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Making the cut in the battle against cancer WILL SLOAN When it comes to fighting cancer, sometimes big gestures are best. Last week, Elmira Pet Products employee Charlie DeVore raised $1,370 from friends and coworkers for cancer charity with a simple promise: he would cut his hair in front of the entire company. “Who doesn’t know somebody who’s had cancer or died of cancer?” said DeVore, whose $1,370 fundraising total was matched by Elmira Pet Products’ owner and CEO. “This year, I decided my hair was getting a little long and people were getting ticked with it, so I said, ‘I’m just gonna cut it off.’” DeVore was raising money for last Saturday’s “BBB8 Barnburner” (that stands for “Bald Breasts Bands”), an annual event held by his Elmira neighbours to raise money for cancer charities. The Foell family has been throwing a yearly barnburner party since 2006, after mother Lois Foell was diagnosed with breast cancer. The third, in 2008, was intended to be the final one, but after Lois passed away, the family decided to turn the party into a fundraiser for the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation. “I’m motivated by the commuCANCER | 2
“Balancing Act,” an outdoor sculpture by Wellesley artist Ruth Abernethy, was among the new additions to the St. Jacobs Country Playhouse unveiled July 19.
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Grants help fuel improvements at St. Jacobs theatre Drayton Entertainment event marks end of construction work, launch of revamped facility WILL SLOAN Drayton Entertainment was celebrating the present and making plans for the future on July 19, as the St. Jacobs Country Playhouse was officially relaunched after the completion of an ambitious four-year construc-
tion project. The development, which ran concurrent with the theatre’s recent seasons, saw the building of a new tower to aid with flying stunts for more elaborate productions, made possible by a $534,000 contribution from the Building Canada fund. A $725,000
grant from the Heritage Cultural Spaces Fund paid for the purchase and installation of specialized equipment in St. Jacobs, and at the Dunfield Theatre in Cambridge. “We never look at it as a gift or a grant, but rather an investment,” said Alex Mustakas, artistic direc-
tor. “It’s an investment that transcends the theatre and positively impacts the cultural, economic, educational, and social fabric of our region.” “We are still the only theatre company in Canada that I know THEATRE | 2
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funds. “He went to see the minister, and the conversation went something like this: ‘Well sir, I have a silly walk, and I’d like to obtain a government grant to help me develop it …’” And so on, until the familiar Python punchline: “… but I think that with government backing, I could make it very silly indeed.” Mustakas, who also serves as director of Spamalot, took time to thank theatre employees, who have “all been involved in construction projects.” “It really has been a balancing act to produce probably 50 or 60 shows in the last four years on top of all these major renovations, so I’m very grateful for our team,” he said.
The presentation climaxed with the announcement of a public arts fund spearheaded by Bernard Melloul, CEO of the construction company MelloulBlamey, and administered by the K-W Community Foundation. “He wants to see community leaders immortalized for their lasting contributions to the fabric of Waterloo Region – a living history of sorts to be passed down to future generations so that we all have a whole lot better understanding of the dynamic forces that shape our own individual community,” said Atchison. He added, “It’s a challenge to the community to invest in our past, in our present, and in our future through the development of
public art. We should have art on the inside and art on the outside, all over the place.” To kick off the call for public art, the theatre unveiled an outdoor sculpture by Wellesley-based artist Ruth Abernethy (whose work includes the famous sculptures of Oscar Peterson at the National Arts Centre and Glenn Gould at the CBC building in Toronto). Titled ‘Balancing Act,’ Atchison explained, “It features an artistic director on stilts balancing competing demands, many of which are universal to us all – family vs. work, integrity vs. responsibility, art vs. commerce.” Further details of the RPM Public Art program are to be announced in the fall.
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The Woolwich Kin Club’s 13th Family Fun Weekend brought families to the West Montrose campground July 19-21. The third annual Grand River Amazing Race raised $44,427 for various charities. [WILL SLOAN / THE OBSERVER]
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nity’s desire to get involved and help out for such a cause,” said Alanna Foell, Lois’ daughter, who along with her brother organizes the annual event. “Everyone has been affected by cancer in one way or another so everyone can relate. Each year I can’t wait to see how we can improve our performances, raise more money and throw a memorable party that is for a good cause." At the BBB8 BarnBurner, music was played, hair was cut off, and around $10,000
was raised for CBCF and the Grand River Hospital Foundation. (Some $80,000 has been raised over the event’s existence). “Since someone you know has likely been affected by cancer and will be doing treatments at a place like Grand River, you could feel good about giving back to the community, since we donate directly to the
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Drayton getting an early jump on fall fair season ELENA MAYSTRUK Celebrating 100 years of 4-H, the Drayton Fall Fair rolls into the community in just a couple of weeks. Organizers hope the clouds won’t rain on their parade this time as they prepare for the first events on August 9. Drayton Mapleton Agricultural Society president Brad
Schieck may laugh about it now, but last year’s bad weather put a damper on the affair. “Hopefully it doesn’t rain. It rained last year and we lost our Friday-night [truck] pull. That didn’t do us any favours and really hit our bottom line overall,” he said this week. Heralding the fall festival
season, Drayton holds the second of the season's fall fair streak (Listowel held its fair on July 18) and organizers are excited to celebrate a huge high point for 4-H Club members. “Anything that runs for that long that involves youth, I think is a real milestone. We’re very excited about that – 4-H has always
been very strong up in our area, and 4-H also takes in a lot of different clubs,” Schieck said. Youths from the local 4-H chapter will be at the fair as representatives to show visitors what they have learned, he added. “We have a couple of displays coming in, celebrating 4-H. We have some mem-
bers coming in demonstrating some of the stuff that they have learned.” Some of the visitor favourites will be making a comeback during the three-day affair, including the midway, animal shows (horse, goat and dairy cattle on Saturday, sheep and beef cattle shows on Sunday), a magician for the kids and a
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demolition derby closing off the show on Sunday night. Returning for the third year, the newest tractor-pull event will give participants a chance to continue in the competition to enter the Elora pulling contest in September. “It’s called King of the FAIR | 4
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Cloverbuds Club leaders Bonnie Wells and Sonya Sommerville invited kids to join the new 4-H group on July 25. Kids aged 6-8 can learn about 4-H concepts through Cloverbuds before officially joining Waterloo 4-H at the age of 9. [ELENA MAYSTRUK / THE OBSERVER]
New 4-H club includes younger kids Cloverbuds Club gives kids under age of 9 an introduction to 4-H ELENA MAYSTRUK For the younger tots who can’t wait to join 4-H Waterloo, the organization is making a new addition to its already diverse cluster of youth clubs. This week 4-H volunteers Sonya Somerville and Bonnie Wells, sat down to plan the first meeting of the Cloverbuds Club, designed to teach kids aged 6-8 about all aspects of the 4-H community. The first meeting was held on Thursday. “Young kids, they really learn by the hands-on learning opportunities,” said Wells while planning
at her home in Cambridge this week. Kids aged 6-8 can become Cloverbuds before joining the 4-H program that starts kids off at age 9. The initiative was launched by 4-H Ontario in March as a way to introduce younger kids to the general ideas of the club and expose them to all aspects of the organization at an earlier age. “The whole 4-H program is just a phenomenal opportunity for kids; it’s a fantastic value in terms of the fees and the value you get back out of it. In our family it’s been such a great benefit that I think
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Helping to teach kids about violence prevention and providing aid to 114 survivors of domestic violence last year, Woolwich Community Services’ Family Violence Prevention program (FVP) will soon get another influx of funds to continue its good work. The annual Jeanne Renault Golf Classic, now in its nineteenth year, is taking place August 15 at the Conestoga Country Club. Organizers hope to up the ante after successfully raising a total of $11,000 the previous summer. “It’s a very vital program for Woolwich Community Services; it serves all of Woolwich Township and parts of northern Wellesley Township. Through this money we can head out into the schools and provide public education to young children about how to reduce violence in their lives,” said community resource coordinator LeighAnne Quinn this week. WCS educator Libby Berry visits schools to teach kids about preventing violence in their homes. Each year different topics
are chosen for the talks ranging from bullying to maintaining positive relationships. “Giving children the tools to build healthy relationships can prevent bullying, limit peer pressure and give children the confidence that they need to foster friendships that will help them to reach their full potential,” she said. During the program kids learn to manage emotions like anger, learn how to cope with stress, develop refusal skills to help them stand up for themselves and build on communicating with confidence and respect for others. “The program has been embraced by area schools and their partnership in reinforcing the healthy relationship curriculum is deeply appreciated,” she added. Adults with history of experiencing domestic violence or controlling relationships can access the program’s ongoing individual support systems, including education and safety planning, services that create options and help
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individuals make informed decisions in relationships, Quinn explained. The FVP program can also refer clients to other community services including housing assistance, financial services, therapeutic counselling and legal support. Quinn says the program enjoys strong support from the community every year. “We’re always, of course, looking for new golfers to make foursomes and come out and support the great cause.” The day includes 18 holes
of golf with carts, as well as the usual extras such as closest-to-the-pin and a putting contests. The evening will include a dinner at the Conestoga Country Club, complete with a silent auction, prize table, gift bags and awards for the days mixed champions and men’s and women’s team winners. There is still time to register a team, or participants can choose to come out for the dinner portion of the evening only. To register for the August 15 event, contact Quinn at 519-6695139 or email leighanne_ wcs@yahoo.ca.
