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Review committee accepts new information from mayor, sees no reason to pursue an audit STEVE KANNON Woolwich Mayor Sandy Shantz having submitted a new, audited expense report, her spending in the 2014 election won’t be subjected to a formal audit. Members of the Municipal Election Compliance Audit Committee (MECAC) meeting Thursday morning were satisfied with the new paperwork, dismissing the application by Elmira resident Alan Marshall for a review of Shantz’s election filing. “Requesting an audit will not provide any additional information. Any further action is not required,” said MECAC member Kevin Bambrick following presentations to the committee. The sentiment was shared by all seven members, who voted unanimously in favour of dismissing the application. “I believe the mayor in good faith dealt with it the way she thought was proper,” said Tom Jutzi of the original filing. “While it was a failure, it does not demonstrate bad faith.” For Marshall, the new documents provided by Shantz just prior to the hearing were proof of his contention the mayor failed to file a proper election expense report. Among the issues he identified were the fact contributions to Shantz’s campaign exceeded $10,000, thus requiring an audit, and two associated businesses each MECAC | 24
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With the exception of Giant Hogweed and Poison Ivy, the Region of Waterloo strongly encourages methods a) through c) to control noxious weeds. Enforcement of the Weed Control Act in the townships of North Dumfries, Wellesley, Wilmot and Woolwich is carried out by Region of Waterloo Area Weed Inspectors. In the cities of Cambridge, Waterloo and Kitchener it is carried out by Municipal Weed Inspectors. For more information on noxious weeds please visit: http://www.regionofwaterloo.ca/en/regionalgovernment/ weedcontrol.asp or www.omafra.gov.on.ca
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Plan for Breslau development continues to evolve
Township’s secondary plan process getting closer to a conclusion; settlement of ROP helps get things back on track STEVE KANNON Changes fueled by residential subdivisions, a new provincial highway, a GO Transit station and commercial development are set to reshape Breslau. The timing remains up in the air, however. Getting a handle on all of that growth is the purpose of a planning review of the village, the Breslau secondary plan, launched in 2012 and now nearing completion. The growth that has reshaped Breslau over the past decade has been slowed of late due to legal wrangling involving the Region of Waterloo’s new official plan (ROP). Now, with a settlement reached last month, the way is clear to amend Woolwich’s own official plan as it pertains to Breslau and perhaps clear up some of the backlog. Still, the developer of the largest area of land, Thomasfield Homes, isn’t likely to see any new construction until two years from now. The next phase of the Empire Communities subdivision in the south end also remains up in the air, as both developers have appeals to the Ontario Municipal Board, launched when the OMB and legal challenges of the ROP brought much development to a halt. Completion of the secondary plan will allow the township to better assess proposed development in Breslau, says the township’s manager of planning. Following a public meeting June 25, Woolwich will be taking public input into the current version of the plan, reporting back to council in the fall, John Scarfone said this week. “We’re confident we can bring our amendments for consideration by the fourth quarter of this year.” Before then, there are some hurdles to clear, with the larger developers still looking for changes on some fronts. Among the concerns are the pace of growth (not surprisingly, the township proposes to go slower than the devel-
opers), the buffer zone around the many environmental features identified in the area, and a road connection from Fountain Street to the Thomasfield lands via a flyover to clear the railway line. “We’re trying to work through those issues,” said Scarfone. Much of the growth addressed in the plan will come via a mixed-use (residential, commercial and industrial) development to the east of the village, expansion of a residential project at the south end, and new commercial development to the north, on the other side of Victoria Street. Developers for each of those projects were on hand to pitch their visions. Likewise, developers seeking inclusion in the planning area also made their cases, hoping to turn land into bankable projects. Both Thomasfield Homes and Empire Communities, builders of subdivisions on the east and south sides of Breslau respectively, are looking to move forward with the next phases of their developments, each needing new lots to build on. Empire Communities hopes to build 531 units – a mix of single-detached houses and townhomes – on a 77-acre parcel to the west of its existing Riverland subdivision. The development would be home to an anticipated 1,636 people, with employment land in the mix adding another 76 employees. The plan also includes three parks and space for a new elementary school. Thomasfield’s latest bid for its eastside lands would bring 2,300 new residents and 3,330 jobs to the area. Proposed is a combination of residential (singlefamily, semis, townhouses and apartment buildings), commercial space, offices, retail stores, industrial uses, schools, open space, trails and wetlands extending over more than 335 acres east of the company’s current development, the Hopewell Heights subdivision. The development would cover two pieces of
land, 226 acres immediately east of the subdivision and 109 acres east of Greenhouse Road, the site of much of the proposed industrial land. There would be 865 residential units; 53 acres of employment land; 15 acres set aside at the south end of the western property, adjacent to the CN rail line, set aside for a GO Transit station; and substantial amounts of protected wetlands and extensive trailways. Even if things go fairly smoothly, however, Thomasfield owner Tom Krizsan predicts it will be two years before any new homes appear on the landscape. Along with comments on the secondary plan, the next step for Thomasfield involves the OMB process. A prehearing conference is set for July 30. “We wish to make our plan conform as much as possible with what [the township] is doing,” said Krizsan, noting a settlement over the ROP should help with the logjam. “We are very pleased that the regional official plan has been settled.” While Thomasfield’s project predates the secondary plan, and thus enjoys some grandfathering aspects, the company is working with the township on the planning aspects. If the planning aspects move along as hoped, the site could see some grading work next summer, servicing that fall, and some new buildings in the summer of 2017. The first phase is likely to be somewhere in the middle of the block of land where Kramp Road meets Greenhouse Road. Preparations for residential and employment lands will be done simultaneously, with Krizsan seeing the areas around the GO station as prime locations for industrial/commercial development. “We have a fair bit of interest in some of the employment land out there. We would always have some employment lands available,” he added of the PLAN | 4
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Money for road improvements the last hurdle for newly approved St. Jacobs subdivision STEVE KANNON Money – namely who pays for what – remains the last detail to work out following Woolwich council’s approval of a new subdivision in St. Jacobs. The latest phase of the Valley View Heights development will add another 148 homes into the mix at the south end of the village: 88 single-family homes, 26 semis and 24 townhouses. In approving the subdivision last week, Woolwich council left to be finalized the cost-sharing details between the developer and the township. A plan to upgrade Old Scout Place, which will serve as a secondary access route to the development, is the largest stumbling block. The two sides are at odds over some $265,000 in funding for the project. Steve Wever, a planner with the GSP Group representing Valley View Heights, maintains the developer is responsible for 20 per cent of the costs to improve the road. The township’s calculations put the percentage at about 60. “That’s a $265,000 swing,” he said at last week’s council presentation, arguing the difference should be covered from the township’s development charges fund. Valley View has, in fact, taken issue with Woolwich’s assessment of development charges – levies assessed on new homes to cover the cost of future municipal services – accusing the township of double-dipping by looking for the developer to pay
for the road upgrades and assessing for those costs in its development charges bylaw. For its part, the township acknowledges that tweaks may be required to the bylaw, but stands by its position Valley View Heights should be paying for the bulk of the road upgrades. “Absolutely, that’s fair,” said director of engineering and planning Dan Kennaley in response to a question from Coun. Patrick Merlihan. That assessment was not shared by a lawyer hired by Valley View to review the development charges (DC) background study and related bylaw approved by the township. “Asking our client to pay anything on account of Old Scout is double-dipping,” said Craig Robson of Robson Carpenter LLP. “Under the staff proposal, our client gets to pay for Old Scout twice, directly and again through DCs. And then the township collects a million bucks, but they only pay out $256,000, thereby making a notional profit of $750,000. “Here’s Valley View being asked to pay money that it’s not required to pay, legally, towards the road, and then it gets to pay for them again through its own development charges, to the tune of $235 a home.” Woolwich’s assessment is not likely to stand up to scrutiny, he added. “It’s not legal. It’s not allowed.” Nor, he argued, is Valley View required to pay for a pumping station to
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Phil, Ralph and Ryan Martin are all part of the Waterloo Holstein Breeders, who will be celebrating the club’s 100 year anniversary on July 4 at an Elmira farm, with historical displays, food, and children’s entertainment. [WHITNEY NEILSON / THE OBSERVER]
Tracking the many changes in the dairy industry over the last century
Waterloo Holstein Breeders mark the club’s 100th anniversary Saturday with event at Elmira-area farm, where having a cow is really just the thing to do WHITNEY NEILSON As the local 4-H Club celebrates a century of existence, so too does another Waterloo agricultural staple, the Waterloo Holstein Breeders. Ralph Martin, a third generation Holstein cattle breeder, says it’s important to recognize the club’s history and progress. “We’ve been active all those years and it’s a different group of people, no doubt, than what started it,” Martin said. “And some of the functions maybe have changed a little bit, but it’s an organization that provides education, provides social activities, and is a grassroots organization that feeds back and forth to the national organization.” In celebration of the anniversary, past and present breeders will gather at Bruview Holsteins in Elmira on July 4. Martin is a pastpresident and director of the club, along with his son
Ryan. His son Phil serves as a director of the club now. Martin’s grandfather started breeding Holsteins some 91 years ago. And as can be expected, there have been plenty of changes in the industry since then. “Certainly what’s important to the breed, to the Holstein cow has changed along the way,” Martin said. “We’ve certainly progressed an awful lot. If you see pictures of what cows used to look like when they first arrived here in 1883, that was of course before our club started here, when the first cows arrived to Canada from Holland in 1883 they looked an awful lot different than what they do today.” He explains the industry has grown in the sense that they produce more than they ever have. But it’s also shrunk, because far fewer people are getting into the cattle business. Even within the time he’s been farming, he says they’re
down to close to 10 per cent of the dairy farms provincially. Despite the changes, he says they still serve their purpose: providing volumes of milk to the public. With his sons working in the industry now as fourth generation Holstein breeders, his hopes for the club are to continue to help meet the demands of the commercial dairy farmer, and to provide high quality milk and animal products to consumers efficiently. Another difference he’s noticed in his time as a farmer is the move to specialized farms. When the club began 100 years ago most farms would have been mixed farming, with a couple cows, chickens, and pigs. Now farmers tend to focus on one animal, like cattle or sheep. “Much larger quantities of milk are leaving the farm and also, maybe not so much in Waterloo, but consolidation in the sense of not just one family is receiving income off of one
farm,” Martin explained. “Even within our farm here we have three families or three incomes coming out of this farm.” As to why fewer people are in the Holstein business, he says science and technology are allowing farmers to be more efficient. Also, a lot of people are losing interest, preferring to work in more modern fields. “The next generation isn’t interested in milking cows, but we still have more than enough people wanting to be in the industry to supply the demands. But it’s a phenomenon that’s right across the world,” Martin said. For Martin, his highlights of being a Holstein breeder are all about progress. He estimates they’ve doubled their production in the country per cow over the last 60 years. The cows are also doing it easier, he says. If they had a record EVENT | 4
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by farmers. The last two days of May produced as much rain as we would typically get in a month, followed by a very wet June. We saw 124 millimeters of rain in June, when the normal is 76 – a 63 per cent increase. But if you add those last two days of May you’d see the area got 226 millimeters of rain in the past 30 days. “So it’s almost three times the amount of rain you would normally get,” Phillips said. “At the same time it’s been fairly cool and there certainly have not been a lot of evaporations. The weather systems have moved in and a lot of cloud and not a lot of sun, so not a lot of moisture is
leaving the fields, and so that’s why you’re seeing the crops sitting in some standing water.” He goes on to say it “really has been feast or famine in terms of precipitation.” And nowhere is that more evident than in Western Canada. He says the contrast between wet and dry across the country is one of the most dramatic in Canadian history. “We’re getting too much weather and they’re not getting enough. And somehow if we could marry the two regions we’d be pretty happy as Canadians,” Phillips said. He notes the rain that put a damper on our weekend was more like a fall
storm than the weather we’d expect in late June. There were highs of 15 degrees, when normal highs should be in the 26-degree range. “The winds were strong, the rainfall in your area, you got about 23 to maybe 40 millimeters of rain. Elora got 47 millimeters. Woolwich got 23 millimeters, so somewhere between one and two inches,” Phillips said. But we’re not the only ones in Ontario having to drag out our raincoats and bucket hats. Everywhere from Windsor to Ottawa got a healthy dose of rain last week – some saw almost half a month’s worth in just a weekend.
