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to private businesses leaves the public offices at risk of closing.

“We are losing our post offices across the country, and we’re ready to fight back on this one,” she said. “[Closing] is a very real reality, even in the town of Elmira: they could easily close our depot and position a depot between Waterloo and Elmira, in north Waterloo, and transport our letter carriers back and forth.”

At this point however, the plan would

Floradale Public School students deserve the same opportunities as all those in Waterloo Region, principal Leslie McNabb announced this week.

Most importantly, a double gym in their new school, scheduled to open in September 2009.

Since the new school’s $5.3-million budget does not cover this addition, McNabb and a group of parents are asking for the community’s support in coming up with the extra $525,000 needed.

Parents Christine Shantz, school council chair, and Corinne Shuh, chair of fundraising, were busy this week sending letters to individuals, businesses and parents, asking for donations.

“I feel this is really important because we are a growing school. … We’ve always had space issues, since my children have been here, so it would be nice to just kind of do it right the first time and have the extra space because the children of Floradale are as entitled to the same amount of space as children at other schools,” Shuh said.

“Just because our kids are in a school with a smaller population, we don’t want to see them not having things that other kids have,” added McNabb.

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SHoP TALK John Wastell and Fred Knabb, union representatives for workers at the elmira post office, hold a copy of a counter-proposal the union sent to canada post Wednesday. the union is trying to prevent a postal outlet from opening in the new shoppers Drug mart for fear it could put the main depot at risk of closure.

Postal workers fear private outlet will affect service

New Shoppers Drug Mart store under construction bids for Canada Post franchise VANESSA MOSS Workers at the Elmira office of Canada Post are asking for community input and support as its national bureau applies to open a second outlet in the relocated Shoppers Drug Mart at the corner of Arthur and Church streets, slated to be complete by mid-fall.

If need be, they are willing to extend the office’s hours to accommodate clients so that an additional site is not

necessary, said Kathie Plein, a Canada Post employee for more than 30 years.

“I’d like to see public input: what they want. If they want their post office to remain a public post office or are we willing to just throw our hands up and say, ‘here, Shoppers, have it.’”

Citing locales such as Floradale, West Montrose, Winterbourne and Conestogo, where post offices were replaced with community boxes and parcel pickup moved to Elmira and Waterloo, Plein said that contracting the service

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“For a sustainable future, I think it’s really important that kids be engaged as much as possible in anything to do with the outdoors and an appreciation for the natural environment.”

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GREEN TEAM Linwood PS teachers Kathy Puskas and Ed Piva are part of a group working to make the local school greener while instilling in the students an appreciation for the environment.

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Linwood PS sees learning opportunities in making ongoing improvements to the school grounds MARC MIQUEL HELSEN If the key to protecting the environment is winning the hearts and minds of youngsters, an enthusiastic group of teachers, parents and students at Linwood Public School is taking the message to heart.

Known as the Green Team, they’re working to beautify the school.

“It’s all about exposure,” said Ed Piva, who teaches geography, history, and science at Linwood PS. “For me, it’s the importance of educating kids about the impact that we’re having on the environment, and how to counteract that impact by just having an appreciation for what’s around us – which we often take for granted,” he said, noting that he often stops a science lesson during the winter to have his students observe a blue jay at a feeder or a barn owl on the window sill.

The new garden at the school will help the students appreciate those experiences, giving them some valuable food for thought.

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with fellow teacher Kathy Puskas and parent Julie Jones, have been instrumental in bringing to fruition a greening project that so far has seen approximately $20,000 invested in the garden in the form of trees, plants, picnic tables and sitting stones.

A good portion of those three years has been spent preparing and applying for grants but this spring saw a flurry of activity. Last fall, the school received a $2,000 grant from the Toyota Evergreen Learning Grounds to implement a naturalized area for the school property. Those dollars quickly took root in the T-shaped garden in front of the school, where eight species of evergreen trees and two serviceberry trees were planted to attract birds and butterflies. With the rest of the money, the school bought 90 varieties of native plant species for a butterfly garden in the centre of the area, from which the teachers and the students hope to release Monarch butterflies in the fall.

In addition to this, the Linwood Green Team – whose motto reads: ‘There is no ‘I’ in green!’ – has also helped

plant eight spruce, fir and pine trees this year; the previous year, students, teachers and adult volunteers planted native ash and maple trees and over 20 shrubs. The school also purchased 12 rocks for seating.

A group made up mostly of students, affectionately called the Picnic Table Crew, had already built 15 birdfeeders and five picnic tables and planted numerous native tree and shrub species.

“For a sustainable future, I think it’s really important that kids be engaged as much as possible in anything to do with the outdoors and an appreciation for the natural environment,” said Puskas, a special education teacher (Grades 5 to 8) at the school.

As an environmentally conscious citizen – she drives a hybrid and cycles home to Waterloo several times a week – Puskas strives to share her love for the natural world with her students. Together they have explored the importance of recycling and have collected monarch eggs and caterpillars, watched them transform into chrysalises and then released them.

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The outdoor greening project will help her and her colleagues expand and enhance their classroom.

“Our playground was typical of so many schools: it was so sterile and it’s just that much more interesting for them,” she said.

The green area offers students a quiet and calm sanctuary where they can play passively – an alternative to some of the other activities, such as soccer or baseball, taking place on the school grounds.

Beneath the shade of a burgeoning canopy, students can now seek refuge from the heat, sit and talk, or read a book.

“It doesn’t matter what school you’re at, if you go into a city school you see 20 kids in the month of June sitting beside a wall just trying to keep cool and why not give them a nice place to do that?” said Piva.

A work in progress, Linwood PS’s green project will likely see more additions in the near future. The Green Team is currently waiting to hear back from a number of other grant-giving agencies.

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A reason to embrace even higher gas prices If Todd Litman is fighting an uphill battle in the idyllic surroundings of Vancouver Island – the most beautiful part of the country – how can people elsewhere be expected to give up their massive dependence on cars?

Victoria is a very walkable city, friendly to pedestrians, joggers and cyclists. It offers temperate weather, oceanside living, mountain vistas, breathtaking natural areas and a host of enticements to get you outdoors.

Urban design has put homes in close proximity to amenities, meaning you can get around without the car.

Litman, executive director of the Victoria Transport Policy Institute, acknowledges these advantages, but stresses any community can be made more walkable, less car-centric. What’s necessary is the will. And with gasoline prices on the rise, our wallets are the impetus to move us in a direction that environmental degradation and worsening health concerns apparently could not. Money talks.

In this way, rising fuel costs are a good thing, something we should embrace, he argues.

Recognizing it’s counterintuitive to tell people they’re better off paying more, he says the short-term pain will be eclipsed by long-term gains. Essentially, we’ll adjust the way we live to compensate for higher transportation costs.

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haps finding alternatives. Then we can look at replacing vehicles with more fuel-efficient cars. Further along – these things take time – we’ll chose to live closer to work and to shopping, again reducing our dependence on cars. Over time, we’ll even change the way we build our communities, moving away from the sprawl model that blossomed since the end of the Second World War. Those changes, Litman says, will pay off in a better environment, improved health and fitness levels and a stronger sense of community.

He argues against measures such as subsidies or tax cuts to lower fuel costs in the short term. Those moves would have a minimal impact – we’d go broke trying to roll prices back to where they were even two years ago – and the benefits would only be temporary. Better we start changing our lifestyles now to better prepare for worse shocks that are coming.

In fact, even if we were all driving solar-powered electric cars, for instance, we’d still be better off altering the way we live. Yes, such a hypothetical would eliminate the gasoline-price issue and the immediate pollution threat, but we’d still have problems with traffic congestion, road building and maintenance, parking and all the negatives associated with our current fixation on the personal automobile.

Litman makes an argument for this scenario in a report released earlier this year, Appropriate Response to Rising Fuel Prices: Citizens Should Demand, “Raise My Prices Now!” “Fuel prices are likely to increase significantly in the future. Motorists are

accustomed to low fuel prices and often demand price minimization policies.

But such policies impose significant economic, social and environmental costs, by requiring subsidies and by increasing fuel consumption and vehicle travel. This increases the economic costs of importing petroleum, pollution emissions, congestion, road and parking facility costs, accidents and sprawl.

Rather than trying to minimize fuel price increases it would be better to allow prices to rise and help consumers, businesses and communities reduce total costs through more fuel efficient vehicles and more efficient transport systems. These solutions provide far larger total benefits,” he concludes.

We’ve paid low fuel costs for years, and have grown accustomed to it. While we always complain about pump prices, until the recent spikes, costs had actually been falling relative to our overall incomes. Adjusted for inflation, prices in 2005 were on par with what we paid for gas in 1960, he points out. It’s precisely because fuel costs have been low – artificially so because they never cov-

ered all the external costs, such as pollution, health damage and infrastructure costs – that we’ve built the society we live in today, one of bedroom communities and large vehicles.

There’s no doubt we’d be better off in communities with a distinctly European flavour, the kind that was more prevalent even here in Canada prior to the postwar boom.

“It really does make sense to choose a neighbourhood where you can walk to a grocery store and where the kids can walk to school, where car traffic is minimized,” Litman says. “Families that live in a walkable neighbourhood – one with destinations within walking distances, such as shopping and schools – are generally healthier when you have that classic urban village.”

We’ll walk more and cycle more when there are places to walk and cycle to. This means undoing decades of poor planning, mixing residential with commercial, installing separate bike lanes akin to sidewalks to make people safer and downplaying the need to get in the car to go anywhere farther than your backyard.

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EMSF doles out Aiming to double the fun $42K in grants to local groups

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A strong turnout at this year’s Elmira Maple Syrup Festival translated into $42,000 in grants for local charitable groups Wednesday night.

The Elmira and District Association for Community Living, which has been the primary beneficiary since the beginning of the festival, received a grant of $16,800, EMSF chairman Lavern Brubacher said.