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Pull. The local guys go in and see what they can do. There are three different classes for that and they are all local farm tractors. These guys come straight out of the field with a tractor and then they hook on and see how far they can pull and who gets the best distance. Whoever does the best then qualifies to go to Elora,” he said. With all of the upcoming excitement, Schieck hopes
the sunny weather will stick around. “Hope to see everybody and that the weather cooperates.” The Drayton Fall Fair starts at 5 p.m. on August 9 and ends at 5 p.m. on August 11. Admission is $10, with free passes for children under 12. The new family rate this year is $25 for four people. For schedules, prices and more information visit the Drayton Fair’s new website at www.draytonfair. com.
WCS already in back-to-school mode Cooler weather this week may be a reminder to supporters that backpack program is accepting donations of supplies for families in need WILL SLOAN “Every child deserves to go to school on an equal playing field,” said Kelly Christie, director of community supports at Woolwich Community Services. This is the rationale behind WCS’ eleventh annual backpack program, which will once again provide school supplies to members of Woolwich Township who need them most. WCS, which provides help and services to people of low income, has been organizing the program since 2003. “One of the recurring things we’re used to hearing is, going back to school is very expensive. The need for the backpack and school supplies – that’s where we came in,” said Christie. “We’ve been blessed that the community has always stepped up to the plate. We started in good faith and it has been carried on by the community members.” A survey of Canadian teachers and educators carried out for Staples Canada, released this week, found
Organizer Kelly Christie says school supplies of all kinds are welcome. [WILL SLOAN / THE OBSERVER] that 35 per cent of students in Canada will not start the 2013-2014 school year with basic supplies. Sixty-seven per cent of those students cite financial strains, and 59 per cent cite cost of supplies, as prohibitive factors. This year, WCS hopes to collect 200 backpacks, plus any type of school supply – pencils, combination locks,
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Centre Wellington collects another $558K The Township of Centre Wellington is $557,547 richer this week courtesy of a first-quarter (April to June, 2013) non-tax gaming revenue payment from the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG) for hosting OLG Slots at Grand River Raceway. To date, Centre Wellington has received more than $18.9 million in non-tax gaming revenue.
This is the first payment under a new formula that determines the fee municipalities receive for hosting an OLG gaming facility, as announced in May. The formula, part of the Municipality Contribution Agreement, will provide more money for host municipalities, and is the same across the province. Under the agreement, municipalities receive: 5.25% on the first $65 million of slot revenue; 3% on the next $135 million of slot revenue; 2.5% on the next $300 million of slot revenue; 0.5% on slot revenue above $500 million;
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Arts Fund supports 27 with grants
The Region of Waterloo Arts Fund this week awarded 27 grants totaling $130,750 to artists and arts organizations in response to proposals submitted from throughout the region. Among the recipients are The Community Players of New Hamburg, $3,500 for The Studio Project; $3,350 to
the Grand River Film Festival for a new outreach series; $10,000 to Paul Campsall and Tom Knowlton for When the Blues Come to Town, a documentary; $12,000 to Gary Kirkham for Crystal Aggregate, a made-for-television movie; $3,500 to Lost & Found Theatre for a workshop performance of Naked, a play by Lea Daniel; and $7,500 to High Rise Studio for Extraction Day, a feature film. The next deadline for applications to the Arts Fund is September 6, information is available on the website, www.artsfund.ca. Applications in
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Vote for St. Jacobs as a great place St. Jacobs is one of the candidates in an online competition for “Great Places in Canada,” hosted by the Canadian Institute of Planners.
The contest allows the public to nominate favourite public spaces, neighbourhood and streets until September 2, with voting running until September 23. Currently, St. Jacobs in one of only two communities, the other is Cookstown, Ont., nominated in the “neighbourhood” category. Two other Waterloo Region sites – Kitchener’s Civic Square and Cambridge’s Riverside Park – are in the more-crowded “public spaces” category. The contest can be found online at www.cip-icu.ca/greatplaces.
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Man suffers serious head injuries in ATV collision near Breslau A Woolwich Township man was taken to hospital with a life-threatening head injury after losing control of his ATV in Breslau July 21. The 42-year-old was not wearing a helmet when the accident occurred shortly after he left a party on his
vehicle at approximately 3:39 a.m. He was later airlifted from a local hospital to a Hamilton trauma unit. Menno Street near Breslau was closed for several hours while police were on scene. The investigation continues.
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12:48 PM | A property owner in the 1200 Block of Maryhill Road called police to report the theft of scrap metal that had been taken during the evening of July 8. Police are investigating. J U LY 1 7
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11:11 AM | The driver of a Honda faces charges after colliding with a transport truck in the Sawmill Road-Arthur Street roundabout. The Honda was struck by a transport truck when the driver of the car failed to yield to the transport truck in the roundabout. The driver of the Honda was charged with failing to yield the right of way. J U LY 2 0
11:39 AM | The driver of a brown Toyota was charged with careless driving after rear-ending a black Saturn stopped at the lights on Fountain Street North in Breslau.
While most of the storm damage that tore through Waterloo Region July 19 was in the cities, it also caused some messes in the townships such as the large branch toppled over the Wellesley PS sign. [ELENA MAYSTRUK /THE OBSERVER]
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Drop TFWs while young people struggle for jobs UNEMPLOYMENT REMAINS HIGH, PARTICULARLY among young people, yet the federal government continues to let in record numbers of temporary foreign workers (TFWs), says a new study from the Conference Board of Canada. From 150,000 in 2006, the number of TFWs has grown to 340,000. “This, justifiably, raises the question: if the unemployment rate remains relatively high and so many young and able Canadians are unable to find work, why are we still bringing in so many people under the TFW program?” notes the agency in this week’s report. While providing no answers, the board does point to, among other possible explanations, a skills mismatch between what employers need and what young people can bring to the table. That gap has been the subject of much discussion of late, see, for instance, the Ontario Youth Jobs Strategy that was approved last month as part of the provincial budget process. The skills mismatch is the divide between the abilities and credentials held by people looking for work and the qualifications sought by employers. Growing numbers of people – particularly young people – are unable to find work because they don't have the right education and training. The problem is expected to get worse as new technology and innovations transform the economy and create increasing demands for a more highly skilled workforce. Just how the unemployed will acquire new skills and experience remains to be seen, with employers seemingly more interested in hiring temporary foreign workers than providing training and opportunities to Canadians. There appear to be more barriers to entry into the job market, particularly for jobs that might lead to an actual career path. This is especially true for those young people who drop out of school or who don’t pursue post-secondary education. That’s been a tough route for many years now, but today’s economic climate makes that even more problematic. Since October 2008 (the pre-recession employment peak) the Canadian economy has created about 574,000 jobs, but young people are being left behind, the Conference Board notes. Those findings echo a study last month by CIBC World Markets, which reported that while the youth unemployment rate is at its historical average, the ratio between youth unemployment and the unemployment rate for older Canadians is now at a record high. With youth unemployment running at nearly 2.4 times that of Canadians aged 25 and older, there are growing challenges for younger Canadians to find lasting and meaningful work. About 70 per cent of young people working part-time are doing so involuntary, meaning they want to work full-time. Overall, the message is that governments need to do much more to help young people. Some have benefitted from broader efforts to help the unemployed. But more policies are needed that target young people, especially those with poor education and skills. These “at-risk” youngsters now face the prospect of long-term joblessness and reduced earnings. As with many low-income workers, young people increasingly find themselves in go-nowhere jobs, often part-time, with low pay, no benefits and no prospects of improvement. While some of these jobs may be adequate stepping stones for students, for those young people most at risk, today’s onramp to the job market can be a dead-end.