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After a soggy June, local climatologist Dave Phillips says he’s still holding out for a warmer and drier rest of summer. [WHITNEY NEILSON / THE OBSERVER]
“It was a very long rain. Rains often in the summertime are short lived,” Phillips said. “You can get a shower of rain – rarely do you get 28 hours of continuous rain. It might be moderate or drizzle, but it is certainly rain. It was just absolutely miserable.” There is still a little light at the end of the tunnel, though. He says we shouldn’t expect to see consecutive days of rain next week, and a bit more drying out. Unfortunately, it won’t be “beer drinking weather,” he says. Temperatures will rise, but not like we saw last June. “What’s disappointing is that forecast has changed,” Phillips said. “We were calling for our summer to be normal to warmer than normal. Our latest models show July being a little colder and wetter than normal.” He says they’re holding out for sometime in July, August, or September to hit that 30-degree weather so many of us are craving. “Last year June was the best month and then it went downhill,” Phillips said. “This year June hopefully was the worst month and we’ll go up.”
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staging of development at the site. For Scarfone, the mix of residential versus industrial development is another facet of the secondary plan to be negotiated. “The percentages are still being worked out,” he said. Thomasfield and the township may be farther apart on the issue of a flyover route crossing the rail line, however. While some
changes were discussed at last week’s meeting, the cost of an overpass remains an issue. “That’s a $6-million job ... the traffic just doesn’t warrant,” said Krizsan, noting an at-grade crossing was approved for the development to the south of the village. As well, Thomasfield joins all of the developers with concerns about a proposed 30-metre buffer
zone around an extensive network of environmental features identified by the study. That, they say, would severely limit options on many parcels in and around the village. Scarfone, however, notes the buffer zone is simply a “high level” protection, with each plan to be judged on its merits should developers request a reduction in the buffer space. “We understand. We’re
trying to work through those issues.” Also on the township’s radar is a cross-border servicing agreement to extend water and sewer services from Kitchener. Breslau is currently allocated 25 per cent of the capacity of a pumping station on the city’s side of the river, with officials there willing to offer up another 25 per cent, allowing for the new development to proceed.
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production cow 60 years ago, you’d be able to tell just by looking at it. “I remember being a young boy, nine years old, when my father had the highest production herd in the county here of Waterloo,” Martin recalls. “Within that herd we had one cow that was in the top 10 in Canada. Today if we had a herd with that
production level and a cow that caliber we would get rid of her because we’ve progressed so much from that time.” Something he’s proud of the industry for, which will be part of the anniversary event, is how they network. He says in a lot of industries you don’t share your secrets with others because you just want to get ahead. “As my own sons say,
this industry, the farming industry, there’s a lot of communication between producers, between stakeholders, to share our secret, sort of thing,” Martin said. “We do share each others’ accomplishments, our failures. We all learn from each other and that is something we enjoy doing.” The celebration starts at 11 a.m. at Bruview Hol-
steins, 1379 Tilman Rd. in Elmira on July 4. A meal of beef on a bun, salads and cake will be served at noon. The official program starts at 1 p.m. and you’re asked to bring your own lawn chairs. Children’s entertainment will be provided as well as historical displays for the older folks. It cost $15 for adults, $5 for children (6-12), and free for children five and under.
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extend services into the area, though it has agreed to cover the entire cost estimated at $750,000. Along with turning over 15 acres of valley land and
a $20,000 contribution to a multi-use sports pad, the developer is going above and beyond, Wever maintained. “These are voluntary contributions that they’re
otherwise not required to pay.” The township, however, is seeking legal advice of its own before making a decision on the developer’s position.
In the meantime, the subdivision gets to move ahead as the two sides work out the cost-sharing and development charges formula following a legal review.
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WRDSB passes new budget Waterloo Region District School Board trustees last week approved a balanced budget for the 2015-2016 school year. The operating budget will hit $690.3 million, including a capital budget of $57.1 million.
New lighting for Industrial Park
Industrial Park in Elmira is the latest Woolwich sports field earmarked for lighting upgrades. Meeting last week, council awarded a $178,000 contract
to Wagler Electric to carry out the work. The figure is $23,000 more than the township has budgeted for, with reserve funds to be tapped for the difference. The project includes upgrades and replacement of light standards, fixtures, lamps, controls and wiring.
Council backs rezoning bid
Wellesley council held a public meeting on June 30 to discuss a zoning bylaw amendment to rezone part of 4187 Weimar Line. Terry Janzen requested to sever 2,100 square feet of land as a lot addition from 4175
Weimar Line. The severance was requested to add a bit of land from the abutting farm property to non-farm residential lands to allow for a house addition. The council approved the rezoning.
Bridge inspection contract awarded
Woolwich will spend $87,000 inspecting its bridges and culverts this year, awarding the contract for the work to GM Blueplan Engineering Ltd. Provincial legislation mandates that inspections be carried out every two years under guidelines established in the Ontario Structure Inspection Manual.
There are 51 bridges and culverts to be evaluated. The elevated cost for this contract – the last one in 2013 cost $20,000 – reflects a number of add-ons, including additional testing next year of five spans slated for rehabilitation and in need of monitoring (Glasgow and Peel street bridges, as well as ones on Reid Woods Drive, Hill Street and Floradale Road). Eight pedestrian bridges in the township have been added to the list this time around. As well, there will be work done in preparation for the rehabilitation of the Apple Grove Road bridge and the class environmental assessment for the Glasgow Street bridge.
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Police issue safety warning about recreational vehicles as summer season sets in A ten-year snapshot into boating and off-road incidents investigated by the Ontario Provincial Police revealed that capsized boats and lack of safety equipment have been the most common factors in fatal boating incidents while alcohol leads the list of factors in off-road vehicle (ORV) incidents. Over the past ten years (2005-2014), 276 people have lost their lives in 245 boating incidents and 167 people have died in 165 ORV incidents in OPP jurisdiction. The ten-year data revealed that a capsized boat was the leading cause in 78 of the 245 boating incidents. Occupants falling overboard was the second leading cause with 76 such incidents. Alcohol was found to be the primary cause of 26 boating mishaps and a swamped vessel placed fourth with 14 occurrences. The study shows life
jackets and personal floatation devices (PFD) were extremely under-utilized, with 226 of the 276 deceased not wearing one at the time of the incident. Sadly, many of the victims may have otherwise survived their ordeal had they chosen to wear this important life saving equipment. The majority of the boating victims were male (254) and 22 of them were female. Of those killed, 177 were the boat operator, 87 were passengers and in seven of the incidents, it was not known if the victim was a driver or a passenger. The other five victims were not occupants in the boat involved in the incident. ORV fatality data revealed that 77 of the 165 fatalities were alcohol or drug-related. Not wearing a helmet was not far behind with 74 of the deaths being linked to this factor. Speed was a contributing factor in 51 of the incidents over the ten-year period.
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4:20 PM | Police began investigating a complaint about a possible internal theft at a business on Weber Street North in Woolwich Township.
