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All things EDSS certainly make for a weekend to remember Organizers thrilled with the outcome of Elmira high school’s 75th anniversary celebration SCOTT BARBER
Carpenters with Country Lane Builders work on a new shelter at the rear of Gibson Park in Elmira on June 10. [SCOTT BARBER / THE OBSERVER]
Organizers of the Elmira District Secondary School 75th reunion were pleased when all the dust settled after the weekend. “We’ve had so many positive comments from every group of students, staff, and even spouses who came up to us and said ‘I have nothing to do with this school, but I had a great time,’” Dave Conlon said. “That’s not normal at a reunion where a spouse says it was a lot of fun, and I think that’s a measure of how successful it was.” Mike Forler agreed. “Overall it was such a great feeling, people were just so moved and touched and it was just a very warm fuzzy feeling. Everybody got what they wanted to get out of it, I think, because we had such a variety of events that people took away what they wanted.”
From June 6 to 8 thousands of EDSS alumni congregated to celebrate the school’s 75th birthday. The weekend’s events included a roundtable with Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Roger and Terry Martin, drama productions by current students, an arts presentation, dinner and dance reception as well as a church service. Forler said guests were blown away by the quality of the program. “All of the performers and speakers were topnotch and everyone responded so warmly.” Things went even better than organizers expected, Conlon added. “So many things happened that we didn’t anticipate or plan for. We invited June Petty, who was a 1941 graduate to tell a small anecdote. She got up on stage REUNION | 2
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EMSF supports community groups to the tune of $36K Despite lower attendance due to poor weather, 50th outing of the festival proved to be a good one WHITNEY NEILSON Dreary weather didn’t keep the syrup from flowing, or the money from coming in for the Elmira Maple Syrup Festival this year, which was good news for the assorted groups that benefit from the profits. This year’s disbursements amounted to $36,000, handed out Wednesday night by EMSF chair Ken Jessop. “We had a very successful day despite that weather,” said Jessop. “The crowds took some time to gather and we were happy
that people came to savour the taste of spring.” In honour of the festival’s 50th outing, local producers created a limited edition bottle of syrup, one of which he presented to Judy Biesinger, great grand niece of EMSF founder Herb Ainsworth. Jessop pointed out that Ainsworth had the vision for the festival. “One of the remarkable things is that throughout the 50 years that we’ve been established as a festival we keep the traditions alive,” said Jessop. “There are only 1,100 of these being produced, so hopefully in an-
other couple years this will be a collector’s item.” Biesinger said her uncle would be so happy to know that over the 50 years of the festival that they’ve kept the tradition of giving back to the community. “May this continue for the next 50 years,” she said. A total of 25 groups received grants from the committee and Jessop said they pride themselves on never turning down an application, everyone from the Waterloo Region Suicide Prevention Council to sledge hockey. “One of the things that
we’ve accomplished over the years is that we consistently, right from the first festival have been able to give back to the community and since 1965 we estimated that about $1.2 million has gone back to non-profit communities,” said Jessop. The ‘Friends of the Festival” award, which has been awarded since 1991, was given to Joe Kelly for his commitment to the community. “I’ve been out here 28 years, longer than that downtown as a firefighter. But doing inspections, out
there 4:30 on nice warm, breezy days,” said Kelly, with a laugh. “It’s really heartwarming.” A representative from each of the groups thanked the committee and explained what their money would be used for. Woolwich Sledge Hockey plans to use it for a new sled, so more people can get involved with the sport. The Region of Waterloo Library in Elmira hopes to spend the money on increasing their microform collection. Jessop said he hopes the festival will continue for another 50 years and
break the confirmed attendance record of 61,000. He said they estimated in 2010 there were 80,000 in town for the festivities, and he’s often asked how they counted that many people. “Well put it this way, when you’re handling 80,000 people in town, let me tell you this we had a hard time handling that many people and I don’t know if we could grow any larger but we’ll certainly attempt to in the next 50 years.” Next year’s festival will be March 25, 2015 and Jessop said, as always, they’re hoping for good weather.
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with a three-page performance that was amazing. She almost got a standing ovation, and we had no idea what she was going to say: it was incredible. So many people brought their ‘A’ game.” Another stand-out was country music singer Giselle Sanderson who took part in the ‘Lancers in the arts” show. “She said ‘you know, I’ve performed in front of huge crowds, I’ve auditioned in front of David Foster, but I’m more nervous going up in front of my hometown than I am going up in front of thousands of people at a concert venue,’” said Conlon, adding that she sounded outstanding in the EDSS library. Organizing committee
co-chair Melanie Austin said the goal was to “give something to every group, every age and every interest, and I think people noticed and appreciated that.” She also recognized the important work done by community service clubs including Kiwanis, Knights of Columbus and the Woolwich Community Lions to help make the event run smoothly. “They are experts in putting these kind of events together, and they did such a great job.” Going forward, Conlon says he hopes the event will provide a legacy at the school. “The goal was not to make money, but to break even, and any extra funds will be put towards the school sign out front.”
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Inaugural season proves fruitful for EDSS robotics club SCOTT BARBER The Elmira District Secondary School’s robotics club celebrated the conclusion of its inaugural season by demonstrating “Sir Lancerbot’s” ball launching skills for family, friends and sponsors at the Elmira Lions Hall on June 11. Lead mentor and EDSS technology teacher Ron Fletcher said the year was a successful one. “It is amazing how the community came together to support our group. From the business sponsors, the mentors and the families, it took a lot of people to make it all happen and it was a great year.” The FIRST (for inspiration and recognition of science and technology) Robotics program was created in 2001 with the goal of inspiring “high school and elementary students to pursue further studies and careers in science, technology and engineering.” The organization hosts seven tournaments across Canada each year where teams compete in “intense robo-sports.” This year, the event called “aerial assist” in-
volved using a robot to shoot exercise balls into scoring baskets. “We started by having the group brainstorm ideas for what we wanted our robot to do,” Fletcher said. “Did we want a great catcher, or a really good thrower? “ A group of 15 mentors including EDSS staff, industry professionals and University of Waterloo students shared their expertise as well. It took six weeks to construct the machine, drawing on the students' electrical, mechanical and computer engineering abilities. There are strict guidelines to follow, including specific batteries for power and a 120-pound weight limit, but they managed to build a quick and agile robot that can launch about “as far and hard as any of the others we’ve seen,” Fletcher said. “Ours came in at about 118-119 pounds, so it was on a bit of a weight-loss program during the last week. We were calling it the biggest loser,” Fletcher laughed. In March, the team took part in the regional competition at the University
EDSS robotics team members Jordan Lemp, Noah Schelter, Scott McPhail, Gwyneth Findlay and Jacob Cornwall with "Sir Lancerbot" during the season ending banquet on June 11 at Lions Hall in Elmira. [SCOTT BARBER / THE OBSERVER] of Waterloo, finishing in Next year will bring an “It’s all about getting ie” award. 5th place and winning the entirely new competition, kids excited about science The season culminated rookie all-star trophy. and with it, a new robot. and technology. This is a with a trip to the world Next, the group travelled But Fletcher is confident fun way for young people championships in St. Louto Windsor for the Windthe team can carry its moto get involved in the comis, Missouri on April 22-25. sor-Essex Great Lakes-Rementum forward. munity and the response Again, the team impressed gional, where they picked has been excellent. We’re judges and were named up the “inspirational rookreally excited about it.” rookie all-stars.
Getting Expressive through laughter Glen Foster comedy show will be a fundraiser for aphasia support group WHITNEY NEILSON If laughter is the best medicine, then audience members at Glen Foster’s upcoming comedy show should be in for a real treat. The Expressive Café in Elmira partnered with Foster, also known as “That Canadian Guy,” to raise funds for the café, which brings together people with aphasia weekly for conversation and socializing. Frank Austin, co-founder and stroke survivor, said he hadn’t even heard of aphasia before he had his
stroke. Since then, he’s well aware that aphasia impacts a person’s ability to use and process language through speech, writing, and reading. “I didn’t know what the word was,” said Austin. “And it took me six months to say the word. I knew nothing about it.” The event on June 28 is the café’s big fundraiser to date. Tickets are $25 and can be purchased at the St. Jacobs Country Playhouse. Austin said they’ve sold about a quarter of the 400 tickets available so far.
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When Austin had his stroke six years ago he went looking for a conversation group to work on his speech with because he couldn’t talk at all. Paris and Georgetown were the closest options so eventually he took it upon himself to start one here. “I just said I didn’t choose this job, it chose me.” Through his time volunteering at different hospitals Austin noticed that too many people end up staying home, watching televi-
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there are other groups like Expressive Café run by Saint Joseph’s Hospital in Guelph,” said Austin. “They’re running 13 other groups weekly. I’m proud to say I was part of getting that started.” He said people with aphasia typically have therapy with a speech pathologist for nine months. After that, these groups are crucial for continuing that speech therapy, on a conversational level. The two hour meetings are spent talking about events, the news, and doing activities like hangman and Sudoku, anything to challenge the brain. “It’s more about we can talk about anything,” said Austin. “The key word is we’re conversing again. Some of them are very severe and use tools, whether it be gestures or texture books or tablets.” He said he’s always working on improving his speech, which means choosing words carefully, using fewer syllables, and slowing down. Reading in his head isn’t a problem, but out loud is a different story. “I could read any medical text but I can’t read it out loud,” said Austin. “Since my son was 2, now he’s 8, it’s ‘daddy when do you do me a bedtime story?’ Whether that’ll happen again I don’t know but I’m not going to give up.” He wants to see the group continue to grow over time, but not too fast. He’d also like to have the resources to add additional groups in the region. They meet on Thursdays from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at the Woolwich Memorial Centre. “My best friend doesn’t talk, but we’re the best of friends, even on the phone,” said Austin. “He may only know 10 words and he’s in Brantford but we know each other so well. I know his tone.” As for Foster, the cause hits close to home. He said the event is about more than the show to him. “Stroke runs in my family big time,” he said. “Both my grandfathers and grandmothers died of stroke.” The seasoned comedian has appeared on Just for Laughs seven times and said his humor is based on general observations and politics. He got his first taste as a comedian at high school variety shows. “I went to three different high schools,” Foster said. “At the second one I was completely unknown the
first day. I did a little comedy routine and was well known the next day.” His advice for aspiring comedians is to get as much stage time as possible, a hot commodity these days. He also hinted he may be doing some surprise shows in Toronto this summer, and is toying with the idea of doing some sort of comedy workshop. For more information visit www.thatcanadianguy.com.