The balance of the funds was distributed to 17 organizations, including Woolwich Community Services, Community Care Concepts, the Elmira Theatre Company and Kiwanis Transit.

The festival committee also honoured two “Friends of the Festival: Wayne Devine was recognized for his longtime behind-the-scenes assistance at the Toy Show, while the Elmira Branch of the Bank of Montreal was feted for the assistance it has provided for many years on festival day.

Prices a pain in the asphalt

If the cost of asphalt continues to rise, Wellesley Township will have to limit its roads program for 2008, public works director Will McLaughlin informed council this week.

Asphalt prices have risen 23 per cent since April alone. Staff now recommends postponing work on Maplewood Road until 2009. If prices continue to climb, scheduled repairs to Gerber Road could also be moved back until next year.

Wellesley set aside $556,000 for this year’s road program. Intent on staying within budget, the works department will scale back the amount of paving.

WCS among grant recipients Meeting this week, Waterloo Region councillors approved $530,000 in grants to 26 voluntary organizations, including Woolwich Community Services, the K-W Multicultural Centre, K-W Symphony, Leadership Waterloo Region and the Food Bank of Waterloo Region.

Howard Shuh, former coun.

Howard Shuh, a former Woolwich Township councillor, passed away June 13 at the age of 83.

Shuh served two terms on council, 1994 to 1997 and again from 1997 to 2000, the last term before the province shrunk the size of council. The Elmira resident died peacefully at a Kitchener retirement home.

Linwood fire station wants yellow trucks, but the township is seeing red MARC MIQUEL HELSEN

HIGH HOPES Floradale PS principal Leslie McNabb (center) has enlisted the help of parents Christine Shantz (left), school council chair, and Corinne Shuh, fundraising chair, to raise $525,000 for a double gym in the school’s new building, set to be complete by September 2009. Board officials say the extras can be included if the money is in place early enough in the planning process.

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naments to generate fundraising revenue for the school, having simultaneous boys and girls athletic practices and teaching gym classes in one half of the space while students eat in the other.

In both the current and proposed spaces (2,000 and 3,000 square feet respectively), those situations are not possible, leaving Floradale students at a disadvantage, McNabb said.

“Our kids don’t get as much practice time, therefore their skill development doesn’t get developed in the way that other kids at other schools with double gyms would have.

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As well, since the new school will act as both an educational and community facility, a double gym (about 4,800 square feet) would encourage groups to use it and allow for large gatherings.

The board is not paying for the double gym because Floradale’s population of 270 does not fit the required funding model. That size of facility is only built for schools of 400 students or more.

However, if the school can come up with the funds within the next month, it will get what it wants, said Art Phelan, controller of facility services. If not, the school will be built to allow for further expansion of the gym at a later time.

“I appreciate their interest in that project,” Phelan said of the school community.

“If they’re able to raise the money, we’re happy to work with them.”

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neers finishing up the plans in the next few weeks, the fundraising group has a tight deadline, but Shantz said she thinks people will endorse a space with so many benefits.

“It seems like a stretch, but I’m confident that in this community there are a lot of people that support us.”

At a Waterloo Region District School Board committee-of-the-whole meeting Monday, Shantz announced the parents’ plan, to the delight of Harold Paisley, Woolwich and Wellesley public school board trustee.

“I thought, ‘wow, that’s really ambitious, hats off.’”

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With or without the double gym however, the school will be a major improvement from Floradale’s current building and will also include some innovative design features like natural lighting and ventilation.

“It’ll be the most environmentally-prog ressive school when it’s built of any that we’ve done in the region, so that’s kind of exciting,” Paisley said.

“It’s going to be a marvelous facility.”

Looking at the plans Tuesday, McNabb said she is impressed with the design, but will continue to push for a feature she feels is necessary.

“We’re going to build this brand new school … we want to make sure that it’s going to meet the needs for now and into the future.”

An urge for yellow gave Wellesley council a case of the blues Tuesday night. Eventually, they agreed seeing red was the best bet.

The battle of primary colours stemmed from the Linwood fire station’s request a new rescue van to be purchased in 2009 come in yellow rather than the customary fire engine red more widely adopted by the Wellesley Fire Department and others.

Linwood station’s Andrew MacLeod got the debate rolling, outlining the benefits of yellow trucks over red.

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Canada Post’s collective agreement with the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) states that the national office must give the union 90 days to suggest other options before it can go ahead with opening outlets in private businesses, said Lynne Pajot, a CUPW research specialist in Ottawa.

On Mar. 23, the union received the agency’s plan; on Wednesday, Pajot presented the response.

After talking with Plein about the office’s customer flow (which picks up in the morning and at closing), Pajot came up with a counter-proposal

to meet the community’s needs.

The Elmira post office would extend its hours from the current 8 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. to 8-6 Monday-Wednesday, until 7 p.m. Thursday and Friday, and from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Saturday.

Since sales at the location are good and the community seems to appreciate the service, the union and Elmira employees hope Canada Post will accept the plan, said John Wastell, Elmira’s CUPW representative.

“It just sounds a little absurd to open up another franchise that’s only 200 metres away from a current Canada Post facility,” he said.

Colours: Red wins the day as Wellesley opts to stay with traditional paint jobs trucks are red in colour has more to do with tradition – red was seen as a “regal colour,” he argued – and an historical need in the early 1920s to differentiate emergency vehicles from scores of black cars, than with hard science.

MacLeod found support from Coun. Herb Neher, who strongly backed the request.

“I think Andrew did an excellent job in showing us that yellow is better than red,” Neher told his fellow councillors.

“What we’re basically saying is that safety doesn’t really matter or the effectiveness – it’s tradition that’s the primary concern here.

Most of them are red, so, they should conform to red, regardless whether yellow is a lot more effective, regardless whether yellow is safer.

“We’re going on the concept that the majority is always right and I think in this case the majority is wrong.”

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council table were not so impressed with the argument.

Having worked for years with council to streamline department operations and bring the municipality’s three stations beneath one banner, township staff said it’s crucial that all of the department’s trucks be one colour. Of the department’s nine vehicles, six are red. The remaining three are yellow.

“Andrew did great research but I’m going to take it with a grain of salt because I could probably go and research it and find something to counteract everything that he said,” said Coun.

Shelley Wagner.

Coun. Jim Olender voiced a similar sentiment.

“If I go into the city of Kitchener, I pick out that red truck right away when it takes off, with the sirens going. To me, it wouldn’t matter if it was yellow or red, I’d pick that up immediately,” he said, noting that people are conditioned

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“We’ve been in the business a long time,” she said, noting that Shoppers Drug Mart staff man the postal outlets in their locations.

“We would like to keep the knowledgeable, friendly staff at your local post office.”

Creech explained that the corporation provides initial postal training for Shoppers employees, but the drug store is responsible for any thereafter.

As the new 14,000-square-foot Shoppers structure took shape this week, Elmira postal union representa-

to recognize fire trucks as red and EMS vehicles as white.

Township fire chief Dave Geil countered Neher’s arguments, pointing out the rest of the region’s seven departments and 25 stations feature red vehicles.

“I don’t think we’re in Dallas, Texas,” Geil later told the Observer, referencing a study cited by MacLeod in his report.

“You can’t compare Dallas, Texas to Wellesley Township. … Our call volume isn’t that great.

Cambridge, Kitchener, Waterloo probably get more calls in one year than we’ll get in our lifetime, and none of their firefighters have found it a safety issue …”

The Office of the Fire Marshall, which oversees all fire departments in the province, notes the visibility of fire trucks has more to do with lights, sirens and markings than body colour schemes.

“Red is the traditional [colour], but I don’t think the colour really matters

in terms of visibility,” said Ted Wieclawek, operations manager for the OFM. When it comes to vehicle visibility, the flashing lights and wailing sirens play a much larger role then the colour of the truck.

“That’s what really makes them visible at the end of the day: the lighting package and the markings identifying it as a fire department vehicle. They wouldn’t be allowed to be on the road if they didn’t have proper markings and lighting packages: it wouldn’t matter what colour you painted them.”

Maps are gold for GRCA The Grand River Conservation Authority last week received a 2008 Gold Award for putting powerful mapmaking tools and a wealth of data in the hands of website visitors.

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Fewer snow days in the offing, school boards decide New policy will see schools remain open more often after complaints about number of closures VANESSA MOSS Parents who dreaded the words “snow day” this year in Waterloo Region can likely breathe a sigh of relief now that the public and Catholic school boards have adjusted their school closure policy.

Waterloo Region District School Board (WRDSB) institutions will now remain open despite bus cancellations, unless

more than 80 per cent of their students rely on bus transportation. The Catholic board has decided to close only those schools with more than 90 per cent of their population riding the bus.

This means that in Woolwich and Wellesley townships, only Floradale, Three Bridges and Linwood public schools will be closed when buses are cancelled due to inclement weather, unless there is a board-

wide closure in extreme situations.

Schools that experienced a number of closures this past winter, including St. Teresa, St. Clement, St. Jacobs and Conestogo, will now remain open when the snow flies.

“I think it [the new policy] will meet the needs of a large number of families,” said Art Phelan, WRDSB controller of facility services.

Both boards reviewed

their existing policies this spring after parents complained about the record number of bus cancellations. The public board also held a public meeting Apr. 7 to collect suggestions from the community.

Previously, the boards had been following the rule that if schools had more than 50 per cent of students bussed in they were closed along with the buses.

Phelan said that after

surveying other boards in Ontario, the general consensus was that that percentage was too low.

During a WRDSB committee-of-the-whole meeting Monday, Phelan outlined some of these examples to parents representing both sides of the debate. Those from St. Jacobs voiced their reasons for wanting to keep the school open in inclement weather, while a delegation from Floradale responded with the

opposite argument.

In the end, both parties left with what they wanted (pending formal trustee approval of the changes next week), just as the school year wraps up in the next few days.