10:00 AM | A vehicle travelling on Line 86 at Covered Bridge Drive near West Montrose received damage from a flying stone. It remains unknown if the stone fell
off of a truck or came from another source. 9:25 PM | Police received a report of a vehicle broken into on Snyders Flats Road near Bloomingdale sometime around 8:30 p.m. A window was smashed and several purses and a bag of clothes were taken. 9:50 PM | A Wellington County OPP officer conducting radar speed enforcement on Wellington Road 18 near the First Line in Centre Wellington Township observed a 2015 Dodge Ram pickup truck travelling well above the posted speed limit. The vehicle was clocked at approximately 145 km/h in an 80 km/h zone. A 23-year-old Guelph man was charged with ‘race motor vehicle.’ His driver’s licence and vehicle were seized for a period of seven days. He is to appear in Guelph Provincial Court August 19 to answer the charge. JUNE 25
7:54 AM | A gravel pit operation on Kressler Road in Wellesley Township was the scene of a breakin. Some copper wire was taken and some equipment damaged at a cost of about $12,000. 11:06 AM | A driver of a car trying to park on Queens Bush Road in Wellesley grazed a parked car, leaving only a transfer of paint. 4:03 PM | A vehicle stopped at a stop sign at Bridge Street
and Ebycrest Road, between Bloomingdale and Breslau, was struck from behind by a second vehicle. Damage was estimated at $2,000. No charges have been laid at this time.
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11:11 AM | The driver of a 2001 Chevrolet Monte Carlo lost control of the vehicle and struck a guardrail at Arthur Street and Listowel Road in Elmira. The driver was subsequently charged with ‘careless driving.’
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Greek crisis is more than just a simple divide UNLESS SOMEBODY GIVES IN beforehand, Greeks will vote Sunday in a referendum on accepting punishing austerity measures in exchange for a bailout of its wobbly financial system. It’s also something of a game of chicken over the country remaining in the EU. Much has been written about the crisis in Greece, most of it from the perspective of profligate Greeks having to pay the piper for years of overspending using borrowed money. That’s true, but only part of the story. The leaders of the country did fudge the numbers to gain entry to the EU, going on a borrowing binge shortly thereafter, much of the money lining the “right” pockets and used to buy the electorate (sound familiar?). Yes, Greece is in a bad financial jam. Yes, much of the problem is self-inflicted. No, the Greeks weren’t (overly) profligate spenders. The problem, however, is a basic one: they spent more than they brought in. The spending wasn’t exorbitant, but tax revenues are so low that deficits were a given. Officially, Greek tax rates are fairly high, even by European standards. But Greeks routinely find ways of avoiding taxes, enforcement is spotty and bribery is reported as rampant. Those Greeks in the top 20 per cent of earners pay virtually nothing in the way of taxes, the result of old deals extending back to the country’s days as a military junta and the widespread tax evasion in place today. So even though Greece falls into the middle of the Eurozone pack with it comes to government spending, its tax collection rates rank near the bottom. And despite what we would view as generous social programs, Greeks have one of the lower per capita incomes in Europe. Debt now stands at 175 per cent of GDP, much larger than other Western countries. The real pain began with the 2008 recession caused by the finance industry, with the bailouts coming into play two years later. Each fresh infusion of money simply keeps the financial system afloat, helping the country meet payments for previous borrowing. It’s untenable, and everybody knows the money can never be fully repaid. For Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, the goal is to have some of the debt written off. The bankers on the other side and the politicians led by German Chancellor Angela Merkel aren’t having any part of that. Having been elected earlier this year on an anti-austerity platform, Tsipras feels he can’t agree to the conditions for another bailout, prompting Sunday’s vote. His stance is understandable. Apparently, Greece’s faltering economy is to be helped by deep cuts to spending, support programs and employment. Seems counterintuitive, and it is. Unless a new deal is struck, Greece either falls out of the EU, causing immediate harm, or it continues the death of a thousand cuts, with the harm phased in over the years as the standard of living falls and unemployment rises – it’s already at 25 per cent, 50 per cent for young people. Suffer now. Suffer later. But suffering is the prescription. Unless another way is found. It’s a compelling story, one with real human consequences. And one with lessons we can learn even here where, for alarmist reasons, the comparison has often been made. We’re not in the same situation financially, but certainly Ontario is already seeing how government waste and corruption, coupled with strategies to buy votes today with the money of future Ontarians, really does limit the proper function of government. Likewise, it undermines the legitimacy of government, just as it did in Greece.
The 90-day appeal period for challenging election expense filings having passed, the other half of Woolwich council breathes a sigh of relief. WORLD VIEW / GWYNNE DYER
Massacres just a means to an end for Islamic State terrorists WORLD AFFAIRS Last Friday in France, an Islamist named Yahya Salhi killed his employer, Herve Cornara. He attached the victim’s severed head to the fence around a chemical plant, together with a cloth saying “There is no God but God and Muhammad is his prophet” – and then rammed his vehicle into a warehouse full of chemicals hoping (but failing) to cause a massive explosion. In Kuwait two hours later, Fahd Suleiman Abdulmohsen al-Qaba’a, a Saudi citizen, entered a Shia mosque and detonated a bomb that killed at least 25 people. He was presumably a Sunni fanatic sent by ‘Islamic State’ to kill Shias, who they believe are heretics who should be killed. In Tunisia one hour later, 38 European tourists, most of them British, were massacred by a 23-year-old man with a Kalashnikov on a beach in Sousse. The perpetrator, Seifeddine Rezgui, was studying engi-
neering at a university in Kairouan, an hour’s drive west of Sousse. Islamic State, which has carved out a territory in Iraq and Syria that has more people and a bigger army than half the members of the United Nations, immediately claimed responsibility for all three attacks. Yahya Salhi may have been a lone-wolf head case, but in the other two cases the claim was almost certainly true. But there was another attack that you probably didn’t hear about. Kobani, the Kurdish town in northern Syria that withstood a four-month siege by Islamic State troops last year, came under attack again June 25. About a hundred young Islamists in Humvees and pickup trucks drove into town and shot 220 people dead in the streets and in their houses. So 64 murders that you heard a lot about, and 220 others you heard little or nothing about. There are hundreds of innocent people being murdered by Islamist fanatics in Syria every week, so it’s no longer news. Besides, the motive there is obvious: it’s just
Islamic State trying to expand its territory in Syria. But as for the others ... Britain’s prime minister, David Cameron, responded to the deaths of 30 British citizens in Tunisia by trotting out the same shopworn drivel that Western leaders have been peddling for the past 14 years. The fight against Islamic State is “the struggle of our generation,” Cameron declared. Indeed, IS poses “an existential threat” to the West. Maybe Cameron doesn’t know what the word “existential” means. Could somebody please explain to him that he is saying that Islamic State poses a threat to the continued existence of the West? Does he really think that is the case? Forgive me for making a cold-blooded calculation, but sometimes it is necessary. The population of the West (not counting the countries of Latin America, which don’t play in this league) is about 900 million. Thirty-nine “Westerners” have been killed in attacks by Islamist terrorists this month. At this rate, the West will have ceased to exist in 1.9 million years. If
this is an existential threat, it’s not a very urgent one. In fact, it’s not really about the West at all. The European victims on the beach in Sousse were killed in order to destroy the tourism that provides almost 15 per cent of Tunisia’s national income, and thereby destabilize the only fully democratic country in the Arab world. The extremists’ real goal is to seize power in Tunisia; the Western victims were just a means to that end. The bombing of a Shia mosque in Kuwait was intended to increase tensions between the Sunni majority and the large Shia minority in that country, with the ultimate goal of unleashing a Sunni-Shia civil war in which Islamist extremists could take over the Sunni side as they have already done in Syria and Iraq. Only the lone-wolf attack in France could be conceivably be seen as directed at the “West” – although that might also have been just a personal grievance wrapped up in an Islamist justification. The rest of the killing DYER | 8
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THEIR VIEW / QUESTION OF THE WEEK
How has the rainy weather affected your summer plans?
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“It’s really affected them. You can’t do anything in the rain.”
“It’s definitely put a damper on things. Any canoes on sale?”
“I love the rain. We need all the rain we can get – get all the lakes filled up.”
“It really hasn’t affected me. We’ve been out in rain and cloud.”
“It hasn’t affected them.”
