising begins, hotels, restaurants, and special event locations, etc. should be expected to contribute financially. After all, they’re raking in billions while we pay a lot of the costs.”

They came to honour the memory of one of Elmira’s own, leaving more than $125,000 behind to help fund a new recreation complex. Hundreds of people – celebrities, golfers and volunteers – made the most of the hot and humid day that greeted the first annual Dan Snyder Memorial Golf Tournament held Tuesday (July 13) at the Elmira Golf Club. The lineup included two members (Paul Langlois and Gord Sinclair) of Canadian rock legends The Tragically Hip.

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one Serb, we will kill 100 Muslims.” By 2010, however, he was saying that a “horrible crime was committed in Srebrenica.” Vucic even travelled to Srebrenica on Saturday to take part in the commemoration of the events of 20 years ago, a brave gesture for a Serbian prime minister who must contend with an electorate most of whom do not want to admit that Serbs did anything especially wrong. But he still doesn’t dare say the word “genocide.” The voters would never forgive him. Most Serbs would acknowledge that their side did some bad things during the Balkan wars of the ’90s, but they would add that

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every side did. They will not accept the use of the word “genocide” – whereas that is the one word Bosnian Muslims have to hear before they can believe that the Serbs have finally grasped the nature and scale of their crime. That’s why, when Vucic was at Srebrenica paying his respects in the cemetery, some Bosnian Muslims started throwing stones at him. His glasses were broken, and his security detail had to hustle him away. It was a stupid, shameful act, and the Bosnian Muslim authorities have apologized for it. But like the Turks and the Armenians, the Serbs and their neighbours will never really be reconciled until the Serbs say the magic word. was a peasants’ revolt against the thieving nobility. The serfs managed to seize a few castles and oust some of the nobility from their privileged positions. But the nobles retaliated and slaughtered thousands of peasants. Then came the realization that it was the recently eliminated lower classes who produced all the food that enriched the nobles tables. Years of famine followed. A lesson for today’s aristocracy? I doubt that anyone at any level of government is listening to the peasants.

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Larger number of girls taking up lacrosse Having competed at the college level, Elmira sisters are happy to be coaching younger players WHITNEY NEILSON Elmira sisters Jocelyn and Jessica Lubert’s love of lacrosse is more than just a hobby. As coaches for the Kitchener-Waterloo girls’ U11 and U15 field lacrosse teams, they’re spreading that passion, and bringing in a lot of Woolwich players with them. Jocelyn is heading into her second year at St. Mary’s College of California this fall, while Jessica just graduated from Wilfrid Laurier University. They both received lacrosse scholarships and are now using what they’ve learned from playing at a higher level to help the younger generation in this region. “I know a lot of the Woolwich girls who play other sports found out a lot of their friends are playing lacrosse. I think they want to come out and play with their friends. We have a really great group of girls that are out. There’s no drama, so that’s always a good thing,” Jocelyn said as to why they’re seeing an increase in Woolwich girls taking up the sport. Kitchener United played

Plenty of local girls are picking up field lacrosse, most recently playing in the Kitchener United field lacrosse tournament last weekend, before heading to provincials this weekend. Back row: Jocelyn Lubert, Rylee Harrison, Brianna Fleming, Kenzie Beisel, Jessica Lubert. Front row: Tatum Allen, Brooklynn Schaefer, Maddy Camm, Kianna Martin. [WHITNEY NEILSON / THE OBSERVER] host last weekend to a tournament of field lacrosse teams from across the province. Jocelyn explains instead of having home and away games, like most sports, every team travels to a centre for one weekend to play two games. And last weekend was especially important because they were the last

two games of the season before provincials this weekend. “Coming into this season we were ranked last place out of all the B teams. Right now we’re third in the A teams. We’ve come a long way this year, so it’s pretty exciting for us,” Jocelyn said. As for how they man-

aged to make the jump up, she explains in lacrosse they start out in larger divisions. For U11, the team she coaches, they play one game against every team in their division. Then based on their record they’re split into two divisions and that’s what they play for the rest of the season. “Lacrosse in K-W has just

been really growing and it’s really exciting to see as a coach,” Jocelyn said. “I played K-W all growing up so it’s really exciting to see. The girls have improved this year and I think they work really well together. We have a lot of girls this year who also play box lacrosse, which I think helps too, just that they’ve played lacrosse before. We have a lot of returning girls and the new girls are picking it up really well. They’re just really athletic.” She says the sport has also seen some growth locally because of her sister’s passion for it. While studying at Laurier she’s taken the time to go to schools in the area and put on clinics to introduce more girls to the sport. And it can’t hurt to give it a try with more than 100 Division I schools offering lacrosse programs, on top of the Division II and Division III schools. And that means scholarships. Jocelyn says it was a bit of a shock when she started playing last year at St. Mary’s. “It’s like a whole new

