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LIZ BEVAN AFTER PUTTING HOURS INTO training, and with a lot of heart, two firefighters from Wellesley are heading to Alberta, where their colleagues from all over Canada will be competing in the national FireFit competition in Calgary. The competition takes aspects of the job and turns it into a grueling competitive course, run in full firefighting gear and tracked to see who gets the best finishing times. Ryan Dosman and Madison Lavigne, both volunteer firefighters with the Wellesley Fire Department, scored low enough times in regional competition to earn themselves a spot going up against Canada’s best. The pair competed in the individual category race in Wasaga Beach on July 2 and 3, as well as the pair relay race. Dosman qualified for nationals his first time on the course. That didn’t mean he sat back and relaxed, however. “The rest of the time that we were there, I just kept on racing to try and see if I could make my times a little bit better. I ran that first one in basically two minutes flat. It wasn’t bad,

Dr. Lolita Brain from Mad Science was at the Elmira Library on Wednesday morning, sharing the magic of fire and ice. Here, Dr. Brain shows the kids in the library a shivering polar bear by placing a Toonie in a chunk of dry ice, making it vibrate quickly and loudly. [LIZ BEVAN / THE OBSERVER]

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LIZ BEVAN SUMMER IS HALF OVER but construction season rages on. Luckily for township residents, it’s nothing like the turmoil fuelled by the LRT project in Waterloo and Kitchener. Some projects are wrapping up, others are winding down until next year. In St. Jacobs, King Street has been ripped up in dif-

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The fair season gets rolling next weekend in Drayton Even after 160 years, organizers continue to tweak the event’s offerings in response to public demand cent years, is a hit. “It does really well. Even the mayor gets involved. We’re doing that again this year,” she said. The heavy horse show is starting at 11 a.m. on Saturday, which will be followed by something new, a reining demonstration by Martin Ranch – Chets’ Custom Colts. “It was offered to us. I do believe it was someone on the fair board knew of this gentleman and we decided to have another horse demonstration. This year we’re not having the miniature horse show on Sunday, so we’re always trying to find new ideas to bring people in to check out the fair,” she said.

WHITNEY NEILSON DRAYTON FAIR ORGANIZERS WOULD love to see all this sunshine stick around for the 160th Drayton Fair which opens for another weekend of traditional family fun next weekend with new events and old favourites like the demolition derby and the truck and tractor pulls. The local truck and tractor pull kicks off the fair on Aug. 5 at 6:30 p.m. Natalie Green, Drayton Mapleton Agricultural Society secretary, says they tried adding log sawing to the fair last year, but it didn’t go over well, likely due to people not knowing about it. But the excavator games, also added in re-

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Our rush to beat the heat a boon for GRCA and its waterside parks LIZ BEVAN BLAZING SUNSHINE, SOARING TEMPERATURES and prolonged droughts: summer is back in earnest this year. For beating the heat, there’s nothing like making a splash, whether it is a trip to the beach, or a dip in a pool. While your lawn might be complaining, it’s been a banner season for the Grand River Conservation Authority, which offers up sun, sand and the closest thing to surf without head-

ing to a lake on a grander – i.e. Great – scale, as landlocked denizens of Waterloo Region are well aware. All throughout the Grand River watershed, there are sandy beaches for wading and tanning, splash pads for a quick spritz of cold water and swimming pools to go take a dive in. GRCA spokesperson Lisa Stocco notes the agency maintains eight different locations for such activities. “They are spread throughout the water-

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shed and the watershed is quite big,” she said. “They are great places to go in the hot weather. Some of them have bathrooms nearby, picnic areas and at the beaches, we have a life jacket loaner program where they will loan you a life jacket for a small deposit or hold on to your identification. It is a really great program.” To keep the beaches safe and ready for sunbathers and swimmers, Stocco says the GRCA does twiceweekly testing for E. coli, and does their best to keep

users informed. Recently, E. coli was found to be higher than Ministry of Health regulations at the beach in the Conestoga Lake Conservation Area just south of Drayton. “The guideline from the Ministry of Health is 100 E. coli per 100 ml of water, but the beach isn’t closed,” she said. “It is posted, and people can choose if they want to swim there. We recently had a big rain event, and sometimes, that can make a difference in the testing. The best thing is to remind people to look

at our website. We post the test results as soon as we have the information and we typically test about two times per week.” The recommendation is to keep your head above water if swimmers decide to take a dip at the Conestogo Lake beach. Don’t swallow any water, and don’t open your eyes under water to reduce the chance of getting ill. The positive test doesn’t mean the lake is unswimmable, Stocco says they just want to keep everyone up to date with the latest

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information. “Just check our website,” she said. “They will see when we last updated it and as soon as a new sample is taken, and we receive the test results, it is on our website. They can count on it being up to date. E coli is the only thing we test for at the beaches.” Along with Conestogo Lake, there are plenty of other beaches that will be open on a hot day. Near Fergus, beachgoers can stop by Belwood Park to take a dip. The Elora Quarry’s beach is surrounded by cliffs, for a change of scenery. For something a bit bigger, visit Guelph Lake. A bit closer to the city, Laurel Creek in Waterloo has a beach waiting for towels and umbrellas. There are also beaches in Paris, Rockwood and at Shade’s Mills in Cambridge. A bit closer to home, the Woolwich Memorial Centre is open to the public during certain hours of the day. The facility hosts public swim from Monday to Friday from 1:15 to 3:15 p.m., and from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the weekends for $5 for adults. On Friday nights, the pool is open for the Toonie swim at 7 p.m. In Wellesley, there is a splash pad open from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. every day until September for a quick cool down. For more information on the beaches in the GRCA area, visit their website at www.grandriver.ca. For a full swimming schedule at the WMC, visit www.woolwich.ca.

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Daylight break-ins prompt call for increased vigilance MEMBERS OF THE ONTARIO Provincial Police (OPP) West Region Crime Unit along with detachment investigators are urging citizens to report any and all suspicious people to police immediately after noticing a spike in daylight breakand-enter incidents across the region. West Region OPP has investigated 25 incidents since the spring. In most cases expensive jewellery and cash has been taken. The modus operandi (MO) is the same in each instance, police report. Suspect(s) enter the home through an unlocked door, window or garage. In situations where the doors are locked, the suspect(s) will knock on the door and if no one answers, may forcibly enter the home. In instances when the homeowner answers the door, the suspect will use a ruse such as being interested in the real estate, asking

for directions or engaging the homeowner is some other form of deception to deflect from their criminal intent. The suspect(s), usually a female (at the door) and male (in an awaiting vehicle) have been travelling extensively across the West Region committing these crimes. Witness accounts have described the suspects as 35-65 years of age with a heavy foreign accent. The OPP encourages all homeowners to always lock doors, windows and garages to help prevent these crimes from happening. Police encourage anyone who observes suspicious activity, people or vehicles to report it to police immediately by dialing 911. If you wish to remain anonymous you can call Crime Stoppers at 1-800222-8477 (TIPS) where you may be eligible for a cash reward of up to $2,000.

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3:15 PM | Wellington County OPP received a traffic complaint about a northbound 2006 Toyota on Wellington Road 7, Centre Wellington Township. Police located the vehicle and spoke with a male driver, who displayed signs of being impaired by alcohol and was arrested. Further investigation revealed that his licence was under suspension and the vehicle did not have insurance. He was arrested and brought to a local OPP operations centre for further testing. The 49-year-old Harriston man was charged with ‘driving while impaired by alcohol,’ ‘driving with more than 80 mgs of alcohol in blood,’ ‘drive while suspended’ and ‘owner operate motor vehicle – no insurance.’ His driver’s licence has been suspended for 90 days and the vehicle impounded for a period of seven days.

4:25 PM | The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry conducted a three-day enforcement blitz in Wellington County, Waterloo Region and Brant County. From July 15 to 17, conservation officers from the Guelph, Aurora and Midhurst enforcement units checked 503 anglers for compliance with the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act, Ontario Fishery Regulations and public safety laws. A total of 41 charges and 82 warnings were issued for offences including fishing without a licence, angling with more than the permitted number of lines, not carrying a licence when fishing, trespassing to fish and using barbed hooks in a specially regulated area. Officers also laid charges and issued warnings for safety infractions under the Small Vessel Regulations and for open liquor under the Liquor Licence Act.

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More grants to aid Syrian refugees The Immigration Partnership Council this week announced five new grants to agencies and private sponsorship groups supporting Syrian newcomers. New grants totalling $60,000 under the Immigration Partnership Fund for Syrian Newcomers were approved, bringing total grant-making to $408,970. Among the new grants are $25,000 to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Waterloo Region to provide in-school mentoring

for Syrian children and youth and $25,000 to Muslim Social Services Kitchener-Waterloo to enable Syrian families to identify and address family violence and to empower women. “Applications to the fund show an ongoing need to support both the most immediate settlement needs of Syrian families as well as programming focusing more on their social connectedness, inclusion and success in Waterloo Region,” said Peter Donahue, Immigration Partnership Council chair. “The generous donations of Waterloo Region residents are enabling solid program delivery and helping

families access urgently needed dental treatment.” Community donations up to $400,000 are being matched through The Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation. The Cambridge & North Dumfries Community Foundation has also been collecting donations. The Immigration Partnership Fund for Syrian Newcomers continues to accept applications for support from agencies and private sponsors on a rolling basis. The next deadline is Aug.3. Since last November, more than 29,200 Syrian refugees have arrived

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Florida flights to return from YKF

While other services have been heading south, WestJet will do so literally again this winter, offering seasonal flights from the Region of Waterloo International Airport to Florida. The airline announced this week that weekly service to Orlando will run Tuesdays starting Jan. 24, 2017 and will continue through Apr. 25.

Wellesley volunteer firefighters Ryan Dosman and Madison Lavigne show off their medals from regional FireFit competitions. They are prepping for nationals in Calgary by competing at even more regional races. [LIZ BEVAN / THE OBSERVER]

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but I always want to try and do better. If you have a time, you are always going to want to beat that. You have to try harder the next time,” he said. Lavigne didn’t quite qualify the first go around, but she didn’t give up. After competing at another regional event in Port Elgin a couple of weeks later, she earned her spot. She is also continuing competition, trying to improve on her time. “In Wasaga Beach, I actually didn’t finish the first time. I got half way up with the dummy and tapped

out. Then I went to Port Elgin, and there, I finished and made it with like 12 seconds left. I am actually competing this weekend in Belleville, just to try and get better times before nationals,” she said. Carrying the dummy is a part of the course that Lavigne keeps working during training. “In our two-person relay, I actually dropped the dummy there too, so we didn’t get a great time in that. And for this weekend, we have again been training for two weeks with some proper eating and all that stuff. We have been

practicing and I didn’t drop it once,” she said. For both firefighters, competing in such a difficult race was a personal choice. “For me, this is motivation to keep myself in shape,” said Dosman. “Whether it is for the job or just for my own personal goals. I have always been into fitness and stuff, so this is a way I can put them together.” For Lavigne, part of the joy of the competition is entering as a woman, showing the boys how it’s done and beating her personal best.