“The Islamists do ‘hate Western values,’ but they have bigger fish to fry at home.” Gwynne Dyer | 6 HIS VIEW / STEVE KANNON
Complaining about the weather - and the cost of food - leads to climate change EDITOR'S NOTES Killer heat waves. Flooding. Raging, windswept forest fires. Typhoons. I suppose the lousy spring and summer weather we’ve had isn’t much to complain about. Oh, we’ll still complain, but looking around does lend some perspective. It’s been wet here, though nothing like they experienced in Texas, for instance. And just the opposite of what’s going on out west. That’s particularly true in California, where record droughts aren’t just unfortunate for residents: it’s the source of much of our produce, and prices are going to go up sooner or later given the decline in supply. Take almonds. I like them, but not the cost increases, nor their water-hogging tendencies in a drought-stricken region that’s home to most of the planet’s supply of the healthy little nuts. Problem is, each individual nut requires a gallon (four
litres) of water before it reaches me. (The number sounds high, and it is, but that’s how farming works, especially in hot, sunny California. A head of lettuce? Twelve gallons. One egg? Fifty-three gallons. A pound of chicken represents 468 gallons, while one hamburger requires 450 before you drop it on the barbeque, representing about 1,800 gallons per pound.) We use a considerable amount of water. Waste plenty, in fact. Globally, depletion of aquifers – through use, though pollutant threats exist, as Elmira well knows – is in direct proportion to population growth and everintensifying water use. The continued lack of precipitation in recent years has seen groundwater levels fall even as more wells are drilled to meet demand. Weather fluctuates, as do conditions from locale to locale, but the specter of climate change is there in every story about extreme weather and disasters. Could it be the threat is now becoming part of our collective wisdom? Despite
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damned. The same is true in the debate over climate change. Well, not debate, as there is near-universal consent among experts and those knowledgeable in the field – there is no other side to the story save for those bought and paid for to be there. It’s been an effective campaign, because we’ve had little action. Many of us don’t even want to think about it, as that might lead to lifestyle changes, or even extra costs. Of course, we can mitigate greenhouse gases today, or we can pay out much more tomorrow for the devastating impacts of climate change, costs that will make the current billions spent on postdisaster cleanups seem paltry. The public is increasingly aware of this, yet governments continue to do little more than give lip service to the issue – witness the string of conferences and summits that generate naught but hot air. In the end, it’s the money and the power it buys that dictates what actually happens. Canada is no different. The government is be-
holden to large resource companies, increasingly foreign-owned. The average Canadian, while a low priority individually, still warrants some consideration as part of the voting mass. And Canadians have grown tired of the debate, and will not support one dime travelling out of the country on some ill-fated cap-and-trade, carbon offsets or environmental reparations scheme cooked up by an unaccountable international group. We simply do not believe politicians and bureaucrats capable of creating a system that isn’t corrupt, ineffective and likely to waste money. History has shown us such agreements are rarely to the benefit of average citizens. That’s not to say we shouldn’t be making our own efforts to combat climate change. Canada contributes about two per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions despite having less than half of one per cent of the world’s population. Clearly we can do better. In the absence of international agreements, however, going it
alone may require some other changes, including increasing protectionism. There’s no point in lowering emissions standards for manufacturers in Canada, or even the U.S., if goods from China and other major polluters can come into the market with impunity. Worse still, such tactics could end up encouraging even more transfer of Western jobs to offshore locations where the environment regulations are as lax as labour and human rights protection. As an exporting nation – especially one with resources linked to emissions, particularly the tar sands – Canada may be very reluctant to go down that road. The result? No international agreements, and no national targets. Perhaps the largest barrier to any major change, however, is human nature: we’re quite content with our lives today, and see no need to change that for some potential long-term benefit, one that’s unlikely to materialize in our lifeKANNON | 8
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THIS WEEK IN HISTORY
Real gross domestic product edged down 0.1% in April, the fourth consecutive monthly decline. A decrease in the output of goods-producing industries outweighed an increase in service industries. Two consecutive quarters of declining GDP indicates a recession.
“There is no place on earth that can be safe, secure or healthy in a world that is running out of water. In this sense, California is the ‘canary in the coalmine’ of a growing water crisis, and what’s happening there shows why all of us must transform our thinking, action, and relationships to this most precious of resources.”
Riverside Drive will remain a one-way street following the current reconstruction of the popular route for drivers looking to bypass downtown Elmira, Woolwich council decided July 2, making permanent the one-way experiment they launched last year. The road runs one-way from Church Street to Arthur Street, with a stop sign at Cross Street.
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was about who controls the Muslim countries, particularly in the Middle East, as it has been from the start. Even 9/11 was about that, designed not to “bring America to its knees” but to lure it into an invasion of Afghanistan that Osama bin Laden believed would stimulate Islamist revolutions in Muslim countries. The Islamists do “hate Western values,” but they have bigger fish to fry at home. Islamic State and the various incarnations of Al
Qaeda (the Nusra Front in Syria, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, etc,) pose an existential threat to the non-Sunni Muslim minorities of the Middle East, and even to Sunni Muslims whose beliefs diverge significantly from those of the Islamists. The West should help governments in the region that protect their minorities, and of course it should try to protect its own people. But this is not the “struggle of our generation” for the West. It should be nowhere near the top of its own list of priorities.
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Former Kings goalie Mackenzie Blackwood taken in NHL draft by the New Jersey Devils WHITNEY NEILSON Another former Elmira Sugar King has caught the eye of an NHL team. Mackenzie Blackwood, who played goalie for the Sugar Kings during the 2012-13 season was drafted to the New Jersey Devils on June 27 with the 42nd overall pick. Former Kings director of hockey operations Keith Stewart said Blackwood did a solid job the year he played for them before moving up to the OHL to play for the Barrie Colts. “My son actually scouts for the Colts, that’s one of the reasons we brought him there to Elmira as a 16-year-old,” Stewart explained. “We’re allowed to take two every year. We had gone out and watched him in a couple tournaments and then Barrie was confident we were going to move him up to the next level, so they sent him to us to develop him for a year.” He said it’s not very often you can bring in a 16-year-old goalie to play Junior B hockey, but he did just that. The Thunder Bay native played 24 games for
the Kings before moving to the Colts, where he quickly became their numberone goalie – despite being younger and less experienced than their goalie at the time. “He’s a big kid. He was kind of a scrawny tall kid when he came to us, but now he’s 6’4”, 204 pounds, playing for the Barrie Colts. So he’s doing very well there,” Stewart said. Now 18, Blackwood will attend the New Jersey Devils’ development camp on July 12. He will also be at Hockey Canada’s World Junior Team Summer Development Camp this August in Calgary, as one of just three goalies invited. “He was a real quiet shy kid, just the fact being around the older boys and that. We felt for him to move away from Thunder Bay at such a young age and do so well in our league, that speaks volumes for the kind of kid he is,” Stewart said. He’s not the first Sugar King to merit such attention, and he won’t be the last. Some others include Dennis Wideman, Dan Snyder, and Jamie Wright.
With his first season as an NHL referee under his belt, Elmira native Garrett Rank is getting back into the swing of things, winning the Ontario men’s mid-amateur golf competition at the Westmount Golf and Country Club in Kitch-
ener on June 25. “It was fun. It’s always good to come away with the victory early on in the season, when you’re just trying to get out of the gate with a good start, and get your game back in shape for a busy month of July,” Rank said. “It makes you feel good that you’re work-
Former Sugar Kings goalie Mackenzie Blackwood was selected by the New Jersey Devils in the NHL draft last weekend, after playing two seasons with the OHL’s Barrie Colts. Stewart says it’s a huge accomplishment for any hockey club. “It shows other kids that there’s that possibility that by playing a year or two there they can move up to the next level and maybe DRAFT | 11
ing in the right direction.” The 54-hole competition included Ontario’s best golfers who are 25 and older who qualified through one of nine qualifying tournaments. He completed the round three-under (70) to finish the tournament with a seven-under (74-6870-212).
“I played pretty well” Rank said. “I putted really well all week. I made a few mistakes every now and then, but I made a lot of birdies and hit a lot of good shots, and really took advantage of the opportunities when I had them.”
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The other day a friend and I cancelled a fishing trip because it was raining. Actually drizzling would have been a far more accurate description. This might seem reasonable to most level-headed people. I, however, am an angler. There was a time, not that long ago, when my friend and I would have fished in a hurricane – from a canoe. I’m not exactly sure when the creep towards creature comforts began but I suspect the first domino fell shortly after we first realized that it might be unhealthy to use nine-foot graphite fly rods during electrical storms. Ever since then, we’ve been cancelling fishing trips if the weather was anything but near perfect. Last week we cancelled due to what my friend called dangerous winds. In my defence, I argued strongly against this. I told him that we could keep the windows rolled down in the truck on the drive there and
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Expos win first tournament of the year Close-knit Elmira squad looking to another good year in the South Perth Men’s Fastball League WHITNEY NEILSON The Elmira Expos are off to a good start to the fastball season, winning their first tournament of the year, and three more to go. “It’s been going pretty good so far. We won our first tournament we were in, in St. Clements,” Travis Martin said. The team competes in the South Perth Men’s Fastball League, which is made of up seven teams – down from nine last year, where they finished third. Martin says their season is shaping up similar to how they did last year. “We have the same roster as last year. We’ve had the same roster for the last probably five or six years,” Martin said. With most of the players coming from Elmira and Linwood, he explains why they keep coming back year after year.
“We’re just a close-knit group of guys that all just like to play ball together and have fun,” Martin said. This week’s home game against the Kitchener Cubs was cancelled for Thursday, but they’ll return home again on July 9 to play the Ponsonby Sting. Right now the Expos sit middle of the pack in fourth place, with three wins and three losses. “For our home games and tournaments we get quite a few family members. And our home games we get quite a few local people coming out to watch,” Martin said. They’ll keep busy for the summer with the OASA tournament and another near Ottawa in July. But the biggest competition will be the International Softball Congress World Tournament in South Bend, Indiana, this August. “The OASA is just the
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The Elmira Expos are off to a good start this season, winning their first tournament of the year. They’ll head to South Bend, Indiana in August for the International Softball Congress World Tournament. [SUBMITTED] Ontario championships for intermediate fastball,” Martin explained. “And then the Ottawa tournament is just an open tournament. And then the ISC, that’s the big tournament. That’s where the top fastball teams from North America go to compete.” They placed 16th out of 48 teams at the ISC tournament last year in Kitchener. Their goal this year is to finish in the top 10. They came in ninth two years ago and that’s the best they’ve ever done at
that tournament. “It’s all the best players, basically in the world, so we like to play against the best, see how we stack up,” Martin said. To make it to the ISC tournament they had to come top four in a qualifying tournament, which they did at the beginning of June. Playing in the South Perth league helps get them ready for the world tournament, since the competition is pretty tough.
“Locally I would say the competition is probably one of the best leagues in Ontario and locally there are a lot of good, competitive fastball teams,” Martin said. He attributes that to the rural nature of this area. Their league consists of teams from Kitchener, Ponsonby, Mitchell, St. Pauls, Shakespeare, and Sebringville. “Softball’s more of a small town sport,” Martin said. “There are a lot of small towns around. I
think that’s the main reason. A lot of the bigger cities they play hardball.” As someone who started playing at just five years old, he doesn’t see himself quitting the sport any time soon. “I think it’s just I’ve always loved playing fastball and it’s just the competitiveness,” Martin said. “That’s kind of what keeps me going.” They take on Ponsonby at 8:45 p.m. at the Elmira Industrial Diamond on July 9.