One of Elmira’s own will be playing in the inaugural season of the National Women’s Hockey League, the first all-women professional paid hockey league. Erin Zach signed last week with the Buffalo Beauts, one of four teams that make up the league. The season will start in

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“My goal for the inaugural season with Buffalo is to put on a good show for the fans, and get people to come back, game after game. It’s time for us to show what we can do and get people excited about coming to our games,” Zach said. She started the sport at the age of 4, encouraged by her dad who also plays,

but as a goalie. She grew up playing it in Kitchener before a three-year stint of junior hockey in the Provincial Women’s Hockey League for the Cambridge Fury, now rebranded as the Rivulettes. “After my three years in Cambridge, I went on to play two years of Division III hockey and two years of Division I hockey at Roch-

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My springer spaniel Callie is a fine gun dog and a great retriever, but she’s even better at finding raspberries. This is not something I’m proud of. I was reminded of this, once again, when we went for this morning’s walk. I took her to a cut between two woodlots that is ideal habitat for ruffed grouse. But I only did this because I knew she wouldn’t be bothering any grouse. You see, the raspberries are in season and the whole cut is filled with them. To Callie, this is as close to heaven as it gets. If there were hunting retriever competitions for berry picking, my dog would be reigning world champion – although you’d never get her to retrieve one to hand. It’s so bad, I figure if I ever have to leave her alone for a weekend, I could simply bring her to a good berry patch, let her start feeding and slip off. I’m reasonably certain when I return a couple of days later she’d be oblivious to the fact that I left. The only issue would be I’d need a moving trolley to take her back to the car. Think Jabba the Hut with fur and berry stains.

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Callie came by this honestly. When she was a pup, I used to take her for walks along a summer cottage lane where berries abounded. At first, I’d feed her some by hand, then I began directing her to them and after a while, she directed me. Now, she’s practically addicted to them.

That’s not a bad thing, though. Time moves slowly in a berry patch and the outside world gets quickly forgotten. You focus on only one thing – finding the next berry. And, after you achieve that milestone, you focus on the next thing – which is finding another berry just like that one. You then repeat this again and

again. This is only interrupted by the sound of you slapping off mosquitoes and deer flies. Sometimes, you get caught up in the canes, too, and spend a few minutes worrying if the berries in the immediate area will be enough to sustain you until rescuers show up. I guess what I’m trying to say here is that the world

would be a better place if we planted more berry patches – and encouraged people and their dogs to visit them. I figure that you can’t bother anyone or get into too much trouble so long as you are fixated on berries. And berries are good for you, too. So is picking them. Callie seems to have figured this out. I can honestly

say I’ve never seen a happier dog, which kind of makes me wonder about her true motives for bird hunting. I used to think we flushed birds in places like this because Callie knew these places provided fantastic cover. Now, I’m beginning to believe she flushes birds accidentally in fall while searching for berries. I can’t blame Callie.

Heck, I feel the same way about berries myself. In fact, if my partner Jenn ever decided to slip off for the weekend. All she would really need to do would be to take me to a good raspberry patch and return a few days later with a moving trolley. Like Callie, I too would be oblivious. And maybe a little redfaced too.

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high of 17 assists and 25 points in 36 games. The forward also scored RIT’s first goal with 57 seconds left in the second period, giving the Tigers a 1-0 lead in their 2-1 double-overtime win over Mercyhurst in the College Hockey America championship last year. At RIT, she took a multidisciplinary studies major with a concentration in print media, and minors in advertising and public relations, and management and criminal justice. She’s now enrolled in a pre-apprentice carpentry program which runs until October, when her hockey season begins. It’s going to be an excit-

ing year for the 23-year-old, who was also named the Central Western Ontario Secondary School Association MVP back in 2010 for her contributions to the EDSS girls’ hockey team. “My friends and family are super excited and can’t wait for the season to start,” Zach said. Zach attended two training camps for the Beauts, one in Buffalo, and the second in Toronto. Buffalo general manager Linda Mroz signed Zach after the Toronto camp, along with former Wilfrid Laurier University Golden Eagles player Devon Skeats. They were the first two signed to Buffalo from those camps. Practices start in September and Buffalo’s first

Elmira will be represented in the inaugural season of the National Women’s Hockey League, as Erin Zach, recently graduated from RIT, just signed with the Buffalo Beauts. [SUBMITTED] game will be October 11 at the Harbor Center in Buffalo. “It’s finally time that female hockey players get more recognition for their talent and entertainment,” Zach said. “It’s a dream

come true for each and every player who signs, and for all the girls we will be role models to. The success of this league comes back to the fans showing their support for the sport they love.”