“I think it moves things ahead and yet makes for a compromise that the greatest number of parents could live with. So, that’s a good thing,” said Harold Paisley, WRDSB trustee for Woolwich and Wellesley townships.

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The Local Organic Food Team Co-operative Inc. (LOFT) this week officially launched its food box program, whereby consumers receive a box of locally grown organic products each week.

For $35 a week, customers receive a mixed array of seasonal produce.

This week, for instance, the box contained asparagus, green onions, zucchini, herbs and flowers, among a range of other items.

Fifteen farmers from Waterloo, Wellington and Perth counties – many, in fact, from Woolwich and Wellesley townships – make up the venture “We wanted to find a way to bridge the gap between producers and consumers,” said member Martha Gay Scroggins, explaining how the organization took root last fall.

The third weekly box of goods was distributed on Wednesday, coinciding with the official rollout at the Joseph Schneider Haus in Kitchener. The event saw a strong turnout, including all of the co-operative’s growers.

Among that group was Paul Bowman, who grows a variety of fruits and vegetables near Linwood. This week’s basket contained his green onions, asparagus and rhubarb. There will be strawberries and garlic before too long.

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I’m very excited about getting into organics,” he said of his desire to join the organization.

Fellow Linwood farmer Edwin Sittler is also on board. He’s been studying organic methods for 20 years, and is happy to see the public is starting to catch up with the concept.

“I took it in my mind that it was a better way to grow food.

“Here and there I could see the ice breaking – it kept me going. Today, I see a lot of possibilities for things to get better,” he said.

Since 1990, he’s been making machines for farm- and municipal-

scale composting through his Ament Line business, Sittler’s Manufacturing.

“The key to organic farming is high quality compost.”

The new venture comes at a time when people are paying more attention to how their food is produced, and the path it takes before landing on their dinner tables.

Buying local food, said Scroggins, means the products are fresher, supports area farms and dramatically reduces the environmental impact. That’s even more pronounced with the organic growers.

Going organic offers a

better return for farmers, she said. The co-op’s goal of directly supplying consumers puts the money into the producers’ pockets.

Based on demand tripling since the first boxes went out three weeks ago, Scroggins is confident the group has a strong future.

“Organic farming is here to stay. Given the public’s concerns, it can only grow.

“More and more consumers are saying ‘no’ … to chemical agriculture.”

Her optimism was shared by Dr. Ann Clark, professor in plant agriculture at the University of Guelph.

“I’m convinced that the future of farming is organic,” she said in an address at Wednesday’s launch.

“It’s the right thing to do. It’s right for us, right for the environment and right for the farmers, who can make money doing this.”

Local organic food will provide us with fresh, wholesome food even as it reduces our dependence on fossil fuels, used to make fertilizers and pesticides and for transporting goods, she stressed.

“I think the era of longdistance food movement is over.”

Currently, LOFT has nine drop-off locations throughout WaterlooWellington-Perth. The produce, packed in reusable, covered plastic boxes, is distributed every Wednesday; customers stop by their pick-up spot, returning the previous week’s box in exchange for a full one.

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Food: MPP looking to promote healthier lifestyle choices Pendergast said.

With her 20 years of experience as a teacher and educator in Waterloo Region, Pendergast has been aware of the need for this resolution for some time. After taking on the position of MPP in the fall, she began researching the issue further and realized the situation was pressing.

“Some of it (the research) really makes you stop and think that we really don’t have any other choice than to go down this road.

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in parts of Alberta and Saskatchewan, she said.

In this area, some groups are already pushing for it to happen, like at St. Mary’s High School in Kitchener where students have developed a cafeteria policy, and at Conestoga College where president John Tibbits and the student association are working to build a Centre for Wellness Excellence.

“The support in the riding of Kitchener-Conestoga alone has been absolutely overwhelming,”

“In Waterloo Region alone, 58 commonly-eaten foods travelled an average of 4,497 kilometres to the region. And so that accounted for 51,709 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions. So, that affects climate change, air quality: we have an obligation to reduce that carbon footprint, to support our farmers and to teach our students health and wellness.”

Ideally, Pendergast would like to see food travel the shortest distance possible, or at least within 100 miles to reach

students’ plates, an initiative Waterloo Region has been promoting with its Buy Local! Buy Fresh! maps since 2002.

Pendergast said that although she was delighted by the MPPs’ support, she was not surprised they all agreed, since the subject affects all Ontarians.

“I think it’s at a point in the province where we all get it. We’re all saying, ‘it’s high time and so let’s just do it’ and it kind of gives me chills when I say it because we’re all doing it togeth-

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Although MPPs broke for the summer Thursday, Pendergast said she was anxious to get back to the riding so she can start making headway towards this resolution.

“I’m feeling a little anxious: I just want to get home, I want to do this. I want to work with the local farmers and schools before they go away for the summer, so I’m ready for that.”

That said, she admitted she is also in need

of a short break after a hectic first term in the legislature balancing work in Toronto with her position as a mother of three boys in Conestogo.

“It’s really challenging. The first six months were really difficult to sort of change gears so quickly and get up to speed on all the information and the policies. At this point now, you feel a little more confident that you have some background and can answer questions confidently.

“I love it, but this time of year in any job, looking forward to a change in the next couple of days.”

Following collision, couple seeks parking lot sightline improvement MARC MIQUEL HELSEN A Bamberg woman is looking for changes to a Wellesley parking lot, saying poor sightlines led to an accident earlier this month.

Although she faces charges after her car was hit by another vehicle coming out of the parking lot near the corner of Nafziger Road and Maple Leaf Street June 5, Carol Ziegler is convinced that poor visibility surrounding the location – not her driving – is to blame.

And an impeccable driving record, she said, will back that up.

“I had one parking ticket about 30 years ago,” she told the Observer this week, disputing the circumstances that led to her being charged by police with failing to yield from a private driveway.

Ziegler and her husband Larry plan to address township council next month, seeking improvements to the parking lot across from the Schmidtsville restaurant on Nafziger Road in the village. Vehicles parked on the berm surrounding the lot greatly reduce visibility for drivers entering and leaving the parking lot, creating a dangerous situation, they said.

“There should be something done. There should be one of two things: no parking along there or only up to a certain amount so that when a small car like me with no height pulls

out, you can see,” said Ziegler, noting that driving out of the lot is akin to “pulling out blind.”

On June 5, Ziegler was leaving the parking lot, edging out between two vans when she was hit by another vehicle travelling on Nafziger Road.

The collision tore off the front of her car.

The car was written-off and she was charged by police. She also received three demerit points. Although no one was hurt, the Zieglers are worried about the potential for more serious collisions in the future.

The complaint is a new one to the township.

Coun. Jim Olender said in an interview he would suggest that staff to look into the matter.

Because Nafziger is a regional road, Waterloo Region will also look into the situation, said Bob Henderson, supervisor of traffic engineering.

Typically, the region will look into safety and collision issues even if just one complainant makes a call. Residents can offer feedback via the region’s website.

“We’ll look into it and respond back to them.

We continually look for locations that may need improvement to traffic control; it’s an ongoing thing that we do here,” said Henderson, noting that the region uses a comprehensive collision database that includes police reports from the past decade.

“We can look at particular issues and determine if there is in fact an issue with collisions.”

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June 11

11:00 AM | A Wellesley-area man contacted police for advice on a civil matter concerning some livestock. It appears the complainant had loaned a horse to another individual who asked for payment for food and board for the animal.

1:16 PM | A two-vehicle collision occurred at Sawmill Road and Arthur Street South, at the roundabout near St. Jacobs.

A transport truck hauling a trailer was eastbound on Sawmill Road waiting for traffic to clear the roundabout while in the left lane. Another vehicle approached the roundabout and waited in the right lane.

The truck then proceeded and inadvertently sideswiped the Volkswagen car, damaging the driver’s side quarter-panel. The driver of the transport truck was charged with ‘proceed from a stopped position not in safety.’

2:35 PM | A Floradale-area resident reported that he had caused damage to a vehicle with his horse-and-buggy. He stated that his daughter had been driving the horse-andbuggy when at approximately 11 a.m. a tractor-trailer spooked the horse while near an Elmira parking lot. The driver lost control of the buggy, causing it to collide with a Pontiac Sunfire. There were no injuries and just minor scrapes to the rear bumper of the car.

3:00 PM | Two counterfeit $100 bills were found in the bank machine at the Royal Bank on Church Street in Elmira. The bank was unable to determine the source of the money. The bills were secure by police and sent to the forensics identification branch for further investigation. At this time there are no suspects.

7:30 PM | A tractor towing a pesticide-spreading trailer in Floradale struck a hydro pole on Florapine Road. The pole was sheared, causing it to dangle from the wires. There were no injuries, although the driver remained in the truck until hydro crews determined it was safe to exit the vehicle.

There were no charges.

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June 12

8:35 AM | A business owner at the farmers’ market in St. Jacobs reported that at sometime between midnight and 4 a.m. a vehicle ran into the pa-

tio of his business, damaging a fence and a planter box. Damage was estimated at $500.

Police gathered evidence left behind at the scene to assist with further investigation. At this time, however, there are no suspects.

12:00 PM | A St. Clements resident reported to police the loss of a trailer plate bearing the marker F82 92J. 12:43 PM | A Drayton-area business reported to police the loss of a trailer plate bearing the marker M364. It’s believed it was lost somewhere in Woolwich Township.

6:20 PM | A visitor from New Zealand contacted police to report that her black leather shoulder bag had been taken while she shopped at a local thrift store. Her purse was subsequently returned to police by a citizen who located it in a nearby ditch. Gone from the purse, however, were credit, debit and ID cards. There are no suspects.

9:21 PM | A traffic officer conducting a RIDE program at Misty River Drive near Sawmill Road in Conestogo nabbed a local area driver and issued a 12-hour suspension for consumption of alcohol.