Frank Austin hopes stroke survivors will come out to Glen Foster’s show to socialize and for a laugh or two. [WHITNEY NEILSON / THE OBSERVER]
Giving back to help other kids dealing with cancer Having been helped by the Pediatric Oncology Group of Ontario, Elmira family eager to pay it forward
Madame Sheriff’s Grade 4 French Immersion class raised $250 for POGO in honour of first grade student Sara Jean.
WHITNEY NEILSON Students in Madame Sheriff’s Grade 4 French Immersion class know you’re never too young to start giving back. The John Mahood Public School students donated $250 to the Pediatric Oncology Group of Ontario on Wednesday, in honour of first grade student Sara Jean. The tiny blue-eyed, blonde girl has twice been diagnosed with rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare form of cancer, and has bounced back both times. Her mom, Amy Forwell, said when Sara was sick they had to take time off work and POGO helped to cover some of the costs. “It’s so important that they can raise money to help families that are in our situation so that we can still help look after our other kids,” said Forwell. She told the class that POGO has been around for more than 20 years and grows every year, raising more than $750,000 at their annual gala on April 12. “I want to thank everybody for all of your hard work and all the money that you’ve donated. The money that you raised helps with many, many, many things
when kids are sick with cancer,” said Forwell. “To help find the best doctors in the world to get treatment when Sara was sick and other kids and to get research to find cures for cancer and medicines that help kids get better without getting so sick is what all this money goes to.” Forwell said she’s been overwhelmed by support from the community and the school, including donations raised at the school celebration known as Mahoodfest. Sara and her brother, Zach, held a lemonade stand for POGO a few weekends ago and raised $100. “[POGO] just touches so many people’s lives and even the smallest amount helps,” said Forwell. “It’s great when people want to give a big lump sum but $100 here, $100 there, it all is so helpful to so many people that are in our shoes unfortunately.” She said it was especially hard on their family because the first time Sara was diagnosed, her brother Zach was only a year old. The second time she was pregnant with their younger sister. She said she doesn’t know how they would have managed with-
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out their family. “We’ve always said we’ve been very lucky to have family and friends close by that have been so helpful,” said Forwell. “It’s something that you never expect and you just do what you have to do to get through it each day and take one day at a time and here we are.” Sara was featured in a video at the gala, which is also on their website now. It was shot at Grand River Hospital, where she receives treatment every Friday. The director met with her three times prior to filming so she’d be comfortable around him. “The day of taping was about an eight hour day of taping and she loved every second of it,” said Forwell. “We were watching the clock and she was like ‘I’m having a blast.’” She is organizing a run in Kitchener this August to raise funds specifically for pediatrics. She hopes to make it an annual event. “Families can show up and show support,” said Forwell. “We’re really encouraging runners or walkers of all ages to participate because it is for pediatrics.” For more information visit www.kitchenerkidswithcancerrun.com.
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Heidelberg mill fined $100,000 Jones Feed Mill in Heidelberg and owner Jeff Jones were fined $100,000 this week for safety violations in connection to the death of an employee in February 2013. Lindsay Whyte, 68, died when he fell and hit his head while attempting to clear a horse-feed pellitizer that had become jammed. The company and its owner pleaded guilty Monday in a Kitchener courtroom to one count of failing to properly train employees.
Seven young performers made the cut, moving on to the Wellesley idol semis.
And then there were seven Following a Wellesley Idol tryout
session earlier this month, seven young performers are moving on to the semi-finals at the Wellesley-North Easthope Fall Fair on September 9. The list includes Scott Carere, 17, of St. Clements; Ben Cottrill, 16, of Elmira; Madeline Lehmann, 15, of St. Jacobs; Taylor Kelly, 12, of St. Clements; Nikita Metzger, 13, of Wellesley; Ella Nafziger, 13, of New Hamburg; and Lindsay Slessor, 10, of Baden. At the fair, each will sing one song of their choice, different from what they sang at the tryouts. Three will be chosen by the judges to go on to the finals at the Apple Butter & Cheese Festival on September 27.
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Rolling along The Clemmer family of Drayton wheeled bicycles, wheelchairs and scooters from Strait Park in Fergus to ABC Park in Drayton on June 7, a total of 34 kilometres, to raise money for children with special needs. They raised just over $1,000 on behalf of
Conestogo will celebrate the renovations to its community park with a grand re-opening event Saturday, starting at 11 a.m. The long overdue upgrades were approved last year by Woolwich council. The plan called for an unusable tennis court to be replaced, joined by a new multi-use sports pad that will serve as a hockey rink, both summer and winter, and basketball court.
The final tally was $326,000, largely from the township’s infrastructure fund, with the Conestogo Recreation Association raising $25,000 and the Conestogo-Winterbourne Optimist Club contributing more than $18,000.
Election results Given the timing of the provincial election, results weren’t available prior to the Observer’s press time, but will be posted online. Generally scheduled earlier in the week, the timing was unfortunate in many regards. Perhaps the next government will give the matter more thought.
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Jason Hurd, 41, of Waterloo has been charged with three counts of voyeurism. He is scheduled to appear in court on July 30. Police continue to investigate and further charges are possible. Anyone with information is asked to contact detectives at South Division, 519-650-8500, ext. 2299, or Crime Stoppers at 1-800222-8477.
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maneuver through parked vehicles. The driver of the garbage truck was charged with ‘fail to share half roadway.’ No one was injured.
6:45 AM | Police responded to a single-vehicle roll-over on Arthur Street, south of the Sawmill Road roundabout near St. Jacobs. The vehicle was travelling north when the driver, a 19-year-old Kitchener woman, lost control and slid into the ditch on the east side of the road. The vehicle rolled a number of times. The driver, the vehicle’s lone occupant, was transported to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Charges are pending. JUNE 4
7:43 AM | A motorcyclist travelling southbound on Manser Road from Line 86 in Wellesley Township struck a deer. The animal subsequently ran into the woods. The rider suffered minor injuries. There were no charges. 11:44 AM | Police responded to a collision at Mourningdove Crescent and Meadowlark Road in Elmira after a garbage truck driver struck the rear corner of an oncoming vehicle while trying to
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4:03 PM | A collision brought police to Brookmead Street and Killdeer Road in Elmira. A Pontiac Montana travelling south on Killdeer Road entered the intersection with Brookmead Street and was struck by a westbound Kia Rio. The driver of the Montana was charged with ‘fail to yield to through traffic.’ There were no injuries. JUNE 6
2:18 PM | A collision occurred at Duke Street and Park Avenue in Elmira when a Wellesley man travelling west on Park Avenue stopped at the stop sign and then proceeded into the intersection where his vehicle was struck by an Elmira woman who was southbound on Duke Street. No one was injured, but the male driver was charged with ‘fail to yield to traffic on through highway.’
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MAN TAKEN TO HOSPITAL FOLLOWING COLLISION 5:50 PM | Police responded to a collision at Listowel Road and Arthur Street in Elmira. The two vehicles involved had been travelling southbound on Arthur Street when the first vehicle stopped for traffic on Listowel Road and was struck from behind by the trailing vehicle. The driver of the second vehicle was charged with ‘careless driving.’ No one was injured in the rear-ender. JUNE 8
4:51 PM | A horse was put down by a responding officer after being struck by a car. The runaway horse, pulling a buggy, collided with the westbound vehicle at Greenwood Hill Road and Weimer Line in Wellesley Township. The horse had to be put down to end its suffering, but there were no other injuries.
A 17-year-old woman has been charged with ‘failing to yield to traffic on a through highway’ following a two-vehicle collision at Kressler Road and Boomer Line on June 10. A 55-year-old man was taken to Grand River Hospital for evaluation. [JOE MERLIHAN / THE OBSERVER]
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We're not immune to U.S. gun culture or the fallout LAST WEEK’S TRAGEDY IN Moncton still fresh, the other coast was the scene Wednesday of another shooting, with police exchanging gunfire with a man before arresting him. The debate over gun control already fuelled by the deaths of three RCMP officers gets just that much hotter. Toronto, no stranger to gun violence, saw a spate of shootings as May rolled over into June. Seven people were wounded. Such occurrences give us pause to think, rightly. Routinely, we wonder how such things can happen here. And, naturally, we look to the situation in the U.S., both as some oddly satisfying assurance that we’re not as bad and to get some idea of the gulf between gun control advocates and the pro-gun lobby. Some perspective: In the past week alone, there have been five significant shootings in the U.S., where gun-related homicides are a daily occurrence. At Seattle Pacific University on June 5, a man killed one person and wounded three others before being subdued. The following day in Forsyth County, Georgia a man alleged to be a right-wing group launched an assault on the county courthouse armed with an AR-15 and two handguns. One deputy was wounded before he was killed by as many as eight responding officers. Over the course of last weekend, Chicago was witness to a string of gun violence that left four dead and more than 30 wounded. In Las Vegas last Sunday, a married couple shot and killed two police officers and one other civilian and then killed themselves in what authorities suspect to be an act of far-right violence. And, at a high school outside Portland, Oregon on Tuesday, a student and a shooter were killed, while a teacher was wounded. As indicated by this small sample, school shootings figure prominently in gun violence, despite the assertions things should and would change following the slaughter of young children at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut in December 2012. Since that time, just a year and half ago, there have been 74 more school shooting in the U.S. That’s about one a week since then. Nothing has changed. Every day in the U.S., about 30 people are murdered with guns. Despite the outpouring of emotion that followed Sandy Hook, and despite polls and surveys showing the overwhelming majority of Americans supporting tighter restrictions on gun ownership, nothing has been done. With every incident, some people call for further restrictions on gun ownership. That’s the case following the latest school shooting south of the border, just as we’re hearing now following the events in Moncton. On the other side of the argument, gun advocates make excuses (the NRA in the States, the National Firearms Association here) and argue for greater access to guns, saying armed civilians could have gunned down such criminals before their killing sprees continued. The latter arguments are commonplace in the U.S., where second amendment – the right to keep and bear arms – issues abound. In Canada, the notion seems ridiculous: having more guns at hand increases the risk. It would be far more likely for someone to see red, snap and use a readily available gun than it would be for someone to be faced with a murderer on a shooting rampage. Here, we’re not, of course, immune from such tragedies, as events of the last week show.