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This summer they’re playing together on the senior K-W team along with coaching their own teams. “The past two years I coached with my sister and this is my first year that I’ve taken my own team. And it’s honestly so much fun because just being able to teach it to the little girls, it just makes me wish that I had started at that young age,” Jocelyn said. She notes a lot of people get sick of playing one sport all year and relish the summer break, but not her. “It’s my favourite sport and I think it’s also the fact I didn’t start from such a young age,” Jocelyn said. “It’s almost like a new thing for me and I still have more to learn.”

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Hearing instrument specialist Charlene Bauer and client care coordinator Ryan Clews are excited to bring a Hear More Canada clinic to 17 Church St. W. in Elmira. do. We can also take out wax and we do all of that for free.” For Bauer and Clews, who is working as the clinic’s client care coordinator, the passion for the business stems from a love of helping people. “My favourite part is our clients,” Bauer said. “It’s all about helping people for me. Every day is different and every client has different needs. Some days you’ll come in and you will cry with a client. Some days you’ll laugh with the client. It’s not about selling them something, it’s about helping them with something that changes their life.” A graduate of Conestoga College’s hearing instrument specialist program, Bauer has been working with Hear More for over two

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is more vital than ever. Interestingly, it seems like it’s always an opposition party, rather than the governing party of the day, trying to move a national food strategy along. For example, Guelph MP Frank Valeriote gave it an excellent try a few years ago. His commitment was unwavering. He travelled across the country with other concerned party members to garner expert advice. He brought then-party leader Michael Ignatieff to Guelph to hear everyone from grassroots growers to University of Guelph researchers give input into creating a system based on research and sustainability. He was his party’s agriculture critic, a role he embraced and immersed himself in. And had his party risen to power, I suspect Canadian agriculture would be working to implement a Valeriote-orchestrated system now. Lately, another federal politician has embraced the need for a Canadian food strategy. But he’s not from Guelph, or Waterloo Region, from some other riding with rural sensitivities. Rather, he’s from downtown Toronto. Back in June, MP Matt Kellway (NDP, BeachesEast York) took two petitions to Ottawa. The first was in support of a panCanadian food strategy. It noted Canada “stands out among its industrialized comparators for our absence of a comprehensive food policy.” It went on to call on the federal government to implement a Canadian food strategy “to support farmers, improve access to healthy and local food, and to market Canadian food at home and abroad.”

Hard to argue with that. His second petition called for a national strategy on local food. It would require the Department of Public Works to develop a policy for purchasing local food for all federal institutions. Farmers should get to know him. Visit him in the Beaches and see his world, once the Pan Am Games are over and Toronto is accessible once again. Later, invite him out to a modern farm. Take him through some agri-food research

facilities so he understands the value of technology in agriculture and evidencebased policy for food production. Because based on some of his other positions on modern agricultural tools and practices, I’m not sure he appreciates farming is a highly advanced sector fuelled by advancements in research. A national food strategy would take some of the anxiety out of the political equation for the agri-food sector. In theory, no mat-

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interest. He’s also quite lonely and looking for love. He initiates their first date, acquiring her number from a neighbour’s friend. Susan Henley plays Gloria Fossberg, as well as a number of other small characters in the play. Paul Brown portrays Uncle Fred. “It’s in the romantic comedy genre, and so everything is pushed to extremes,” Vlaskalic said. “There are some truths in there. So that’s I think what makes it so funny is that even Myra does go to these crazy extremes to get her guy. And of course like a lot of things in life, be careful what you wish for because you never know what you’ve got until you’ve got it. That’s a lot of the fun within the play as well.” After Myra and Leonard’s first date, she immediately calls him to set up another date before he’s even had a chance to get home. She manages to convince him that she needs to go over to his place that night. Little does he know, she’s bringing Uncle Fred with her, who’s a lawyer. She’s

already on the fast track to marriage. “I really liked how Sam Bobrick takes something that we’re so obsessed with in society today, marriage, the absolute pressure to get married before 40. It’s so out there in social media, reality TV, Bridezillas, Say Yes to the Dress. There’s so much of that and he’s really done a really fun job of taking that and pushing it to an extreme, and then going is this really what people want or is it just what society has been telling them that they need to do, that they have to do?” Vlaskalic said. She says it’s great for Myra because after all is said and done she examines her life and herself and questions if this is really what she wanted, or is it just what her mother wanted, or what she thinks she should want. The challenge for this type of comedy, is keeping it in pace, she says. A lot of action happens quickly, so it’s important to keep the characters human and relatable.