“There have been a lot of comments from other women, just about being a female and in this competition. That is one of the reasons that I signed up to do it. Last summer with the relay team, I had set a goal that I was going to do the individual category,” she said. “It is just about preparing. It betters yourself and the community as well. We need to be able to do well.” The duo will be heading to Calgary for Sept. 13. They have set up a gofundme account to help with travel costs. Just search ‘Wellesley FireFit’ to donate.

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No good likely to come of latest court action THERE’S MORE THAN A little bit of déjà vu involved in the stories of legal woes experienced by Woolwich council members, past and present. Former mayor Todd Cowan was sentenced last week for his breach of trust conviction related to double billing the township and Region of Waterloo for expenses he incurred. Current Ward 1 Coun. Scott Hahn learned that he was being summoned to court Aug. 31 in relation to his expense report from the 2014 municipal election. Though not on the same scale, it’s an unpleasant reminder of last summer’s seemingly endless legal challenges involving Woolwich councillors. Cowan’s issues date back to when he was still on council, the discrepancies in his expense claims leading to an investigation by the township and region, then by police before charges were ultimately laid. A long string of adjournments and courtroom no-shows – leading to not one but two arrest warrants for the former mayor – carried on through last year and into this one. With a sentence that won’t give Cowan a criminal record, that saga appears to be closed. For Hahn, however, the grief continues. The rookie councillor’s election expense report was the subject of several hearings by the Municipal Elections Compliance Audit Committee (MECAC), which called for a forensic audit of Hahn’s records before ultimately opting against passing the file on to prosecutors. Now, a year later, a private citizen is looking for the Crown to pick up the pieces, filing private charges against Hahn and prompting a court hearing in a month’s time. Elmira resident Alan Marshall used a similar tactic in bringing Mayor Sandy Shantz to court after MECAC hearings into her election expense filings. In that case, Shantz paid for her own audit and submitted new figures that were ultimately accepted by the committee without recourse to prosecutors. Shantz was forced to go to court of her own accord early on in the proceedings to gain reinstatement to office after her original filing was deemed non-compliant. Coun. Mark Bauman, acclaimed to his seat in 2014, also went that route after Marshall notified the township the Ward 2 representative was in default of the Municipal Elections Act after failing to file an expense report. That set up the rather embarrasing spectacle of half of Woolwich council involved in some form of legal woe, and a former mayor being tried on fraud and breach of trust charges. In Cowan’s case, the drama that wrapped up last week was fully warranted – there were discrepancies and claims that needed to be aired. Marshall’s latest salvo aimed at Hahn can’t be justified, however. The MECAC hearings revealed that Hahn was clearly at fault for not filing a proper election expense report, a fact he freely admitted. The subsequent auditor’s report cast considerable doubt on amended filings, but the committee found Hahn had done nothing with an intent to deceive or receive gain. He didn’t spend beyond the limits, nor did his spending and the poor reporting thereof afterwards have any real impact on the election outcome. While Cowan’s case involved gain and intent, the three current councillors gained no advantage and curried no favour from their oversights. That does not negate the importance of following the rules, however. As was the case with Bauman and Shantz, Hahn had to be called out for mistakes that were clearly his. That was done, as it was in the other cases. Dragging his case back into a courtroom doesn’t serve any community good.

Alan Marshall’s latest court filing action having convinced many in the township he needs a new hobby, suggestions begin pouring in. WORLD VIEW / GWYNNE DYER

Picturing the events of a Trump presidency WORLD AFFAIRS LET US SUPPOSE THAT it is July 2017. Let us suppose that Donald Trump, nominated as the Republican candidate for the U.S. presidency exactly a year ago, won the November election – quite narrowly, perhaps, but the polls are certainly suggesting that such a thing is possible. So he was inaugurated six months ago, and has started to put his campaign promises into effect. We may also assume that the Republican Party retains control of both houses of Congress. If it doesn’t, then Trump’s ability to execute his plans would be seriously circumscribed, but the surge of support that gives Trump victory would probably also give the Republicans a win in some close Senate races. The Republican majority in the House of Representatives, thanks to extensive gerrymandering, is practically fireproof. Trump’s three most dis-

ruptive campaign promises were also the three that had the most appeal to his core voters, and he is implementing them fast. They are: a 40 per cent tariff on all foreign imports, an end to free trade deals, and tight curbs on immigration – especially the famous “wall” on the Mexican border. It won’t actually be a wall, of course. It will be the kind of high-tech barrier that countries build when they are really serious about closing a frontier. There will be a ditch about three metres deep and ten metres wide extending for 3,000 km along the U.S.-Mexican border. It will have a three-metre-high razorwire fence along the front edge of the ditch, facing Mexico, and another along the back edge. The front fence has a high-voltage current running through it. The back fence carries the video and infra-red cameras and motion-sensors that detect attempts to cross the ditch, and the remotely controlled machine-guns that respond to those attempts. There are also

landmines down in the ditch. Why is it so lethal? Because long experience has shown that the only way to really close a border is to kill people who try to cross it. The “wall” is not yet finished in July 2017, of course. It will take several years to complete, at a cost of $30-50 billion. Already, however, there are daily deaths among the tens of thousands of Mexican protesters who gather at the construction sites – and a few among Mexican-American protesters on the other side of the fence as well. The Mexican government, faced with economic disaster as the millions of manufacturing jobs created in Mexico to export back to the United States evaporate, has broken diplomatic relations with Washington, as have several other Latin American nations. State Department experts are worried that a radical nationalist regime may come to power in Mexico, but “establishment experts” are not welcome in the new White House. Negotiations for a Transatlantic Trade and

Investment Partnership between the U.S. and European Union have been broken off, and the Trans-Pacific Partnership will never be ratified by Congress. The legislation for a 40 per cent tariff on foreign imports is still making its way through Congress, as is the bill to end the North American Free Trade Agreement (which is causing panic in Canada, 73 per cent of whose exports go to the United States). The new laws will go through in the end, and the most important casualty will be U.S.-China trade (as Trump fully intends it to be). China is already in a thinly disguised recession, and the impact of the new trade measures will turn it into a political crisis that threatens the survival of the Communist regime. Beijing will certainly respond by pushing forward with the proposed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, which would include 16 nations of the Asia-Pacific region but exclude the DYER | 6

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Even if it’s nice after the apocalypse, it might be better to avoid it EDITOR'S NOTES OUR FREE-RANGE ANCESTORS OF millennia past had no idea what society would become. Not only bereft of a crystal ball of the epic quality needed to do so, they wouldn’t even have the words to conceptualize how humanity would develop. How high the peaks, how utter the failures. Early humans lived simple, often harsh lives. Certainly nothing any of us today – plugged in, awash in comforts – could envision, let alone survive. Nomadic tribal societies grew in size and complexity, developing rituals, hierarchies and eventually systems of governance that invariably became overbearing and corrupt, from monarchs and church leaders to the dictators, in-name-only democrats and oligarchs crushing what remains of our souls and threatening the very planet trodden on by generations uncounted. We still don’t have that magic crystal ball, but from

this vantage it’s easier to predict what lies ahead. Oh, not the specifics of technology, for instance, but perhaps of a downward spiral. Well, at least that’s the picture seen by those of us with a pessimistic take on human nature and the ultimate sell out and die-off. Not everyone sees the situation as quite so dire, the narratives coming out of the U.S. election machine notwithstanding. On the optimistic side, you can count Elmira’s Michael Purves-Smith, even if he’s penned not one, but two books looking at the collapse of society following the death of almost every human on the planet. Writing as M.I. Lastman, the second part of Rocky Mountain Locust follows the continuing story of Jim Easom following a pandemic that kills just about everyone else on the planet. His encounters with a few other survivors and their struggles to create a life for themselves maintains a positive outlook on human potential. Given the miseries humans have inflicted on each other, fellow species and the very earth itself, it may seem strange to believe in the

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pen if we were able to get off the crazy train we’re all riding just now. It’s hard to imagine altering our (collision) course without the kind of catastrophe that leads to the events of Rocky Mountain Locust. Having created that scenario, the author posits a future in which the remaining humans learn to cooperate with each other and with nature, developing an appreciation for a way of life most of us long ago abandoned. While the story can be called post-apocalyptic – in an upbeat, non-Mad-Max way – it’s his concern about avoiding such an eventuality that prompted Purves-Smith to pen the two volumes. “The issue for me is this: how do we solve the problem of the biosphere?” Better to avoid the scenario of Rocky Mountain Locust, working with nature now rather than waiting until after a collapse of human society, he suggests. He sees climate change as the most imminent threat, if not the only one. And he remains optimistic that we can still take steps to mitigate the worst of the impacts. Ideally, we can start taking action

before the perhaps inevitable crisis that will force us into the kind of action we should be doing now as a preventative. Purves-Smith sees a widespread carbon sequestration effort, using nature itself rather than relying on technology, as being helpful, a human-led initiative akin to the natural Azolla event – a mass blooming of a freshwater fern in the Arctic some 49 million years ago that is said to have helped cool the planet at a time when greenhouse gases were far more abundant than even today. He stresses natural fixes over technical ones, noting that our reliance on technology is a large part of the problem. Not only polluting, the energy-intense machinery has added to an already complex world, one most of our ancestors wouldn’t recognize. “The bottom line is that our world is extremely complex,” he notes. “When things work, it’s just fine, but ... complexity has very serious downsides.” Those downsides are readily apparent in Rocky Mountain Locust, most notably when it comes to our energy-

intensive lifestyles. Residual human technology would make the transition to a neo-pre-industrial existence more comfortable, but there would be plenty of threats from now-unmaintained infrastructure, whether the flooding from inevitable hydroelectric dam collapses or potential fallout from nuclear plants. Even injuries and simple diseases would become threatening in the absence of our complex medical equipment and the people to run it. With most people gone, residual human technology would quickly disappear. Right now, we have far more options than the author’s survivors, so we should be in a better position to stave off the worst effects of change. The optimist in Purves-Smith thinks we can rally around the cause. It’s that hope, after all, that drove him to write the books in the first place. That’s reflected in the largely upbeat tone. Readers growing to care about the fate of Jim, Jenny and Caroline as they rebuild their lives might just indicate that we, too, are optimistic.