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It's convenient to ignore corruption and criminality in Kosovo WORLD AFFAIRS “The signs of collusion between the criminal class and the highest political and institutional office holders are too numerous and too serious to be ignored,” concluded the report submitted to the Council of Europe in December, 2010. The name of Hashim Thaci, then prime minister of Kosovo and former leader of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), was mentioned 27 times in 27 pages. Hashim Thaci is still prime minister of Kosovo. Indeed, he has just been reelected to the job, although the turnout was a feeble 42 per cent. The European Union and NATO, the two organizations that helped the Kosovars free themselves from Serbian rule, seem quite happy about his victory – and even the Serbian government urged the Serbian minority who still live there to vote in Kosovo’s election. So redemption is possible, after all. Thaci might have turned
out to be a mild-mannered accountant if he had been born in a different era, but he came to adulthood just as the independence struggle of the Albanianspeaking majority in Kosovo was coming to the boil. He joined the KLA, and after several rivals suffered unfortunate accidents he emerged as the undisputed leader. Revolutionary movements need money, especially if they include an armed wing, and since they have no legal sources of income, they must resort to crime. They rob banks; they blackmail people and kidnap them for ransom; they smuggle stuff, including drugs. Whether their cause is good or bad, they have almost all done it: the Taliban, the Irish Republican Army, Boko Haram, ETA, FARC and the KLA. Hashim Thaci certainly did it all. In fact, you could argue that he overdid it. After NATO’s 78-day bombing campaign against Serbia in 1999 forced Slobodan Milosevic’s government to evacuate all the Serbian troops from Kosovo and a United Nations administration backed by NATO
peacekeeping troops took over, the time for fighting – and illicit fund-raising methods – was over. But Thaci just kept going. The KLA was renamed the Kosovo Protection Corps, and used intimidation and occasional assassinations to gain control of almost all the municipal governments in the country. A recent report on corruption in Kosovo by BND, the German intelligence service, noted that “The key players (including ... Thaci) are intimately involved in inter-linkages between politics, business, and organized crime structures in Kosovo.” The Council of Europe report of 2010 says bluntly: “In confidential reports spanning more than a decade, agencies dedicated to combatting drug smuggling in at least five countries have named Hashim Thaci ... as having exerted violent control over the trade in heroin and other narcotics. Thaci and [other former KLA members] are consistently named as ‘key players’ in intelligence reports on Kosovo’s mafialike structures of organized crime.”
That report, commissioned after the chief prosecutor for war crimes at the Hague, Carla Del Ponte, said she had been prevented from investigating senior KLA officials, also contained details about the KLA’s fundraising methods just after the fighting ended in 2000. The most shocking was the allegation that some Serbian prisoners held by Thaci’s faction of the KLA were killed in order to harvest their organs for sale abroad. The report found that Thaci’s people held Serb captives in six detention facilities in Albania, and that a “handful” were transferred to Tirana, where they were killed for their kidneys. “As and when the transplant surgeons were confirmed to be in position and ready to operate, the captives were brought out of the ‘safe house’ individually, summarily executed by a KLA gunman, and their corpses transported swiftly to the operating clinic.” The human rights rapporteur who wrote the DYER | 8
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THEIR VIEW / QUESTION OF THE WEEK
What would be the ideal way to mark Father's Day?
»»Reg Ranton
»»Dale Goulds
»»Eric Sorensen
»»Jensen Palle
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“With the family. That’s the way we do Mother’s Day too.”
“With family.”
“At Greenfield Village at the car show with your children. Everyone needs to go.”
“I’m going to my daughter’s. I think my wife wanted one of those garden carts.”
“We don’t celebrate Father’s Day like we celebrate Mother’s Day. It is definitely not equal to Mother’s Day.”
"This negligence on the part of many drivers creates a dangerous situation for pedestrians." Lisa Hicknell | 8 HIS VIEW / STEVE KANNON
World Cup, followed by Olympics, will be a financial burden on Brazilians EDITOR'S NOTES Tuning into the World Cup underway this weekend? Not top of my agenda, either. In a football-mad world – that’s soccer in these parts – there will be plenty of people focused on the goings-on in Brazil, including a large chunk of Brazilians worried about the corruption and waste associated with the event. That the World Cup is another financial boondoggle for those who’ll pay the bills goes without saying. Such is the way of all those spectacles (hello, Toronto Pan Am Games that absolutely nobody cares about – I’m talking to you, too), as the people of Brazil will find out again when the mother of all boondoggles, the Olympics, hits their stumbling economy in 2016. Many Brazilians are no doubt happy to see the World Cup – they love their football, after all. The costs are another matter, how-
ever. When Brazil was awarded the World Cup in 2007 – certainly without a hint of bribery, unlike the ghosts of FIFA past, present and future (see Qatar) – the country’s economy was booming. Brazil put the ‘B’ in the BRICs. Today, along with Russia, India and China, the bloom is off the rose, particularly in the place now hosting the biggest event on the football/ soccer calendar. Even when the country’s economy was ostensibly doing well, most of the gains weren’t being shared. Many Brazilians still suffer from a host of povertyrelated problems. Now, with the economy slowing and billions and billions of dollars – lowball estimates of $15 billion each for the World Cup and the upcoming Olympics – being diverted into spectacles, things are expected to get much worse. Far from providing a stimulus to the economy – where have we heard that before? – the two big events have failed to bring the benefits promised – and we know the name of that
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nationale de Football Association) is by all accounts crawling with corruption to rival the IOC. Starting there, a fair deal seems unlikely. Brazil itself is not a bastion of good governance, with Transparency International’s corruption index ranking the country in 72nd spot, tied with the likes of Bosnia, Serbia and South Africa. (The bottom of the list, 175th, is shared by Afghanistan, North Korea and Somalia.) Along with a longstanding crime problem, one of the biggest fears leading up the World Cup is Brazil’s lack of infrastructure. Not just the stadiums – the unnecessary kind that’s seen billions squandered – but more importantly the kind of lasting infrastructure that might be of some benefit down the line, including roads and rails. In the absence of such work, flying may be the only alternative for the visitors expected to pour into the host cities, with the worst of the brunt to be borne by Rio and Sao Paulo. Organizers expect about 600,000 foreigners and at
least three million Brazilians to travel to matches. Along with problems simply getting about, there is a decided lack of hotel rooms, with commensurate soaring/gouging prices – there are reports of rates being hiked by up to 500 per cent. Through all of that, people will nonetheless flock to the venues – FIFA reports there were 11 million requests for the 3.1 million tickets available over the course of 64 matches in the World Cup. Of the tickets sold, 60 per cent were bought by Brazilians, the other 40 per cent going to those who’ll travel from other countries, near and far. After host Brazil (1,363,179), the USA leads the international pack with 196,838 tickets, followed by Argentina (61,021), Germany (58,778), England (57,917), Colombia (54,477), Australia (52,289), Chile (38,638), France (34,865) and Mexico (33,694). The visitors will undoubtedly run into difficulties, but the party mood may help in dealing with those. The Brazilians, however, are the ones who’ll be
stuck with the hangover, one that will certainly last through 2016, when the Olympics make matters still worse. The Olympics are in essence founded on corruption, each event designed to separate taxpayers from their money to enrich a few and providing no real benefit in return. We’ve all seen enough examples of Olympic costs to know the numbers trotted out in advance are no more than fairytales. Promised tourism dollars, even if they materialize, are a one-time deal, while the debt payments go on for years. Even those Games purported to have made money employ creative accounting, forgetting to add in much of the infrastructure and operational costs, such as security, for example, that are covered by governments as a matter of course. Hosting the Olympics two years after the World Cup, Brazilians are about to find out what it means to be scammed. If Canada KANNON | 8
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tune, right? In the five years leading into the global financial crisis, Brazil’s economy experienced relatively stable annual growth of about five per cent. However, for this year, the expected rate of growth is just 1.8 per cent. That’s not going to cut the mustard in making up for the billions diverted into non-productive use. How non-productive? Brazil’s World Cup organizers have been criticized for using 12 stadiums when FIFA required only eight. Four of the stadiums, in Brasilia, Natal, Cuiaba and Manaus, look like patronage rewards and are almost certain to become white elephants, say critics. It’s no wonder, then, that there have been a series of protests leading up to the event. Officials are worried about a repeat of the demonstrations seen at the Confederation Cup, a warm-up for the big show now underway, where police and soldiers battled with crowds, and six people died. Brazilians have every right to be up in arms. FIFA (Fédération Inter-
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Full-time jobs declined by 29,100 last month while part-time positions rose by 54,900. Job growth in the past year has been all on the part-time side. Full-time work is down by 0.2 per cent or 26,700 jobs, in the past year while part-time jobs have grown by 3.4 per cent or 112,200 positions. The number of hours worked in that time is little changed.
"This study spells out clearly why the Conservatives’ income splitting scheme is a terrible idea. It would increase inequality and is skewed heavily toward a Mad Men-style family with a high-income earner and a stay-at-home spouse."
A school without students and a congregation without a church came together this week with the sale of the vacant Heidelberg Public School to the St. Clements Bible Fellowship. Trustees of the Waterloo Region District School Board (WRDSB) approved the sale June 10. The school had been closed for two years since students were transferred to St. Jacobs PS.
»»BMO Nesbitt Burns
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»»From the June 15, 2002 edition of the Observer
two-thirds of families targeted by the Conservative income splitting plan would receive less than $500 while fewer than 4% of families, top earners, could benefit by $5,000.
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included in European Union Council of Europe report, the Swiss lawyer Dick Marty, subsequently admitted that he had no evidence directly linking Thaci with the organ trafficking, but if you’re the boss, you have to accept at least a share of the blame. So why is this suspected war criminal and big-time crime boss being welcomed as Kosovo’s legitimate leader by all the European countries, including even Serbia? Two obvious reasons are that he won the election, and that he doesn’t actually face any outstanding criminal charges. But the deeper reason is that Serbia wants to join the European Union. The European Union wants it too: it’s important to bring the Serbs into the club and not leave them feeling bruised and resentful about the Balkan wars
of the 1990s, even if they were largely responsible for them. However, Serbia cannot join the EU until it accepts that the breakaway province of Kosovo is gone forever and recognizes its leader as legitimate. The EU does not accept applicants with unresolved border disputes. (Ukraine please note.) And this also means, by the way, that the EU has to accept Kosovo as a legitimate candidate for membership even under its current leader. Both the EU and Serbia would certainly prefer the prime minister of Kosovo to be somebody a bit more presentable, but the Kosovars keep electing Hashim Thaci, albeit with a small and dwindling turnout of voters. And maybe he really has changed. Sometimes you just have to put the past behind you, and maybe even some of the present too.
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and other Western countries can ill afford nor justify such boondoggles, the people there who didn’t share in the boom times are certainly in no position
to pay the freight now. Already under pressure, the government better hope the home team goes all the way, the better to stick with the bread and circuses maxim of such needless events.