Kevin Kruchkywich as Leonard Shank and Daniela Vlaskalic as Myra Witzer find out marriage life isn’t all it’s cracked up to be in Drayton’s production of Last Chance Romance. “There’s elements of farce in there as well, so Sam Bobrick really put an interesting challenge for

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With the first run of the show just finishing up this weekend, Vlaskalic says they’re having a great time. Everyone from grandparents, to newlyweds to couples who’ve just started dating have been checking out the show. Anyone who’s been in a relationship will find some laughs, she adds. “I hope that they come out and have a good laugh and forget their troubles,” Vlaskalic said. “But also I hope that they can walk away and take something away about what it is that they want in relationships, what they’re looking for. Are they happy with what they have? And examine that a little bit.” Last Chance Romance runs July 22-August 9. Tickets can be purchased in person at the St. Jacobs Country Playhouse, online at www.stjacobscountryplayhouse.com or by calling the box office at (519) 747-7788 or toll free at 1-855-drayton (372-9866). Tickets are $42 for adults and $25 for youth under 20 years of age.

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308A or 308R Sheet Metal Worker Tri-Mech Inc. is a mechanical company specializing in Gas Fitting, Hydronic Heating, Geothermal, Furnaces, Air Conditioning, Sheet Metal, and High Pressure Cleaning Systems. We service agricultural, light commercial and residential systems. Applicants must be able to work with minimal supervision, and have good customer relation skills. Applicant must have experience and hold a minimum 308A or 308R Apprentice or Journeymen License. Tri-Mech offers competitive wages and health benefits. Applicants are invited to submit a letter of application or resume by fax to 519-638-3342, or by email to jobs@trimech.ca

to heavy lifting. Daily start time is 6:30 a.m. with some early 5 a.m. starts. Good starting pay with ability to increase with responsibilities and benefits after 6 months. Please email to staff@freyshatchery.com or fax 519-664-3491.

FOR SALE DOOR PANELS, INSULATED - approx. 2” thick, various lengths, 8-20 feet long. Ideal for shed linings or insulating floors. Call 519-848-2270.

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RENTALS 1 BEDROOM MODERN apartment, close to downtown. Secured entrance, free laundry, A/C, gas stove, lots of closet space. Call Hugh at 519-669-5533 after 6PM available August 1st. BRIGHT, SPACIOUS 1BEDROOM apartment in quiet, adult building. Seeking non-smoking mature tenant. Close to downtown. Laundry, parking. Phone 519-6693423.

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Happy Anniversary Paul & Lyn Schwindt

FAMILY ALBUM IN MEMORIAM

Ina Kieffer July 19, 2014

RETIREMENT

Retirement Open House

for Anne Runstedler

It’s hard to believe that it’s one year that you’re gone but not forgotten. Mom May the winds of love blow softly and whisper so you’ll hear We will always love and miss you and with that you were here. Forever in our memory in our soul, you’ll be engraved. In our hearts you will stay until we meet again someday. Love: your daughter, son in law, granddaughters and great grandsons

Drayton gets the fair season rolling WHITNEY NEILSON The annual Drayton Fair will feature more hands-on events along with traditional crowd favorites this August. Natalie Green, secretary of the Drayton Mapleton Agricultural Society, said their main events are usually the truck tractor pull and the demolition derby. They’re hoping events that people can participate in without needing a truck or tractor will draw in more people to the fair during the day. “New this year we’re having the two-man log saw competition. And we had it last year, the excavator games. We’re trying to appease some of the bigger boys. They needed something to play with so we got two excavators and they do some games, it’s a competition. It seemed to go well. But with the first year, not as many people knew about it. There were a lot of guys that couldn’t wait to get their hands on playing with something they don’t normally get to play with. It’s usually picking up or moving something,” Green said. It costs $20 each to play the excavator games on Aug. 9 from 11 a.m. to noon, with $250 in prize money to be won. It costs $5 per team per try for the log saw competition, with multiple tries allowed for a chance to win $100. “We wanted more hands-on events. It’s nice to go see a truck and tractor pull, but it’s also nice to have during the day something else to do,” Green said. This year’s theme is bees and bears. The hope is to educate more people about how vital bees are to our agriculture and environment. Cedarwood Honey will be on hand with educational material and honey for sale. And to incorporate bears there will be a teddy bear picnic with crafts, and snacks