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goodness of human nature, but Purves-Smith maintains there is hope for us. That’s so even in the midst of some very real existential threats, from climate change to the kinds of epidemic that gives rise to the events of his novels. “I think people are essentially good. Not all of them, of course, but in a crisis we would come together.” The characters of Rocky Mountain Locust certainly find themselves in a crisis situation. Almost everyone is dead, bringing to a halt most of the modern conveniences we take for granted, Some technology such as gasolinefuelled vehicles will continue to work for a few years, and the stockpiles of goods and the very infrastructure might last a little longer still, but eventually they too will fail, leaving us in a state at least somewhat recognizable to our ancestors. There’s one big difference, however, in that the surviving humans have the advantage of hindsight, being able to learn from past mistakes. With his books, PurvesSmith has in essence hit the reset button on humanity, picturing what might hap-

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The recycling of batteries in Canada is up 24% at the midway mark of the year compared to last year, resulting in 1.4 million kg (3.2 million lbs.) recycled year-to-date. Quebec leads the charge on recycling, collecting more than 600,000 kg (1.3 million lbs.). Battery collections in Manitoba also saw a significant increase in collections, up 52% from last year, as did all other provinces, including British Columbia and Ontario, which recorded double-digit growth.

“Everyone loves watching that moment when all the zeros on their car’s odometer roll over, and we thought Premier Wynne might enjoy watching all those zeros of debt she has accumulated turn over today. Now Wynne sees for herself what her government’s nine consecutive deficits have done to our province’s debt.”

Conestoga Meat Packers is getting $350,000 from the provincial government for improvements to its Breslau plant, which will result in the creation of 40 new jobs. Ontario Agriculture Minister Carol Mitchell was in Breslau Tuesday morning to make the funding announcement.

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United States. However, it may also manufacture a military confrontation with the United States to distract popular discontent at home with a foreign threat. The dispute over the South China Sea would do nicely. Japan, which is starting a major military buildup after Prime Minister Abe finally removed the anti-war Article 9 from the constitution in March 2017, will be at America’s side in this confrontation, but its European allies may not. Trump’s pro-Putin posture has not gone down well in the EU, which worries about Russia’s intentions, and his demands that Europe’s NATO members pay more of the alliance’s costs have not helped either. The European Union, still in shock after Britain’s

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Coun. Hahn the victim of a wild goose chase To the Editor, RE: WOOLWICH COUNCILLOR SCOTT Hahn faces new legal challenge (Observer, July 21/16). Alan Marshall, move on, get over yourself and leave good people alone who are trying to make a difference in our community. You selfishly speak for yourself and not the majority. Because you live in this

Brexit vote in 2016, has been further shaken by the near-win of Marine Le Pen, the leader of the far right, anti-EU National Front, in the May run-off of the French presidential elections. The spectre of EU collapse comes nearer, and Europe has no time for America’s Asian quarrels. In the United States, the economy is still chugging along despite the stockmarket crash of November 2016. Trump’s big increase in the military budget, his huge expansion of infrastructure spending (with borrowed money) and the rise in the minimum wage have kept the machine turning over for the time being. The effect of declaring a trade war on the rest of the world is not yet being felt at home – but it will be. And it’s only July 2017. Trump still has another three-and-a-half years in the White House.

wonderful place called Canada you have the right to file charges and pursue your own petty vendettas. You have the right to represent yourself and cause your neighbours to spend their own money to defend themselves for your own self-righteousness. You have the right to spend my tax dollars on your goose chase. Scott Hahn, I don’t know the kid but here is a young person who had a desire to become involved and see if he could help bring about positive change. And, yes, he made mistakes – that’s why there is the catch phrase “human error.” There has got to be space for learning curves and lessons learned. All I can constructively suggest to Mr. Marshall is, if you have such a need to pursue a cause, get on the bandwagon of more important issues.

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SPORTS GOLF / ON THE LINKS, BACK ON ICE

A dream week for Rank Rank’s week includes playing in the Canadian Open, getting full-time NHL reffing gig LIZ BEVAN IT WAS QUITE A week for Elmira’s Garrett Rank. While hitting the links at the Canadian Open in Oakville last week, he got the news that he has been promoted to full-time referee in the National Hockey League. Rank finished eight over par when all was said and done at Glen Abbey Golf Club in Oakville, tying for 77th place. It wasn’t his best finish, but he says he accomplished a personal goal of making it to the weekend round. “I was trying to make the cut to play the weekend. I was a little scratchy on the weekend, and my score didn’t really reflect my play, but I was very happy with how it went. I was glad that I could play all four rounds of the tournament,” he said after the Canadian Open wrapped up. Leading into the bigtime golf tournament, Rank spent as much time as he could on the links, playing tournaments all over North America. “The two weeks prior to the Canadian Open, I was down in Hilton Head and Myrtle Beach playing in two tournaments, and the week of the Open, I played Glen Abbey twice

before we started,” he said, mentioning that he needed to get a feel for the course before the strokes really started to count. “You want to determine what the conditions of the course are like, and how firm and fast you play.” With so little rain this year, and high temperatures on the thermometer, he says the course was crispy. “This year was really dry and the ball was rolling forever,” he said. “You really had to position your ball off the tee to get the proper angle when hitting the green. It was very hard to control your ball on the green, so you really had to play for the conditions.” It wasn’t just the terrain that was affected by the heat. “Throughout the week, I was tired or a little worn out from the heat. I had just spent the two weeks in pretty warm weather down south, so I don’t think it affected me too much, but it is definitely mentally and physically draining to be out there.” After the Canadian Open wrapped up last weekend, Rank made his way to Toronto to put his signature on the papers naming him RANK | 8

NOT SO GREAT OUTDOORSMAN / STEVE GALEA

Truly special bonds are built in the outdoors OPEN COUNTRY I DON’T MUCH FEEL like writing humour today. Yesterday, I was told that my springer spaniel Callie – a loyal friend of just about 14 years – has cancer. I was caught by surprise, I guess. I took her to the veterinarian because she suddenly started hanging a hind leg. I assumed she pulled a tendon or blew out a knee joint – that’s what often happens to old hunting dogs. As it turns out, this issue is caused by a deterioration of her spine. And that may or may not be due to the cancer that the veterinarian found. Things like this break your heart. A good dog becomes part of your family; a good hunting dog becomes part of who you are. For now, all we can do is ensure she is comfortable. That means medication and minimal activity. And, when her quality of life is no longer what it should

Elmira’s Garrett Rank (left) had a busy week, playing in the Canadian Open in Oakville and signing contracts with the NHL naming him a full-time referee. He was joined at Glen Abbey by his brother Kyle, who was caddying for him. [SUBMITTED]

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Wellesley fastpitch squad has sights set on Quebec tourney U14 boys to take on teams from eastern Canada at championships set for Aug. 25-28 in Bellechasse LIZ BEVAN THE U14 WILDCATS FASTPITCH team is heading to Quebec next month to compete at the 2016 Peewee Boys’ Eastern Canadian Championship. Trevor Hehn, head coach of the Wellesley-based squad, says the boys are really happy to be going. The tournament will give the guys an opportunity they have yet to experience. “It is going to be exciting to see the guys play against other provinces. That is something they haven’t done before,” he said. “It

is something that the guys have strived for for a long time.” There will be ten teams in Bellechasse, Quebec, including three from Quebec, one other from Ontario (Napanee) and a team from Newfoundland. Pitcher Reese Yantzi says the Wildcats have a small rivalry with Napanee, but are really looking forward to facing off with teams from the Maritimes. “I heard that Newfoundland was a pretty decent team, so that should be interesting,” he said. “I think that Newfoundland will be

our battle. We strive to be the best that we can and they are one of the stronger teams.” Dylan Hehn has his sights set on their Ontario rivals in Napanee. “We want to beat Napanee and come home with a medal,” he said after a game against Tavistock on July 21. The team will be playing plenty of baseball in the lead-up to the Eastern Canadian Championships, keeping to their regular season schedule, but also FASTPITCH | 8

The Wellesley U14 Wildcats are heading to Quebec to face off against eastern Canada’s best. Front row: Blair Bender, Kodie Gerber, Darcy Kuepfer and Eric Roes. Back row: William Weber, coach Trevor Hehn, Colby Switzer, Dylan Burton, Dylan Hehn, coach Tim Weber, Conall Gillett and Reese Yantzi. Missing: Devon Lee and coach Rick Roes. [LIZ BEVAN | THE OBSERVER}

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GALEA: Real attachments to your hunting dog makes it difficult to deal with the declining years FROM | 7

be, it means goodbye. I’m not looking forward to that. As hunting dogs go, Callie was a great one. Headstrong, fearless and driven, she hunted with me from the age of 9 months right into her tenth year. And she loved every minute of it. There was not a piece of cover she wouldn’t bust right through; there was not a bird she would not do her damndest to flush or

retrieve. In her youth she never seemed to tire. And though I stopped hunting her seriously about four years ago, she never lost the desire to range afield. She’d whine when she saw me leave with hunter orange and a gun. She’d mope until I returned. In her retirement, her activity has been limited to two walks a day and tennis ball retrieves on the front lawn. Now, that has come to an end too. The

vet advised me to keep her walks short and cut out the retrieves. She doesn’t show it, but she must be in pain. Getting up is a struggle; walking takes great effort. But every time I enter the room her docked tail wags feverishly and her eyes, now milky with age, lock onto me. And she gives me this look that says I’m glad you are here. And I try not to get emotional.

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a full-time referee for the NHL, something he says he has dreamed of for a long time. “I just signed my contract (Tuesday) morning. It is officially official. I am an official official,” he said with a laugh. “It has been a dream week for me. I am not sure it could get much better. It is a dream come true and I know I will have memories for a lifetime.” Rank has worked as a referee for the past two years, hired by the American Hockey League, but still refereed in the big leagues here and there. Last season, he worked 31 games in

Garrett Rank the NHL and the rest of the season in the AHL. He says his promotion to full-time ref was a combination of hard work and good timing. “It has a little to do with performance, a little bit to do with availability and jobs opening and a little bit

of timing,” he said. “I was lucky enough to only have to spend a couple of years in the minor, and I am really excited for this next chapter.” He won’t find out what his first game of the 20162017 season is quite yet, but he says it doesn’t really matter to him. He just loves the work. “I was a Toronto Maple Leafs fan when I was growing up, and that is the team my family cheers for, but ultimately, when I am out on the ice, I have a job to do no matter which teams are playing,” he said. “You just have to stay out of the way and keep the game as safe and fair as possible.”