Given the uncertainties, bureaucratic tendencies and history of massive cost-overruns for transit projects, it's no surprise local citizens might confuse the issues. WORLD VIEW / GWYNNE DYER
New thinking needed to drive the Motor City WORLD AFFAIRS As it happens, I was in Detroit this month. I went to see the art and the architecture, domains in which Detroit is still one of the richest cities in the United States. It’s broken, and it’s broke, and now it’s officially bankrupt too. But bankruptcy is actually a device for escaping from unpayable debt. All over the world, Detroit’s bankruptcy is being used as an excuse to pore over what’s sometimes called “ruin porn”: pictures of the rotting, empty houses that still stand and the proud skyscrapers that have already been torn down. There’s even a selfguided tour of “the ruins of Detroit” available on the internet: people take a melancholy pleasure in contemplating the calamitous fall of a once-great city. Two-thirds of Detroit’s population have fled in the past 50 years, but there were specific reasons why Detroit fell into
decline, and there are also reasons to believe that it could flourish again – not as a major manufacturing centre, perhaps, but “major manufacturing centres” probably don’t have a bright long-term future anywhere. There are other ways to flourish, and Detroit has some valuable resources. The events that triggered the city’s decline are well known. Large numbers of African-Americans from the southern states migrated to Detroit to meet the demand for factory workers during and after the Second World War. Being mostly unskilled, they started in the worst jobs – and even after they had acquired the skills, they stayed in low-paying jobs because of racial prejudice. Spurned by the unions and victimized by a racist police force, they eventually rioted in the summer of 1967. Brutal policing made matters worse and hundreds were killed, but the worst consequence was the fear that the violence engendered. The great majority of the whites just left town.
I first went to Detroit a couple of months after the riots, and driving into the city the fear was actually visible. The traffic lights are spaced far apart on Woodward Avenue, and as each light turned green all the cars would accelerate away – and then, if the next light was still red, they would slow more and more until they were barely crawling, but they dared not stop for fear of being attacked. Then, finally, the light would turn green, and they would race away through the intersection – only to go through the whole process again as they approached the next light. It was this unreasoning fear that caused the massive “white flight” to the suburbs and the hollowing out of Detroit. The big automobile companies also took fright, and the new car plants were built elsewhere. As the jobs disappeared and the population dropped, the tax base fell even faster, for most of the people left behind in the city were poor or unemployed AfricanAmericans. The city could no longer afford to provide
good police or medical services, so even more people left. This vicious circle has lasted half a century, exacerbated by much corruption and maladministration. This month’s declaration of bankruptcy is a brutal measure, for much of the debt being repudiated is the pensions of city employees, but it may give the city’s government enough leeway to begin rebuilding public services. If they are restored, much else could follow. Let me explain what brought me to Detroit early this month. We were doing what we dubbed the “Rust Belt Art and Architecture Tour,” driving from Buffalo to Cleveland and then to Detroit, ending up in Chicago. All these cities took a terrible beating as the industries they were built on died or moved overseas (except Chicago, which is “too big to fail”). But three generations ago, when they were the industrial heartland of the United States, they were very rich – at just the right time. DYER | 8
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THEIR VIEW / QUESTION OF THE WEEK
Are you following any political issues over the summer?
»»Lauren Sharpe
»»Sally Draper
»»Allan Deboer
»»Jeffrey Lyons
Zimmerman, the racial controversy
I’d have to say the racial profiling
I like local news. It keeps me up to date with what’s going on in the community; what the government is doing.
I’m following economics. I would like to see Alexei Navalny is running for the mayor of new economic strategies that are sustainable. Moscow. All of the sanctions against Israel; Also the anti-war campaigns, I’d like to hear Israel is not happy. both sides of the story.
»»Zachary Delottinville
"I suppose Waterloo Region could write off an $818 million mistake: The taxpayers will foot the bill." Ron Wagner | page 8 HIS VIEW / STEVE KANNON
No need for alarm, but there's a lesson to be learned from Detroit woes EDITOR'S NOTES Depending on your political bent, much can be – and has been – read into Detroit’s declaration of bankruptcy last week. The Motor City, hit by the decline of manufacturing, racial strife, corruption and mismanagement, has been sinking for decades. It’s now mired in debts of $18 billion. And is the largest American city ever to file for bankruptcy. Detroit’s well-documented problems are legion. Many of its ills – outlined in Gwynne Dyer’s column this week – stem from poor governance, as leaders failed to adjust policies while the economy sank. Even as the population fell, the government continued to grow. Today, there’s a huge pension liability that forms a large part of the city’s unpayable debt. That fact has been one of the most talked-about issues, inviting comparisons with Greece and setting off warning bells in other
municipalities, both inside and outside the U.S. While the burden of municipal employees weighs heavily on Detroit, even there the problem is not as large as the most vocal critics make out. In Canada, where municipalities are typically on much better financial footing and can’t go bankrupt, there are no imminent Detroits. Still, there are lessons to be learned from that Michigan city and others in the U.S. that are going through similar woes. Specifically, municipalities here are facing rising costs due to overpaid employees, generous benefits and, most daunting, massive pension liabilities. Little has been done to address those issues, most notably the underfunding of pensions that continue to pay out defined benefits at a time of investment losses and small returns. The case of Stockton, California, is perhaps more relevant in this region than Detroit. A city of about 230,000 – comparable to Kitchener – Stockton filed for bankruptcy last year. In the previous year, it doled
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Looking at the Detroit example, about half of the $18-billion debt that led to the bankruptcy call stems from obligations to retirees. In his report for the Ontario government, economist Don Drummond noted that without any changes, pension expenses will rise 70 per cent by 2017. The recourse, then, is higher contributions from employees or reduced benefits, with Drummond recommending the latter due to the potential adverse effect of reducing disposable income. Some municipalities in Canada – St. John’s, for example – have taken to reducing staff and altering pension agreements in an effort to make plans more sustainable. Clearly, something has to be done in just about every case, including local municipalities. Reducing staff is a good first step: fewer staff, lower future obligations. Likewise, wages and salaries will have to be lowered: provincial numbers show that each $1 salary increase means $16 in additional pension payouts to support
a worker that may be retired for 30 years. As well, pension plans will have to be altered to defined contributions, with employees paying a larger share, while governments reduce theirs. Rising employee costs add to the tax burden – typically accounting for half of expenditures – while taking away from critical infrastructure spending. The gap between employee entitlements and actual value delivered to citizens grows worse with generous settlements, with those subject to arbitration being the worst. For instance, the growth in the cost of the fire department – 22 per cent in the past five years alone – led Kitchener Coun. John Gazzola to suggest earlier this year that the city look at privatizing the service. That’s certainly an idea worth considering, as the savings could be enormous if done properly (never a given where government bureaucrats are concerned). Staffing accounts for more than 90 per cent of department costs, and a private contractor could easily cut wages in half,
eliminate benefits and pensions, and still fill the roster, eliminating a large cost centre for the city. Unfortunate for a few, but a boon for taxpayers. Given the escalating costs, and with bankrupt American cities as a reminder of what could happen, and taxpayer fatigue, spending has to be reeled in, one way or another. Those who think Detroit’s woes can’t happen here should heed the words of Toronto-based public policy consultant Brian Kelcey: “It’d be alarmist to claim that our cities are on the brink of a Detroit scenario. They aren’t. But it’s fair to warn that they can legally make Detroit-like mistakes over time. Canadian city councils can – and do – defer billions in infrastructure maintenance obligations, even as they cheerfully take on new debt for new arenas, subways or parkways. Canadian cities can – and do – make pension promises without regard for their future ability to pay. Canadian cities can KANNON | 8
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out 76 per cent of its budget on wages, benefits and pensions, noting that its greatest financial burden came from employee benefits such as pensions. It’s no surprise the city’s financial woes coincided with the end of the housing boom and resultant assessment growth, as well as falling returns on investments. While we haven’t seen the collapse of the housing bubble experienced in the U.S., pension funds here certainly aren’t doing any better. That’s a problem given the definedbenefit plans applicable in more than 90 per cent of public sector pensions: Not only do we contribute the bulk of the money to the pension in the first place (well, all of it, actually, as the employee portion also comes from the taxpayer), but we’re also on the hook for the annual shortfalls and long-term liabilities. Given that two-thirds of Canadians don’t have a company pension plan – and few of those are the defined-benefit kind – the public sector pensions seem awfully generous. Unsustainably so, in fact.
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The police-reported crime rate, which measures the overall volume of crime that came to the attention of police, continued a long-term decline in 2012, falling 3% from 2011. The Crime Severity Index, which measures the severity of crime, also decreased 3%. Canadian police services reported almost 2 million criminal incidents (excluding traffic) in 2012, about 36,000 fewer than in the previous year.