on Sunday. It’ll cost a bit more to get into the fair this year, due to rising costs. Children under five will still be free but children 6-12 will pay $5 to get in. The children’s wristband is good for the whole weekend. Adult wristbands are $10 and they go up to $15 after 5 p.m. There also will no longer be family passes. “The price of everything has gone up. So to help cover these events, the majority of money comes from admissions. We get a huge support from donations and sponsorships, but the rest is covered by us. So to keep the fair going, unfortunately the rates usually have to go up as well,” Green said. Other events include the heavy horse show, goat show, dairy cattle show, garden tractor pull, baby show, pet show, miniature horse show, beef cattle show, and sheep show. There will also be new food vendors, including a pizza truck and a smoked meat truck, along with the usual fry and ice cream vendors. The local truck and tractor pull runs Aug. 7 at 6:30 p.m., with different classes of trucks, tractors, and farm tractors. The demolition derby is Aug. 9. It costs $25 to enter and there’s $1,500 to be won. Drivers have to register between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. and be at the drivers’ meeting at 1:45 p.m. before the show starts at 2 p.m. The three derby classes are six-cylinder cars, eight-cylinder cars, and two-wheel drive half-ton trucks. “Last year was a really good success,” Green said. “The weather plays a huge part. Getting to see all the old and new tractors last year brought out quite a few people. The Drayton Fair runs August 7-9. For a full schedule of events visit www.draytonfair. com.

Join us for a celebration of Anne’s 42 years of service with Scotiabank. Sunday July 26, 2015 – 2:00-4:00pm Linwood Community Centre

OBITUARY

Desmarais, James “Jim” Passed away on Thursday, July 9, 2015 at Barnswallow Place Care Community, Elmira, with his family by his side. Jim, eight days short of his 87th birthday, was of Elmira formerly of Toronto. Beloved husband of Sharon for 18 years. Dear father of Lucille (Greg) Broad of Slave Lake, Lorraine Young (Tony Tocco) of Oakville, Susan (Michael) Morrison of Haliburton, Margaret (Ricky) Broad of Slave Lake, and Rose-Anne (Bruce) Chapman of Fergus. Lovingly remembered by his 19 grandchildren, 25 great-grandchildren and 2 great-great-grandchildren. Jim will be missed by Sharon’s family. Jim is predeceased by his parents Anthony Clovis Desmarais (1973) and Lucille Flaherty (1933) and by his daughter Madeleine Desmarais-Cruickshank (1972). At Jim’s request cremation has taken place. A memorial service for family and friends was held on Monday, July 13, 2015 at 1:30 p.m. in the chapel at the Dreisinger Funeral Home, 62 Arthur St. S., Elmira. In Jim’s memory, donations to Barnswallow Place Resident Council would be appreciated as expressions of sympathy. A special thank you to Dr. Hahn and all the nurses and staff at Barnswallow Place for the wonderful care given to Jim and his family.

www.dreisingerfuneralhome.com DEATH NOTICES ALBRECHT, ELIZABETH DIANNE | Elizabeth was born Tuesday, July 14, 2015 and passed away peacefully with her parents at her side, the same day at Stratford General Hospital. Beloved daughter of James and Norma (Albrecht) Albrecht of R.R. # 1 Millbank. BRUDER, GERTRUDE (GERTIE) | Passed away peace-

fully at her residence, RR 1, Ariss, on Thursday, July 9, 2015, at the age of 92 years. DESMARAIS, JAMES “JIM” | Passed away on Thursday,

July 9, 2015 at Barnswallow Place Care Community, Elmira, with his family by his side. Jim, eight days short of his 87th birthday, was of Elmira, formerly of Toronto.