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She’s old now. But I recall a glorious autumn day when we were hunting for grouse and she was young. We were approaching one of my favourite covers through the goldenrods. Callie was, as always, ranging ahead, hunting feverishly with nose to the ground, lost from sight in the tall grass. I tracked her location by watching grass sway and bend before her. I heard her rush forward

and then it happened. She leapt and emerged high above the goldenrods, snapping at the tail of the ruffed grouse she had just flushed. There was this magic moment, when bird and dog seemed as one. Then, for a brief instant, they hung together in the sky, lit up by the afternoon sun. To this day, I have never seen anything so graceful or athletic. Then Callie, dropped

back to earth – feet first, ears last – and the bird rose higher. I folded it cleanly. Callie hunted it up and brought it to my hand. Her eyes were bright. Her head held high. She was as content, happy, lean and fit. I never felt prouder of any dog. When she goes, that is how I’ll remember her. ’Til then, we’ll comfort each other and be thankful of the times we had.

ENDURrun will put participants to the test ENDURrun, which kicks off Aug. 7 in Conestogo, is a real marathon ... and then some, covering 160 kilometres WHITNEY NEILSON CHASING GLORY, PERSONAL BESTS or the infamous gold jersey, runners will cover 160 kilometres over eight days next month for the ENDURrun running series. It begins on Aug. 7 with a half-marathon in Conestogo, finishing the following Sunday again in Conestogo with a marathon. Stage two is a 15-km run in Conestogo, stage three is a 30-km trail run in Bechtel Park, and stage four returns to Woolwich with a 16-km hill run in Heidelberg. There’s a day of rest followed by a 25.6-km alpine run at Chicopee Ski Resort for stage five, and a 10-km time trial for stage six in Elmira before the final stage – the marathon. Race organizer Lloyd Schmidt says last year’s series went well with 63 people completing all seven races in this one-ofa-kind running series. “It was a good combination of competitiveness and participation. It’s such a tough event and sometimes we don’t have that many people do it. So we had a lot of people do it last year and it was very competitive and it worked out very well,” Schmidt said. So far they have 49 registered, which is still a good number. He says there are some more people considering it, but because it’s such a physically demanding series they want to make sure they’re 100 per cent healthy before they commit. They very well may sign up closer to the date once they know their body is prepared. “In addition to the people doing the whole week we have guest runners that run certain stages. We have nine relay teams and then

we have another competition called the sport which is the last three events, not all seven of them, just the last three. People that can’t get the whole week off so they can just get the one weekend off, that’s kind of the idea,” he said. Typically about half of the participants are new to the event and half are returning each year. The retuning men’s champion, Robert Brouillette, is coming back this year. Runners are mostly local, but some are coming from Barrie, Bradford, Ingersoll, Ottawa, and even Calgary and one from the U.S. “It’s so unique. There’s nothing like it in the world,” Schmidt said. They’ve had runners from as far as Japan and Trinidad and Tobago over the years. They’ll have to compete in each of the seven races regardless of the weather to be eligible for any of the titles and prizes. “We’ve had very, very hot days over the years and we have torrential rains. You have to keep going,” Schmidt said. As they run many of the races on unfamiliar township roads, he notes they’re not alone out there. They set up lots of manned stations with water, Gatorade and sports gels to support the runners, along with a massage after every race. He says their goal is to keep competitors in the competition. And runners all have their own personal reasons for tackling such an intense goal. “Most of the people, they’re either trying to beat their time from last year or there’s many reasons to do it. They might just want to use this as a week to get

high mileage in because they have a race in the fall that they have to prepare for, like a marathon or something,” he said. They also might be after one of the titles they hand out. The mountain king is awarded to the person with the best combined time between the two mountain stages - Chicopee and Heidelberg. The mountain king receives a different colour jersey. “And we have two stages that are time trials, they’re flat and fast, so the winner of those two combined is the sprint king. We have two trail races, one at Bechtel Park and one at Chicopee, so we add those two race times together and they’re the trail king,” he explained. They’ve also created a gold jersey modeled after the Tour de France. Whoever wins the first stage, they get the gold jersey, which they wear on the second stage and then after that the overall combined leader gets the gold jersey. But it’s about much more than winning a race for many of them who come back year after year. “Once people do it once they make friends. Not only are they competitors, they become life-long friends. It’s like a reunion every year. We have a lot of people from out of town, not from this area, so once a year they get together. Throughout the week they get together and go out for dinners and things like that. It’s like a running camp or a family reunion,” Schmidt said. There’s no maximum placed on the number of participants, so interested runners still have time to check out the courses and register at www.endurrun.com.

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Jacks’ roster coming into focus Management has had a busy summer, signing 11 players so far; main camp approaching fast WHITNEY NEILSON THERE’S NO SNOW ON the ground or ice in the rink but the Wellesley Applejacks management has hockey on the brain. Heading into the team’s main camp at the end of August head coach Brad Gerber says they’ve signed 11 players this summer, four defencemen and seven forwards. “They’re guys that played last year, like Cal Jefferies – he’s re-signed – Sean McEwan, both those guys are over-agers. This’ll be their last year, but we’re very excited to have both of those two guys back. They’ve been in the league for quite a few years now and guys like that, you just don’t get those guys very often, so they’re a very big part of our team, so we’re excited about those two,” Gerber said. Alex Uttley will also return to the Jacks bench. Gerber says it seems like Uttley’s been playing junior hockey for a long time, yet he still has a few more years of eligibility left. “Just starting with those three players right there

that’s three very, very great leaders and also guys that can put points on the board for you, so those three forwards are a big part of our team,” Gerber said. Defenceman Nick Mercier is also coming back to play for Wellesley. Gerber says the 20-year-old is a great leader and can put the puck in the net on the power play. “When he plays to his potential we feel he can be one of the better defencemen in the league,” Gerber said. Shaun Pickering has also signed. He’ll be attending the Junior B Stratford Warriors tryout, so if he doesn’t get picked up by them he’ll return to the Applejacks. “We’re really looking forward to training camp. It’s going to be a competitive training camp. We do have returning players but we also have some good quality players coming in this year, so we expect a very competitive training camp and we’ll see how things turn out,” Gerber said. Both of last season’s goalies, Ryan Porter and Ryan Hergott, will be skating at their main camp, along

At least four Applejacks will return to play for Wellesley in the fall, including Cal Jefferies, Nick Mercier, Sean McEwan and Alex Uttley. The team has signed 11 players so far this summer. Their main camp runs Aug. 20-21 at the St. Clements arena. [FILE PHOTOS] with four other goalies. Gerber notes they haven’t signed any goalies but they’re looking forward to seeing Porter and Hergott skate, along with a couple of younger goalies and a few local ones as well. They haven’t named a captain or assistant captain yet. He says the coaching staff has talked about it briefly. “We’ve got so many great leaders in that room. Filling Justin Lebold’s shoes will be a tough thing. He was a great leader on and off the ice, but we feel we’ve got the guys in the

room. We just want to make sure we put them in the right situations. We don’t want to put too much pressure on them. Sometimes you’ve just got to let a guy play, but we’re not too worried about that. We’ll definitively announce the letters before the season starts,” Gerber said. Assistant coaches Brock Gerber and Ted Jefferies have been named as coGMs. Gerber says they’ve taken on the extra role well. “Both of these guys have been doing just a fantastic job. They’re both very busy

this summer recruiting players and dealing with the OHA. Things are going very smoothly. That is one of the reasons we’re going to have a very competitive training camp is because of the job these guys have been doing,” Gerber said. The Jacks’ camp opens the same weekend as the Elmira Sugar Kings’ camp and Gerber says they’ll have eyes on the Elmira camp, looking for players who might not be right for the Kings, but could help the Applejacks. “I think our expecta-

tions obviously have to be higher this year going in. With the season we had last year and with the players that we have returning and the hard work the management team has done this summer, obviously our expectations are quite a bit higher. We’re all excited, but at the same time it’s a very tough league. We have to keep working, keep moving ahead. There’s a lot to be done, that’s for sure. But at the same time with what we’ve got on paper, so far everything’s looking good,” Gerber said.

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heading to plenty of tournaments. “We have three tournaments coming up in August, so we are going to be playing a lot of ball ahead of our trip to Quebec,” said coach Hehn. “It will be a lot of fun and a lot of baseball.” Yantzi still has a couple

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Vendors returning to Peddler’s Village locations at the market Business is starting to get back to normal two months after a fire on the roof of St. Jacobs market building WHITNEY NEILSON TWO MONTHS AFTER FIRE broke out on the roof of Peddler’s Village, about half of the vendors have returned to the flea market building at the St. Jacobs Farmers’ Market. Marcus Shantz, president of market-owner Mercedes Corporation, says about 35 of the 80 vendors have returned thus far, beginning on July 21. More will be moving back in on an ongoing basis. “The fire caused damage to the roof area, and the area that’s right under where that fire was is still being rebuilt – it’s boarded off and they’re finishing that area. The rest of the area it was really smoke and water damage. It’s water damage from both the sprinkler system and the firefighting. There was a lot of cleanup and so forth from that,” he explained of the process to re-open the building. He says vendors will be more or less in their same locations as before the fire, noting there have been some improvements. There aren’t any final totals on the cost related to the fire and repairs, but he estimates if the damage done to the building was added to losses by the vendors it would be in the $1-million

range. Most vendors had to wait to be let back into the building because the market’s outdoors spaces are pretty well full in the summer, although a couple were able to operate outside. Botanical Propaganda is one of the vendors that was displaced by the fire. They set up their booth outside temporarily while they waited for the building to be open to vendors again. Mariah Zervos was running the booth on Tuesday afternoon and noted their products are better suited for an indoor booth. They’ve been back in Peddler’s Village since last week and have been selling at the market since December. And they’ve even taken advantage of the latest Pokémon Go craze by making bubblegum scented Pokémon ball bath bombs, which were for sale on Tuesday. Zervos said all their stock, which includes bath and body products like bath bombs and sugar scrubs, was damaged by the water. Some 400 bath bombs