“We made it very clear at one point last week that this can’t go on. We can’t continue to work here for nothing. You get a call at three in the morning, there’s no way you can do a credit check. We do go on faith a bit, but this is the first time this has ever happened.”
In a significant move that precipitated a multi-year battle, Woolwich council reached a deal with what was then the Future Group for a power centre development at King Street North and Highway 86 (now Hwy. 85). The decision on the Walmart-anchored project came at the end of a six-hour meeting July 21, 1998.
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Montreal, Maine & Atlantic railway failed to provide payment for cleanup efforts at Lac-Mégantic, forcing the municipality to cover the costs
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NATIONAL VIEW
city's assets to help it rebound FROM | 6
The first decades of the 20th century were the heyday of art deco, the most beautiful architectural style of the modern era. That was also the period when newly rich captains of industry could scoop up bucket-loads of new European and American art: impressionist, expressionist, abstract, the lot – and they lived mostly in what are now the Rust Belt cities. So they put up dozens of art deco towers: the Guaranty Building in downtown Detroit is my candidate for the world’s most beautiful office building. They filled their homes with best of modern art – and, in the end, donated most of it to the local art galleries. Even in Detroit, where so much has been lost, more than half of those buildings are
still there. So is all of the art. Other cities would kill for these assets. In a postindustrial economy where people have more choice about where they live, they are assets that can actually attract population – especially since, in Detroit’s case, the people who left didn’t go far. Most of them are still out there in the suburbs that surround Detroit. The city of Detroit’s population has fallen from two million to 700,000 over the past five decades, but the metropolitan area’s population has stayed stable at around four and a half million for all of that time. The job, really, is to bridge the devastated middle ring of low-income Detroit housing and reconnect the outer suburbs with the city centre. Detroit can rise again. It just takes the right strategy.
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– and have – foolishly guaranteed business, agency or enterprise debts without sufficient concern for the risks involved. “The consequences of postponed responsibility may be far into the future. Still, it helps to remember that in 2006, few of the
YOUR VIEW / LETTER
LRT plans provoke a bad case of déjà vu To The Editor, The more I hear about the LRT plans the more I shake my head in dismay and wonder. When I was 4 or 5 years old, we could watch the trolley leave the trolley barns beside my grandpar-
American municipalities that are bankrupt today believed they faced any future risk of insolvency. The most likely way for any Canadian city to end up in the same boat is to swallow the fiction that our laws somehow offer us better protection from the same short-sighted decisions.” ents’ property at 1440 King St. E., Kitchener and travel up King Street towards Waterloo. I don’t remember where it ended. Across the street, where Charles Street runs through The Rockway Gardens, the Grand Truck Trolley ran to Preston (now Cambridge). That trolley disappeared sometime during my childhood. Shortly after that, the tracks were torn up and new trolley buses made their way from the trolley
barns up King Street to Waterloo. My cousins and I would take a Sunday ride roundtrip for five cents. The trolley looped around up near where Weber and King streets meet in Waterloo. Years later the electric trolley buses were phased out. The miles of copper trolley lines were torn down. We now had fuel-driven buses. The trolley barns were torn down and the bus yards moved to the south of Kitchener, out Ottawa Street near Strasburg Road. Now, in 2013, our city fathers are planning a train to connect two malls – Conestoga Mall and Fairview Park. We now will tear up miles of street to install tracks that were there 55 years ago. Electric power lines will be strung along the road. They will probably be made of copper; the stuff that is stripped from roofs of buildings, lightning rods and cables, spools of copper cable stolen from utility yards, etc. Oh, the sense of it boggles the mind.
Why do we need a train to connect two shopping malls? I suppose it was for the parking space available. Have you tried to find a parking space at Fairview on weekends, not to mention Christmas shopping time? If commuters leave their cars at the mall to take the train, where will the shoppers park? Why not connect Waterloo to Cambridge (Preston, Galt and Hespeler)? It would make much more sense than the present plans. We have already lived to see the multi-million dollar glitch in Waterloo with the RIM Park fiasco. I suppose Waterloo Region could write off an $818 million mistake: The taxpayers will foot the bill. Where do we go from here? I guess we could build a train from New Hamburg to Punkydoodle’s Corners or to Floradale. I was born in 1943, but I still have a brain in my head.
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West Montrose mountain biker shows technical proficiency in championship competition WILL SLOAN The Canadian Mountain Bike Championship is not for the squeamish. This became very clear to West Montrose resident Lisa Hutson, who trekked to Hardwood Hills north of Barrie last weekend, where she finished second in the competition. “This was a three-lap race of a course that was very technical,” said Hutson of the 30-kilometre mission. “A lot of downhill, rocky [terrain] that a lot of people crashed on – which was an advantage to me, because my strong suit is the technical riding. “You basically expect some people are going to crash in some areas, because it’s so hard. People crash in front of you, and you just go around them and … try not to crash yourself,” she said with a laugh. “But it’s fun. That’s what biking’s all about – the technical aspect of it.” It’s attention to detail that separates a champion biker from a mere journeyman, she notes. “You can tell by the way someone rides how well
they handle the bike. The lines they ride, and how fast they’re able to go, dictates their overall fitness.” Hutson started competitive road racing as a teenager in high school, and then switched to mountain biking in university. In one form or another, she has been racing competitively for 25 years. Now, all year round, she and her husband regularly train, both with endurance and intensity riding, the latter amounting to “riding really hard,” laughed Hutson. “You can barely keep up with the people who are riding. It makes it more fun to see how fast you can go.” For those of us more likely to bike into a car door than a silver medal, the prospect of competitive cycling seems daunting, but Hutson says success comes from hard work and satisfaction. “It’s easy when you enjoy it, so just do what you enjoy,” she said. “Some people are more comfortable riding on the road, others like to get out in nature on the trails. Just focus on those areas that you enjoy the most and you’ll get better.”
OPEN COUNTRY In the last few years, our federal government has put a lot of effort into making boating safer. I don’t know about you, but I definitely feel better because of the test and course. Any course that you can take online, without ever having even seen a boat, has got to be good. The boat isn’t the most dangerous part of boating, anyhow. No, that’s the trailer hitch. If you see a person limping, on crutches, or swearing up a storm at the back of a vehicle, it’s probably because they just had a close encounter with a trailer hitch. I don’t know why we don’t acknowledge this. Trailer hitches are so dangerous that, if I were Minister of Defense, I’d form a special military unit trained in the covert installation of these things.
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Local girl helps propel K-W squad to lacrosse championship ELENA MAYSTRUK Like many of her teammates, Elmira’s Maddy Camm, 10, was nervous when she got on the field last weekend at the Ontario Minor Field Lacrosse League championships in Oshawa. It was a first for the Kitchener-Waterloo U11 B team, with a chance to bring home gold. “We never gave up in any of the games. It took a lot of work, but we just calmed ourselves down and kept working hard. The practices we had to do were all worth it,” Camm said this week. Stiff competition greeted the B-level U11’s from the get-go, with a match against
Mimico, a U11 A team. K-W lost the battle 12-7 but won the war later in the finals when they faced off against Mimico once more. “Mimico played A all season and we were a B team. They were used to playing a much higher-caliber team, so the first game was a little of shell shock – they were a really fast team and we just weren’t ready for it. As the tournament progressed we started playing better and better. For the final game, we were ready for them, for sure,” said coach Jessica Lubert. K-W also steamrolled St. Catharines in the semifinals with a 14-9 decision, another first for the team.
“We’d only tied or lost to them in the regular season,” Lubert explained. Heading into the finals, the local girls started out on a low point, down 4-0. Mimico had played rough all season, the coach explained, and a number of red cards made it a messy game. But, by the end, the K-W squad rallied and won the game 10-6. “We definitely had to give them a speech: ‘this is the last time we are going to get to play together, we really need to work hard for our teammates, for each other.’ I think we were a little nervous going in because the provincial championships are kind of
The K-W U11 girls took home gold at the provincial championships last weekend after beating Mimico 10-6 in finals. [SUBMITTED] a big deal. I think once the able to get back to having girls got used to that, they fun,” said Lubert. got over their fear and were The K-W girls took home
the gold to the awe of their coaches. It was a beginner’s year all around, Lubert explained, as the three young women, including Lubert and her sister Jocelyn, started coaching for the first time this year. The win was a huge accomplishment for both players and the three staff who braved an unusually cold day on the field. “We had a great group of girls. We really had a chance to watch them grow as a team and it was phenomenal watching them in the final game. They looked for each other, made smart passes – it was really, really great watching them gel together.”