9:39 PM | A Cambridge-area male who stopped at that same RIDE program, was later placed under arrest for driving under the influence. He was later charged with ‘impaired driving’ and ‘over 80.’

A court appearance is set for July 15.

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June 13

10:00 AM | A Linwood-area resident contacted police to report the loss of a trailer plate with the marker 258 71D. 1:30 PM | Another license plate, bearing the marker AMRA 402, was reported missing.

3:00 PM | A Heidelberg-area resident contacted police to notify them that she had located a stranger in the garage of her parent’s residence. The complainant, a 17-year-old, entered her residence along with her 16-year-old brother through a garage door which she left open when she proceeded into the home through another door. A short while later, while exiting the residence, she heard a noise in the garage and turned to see a stranger fleeing the garage to a vehicle waiting across

the road. The suspect was described as a white male, about 20 years old, with short, light brown hair; he was about 5’8” and of a muscular build. He was wearing a baseball hat, a brown T-shirt, white-beige cargo pants, and white flipflops. The driver of the vehicle was described as a smaller, blonde male or female. The vehicle was described as an older-style hatchback, bluishgreen in colour and with a long front end. It appears the complainant likely scared the perpetrator before he could actually steal anything. Anyone with relevant information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS. Police would also like to remind residents to keep their doors closed and locked.

10:40 PM | A Conestogo-area resident reported to police that approximately $80 worth of outdoor lights was taken from his residence on Golf Course Road. This is the second occurrence of this type within the past week. There are no suspects.

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June 14

8:15 AM | A representative of Conestogo Public School informed police of some fresh graffiti, in bright pink paint, at the school. It is believed the vandalism was caused at sometime during the previous evening. The police forensics unit was called down to take photos and enter the information in the branch’s database.

The graffiti was then removed.

Police request that such incidents be reported so that they may identify signatures and patterns and subsequently track repeat offenders.

2:42 PM | A bicycle was found in the area of Balsam Grove Road and Northfield Drive,

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A Barrie resident visiting her family in the area was at the Stone Crock Restaurant in St. Jacobs on June 17 when her wallet was stolen. She told police that at approximately 5:30 p.m. another couple, in their early 30s, came into the restaurant and sat directly behind her. She observed as they fiddled with their chairs and then quickly left before ordering.

Soon after she noticed that her purse, which had been hanging from the rear of her chair, was unzipped and the wallet gone. The wallet contained ID, debit and credit cards and a small quantity of cash. There are no suspects. Anyone with relevant information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS.

MESSY MONDAY At around 9:30 a.m. June 16, an Elmira woman was driving southbound on Snyder Avenue when she was struck by a vehicle travelling westbound on South Street. Both drivers were taken to St. Mary’s Hospital in Kitchener for observation after their vehicles suffered significant damage. The second driver, a Kitchener resident, was later charged with ‘fail to yield to traffic on thru highway.’ towards Salem. The red, Raleigh bike had been left there for approximately three days.

It may be claimed by its rightful owner at Division 3A. 3:00 PM | Police were contacted by a representative of the Samsonite store in the Factory Outlet Mall near St. Jacobs as a result of a theft. The suspect, who stole a brown leather bag with an estimated value of $200, was described as being approximately 40 years of age, 5’10” in height, with brown hair, possibly a buzz cut, and wearing a light green T-shirt and dark green shorts at the time of the incident.

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6:46 PM | A resident of Aspen Crescent in Elmira reported that some time overnight his vehicle was egged while parked at his residence. There are no suspects.

11:30 PM | Police received a report from a Woolwich resident that someone had left an inappropriate note on the windshield of her vehicle. The investigation continues.

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9:50 AM | An Elmira-area business reported the loss of a truck plate bearing the marker PY1756; it was lost sometime within the previous 48 hours in an unknown location.

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» EDITORIAL

Local the key to food security The organizers of the Local Organic Food Team certainly have timing on their side as they introduce the weekly food box concept to area consumers.

On the whole, we’re increasingly conscious about the quality of food we buy for ourselves and our families. We’re also more aware of what it costs the environment to have food transported thousands of kilometres to appear at local grocery stores. Then there’s the direct cost: soaring fuel prices have been reflected in what we pay at the checkout counter, not to mention the biofuels debate and the impact on grain prices.

As well, we know farmers are under incredible financial pressures, and that even as retail prices climb, that doesn’t always translate into more cash for producers.

In this climate, LOFT is providing consumers food that is local, organically grown and offered up through a co-operative that sees farmers get paid directly for their goods.

Though the project is still in its infancy, public response has been strong. The organization has struck a chord with the public.

The concept is fairly simple. Each week,

a wide range of produce is gathered up from each of the co-operative’s members, packaged up into a reusable plastic box and dropped off at various pick-up locations. Customers stop by and take the box home. Inside they’ll find fresh, organic items that will vary according to what’s in season. With greenhouse growers in the mix, the service is scheduled to run all year.

LOFT’s small, earth-friendly farms can produce more food per acre than industrial farms, using fewer resources, increasing biodiversity, and protecting the health of the soil, water and air that we all rely on, the group says.

The local angle jibes with Waterloo Region’s Buy Local! Buy Fresh! campaign, Foodlink and community shared agricultural programs (in which people purchase a “share” in the crops at the beginning of the season and then receive regular deliveries of farm products).

Through its Public Health department, the region has been pushing the health, environmental and economic benefits of local food. It’s no coincidence the One Book, One Community focus this year is “The 100-Mile Diet.”

» VERBATIM

A report compiled by the department shows much of our food travels very long distances before it reaches our tables. In fact, imports of 58 commonly eaten foods travel an average of 4,497 kilometres to Waterloo Region. These imports account for 51,709 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions annually, contributing to climate change and declining air quality.

“Since all of the studied food items could be grown or raised in Waterloo Region, a significant opportunity exists to reduce our contribution to global climate change and air pollution by replacing imports of the studied food items with food items sourced from Waterloo Region or south-western Ontario. Replacing all the studied food items with products of south-western Ontario would produce an annual reduction in GHG emissions of 49,485 tonnes, equivalent to taking 16,191 cars off our roads,” the department reports in Food Miles: Environmental Implications of Food Imports to Waterloo Region.

Given rising oil costs and the ripples from biofuels, LOFT’s ambitions will likely meet with plenty of enthusiasm from a public primed for change.

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“A shift to sustainable food systems provides a positive local solution to global warming, declining farm income, falling water tables and the increasing price of fossil fuels.”

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The Observer | Saturday, June 21, 2008

» HARD TALK | RAFE MAIR

Political pressures bubble and flow along with the oil We are inexorably moving towards a huge crisis in Canada, as the issue of oil and natural gas is moving from the geological to the political.

The story begins with the oil crisis of the 1970s, which raised the world price of oil. The Alberta government, under Peter Lougheed, raised the price of Alberta oil, which brought howls from Central Canada since they imported from Alberta. The Trudeau government, fresh from a 1980 election win, introduced the National Energy Program (NEP). The program imposed federal authority over energy resources and established new price and revenue sharing schemes without western consent.

In March 1981, Alberta cut the flow of oil to eastern Canada by five per cent. Lougheed increased the percentage to 10 percent in June. A poll conducted in 1981 showed that 49 per cent of Albertans supported separation from Canada.

Memories of this program are long, especially in Alberta, and to a lesser degree, British Columbia. The NEP was followed by a long recession in the two western-most provinces, especially. The federal government tried to blame this on other external factors, but Albertans remain unconvinced.

They remember the “recession” years as the times the oil rigs were inactive.

The bumper sticker of the day read, “Let Those Eastern Bastards Freeze In The Dark.”

The same conditions exist today, for the federal government to step in and try to regulate production of oil and establish an oil price that’s favourable to Central Canadian interests. The price of oil is on the rise and many experts see the day not far off when it reaches $200 a barrel.

If the Fathers of Confederation had known about oil and how it would underpin the economy, they might not have given control over natural resources to the provinces. But they did. And this had a profound impact on the Canadian psyche. When John A. Macdonald brought in the “National Policy,” Western Canadians saw

this as a plan, whereby, Central Canada bought western resources cheaply and sold them back as finished products at exorbitant prices: prices that were protected against American imports by high tariffs.

Moreover, due to favourable freight rates, it cost more to ship westwards than eastwards. I have often said that if you could explain why it costs less to ship a pound of nails to Vancouver from Ontario, but not the other way around, you would explain deep-seated western resentment.

Things have changed, of course.

Western resources are heading south and west rather than east. The Free Trade Agreement has taken away the tariffs that protected Ontario and Quebec industry. Other provinces have become oil producers. Ottawa, nevertheless, faces the same problems it did in 1980 – the regions with the biggest populations don’t want to be held hostage by OPEC oil prices when there’s all that Canadian oil around.

The federal government can’t “take over” natural resources, but it can use its taxation ability to accomplish the same thing, and it’s hinting at

doing just that. But while 1980 was a sensitive time for national unity with Pierre Trudeau working to patriate the constitution, the times are even more fragile now: Quebec has gained and continues to gain more and more independence; there is another referendum around the corner; the country is politically divided with no party able to claim that it’s a national party.

Further, Atlantic Canada now has oil and gas of its own, and while it still goes to Ottawa with begging bowl in hand, that’s more from habit than need.

It may well be that Canada’s natural resources should belong to all Canadians, but they don’t. In Western Canada, especially in Alberta and British Columbia, there is not only a deepseated mistrust of Ottawa, there is a growing confidence that, if necessary, they could go it alone or together. In short, it is a time when Ottawa dares not ignore the energy needs of Central Canada, and at the same time, dares not further alienate western provinces.

And that is a difficult circle to square.

» INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS | GWYNNE DYER

Race is on to provide a fuel that isn’t oil company who is predicting $250-a-barrel oil within 18 months, because the others remember what happened the last time the oil price peaked like this, in the 1970s. The big consuming countries responded by cutting back on oil use so drastically that the OPEC cartel lost control of the price, which then bumped along below $20 a barrel through the late ’80s and ’90s.