YOUR VIEW / LETTER
Unsafe drivers put pedestrians at risk To the Editor, It is becoming an epidemic in our society today, that drivers making righthand turns consider stop signs and red lights to be merely a polite request rather than a non-negotiable requirement. This negligence on the part of many drivers creates a dangerous situation for pedestrians. Drivers approach these intersections, rolling past the white lines indicating
where a stop should take place, and continue on through the intersection only looking to their left to make sure that there is no oncoming traffic to interfere with their illegal act. By only looking to the left, these drivers fail to acknowledge the possibility that there may be children, runners, caregivers pushing strollers, or people walking dogs coming from the right. It is a rare event when I am out for my run that I am not forced to stop, despite having the right of way to cross an intersection, avoid
being hit by a vehicle that is illegally rolling through a stop completely unaware of my presence. It is a sad reality that I wear an I.D. bracelet when I run purely because I know that one day a car will come through one of these intersections so quickly that I will be hit, and will want emergency services to be able to identify me if I am unconscious. It scares me to send my children to school by foot, knowing that a significant number of drivers think getting to the coffee shop or their workplace a few seconds faster is more important than the safety of my children. Drivers, I beg you, when you approach a stop sign or red light, stop at the white line and look both ways before you proceed. If you don’t, I may find myself in an emergency room, while you will certainly find yourself in a courtroom.
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Andy D’Angelo, Chris Monette and Hank Verhoeven celebrate making the podium in the Master Men two division at the KW Classic on June 8.
Elation and agony collided at the finish line of the KW Classic cycling race. Moments after watching winners celebrate with outstretched arms and shouts of joy, a violent crash stunned spectators. With three separate races converging on the finish line in front of the Hawkesville Community Centre on Broadway Street, there wasn’t enough room for racers jockeying for position. One rider smashed into the scaffolding used to support the finish line banner, sending another barreling over top of his handlebars onto the asphalt. “He was squeezed on the outside,” race organizer Blake Ellis said. The finish line was 21feet wide, in correspondence with international standards, but “the group
was really wide, and they started to bunch to try to get positioning,” Ellis explained. “He had nowhere to go and he clipped his pedal on the barricade fencing.” Despite being taken to hospital by ambulance, the riders only suffered minor injuries. “He’s okay,” Ellis said of the rider who hit the scaffolding. “No broken bones, he just feels like he hit a Mack truck.” Fortunately, the dozens of other competitors speeding through the vicinity of the accident got by unscathed. Some 400 competitors rode in the 27th running of the event, which took place in Hawkesville for the first time on June 8. A dozen age, gender and skill categories were staggered throughout the day, beginning at 8:30 a.m. until 5 p.m. Overcast skies and intermittent drizzle
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Spectators in Hawkesville treated to the trials and tribulations of a tough road-racing battle in KW Classic SCOTT BARBER
munity. “There was actually some Twitter activity regarding the baked goods, which people were really excited about.” Even after a brutally harsh winter that beat up roads across the province, riders said the track conditions were excellent. “(Work crews) fixed up the course really well,” Hamill said. “Coming out a month and a half a go there were a lot of pretty bad ruts and potholes and they filled most of them in and the course was in great shape.” Paolina Allan won the women’s Elite One race by a commanding one minute and 36 seconds. “As soon as we started, I wanted to get to the front and it was like gas was on the pedal,” she explained. “From the first climb it was just a constant attack. It was like playing between a cat and a mouse [between the peloton and Allan], that is what we were doing with each other, and it was like that for like two laps
Last weekend, Jenn and I decided we needed to spruce up the front of the house just a bit. By the way, when an outdoorsman says ‘we decided’ it actually means he agreed so that ‘he’ could eventually go fishing. I don’t have anything against making the approach to our house more scenic. It’s just that I’ve come to realize when it comes to outdoors landscaping, women tend to get it all wrong. Consider the ensuing debate. “No, we are not digging a trout pond,” she said. “But it will add to our property value,” I replied. “Please, can we? Can we, please?” She then went on to point out that our front lawn was hardly big enough for a pond. Needless to say, I had already thought this through. “That’s the beauty of trout,” I said. “I’ll dig it deep rather than wide. They love deep cold water.” “I don’t think it’s prudent to dig a pond uphill from our house,” she muttered. “Why not?” I blurted. “What if it spills over?” I then explained the second part of my plan which consisted of digging an outlet creek, a set of waterfalls and two sets of rapids that would run through the basement just past my fly tying bench. “I’ll make the banks high enough that it won’t flood the furnace room,” said I. “Unless we get beavers, of course, then I can’t guarantee anything.”
Paramedics carted off a rider who collided with the scaffolding used to hold up the finish line banner. progressed to light rain in Still, sticking with the the afternoon, though the peloton has its advantages. weather didn’t have much “It’s a lot different riding bearing on the races. with a pack of 50, you’ve “Normally out here there got people to ride behind is a west wind pushing to share the load,” Hamill you up the Hawkesville said, about the importance Hill, but today the wind of wind resistance. was like five kilometres an Transitioning from the hour so it really didn’t play suburban route in Kitchtoo much of a factor,” exener used in previous years plained Aaron Hamill after to the rural Township of finishing 10th in the Elite Wellesley brought new obThree level. stacles like road apples and Without the course’s typ- turtle crossings, but also ical gusts, it was “harder the scenic backdrop of the for people to break away” Conestogo River. from the pack, Hamill said. “Everything went really “Normally going into well,” Ellis said, noting a headwind, that’s where the rave reviews given by people can attack and riders of the new venue make other people hurt.” and the Hawkesville com-
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Motorists urged to share the road with cyclists
Memorial ride, the third since rider Barrie Conrod’s death in Wellesley, aims to bring safety issues to the fore SCOTT BARBER
On June 15, hundreds of cyclists will take to the streets of Waterloo to raise awareness about road safety and honour the memory of people lost in bicycle accidents. The third annual We Travel Together: Cycle for Angels will start at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) parking lot on Caroline Street at 2:30 p.m. The ride is organized by Heather Caron, an avid cyclist who experienced tremendous loss while riding in the Township of Wellesley.
On May 6, 2012, Heather and her husband Barrie Conrod cycled along Herrgott Road on a sunny spring afternoon. Along a flat stretch of road in broad daylight, there shouldn’t have been any danger to the experienced riders. But the unthinkable happened when a SUV struck Conrod from behind, forcing him off his bike, through the air, face down onto the gravel shoulder. Conrod was killed instantly at 52 years of age. The driver of the vehicle, Dan Wideman, pleaded guilty to careless driving, telling a Kitchener court
he fell asleep behind the wheel. He received a $1,000 fine, one year of probation and was ordered to do 10 hours of community service. Caron told reporters during the court case that she offered Wideman forgiveness, noting that he had taken responsibility for the accident and shown remorse. Now, Caron finds solace by promoting cycling safety. “This year there has already been a fatality and a couple of accidents [in the Kitchener-Waterloo region], five I think, in a very short period of time, and I think that there needs to be
Heather Caron led the line of cyclists wearing white t-shirts during last year’s Cycle for Angels. [SUBMITTED] awareness for the public, for pact on the community. drivers and for cyclists that “I think it makes a huge we all need to be more carestatement to have a lot of ful and more aware.” cyclists lined up in white She believes Sunday’s shirts” she said, adding ride will have a positive imthat it is an opportunity to
“be somber and remember people who were killed or hurt in cycling accidents.” The ride is also about promoting “mutual respect” between motorists and cyclists, as well as the need for better cycling infrastructure like bike lanes and trails. Since the accident two years ago, it has been difficult for Caron to enjoy cycling. Fortunately, she’s starting to appreciate the sport again, even riding 108 kilometres for the Cambridge Tour de Grand on June 8. “It’s one of my passions,” she said. “I couldn’t give it up.”
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“Put down the shovel,” she said. “OK,” I said grudgingly. “And the trowel,” she added. “I suppose you’ve got a better plan then?” I asked. She then divulged it. “Hey, how about being just a little practical?” I yelped. It turned out that her idea was crazy. She wanted
to hang two baskets of geraniums from a wrought iron hanger. “It’ll never work,” I countered. “Why not?” she asked. “Aside from the logistical nightmare of hanging them, the neighbourhood deer will consume them within the first two days,” I replied. “It’s worth a try,” she said firmly.
And so it was that I escorted two baskets of geraniums to the place of their imminent demise. “I’m sorry,” I muttered. “I’m just following orders.” I can’t say I was consumed by guilt, but I will say that I was bothered by the fact that we were about to feed our local deer a dessert that cost $25 a serving. The next morning, however, the plants were still
there, unmolested. “See,” she said. “It’s not such a crazy idea after all.” Later that afternoon, I got into my car to go to the post office. “I’ll be back soon,” I said. “Hang in there.” Call me crazy, but I think they needed a little plant humour. I was gone for less than 10 minutes. But, as I pulled into the driveway, I saw a
shrub’s worst nightmare. Five deer surrounded the hanging baskets. They had a look that said they had just decided seating arrangements. In fact, if they were people, they would have been wearing bibs and holding dessert forks. “Nooooooooooo!” I yelled. The deer looked over. I rolled down the car window.
“Pssst! There are some really nice hostas around the corner,” I whispered. “I’ll take you to them.” The deer looked on and, before leaving, one gave me the middle hoof and a look that said, “You foiled us today, but we’ll be back.” I took the geraniums to the back deck where they’d be safe. Someday, I figure, they’ll hang by the waterfalls …
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and even into the third lap, and then on the third lap I managed to get away on that nice corner out there and I kind of rolled through and thought that they would come but nobody came.” She smiled and raised her arms in the air as she completed the 68.4 kilometre race. “I was terrified I was going to cramp, or get a mechanical [problem],” she said, describing her
thoughts during the final sprint. “Honestly, you never know until you cross that finish line.” Waterloo’s Gaelen Merritt took the men’s Elite One race, while Olympic silver medalist and Tour de France veteran Steve Bauer finished nearly six minutes back in 25th place. “Rolling alone into Hawkesville with the home crowd cheering in the pouring rain is my new fondest memory in cycling to date,” Merritt said.