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Then, in times of war, I’d drop the troops behind enemy lines with the appropriate tools and crates of trailer hitches to install on the vehicles of our foes. I suspect the enemy would limp over and offer their unconditional surrender within a week. Not to belabour the point, but trailer hitches are the main reason people buy canoes or kayaks. And yet there is not one
question on the boater’s safety course regarding them. And that’s ludicrous, if you ask me. I know at least 20 people who have been blindsided by trailer hitches. And I once saw a friend get knee-capped by a trailer hitch twice in two minutes. And that was before he installed it. The only reason why we don’t hear more about it is that everyone who gets winged by a hitch is too embarrassed to speak out.
It’s the outdoors equivalent of walking into a closed sliding door. And it’s just as common, too. The trailer hitch accident could happen any time after the owner of the vehicle has disconnected the trailer. From that point on the hitch is biding its time, waiting in ambush. Typically, it lulls you into a false sense of security by allowing you to pass unharmed two, maybe three times. Soon you ac-
tually forget that a trailer hitch lurks at the back of your vehicle. So you throw caution to the wind and walk closely and at a brisk speed. That’s when the trailer hitch strikes. So why do we keep them? Well, we haven’t found a better way to attach a trailer to a vehicle. And, besides, they serve other purposes too. For instance, there’s still nothing better than a trailer hitch to help you find
your vehicle in the dark. And, remember, without trailer hitches we couldn’t enjoy the majestic sight of a rubber bull scrotum swinging rhythmically on the vehicle ahead of us. I, for one, don’t want to live in a civilization where this form of self-expression is stymied. There are probably other reasons why trailer hitches are important to us, though as I sit here holding my shins, I can’t think of them.
All I know is that the Boating Safety people should at least advise us to place caution tape around the back of any vehicle that has a trailer hitch attached. And would it hurt them to add one or two questions about why short-legged people should never turn their backs on one? Then maybe summer around the tailgate would be a little safer. Or, at least, it could go off without a hitch.
Elmira Aquaducks shine at semi-finals Coach praises teamwork after strong showing; swimmers now getting ready for final competition ELENA MAYSTRUK A strong performance by members of the Elmira Aquaducks in semi-final competition last weekend earned swimmers topeight finishes and praise from coaches at the summer meet in Elmira. Both individual and relay swimmers made it to the next round, many for all three of their chosen events, said head coach Victoria Nicholson. She said she was pleased with the overall positive attitude at the meet and the loud support swimmers received from teammates. “We sat at the side of the pool. They were all hanging over the edge cheering them on. I just like how we all work as a team.” This week the team members enjoyed their successes while the qualifiers polished their skills for the finals taking place August 10 at the University of Guelph pool.
Aquaduck Kaitlynn Stickaey gives a thumbs up. “I think it went really well. Energy was good and the kids were all excited. We had a lot of swimmers that made it to the finals,” said Nicholson. Facing Fergus and Kincardine next, Nicholson feels that the latter presents her team’s biggest competition in terms of coaching techniques as well as skill. “They have really good
coaches: they are just intimidating sometimes. They have a lot of younger kids that are really good at their strokes.” In preparation, the Aquaducks are working on strengthening sprints and dives, as well as strokes and turns to help swimmers cut down their times. Nicholson said it’s important to go over rules and regulations to avoid disqualifications. This season the club has seen more members join its ranks, she noted. As older swimmers migrate to deeper waters, 8- and 9-year-old swimmers are hitting the Woolwich Memorial Centre pool. “We have five 8-and-under boys, which is a lot for us because we don’t usually have any on our team. We’re getting a lot of new younger swimmers.” After the semi-finals, the swimmers get a break before the fall session in September.
Finals qualifiers Katie Carreon and Makayla Lemp practiced at the WMC pool this week. Aquaduck summer finals take place August 10 at the University of Guelph campus. [ELENA MAYSTRUK / THE OBSERVER]
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Two rounds, two holesin-one for former King WILL SLOAN Many are the golfers who have dreamed of a perfect stroke, sending the ball from tee to hole with one fluid motion. Shane Smith – a former Elmira Sugar King who describes himself as “just your average Sunday golfer, or a little better” – unwittingly bested them all when he sunk two holesin-one on consecutive weekends, July 14 and 21. The odds of landing a hole-in-one are estimated at 12,500 to 1 – not too shabby for someone who has “only played a handful of times” this year. Hinting that luck may have been a factor in his unexpected success at the
Doon Valley Golf Club, Smith posited that “maybe the wind” had something to do with it. “My dad always told me to aim for the middle of the green, and that’s what I did. I kind of played a little draw, and good things happened.” Added grandfather Noel Smith, “He didn’t even mention it to the golf course. He said, ‘I might have to buy them a beer, and I need all my money.’ I said, ‘No, you don’t buy them a beer, they buy you a beer!’” Smith, age 22, is home for the summer after studying at Algonquin College in Ottawa. In 2011, he was part of the Sugar Kings roster
that won the Sutherland Cup, and finds that, polo T-shirts aside, golf and hockey are not totally dissimilar. “You have to be in the zone,” said Smith. “It’s all about mental preparation. I guess the average golfer wouldn’t use his brain as much as a pro, but it’s still the same parts of the body, the same physical element, minus the contact. So, how did he fare for the rest of his games? “Well, both of them were actually my best rounds of the year, which are only an 85 and an 84,” said Smith. “But the next hole, I put it into the hazard both times on the tee shot, so…”
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Rain posing some issues, but local crops faring well After last year’s early frost and very dry summer, farmers aren’t overly inclined to fret about the rain
New effort launched to make spuds sexy to buyers
WILL SLOAN If you’re a farmer, you know that the perfect weather is a delicate equilibrium. Heat? Yes – but too much heat leads to storms, or worse, drought. Moisture? Sure – but too much moisture means spoiled crops and an ocean of mud. Last year, farmers suffered a severe drought that led to an irrigation crisis. So, with the summer growing season in full swing, how are the weather gods treating our food in 2013? A new crop report from the Ministry of Agriculture and Food (OMAF) and Ministry of Rural Affairs (MRA) has shown that excessive rain in July has posed a big challenge to many farmers in Ontario, with those making hay and soybeans particularly affected. But for others, the mix of moisture and warmth has been just right. “So far for us, it’s been an almost perfect season,” said Steve Martin, retail sales manager at Martin’s Family Fruit Farm (1420 Lobsinger Line), which grows apples. “The rains, when they come, have been just about right for us. The time period there at the end of June, beginning of July – we actually had less rain at the end of April and beginning of May than we usually do, which was really good for us.” He added, “From thereon, the apples, they just thrived on that rain, and then the hot spell – they’re growing really, really well.” But not everyone is happy, notes Martin. “The strawberry growers had a rough time this year because of all the rain. Most growers didn’t get the crop they would normally get … This week I can’t get any spinach from my local spinach store, because the storm on Friday [July 19] literally wrecked his crop
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Steve Martin of Martin’s Family Fruit Farm spots the apples beginning to bloom. Last summer’s poor weather meant a disastrous season for the produce business. for a couple of weeks. And I know anybody trying to get hay, it was almost impossible.” According to the OMAF/ MRA report, haymakers have been the most severely affected, with rain damage and heating making “horse quality” first-cut hay very limited. The rainy weather has also posed a problem for soybean producers, with some areas suffering tile run, root rots, and pale crops. “My sense is, it’s been very variable, according to the crop and the exact location,” said Anna Contini, manager of Foodlink Waterloo Region. “Even with the [storm] we had last week, some farm fields were directly affected – with high winds and heavy rains – and others were not at all.”
Stuart Horst of Floralane Produce is one farmer for whom the weather has posed a bit of a problem. “Our cabbages were a little bit challenged in the last planting because it was too wet, so we got those out a little bit late,” he said. In addition, his farm contended with the heat wave of July 15-19. “Our primary business here is growing greenhouse tomatoes, and that heat was certainly a lot of stress on the crop in the greenhouse.” Still, he confirms that for the most part, things have
been running on schedule. “We do about 30 acres of sweet corn, and it wasn’t too bad getting out. A little bit catchy, but we got it all out in about 7-10 days. We don’t have big problems this year.” Indeed, despite the challenges, many local farmers are rebounding from a lackluster 2012, when a prolonged summer heat wave and early frost put harvesters to the test. “For the most part, it’s been good – little bit darker weather in May/June, but lots of moisture. I wouldn’t want to complain
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about too much moisture, because last year we had to irrigate a lot,” said Horst. “Last year, we actually ploughed down between 15 and 20 acres of sweet corn, and we didn’t harvest a couple acres of cabbage. So far, I’d certainly rather have this year than last year.” Martin’s farm is also seeing improvement, with fields full of apples growing in anticipation of the prime September/October harvesting. “Last year we didn’t have a crop, and that had to do with the early frost. Our apple crop was almost totally destroyed. Seeing the apples on the trees this year growing very well … With the forecast for the next little while, not too hot so we don’t have any storms, that’s perfect for us.”