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He’ll spend the next two weeks preparing for the Pan American Games at Angus Glen Golf Club in Markham, and then the Canadian Open at Glen Abbey Golf Club the following weekend. Despite winning the Canadian men’s midamateur championship in Barrie last year, he says these are pretty high on the list, competitiveness-wise. “They’re probably two of the bigger events. These are home games essentially in the Toronto area, and pretty big events,” Rank said. As for how his golf season’s been going prior to the mid-amateur win, the 27-year-old says he’s happy with how he’s been playing. “The week before I shot 371 with the semi and amateurs and finished middle of the pack,” Rank said. “It was good. It was my first
week back in competition and I played three halfdecent rounds and shot 371, which is a pretty highly competitive field and I was happy with how it went. And then last week winning the mid-am got the competitive streak just going again.” Rank will represent Canada at the Pan Am Games in golf along with Austin Connelly, Lorie Kane, and an undetermined other female golfer as Brooke Henderson has dropped out to focus on pursuing a professional career in golf. This will be the first time golf has been included at the Pan Am Games. “I know I’ll have some family and friends there,” Rank said. “I haven’t had anything planned. I don’t have any busses or anything like that coming down. But I’m sure there will be some familiar faces
Elmira golfer and NHL ref Garrett Rank swung his way to golf glory last week, winning the Ontario mid-amateur championship. and I’m really looking forward to that.” While he’s focused on golf for the summer, Rank will return to reffing NHL in the fall, something he’s definitely looking forward to. “It was awesome,” Rank said. “I did nine NHL games and just finished up with the Calder Cup Finals in the American Hockey League a couple weeks ago. It went really well. It was a good learning experience, found some pretty good success
and had a lot of fun.” Despite this being the largest competition he’s ever taken part in, Rank is feeling optimistic about bringing Pan Am glory back to Elmira. “My game’s in good shape,” Rank said. “It’s moving in the right direction. I played at Angus Glen before, got some home course advantage there. I’m going there with the hopes of coming home with a medal.”
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assured him I’d take a stern position in the canoe. But no, he let my little “issue” ruin an entire morning of fishing. At one point, he even argued that it would have been environmentally irresponsible to proceed.
If I have learned anything from this, it is a) older anglers are only willing to fish on comfortable days and b) I should never eat three burritos the night before a fishing trip. I know some young anglers who would crawl through an acre of poison
ivy in the driving rain for a chance to catch a sixinch brook trout. An older angler would not do this, however – not unless he had a pretty good rain gear. I believe this is because anglers only develop wisdom with age. Take rain gear, for example. I am still
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not at the stage where I own any but the other day I actually entertained the idea of buying a set one day. It was shortly after I heard a rumour of a sixinch brook trout. This would have never entered my mind in my younger years. My reasoning was, so long as the moisture level above the surface was less than that below it,
things weren’t too bad. These days, though, I’m wary of moisture – especially after burrito night. I believe this has much to do with the fact that society is generally getting softer – and anglers are no different. There was a time when it was considered macho and manly for a person to endure extreme discomfort. That’s why
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marriage was such a popular institution. These days though, fishing in uncomfortable conditions is just considered plain stupid. There is simply no excuse for it. For one thing, we can’t argue that we never saw the storm coming. Most of us have more weather prediction capability on our cell phones than NASA did 20 years ago. Conversely, our grandfathers based an entire weekly forecast on whether or not an elbow was “acting up.” And sometimes it was not even their elbow. And while this was not exactly bright, it was forgiven because not everyone had a flock of weather forecasting chickens to rely on. Now that we can see storms looming on the horizon, however, there’s no excuse for fishing in them. You can do so. But you’ll then risk the question, “Don’t you know enough to stay out of the rain?” The answer, of course, is always embarrassing.
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make it all the way to the NHL. So it’s a big thing for the organization for sure,” Stewart said. The Colts finished first in the OHL Central Division in the regular 2014-15 season with 41 wins and 24 losses. They eventually were beat by the North Bay Battalion in the semi-finals. Blackwood had a 3.09 goals-against average and a .906 save percentage with the Colts last season. “When he played in Elmira he was probably 145 pounds soaking wet and now in three years he’s grown into a man,” Stewart said. “You get some come through there, you know they’re a special player. If all the chips fall in the right spot, you end up making it to the show.”
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In Ontario we’re now putting more pork on our fork FIELD NOTES
Jesse Bauman, Karen Maleka, Marc Xuereb, David Eales and Jordan Ellis spoke to the special advisors on the Changing Workplaces Review in Guelph last week about the need to change the Employment Standards Act and the Labour Relations Act to better reflect the needs of workers.
Pitching the $15 minimum wage Recommendation just one of many to improve conditions for Ontario’s most vulnerable workers WHITNEY NEILSON Local labour activists had their say last week, sharing their stories of temporary employment, no benefits, and unfair wages to the province’s Changing Workplaces Review. The Ontario government launched the public consultations in a range of cities across the province to examine how the Labour Relations Act (1995) and the Employment Standards Act (2000) could be altered to support workers and businesses fairly. Marc Xuereb, president of the Waterloo Regional Labour Council, presented labour concerns, joined by three local workers at a meeting in Guelph. “We wanted to be a part of this $15 fairness campaign because we want to raise the issue of how many people in our workforce
are working in precarious jobs,” Xuereb said of the campaign to raise the minimum wage. “They’re part-time when they want to be full-time or they’re in temporary contract jobs, and so we voted to assign the president, me, to go and make a presentation to the Changing Workplaces Review.” One of the workers who spoke was Jordan Ellis, who’s worked for several different temp agencies for four years, on average 15 different jobs a year. He explained how he often works alongside people doing the same job as him, who are making more money. “He has a chronic health condition and so he had an appointment that he couldn’t miss and he informed both the temp agency and the employer ahead of time that he had to do this,” Xuereb said.
“They said ‘fine.’ He went to it and then the next day they said ‘no, we’ve replaced you. We had to find someone else.’ These are the kinds of things that we want to see addressed in changes to the Employment Standards Act.” A report titled Still Working on the Edge was launched this spring by the Workers’ Action Centre to tell those kinds of stories of workers in precarious employment situations. One of the recommendations of the report is to make it illegal for an employer to pay the temp agency worker less than a worker doing the same job, and actually recommend there be a precarity premium paid to temp workers. “They don’t get the job security, they don’t get the benefits associated with full-time workers. So they should get paid a premium
on top of their wage. That was one point we made through Jordan’s story,” Xuereb said. Personal support worker Karen Maleka goes from home to home helping people with domestic chores for one-hour intervals. She gets paid about $15 an hour, but doesn’t get paid for her travel time between appointments. She takes the bus from appointment to appointment, so the 30 to 45 minutes between calls is completely unpaid. They give her a mileage rate for the distance, but she doesn’t have the choice to go home and relax between appointments. “She’ll work a long day, but only get paid for each minute that she’s in someone’s home. On top of that she’s classified as parttime, even though she regularly works up to 80 hours a week,” Xuereb said.
He says workers are put in a precarious situation as a result. They can’t buy a house because the banks see them as part-time workers. Even if they’re making full-time hours, if they’re classified as parttime they don’t have the job security of it being there next week, so they won’t give them a mortgage. David Eales spoke about members of his union who have two or three PSW jobs at different healthcare facilities – all of which are unionized by different locals. “These long-term nursing homes are privately owned, so they do have members that work two or three jobs with the same company, that would have different employment contracts,” Xuereb said. LABOUR | 13
For many farmers, doing what they do every day – that is, growing food locally – is not the stuff of headlines. Nor is it something they think people find particularly interesting. But don’t underestimate the power of the local food movement. As reported here last week, a new poll shows “local” is a major buying decision for certain commodities, including meat. Ninety per cent of respondents said it is very to somewhat important that meat is produced and sourced locally. And this week, it seems that statistic is being borne out by the way we as consumers are embracing a new Ontario Pork branding campaign. It seizes on the popularity of local food grown by local farmers. It’s a point-of-purchase campaign, meaning it’s focused on where consumers buy their meat. The campaign features a wonderfully simple, stylized check-mark symbol above the words Ontario Pork. Nothing fancy, but clear and effective. Supporting collateral (shelf dividers, stickers for packaging, counter signage, label rolls and shelf danglers) describe the product as “nuROBERTS | 13
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tritious, delicious and farmfresh.” And here’s evidence of its success. The campaign was launched last year with a dozen retailers. Since then, participation has grown to include almost 60 users – retailers, as well as food service distributors, restaurants and farmers who sell at the farm gate. They were clearly hungry themselves for another way to promote Ontario products. Further, a recent survey commissioned by Foodland
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“They’re working full-time hours plus, even for the same employer at different locations, but they don’t get the benefits of full-time work, like a healthcare plan, a pension plan, job security of some sort.” Now the labour council is working with a number of community partners to try to continue to raise awareness about this $15 and fairness campaign. The goal to have mini-
Ontario showed 35 per cent of survey participants recognized the Ontario Pork check-mark symbol. So, it’s catching on. The producers’ organization is now gathering specific growth figures. Early indications are good – Kevin Mosser, Ontario Pork retail and food service marketing specialist, says two retailers recently reported 20 per cent sales increases in the last quarter. He attributes the sales increase to several factors. First, he says, the rising price
of beef has created the opportunity for consumers to take a closer look at incorporating pork into their meals more often. Beef is in relatively short supply and until it catches up with demand, particularly during BBQ season, pork will continue looking like a comparative bargain. Mosser says this factor, combined with the growing interest of shoppers and diners to support the local economy, presents an opportunity to promote the efforts of Ontario farmers, and help
connect partners along the supply chain with the new point-of-sale campaign. He believes the appeal of Ontario pork starts with the farmers themselves. For example, in this province, 98 per cent of hog farms are family owned and operated. And Ontario pork farmers have long been associated with community support. They play an active role in the community, and support many local charities including the Ontario Association of Food Banks and the Heart and Stroke
Foundation. At one time, pork producers were portrayed by antilivestock groups as disengaged and environmentally disinterested. That’s simply not true, and consumers’ uptake of pork products suggests no one is buying tired criticisms of the sector. Pork producers are, as a commodity group, among the most committed sponsors of research. They’re a progressive group and they have a tradition of staying ahead of the curve. That’s what they’re doing
with this new check-mark campaign, trying to give retail and food service partners an opportunity to promote and support locally raised pork, which may not always be obvious. “It can understandably be daunting at the grocery store for consumers to know where the pork they are buying comes from,” says Mosser. “With this point of sale campaign, consumers can feel comfortable knowing that products carrying the Ontario pork label have been raised by a local farmer.”