More than 400 cyclists rode the streets of Hawkesville in the 6th Ontario Cup race of the season. [SCOTT BARBER / THE OBSERVER]
OFSAA an inspiring experience for EDSS athletes SCOTT BARBER Two Elmira District Secondary School track and field stars reached the pinnacle of high school sport last weekend by competing in the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Association’s (OFSAA) championships. They joined elite athletes from across the province at St. Marcellinus Secondary School in Mississauga from June 5-7. To qualify for the event, students must beat thousands of their peers at the
Waterloo County Secondary School Athletic Association (WCSSAA), the Central Western Ontario Secondary School Association (CWOSSA) and the OFSAA West Regional meets. It is no easy feat. “Some years (EDSS) won’t send any athletes to OFSAA,” said coach Lisa Douglas. “To have two students this year was great. They
EDSS Grade 9 sprinter Owen Read and Grade 10 javelin thrower Emilly Willms competed in the Ontario Federation of Athletic Association track and field championships June 5-7. [SCOTT BARBER / THE OBSERVER]
should be very proud of themselves.” Grade 9 sprinter Owen Read described his first OFSAA experience. “It was pretty cool. There were a lot of really good runners there.” After winning the 100and 200-metre races at each of the qualifying meets, Read placed 15th in the 100m with a time of 12.15 seconds, and 10th in the 200m at 23.43 seconds. He also ran the 400-metre at WCSAA and CWOSSA, but decided to focus on the shorter distances as the competition level stiffened. “I think I’m best at the 200, because my start isn’t the best, so I’m kind of behind at the start of the 100 and I don’t think I have quite enough stamina yet to go for the full 400,” Read said. “But my speed is good enough that the start doesn’t matter quite as much in the 200.”
Emily Willms finished 22nd in the Grade 10 girls javelin competition, with a final throw of 25.09 metres. While her performance fell short of her personal best throw of 33.88 metres, Willms said she enjoyed her first taste of OFSAA action. “It was really cool to see how good some of the girls were, because I saw one girl threw 40.17 metres, which is crazy,” she said. “Everyone is really competitive so it is a different atmosphere.” Students are fortunate to have the opportunity to participate in a variety of field events like javelin, Douglas said, since it depends on the school employing coaches with a wide range of skills. “Our coach Ms. Austin used to throw javelin in high school, so she teaches the javelin throwers on our team,” Willms said. Still in the early years of their high school athletic careers, Willms and Read have the potential to con-
tend for multiple provincial championships going forward. But it will take determination to get back to OFSAA next year. In order to maintain his edge, Read joined the Laurel Creek track team outside of school. “We do a lot of resistance running and we just do a lot of running over and
over,” he explained. He also credits his EDSS track coaches. “They are really great motivators. They are always there, like at the West regionals something happened with the clock, which did not start in my heat. They were right there to talk to the officials to get it straightened out.”
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Artist’s rendering of the new 34,000-square-foot building at the St. Jacobs Farmers’ Market to replace the structure lost in a fire last September. It’s expected to be completed by next spring. Shantz. Construction to get underway at end of “The construction is very much in keeping with the month, starting with improvements to old building,” he explained, the site; business as usual during process adding “it’s going to feel a bit more open than the wooden beams similar to prior building.” STEVE KANNON the original structure — its The old building was Work on a new home appearance is intended 24,000 sq. ft., much of it on for the St. Jacobs Farmers’ to pay tribute to the agrithe mezzanine. The new Market gets underway later cultural roots of Waterloo structure will be 34,000 sq. this month, with the buildRegion, and St. Jacobs in ft., most of it on the main ing expected to be ready for particular, the company floor. Shantz expects that business next spring. says. will translate into about At 34,000 square feet, The project will also 20 per cent more space for the new building will be include a variety of upvendors. about 40 per cent larger grades to the site, work Visitors will find wider Site plan for the property. [SUBMITTED] than the original levelled as diverse as changes to aisles (13 feet versus 10), in a September, 2013 fire. the stockyards buildings, more seating and generous days of the fire, so it’s imOwner Mercedes Corp. also underground electrical inheights when the new place portant to work with that plans to retain the 15,600frastructure, paved parking is ready. mindset: business is not on sq.ft. “harvest barn” built and stormwater manageWhile construction is hold in the meantime, he just months after the blaze. ment. underway, the goal is to stressed. The company this week Overall, the goal is a dekeep disruptions down to a Yes, the new building announced plans for the velopment where long-time minimum, said Shantz. will be an enhancement, new structure, which will visitors and vendors alike The market is its usual but “the market is back reflect the old one. The new would be at home, said going concern, having been now.” building will employ heavy Mercedes president Marcus back in operation within Though the fire was dev-
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Sweeping changes are taking place in crop protection. I believe they’re for the best, but they’re going to take some explaining to consumers. Here’s what’s happening. At the BASF media summit in North Carolina this week, the company announced it was introducing an eyepopping 20 new crop protection products this year and into 2015. BASF already spends $2 million a day on research at its U.S. headquarters in the nearby Research Triangle (Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill), as well as in Canada and elsewhere in the world, particularly Germany and UK. With that kind of investment, it’s reasonable to expect big things to develop. And they have. Even though BASF calls itself The Chemical Company, it’s creating alternatives to traditional chemicals for crop protection. Several reasons exist for this, including pressure from consumers. “The voice of consumers is being more prevalent in the dynamics of our industry,” says University of Guelph graduate Nevin
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McDougall, who is now the company’s senior vice-president of crop protection for North America. Concerns from farmers are another driver. Farmers know relying too much on a given chemical, such as a particular herbicide to fight weeds, can lead to resistance. A few weeds naturally build up tolerance against a chemical, reproduce over a few years, and eventually the chemical is no longer effective. This has become a real problem for farmers.
The alternative to chemicals has mostly been other chemicals … which works for a while, until weeds develop resistance to them, too. So BASF, and other leading companies, are diversifying their approaches. In BASF’s case, it’s created what it calls a “functional crop care” division. This includes an array of alternatives that complement the company’s conventional approaches, including socalled biological treatments that make seeds and plants stronger and more able to
tolerate tough conditions, such as drought or cold temperatures. Key to this new direction is help for farmers. Since 2010, BASF has hired 150 field staff, including nearly 50 just in the last year, to visit farmers and not sell them products, but rather, help them manage their crops. It’s all in the name of sustainability. If farmers aren’t economically and environmentally sustainable, the $2 million a day BASF is spending on research is for naught.
To me, the next step in this process is helping consumers understand the sea change that’s taking place on farms. Diversified crop protection is a good-news message. But so was the introduction of agricultural biotechnology two decades ago – and the industry blew it by not telling consumers what was going on. At the time, some said it was wrong to confuse or worry consumers about things they couldn’t see, such as molecular-level genetic modification. His-
tory shows this was an epic fail – anti-corporate activists had a heyday scaring the daylights out of consumers. It’s still an issue, with a percentage of consumers asking for non-GMO products, even though they don’t really know what GMOs are. But there’s no question they think they’re bad. So why risk the investment? Make as much effort to inform consumers as farmers. In fact, at the BASF summit, company officials noted how farmers are craving information about new
technology. They want to know what’s available, how to use it and how it works – not only for their own benefit, but also so they have the ability to explain it to others. The age of social media, as well as urban sprawl and the local food movement, puts farmers and consumers closer than ever. The spotlight is on farming, and there are superb stories to tell about feeding people near and far. Sophisticated, sustainable food production is a story that works for everyone.
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was imagined when it first opened,” said Shantz of the market. In the months since the fire, Mercedes has been making careful plans, getting all kinds of input from vendors about how to make the new building suit their needs. There has been no shortage of ideas, he added. “We certainly didn’t have
to solicit advice – we got lots and lots of unsolicited advice,” he laughed. “That’s good, because it shows how much people care about the market.” With the extra floor space, Shantz is not expecting dozens of new vendors off the bat, as existing vendors have expressed an interest in more room for their businesses.
“Quite a lot of that is spoken for by existing vendors,” he said of the extra floor space. As well, retaining the steel-and-fabric harvest barn, will provide an option to some of the outdoor vendors who might be interested in having a covered space. The reconstruction is being financed privately by
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Following the fire on Labour Day that levelled the orginal building, temporary quarters soon started to rise. The fabric-and-steel “harvest barn” will remain as part of the site when the new market building is completed. [FILE PHOTOS] the company. Funds from a vendor relief program launched shortly after last Labour Day’s fire are a separate matter. The community-led initiative ultimately raised more than $340,000, administered by the Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation, with the money going di-
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THE ARTS FIRST PUSH / WHERE THEY GOT THEIR START
EDSS helps foster the arts Alum who’ve gone on to creative careers point to the helping hand they received back in high school SCOTT BARBER Some of Elmira District Secondary School’s most creative alumni gathered in the school’s library on June 10 to discuss their careers and reflect on the 75th anniversary reunion. Presenters commented on the uniqueness of the EDSS community. “I remember getting to class one day and the teacher said, ‘It’s such a beautiful day, I want everyone outside drawing,’” Timothy Schmalz recalled. “I remember thinking, ‘what an amazing, creative place this is.’ The teachers were so encouraging.” Now a world-renowned sculptor who specializes in Christian art, Schmalz recounted how EDSS staff supported his application to the Ontario College of Art during his senior year. “My marks [in subjects outside of art} were just not there. So what happened was the teachers got
Nan Forler authored the children’s books “Bird Child” and “Winterberries and Apple Blossoms.” [SCOTT BARBER / THE OBSERVER]
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around with the principal and they just basically said, ‘Okay, let’s get this guy to pass’ – I do appreciate that. That’s what I expect from an amazing school like EDSS. They made that exception for me.” The “Lancers in the arts” show was part of the EDSS 75 celebration, which brought former students, teachers and staff together from June 6-8. Animation specialist Sarah Mercey described how EDSS helped to shape her path. “[Growing up] I was bored, but the amazing kind of bored that allowed a little girl to develop my most important muscle, which is my imagination. Besides the time and space to use my imagination, Elmira provided me with loads of support, from my family of course, and my teachers and the community.” Mercey has worked in animation for Walt Disney and Pixar films including Ratatoullie, Wall-E, Lilo and Stitch and Toy Story 3, where she helped design adorable characters like “Lots-o-HugginBear” and Bonnie. Her inspiration came from watching The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast, along with guidance from the EDSS art department. “It occurred to me that someone makes these films, someone actually has to sit down and draw that. So I asked (teacher)
George Caesar, ‘You know how the characters move in those movies? What is that called?’ and he said, ‘Do you mean animation? You can go to school for that.’” She did just that, completing the classical animation program at Sheridan College, quickly followed by a position at Disney’s feature animation department in Orlando, Florida. Now, the Canadian Screen Award winner is taking the next creative leap by creating and directing her own films. “For the first time since I lived in Elmira as a kid, I’ve actually had the time and
space to focus completely on my own projects. So I story-boarded a short film, her name is Jinx and she is kind of a little terror.” She’s also enjoying digital painting and developing a children’s television show called “Next Time,” which is about “learning to stick your neck out to try new things.” Other presenters included authors Pat Brezynski and Nan Forler, singer Giselle Sanderson, stage director Kevin Ewert, and blacksmith Robb Martin. Like many EDSS graduates, Timothy Schmalz was the second generation in his family to attend the school, and he hopes there will be a third. “After 25 years, it was nice to walk the halls again and to look back on those times. Living here in St. Jacobs, I am glad my kids are going to get the chance to attend EDSS, because there are no other schools like it.”