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Mariah Zervos of Botanical Propaganda is back in Peddler’s Village as one of the vendors who’ve returned two months after a fire closed the building at the St. Jacobs Farmers’ Market. Most are expected to move back in on an ongoing basis. [WHITNEY NEILSON / THE OBSERVER] “This is a volunteer fire change or transitioning, were ruined, but they were department in Woolwich, this sometimes provides able to quickly restock. so you have people who the impetus to say, ‘I’m “It was easy for us to are leaving their place of going to call it and not do come back in because we work and getting suited up it anymore.’ There’s a few make new product weekly. to come out to help us out like that. I’m not aware of We’ve been pretty lucky,” and we’re very, very gratetoo many like that,” Shantz she said. ful for it,” Shantz said. said. It’ll take longer for other This summer also marks He notes the market is vendors as evidenced by the first full season with grateful to the Woolwich some empty booths in Pedthe new farmers’ market Fire Department that dler’s Village this week, building open. The buildworked all afternoon in the with just the vendor’s ing opened last September heat on May 26 to knock name taped to the wall. to replace the main market down the fire that had Shantz says a few of the building – a separate buildsparked while a contractor vendors might not come ing from Peddler’s Village was working on the roof. back at all. – that was destroyed by fire Crews were called from St. “I think that sometimes Jacobs, Elmira, Conestogo has to do with if you were VILLAGE | 11 and Breslau. thinking of making a

THIS YEAR’S FOOD DAY Canada, coming up on Saturday, is destined to be one of the pithiest yet. Pithy, because founder Anita Stewart of Elora, the University of Guelph’s food laureate, is gifting Canada with a must-read list of 149 ingredients – one for every year of Confederation – that are all-Canadian. Can you name 149 food ingredients, period, let alone 149 that are allCanadian? I’m pretty sure I couldn’t. Hers is a helpful and educational collection, a great way to bring to light the breadth of products and ingredients produced by this nation’s farmers and fishers. And appropriate too that it be released as a Food Day Canada feature. This initiative, which started back in 2003 when beef farmers were getting unfairly hammered by the BSE (mad cow) frenzy, involving a single cow in Alberta, is meant to showcase the range and diversity of agriculture and food in our country. Stewart founded it as Canada’s longest barbeque, a coast to coast celebration in connection with the ROBERTS | 11

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August civic holiday. Along the way, it morphed into Food Day Canada, with the ever-present possibility and hope that Ottawa will breathe some life into the name of the August long weekend holiday, and actually call it Food Day. That would be a great declaration to make next year, as part of Canada’s 150th anniversary. Stewart says that despite Canadians’ growing awareness of their food supply, the wolf is always at the door.

“With the globalized food system, and our dive to the bottom of retail pricing, our growers and processors have taken a beating,” she says. “But there are many success stories, too, and with Canadians beginning to realize that local and regional food is so very good for us on all levels, I believe there’s a huge opportunity for our ag. community.” She wants farmers to get involved in Food Day Canada. Farmers have a lot of credibility with the public. For this event, she says,

they can get on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram and tag their photos with the hashtag #FoodDayCanada or #CanadaISfood. “Then they can simply share the fruits of their labours ... pictures of crops, herds, food on the table, friends eating Canadian ingredients,” she says. Stewart also wants everyone to think about their definition of local. Does it align with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s definition, of 50 kilometres from home? Stewart also wants con-

sumers to be aware of food labelling, a hot topic with many consumers. She notes that some products you’d naturally think are homegrown are actually imports – pickles, for example, most of which now come from India or the U.S. It’s not that they’re unsafe, but they sure aren’t local. Same goes for Greekstyle yogurt. Much of it can’t qualify for “Product of Canada” labelling because it uses imported butter fat. Her solution? Find some that uses home-

grown products, or make your own. Yet there are gems and eye-openers she uncovered in her research for what she calls her 149-ingredient “patriotic shopping list” – along with some obvious products we take for granted daily – and lists them on the website. For example, number one is tap water! Others include milk, VQA wines, lentils, hemp

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in 2013. “It’s been very positive so far. Sometimes when it gets too hot it sort of slows traffic down, so we don’t need more of this heat. And I think for the farmers too if you want to be a farmers’ market you have to have a good season, so the drought affects us in a couple of ways, but no it’s been a good season and it’s in full swing,” Shantz said. The St. Jacobs Farmers’ Market including the main market building, Peddler’s

Village, the Harvest Barn, and the outdoor vendors is open Thursdays and Saturdays year-round, with an additional market day on Tuesdays throughout the summer until Labour Day. “I think it was good to have people back and I think they’re happy to be back, but it is obviously a trying time for people. We didn’t really need this. It was something that we had to go through. I think people will be happy when it’s back to normal,” Shantz said.

hearts, quinoa, Mennonite-style cloth-wrapped summer sausage, sablefish, Eagle brand milk, Ontario-grown peanuts, cider, dulse, and Primo ketchup. I’ve watched Food Day Canada evolve and grow for the past 13 years, persistent and consistent in its message – that is, Canadian farmers need and serve our support. And on July 30, that’s what millions of us will give.

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RURAL CONNECTIONS NEW GROUND / WORKING THE BUGS OUT

A family insect business BROTHERS DARREN, RYAN AND Dr. Jarrod Goldin credit much of their success in life to a mantra instilled in them by entrepreneurial parents. Growing up in South Africa, they were told to “follow your dreams as crazy as they may be.” That advice has served them well: today, the three brothers run Entomo Farms, an insect business north east of Toronto. Darren and Ryan had begun with an earlier business supplying insects as reptile food. Jarrod had always hoped to work alongside his brothers and after watching an applicant on the show Shark Tank promote a cricket-based energy bar, they began contemplating producing insect protein for human consumption. Today, Entomo Farms (named for the Greek word for insect) sells both roasted and powdered crickets and mealworms. These sustainable, alternative protein sources are high in protein, iron, calcium, amino acids and omegas, and low in fat. Raising them also requires less food, water and space than traditional proteins. The Goldins started in 2014 with a 5,000 square foot facility. They’re now at 60,000 square feet, with another expansion in the works. With start-up assistance from both government and private funding, they now ship product all over the world. So what do crickets taste like? It’s a question they’re asked a lot. When the powder (flour) is incorpo-

Brothers Darren, Ryan and Jarrod Goldin raise insects as a food additive at Entomo Farms north of Toronto. rated into baking, there is a subtle nutty flavour to the recipe – if it’s noticed at all. The roasted ones are said to taste a lot like potato chips or roasted nuts. Their website contains recipes developed both by their own chef and their customers. There’s French onion soup with cricket powder, cricket powder pancakes, cricket caramel cheesecake and hundreds of other options. In the early days, the brothers answered a lot of questions about the “icky” factor of eating crickets. After all, eating insects is new to most of North America. But in a world where over two billion people already eat insect proteins daily, perceptions here at home are rapidly changing. “What we need to see now as ‘icky’ are the people who drink pop and eat Twinkies and other hyperprocessed foods,” Jarrod said. “The food we’re pro-

Cricket condos at the brother’s Entomo Farms operation. comfortable quarters and ducing goes a long way to a constant source of food contributing to the health and water. and wellness of an indiEggs are collected and vidual and our planet.” hatched with the insects It may seem like a career harvested at six weeks of shift for Jarrod, a chiroage. They’re then washed practor by training. But and roasted or processed he’s always been interested into flour. Even the main health and sustainable nure (called frass) is sold nutrition. to gardeners as an organic “There’s a great irony in fertilizer. the fact that we have a food Recently, Entomo Farms system that’s never cared won the Start Up Canada about health and a health national award for sustainsystem that’s never cared able development. about food. We aim to change that,” he says. Kelly Daynard for AgInIt’s a fully integrated novation Ontario, a project business. The crickets are of the Agri-Technology raised in retrofitted chickCommercialization Centre en barns where “cricket (ATCC). condos” provide dark and

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Trent research identifies gene variant responsible for scrapie susceptibility in Ontario dairy goats

LIVE GOATS CAN NOW be tested for scrapie susceptibility and resistance thanks to newly completed genetic research by Dr. Bradley White, a biology professor at Trent University. Scrapie is a slow-moving but fatal degenerative central nervous system disease in sheep and goats that is related to Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) in cattle and Chronic Wasting Disease in deer. Currently, testing for the scrapie disease in goats is only possible on dead animals and no treatment or vaccine is available. The disease can be spread by positive animals that don’t show any symptoms of the disease, and all goats on farms where scrapie is found are destroyed. After the detection of the disease in two large Ontario goat herds in 2014, White, in collaboration with Dr. Gordon Mitchell of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), discovered the alleles or different forms of genes in goats that are associated with an animal’s resistance or susceptibility to scrapie. And as a result of this development, Ontario Goat is now working with Trent University and the Centre of Excellence for Goat Research and Innovation to genotype 1,500 animals in various goat breeds and herds for resistance and sensitivity to the disease. “We’re short of good genetic information on in-

dividual animals across the province so we are working to collect that kind of information from many farms. It is critical if we are to use the new genomic technology,” White says. “One of the things this is going to do for us is allowing genome-wide selection of many genes at once so we don’t select one characteristic at the expense of others.” White adds that the genotype testing doesn’t establish whether or not an animal actually has scrapie, but if its genes indicate it could be predisposed to getting it. One of the two scrapie positive herds identified in 2014 had 182 highly susceptible, 125 weakly susceptible and 24 scrapie resistant animals before exposure to the disease. Post-mortem testing revealed that 64 of the highly susceptible animals and only two of the weakly susceptible goats were found to be positive for scrapie. None of the animals with resistant genotypes had the disease. “This lets you look at your relative risk. If you have a herd with a high proportion of highly susceptible animals, you know they have a high risk of getting the disease if they are exposed to it,” White says, adding that the prion protein that causes scrapie can survive in the barn or the soil for quite some time. For farmers, White’s disGOATS | 16

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THE ARTS ON STAGE / LIVE MUSIC

Putting a little alt in the country Corduroy Road set to rock the house Friday and Saturday night at the Commercial Tavern in Maryhill WHITNEY NEILSON FANS OF CORDUROY ROAD have two chances to see the local alt-country band perform this weekend, when they fill The Commercial Tavern with their original music from the past 11 years on Friday and Saturday night. The band consists of Reg Arthurs, Andrea LeBlanc, Stephanie Grimm, Craig Galbraith, Brian Ward, Janna Pardy and Mark Rye. They’ve been playing at Paul Weber’s venue for the past two years, a place they say feels more like a party in your living room than a concert. “It’s just been a great place for us to grow as a band, having a spot like that with an owner like that and audience as supportive as they have been,” Galbraith said. If you’re not too sure what alt-country means, you’re not alone. Arthurs says he borrowed the term from Blue Rodeo front man Jim Cuddy, who uses that as a way to describe his band’s sound. “The logical question is what do you guys sound like, what type of music are you. Well our answer’s always been by default we kind of sound like Blue Rodeo as far as Canadian alt-country goes. So I guess it’s kind of rootsy-country sounding, but yet it’s rock and roll rhythm with a lot of harmony too,” Arthurs said. Corduroy Road formed in 2005 and has released two albums. They’ll be