mum wage be $15 an hour because that would be 10 per cent above the poverty line, and they believe anybody that works full-time, at least should not have to live in poverty. “At the current minimum wage, even though it’s indexed to inflation, which is a good thing, a full-time worker working a minimum wage job would be 17 per cent below the poverty line, and that’s just unacceptable,” Xuereb said. We’ve all heard it before that if the minimum wage becomes $15 an hour, small businesses won’t be able to maintain their staff and it will only hurt the workforce. Xuereb says that’s
not been the case in other jurisdictions where they’ve raised the minimum wage. “The evidence and experience has born out the fact that that is just not true,” Xuereb said. “If you look at studies across North America where states or provinces have raised the minimum wage there haven’t been any negligible effects on employment levels. In other words, raising the minimum wage does not change the overall levels of employment in a state or a province.” He says there may be some short-term pain for some small businesses, but in the medium to longterm, putting more money
in the pockets of the lowest income people in society is good for the economy because those people are going to spend the majority of their income in their own community.
“It’s about not discriminating against part-timers and basically giving an incentive to employers to create more full-time jobs,” Xuereb said. “They are exploiting the situation. They
are purposefully keeping people in part-time and temporary contract situations, so they don’t have to pay the full cost. They’re saving money that way and it’s just not right.”
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Project Name: Woolwich Bio-En Inc. Project Location: The Project is located at 50 Martin’s Lane, Elmira, Ontario Contract ID: F-000682-BIG-130-203 FiT Reference Number: FiT-F0MH1Z7
Dated at Elmira this the 19th day of June, 2015
Woolwich Bio-En Inc. (Bio-En) has prepared the following notification letter for the Application for a Technical Amendment to Renewable Energy Approval (REA) No. 6428-8LGLBH issued for the Woolwich Bio-En facility located at 50 Martin’s Lane in Elmira, Ontario (see figure below.) The REA was issued to Bio-En by the Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change (MOECC) on March 26, 2012 to engage in the operation of a Class 3 Anaerobic Digestion Facility.
Bio-En believes that communicating with the residents of Elmira, local businesses and community leaders is important. Two way communication between Bio-En and members of the public with respect to issues relating to the construction, installation, use, operation, maintenance and retirement of the Facility creates a positive community relationship. The community liaison committee (CLC) is the medium and conduit for information communication and the CLC has been made aware of the Technical Amendment included in this notification letter.
The Amendment proposed by Bio-En will have minimal/insignificant impact on the environment. The following four technical changes are being proposed in the Amendment Application:
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519-669-5105
fax: 519-669-1450 email: bob@mgmill.com We thank all applicants for their interest but only those considered will be contacted.
FULL TIME HELP wanted at Schnurr’s Grocery in Linwood. Call 519-698-2370. HELP WANTED - Mature, Responsible person required for various clerical and housekeeping tasks. Part-time approximately 12 - 15 hours per week. Some evening work. The successful candidate must be selfmotivated and comfortable working alone and after regular office hours. Must have transportation. Send resume by July 10, 2015 to: P.O. Box 190, St. Jacobs, ON. N0B 2N0. Only those being interviewed will be contacted.
519-648-2111
HELP WANTED AZ/DZ DRIVER - Full and part time. Aggregate hauling, live bottoms, tri axles and pups. Call 519-496-6701.
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Choose more than a job, choose a CAREER!
Our St. Jacobs Retail Store currently has the following opportunity...
ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE
Retail Sales Associate (Student Position)
With 7 locations throughout Southwestern Ontario, Orr Insurance & Investment is a progressive and growing brokerage. We are currently seeking highly motivated individuals with proven sales / customer service experience to sell Commercial and Personal Lines insurance products and service new and existing clients.
Saturdays - 8a.m. to 5p.m., Sundays - noon to 5p.m. Weekdays - 7a.m. to 6/9p.m.
The right candidates will be goal oriented individuals with proven personal and professional success, a natural drive to succeed and an entrepreneurial attitude. They will possess solid written and verbal communication skills as well as strong interpersonal skills. A tradition of excellence. Orr is a leading insurance broker offering a rewarding career with room for growth. We offer competitive wages, tuition / course / certification coverage, a comprehensive benefits package, and an exciting, dynamic work environment. Interested candidates should submit a resume and cover letter Attn: Human Resources to: Orr Insurance Brokers Inc. 50 Cobourg Street Stratford ON N5A 3E5
Fax: 519-271-7626 Email: hr@orrinsurance.net
Or drop off your resume at Kleinknecht’s office. Orr Insurance is an equal opportunity employer. We appreciate all applications however only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
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Experience, skill and knowledge in: inventory management, insurance restoration and/or residential/commercial cleaning
Responsible to the Retail Store Manager for providing courteous and efficient service to our customers and staff, you will provide advice on appropriate merchandise and related items. You will handle cash, credit card, and debit card payments by using PRISM and Royal Bank Debit card machines, ticket and replenish merchandise, and general housekeeping of shelves and merchandise on display. Heavy lifting and unloading truck shipments will be required. You are 16 years of age or older, have a friendly and helpful attitude toward customers and good communication skills. We offer a competitive salary and great working conditions. If you are interested in becoming part of Home Hardware, please forward your resume, quoting Student Retail Sales Associate (#837), by Friday, July 10th, 2015 to: Human Resources Department, Home Hardware Stores Limited, 34 Henry St. W., St. Jacobs, ON N0B 2N0 E-mail: hr@homehardware.ca (Microsoft Products Only)
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Kleinknecht Insurance, a member of Orr Insurance & Investment is currently recruiting highly motivated individuals for the following positions in Linwood:
Sound knowledge of construction, solid computer skills, highly organized, able to work with tight deadlines, meet budgets.
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Responsibilities include framing, drywall, painting and finish carpentry.
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Assists in residential and commercial property losses following fire/water/wind damages. Able to wear a full face respirator.
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BIRTHDAY
Happy 60 th Anniversary
IN MEMORIAM
George Israel
Cyril (Pat) Zinger
Ted and Joan Starling
July 6, 2014 One year has passed since that sad day. Your gentle face & pleasant smile with sadness we recall,
You are invited to an Open House on
Married July 9, 1955 Congratulations on reaching this amazing milestone! We hope you have many more!
Sunday, July 5, 2015 at 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Maryhill Community Centre. To the best Dad, Grandfather and Great Grandfather EVER! You are loved and respected very much by all.
With love from your family
IN MEMORIAM
You had a kindly word for each & died beloved by all. Gone are the days we used to share, but in my heart you are always there. The gates of memory will never close I miss you more than anyone knows, with tender love and deep regret I who loved you will never forget. Always loved & greatly missed Connie & Brandon
Love your family
IN MEMORIAM
IN MEMORIAM
In Loving Memory of
In Loving Memory of
Jay Whitney
February 3, 1985 – July 6, 2010
Brandon Nickel July 6, 2013
Nothing can ever take away The love a heart holds dear Fond memories linger ever day Remembrance keeps him near. Love Mom, Dad, Brittany & Bailey
MacDonald, Veronica Ann
DEADLINE FOR
August 29, 1955 - July 1, 2010 So many times I’ve needed you So many times I’ve cried If love could have saved you You never would have died We had only one miracle Meeting, loving and being together There was no second Thankfully we had one.
There comes a day when the thought of your son or brother brings a smile to your lips before it brings a tear to your eye. We love and miss you every day. Mom, Dad and Joel.
IS WEDNESDAYS BY 5PM
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Please give #88 and #78 a push from heaven
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COMING EVENT
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Borg Textiles Employees/Partners Plan to attend 10 years after Reminiscing Social. Sat. Sept. 19, 2015 Elmira Legion 2-8 p.m. $5/person. Potluck supper at 5. Cash bar, live band, all hourly salary employees welcome. Attend, chat, dance, laugh, share stories RSVP 519-669-8010 to leave message ASAP
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REAL ESTATE LISTINGS
CONSIDERING A MOVE? WE CAN HELP! A DONATION will be made with every home bought or sold by Alli, Paul or Sue.
$235,000 BUNGALOW ON QUIET STREET
Drayton - Eat in kitchen, spacious living room, walk out from the master bedroom to the large back deck, this house would be a great starter home, or retirement spot. The finished basement includes 2 extra bedrooms and a 3 piece bathroom. Lots of room in the oversized shed for all of your outdoor toys at the back of the property. MLS 1521798.
Alli Bauman Paul Martin Sue Wideman SALES REPRESENTATIVE CALL DIRECT
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Solid Gold Realty (II) Ltd., Brokerage Independently Owned and Operated
3 Arthur St. S., Elmira 519-669-5426
$324,900 STUNNING YARD
Elmira - Charming family home!! Located on a sought after street, this home has much to offer. Lots of space inside with the family room addition and an attic with potential. Sit on your large 2-tired deck while enjoying the stunning gardens and fish pond in the private yard. Convenient setting near public school and short walk to down town shops. MLS 1528168
$464,000 BACKING ON WALKING TRAIL
Elmira - You'll be impressed with this upgraded open concept Verdone home. With a gourmet kitchen open to the dinette, and family room with a gas fireplace. Walk out into the private back yard, backing on green space and enjoy the 4 year old salt water heated pool. MLS 1517611.
$524,900 FAMILY COMMUNITY
$234,900 4 BDRMS ON HUGE LOT!