Timothy Schmalz puts the finishing touches on a clay model of “The Holy Trinity.” Sarah Mercey showed how a scene was created in the Disney film “Brother Bear.”
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SAT. JUNE 21 at 10:00 AM - Clearing auction sale of snowmobile; lawn and garden equipment; wood working equipment and tools; horse drawn wagons and cutters; furniture; antiques; collectables; and miscellaneous items to be held at 1087 West River Road Cambridge (south end of Cambridge) for Harry Bergsma. Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 519-656-3555. www.Jantziauctions.com. WED. JUNE 25 at 10:00 AM - Clearing auction sale of furniture; antiques; household effects; tools; and miscellaneous items to be held at the St. Jacob’s community Centre in St. Jacob’s for a Waterloo estate with additions. Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 519-656-3555. www.Jantziauctions.com.
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LOCATION: Kurtz Auctions 7041 Hwy #7 west, 1 km west of Guelph Auto Mall, Just before County Rd #32 LAWN & Garden & Shop Equipment Bob Cat O turn mower c/w 61” deck 20hp Kawasaki (New) with full warranty – Poulan Pro Lawn Tractor 18 ½ hp c/w 42” Deck(New) – Husqvarna Rear tine 17” Roto Tiller(New) – Large Quantity of 2 stroke engine oil sold in case lots – 15 Electric weed eaters – 4- Leaf Blowers – 500 Powermate 10hp Generator –Craftsman 24” Snow Blower – 20 Gal Portable Air compressor – RYOBI Router & planner – chop saw on stand – Small RV Generator - Variety of Misc shop & Yard related tools etc. with lots not mentioned. CLASSIC & COLLECTIBLE CARS 1929 Buick McLaughlin c/w wood spoke wheels excellent condition – 1937 Chev 2 door Coupe – 1964 Chev Impala ss Coupe 283 – 121,000 miles – 1966 Plymouth sports fury 57,290 miles 440 H performance Automatic – 1970 Chrysler Newport Convertible 383 H performance Auto, ground up restoration – 1970 Plymouth Sports fury GT Rare 1 of 666 Built 440 High Performance Auto – 1977 Monte Carlo, 86,000 km Nice shape – 1987 El Camino Excellent condition – 1999 Chev Camero Z28 Excellent – 1998 GMC short box step side Pick up Sierra 1500 350 c/w bucket seats sharp Truck in like New condition. “NEW” Corvette - 2014 Corvette Stingray fully loaded this car has only 350 km. 2004 Chrysler Sebring 4 door Auto 187 km. one owner driven daily c/w snow tires as is 2007 Chev Uplander extended Van 150,000 km one owner, selling Certified & E-Tested RV”S TRAILERS & Motorcycle 2008 – 42ft Motor Home Travel Supreme Diesel pusher Only 50,000 km This unit was purchased new. One owner & is fully loaded in New condition 1990 – Mallard 40ft Motor Home Ford 460 Aprox. 95,000 km under/over drive, fully loaded c/w Onan Generator real clean. 2006 ATC 5 ft Wheel 48 ft Aluminum car Trailer 2005 ATC 24 ft Aluminum Tag Hitch car Trailer 2005 KTM SMR 450 Motorcycle Note: New Consignments will be accepted until Thursday June 19th @ 6pm .Check our WEBSITE for updates AUCTION NOTE: This is an auction not to miss with sought after Vehicles ranging from Old Collectables to Newer Special Edition Units, Vehicles & RV’s selling @ 12 noon GOOD LUNCH BOOTH ON SITE. Viewing- FRIDAY June 20 12-4 pm or 8am sale day to sale time. Any Announcements day of sale take precedence over ads. Proprietors & Auctioneer not responsible for accidents day of sale. TERMS: Cash or Cheque with Proper ID, Debit
Kurtz Auctions Inc. Arris Ontario
Auctioneer: Brian S. Kurtz – (519) 836-0342 Visit us: www.kurtzauctionsinc.com Call us for all of your auction needs, your place or ours!rs!
Vintage cars, trucks and hotrods lined the EDSS parking lot during the 75th reunion on June 7.
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Community Parks, Recreation, and Culture Strategic Master Plan The Township of Wellesley is preparing a Community Parks, Recreation, and Culture Strategic Master Plan to guide the development and delivery of recreation facilities, programs, culture, parks, sports fields, and trails for the next 20 years. You are invited to drop-by the Informal Public Open House to review and provide feedback on the draft Strategic Master Plan on: June 18, 2014 between 6:30 pm and 8:00 pm (feel free to drop-in anytime as there will be no formal presentation)
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Regional Road 17 (Hawkesville Road/Sawmill Road) Reconstruction From King Street to Waterloo-St. Jacobs Tracks Town of St. Jacobs, Township of Woolwich The Region of Waterloo invites you to attend the Public Consultation Centre for the proposed Regional Road 17 Reconstruction Project. The project is scheduled for construction in 2017 and includes urbanizing the road within the village limits with curb and gutters, storm sewers, on-road cycling/buggy lanes and sidewalks. The remainder of the road outside the village limits will be reconstructed with on-road cycling/buggy lanes.
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REAL ESTATE LISTINGS
SPRING MARKET HAS ARRIVED! NEW LISTING
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$384,000 2500 SQ. FT. HOME
$599,900 ROOM TO GROW
NEW LISTING
$389,000 BUNGALOW
Drayton Looking for that perfect bungalow? Check out this 1600 sqft home with attractive curb appeal. Open concept 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom home with main floor laundry. Open kitchen with centre island and slider walk out. Basement equipped with large rec room and lots of storage space. MLS1427517 Call Paul or Alli Direct.
Drayton Large 2500sqft home plus finished basement! Located on large fenced corner lot with irrigation system. This open concept home is equipped with tons of living space; family room, living room, upper floor great room and rec room. Entertaining will be a breeze in this separate dining room and hot tub on the deck. Laundry made easy with main floor laundry. All appliances included. MLS1427519. Call Paul or Alli Direct.
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$479,000 STUNNING BUNGALOW
Drayton Located just outside of town this Swiss style home is nestled in this huge lot. Built with family in mind complete with living room, family room, rec room and 4 bathrooms... Lots of room to grow and run you will be impressed. Many updates include; updated bathroom, roof 2013, furnace 2014, paint throughout and flooring, 32 ft. x 24 ft. workshop with hydro. MLS1427516. Call Paul or Alli Direct.
Stunning bungalow with double garage and located on quiet street. This open concept home is equipped with large eat-in kitchen featuring island with breakfast bar. Bright great room with gas fireplace and vaulted ceiling. Main floor laundry beside mudroom. Finished basement with 2 bedrooms, rec room and kitchenette. 5 appliances included.
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Kitchener – Featuring controlled entry in welcoming lobby. Casual Elegance in this updated 2 bdrm, 2 bath, condo complete w/sep DR & in-suite laundry. Excellent location w/easy access to 401, shopping, Conestoga College & close to trails. Well maintained building w/indoor pool, exercise rm, party rm, sauna & underground parking! Recent updates: Laminate flooring, Baths 2013, Kit cabinets 2009. All appliances incl’d. Just move in & enjoy! MLS 1424165. Call Paul or Alli Direct.
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$598,500 BEAUTIFUL BACKYARD
Breslau – Approx 2700sqft house located on 3.15 acres. Enjoy sunsets from your bckyrd haven. Tree lined private drive. Complete w/main flr LR, FR w/wood fp, eat in kit & sep DR. Main flr bdrm w/kitchenette & 3pc ens. Side entrance ideal for home office/business. Master bdrm w/8ftx8ft walk in closet & 3pc ens. Fin'd basement featuring lg bar & location for wood stove. Bsmnt bath incl sauna, whirlpool. 648sqft unfinished bonus room above garage. TLC Required. MLS 1414121. Call Alli or Paul direct.
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Elmira - Located in mature area this home features open concept living room with hardwood floors and second floor addition 2009. Main floor full bath, Bright kitchen with new cupboards & counter top. Separate dining room with French door walk out to large concrete patio & yard overlooking park! Main floor laundry with skylight, 3 bedrooms including large master bedroom with huge walk in closet. MLS 1424631. Call Paul or Alli Direct.
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Linwood the place to go Cruisin’ with the Stars WHITNEY NEILSON The seventh annual Cruisin’ with the Stars event will feature something old, something new, something borrowed, and likely even something blue. For the old, expect to see at least 70 classic cars from car clubs across the province. Jeff Wicks, event chairman and president of the Linwood Rod and Gun Club, said car clubs from Windsor to Burlington will be there to show off their wheels. “We get people more and more every year from places we never thought they’d come from,” said Wicks. “I invited 36 car clubs. Usually we have at least 70 cars. One year we had 120.” For the new, there will be a dunk tank, and Ford vehicles to test drive. Ford will donate to the community and The Canadian Mental Health Association for every test drive.
“This year we’re trying to turn the focus more to family fun,” said Wicks. “We’ve got a dunk tank. We’ve had the bouncy castle that’s been done for the last few years, the bake sale table that’s been done the past three or four years. We have pony rides with the local pony club.” There will also be a bouncy castle, face painting, and kids meal. For something borrowed, they’re bringing in mighty machines this year. Wicks said that’s aimed at entertaining children and will include transport trucks, dump trucks, backhoes, and other large machinery. “The first year we did this we had 500 people show up,” said Wicks. Weather controls the attendance. We’re shifting the gears away from just an antique car show to a family fun day.” He said the classic car show has been done by The Linwood Rod and Gun
Club for about 12 years and turned into the Cruisin’ with the Stars event, six years ago, when attendance numbers for the car show were dropping. The whole purpose is to raise money for the club, the Linwood Lions Club, the Linwood fire station, and the Linwood Recreation Committee. “One year we raised money to buy one of those infrared [cameras], so after the building’s burnt down you go down and look for the hot spots so it doesn’t restart,” said Wicks of a project for the fire station. “Another year after the five firemen died in Listowel we got the extension ladder that comes off the truck.” He said because they’re privately funded they had to go out and buy one. It cost $20,000. Another year they sponsored a local baseball team who made it to nationals in Nova Scotia. As for the something
Cruisin’ with the Stars will have a dunk tank and mighty machines with the classic cars and tribute artists, including the likes of Elvis, a favourite of Wellesley councillor Herb Neher (right). [FILE PHOTO] blue, maybe one of the He said there will also be Elvis impersonators will vendors there for the first strap on some blue suede time, selling parts for the shoes. All the tribute artists antique autos. The event perform for free and will runs from 9-5 on June 21 be singing from 11 a.m. to at the Linwood Recreation 5 p.m. Complex. Admission is $5 “We’ve had entertainers for anyone over the age of wanting to come back year 16. after year because they had And last, but certainly such a good time.” not least, Wicks said the
firemen will be cooking their infamous barbecued chicken. “It’s one of the best out there,” said Wicks. “You get a whole half chicken dinner with potato salad and bun and everything for $12.” After everything was said and done, they raised $5,600 last year. He said rain in the morning kept attendance down but it was still their most profitable year. “If it doesn’t rain it can double your attendance,” said Wicks. “Our goal is to start seeing more families, have a good day of weather, everyone has a good time.” Some of the musicians the artists will be paying tribute to include Johnny Cash, Elton John, John Denver, and of course, Elvis. “It’s a lot of work but it’s worth it.” For more information visit www.cruisinwiththestars.com.