W

e don’t know how our parents met. They’ve never said, and we’ve never asked. We do know that it was around 1958. There’s a picture of them at a high school dance arm in arm looking very happy! Not much is known of their previous romances, though after 50 years of marriage it’s not important anyways. Mom would have us believe that she never had a drink before 21, and her courting experience likely consisted of marrying her betrothed after a short, very polite engagement. Her British decorum background demanded that. Dad’s past may have been more colorful, but is hidden well. His only admitted soray into the dating world was a high school dance in grade 9 with a grade 12 girl. She made him a vegetable corsage as was the custom in those days and someone asked Dad how it was…he replied that he made it through the carrot and celery parts but he flatly refused to eat the radish. He figures that was the reason for the look of horror on her face, and why they went home separately. Our parents wanted to marry as soon as possible but Grandma Wildwood put her foot down as she told it. They were not to marry before graduating University. Dad didn’t know it then but Grandma’s ultimatum led him to being the first person to graduate University from his one room elementary school. Mom on the other hand, was primed from birth to go on in schooling and went to Waterloo University while Dad did business at Waterloo Lutheran. They made it through school and grad school long distance at times with Dad in Montreal, until they tied the knot July 3, 1965. Mom and Dad lived in Amherstburg for a while, where they still talk about the size of the river rats found in their house. They took up arms against the rodents invading their homestead. They still look on this time with great fondness, which likely is due to meeting life-long friends such as Verstrates, Pat Brooks, Dentantes, and the Davidsons. By the 70’s, their lives were ready to change. They had received notice from the Government that a new program called “The Stork” would deliver 3 babies to them over the first half of the decade. Eric, Miles and Marylou entered the scene. They moved to the farm just as Eric arrived, next to Grandparents Schwindt, and not far from Grandad and Grandma Wildwood. The farm would have been paid off a lot sooner if they hadn’t had to spend so much removing old cars from the gravel pits to the wreckers. After all, these cars were 50 and 60 models and nobody would be interested in them, right? Nowadays those “junkers” were worth more than the farm was! Eventually, Mom went back to teaching, ending up at St. Monica house for many years. Dad was busy pursuing his farming and other areas of agriculture business. They also made connections with the WOOPEE Club where monthly euchre games were held. Their first experience with it gave some concern over all the alcohol consumed. They had to give great thought to whether they should continue as they didn’t know if they could afford to host it! With the 80’s beginning the real tough part started. Dad always wanted his own business and opened Moorefield Feeds, a Purina Feeds dealer. Naturally, this had to be the start of rampant inflation and interest rates of 18-20%. Dinner was often interrupted due to the latest rate setting with Mom and Dad hollering “Quiet, we need to hear this!” Throw in soccer for all, 7:00 am hockey games and practices, piano lessons, new shoes and it had to be tough sledding. Still, they managed world travels together through winning Purina trips and always some family camping. Hard work made it all possible! The 90’s began with 3 teenage kids in the house who didn’t always make it easy on them, but were generous in adding mostly fond memories! Dad started losing enthusiasm for the dealerships (by now they added a second store in Elmira) while Mom was working full time to finish off her teaching career. They sold the business in ‘96, the same year their eldest son tied the knot. Changing gears they went from retail feed operations to Real Estate which they continue to enjoy today. Working 65-70 hours a week grows old quickly and they were much happier to have their time together! Y2K was the start of the grandchildren, 6 to be precise! Without a doubt, their concern for the grandchildren exceeded their own kids as all grandchildren used car seats (we grew up in the cargo hold of a station wagon on trips), they were monitored always (well, mostly) and a once-a-week Grandparent Day began. Ice-cream, French fries, popcorn and homemade mac n cheese (the kid’s favorite) made up the food groups. And while motorcycle trips across North America or trips to Australia and New Zealand at times interrupted Grandparent day, the Grandkids always got a call or card! Closing in on July 3, 2015 seems like it hasn’t taken much time. There are always more buildings to follow up on and opportunities to check out. In all that they have been thru, Mom and Dad have done it together, and continue to consult and truly cherish each other’s perspectives. They take time to pop in on all their kids, make small (sometimes large) suggestions, (meaning corrections) with small (sometimes large and insistent) directions consistent with the knowledge and experience parents have. And with a 50 year marriage to back that up who are we to argue! Our entire family, grandchildren and all, are travelling to Alaska now to celebrate this milestone, a truly awesome experience. Few families have an example like this to look up to, and trust us; we know enough to be grateful for ours! The food is excellent, the seas are calm and we saw some whales. All is well.

Congratulations!

Love: Eric, Miles and Marylou.

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IN DEMAND / PURSUING HIS PASSION

Taking the lead, twice, in PEI

Elmira’s Jay Davis finds plenty of challenges at this season’s Charlottetown Festival Theatre SCOTT BARBER During a two-decadelong run as a professional actor, Elmira native Jay Davis has followed his passion for theatre across the country and internationally in London and New York performing in countless productions ranging from musicals, comedies, dramas and everything in between. From Dracula to Robin Hood to Rocky, in the Rocky Horror Picture Show, Davis is no stranger to playing the leading man. Now, the Elmira District Secondary School alum is taking his talents to the east coast, with roles in a pair of Charlottetown Festival plays through the summer and fall. “Both Bittergirl and Evangeline are part of the Charlottetown Festival Theatre season,” said Davis, on the line from Prince Edward Island. “The one that I am doing now is called Bittergirl and we just opened on Saturday and now we are into the run of it until September, when I will start rehearsals for Evangeline, which will be up at the Confederation Theatre, where as Bittergirl is playing at the MacK.” In Bittergirl: The Musical, Davis plays the roles of three men, each the exlover of the titular trio of scorned women. “It’s a musical about three women and they break up with their significant others and I play the role of their three exes,” Davis explained. “One of them was married with a child, another is engaged