Rothsay - This century old home has been refinished top to bottom including new kitchen, bathrooms, deck, main floor laundry, poured concrete foundation, windows, siding, steel roof, electrical and plumbing. Situated on a huge 264’ x 132’ lot, enjoy the country view from the back deck. MLS1525051.
$369,000 BACKING ON FARMLAND
$630,000 PRIVATE HAVEN!
Drayton - Located on 6 acres this extraordinary home is nestled in picturesque scenery. Featuring: Private lane, 1500 sqft, (30ft x 50ft) workshop with 60amp service, and 1600sqft home. Finished top to bottom with an open layout this rare find is extremely well kept. MLS 1527262.
$749,000 CUSTOM BUILT HOME
Hawkesville - This beautifully maintained 3000 sq foot home features the following updates: new hickory custom kitchen, all windows & exterior doors, newer roof, furnace & a/c, cement pad for rec. vehicle next to driveway. No upgrades required for years! Small town living at it's best. Minutes from KW. MLS 1517094.
Elmira - Great location overlooking farmland. Welcoming entrance in this open concept home, equipped with huge kitchen and dinette open to great room with vaulted ceiling. Enjoy sunsets through the large windows or from the back patio while entertaining guests. Large 3 bedrooms and convenient upper floor laundry. MLS 1527694.
$319,000 LARGE YARD
Heidelberg - Exceptional Custom Built 5 bedroom home boasts a 1500 square foot triple car garage with a drive through to the back yard. Situated on a 133 x 165 foot lot with a beautiful country view, enjoy relaxing on your back deck around the pool. MLS 1517249.
Elmira - Situated on a quiet street, close to schools, parks and rec centre, this 69 x 140 foot lot has a large private backyard. The main floor has 3 bedrms, a dining area off the kitchen, and an inviting living room with picture window. Huge rec room in the basement as well as a 3 pc bathrm and extra bedrm. Attached garage with inside entry. MLS 1527479.
Call today Thinking About Selling? and book a FREE HOME EVALUATION
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ENVIRONMENTAL TRUCK BUILDERS Immediate openings for qualified technicians. Chassis Upfitter - Welder: layout, fit and weld components, parts, subassemblies, truck bodies. Chassis Upfitter - Mechanical: mounting new equipment on trucks: pumps, tanks, hydraulics, frame equipment, PTOs, trouble shooting, repairs. Progressive truck body builder requires team players for days and afternoons. We offer competitive wages, steady work, excellent benefits and profit sharing. Apply in person, 8AM to 5PM, Monday to Friday.
20 Martin LN Elmira, N3B 2A1 Fax: 519-669-8331 Email: info@vacutrux.com
EXPANDING PROPERTY MAINTENANCE COMPANY LOOKING FOR FULL TIME LABOURERS IN HARD & SOFT LANDSCAPING. Will include winter employment for snowplow operations. Must have clean driver’s abstract and own transportation. Offering competitive industry wages. Email resume to: gary@mitchellpropertymaintenance.com
July 4, 2015 |10am-3pm
Historic century home built in the late 1800’s, lots of history and character! Situated on the banks of the Conestoga River in the beautiful town of Hawkesville with a great view of a wooded ravine. 3+1 bedroom home with walkout basement, main floor living, large exterior deck, and finished bedroom in basement.
PRIVATE SALE: 1121 Geddes St., Hawkesville
$275,000
Contact Duane @ 226-748-3289 or duane000@hotmail.com
FOR SALE I HAVE 2 paper shredders for sale $15 each. And a foot revitalizer $30. Please call 519-744-3711. POKER TABLE TOP. Transforms your table top into a poker table. Opens to 47”x47”. Please call 519744-3711.
RENTALS 3 BEDROOM HOME with finished basement. All appliances included. $1550/mth, utilities extra. Available Sept. 1, 2015. Call 519-503-2753. BRIGHT, SPACIOUS 1BEDROOM apartment in quiet, adult building. Seeking non-smoking mature tenant. Close to downtown. Laundry, parking. Phone 519-669-3423.
RENTALS ENJOY LAKE HURON with your family this summer at our water-view cottage on 5 acres of trees. Now booking for the summer. Just before Pike Bay, 25 min north of Sauble Beach. Details at www.rentmycottage.snappages.com
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REAL ESTATE LISTINGS
Elmira Real Estate Services
INDEPENDENTLY OWNED & OPERATED, BROKERAGE
Bert Martin Re/max Solid Gold Realty (II) Ltd., BROKER
Shanna
Bonnie
Rozema
DIRECT: 519-572-2669 3 Arthur St. S. Elmira
BROKER
Brubacher
OFFICE: 519-669-5426
FREE Market Evaluation
90 Earl Martin Dr., Unit 4, Elmira N3B 3L4
NEW LISTING!
519-669-3192 | www.YourFamilyTeam.ca
NEW LISTING! $219,900 Drayton starter home offers large country kitchen with lots of oak cabinets, main floor laundry, great family room with gas heat stove, newly renovated main floor bathroom, three bedrooms, mature trees on fenced lot 66’ x 165, newer detached garage 12’ x 24’, concrete driveway. MLS. Call Bert to view.
OPEN HOUSE | SATURDAY, JULY 4 TH & SUNDAY, JULY 5 TH • 1-3PM PRICED FROM $322,900 | 162 Ridgeview Dr., Drayton
• Executive Freehold Townhomes • 2 Bungalows remaining in Phase 2 • 1424 sq ft mainfloor • Double car garage • Mainfloor Master +ensuite • Loft plans available for last phase Exclusive
OPEN HOUSE | SAT JULY 4 • 1-3PM | 7093 16th LINE, ALMA
ELMIRA Located in sought after area, traditional cape cod on a bush lot, private backyard oasis, large inviting deck, great for entertaining.  2349 sq.ft, 4 bdrms, 4 baths, new kitchen with granite & built-in appl's. MLS.
ALMA Private property between Arthur & Fergus, 1650 SQ.FT Bungalow offering a characteristic blend of new and old. New kitchen and many other updates - walkout basement to spacious patio. A MUST SEE. NEW MLS
174’ DEEP LOT $274,900
ELMIRA FOR LEASE $900/Month + cam.
SMALL BUSINESS UNIT South end Industrial Park of Elmira. 1350 sq ft includes bay and office, back entrance w/overhead door - 22’ ceiling height in bay with additional space available. CALL for further details. MLS.
ELMIRA Solid older home on a beautiful tree lined street, steps to downtown, some updates include windows, furnace, roof, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, garage. MLSÂ
GORGEOUS 1+ ACRES $313,900 DRAYTON
1 ACRE LOT $119,900
NEW PRICE $449,900! Elmira two storey on large lot offers 4 bathrooms, 3+1 bedrooms, open concept main floor features ceramic & hardwood, two sided gas fireplace, centre island, finished basement with gas fireplace, new roof (2015), beautiful landscaping, fenced yard, stone patio. MLS. Call Bert to view.
MUSKOKA SETTING $579,900
10 ACRES $550,000
D L O S
ATTRACTIVE HOME $329,900
Beautifully updated and maintained home offers lovely eat-in kitchen, nice decor throughout, 3 bdrms, 3 baths, w/out basement, garage. MLS
NORTH WATERLOO Well maintained two storey with many updates, open concept main floor, walkout to deck & fenced yd., finished basement, c/air, appl incl. NEW MLS
Your referrals are appreciated!
PRIVATE SALE Exquisite Custom Home in St. Jacobs Updated, move-in ready, 4 bedroom 3-½ bathroom, custom, executive-style. Approx. 3500 sq. ft. of living space, finished basement. Numerous upgrades. Double car garage, Master with spa style ensuite. Some appliances included.
$529,000
For more info or to view call 519-208-4524. Property Guys listing #16255
OBSERVER PUZZLE SOLUTIONS DRAYTON 1.06 acre building lot mins outside of Drayton on paved road, buyer to satisfy permits, development charges, well & septic required. MLS
TIME FOR YOUR FREE SPRING MARKET HOME VALUATION! CALL TODAY!
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BRAD MARTIN
JULIE
TRACEY
LUKE
WILLIAMS Broker of Record, HECKENDORN SHANTZ Broker Sales Rep. MVA Residential Sales Rep. Res: 519.669.1068 Res: 519.669.8629 Cell: 519.505.0627 Cell: 519.584.4400
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$545,000 WEST MONTROSE – Lovely brick bungalow on a large lot. Lots of windows facing south. Main flr. fam. rm. w/fireplace. All rooms are spacious! Unfin. bsmt. w/walkup to garage. MLS.
$319,900
$355,900 HERBERT ST. Updated from top to bottom! Everything on one level! Quiet street. Finished basement. 2 baths. A must see! MLS.
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ARTHUR ST. S. – Lots of parking! Updated furnace, bathrms. shingles, cupboards. 2 tiered deck & private back yard, Rec. room & 4th bedroom. MLS
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TIRE
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Complete Collision Service
WHERE TIRES
Auto Tech Inc.
ARE A
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Providing the latest technology to repair your vehicle with accuracy and confidence.
101 Bonnie Crescent, Elmira, ON N3B 3G2
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General Repairs
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HOME IMPROVEMENTS SERVICES “25 years in Business”
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Free in-home Consultations. Call someone you can trust. Call Cindy.