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RENTALS WANTED TO RENT - 2 or more bedroom property in area. Own laundry and private patio/deck wanted. Please call 519-210-0410.
REAL ESTATE FARM FOR PRIVATE SALE $945K. 82 acre farm situated just outside Mount Forest with a 2,250 sq. ft., 2 storey, 3 bedroom elegant brick house. This farm has a series of outbuildings totalling approx. 11,000 sq. ft. Flexible closing date. Private viewing of this property is available upon request. Call 519-323-2275 June 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. after that please call between 7:00 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. or after 7:00 p.m.
COMING EVENTS CRAFT & BAKE Sale June 14, 9 a.m. at 260 Arthur St. N., Elmira. Proceeds to Just Breathe to support Joseph and his family during his double lung transplant. To make a donation contact Rachel Ogle 519-884-3713.
NEW PRICE! COMING EVENTS FUNDRAISING WALK JOSEPH has cystic fibrosis, one of the most fatal genetic diseases affecting Canadian children and young adults. He is 28 and is up for a double lung transplant starting in June, once a donor is found. Just Breathe is organizing a 20 km walk from Elmira to Guelph on the Kissing Bridge Trail. The walk starts at 9 a.m. on June 28, 2014. For more information or to donate contact Rachel Ogle at 519-884-3713.
SERENE 13 ACRES $629,900 NEAR DRAYTON Gorgeous setting for this one of a
king Pioneer Log Home surrounded by mature trees, covered front porch overlooks the spring fed pond, 2344 sq.ft home w/cathedral ceiling to 2nd floor loft, updated kitchen w/quartz counters & appliances, finished walkout basement. MLS
STONE HOME $845,900 BETWEEN PALMERSON/HARRISTON 100 acres,
40 workable & 60 acres of cherry, maple & ash mix. Beautiful Citadel stone home, 2 storey stone fireplace, 3 bdrms, 3 baths, maple kitchen w/island, walkout to white cedar porch, oak stairway to loft, hardwood & pine floors, c/vac, c/air. MLS
in a wonderful neighbourhood! Beautifully maintained, huge eat-in kitchen, all appliances included, walkout to large deck & fenced yard, master ensuite & walk-in, PROFESSIONALLY finished basement, dbl garage. MLS
LOVELY FAMILY HOME $424,000 ELMIRA Nicely maintained & updated, new
kitchen in 2010 with appliances & ceramic floor, spacious dinette, hardwood in the front living room, walkout off the main floor family room to patio & private yard, 3 bdrms, spacious finished basement, dbl driveway. Situated on mature tree lined street. MLS
Call for your FREE Market Evaluation. R.W. THUR REAL ESTATE LTD. 45 Arthur St. S., Elmira
GARAGE SALES ENTIRE HOUSEHOLD SALE. Kitchen and household goods, some furniture. 20 Snyder Ave. Elmira. Sat. June 21, 7 a.m. to noon.
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GARAGE SALE - 66 Duke St., Elmira. Sat. June 14, 8 a.m. Trailer load of tools. GARAGE/CRAFT SALE - 13 Centre St. Elmira. Sat. June 21, 8 a.m. - 3 p.m. Linens, crafts, highchair, childs table/ chair set, Borg fabric, glassware, antiques, furnace motor, TV’s, mason jars, misc. items. MULTI FAMILY GARAGE Sale. Sat. June 14, 7:30 a.m. 15 Park St. E., Elmira. Tools, antiques, furniture and more!
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$329,900 Mature trees. Walkup bsmt. Newer windows, roof. Hardwood floors. Cac. Rec. rm. 4th bdrm. & newer 3pc. bath. rm. Shed w/hydro. MLS.
$387,000
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$274,900
Open concept main floor. cherry kitchen w/island. Lge. composite deck & hot tub. Rec. room, 3pc. bath. & 4th bdrm. Furnace, CAC & shingles replaced. MLS REDUCED.
LOCATION! Close to walking trails and across from a park. Oak kitchen, w/o to patio. Spacious rec. room & 2pc. Private driveway. Shed. MLS REDUCED.
NEW PRICE
STREET YARD SALE Meadow Heights Drive, Crowsfoot Corner, RR2 West Montrose. Saturday, June 14, 8 a.m. - 1p.m. Sale consists of household and gardening items, kids toys, golf clubs and bags, some furniture items.
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$499,900
UNIQUE, custom built home on over 1acre, backing to greenspace & overlooking the countryside. Main flr. master w/ensuite OR upper master bdrm., ensuite & hobby room. 9’ ceilings in lower level w/lge. windows. MLS.
LOADED WITH CHARACTER! Century home w/natural woodwork, hdwd. floors & 2 staircases. Cozy liv. rm. w/gas F.P., Oak kitchen. Private master w/ensuite. Updated bathrms. Det. garage & lovely yard. MLS REDUCED.
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COUNTRY PROPERTY- only 3 minutes from Elmira! 6 acres. Well treed. Steel roof. Geothermal heating. Detached WORKSHOP. MLS.
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$449,900
IMMACULATE home in a quiet area. Ceramic in & kit./dinette. 3 spacious bdrms. with lovely hdwd. floors. Large, rec. rm. & 3pc. bath. New shingles. MLS.
COURT LOCATION - WOODED LOT Four bdrm. home with updated bathrms. Main floor fam. room w/fireplace and walkout to huge deck with 8 person spa. Extra-long driveway. MLS.
85 Acres FOR SALE in Wellesley Township. Workable land, recently tile-drained @ 30’ centres. Road frontage at front and back of farm. MLS $1,400,000
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Happy 50th Anniversary Harry and Doris Eix
Happy 40th Anniversary Wayne & Phyllis Jantzi
Happy 90th
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Ina Kieffer
June 15, 1974
June 13, 1964
Join us to Celebrate Gerry’s 75th Birthday!
What a wonderful example you have set for your children and grandchildren. We love you very much and wish you many more years of love, laughter and blessings. Love from your family
Love, Jason, Cindy, Connor & Hudson, Scott, Andrea, Adaya & Kai
Date: Saturday, July 5th, 2014 Time: Open House from 1 to 5 p.m. Location: Hawkesville Recreation Centre - 3521 Broadway St., Hawkesville
Love your daughter, son-in-law, granddaughter and great grandsons.
MARRIAGE
BIRTHDAY
BIRTH NOTICE
IN MEMORIAM
Marriage
Surprise 60th Birthday Party
Charlotte Harper Rank
Christine Hildebrand-Beacom
When: Sun. June 22 Time: 2pm - 4pm Where: Royal Canadian Legion 11 First Street Elmira
Kyle, Roxanne and big sister McKenzie Rank are excited to announce the arrival of Charlotte Harper Rank born on April 25th, 2014, at Grand River Hospital, weighing 9lbs.2oz. Proud Grandparents are Deby and the late beloved “Poppy” Rank, Don and Sally Burrows and Great Nana Gladys Price.
June 12, 2012
Open House for: Peter Both
Lyle & Karen Binkley are pleased to announce the upcoming marriage of their son Joshua Binkley to Hilary Rogers, daughter of Araxie Vyse & Bill Rogers. The wedding will take place on June 21, 2014 beside the ocean at Dragon’s Lodge, Gabriola Island, British Columbia. Your families wish you love and happiness!
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Carrol Simpson (Brearley)
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DEATH NOTICES 2014) Passed away peacefully on June 3, 2014 at Chateau Gardens Long Term Care, Elmira.
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Peacefully after a courageous battle with cancer on Wednesday June 11, 2014 at Norfolk General Hospital, Simcoe, Carrol (Brearley) Simpson age 72 of Port Dover. Loving wife of Ken Simpson. Beloved Mother to Teresa (Adam) Nasser, Shelley (Grant) Shuttleworth, Kendra (Jim) Simpson-Barnes and Grandma to 9. Carrol is also survived by brother Jim (Marilyn) Brearley and nieces Alanna Brearley and Dr Alissa Brearley. Predeceased by parents Orwell and Gladys Brearley and brother Robert Brearley ( May 22, 2014). Too soon gone but never forgotten
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Longtime volunteer retires from ReStore’s salvage team Maynard Bauman spent 18 years focusing on putting materials to new uses for Habitat for Humanity
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JIM ROMAHN Maynard Bauman of St. Jacobs has led salvageteam crews taking down decks, garages, homes and even a church, all to gather material for sale at the Habitat for Humanity ReStore. He has retired this spring after 18 years as a salvage-team volunteer, 12 of them as team leader. In fact, the highlysuccessful program exists today largely because of his dedication. His first job was helping to tear down a church in Bright. That was about two years after Betty Jane Rose started the first salvage operations in 1994 and Ann Jordan came on board soon after; Jordan continues to volunteer at the cash register on Saturdays. Bauman took over management of salvage operations in 1997, looking for windows and doors that were in keen demand at the ReStore and lumber from decks, garages and a few mezzanines in industrial buildings. He recruited a number of friends from the St. Jacobs and Elmira area and one came all the way from Macton and another from St. Agatha. Later more joined from Kitchener, Waterloo and Cambridge. “It’s a win-win-win situation,” says Bauman. The donor wins by reducing costs, the environment
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St. Jacobs’ Maynard Bauman recently retired after an 18-year stint as a salvage-team volunteer with Habitat for Humanity. [SUBMITTED] wins by keeping useful materials out of the landfill and Habitat for Humanity wins by salvaging items that can be sold to defray administrative expenses. There is, in fact, a fourth set of winners – the people who get an affordable house built by Habitat. Among some of the bigger projects the salvage team has tackled were about 20 homes to make way for a parking lot for
Mutual Life (now Sun Life) on King Street, Kitchener, beside Grand River Hospital, about six homes beside the former Freiburger grocery store in Elmira and more recently homes and a business demolished for the widening of Weber Street in Kitchener. Today the majority of salvage projects are kitchen removals. The pace has steadily increased as more people learn that the Habitat-for-
Humanity volunteers will do a good salvage job and there are charitable benefits. When Bauman stepped back from supervising teams in 2009, Habitat hired Doug Crease, a retired school teacher, and when he moved out of the Waterloo Region, John Unruh, a retired construction manager briefly ran the salvage teams until he moved to Western Canada. Carl Zintel, a retired Wa-
terloo Region Police officer, is now in charge. Bauman has another passion – his hobby using a lathe to turn out decorative bowls from tree burls. Zintel fondly calls his team of volunteers, almost all of them retired men, “my termites” and he keeps them busy, especially during the spring homerenovations season. “I’m going to miss Maynard,” he says. “He knows so much about the work.”