With oil in the high $130s, we are already seeing a move away from the monster vehicles that became so popular in the United States during the cheap oil years, but 1970s-style conservation is not going to bring the oil price down this time. For every American or German switching to a car with lower fuel con-

sumption, there is a Chinese or Indian first-time car buyer taking up the slack and keeping demand high.

So if the car-driving masses are ever to escape from high fuel prices, they cannot rely on simply cutting demand through conservation. They need an alternative fuel, and the bio-fuels that are now on offer – made from corn (maize, mealies), sugar cane, sugar beets, oil palm or soybeans – simply cannot replace oil. There just isn’t enough land and water to grow bio-fuels and food too.

It would take half the land-mass of the continental United States to grow enough grain to fuel America’s cars and trucks. “Second-generation” bio-fuels that depend on plants like switchgrass

and willow are better in terms of not competing with food because they grow quickly on waste ground, but they cannot provide the volume of fuel needed either.

So if we’re going to go on driving cars, but we can’t afford to fuel them from petroleum (and we can’t afford to put all those greenhouse gas emissions in the air either), then what do we do instead?

This is where it gets interesting, because there are two alternative fuels that could theoretically be produced in the volumes required, and that would not add to the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. One is algae, grown in open ponds on marginal land, or in nutrient-

your vehicle? Especially if there are spaces available? Why force people to park on the road and make children cross a busy road when there are parking spots available in your own parking lot?

I would suggest that an authority figure, even a bylaw officer, ask those vehicles parked along the fence to either move to a parking spot, or move from the lot as they are in a “no parking” zone.

Closing the parking lot is not the solution.

but gentrification and revitalization are polar opposites of each other.

Revitalization includes attracting new businesses, new attitudes, new ideas, and most importantly, new young faces. Demographically and economically speaking, the last thing Elmira needs is more seniors. And please, do not attempt to stifle the argument with shrill cries of “Ageism!

Ageism!”

Please inform your readers of any town that tried to keep the downtown core alive and vibrant, and succeeded by bringing in waves of seniors. If anybody is familiar with Elliot Lake, they will know that it was practically a ghost town after the uranium mine closed, and the only way that the town could survive was to try and attract seniors in sufficient numbers to try and build a new identity as a community that is known (unofficially) as “Elliot Lake: A Nice Place to Die.” The businesses that set up in Elliot Lake specifically cater to the demographic, which are not the kind of businesses that cater to young growing families or tourists. Elmira needs to attract

young professionals with families, needs to attract new businesses that are not second-hand stores and bargain shops, and needs to become a desirable place for out-of-town people to visit and spend their money.

Wouldn’t it be nice to finally have a nice restaurant in town, where residents could go out for a meal that does not automatically come with a side order of fries? Or do we need another bland and tasteless eatery where the most exotic ingredient in every dish is salt?

The owners of the Procast site, Blaze Properties, have demonstrated absolutely no regard for the well being of the community, regardless of what story they try to sell to the public. They are in it for number-one, period. How is it that they say that they haven’t been able to get any commercial interest in that property in six years, when the property across the road has been demolished and is nearing completion of a new commercial venture in a period of less than six months? They haven’t found a com-

“Today we witness a very great change for hydrocarbons,” said Alexei Miller, head of Russian oil and gas giant Gazprom, last week. “The [oil price is already] very high, and we think it will reach $250 a bar-

rel.”

Cue legions of financial journalists fainting and writhing in coils at the news of impending economic Armageddon. So do you think that we’ll see some attempt to move away from dependence on oil now?

Miller is the only CEO of a major oil

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» LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Closing off parking poses risk to safety To the Editor, I would like to respond to the article about the parking dilemmas at various schools in our area (Observer, June 14/08), and more specifically to the parking problem at St. Teresa School in Elmira. I totally support safety for our children and trying to find a solution to the parking dilemmas we all are encountering. However, closing the parking lot is not the solution to the parking issue at St. Teresa.

My children take the bus daily to and from the school. Occasionally, I do need to pick them up for piano lessons and other appointments at the end of their school day. Since Ms. McLeod commenced the closure of the parking lot at dismissal times, I have counted 10-15 parking spots available in the St. Teresa of Avila parking lot, not once but numerous times, yet I have been unable to park there, as it was inaccessible to me and other parents.

Is a parking lot not to be used to park

Monique Conlin Elmira

Seniors’ housing not the core’s salvation To the Editor, Woolwich Seniors’ Association president George Read states, “To revitalize the downtown area there would be nothing better than a hundred or so seniors living a block or so away from downtown.” Excuse me for pointing out the painfully obvious, Mr. Read,

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12 | OPINION

The Observer | Saturday, June 21, 2008

Dyer: Conventional oil’s time has gone

» OBSERVER Q&A Do you think a carbon tax would help reduce greenhouse gas emissions?

» From page 11

rich sewage farms, or even in completely contained environments in the dark.

Other plants also contain oil, but the great virtue of algae (pond scum, in the vernacular) is that it can double its mass every two hours under ideal circumstances, which means it can be harvested daily.

The U.S. Department of Energy estimates that to replace all the petroleum fuel in the country with home-grown algae fuel would require 40,000 sq. km. (15,000 sq. mi.) of land, which is less than one-seventh of the area devoted to growing corn in the United States.

The oil that is produced can be burned as biodiesel, or further refined until it is almost the same as the fuel we put in our vehicles today. It needs no special distribution network, works in unmodified engines, and is effectively carbon-neutral.

And the biomass that is left after the oil has been extracted can be fed to cattle, or fermented to produce ethanol.

Fuel from algae is not yet ready for primetime, but there are now numerous start-up companies exploring rival ways of growing and processing it, and oil majors like Shell and Chevron are already jumping in as well.

The main question is cost, but so long as petroleum stays above $100 a barrel it’s likely that some of these methods will prove

competitive.

The other, more radical proposal is to transform carbon dioxide from the problem into part of the solution by combining it with hydrogen to make a synthetic octane fuel suitable for use in vehicles.

You get your CO2 from the exhaust gases of coal and gas-fired power plants or just extract it from the air directly (the first prototypes of machines for doing this are now being tested), and you obtain your hydrogen however you like.

Getting hydrogen requires energy, and is only carbon-neutral if the electricity used to split it out of water comes from a non-fossil fuel source like solar, wind or nuclear. But combining the hydrogen with CO2 avoids the huge problems of storage, refrigeration and high pressures connected with using pure hydrogen as a fuel: the synthetic octane can be handled and burned just like conventional fuel.

One or both of these approaches is going to start challenging conventional oil in the market within five to 10 years if the price of oil stays high. Security of supply and cost are the big concerns driving this process now, but the ultimate prize is vehicle fuel that does not contribute to global warming. Conventional oil can never offer that advantage, so in the long run it is in big trouble.

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mercial interest in the property because they do not want to, plain and simple. They want to do what they want to do, and that is the only thing that matters to them.

They are wooing the Woolwich Seniors’ Association in order to gain political support for their battle against the township. In this case, the township knows what Elmira needs in order to truly revitalize. The cool heads must prevail.

The support given to this issue by the editorial is misplaced. “Residents could easily walk to get groceries, visit their doctors, have a prescription filled or take part in social ac-

tivities”. Maybe. Any doctors in town taking new patients? Nope.

Any new doctors moving to Elmira to set up new practices? Nope.

I’ve been living here for seven years now and I still have to drive to Waterloo to find a doctor that is accepting new patients. Got a lot of social activities in the downtown? Maybe –if your idea of ‘social activity’ is sitting on a bench under a tree having a flavourless coffee.

That’s about it.

“The key, urban planners now say, is to have people living downtown, providing a sense of community and vibrancy.” Sure, if you have the pillars of community and vibrancy as the core – and this is

not seniors. It is young growing families that establish community and vibrancy in any given area. If you want to seriously compete with the lure of Kitchener and Waterloo, you have to beat them at their own game. That means having something to offer to the local residents that would normally get in their cars and leave Elmira in order to spend their money on the goods and services that they cannot get here. This means new businesses that cater to the proper demographic, new approaches to services (Sunday shopping is big business when it is offered, if it isn’t, people will go to where it is), and for heaven’s sake,

a new restaurant or two that might perhaps showcase some of the fantastic local produce?

The bottom line is thus: If you want to keep me spending my money in town, you had better offer me the things that I want to spend my money on. Otherwise, I’ll continue to make that one-hour drive to Toronto to sample fantastic cuisine; I’ll continue to shop on Sundays in Waterloo to purchase the items that I want; and I’ll continue to shake my head in wonder at how often people keep on making the same mistakes over and over again and expect a different result each time.

Victor Daveikis Elmira

BUSINESS | 13

The Observer | Saturday, June 21, 2008

» FILLING OUT THE OPTIONS

A new presence at Shopping Village Although just newly opened, Gifts ‘R’ Us owner finds warm welcome in Elmira location Elmira’s new Shopping Village is undergoing more than just an external facelift. Gifts ‘R’ Us just opened up at the Arthur and Church street location, offering a variety of gifts and home décor items at reasonable prices.

Its owner, Pari Hayati, felt that since these products were not available in the downtown core, she would use her retail experience to bring them in.

While her husband Jafar Konoodi was purchasing and renovating the building, Hayati was busy exploring the town to get ideas for her own endeavour.

Now that she has opened alongside two other shops, locals are starting to realize they exist and are enjoying the new shopping opportunities.

“People are really appreciating us. They had very, very good memories with this building and they want to have the building alive again,” Hayati said.

“We wanted this place to be back on track as a busy shopping place,” Konoodi added.

“It [the shop] is good because the area needs something like that … a little bit higher-end,” he said, noting that people can now buy their special occasion gifts in town rather than travelling to Waterloo.