Guelph-based Corduroy Road brings a mix of original songs, old and new country to shows Friday and Saturday night at the Commercial Tavern. drawing from those two albums for their shows this weekend, along with some new tunes they’ve been working on, as well as covering some other country musicians. “We definitely do some older, traditional country songs that people recognize. We do some Johnny Cash, we do some Dolly Parton, Patsy Cline, and we do some newer country ... Brad Paisley, Tim McGraw, Dixie Chicks,” LeBlanc said. Those who haven’t been out to a Corduroy Show are welcome to attend and hear what a seven-piece band has to offer. LeBlanc notes they have three-part harmony and four singers in almost every song. They also include dueling guitar and every member is a great

musician in their own right. And they love coming back to the Commercial Tavern because the audience seems to really appreciate live music, Pardy adds. “We play so much at the Commercial now and we have a little bit of a following there. When we play our original tunes, the audience actually recognizes a lot of them and they’ll cheer and clap when they hear the intro and they’ll dance. It’s actually great that we get that kind of reaction for the original music and not just the covers,” Pardy said. The band members have a long history together, dating back to when they lived in the Maritimes. LeBlanc, Grimm and Arthurs

worked at a dinner theatre together in New Brunswick. They all loved to play music and decided to move to Toronto to try to make a name for themselves. Then they hooked up with Galbraith, who had already moved to Ontario, when they needed a drummer. Galbraith had gone to high school with LeBlanc and Grimm, who are sisters. “A lot of us are East Coasters in the band, we have lots of fun. We rehearse twice a week and we’re pretty regimented on that. We really work hard on keeping our sound polished,” LeBlanc said. Their first CD was released in 2007 and was shortlisted for a Juno in the roots traditional category. They funded a tour out east

after that, playing numerous gigs on the way to and from Saint John. Playing the Imperial Theatre was a big moment for the band. Last year they performed at the Havelock Country Jamboree, Canada’s largest live country music and camping festival. “There were a lot of people there. That was great. The sound was great, the stage was so fun to play,” LeBlanc said. Pardy agrees. “Havelock was actually one of my big highlights. It was a big stage, it was a big deal, that and the sound was great,” she said. She also mentioned their 10th anniversary concert where they sang a bunch of songs they hadn’t sung in a while.

Looking ahead, the band is hoping to record their next album in 2017. “It’s going to be awesome. Reg has been writing a lot of music since we released our last album. There’s actually some tunes that we’ve tried out live that have become audience favourites and there are some new tunes that I don’t think we’ve played publicly that I just can’t wait to record,” Galbraith said. They also hope to do another little tour once the album’s out, maybe even to Nashville. But for now, the band is happy to play their music for the country music lovers at the Tavern. “Paul’s just a wonderful man and he’s done so much to promote live music at his tavern,” said LeBlanc. “He’s a talent in his own right and the people who support Paul are really good people. There’s a really good mix of people there and there’s a real nice crowd. They love country music.” It’s a place they’re glad to call home. “We’ve played a lot of places but I don’t think we’ve ever played a place that was so open to original music, let alone original country music. It’s just a real rare find these days to find a place that supports local artists doing their own thing,” Galbraith said. Corduroy Road hits the Commercial Tavern stage at 8 p.m. on July 29 and 30, and the show runs for three hours. Cover is $10 per person.

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MONTESSORI BASED HOME Day Care opening September 2016 in Elmira, On. Monday to Friday 8:00 a.m.- 5:30 p.m., ages 1 - 8 years old. Montessori and Early Childhood Education Trained and certified, over 12 years experience. CPR/ AED and First Aid certified. Structured learning time, free play, outdoor activities, arts and crafts. References available upon request, reasonable rates, safe environment. Contact me today to save your spot. Email: chantalshdc@gmail.com

LAWN FERTILIZER AND LAWN SEED - Call George Haffner Trucking, 519-574-4141 or 519-669-2045. SOFTNER SALT - 20kg bags, minimum 25 bags, skid lots of 56. Delivered in St. Jacobs, St. Clements, Elmira & Linwood areas. Call George Haffner Trucking, 519-5744141 or 519-669-2045. USED FORKLIFT - larger outdoor unit with dual front tires & fenders. Also sideshift. Contact 519-698-2120.

HEALTH CARE BOWEN THERAPY YOUR choice for effective treatment of specific health conditions or wellness maintenance. KEVIN BARTLEY, Professional Bowenwork Practitioner, Clock Tower Wellness Centre, 69 Arthur St. S., Elmira. 519-669-0112. Every Body is Better with Bowen!

FOR SALE DAYMAK EBIKE FOR sale. $800 including tools, visor, spare mirrors with speakers, anti-theft lock, tamper alarm Hardly used. 519-588-5159.

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Rare Premium Downtown Elmira, spacious single Bedroom open-layout Apartment AVAILABLE in new (2012) Apartment Building complete with Elevator, Main floor Common Room, individual Central Heating / Air Conditioning in each Apt., as well as 5 appliances (washer/dryer in each Apt.)

AUCTIONS WED. AUGUST 10 at 10:00 AM - Clearing auction sale of furniture; antiques; tools; collectables; household effects; and miscellaneous items to be held at the St. Jacob’s Community centre in St. Jacob’s for a Waterloo estate with additions. Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 519-656-3555. www.jantziauctions.com

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CONTACT: (519) 525-2222 or (519) 893-7432 OR: evans@hurontel.on.ca AUCTIONS AUCTION SALE OF Vehicles, trucks, machinery, antiques, household effects, guns and miscellaneous items, to be held at the K.W. Khaki Club, 2939 Nafziger Rd. 2 miles south of Wellesley, for Elroy & Shirley Litchi, New Hamburg, Louise Heipel, Wellesley & The Peter Blay Estate, Guelph, on Thursday, Aug. 11th @ 10:00 a.m. Gerber Auctions Ltd. 519-699-4451. AUCTION SALE OF Brick bungalow, household effects, antiques and miscellaneous items, to be held at 157 Wilson Ave. in Kitchener (near Franklin St. South), for Marian Hohner, on Saturday, August 13th @ 10:30 a.m. Gerber Auctions. 519-699-4451. SAT. AUGUST 13 at 10:00 AM - Clearing auction sale of metal fabricating equipment; metal; scrap metal; hand and power tools; and miscellaneous items to be held at 43739 Harriston Rd Gorrie for Ken Noble. Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 519-656-3555. www.jantziauctions.com

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AUCTIONS FARM PROPERTY AUCTION Of 148 acre farm, to be held at 2904 Kressler Rd. (Wellesley Twp., 1 mile north of Heidelberg), for Vernon Metzger, on Tuesday, August 16th @ 1:00 p.m. Gerber Auctions Ltd. 519-699-4451. AUCTION SALE OF Household effects, antiques and miscellaneous items, to be held at 1100 Kenning Place, bordering Elmira (Arthur St. North, right on Kenning), for The Harvey B. Martin Estate, on Wednesday, August 17th @ 11:00 a.m. Gerber Auctions Ltd. 519-699-4451. AUCTION SALE OF 62 acre farm to be held at 6563 Rd. 116 Wellesley Twp. (2 miles southeast of Millbank) for Cameron and Susan Cunningham-Dunlop, on Friday August 19th @ 7:00 p.m. Gerber Auctions Ltd. 519-699-4451.

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FRIDAY AUGUST 19 at 1:00 PM - Farm auction of approx 95 acre farm with well kept 3 bedroom farm house; barn; driveshed; farmland; fenced pasture; and approx 15 acres on Scales Lake; to be held at 402558 Grey Road 17 Township of Georgian Bluffs approx 10 kms east of Wiarton for Dale Louttit. Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 519-656-3555. www.jantziauctions.com

SAT. AUGUST 27 at 9:30 AM - Consignment auction of machinery; horse drawn equipment; woodworking equipment; tools; lawn and garden; miscellaneous items etc to be held at 327095 3rd Concession RR#1 Maxwell. Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 519-656-3555. www.jantziauctions.com

SAT. AUGUST 20 at 10:00 AM - Clearing auction sale of tractor; small farm machinery; household effects; furniture; antiques; and miscellaneous items to be held at 2902 Notre Dame Dr St. Agatha for Sharon and the late John Wilson. Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 519-656-3555. www.jantziauctions.com

BAGGED PINE SHAVINGS Agricultural Spray Lime, 22.5kg. bag; feed grade lime, 25kg. Delivered. Call George Haffner Trucking, 519-574-4141 or 519-669-2045.

SAT. AUGUST 20 at 2:30 PM - Property auction sale of a 3 bedroom home to be held at 10 Marshall St. in Waterloo for the Schneider Family. Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 519-656-3555. www.jantziauctions.com WED. AUGUST 24 at 10:00 AM - Clearing auction sale of furniture; household effects; antiques; collectables; tools; and miscellaneous items to be held at the St. Jacob’s Community Centre in St. Jacob’s for an area estate with additions. Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 519-656-3555. www.jantziauctions.com 08/25 AUCTION SALE Of 100 acres farm to be held at 846493 Township Rd. 9 Blandford-Blenheim Twp. 3 miles southeast of Bright (south of Bright on County Rd. 22 then east on Twp. Rd. 9) for Peter and Sandy Reeves, on Thursday, August 25th @ 6:00 p.m. Gerber Auctions Ltd. 519-699-4451. 08/26 FRI. AUGUST 26 at 6:30 PM - Annual charity auction of quilts; clothes drying rack; pictures; toys; and gift certificates to be held at 7590 Line 86 Wallenstein for the Waterloo County Steam Threshers Reunion. Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 519-656-3555. www.jantziauctions.com

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BULK SHAVINGS. KILN dried pine or mixed. Dumped off. 30, 35, 50 cu. yard load. Sold by the dollar, in line with straw prices. Great for horses, chickens, cattle and ducks. Bolger Wood Products Inc. 519-846-1179. KILN DRIED CORN & CORN SCREENING Delivered by Einwechter. Minimum 15 ton lots. Call George Haffner Trucking 519-574-4141 or 519-669-2045. OAT & PEAS FOR FORAGE COVER CROPS - Call George Haffner Trucking, 519-5744141 or 519-669-2045.

FIREWOOD GERBER’S FIREWOOD YOUR source of quality slabwood and seasoned bodywood. All prices include delivery. No Sunday calls please. 519656-2057.