If you haven’t got around to finding the perfect gift for the Dad in your home, then we’ve got you covered. And the best part is that you don’t have to look farther than the supermarket, or maybe even your spice rack. This is an all-purpose rub that can be used on beef, lamb, chicken or pork, cooked on the BBQ, in the oven or even in a pan stovetop style. Hey, moms, this can also be a fun little arts-andcrafts project that you can get the little ones to do with your guidance and give to dad as a Father’s Day gift. Small mason jars are perfect for this, not to mention super trendy. Here’s how it works, you simply mix the dry spices together, store it in a small airtight mason jar, decorate with a ribbon, a card or a special “Happy Father’s Day” label, and you’re done! The rub can be used as a dry rub as is, or you can add
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Introducing Travis Martin! Travis has been with the Leroy’s Auto Care Team for just over 2 years. He will be completing his Co-op placement here at the end of June and we are excited to have him come on board as an official apprentice in July 2014. Travis enjoys diagnostic work as well as brake and suspension repairs.
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JOIN US FOR OUR annual Fun Family Day, 2 p.m. at the Breslau Community Centre, 100 Andover Dr., Breslau. Bouncy castles, trackless train, Erick Traplin at 2 p.m., Mad Science and reptile show, photo booth, arts and crafts and more! At dusk we will be showing a family friendly movie on a large outdoor inflatable screen. Bring you chairs and blankets to enjoy the show.
ELECTRONIC BINGO UPSTAIRS AT the St. Clements Community Centre, 7 p.m. Sponsored by the Paradise & District Lions Club. For more information, contact Joe Brick 519-699-4022.
STRAWBERRY FEST - STRAWBERRY Treats, live music, games, crafts, colouring contest, chicken dinner (4:30 p.m.), BBQ, beverage tent, local artisans and homemade pies. Family Fun all day! 10 a.m. at St. Agatha Community Centre, 1793 Erbs Rd., St. Agatha.
ELMIRA & DISTRICT HORTICULTURAL Society presents “Hostas - smaller varieties & minis” by Shirley Koch, Riverbend Gardens of Wroxeter. Trinity United Church, 21 Arthur St. N., Elmira; 7:30 pm. Please use back entrance.
TED & CO. IS presenting Laughter is Sacred Space at Crosshill Mennonite Church, 2537 Hutchison Rd., Crosshill; 2 p.m. & 7 p.m. An honest, funny show which reveals the journey of working as a comedi actor under the shadow of mental illness. Admission is free - tickets required. Call 519-656-2700.
JUNE 15 HUNGRYMAN BREAKFAST WITH THE Red Knights Chapter 18. Join us at the Elmira Legion, 11 First St. E., Elmira for breakfast anytime between 8:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. Adults $6; 6-10 yrs $3; 5 & under free. All you can eat ham & sausage, fried or scrambled eggs, pancakes, home fries, baked beans, toast & jam, coffee, tea and juice.
TUESDAY LUNCHEON - GALE Presbyterian Church, 10 Barnswallow Dr., Elmira, 11:30 a.m. - 1 pm. Menu: cold ham, cold salads, roll, strawberry dessert, beverage. Next luncheon will be September 16.
6TH ANNUAL CAR SHOW & Shine, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. at Maryhill Community Centre; wheelchair accessible. Entry $10 - 1st car, $5 - 2nd car - complimentary lunch voucher with each car. Admission $2 per person and $5 per family. Several awards as well as people’s Choice Award. Great BBQ food, door prizes & raffles, two live bands. All funds to local charities. For more information Doug Zinger - 519-648-2939.
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SENIORS LUNCH CLUB AT noon (doors open at 11:30 a.m.). Wellesley Community Centre, 1000 Mapleleaf St., Wellesley. Cost $6. Join us for a noonday light lunch and fellowship. Call Community Care Concepts at 519-664-1900 or Toll free: 1-855-664-1900 for more information.
SENIORS LUNCH CLUB AT noon (doors open at 11:30 a.m.). Woolwich Memorial Centre, 24 Snyder Ave. S., Elmira (community room). Cost $6. Join us for a noonday light lunch and fellowship. Call Community Care Concepts at 519-664-1900 for more information.
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BABY FOOD BASICS: 6 months to 1 year, 1-3 p.m. Join our registered dietitian and learn how to make and store baby food. Discover what foods are good for your baby’s age and stage and how to choose, make and store you baby food safely. Bring your baby with you. For information call 519-664-3794.
THE LIONS CLUB OF Elmira Bingo – 7 p.m. at Elmira Lions Hall, 40 South St., Elmira. All proceeds go to support the many projects of the Lions Club of Elmira. For more information call 519-572-2669.
ELECTRONIC BINGO UPSTAIRS AT the St. Clements Community Centre, 7 p.m. Sponsored by the Paradise & District Lions Club. For more information, contact Joe Brick 519-699-4022.
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Service at 10:30am Rev. Paul Snow REACH WITH LOVE. TEACH THE TRUTH. SEND IN POWER. 290 Arthur St. South, Elmira • 519-669-3973 www.ElmiraAssembly.com (Across from Tim Horton’s)
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St. Paul’s 9:15am Sunday School Lutheran 10:30am Worship Service Pastor: Richard A. Frey Church Sharing the Message of Christ and His Love 27 Mill St., Elmira • 519-669-2593 www.stpaulselmira.ca
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STRANGE BUT TRUE / BILL & RICH SONES PH.D.
Shakespeare’s influence on the English language extends to character names WEIRD NOTES
Q. This year marks the
450th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s birth in 1564. His plays and poetry have enriched the English language, with some of his characters even lending their names to singular descriptive words. There are of course those Romeos in our midst (after the passionate lover in “Romeo and Juliet�), but who are the Portias, the Prosperos, Timons and Dogberrys?
A. Portia, the heroine of
“The Merchant of Venice,� is a rich heiress who disguises herself as a lawyer to save
another’s life, says Anu Garg in his A.Word.A.Day website. Hence “Portia� represents a female lawyer, as in Mike Madrid’s 2013 “Divas, Dames & Daredevils�: “’Listen sister ... law isn’t the only subject I’ve mastered... I may be a Portia, but my middle name’s Dempsey!’� And if you’re familiar with “The Tempest,� Prospero is the deposed Duke of Milan and a magician, so his name suggests someone who can influence others’ behavior or perception without their being aware of it. Timon, the misanthropic hero of “Timon of Athens,� gives his name to one who hates mankind. Finally, calling someone “Dogberry,� the blundering constable in “Much Ado About Nothing,� means you
consider him an incompetent, pompous official, as in Jack Beatty’s “Age of Betrayal� (2007): “The mayor of Bangor, Maine vetoed a time-altering resolution passed by its city council... for which Railway Age lampooned him in an editorial that began ‘A Dogberry who holds the office of mayor.’� Q. Human history has been marked by numerous hoaxes. What’s the first hoax you (unknowingly) perpetrated and what have been a few of society’s more whimsical ones?
A. Surprisingly, your first
hoax was as a fetus, when you tricked your mother into giving you more food by releasing vast quantities of hormones that her body believed were her own, says
Jonathon Keats in “Discover� magazine. As for the funny business, one infamous April Fool’s prank was in 1957, when the BBC showed spaghetti being harvested from trees. Taken in by this, many viewers inquired where to buy a spaghetti plant. Then consider those straight-faced editors of “Science� magazine who submitted a “spoof research paper� about a cancer cure to 304 open-access journals in 2013. Despite its numerous intentional errors, 157 journals accepted the paper for publication. In 1999, “National Geographic� magazine was duped into announcing the discovery of “a true missing link� between dinosaurs and birds. Further research
showed that “Archaeoraptor� was the tail of a dino glued to the body of an extinct bird. Sillier still was “Piltdown Man� (1912), heralded as the “missing link� between apes and Homo sapiens, that turned out to be the cranium of a modern human linked to the jaw of an orangutan. Moral: Don’t believe everything you read but do keep up your good sense of humor. Q. Fact or Crap: In 1920, Babe Ruth hit more home runs by himself than everybody else in the Major League put together.
year was higher than the total of 14 of 15 other major league teams.� Only the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Bambino with their 64 homers. All told, the Sultan of Swing stroked one of every seven homers hit in the American League. AL runner-up George Sisler had just 19 homers, while National League champ Cy Williams hit a mere 15. In fact, only 15 major leaguers hit as many as 10 homers that season. As the website puts it, “Babe had set power standards the likes of which baseball had never seen.�
A. Not quite factual but
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.
pretty close. Actually, according to howstuffworks. com, the Babe’s “final tally of 54 home runs for that
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the additional fresh ingredient listed below to turn it into a wet rub (marinade) on the day of use. You could even have the wet rub ingredients printed as part of your gift to dad if you’re feeling ambitious! Note, the dry rub will be good for 6 months in an airtight container. To all the dads out there, Happy Father’s Day.
Spice Mix (dry rub): 3 tsp salt 3 tsp paprika 3 tsp cumin
2 tsp mustard seeds 2 tsp coriander 1 tsp pepper 2 tsp garlic powder 2 tsp dried oregano 1 tsp onion powder 1 tsp brown sugar 6 whole Bay leaves For some extra kick add: 1 tsp chilli powder 1 tsp smoked paprika 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
To make a marinade (use day of): 3 tsp fresh rosemary, chopped 3 tsp fresh thyme, chopped 2 tsp fresh oregano, chopped 3 tsp garlic, chopped 1/4 cup olive oil Half an onion, chopped
Juice from 1 lemon
To make the spice mixture, mix all the ingredients together in a medium-size mixing bowl.Store in an airtight container; To turn the spice mix into a marinade, add the fresh ingredients on the day of use and mix well; Rub the mixture into the meat, leave to marinade for at least 30 minutes and up to 24 hours.
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