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Although she just opened June 12, Hayati has already noticed good traffic coming through the shops. A surprise to her was the number of teenagers who have stopped by and complimented her efforts.

“They keep saying they love it.”

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“I love seeing different people here and what I found … people are so, so friendly here. I’m not saying just in this place: all in Elmira. Anywhere I go, I found people are more friendly.”

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For now though, Gifts ‘R’ Us has something different on every shelf with one section of mirrors and metal wall decorations and another with smaller items like candles and crystal figurines.

Many of these accents can be found in Hayati’s own home, that people have told her looks professionally styled.

“I have a good taste with designing,” she said with a laugh.

The inventory will likely be updated every month, but if customers need her to move things around more often, she will.

Customer satisfaction is the key, Hayati said.

She already had to expand into a second booth because the first space was too small.

The former area is filled with paintings for $30, mirrors for $17 and metal hangings for $16, so far a customer favourite.

When asked how she came up with the name for the store, Hayati laughed and said it just popped into her head.

Like Toys ‘R’ Us, it is catchy, she explained.

Unlike the popular children’s store however, Gifts ‘R’ Us caters mainly to adults, save for a rack of Beanie Babies on the way in.

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Successful farmers say diversification worked for them You might not know one million-plus), were in Guelph English crop farm- earlier this week visiting mutual ers Gordon and friends. After a tour of the UniverJudy Davies, but if sity of Guelph/Ontario Ministry you’re interested of Agriculture, Food and Rural Afin land prices, you fairs’ Elora Research Station, they might have heard explained how farmers are trying to of their neigh- make a living growing food in such bours. A short dis- an exaggerated economic climate as tance away from theirs.

The key, they say, is to introduce the Davies’ Middleton House Farm, located in the heart of England, non-farm activities that don’t rely on their neighbours recently sold 125 weather, politics or global trade. In acres of farmland for $16,000 an their case, diversifying into on-farm acre, a new record for agriculture in rental offices has allowed them to keep pursuing their first love, growthe U.K. And here’s the catch: the buyers ing crops and raising livestock.

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with a rich endowment of heritage farm buildings. Among the structures are red brick cow milking sheds that are 250 years old, distinguished by stately oak beams and a sense of history.

A few years ago, in Britain, milk production was not profitable. So the Davies sold their herd, making the milking sheds obsolete. But rather than tear the sheds down, they took some of the proceeds from the herd sale and converted the sheds into pastoral offices, equipped with modern communication features (especially, a high speed Internet network).

Then, they started courting businesses in the Birmingham suburbs, looking for those who would hang their shingles at the Davies’ on-farm business centre. It worked. Instead of fighting highway congestion, noise, pollution and high rent, five businesses ranging from food analysts to landscapers to safety and hygiene specialists set up shop at Middleton House Farm. The Davies were able to offer a unique setting at an affordable price, and still realize $200,000 in rental income every year.

This confirmed to the family that diversification was the way to go.

In 2001, they had opened a bed and breakfast in the farmstead’s sixroom farmhouse, staying busy catering to business travelers and developing a local food menu, even before it was trendy. Along the way, they

opened a mini-pub for guests, called the Hungry Farmer Pub, with traditional taps, suds and décor.

But all this has come with a price, they say. They caution other producers interested in such diversification that some of farming’s most valued features, especially privacy, are lost through this approach. You can’t walk out your door without bumping into “townspeople,” they say. You can’t have any rough-looking farm machinery parked in convenient locations around the yard. And even the farm dog must have a decidedly uptown look. So what if it’s a great guard dog? If it doesn’t look like a cosmopolitan canine when it comes wagging its tail to greet visitors, it too needs a makeover.

This isn’t farming in the modern sense – but it does recall the days of the cozy country inn, small, vibrant villages and diversified rural economies. To the Davies, it’s that, and more. “I’m a farmer, and this gives me the opportunity to carry on the farm and have a decent income,” says Gordon.

With gas prices through the roof, and Toronto becoming more and more difficult to reach during business hours, maybe the Davies’ template is worth a look here. Unfortunately, it won’t go anywhere in Ontario without improved rural Internet access; the Davies’ experience show how potential entrepreneurial ventures hinge on it.

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The Observer | Saturday, June 21, 2008

» RIDE WITH LANCE

Elmira teen discovers his own pedal power Morgan MacPhee’s cancer fundraising efforts earn him a chance to cycle with Lance Armstrong VANESSA MOSS

ALMOST FAMOUS Actress Kate Hudson praised MacPhee’s efforts during the after-ride dinner in Cambridge June 14.

A HERO MOMENT Elmira’s Morgan MacPhee raised more than $10,000 by canvassing local businesses and households to meet and bike beside Lance Armstrong in the Ride with Lance benefitting cancer research and support for patients. The event June 14 saw MacPhee ride in the first-aid RV and then join up for part of the 125-km ride throughout Waterloo Region.

ly realized how tough the sport really is, as the first-aid workers had to help a rider who fell and another suffering from leg problems.

Armstrong, however, did not falter, amazing those around him.

1“He can bike and text [on his cell phone] at the same time and go faster

than all the other people,” MacPhee said.

At the second pit stop, MacPhee joined the ride for a while, biking beside Armstrong for a picture. The pace was pretty easy, but the hills were hard, MacPhee said, noting that many of the bikers were experienced.

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Biking alongside seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong, schmoozing with RIM’s Jim Balsillie and impressing actress Kate Hudson were all in a weekend’s work for Elmira’s Morgan MacPhee, who took part in the Ride with Lance event June 13-14.

Although the 13-year-old was short of raising the $25,000 needed to enter the ride, his $10,068.90 effort at such a young age earned him a special spot.

“I am pretty amazed with myself,” MacPhee said of his six-week fundraising campaign of local households and businesses.

The young biker’s whirlwind weekend began last Friday when he and his mom, Jacinta, attended Cocktails with Lance in Toronto.

Armstrong gave a speech about his biking adventures, his battle with cancer and the importance of raising money for the cause. In total, the Ride with Lance generated more than $1.3 million for the Grand River Regional Cancer Centre in Kitchener and Sunnybrook’s Odette Cancer Centre in Toronto.

“It’s good to fundraise and get money for cancer because cancer is the number-one killer in the world right now, so if you can help prevent it and find causes to cure it, then you can save millions,” MacPhee said of the lessons he learned over the past few weeks.

The next morning, dressed in his official Lance gear, MacPhee had his bike tuned, recharged with some breakfast and headed out in the first-aid RV to watch the 125-kilometre ride.

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Although the ride itself was incredible, MacPhee’s special day continued into the evening as he enjoyed a seven-course Charcoal Steakhouse meal at the Woerner House estate in Cambridge.

There, he chatted with Armstrong and his guest Kate Hudson.

“She was amazed that I actually raised that amount of money.”

As part of the evening’s event, Armstrong’s autographed bike was auctioned off for $50,000 and cycling commentator Phil Liggett’s went for $30,000.

At one point, MacPhee was introduced to Research in Motion co-CEO Jim Balsillie by the man who made the business mogul’s $18,000 bike.

That creator then offered to meet with MacPhee to design his own ride.

That should come in handy for the Park Manor Public School student, since he plans to enter the 200-km Ride to Conquer Cancer and the Lance event again next year.

For now though, he plans to take it easy for a while.

“I’ll probably hang out with friends because I haven’t been able to hang out with any of them for a long time.”

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The Observer | Saturday, June 21, 2008

Woolwich kicks it up at Woodstock tourney Three squads capture gold, others finish strongly at popular event that sees some 100 teams compete called Most Valuable Players and everyone had fun, Chapman said, highlighting the main reason for playing.

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The weather was sunny and the field was hot last weekend at the 16th annual Walter Kirchner Tournament in Woodstock that saw three Woolwich teams win their divisions.

Of the eight squads that made the trek westward, four made the finals and the rest had fun playing three round-robin games on Saturday.

“I think everyone enjoyed the weekend,” said Steve Chapman, president of Woolwich Youth Soccer.

“It didn’t rain ‘till we were done playing soccer, so it was perfect.”

The under-10-year-old girls won their final match 1-0 against Petrolia and the under-12 ladies beat Stratford 3-1 to take the title. Their under-16 male counterparts defeated Fergus 4-0.

“Our kids played really well. They played really strong as a team,” said U-16 coach Steve Lillico.

Woolwich’s under-11 girls also put up a good fight on the weekend, losing to Kitchener 3-0 in the

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Considering the players were up against about 1,000 others from 100 teams, they performed “not too bad,” Chapman said.

The eight teams – including the u-10, u-11, u-14 boys and the u-14 girls – trav-

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“It’s a well-run, well-organized thing.”

Since Woolwich Youth Soccer only pays for teams to enter one tournament per season, it is up to them

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All the winning teams went home with trophies, certain members were

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The Observer | Saturday, June 21, 2008

Âť THE NOT-SO-GREAT OUTDOORSMAN | STEVE GALEA

With something this important, it’s best to be prepared As I sit here writing this column, I realize that I am in a race against time.

Somewhere on the road, hurtling towards our house at 10 kilometres an hour over the speed limit, my wife is on her way back home. And when she gets here, I’ll probably be forced to stop writing.

I won’t be able to deny my urges.

Deadlines be damned, she’s got something I’ve been waiting for all weekend; something I should have got on Father’s Day; something every man needs – she’s got my new fly rod. That’s right, she just picked it up for me from the post office.

Of course, they’re all special in their own way, but this one is a 9-weight, tailor-made for pike and muskie. I don’t want to excite you too much, but it will also be able to pull largemouth bass out of the slop. That’s right, out of the slop!

I know ‌ you’re probably wondering how I can even summon up the concentration to write anything this intelligent with their imminent arrival so near?

Well, it helps pass the time. Oh, and it pays the bills too.