Elmira District Secondary School alum Jay Davis is currently starring in Bittergirl: The Musical at the Charlottetown Festival, to be followed by Evangeline. [SUBMITTED] and the other one is just dating. So it basically follows their journey through the breakup process.” But it’s not all heartbreak and sadness, it is a comedy after all. “The three women end up meeting each other at a support group and become fast friends,” Davis said. “They end up going

through different ways together to try to get over their break ups, and the situations end up being very comical. So in one case, they all get really drunk and they decide to go and key one of their exes’ cars. But it doesn’t go very well and they all end up in jail.” Classic ’60s songs are

also woven into the story. “You have the story as well as the songs which sort of tell a story about what the characters are feeling and what they are going through,” Davis said. “It’s great, so you’ll see this really funny scene, and then they break into song about how they’re feeling, you know, betrayed, or whether they’re feeling like they are going to overcome the obstacle. So it has actually been getting received really well.” After Bittergirl closes, Davis will be right back to work as the male hero in Evangeline, a Canadian historical musical written by acclaimed playwright Ted Dykstra. “You’re lucky in this country to be involved in new Canadian pieces because they are not often written and not often on this massive scale,” Davis said. “It is such a Canadian story, it is about the deportation of the Acadian settlers from Halifax and that is a huge part of our history and something we shouldn’t forget. And with so many Acadians out here, still living here on the East Coast, I think it’s important to tell that story.” Davis will play the role of Gabriel, a young man separated from his wife – Evangeline – on their wedding day by British soldiers carrying out the mass deportation of Acadians from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick to Louisiana during the 19th century. He’ll share the stage with

Josée Boudreau – a woman with Acadian roots – in the titular role and a cast that includes Tony Award winner Brent Carver. Director Bob Baker is excited to have Davis on board for the production, which will run in Charlottetown from mid-September through mid-October before moving across the country to Edmonton where it will run for the month of November. “I am very excited to finally work with Jay,” Baker said. “He has just the right combination of strength, vulnerability, humour and passion to play Gabriel. He has a beautiful, rich singing voice and he and Josée will make a stunning couple.” Davis’ passion for acting started at a young age and really blossomed during his high school years at EDSS, where he studied drama under his father, Gord Davis. “I was really lucky and I know a lot of other people think the same thing about having my dad as a theatre teacher,” Davis said. “He was a really smart guy who was passionate about theatre. He instilled the love of theatre in many generations of students at EDSS, and I was lucky enough to be one of those.” There were always three plays each school year, Davis recalls, and he’s proud to say he took part in 15 over his high school career. In the years since, Davis has kept performing at a steady clip, always excited to embark on the artistic process of developing new characters and stories.

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While complex, the real issues with head transplants likely to be ethical WEIRD NOTES

Q. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been called the ultimate in â&#x20AC;&#x153;body makeovers,â&#x20AC;? or a human head transplant. Has this one ever been done before? A. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s surgeon Sergio Ca-

naveroâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plan to transplant a living head onto a donated body, which will doubtless spark reams of controversy over the ethics and pragmatics of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;operation,â&#x20AC;? reports â&#x20AC;&#x153;New Scientistâ&#x20AC;? magazine. Transferring a head to a new body is being touted as a solution to inoperable cancers, or to diseases like the one afflicting Stephen Hawking. Yet many specialists asked

about the matter flatly refused to participate, calling it outlandish or unethical, says the magazineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Helen Thomson. But thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not the view of Canavero of the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group in Italy, who hopes to try the procedure possibly within the next few years. He points out that the first successful animal head transplant was carried out in 1970 at Case-Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio, where a team led by Robert White transplanted the head of one monkey onto the body of another. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t attempt to join the spinal cords,â&#x20AC;? explains Thomson, â&#x20AC;&#x153;so the monkey couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t move its body, though it was able to

breathe with artificial assistance. The monkey lived for nine days, until its immune system rejected the head.â&#x20AC;? Though Canavero believes the technical aspects are all feasible, he admits that â&#x20AC;&#x153;the trickiest part will be getting the spinal cords to fuse.â&#x20AC;? Joining in this quest is Xiao-Ping Ren of Harbin Medical University in China, who recently performed a basic head transplant with a mouse (â&#x20AC;&#x153;CNS Neuroscience & Therapeuticsâ&#x20AC;?). Stay tuned! Q. Why donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t we sneeze during sleep? Or do we?