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CLASSIFIED ADS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 18 WANTED CASH FOR OLD watches, jewellery, all gold and silver, coins, military, toys, records. Call Terry 519-242-6900or 519-210-0551. gallamore@ golden.net 40 years experience, fair honest prices. Will travel. MATURE, RETIRED LADY needs a bachelor size apartment in a house, or a small cottage on farm in Elmira, St. Jacobs, Floradale area by Sept. 30th. Call 519-893-2744.

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RENTALS APARTMENT RENTAL IDEAL for People my age +/- 60. Duke of Erb Suites has a large 1st floor two bedroom suite available for October 1, 2016. It features four stainless steel appliances \ endash stove, fridge, OTR microwave and dishwasher plus in suite laundry, granite counters in kitchen and four piece bathroom, bamboo and ceramic tile floors, private balcony, privately controlled air conditioning and heating, security entrance, parking, large basement storage locker and more. Call 289242-1736, visit our web site at dukeoferb.ca or email duke3erb@gmail.com.

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Notice of Regular Council Meeting Date Change, Procurement By-law, and Fees and Charges By-law The Region of Waterloo will change the date of the Council meeting originally scheduled for Thursday August 18, 2016. The meeting will now be held on:

Wednesday, August 17, 2016 at 7:00p.m. Regional Municipality of Waterloo Council Chamber, 2nd Floor, Administration Building 150 Frederick Street, Kitchener

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P.O. Box 158

24 Church St. W. Elmira, Ontario N3B 2Z6

Notice of Final Tax Mailing

All 2016 Final Tax Bills were mailed July 25, 2016. First Installment is due August 19, 2016 Second Installment is due October 14, 2016 If you are a new owner or have not received your tax bill after the first week in August,

contactor the Finance Department. 519-669-6000. Phone:please 519-669-1647 877-969-0094 Fax: 519-669-1820 After Hours Emergency:

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At this meeting the Region intends to amend its Procurement of Goods and Services By-law. Notable changes to the by-law provisions include but are not limited to, increased tendering and approval limits. Questions related to the Procurement of Goods and Services By-law may be directed to Lisa Evans, Manager, Procurement/Chief Purchasing Officer directly at 519-575-4459 or levans@regionofwaterloo.ca.

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The Region also intends to amend By-law 16-001 (Fees and Charges). The amendments to the by-law include providing for a fee for licensing agreements related to usage of lands comprising the Kissing Bridge Trailway.

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Friday, Aug. 5th, 2016 from 2:30pm - 8:30pm at Linwood Community Centre

Copies of the proposed by-laws will be available for review after 4:30 p.m. on Monday, August 8, 2016 in the Council and Administrative Services Office, Region of Waterloo, 2nd Floor, 150 Frederick Street, Kitchener. If you wish to speak at the Council meeting, please register as a delegation with the Region’s Council and Administrative Services Division at 519-575-4400, or regionalclerk@regionofwaterloo.ca, by 4:30 p.m. on Monday, August 15, 2016. If you require accessible services to participate, please contact Council and Administrative Services at least five days in advance of the meeting.

This Linwood Blood Donor Clinic announcement is brought to you by these community-minded businesses

This notice is in accordance with the “Municipal Act”, 2001. Kris Fletcher, Director, Council and Administrative Services/Regional Clerk All comments and information received from individuals, stakeholder groups and agencies regarding this by-law are being collected to assist the Region of Waterloo in making a decision. Under the “Municipal Act”, personal information such as name, address, telephone number, and property location that may be included in a submission becomes part of the public record. Questions regarding the collection of this information should be referred to Council and Administrative Services.

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OBITUARY Brubacher, Fern (Mrs. Orvie) Peacefully passed away at her home, RR 1, Elmira on Thursday, July 21, 2016, at the age of 73 years. Beloved wife of the late Orvie Brubacher (1986). Dear mother of Susan (and the late Richard) Martin, Janet (Mark) Horst, James (Charlene) Brubacher, Lucille (Dale) Martin, Murray (Charlene) Brubacher, and Mark (Lori) Brubacher. Lovingly remembered by her 27 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. Sister of Marie (Clarence) Weber, Ella (Howard) Brubacher, Glen (Lorene) Wideman, Vera (Allen) Gingrich, David Wideman, and sister-in-law of Erma and Eva Wideman. Predeceased by her parents Menno and Salema (Gingrich) Wideman, brothers Earl and Lorne, and grandson Victor Brubacher. The family would like to thank the Care Partners for their compassionate care. Visitation took place on Saturday, July 23, 2016 from 6:30-8:30 p.m., and on Sunday, July 24, 2016 from 12-8 p.m. at the Dreisinger Funeral Home, 62 Arthur St. S., Elmira. Family service was held on Monday, July 25, 2016 at 9 a.m. in the funeral home chapel, then to Elmira Mennonite Meeting House for burial and public service.

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OBITUARY Bowman, Sidney M. Peacefully went home to be with the Lord on Sunday, July 24, 2016, at Barnswallow Place, Elmira, at the age of 80 years. Sidney M. Bowman, formerly of Floradale, was the beloved husband of the late Ada (Gingrich) Bowman (2009). Loving father of Wayne (Andrea) Bowman of Elmira, Willie Bowman (Angie Hill) of Elmira, Dianne (Doug) Diefenbacher of RR 1, Gowanstown, Pauline Martin of RR 1, Elora, Doris (Gerald) Lichty of RR 2, Drayton, and Miriam (Rick) Metzger of Wellesley. Fondly remembered by 19 grandchildren and 7 great-grandchildren. Brother of George (Maryann) Bowman of Elmira, and brother-in-law of Sarah (Brubacher) Bowman. Predeceased by his parents Ishmael and Rachel (Martin) Bowman, brothers Ephraim and Norman Bowman, sister-in-law Eileen (Martin) Bowman, son-in-law Steve Martin, and grandson Ryan Lichty. The family received their friends and relatives on Wednesday, July 27, 2016 from 2-4 and 6-9 p.m. at the Dreisinger Funeral Home, 62 Arthur St. S., Elmira. Funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. on Thursday, July 28, 2016 at Moorefield Mennonite Fellowship, 102 McGivern Road, Moorefield. Interment to follow in Hollen Cemetery. In his memory, donations to Christian Aid Ministries would be appreciated as expressions of sympathy. The family wishes to thank the staff at Barnswallow Place for their kind and compassionate care over the past five years.

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RR2 Teeswater and formerly of Wellesley, passed away at Wingham & District Hospital on Friday, July 22, 2016 in his 70th year.

ROWE, MARILYN | Passed away peacefully at St. Mary’s General Hospital, Kitchener on Friday, July 22, 2016, in her 79th year of Elmira. WILSON, AUDREY JEAN (BRIDGE) | Of Palmerston

passed away suddenly on Friday, July 22, 2016 in her 94th year. Local relatives are her daughter Dorothy Campbell of Elmira and her daughterin-law Audrey Martin of Elmira.

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It’s certainly summertime, and the readin’ is easy Local libraries seeing demand for adult and children’s books as seasonal programs bring people in

Raspberries have many options beyond jams

LIZ BEVAN IT COULD BE TO escape the summer heat, or it could be the newly released books, but more and more people are stopping in at the Elmira Library. Sheryl Tilley is the supervisor for the Woolwich and Wellesley library branches, and she says this year’s numbers are unprecedented. “It has been crazy this summer. More books have been checked out in the past few weeks than I can remember,” she said. “It is exciting.” This summer’s hot reads in the adult section of the library are almost all new releases from well-loved authors. Topping the list of the most checked out books is renowned novelist John Grisham with his new book, Rogue Lawyer. Lawrence Hill’s The Illegal, James Patterson’s Private Paris, Sandra Brown’s Friction and The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins round out the top five. Other popular reads, based on borrowing wait lists and books on hold include The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, The Last Mile by David Baldacci, First Comes Love by Emily Giffin and Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi. “People are checking out stacks of books at a time to take to the cottage, or to even sit at home. That

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Sheryl Tilley, supervisor for the Woolwich and Wellesley library branches, holds up two of this summer’s hot reads at the Elmira Library. She says there have been more people checking out books this summer than she can remember in previous years. [LIZ BEVAN / THE OBSERVER] she said, adding that as shelves.” Wimpy Kid series and we is the comment we get the kids collect stamps, they There are also a huge just can’t keep them on most. ‘I am going to the are eligible for different number of kids signed up the shelves. The same goes cottage and I need stuff to levels of prizes. for the summer reading with the Percy Jackson seread,’” she said. With temperatures rouries. That is also very popu- program, sponsored by Downstairs, in the tinely topping 30 degrees TD. Frankena says there lar with the latest books children’s section of the outside, it could be the air are over 160 kids signed up in the series coming out,” library, library assistant conditioning in the library, already with more signing she said. “And, of course, Pauline Frankena says this but Frankena attributes the up every week. with the recent release of summer is all about the “They get a reading pass- higher than average foot the new Star Wars movie, series, Star Wars and Poképort, and when they finish anything to do with Star mon. READING | 27 a book, they get a stamp,” Wars is just flying off the “We have the Diary of a

THE RASPBERRIES ARE IN! These little beauties are bursting with flavour and full of opportunity for seasonal recipes. Local berries will last longer, but why make them wait? Miss Mackenzie would have most of them eaten before dessert is prepared. The berries are so plump this year that they make perfect thimbles. Raspberries are naturally friends with brie, almonds, basil, arugula, buttery spinach and white wine, just to name a few accomplices. The possibilities go well beyond jam. One of my favorite combinations is definitely raspberry and lemon. The vibrant flavour is complimented by a refreshing zing that is summer. The perfect end to a meal especially during BBQ season is the Lemon Pudding Cake. This unassuming recipe is not your normal pudding cake. The finished cake is light and fluffy with a lovely lemon sauce pooling naturally on the plate. Garnish with some whipped cream and fresh mint and you will have your guests asking for you to make it again and again. Happy summer! CHEF’S TABLE | 27

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Q. What makes gorillas sing for their supper? Or if not that, at least hum hungrily for their food? A. Actually, our â€œgorilla cousinsâ€? singâ€”or humâ€”AS they supper, characterized by primatologist Dian Fossey as â€œbelch vocalizations,â€? says Steve Mirsky in â€œScientific Americanâ€? magazine. According to a recent study in â€œPLOS ONE,â€? these sounds are usually made by dominant males of the group and seem to signal contentment (bonobos and chimpanzees also produce feeding vocalizations).