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A different view as the games unfold Wellesley woman will get to see the Pan Am Games from behind the scenes as a volunteer
Laura Baxter is one of the 23,000 plus volunteers helping out at the Pan Am Games later this month in Toronto and the surrounding communities. WHITNEY NEILSON Wellesley Township will see one of its own attend the Pan Am Games, although she won’t be competing. Laura Baxter will be one of some 23,000 volunteers offering up their time to keep the event running smoothly. “When I heard it was going to Toronto, I really enjoy watching the horse events, so I thought what a great way to get an in-depth insight into the games and to volunteer,” Baxter said. “On my application I had asked
that I be put in the equestrian park, so I did get that.” She’ll travel to the Caledon venue for that. She says she is excited to see the backside of a large sporting event, not just the spectator side of it. Right now her volunteering is focused on being an auxiliary police officer with the Waterloo Regional Police. “I like to volunteer in the community and be involved in that aspect of it,” Baxter said. “It was always kind of an interest and it’s a good way to, again, get to see a different side of policing than
what you normally see.” Being accepted as a volunteer for the Pan Am Games wasn’t a sure thing. More than 60,000 people applied for a volunteer spot, with fewer than half actually receiving one. “They had an online application that you had to fill out and then they had a video interview, so it wasn’t a live interview,” Baxter said. “It was like an interactive interview where they asked you questions and then they gave you a certain amount of time to be on video. And then you answered the questions, but everyone had the
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same questions. You weren’t speaking live to somebody, and then they went from there.” She’s also done online training courses, which they require. And she had to go to Toronto to pick up her accreditation and uniform. This weekend she’ll be doing an onsite training session at the venue site in Caledon. Aside from volunteering at the games, she’s hoping to see some events as a spectator too. “I have not bought tickets yet. I think I was just going to wait and see what inter-
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ests me the most. Of course you’re risking that it will be sold out, especially the finals, but being a volunteer I might see all that I want to see on the backside of it,” Baxter said, Now she’s reaching out to the community to see if anyone else in the township, and region, is volunteering at the games too. “I would love to know if there’s anybody else, especially going out to my venue site,” Baxter said. The Pan Am Games run from July 10-26 in Toronto and 17 other Golden Horseshoe communities.
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STRANGE BUT TRUE / BILL & RICH SONES PH.D.
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Q. You know about carnivores and herbivores but what about invasivores? Are you ready to sample some Chinese Mysterysnail Fettucine or Deep-Fried Invasive Earthworms�? A. As an outgrowth of their field work in Michigan’s remote Upper Peninsula, a group of doctoral students at the University of Notre Dame Environmental Research Center (UNDERC) spent the day collecting data on invasive plants and animals to develop strategies to keep them in check, says Brian Barth in
“Discover� magazine. But after work, the gastronomically intrepid students began “experimenting with another approach to controlling invasives– eating them.� Recently, “invasivorism� has become a national culinary trend: “From backwater juke joints to fine Manhattan eateries, invasivore dishes bring awareness of an ecological problem to the table.� To gather the golf ballsized snails found in North American lakes and rivers, one student donned snorkel and fins and after 20 minutes had a bag full for the Chinese Mysterysnail Fettucine. “To cut the mud flavor, he fed them cornmeal for 24 hours before sauteing them in garlic and oil and serving over pasta.�
Invasive earthworms eat “the litterfall of dead leaves and twigs, exposing the soil to erosion... and thus are surprisingly detrimental to forest ecosystems.� Said one student after eating the Deep-Fried Invasive Earthworms: A bit gritty but “not too bad.� Intrigued? Log in to UNDERC’s web portal at “invasivore.org� for recipes and more. Q. For all you math-lovers out there: How did “trianglegate� threaten to bring down the Pythagoreans?
A. It was around 500 BCE
when the Greek scholar Pythagoras formed a math-based religious group known as the Pythagoreans, who worshipped numbers as gods, since “math, they believed, had the power
IRRATIONAL, which to the ancient Greeks was a shocking, indeed an unspeakable concept–as if the reasonable, rational world had been created with a hole in it! Q. Is there anything we humans manufacture in truly “astronomical� numbers?
to explain the world,� says Lucas Reilly in “Mental Floss� magazine. But then a humble triangle shattered their worldview. It was a right isosceles triangle where its three sides–a, b, and c–could be expressed as the famous Pythagorean theorem: a squared (a x a) + b squared (b x b) = c squared (c x c). This third longest side is called the hypotenuse. Here’s the problem: If side a is one unit long and side b is also one unit long, then 1 squared + 1 squared equals 2 for the hypotenuse. But for the exact length of 2, you need to find its square root. However, there is no rational number for this; the answer is not a neat fraction but instead goes on forever: 1.414..., approaching something like 3/2 or 17/13. It is
A. Transistors, the fun-
damental building blocks of our ubiquitous devices (think smart phones and laptops), are produced in staggering quantity. In 2014 alone, the world’s semiconductor production facilities made about 250 billion billion of them (25 followed by 19 zeros), observes Dan Hutcheson in “IEEE Spectrum� magazine. That’s nearly a billion times the number of stars in our Milky Way galaxy and
approaches the number of grains of sand on all the world’s beaches. And the output is growing exponentially. Indeed, more transistors were made in 2014 than in all the years prior to 2011. Regarding the electronics revolution, Hutcheson concludes: “For decades, manufacturing innovation and simple miniaturization have enabled engineers to pack more capability into the same area of silicon... It has been the ever-rising tide that has not only lifted all boats but also enabled us to make entirely new and fantastic kinds of boats.�
ABOUT THE AUTHORS Bill is a journalist, Rich holds a doctorate in physics. Together the brothers bring you “Strange But True.� Send your questions to strangetrue@compuserve.com.
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51. Birdlike 52. Obnoxious date 53. “Get ___!� 54. Bird’s wattle 56. Go-___ 57. Aid 60. Cooking meas. 61. Commuter line 62. Handed-down history 64. Grassland 66. 1969 Peace Prize grp. 69. Energy point, in Yoga 72. African fox 75. ‘People’ counterpart 76. Indian bread 77. Eastern pooh-bah 79. Belief opposed by Communists 81. Open, in a way 83. 1956 Little Richard hit 85. Chap 86. ___-Lorraine 87. Almond 88. Dinner bird 89. Scowl 90. Not us
DOWN 1. Bivouac 2. Guru 3. Drone, e.g. 4. Restrict 5. Epicurus and Democritus, philosophically 6. Mexican shawl 7. Acquire 8. Long stories 9. Faithful, in old poetry 10. One-dimensional 11. Be in a cast 12. Andean animal 13. Arcade coin 14. Dye-yielding shrubs 15. Cleave 20. In favor of 24. Like the Reaper 28. Mine 30. “That means ___!� 32. Big test 34. NYC 35. Dead to the world 37. Garlicky mayonnaise 39. Stagehands
41. Uniform shade 42. Festival of Lights 43. “... happily ___ after� 44. Fret 45. On the safe side, at sea 47. Amigo 48. Charlotte-to-Raleigh dir. 55. Reassign 58. ___ Grove Village, Ill. 59. ___ song 63. Disheveled 65. Attract 67. Sheen 68. Heavy metal 69. Wicker worker 70. By chance 71. Anoint, old style 72. String bean’s opposite 73. Ring bearer, maybe 74. Salad oil holder 76. “___ said!� 78. Naval base? 80. Cast wearer’s problem 82. Long-jawed fish 84. Spotted, to Tweety
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a very thoughtful way of living – the big shop is not always the way to go. So this summer enjoy the foods of the region. Check out the local food producers and farm stands. Stay tuned for lots of recipes and ideas for your farmfresh ingredients.
Fresh Berry Biscuits 2 cups flour 4 tsp. baking powder 1 tsp. sea salt 1/2 cup butter 3/4 cup buttermilk 1/2 cup strawberries or blueberries or raspberries 1 tsp. lemon zest 6 leaves of mint, chopped
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MECAC: “Lesson learned,” says the mayor contributed a $750 donation, thus exceeding the maximum allowable. Shantz’s original election filing shows contributions to her campaign $9,475.39 (including $200 nomination fee) and expenses of $9,063.83, well below the spending limit of $22,625.75. “Essentially, they have confirmed that her contributions are in excess of the $10,000 threshold,” Marshall told the committee, having quickly reviewed the new documents. He noted that, even if now correct, the paperwork arrived well after the March 27 deadline, adding there have been problems with the election expenses of half of Woolwich’s sixmember council. “Three have done an exemplary job. Three have failed.” Ward 1 Coun. Scott Hahn’s election filing was the subject of a MECAC hearing and is now being audited by a firm hired by the committee and township. Ward 3 Coun. Mark Bauman was temporarily removed from council for failing to file an expense report after being acclaimed to his seat, changes to the elections act having gone unregistered by both the
candidate and the township clerk’s office. In the case of Shantz’s filing, the committee was satisfied there was no deliberate attempt to hide anything. The new report was deemed adequate to fend off a formal audit. “There was certainly no intent to misrepresent my expenses or donations,” Shantz told the committee, convening in Woolwich council chambers. Surplus campaign contributions totalling $2,632.61 were accounted for in the wrong spot in the paperwork, leading her to believe the tally was below the $10,000 level that requires an audited statement. When there was some question about her expense filing, she took her paperwork to an accountant for an audit. “In hindsight, I should have done that from the start.” Shantz accused Marshall of challenging her integrity, calling his application frivolous and vexatious. A pair of public members who addressed the committee, however, said the issue went beyond whatever personal animosity may exist between the parties. “This has nothing to do with personalities. It has everything to do with atten-
tion to detail,” said Richard Clausi of what he called the “sloppy reporting” in Shantz’s expense report. While the committee did not weigh in on the personal issues at play, members did note that responsibility ultimately lies with candidates to submit proper records. “The onus is on the candidate in all cases,” said committee chair Carl Zehr. “The applicant was justified in bringing this forward,” said Larry Aberle, who supported the dismissal “even though I don’t think it’s minor.” Following the decision, Marshall said he would be reviewing Shantz’s newly submitted documents. “It was disappointing. This committee has not done justice to democracy,” he said, adding the hearing showed he was right to question the mayor’s expense report. For Shantz, the quick decision was a relief. “I believed I accounted for things appropriately,” she said, noting she was open about everything. Henceforth, she’ll have all such documents reviewed by professionals, she added. “I’ll get an audit whatever my numbers appear to be. Lesson learned.”
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