Potato farmers have had a rough ride. Unlike beef farmers, who had an entire nation here rally around them when the chips were down, or dairy farmers, who have celebrities wearing a milk moustache, potato farmers have been left high and dry over the years from misinformation. The anti-carbohydrate movement took the wind from their sails, and they never got it back. They’ve had few friends and even fewer champions, save for a handful of level-headed and frustrated food scientists, nutritionists and even marketers who reel at the absurdity of a carbohydrate-free diet. True, potatoes rate relatively high on the glycemic index. Researchers at the University of Guelph and elsewhere are working on creating low glycemic varieties that will have special appeal to diabetics. But for most people, potatoes have many virtues, besides being affordable. They’re a great source of carbohydrates, and any credible source recognizes that the complex carbohydrates provided by products such as potatoes are vital for several important functions. Among them, they provide energy for working muscles and prevent protein from being used as energy. The problem is that fresh potatoes are often incorrectly associated with their processed brethren, the type of product that when you eat too many – like the amount you’d get eating a whole ROBERTS | 13
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bag of chips, for example, instead of a few, or from eating French fries every day – they’re likely to get stored as fat. Eating sensible amounts, and exercising, changes that outcome. However, in our zeal to find a culprit and a quick fix for obesity, we’ve made potatoes walk the plank. And here’s an irony: although we vilify potatoes for our health woes, we continue to find new ways to heap fat on them
(e.g. poutine) and devour them. But scrape the fat off a potato, and it’s pretty good stuff. It’s loaded with vitamin C and potassium, and it’s even a fibre source if eaten with the skin on. At home, though, people are avoiding them. Over the past two decades, fresh potato consumption in North America has dropped by 40 per cent. It’s threatening the potato culture that once thrived here. A study con-
ducted this spring of more than 200 Ontario consumers showed that most people are too unfamiliar with the assorted potato varieties to make informed purchasing decisions. They know certain varieties are more suited to specific uses (mashing, boiling or baking, for example), but just barely. This, in the province home to the university (Guelph) where the globally renowned Yukon Gold potato was created. As a result, Ontario
farmers, who have superb potato-growing capacity, have missed a lot of opportunities. But a new effort, supported by the federal government, is underway to change that. A group that includes the Ontario Potato Board (representing farmers), Downey Farms, Loblaw and the Oakville-based Value Chain Management Centre, is reaching out to 1,000 consumers in the province to figure out what people want out of their potatoes.
The centre’s Martin Gooch says most consumers actually hold fresh potatoes dear. But, he says, most don’t automatically understand their role in a healthy, balanced diet. Nor do they view spuds as a product that they buy for what he calls “the experience.” In a grocery store, they don’t browse through the potato bins the same way they sashay down the apple aisle. They don’t seek out potatoes with funky colours
(purple, for example) and plan meals around them. “Potatoes are viewed more as a relatively cheap and dependable staple food, versus providing excitement and a reason to value them beyond that of a commodity,” he says. So just how do you go about making potatoes exciting? Well, that’s what he and the research group will tell us over the next few weeks. Their initial report is due out shortly. Stay tuned.
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Putting a new Twist on the story of Oliver! Drayton Festival Theatre to stage the musical production of Dickens’ classic story, which runs August 14-31 WILL SLOAN It’s been 175 years since Charles Dickens penned Oliver Twist, and with each new film, theatre, and “Great Illustrated Classics” retelling, this story of a poor cockney lad grows ever more familiar. As the Drayton Festival Theatre prepares for another revival of Oliver!, the much-loved musical adaptation, does director Tracey Flye feel intimidated trying to breathe new life into this old warhorse? “No … I think as a director, you always have to look at things from a fresh perspective and not try to leave that much weight on it,” said Flye. “That can leave you mired in, ‘Oh my goodness! Oh my goodness!’ You have to look at it as a brand new thing.” This might seem easier said than done, but for Flye, a key to adapting the play is considering its contemporary parallels. “You have a story that is universal about good overcoming evil,” she said. “You’re dealing with child labour in 1837, but we see stuff all the time about kids in clothing factories. All of that is still sadly happening.” She continued, “I think there’s an interesting relationship between Nancy and Bill Sykes. She’s obviously an abused woman, and she stays with him for a very long time. That’s something that unfortunately still echoes in our society.” Not to mention income
“MOOORE?!” Can this scene be anything other than kitsch? “I encourage the cast to play things honestly,” she said. “The way it’s written is that Mr. Bumble responds in that way because he can’t believe a child would question his authority, or have the balls or cheekiness to still be hungry. As long as [the actors] react honestly to what’s happening, that moment lives as anyone would expect it to.” This attitude sums up her overall approach, Flye says. “It has a little bit of a darker edge to it – not that it’s scary and foreboding and inaccessible – but I’ve tried to be a little more honest with it and not play up the musical-comedy.” Whether it’s your first helping of Oliver! or you’re coming back for “MOOORE,” the show runs at the Drayton Festival Theatre from August 14 to 31. Tickets can be ordered at draytonentertainment. com, or by calling 519-638-5555.
Thirteen-year-old Aiden Tye considers himself at home as Oliver Twist in the new production of the musical at the Drayton Festival Theatre. inequality, of which little Oliver is only too aware. Certainly there are plenty of places – including some not far from home – with kids living distinctly Oliver-esque lives. “These are all things where we don’t go, ‘Oh yeah, way back then when that used to happen, and doesn’t exist anymore.’ A lot of it still does, which is sort of sad, but it allows us
to look at it from a different perspective.” OK, so contemporary relevance is established, but there are other challenges. W.C. Fields – a man familiar with Dickens adaptations – often advised never to work with children or animals. With Oliver!, Flye directs a choir of 24 child singers, in addition to the young cast. But, despite this harsh sentiment,
Flye has warm words for the cast, particularly the 13-year-old star. “Aiden Tye is extraordinary. What I love about him is, he has a real maturity. He’s only 13 years old, but I would speak to him as an adult, and he gets it, but then he can go off and play with the kids. It makes me really happy, because he’s a kid.” Perhaps it’s possible to
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ELMIRA-BASED COMPANY LOOKING to hire an experienced float driver/heavy equipment operator on a full time basis. Must hold a valid Z/A license, be a selfstarter and able to work as a team member. Job requires equipment maintenance and occasional overnight periods away from home. Please e-mail or fax resume and references to rick@sittlergrinding.com or fax to 1-877-773-8004. LOCAL POULTRY FARM looking for part time employee. Will include some weekend hours. Fax resume to: 519-669-4072. YOUTH CO-ORDINATOR TRINITY United Church in Elmira is seeking an enthusiastic and self-starting individual. Responsibilities are with youth from grades 6 - 12 providing strong leadership and guidance. The candidate can expect to devote approximately 10 hrs/week, including meeting with the Junior Co-ordinator, staff meetings, Sunday School involvement and special event planning. Interviews will commence in August. Please send your resume to triunited@golden. net or fax 519-669-8423.
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Kitchener - Featuring controlled entry in welcoming lobby. Casual Elegance in this updated 2 bdrm, 2 bath, condo complete w/sep DR & in-suite laundry. Excellent location w/easy access to 401, shopping, Conestoga College & close to trails. Well maintained building w/indoor pool, exercise rm, party rm, sauna & underground parking! Recent updates: Laminate flooring, Baths 2013, Kit cabinets 2009. All appliances incl’d. Just move in & enjoy! MLS 1324629. Call Paul or Alli Direct
$245,000
$286,000
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Drayton - Room for the kids to run on lg 165ft x 66ft 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.
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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.
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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.
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Make your dream of home ownership come true with this spacious end unit link home in desirable Elmira. Carpet free main floor within walking distance to schools & downtown. Garage & side entrance into backyard. Walkout patio. Lrg ensuite in master bedroom. Walk in closet, 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 baths, single garage, 3 car driveway, large front porch! MLS#1327814
$264,288
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$249,000 Great 2 bedroom updated home, new windows, floors, roof, inside trim, doors and kitchen cupboards. Very well kept with nice size yard with mature trees, and oversized garden shed. MLS ADDRESS: 3 Arthur
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$40,000
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Players from the Elmira Theatre Company are in Embro this weekend for Western Ontario Drama League Mini Fest. Each of the community theatre groups will be staging its take on The Triumphant Embarrassment of Willy Last, with performances open to the public. On Monday night, the ETC contingent performed for a local audience, accepting free-will donations for the Woolwich food bank. About 65 people attended, providing some 20-25 bags of groceries. Directed by Kathy Fahey, the play features, from left, Colleen Holt, Dan Holt, Caleb Fahey, Katrina Rigelhof, Jared Wilson and John Fielding.