In any case, for those of you who have never been in this enviable position before, rest assured there is an age-old protocol to follow. Permit me to outline it for you. In doing so, I’ll be reminding myself too.

Say hello to your spouse. This is absolutely necessary.

Ask if she needs any help carrying packages into the house. Suggest, that the long cylindrical package might be a prime candidate, since it appears so awkward, Feign interest in everything she has to say. Try not to tap your feet rapidly on the ground and look at your watch while she speaks about mundane things such as traffic, food prices, and the weather.

Do not look overly anxious to open the fishing rod package and admire its incredible beauty. This will just force her to prolong the agony, perhaps by regaling you with a detailed report outlining the rising price of broccoli.

When the fishing rod is finally offered, accept it in an almost diffident, nonchalant manner. Try not to be more excited to see it than you were her on your wedding day.

No matter how well justified, do not immediately write Shakespearian sonnets about its beauty. Eg. “Shall I compare thee to a weed-choked bay ‌â€?

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If you do get caught doing this, swear on your life that it was about her. Ah, maybe not.

Do not go on about the fishing rod’s well-constructed butt section. No good will come of this; trust me.

Don’t drop everything and rush off to the lake to try it out. Instead go to the washroom and sneak out the window.

Return home sometime that day – again via the washroom window.

Each of these things might seem almost trivial until you forget just one

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I should also warn you that it’s not safe to read directly off the list I have provided. For some reason, even though they rely on lists around the house, women prefer spontaneity in actual communication. I know that now.

In any case, she’s just pulling into the driveway as I write this sentence. It’s time to say hello ‌

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The Observer | Saturday, June 21, 2008

Dan Snyder Memorial Scholarship Fund looking for applicants

Making a pitch for gold

PHOTO | JOE MERLIHAN

MARC MIQUEL HELSEN

RiGHT ON TARGET Woolwich’s Sydney Jones (left) gets ready to kick it into high gear against a Kitchener player during the 16th annual Walter Kirchner Tournament in Woodstock June 14-15.

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Specifically: * Red blood cells can be used to help accident victims, surgical patients and people with anaemia * Platelets can be used to treat leukemia and cancer patients * Plasma is effective in treating patients suffering from burns or shock * Cryoprecipitate, an additional component of blood, has been used to treat hemophilia and now other blood disorders Every minute of every day, someone in Canada needs blood. Much of the blood that is transfused every year is done under emergency or trauma situations.In Canada,hundreds of thousands of people each year receive blood components or blood products following accidents, during surgery or for cancer treatments, burn therapy, hemophilia and other blood-related diseases.

Calling all young athletes looking to combine their love for sports with a post-secondary education: the Dan Snyder Memorial Scholarship Fund is currently soliciting nominations from Woolwich residents who best exemplify the characteristics for which Dan Snyder was known. “What we like to see within that name are, specifically, some of Danny’s characteristics: determination, desire, good sportsmanship and obviously there has to be a need for continued education and, specifically, at the post-secondary level,� said the fund’s Rick Weiss.

Both male and female athletes of any sport – whether baseball, soccer or bowling – who are interested in studying, primarily, at Canadian colleges or universities, and to a lesser extent, American universities, may apply for the award.

The scholarship fund will accept applications from local coaches, sports organizations and individuals until July 9.

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teristics outlined above; and how the award will be used to further the educational progress of the applicant.

While the value of the scholarship varies from year to year (last year’s scholarships hit the $1,500 mark) a minimum of $1,000 will be awarded some time before the September school year starts, said Weiss.

This community based award is one of four scholarships doled out on an annual basis by the Dan Snyder Memorial Scholarship Fund. Consistent with past years, three other scholarships will be given out to candidates from the Elmira Sugar Kings, the Owen Sound Attack, and Woolwich Minor Hockey.

The fund got its start shortly after Dan Snyder passed away in 2003 when, in a match-up, players from the Detroit Red Wings and the Atlanta Thrashers donned jerseys bearing Snyder’s number 37. “We were down there and scooped them literally off the backs of the players – I believe we washed them first,�

Weiss joked. An eBay auction soon after garnered more than $75,000.

Interested athletes are asked to send their applications to RBC, 6 Church St. W., Elmira, Ont., N3B 1M3; attention Sue Van Every.

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24 | SPORTS

The Observer | Saturday, June 21, 2008

Biking with a bigger goal in mind

A party in the garden at St. Teresa

PHOTOS | MARC MIQUEL HELSEN

RiDE FOR UGUNJA Kari Kokko (left), Rose Ong’ech, and Rebecca Mancini relax after the 10-km ride.

Below: Noel Belcourt rode with a hand – featuring Bike Project information – on his head

GOOD TiMES Jessica Rau (top left) serves up some popcorn at the St. Teresa of Avila garden party, held June 13 at the Elmira church. Meg Brattman was happy eating chips, while Alex and Shawna DeVore peak through a PHOTOS | MARC MIQUEL HELSEN tunnel in the bouncy castle.

On June 14, local cyclists joined goods, and travel long distances to members of EDSS’ volunteer group and from school.

United Hands on a 10-kilometre bike “The Women and Bikes project (and) ride to raise money for women in UCRC continue to work towards a Ugunja, Kenya, where bicycles are culture that values gender equality crucial tools to increase women’s and enables women’s access to the independence and quality of life. tools for both self-empowerment Though a bike ride also took place and participation in community desimultaneously in Kenya, the firstvelopment; therefore I see the bike ever local event was a resounding project as the tool to promote issuccess, said organizers, noting sues around property rights, income they raised approximately $3,000 generation and leadership skills for to purchase roughly 38 bicycles and women and girls in my community,” relevant training and education explained Rose Ong’ech, a program courses. coordinator of Advocacy and Networking with Ugunja In Ugunja, Kenya, bikes are more affordable than Community Resource Centre (UCRC), a non-profit cars and work better on local roads, but the reality Community based organization in Western Kenya, is that women and teenaged girls in this town of ap- Siaya District, Ugunja division. proximately 17,000 do not have easy access to bikes Ong’ech was at the Elmira event and is currently studyChaGarElmiraAL_WoolObs_Jun21.qxd:Layout 5/21/08 4:34 PMat the Page 1 for their daily work, despite the fact that they do most ing1peace and conflict studies University of Waof the walking to get water, go to the market to sell terloo for one year.

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» DOIN’ IT COUNTRY STYLE

PHOTOS | MARC MIQUEL HELSEN

String fling in Elmira

STYLIN’ Mark Kabbes on the bass (left) and Bob Wilhelm on guitar perform at Gibson Park at the fourth annual Guitarama June 14.

HANDY WORK Paul Weber and Top Hand entertained at the Country Jamboree at the Elmira Legion June 14. Paul Weber took care of bass and vocals, while Mike Eagles (top right) kept time and Mike Weber (below right) added that country twang with his slide guitar.

HOT LICKS Adam Bauman lets it rip on the six string during the annual guitar recital held by teacher Bob Wilhelm for the students to showcase their musical accomplishments .

Rockin’ the Catholic faith MARC MIQUEL HELSEN Shortly after playing a couple shows for Pope John Paul II when he visited Toronto in 2002, the guys in Dave Wang’s Catholic rock band, Critical Mass, found themselves at a professional crossroads: having played the ultimate gig, some of the band

members felt they had reached the summit of their careers too soon and didn’t know where to go next.

“For most of the people [in the band] it was, ‘how do you top that, now that you’ve played for that many people?” said Wang, lyricist and vocalist, recounting the tale of how he and his band mates rocked out

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at the Papal Welcoming Ceremony and the Papal Vigil, shows that were attended by some 400,000 and 700,000 people respectively.

“I think all my stage fright was used up at those two,” he quipped.

Although the group disbanded, Wang stayed the course.

“I felt called to do at least one more album.”

Eager to continue penning quality rock music, Wang recruited a group of like-minded, talented musicians and got down to work. The result was Grasping for Hope in the Darkness, a record that garnered a Gospel Music Association of Canada best rock album award.

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For singer Dave Wang, gripping music is the key to winning an audience

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The Observer | Saturday, June 21, 2008

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COUPLING UP Paul Stafford and Melissa Roe are happy now, but things may change in the Norm Foster comedy of manners The Long Weekend, which runs June 26 to July 5 at Theatre Three-Eleven in Listowel.

Rockin’: Music has to compete with array of secular recordings » From page 25

of Catholic issue-based songs, Grasping is a slickly produced rock album with energetic guitar riffs, thumping rock rhythms, and what one critic described as having a “spiritual-PinkF loyd-meets-moder nrock” feel.

In Grasping for Hope, as in the band’s forthcoming album, sonic quality as well as lyrical depth are both crucial.

“In that respect it’s probably more like a Christian-influenced secular record than it is a church sing-along,” said Wang, who counts John Lennon, Steve Taylor, and P.O.D. among some of his mainstream influences.

Lyrically, Wang covers a range of issues, including chastity, pro-life, struggles with faith and even difficult subjects such as the sex abuse scandal within the Catholic Church.

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KEEPING THE FAITH Dave Wang is the vocalist and lyricist for Critical Mass. member in the greater community, his music reflects a varied world.

“It’s not really so much wanting to send a message out as just to say, ‘you know what? This is what’s in my head as I’m looking at the world; this is what intrigues me, this is what bugs me, this is what interests me.’ I write, and

I just hope that what intrigues, bugs, or interests me will also get someone else thinking.”

The name of the band itself reflects that multiplicity of meaning. Followed by references to the verses John 6:35, 51 Critical Mass is a biblical allusion to the Catholic belief in “the bread of life,” but it also makes reference to science.

“What we’re hoping to do is get enough people listening to our music to cause an explosion or a revival within the culture.”

Though not an easy task, writing intelligent lyrics and music that is professional and artistically relevant is the band’s objective, said Wang, who in his ‘offhours’ is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Waterloo, a father of nine, and current coach of the Elmira girls under-11 soccer team.