A. Would you remember

a sneeze if you did it? A sneeze is a reflex and not likely to occur during dreaming sleep, or REM (rapid-eye-movement). During this stage of sleep,

sneezing during REM sleep, but yes during non-REM, so long as thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a sneeze witness at hand. Q. Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Mitch, Hurricane Sandy â&#x20AC;&#x201C; from A to Z, hurricanes have taken their terrible toll, leaving death and destruction in their wake. How are we to comprehend the energies of these â&#x20AC;&#x153;mighty windsâ&#x20AC;??

movement messages are likely to shut down as partial paralysis sets in, preventing sleepers from acting out their dreams, writes David Muir of the United Kingdom (UK) in â&#x20AC;&#x153;New Scientistâ&#x20AC;? magazine. A consequence is that reflex acts like sneezes are turned off. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If a sneeze is absolutely necessary, REM atonia ceases and the person wakes up before sneezing.â&#x20AC;? Adds the UKâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ron Pursell: â&#x20AC;&#x153;I do sneeze during my sleep, frequently if I have a head cold. This wakes up my wife, who then awakens me and tells me that I have disturbed her sleep by sneezing yet again. Presumably if I slept by myself I would not have awakened.â&#x20AC;? Ergo: No (generally) to

A. Consider that â&#x20AC;&#x153;the

energy in a single hurricane could power the entire USA for six months, or provide a whole year of power to a country like Britain or France,â&#x20AC;? says Joel Levy in â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Bee in a Cathedral and 99 Other Scientific Analogies.â&#x20AC;? As air picks up moisture and heat from the tropical ocean, the condensed water droplets release energy, some of which is converted

into wind. Given the right conditions, a major hurricane is born. Or another way to think about it: â&#x20AC;&#x153;In a single day, a large hurricane can generate energy equivalent to 400 20-megaton H-bombs, or 8,000 megatons (8 billion tons). The destructive power of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nuclear arsenal is equivalent to around 7,000 megatons.â&#x20AC;? We might call them â&#x20AC;&#x153;hurricanesâ&#x20AC;? in the Atlantic and around North, Central and South America, but theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re â&#x20AC;&#x153;typhoonsâ&#x20AC;? in the Far East and â&#x20AC;&#x153;cyclonesâ&#x20AC;? in the Indian Ocean and Australia.

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

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This Campfire Black Bean and Cream Cheese Dip is killer done in the oven or fire. If you like more heat add some jalapenos or chillies to the cheese mix. Enjoy!

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On top of cream cheese mix add the diced peppers, black beans, spread the salsa over the vegetables. Top with cheddar and sliced green onion. Wrap the foil over the top and seal. Place on the grill or in the smouldering coals of the fire (no flames). Allow the cheese to melt. Pull off of the fire or grill, allow to set for about 5 minutes if you can wait that long, and open the foil to expose the dip. Serve with some authentic tortilla chips and enjoy.

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WRPS would not confirm if other suspects are being investigated. “I am not aware of any information of this sort being released by WRPS,” Heinzel said. “To avoid the possibility of impeding the ongoing investigation, we won’t be releasing any additional information until the investigators are in a position to do so.” The possibility of other suspects was also raised by Harris, who was instrumental in bringing together Safety Kleen, Aevitas and Waste Management to assist with the cleanup – free of charge – after public authorities refused to help Shannon and Weber dispose of the barrels. “The barrels came from within Kitchener,” Harris said, after attending Hector’s bail hearing Monday morning. “That was based on a police report that was read into the record (July 13) at the bail hearing.” Harris added that police were able to track down the source of the barrels thanks to a tip from a local waste disposal company who had been called in by the property owner to provide a quote for the waste’s removal.

Last week, Harris wrote a letter to the Ministry of the Environment calling on Minister Glenn Murray to review the situation and “lay the most severe punishment possible.” In an e-mail, MOE spokeswomen Kate Jordan said that “the ministry has been working in partnership with the Waterloo Regional Police Service in this investigation and is aware of the charges that were brought forth. The ministry is continuing our own investigation into the incident. We are looking at alleged offences that have occurred under environmental legislation. While charges have yet to be laid in this case, violators of environmental legislation can face significant penalties. An individual or company found guilty of illegal waste dumping can face a maximum fine of $100,000 for each offence.” Shannon and Weber discovered the mess on May 27, and suspect the dumping must have taken place sometime between May 7 and that date. The cleanup took weeks, with experts brought in to test the contents in the

barrels as well as the surrounding soil and organic materials. The last of the affected soil was excavated and removed July 9. Going forward, Weber and Shannon plan to install gates and trail cameras along their sugar bush farm lane. And Harris hopes that stiff penalties in this case will deter illegal dumping in the future. “I think that this could act as a major wakeup call and deterrent for others that may want to take the cheap way out in disposing of toxic and hazardous materials the improper way; it pays to do it right the first time and it pays to get the professionals who dispose of these toxic materials in an environmentally proper way and if you don’t, you’re going to be spending time at Maplehurst.”

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