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$444,900. Drayton. Stunning custom bungalow with numerous features;
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
38 KNAPP ROAD & 150 BROOKMEAD STREET, ELMIRA
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.
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358 ARTHUR STREET SOURTH, ELMIRA
$359,900. Pride in Ownership is obvious in this one
owner raised bungalow! Beautifully maintained home offering newer décor, updated baths, spacious lower level with family room and large games room and walk-up from laundry/mudroom. Walkout off the dinette to the covered verandah and private patio. MLS
NEW PRICE | OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS | BRUSSELS $419,900. 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
GOOD STARTER | DRAYTON Visit our Bungalow offered at $346,000 & Backsplit offered at $374,900. Model homes now for sale! Immediate possession available. Both homes offer hardwood and ceramic flooring, gorgeous custom kitchens with ample of storage, gas fireplace. FREE Central Air with a firm offer by Aug 31st!!! Come and see these beautiful homes. EXCLUSIVE
RESTORED CENTURY HOME $399,900. The home offers a blend of modern
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
STUNNING HOME
$316,900. ELMIRA WOW!! Completely finished from top to bottom!! Main floor offer hardwood & ceramic floors, maple kitchen (appl included), walkout to lovely fenced yard, deck & shed, 3 bdrms, 2 bathrooms, finished basement with rec room & office. NEW MLS
$215,000. Lots of value in this bungalow on edge of town. Detached garage/workshop. Gas fireplace. New windows. Roof 07, new hot water heater owned, nice yard. Call Dale. MLS 1327520
QUALITY INVESTMENT | MILVERTON $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
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
$1,250,000.
LOCATION! LOCATION! $447,000. ELMIRA Sought after mature tree lined street. Walkout to private
backyard with stamped concrete patio, small pond backing onto trees. Well maintained two storey offers hardwood & ceramic floors, updated eat-in kitchen, main floor family and living room, 3 bdrms, 2 baths, finished basement. MLS
RANCH BUNGALOW $434,900. HESSON Situated 20 mins from Elmira. Wonderful ½ acre country
property, 4 bdrm 3 bathroom 2318 sq.ft home with newly renovated basement offering an amazing entertaining space plus list of other updates! Great detached 12’x20’ heated workshop. 2009 Geo-Thermal Heating/Cooling. MLS
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GARAGE SALES LARGE FAMILY GARAGE/MOVING Sale. Sat. July 27th, 8a.m. - ? 1520 Balsam Grove Rd. 5 miles east of Elmira. Dishes, lawn equipment, furniture, toys, games, antiques and misc. items.
$689,900 Custom built & nestled in the trees & backing to farmland. MLS
$299,000 Loaded with character & backing on to a wooded area. MLS
$419,900 Canadian building manufacturer of all sizes, shapes & lengths of wood columns and posts. All their manufacturing & wood- working equipment is for auction. SOME ITEMS INCLUDE: 2 in 1 Wood Turning & Sanding Lathe — 24’ Bed, Wood Turning Lathe — 10’ Bed, Cap & Base Machine, Delta 10” Radial Arm Saw & Stand, Murphy Industrial Dust Collection System, Porch Post Lathe Knappe 14” Tilt Arbor Saw, Craftex Wood Shaper, Knappe 24” Planer, Progress 4 Ft. Stroke Belt Sander, Brooks 6” Joiner, General 14” Band Saw, Progress Belt Sander, Delta Industrial 12” Radial Arm Saw, Kiln Dried Pine, Hyster HD Outdoor Fork Lift & MORE!!!
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FAMILY ALBUM ANNIVERSARY
BIRTHDAY
GRADUATION
THANK YOU
Happy 45th Anniversary Don & Nancy Richards
Happy 90th Birthday Irene
Sarah Hilker
Thank-you in memory of Brandon Nickel
Love from all of your Family xxoo
STAG & DOE
Irene Cunningham turns 90 August 2nd Love / From Daughters, Bev (Murray) Lorentz, Marilyn (Jim) Brearley, Her 6 Grandchildren, 8 Great Grandchildren and, 1 Great Great Grandson
Congratulations Sarah on becoming a Registered Provincial Nurse. Sarah graduated from Conestoga College and has accepted a fulltime job at Leisureworld LTCF in Elmira. We are so proud of you Sarah!
We would like to extend a heartfelt thank-you to everyone for your condolences, cards, words of comfort,support, flowers,food, gifts, donations and assistance with the service following the passing of our son and brother Brandon. Your kindness is truly appreciated and will always be remembered. Sincerely, Brad, Penny, Brittany & Bailey Nickel.
Love, Doug, Becky, Emily & Sandy
BRINGING ALL SENSES INTO PLAY
Stag & Doe for Ryan McMillan and Amanda Burlock Saturday, July 27, 2013, 8 p.m. – 1 a.m. At Elmira Legion $10 per ticket Games – Prizes – Food DEATH NOTICES HEIPEL, JOHN H. | At his home near Wallenstein, on
Wednesday, July 10, 2013 in his 85th year. PERGEL, VIOLET (TOMAS) | Peacefully, at Pinehaven Nursing
Home, Waterloo, Monday, July 22, 2013, Violet (Tomas) Pergel, formerly of St. Joseph, RR 2, Zurich, age 91. Local relatives are her daughter Julia Twynstra (Peter) of Heidelberg. QUIRK, SHARON EARLDINE | Suddenly passed away on
Thursday, July 18, 2013 with her family by her side at the St. Mary’s General Hospital, in her 72nd year. Local relative is her sister Audrey Sippel of Elmira. YOST, ELVIRETTA CLAUDIA | Peacefully at Sunnyside Home on
Tuesday, July 23, 2013. The Former Elviretta Claudia Wicke, aged 96 years. Local relatives are her daughter Carol Ann Marshall and her husband Blaine of Elmira.
Two-year-old Myla Carroll enjoys the new sensory wall at the Kate’s Place for Everyone playground in Elmira’s Gibson Park, where installation took place last week. Kate’s Kause founder Kelly Meissner was nominated for Walmart’s Mom of the Year award, with voting open at momoftheyear.ca until August 1. [WILL SLOAN / THE OBSERVER]
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DEVELOPMENT AID / FEEDING THE HUNGRY
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With new processing facility in former Moorefield lumber yard, aid group takes food that would otherwise be discarded and turns it into dried soup stock sent to impoverished nations ELENA MAYSTRUK Ontario farmers annually produce more than 25 million pounds of food that is either thrown out or ploughed back into their fields – not because there’s anything wrong with it, but because the items aren’t chosen for sale due to aesthetic reasons such as size, shape or colour. Factor in waste at the processing, retail and home – adding up to $27 billion across the country – and a huge amount of good food goes into the trash bin even as hundreds of millions go malnourished around the globe. That situation is what prompted a Moorefield organization to try to make a difference one bowl at a time. Area food that might otherwise go wasted ends up feeding thousands. The Reapers of Hope drying program was launched in April out of a former building-supply yard that was renovated last fall. A branch of the Christian Aid Ministries of Waterloo, the organization’s volunteers and employees take donations of surplus produce from local farmers and turn them into dried vegetable soup mix that is then shipped to impoverished people around the world. “The original idea came from British Columbia. There’s a place called the [Fraser Valley] Gleaners in Abbotsford where they process a lot of fruits for the same reason. Then there’s a company called the Ontario
Clara Stevens was one of about 40 Reapers of Hope volunteers cleaning potatoes for the organization’s drying program the morning of July 24. Produce donated by local farm businesses is turned into soup mix for the poor and sent overseas. [ELENA MAYSTRUK / THE OBSERVER] Christian Gleaners out of Cambridge started five years ago based on the same thing – we get a lot of our information from them,” said Reapers of Hope general manager Irvin Kraemer. Much of the work is labour-intensive, explained warehouse manager David Martin, who oversees the process. He sees hundreds of pounds of vegetables and potatoes stored in the facility’s two walk-in refrigerators, food that would otherwise be discarded by pro-
ducers because it is deemed unfit to go to market. Small imperfections like discolouration, bruised spots or small patches of decay mar the products (a recent batch of carrots didn’t make the grade because they were simply too big to be sold in stores). The imperfections can be easily picked off or cut away to reveal still nutritious, edible and healthy foods. “That’s the whole name of the game. This food will be packaged and then it will be
distributed through Christian Aid Ministries to Third World countries like Romania, Haiti. You take a threepound bag of soup, soak it in 25 litres of water overnight and that’ll make 100 servings. And we will also be packaging in one-pound packages,” Kraemer said. First, the produce is washed and volunteers gather around two large conveyor belts to cut out blemishes and dark spots. The veggies are then finely chopped by a machine
and placed on a conveyor belt that feeds into a dryer. About 200 three-pound bags of dried soup mix are made in a day, providing approximately 6,000 meals shipped to people around the world, said Kraemer. To date, the organization has dried and packaged 15 sorts of vegetables, including green beans, broccoli, carrots, eggplants and peas, as well as potatoes and yams. Each bag, roughly the dimensions of an 8.5x11 sheet of paper, can make about 100 servings of soup. “It’s our heart’s desire that some poor people will find relief and fulfillment,” Martin said. The program is funded entirely by charitable donations made to Christian Aid Ministries. Every nutritious bit of product is used. “What we are doing now is still last year’s potatoes – they were in cold storage – but we are pretty well getting to the end of last year’s crop and some of this year’s crop is coming in,” Kraemer said this week. Most of the donated potatoes come from Downey Farms in Shelbourne, he added. In the short time since the program’s launch, organizers have seen a large response from the Waterloo Region, mostly from church communities, but also from other willing volunteers. There have even been some come from as far as Nova Scotia and Manitoba. Food is cleaned, chopped and dried three times a week, with about 40 volunteers doing much of the work each time.