As study coâ€“author Eva Luef explained, these food calls seem to have some social function, since silverback gorillas are often the ones making group decisions. So the calls may signal to his group mates that he is busy eating at the moment. â€œIn other words,â€? Mirsky says, â€œhumming and singing may be the dominant maleâ€™s Do Not Disturb sign. And his eventual silence could be gorilla for â€˜Ladies and almostmen, may I have your attention?â€™â€? Q. When the hungry human gut gets to rumbling, whatâ€™s producing the sound?

semiâ€“liquid substrate that vibrates like the skin of a drum, writes Hugh Hunt of Cambridge, UK, in â€œNew Scientistâ€? magazine. A similar phenomenon occurs in centralâ€“heating systems where gurgling noises are also produced by trapped gasses. â€œThe noises go away after â€˜bleedingâ€™ the radiators to release the gasses. In like manner, we bleed our stomach and bowels by burping and farting.â€? Q. Whatever can be so rare as a baseball pitcher throwing a perfect game or a batter slugging four homeruns in a single game?

A. The everâ€“present

A. The first of these has

human gut gasses â€” hydrogen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide and methane â€” gurgle audibly in a

been done 21 times since 1900, the second 16 times, says Dan Lewis in his book â€œNow I Know More.â€? But

the only franchise to have three players achieve this feat while on their roster: Neal Ball, playing for the Cleveland Naps, was the first in MLB under modern rules, on July 19, 1909; then Bill Wambsganns in Game 5 of the 1920 World Series; and Asdrubal Cabrera in 2008 (from Wikipedia). Q. At least how long ago did people start hearing the instructions to â€œOpen wideâ€??

rarer than either of these is Major League Baseballâ€™s (MLB) unassisted triple play, where all three outs in an inning are recorded in one play by the same fielder. The tally? Only 15 such plays in the leagueâ€™s history. For this rare play to be possible, there must be no outs in the inning and at least two runners on base. The unassisted triple play usually consists of a hard line drive hit directly at an infielder for the first out, with that same fielder then able to double off one of the base runners and tag a second for the second and third outs. Eight of the 15 fielders were shortstops, five were second basemen and two were first basemen. The Cleveland Indians is

A. According to University

of Bologna archaeologist Stefano Benazzi, ancient dentistry goes back 5000 years earlier than was previously thought, reports Gemma Tarlach in â€œDiscoverâ€? magazine. He and colleagues examined the lower molar of a 14,000-year-old skeleton unearthed in

northern Italy, containing a large cavity. â€œChipping at the top of the molar shows an attempt to remove the cavity, while a microscopic view shows striations on the tooth.â€? These marks were made with a stone tool in an apparent attempt to remove the infected material, which would have been â€œquite painful,â€? Benazzi says. Although the effort was only partly successful, at least the patient survived. â€œBenazziâ€™s analysis included replicating the damage on modern teeth â€” relax, he used teeth that were already extracted.â€?

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51. Bad lighting? 52. High guy in Dubai 54. Dadaism founder 55. Tea of fabled powers 57. Pass on 58. Abound 60. Feudal lord 61. Boil fluid 62. Stirs 64. Handles online 69. Cast out 71. Biddy 72. A hand 73. â€œHave someâ€? 74. Word with â€œgoâ€? 76. ___ de Triomphe 77. Craving 78. African antelope 79. Catâ€™s cry 83. Feverish 85. Breezy 87. Flat-bottomed boat 89. Daisylike bloom 90. Attorney General Janet 91. â€œFiddler on the Roofâ€? setting 92. Sail supports

DOWN 1. Chicken 2. Holy city? 3. Pogonip 4. Valleys 5. Clavellâ€™s â€œ___-Panâ€? 6. Destructive beetle 7. Indefinite article 8. Belief system 9. Contend (for) 10. Antiquity, in antiquity 11. Try for a part 12. Exists 13. Shabby 14. Fencers use them 15. Polo, e.g. 20. Senses 22. Hang out 27. Half a fortnight 29. Behind 30. Mechanicâ€™s tool 31. Affectionate 34. Harden 35. Quip, part 2 37. Cyst 40. Is repentant 42. Acreage

43. ___ a one 44. Myanmar currency 45. â€œCatch!â€? 46. Magnetomotive force unit 47. Cast out 48. Coming or going 53. ___ Boogie 56. â€œ___ say!â€? 59. Lionâ€™s share 61. Bounty 63. Big-ticket ___ 65. Load of gossip 66. Has coming 67. Young raptor 68. Directs 69. Orchard pest 70. Magical wish granter 75. Barbecue entree 77. ___ Major (constellation) 80. â€œNice!â€? 81. Baseballâ€™s Master Melvin 82. Diminutive 84. â€œKapow!â€? 86. Rocky Balboaâ€™s greeting 88. Word before large

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Lemon Raspberry Pudding Cakes

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Line bottom of ramekins. Cream butter, sugar and lemon zest. Add egg yolks, one at a time, mixing well after egg. Add flour and mix well.

Add 1/4 cup of lemon juice and milk, mix until combined. In a separate bowl beat egg whites and remaining sugar until stiff peaks form. Fold gently into batter. Pour into paper-lined ramekins. Add the washed raspberries to the lemon batter. Place the ramekins in a 9x13 pan, filling with water about a third of the way up the side of the ramekins. Bake in water bath at 325 F until golden brown and firm.

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Captain Cam entertained quite a crowd at the Wellesley Library on Tuesday afternoon with magic tricks, music and superhero fun. Above, Aiden tries out a superhero disguise. Below, Daniel gets tricked by a magically breaking wand.

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can meet your friends, find a new book to read, or come and drop in on Tuesdays. We have a large variety of programming for kids of all ages and interests. I think that is really attracting the kids.”

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traffic through the library to the creativity of the programs the library offers Tuesday to Friday. “It is a great place to come in and people are just enjoying it,” she said. “You

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ago, though there are still some small cleanup items to do in the downtown part,” he said, adding that now, construction crews are working a bit farther south on King Street, between Printery Road and Henry Street. “It is a full reconstruction. About half of the houses down there are on wells, so we are putting in new water services and new sanitary service connections for those houses. That is what is in progress right now.” After the underground work is done, new sidewalks and bike lanes will be added, while also lowering the current road a little bit. Young says this portion is scheduled for completion by the end of September, when phase three will begin. “Our next stage, which is our last one for next year, is the area south of what we are doing now. From Printery Road just down to the tracks. It is a fairly short section, but the reason it is its own separate stage is that while we are doing that, there is the longer detour,” he said. “People won’t be able to get into town going north on King Street there. They will have to go down Lobsinger Line, up Three Bridges and down Henry – the long way around.” Crews will be back at it in the spring, when the construction moves north,

from the bridge across the Conestogo River up to Sawmill Road, and the chunk of King Street between Hachborn and Henry streets. The project has hit a few snags along the way, but nothing that compromised the timeline. “In some sections, there were some old water valves that had deteriorated more than expected. When we replace the water valves, we have to shut the water off at the main valves. When we went to shut those off, they didn’t work, so they had to be replaced as well. We had more water shutoff than expected downtown,” said Young. “We also found a little bit of contaminated soil. It was contaminated from hydrocarbons, which usually come from old gasoline. We had to dispose of that in a special facility, so there was a small cost increase, but it hasn’t affected the budget too much.” Elsewhere for the past few months, drivers and bikers in Wellesley have had to take a long detour around Crosshill, where another major Region of Waterloo construction project was underway. Now, cars and bicycles can go on through. Peter Linn, that project’s manager, said it actually finished ahead of schedule. “The project went well. The contractor was actually done early.” There are still a couple

of things crews need to get finished due to unforeseen circumstances, and now, it is just a waiting game. “There is still some outstanding work that we need to complete in the fall with respect to the sidewalk on the north side of William Hastings Line,” said Linn. “We weren’t able to complete it because of a conflict with an underground Bell Canada fibre optic cable that is in the way of the curb.” Linn predicts that the sidewalk will be finished in two to three months, and crews will be back next year when all the snow melts to put the final layer of asphalt on the roadway. Also around the townships, bridge improvements are ongoing. The Conestogo River Bridge on Line 86, bordering on Wellington County, has some bike lanes being added, along with bridge infrastructure improvements. It is expected to wrap up in October. In Woolwich, the bridge on Hawkesville Road is getting some new concrete and more. It is expected to be open to two-lane traffic again in October. Finishing soon is the resurfacing of Shantz Station Road between Kossuth Road and Menno Street. The project, which began on July 12, involves a full resurfacing and lane closures. It is expected to last three to four weeks.

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The miniature horse show cost the fair a lot of money to bring them in, but it wasn’t bringing in a lot of money to the fair, so they decided to not include it this year. They had to cut the garden tractor pull because they didn’t have the scale for the tractors to pull. Also new this year on Friday is euchre sponsored by the Drayton Legion. Admission is included in the admission price at the fair gates. “As with most fairs, volunteers and help gets more and more scarce every year, so it makes it harder to bring in more activities without having people to run it. So that’s been an ongoing thing, I think for everybody though. So it’s getting harder to expand with less people. We keep trying to tell people, especially in our community, if you want something bigger you need to come out and participate and help us out,” she said. In an effort to increase community involvement

they’re doing a storefront window decorating contest and a front lawn decorating contest for local residents. It’s being sponsored by mayor Neil Driscoll. To participate you can email draytonfair@hotmail. com to let them know the location and they’ll submit them to the judging committee. On Saturday at 11:30 a.m. there’s the goat show, and then the dairy cattle show at 12 p.m. At 1 p.m. they’ll have Little Ray’s Reptile Zoo on site to entertain the kids, along with bouncy castles from 12-5 p.m. You can check out at the pet show at 2 p.m. and then at 4 p.m. there’s the baby show. “This year for the kids we are bringing in bouncy castles, not just regular ones. We have a jousting, an obstacle course and a regular bouncer. And then on Sunday right now we have a special guest coming for the kids. We’re not disclosing what it is, but it’s going to be a surprise,” she said.

She said the special guest will appeal to little kids. The Ontario Truck and Tractor Pulling Association (OTTPA) Truck and Tractor Pull is the Saturday night at 6:30 p.m. Visitors can get their fill of smashing, crashing cars on Sunday at 2 p.m. for the demolition derby. Come early to participate in the excavator games on Sunday at 11 a.m., followed by the beef cattle show at 12 p.m. and the sheep show at 12:30 p.m. And as always they’ll have the antique tractor display all day throughout the weekend, which she says tends to be quite popular. “Come experience a small town fair with a lot of heart, a lot of years of dedication, 160 years of dedication, to showing the community a good time,” she said. The Drayton Fair runs Aug. 5-7 at the Drayton Fairgrounds. The gates open at 5 p.m. on Friday and at 7:30 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday. For a full schedule, visit www.draytonfair.com.

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