RECIPE NOTES I don’t know about you guys, but my herb garden is running rampant. Last week, I had so much cilantro, but had no tomatoes to make salsa. I didn’t want the herb to go to waste, so I thought, ‘why not try cilantro pesto?’ Well, I tried it out and the results were amazing. This past weekend I was wondering what to do with all the sage that was growing in the garden as well. I thought, ‘I wonder if sage pesto would taste good?’ Again, it was a good choice. Traditional pesto consists of basil, pine nuts, parmesan, olive oil, lemon juice and garlic. But I like to keep my basil pesto nut-free so I can use in it my recipes freely without having to worry about nut allergies. In the end, pesto can really be made from many different herbs, with nuts or without and always with parmesan cheese, olive oil, lemon juice and garlic. Pesto is something that can be used in many different ways as well, so it’s always a wonderful ingredient to have on hand and even better when made fresh by your own hands. You can use it to make pasta sauces, salad dressings
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COMMUNITY CAN DINE – “Where the entire community comes together to meet and eat,” hosted at Trinity United Church, 21 Arthur St. N. Elmira. 6 – 7:30 p.m. Menu: corn on the cob, sausages and salad. Free (donations appreciated to cover costs). Everyone welcome. This event is offered on the 2nd Friday of every month. For more information please contact Kelly at WCS or email ccd@trinityunitedelmira.ca Brought to you by Local service groups, Woolwich Community Services and Trinity United Church.
WEDNESDAY AUGUST 14, 6 p.m. Breslau August Ride. Two options: 20km and 27km. Ride starts at the Breslau Recreation Centre, 100 Andover Drive, Breslau. Free parking. This ride, at the southern part of Woolwich Township, goes through tranquil pasture land on quiet roads and is mostly flat. There will be a short (20km) and a long (27km) version. Both start and end at the Breslau Recreation Centre and are similar, with the longer ride taking an extra section. The roads are paved with the exception of 2 km of gravel. Cue sheets and maps for this ride are found at: Short route at http://ridewithgps.com/routes/2301999 Long route at http://ridewithgps.com/ routes/2302037.
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AUGUST 8 THE TRAVELLIN’ RABBIT MAGIC Show with Owen Anderson; 2 p.m. 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 Elmira Branch Library at 519-669-5477 or elmlib@ regionofwaterloo.ca.
AUGUST 13 CAPTAIN CAM: SUPERHERO! AT 2:30 p.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 Pym’s Village Market. For more information please contact the Wellesley Branch Library at 519-656-2001 or wellslib@ regionofwaterloo.ca. Tickets are limited so buy yours today. ELECTRONIC BINGO UPSTAIRS AT the St. Clements Community Centre, 7 p.m. Sponsored by the Paradise & District Lions Club. For further information, contact Joe Brick 519-699-4022.
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Hockey players’ lost teeth mean toothpaste savings, but also other expenses WEIRD NOTES
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ling sports curiosity for you to sink your teeth into: Given all the lost teeth in hockey games, how much money has the National Hockey League (NHL) and its players saved on toothpaste over the years?
A. With hockey players
routinely getting hit in the mouth with a puck or stick, tooth loss has remained fairly constant, even after the introduction of helmets, says physicist Aaron Santos in “Ballparking:
Practical Math for Impractical Sports Questions.� First, let’s assume that an average of 1 tooth is lost per player per season (a typical adult has 28 teeth). Each team dresses 20 players (18 skaters and 2 goalies), so there are, on average, 20 lost teeth per team per season. One can estimate the total number of teeth lost in NHL history as follows: NUMBER OF TEETH = 20 (per team per year) x 15 (teams) x 90 (years) = 27,000 teeth, or roughly 1000 mouths’ worth. Next, let’s say that a player might live another 50 years not having to brush those missing teeth. With toothpaste costing about $3 per tube, it can be estimat-
ed that NHL players have collectively saved 1,000 mouths’ worth of teeth x $3 per mouth per month x 12 months per year x 50 years = $1,800,000! But, Santos concludes, “this figure must pale in comparison to the collective amount they’ve spent on other dental care!� Q. What’s possibly the best “face-saving� idea to come out of Harvard, this one in the 1870s? Hint: Baseball season permitting, you can spot one on TV any time you want.
A. With the advent of the new curveball, catchers had trouble handling it, at times causing serious injury, says Tony Long in “Mad Science: Edited by
Randy Alfred.� When Harvard catcher James Tyng began getting head-shy, team captain Fred Thayer got the idea of a baseball face mask, taking inspiration from the fencing mask. His new mask “added a forehead pad and chin rest to help absorb the impact of the ball and ... a birdcage face protector to improve visibility.� Thayer and Tyng experimented with various designs before finally trying one out in a regular season game, on April 12, 1877. Tyng originally wore the mask only on two-strike counts, when catching the third strike was essential for recording the out, but soon began wearing it for
or even spread on toast if you like. It also works wonders as a rub for poultry and lamb. Here are a few of the recipes I have had fun with recently; maybe you can try these out or create your own. Â
Cilantro Pesto
2 cups cilantro 1/3 cup pumpkin seeds 1/2 cup parmesan cheese, grated 2 cloves garlic 1/4 tsp black pepper Juice of 1/2 lemon
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Nut-free Basil Pesto 2 cups basil 1/2 cup parmesan cheese, grated 2 cloves garlic 1/4 tsp black pepper Juice of half a lemon 1/4 cup olive oil
1/4 cup olive oilÂ
Sage Pesto
 Add oil, then herbs, and then remaining ingredients to blender and puree until smooth. Will last two weeks in refrigerator, or freeze in small containers for future use.
1 cup sage, packed 1/4 cup fresh mint 1/4 cup fresh Italian parsley 2 cloves garlic 1/2 cup walnuts, toasted 1/2 cup parmesan cheese, grated 1/2 cup olive oil Juice of 1/2 lemon 1/4 tsp black pepper Salt to taste
Chef Ryan Terry owns FLOW Cafe & Catering in Elmira. More information can be found at his website www.flowcatering.ca
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run anywhere from 2 to 12, with 1+1=2 (1 way) and 6+6=12 (1 way) the only 2 ways to get these totals. Intermediate totals are more complex: 3=1+2 or 2+1 (2 ways), 4=1+3 or 3+1 or 2+2 (3 ways), 5=1+4 or 4+1 or 2+3 or 3+2 (4 ways),
ABOUT THE AUTHORS Bill is a journalist, Rich holds a doctorate in physics. Together the brothers bring you “Strange But True.� Send your questions to strangetrue@compuserve.com.
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all pitches. Word quickly spread, and major-league catchers adopted the mask. Thayer’s Patent Harvard Catcher’s Mask initially sold for $3, or about $70 in 2012 dollars. The original is on display in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Q. When rolling a pair of dice, what total are you most likely to get? Are you dice wizards ready for a blizzard of numbers?
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