“Within Catholic circles you’ve got to be either as good as what’s out there, compared to the U2s and the Coldplays of the world, or else it’s hard to get [people] to listen,” said Wang, noting that within the Christian rock scene, Catholic bands are the small minority.

“Catholics tend to listen to a lot of secular music, so it’s a tougher crowd. Within Catholics we’re not competing with other evangelical groups, we’re actually competing with the secular groups because they won’t listen unless your production is up to those standards.”

The band’s next show is July 18-20 at the World Youth Day at the Archdiocese of Toronto.

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PART-TIME AZ DRIVER BWS Feeds requires a part-time driver to assist in delivering feed to farms within 70 miles of Elmira. This position is approx. 25 hrs per week most afternoons.

Must be flexible to work weekends when required. Possess a valid class AZ licence with a clean driver abstract. Pneumatic unloading experience would be a definite asset.

Forward resume by June 30, 2008 to: BWS Feeds 1580 Listowel Road Elmira, ON N3B 2Z3 Fax: 519-669-4363 Email: godfreys@bwsfeeds.ca

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Local tank truck carrier is accepting applications for AZ drivers to do a mix of local and long distance trips. Applicants must be at least 25 years of age, have 2 years AZ driving experience and be bondable for cross border activity. Preference will be given to applicants with strong work ethic, who are team players and have good communications skills. The company has a great wage, benefit, bonus and profit sharing program.

For further details, apply to: Bridgeland Terminals Ltd. 35 Oriole Pkwy. E. Elmira, ON N3B 2Z7 Phone: 519-669-1588 Fax: 519-669-1928 E-mail: ronm@bridgelandterminals.com or visit our website www.bridgelandterminals.com for application.

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person required immediately for meat processing department. Experience an asset, but will train.

Must be able to work Saturdays. Apply in person with resume to: Stemmler Meats & Cheese, 3031 Lobsinger Line, Heidelberg.

Company seeking full time labourer for season. Please fax resume to 519 - 570-4685, or call 519-578-8899. Summer Volunteers Needed for befriending, driving, summer reading clubs and special events. Pre-service training begins June 23rd.

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MATERIAL HANDLER Forklift experience necessary | will train. Required to perform multi task jobs. Required to take orders to completion. Like to work outdoors. Physically fit. Lifting required. Reply to Harvey Harron.

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Call 519-638-3306 or fax to 519-638-3793 ESTIMATOR Must have residential, commercial and agricultural construction knowledge. Candidates need to have strong communication and organization skills, comfort in using various computer software programs and the ability to work under pressure. Benefit package, overtime available. Fax or email resumes to Jeff Harron.

Fax: 519-638-3793 Email: jeffh@harronrona.ca TRUCK DRIVER Lumber Distributor seeking individual with AZ endorsement.

Company will provide competitive wage, benefit package and overtime. Forklift experience preferred. Please forward driving abstract to Harvey Harron at:

Call 519-638-3306 or fax to 519-638-3793 FULL-TIME RETAIL SALES Building supply Centre seeking individual for general hardware sales store merchandising and customer service. Plumbing and electrical knowledge an asset. Apply to Harron’s RONA Building Centre, Moorefield, ON. Attention Harvey Harron.

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ative Assistant - Support person needed for small busy office in North Waterloo. Must have experience with Microsoft Office programs and be organized and self starting individual.

Reception experience on multi-line telephone system would be helpful but not required. Duties to include reception, filing, invoicing and general clerical support. Successful candidate must possess a great attention to detail and be able to multi-task. As we are a busy but seasonal office - this is a contract to begin in July and is renewable annually. Fax resume to 519-664-2897 or email to deonsupply@ rogers.com Roofing Crews required $30-$50/hr. Be a part of a great company! Extremely busy roofing company is now recruiting experienced shingling crews. Must have experience and take pride in workmanship. Own truck and tools required. Top pay in the industry, year-round work and no layoffs. Call AM Roofing 519-787-0926 or fax resume 519-787-7804.

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In excellent condition. $400/ pair. Call 519-669-0034. New Mattress Sets!

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» 47 Queen St. Saturday June 21 after 8a.m. Tones of kids stuff. Toys, games, boys » Looking for Female » 4-Plex Apartment with clothing (newborn and up) Roommate Immediately to additional building lots plus household items. Too share newer townhouse in for sale in Moorefield. much to itemize. » Multi Family Garage Sale Elmira. Year lease. $495/mo. 519-291-2590. includes utilities, parking and » Condos For Sale at - Fri. June 20, 4 p.m., and Sat. June 21. 12 Florapine Rd., laundry. 519-591-6237. the Duke Centre, Elmira. Floradale. Items too many » Cottage For Rent - Three Phone 519-669-3835 or to mention. bedroom cottage at Oliph- 519-669-2185. » Multi Family Garage Sale. ant, near Sauble, only the Saturday June 21, 8am-1pm. weeks of July 12, & 19 left.

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CPAC meeting on June 23rd at 9:00 a.m.

The meeting will take place at Chemtura Canada Co./Cie at 25 Erb St. Elmira.

No contacts, open-toed shoes, short pants or short sleeved shirts.

Community Well Water Forum

Wednesday, June 25, 2008 Doors open at 6pm, presentations run 6:30 - 9:00pm Woolwich Community Health Centre, 10 Parkside Drive, St. Jacobs Free admission

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The Township of Woolwich Municipal Office will be closed on Tuesday, July 1, 2008 for Canada Day

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REEP would like to thank the following organizations for their support of this event: Woolwich Community Health Centre

Well Aware is a program of Green Communities Canada, and receives funding support from the Ontario Ministry of the Environment.

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HOME HUNTING ELMIRA REAL ESTATE Independently Owned & Operated, Brokerage SERVICES

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Paul Samis & David Samis

R.W. THUR REAL ESTATE LTD. 45 ARTHUR ST. S., ELMIRA

90 Earl Martin Dr., Unit 1, Elmira N3B 3L4

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Brokerage

BONNIE BRUBACHER Broker of Record

SHANNA ROZEMA Broker.

DARREN ROMKEY Sales Rep.

LAURIE LANGDON Sales Rep.

DALE KELLER Sales Rep.

MONIQUE BRUBACHER Sales Rep.

DEBBIE YEOMAN Sales Rep.

BRAD MARTIN Broker of Record

JULIE HECKENDORN Broker MVA Residential Res: 519-669-1068 Res: 519-669-8629

THIS WEEK'S FEATURE PROPERTIES

ALLI NORRIS Sales Rep. Cell: 519-577-6248

OPEN HOUSE SUN. JUNE 22, 2-4 PM

BILL NORRIS Sales Rep. Cell: 519-588-1348

519-745-7000 | Direct: 519-502-0547

TRACEY WILLIAMS Sales Rep. Cell: 519-669-1737

Lovely Classic Home - $219,900

OPEN OPENHOUSE HOUSE- -Sun. Sun.June Mar.22, 9 2-4 2-4pm pm 5741 Porchlight Falcon Dr., Dr., Elmira Elmira

95 KINGFISHER DR., ELMIRA CHARMING ATMOSPHERE

3 Bedrooms, Two 4 pc. baths, seperate dining and living room, eat-in-kitchen, hardwood floors, newer windows, attached garage, walkout basement, mature lot. 10 mins from Waterloo, 20 mins from Guelph. Well worth a look. MLS.

BEAUTIFUL TOWNHOUSE - loaded with upgrades! Maple cabinetry and ceramics. W/O from L.R. to patio and fenced yard. 3 Bdrms.

Central air, softener, air exchanger.

Professionally finished rec. rm. & 3pc. bath. Lots of storage! MLS $238,500.

$329,900 - 1950 sq.ft. 3 year 2 storey. Great kitchen with loads of oak cabinets, spacious mainfloor family room with fireplace, 3 bedrooms, 3 baths. NEW MLS

OPEN HOUSE SUN. JUNE 22, 2-4 PM

7 CARRIAGE HILL TRAIL, ELMIRA NEW LISTING

Perfect Starter Home - $192,000

Mature lot on edge of town, open concept with two bdrms. Finished basement with a walkout, perfect for an in-law setup. Lot features a insulated shed with hydro and woodstove hook-up perfect for the handyman. 20 minutes to the 401, 40 minutes to downtown London & Kitchener. Do not miss this one with a potential quick closing!

$249,000 - 2+ Bedroom, ideal empty nesters, open concept kitchen, dining room, and living room. Full basement with 2nd bath and 3rd bedroom. NEW MLS

UNIQUE COUNTRY PROPERTY

$639,800 MOOREFIELD - Nice trees and flowers enhance this 1.3 acre exquisite lot. The home is open concept with soaring ceilings, hardwood floors, custom features include cabinets, walk in pantry and maple staircase. MLS.

WOODED LOT - pie-shaped lot, court location. Oak staircase. 4 bdrms. 3 baths. Main flr family room, w/gas fireplace. Main flr. laundry. Gas furnace (2002).

Central air. Oversized dble. garage & lots of parking! MLS REDUCED TO $379,900.

WARM AND WELCOME

$289,000 GLEN ALLEN Beautifully treed large lot in the Village of Glen ALlen; great family home, updated kitchen; patio off family room; wood stove; newer windows; shed; 12ft ceilings. MLS

Perfect Starter Farm - $380,000

NEW HOME 2164 SQ.FT. - Large family room in upper level. Open concept main floor. 3 baths (ensuite) Walkin closet. Walkout from large kitchen. Main flr. laundry. Dble. garage. Quality constructed. (Other plans available). MLS $345,000.

Lovely 50 plus rolling acre farm. With clay loam, open bottom, random tile in grass area. 3 poultry barns 30,000+ capacity, includes all equipment and generator, 4 acres bush on paved road, 1,450 sq.ft. 3 bedroom frame bungalow recently updated and decorated.

INDUSTRIAL LOT - .49 Acre Lot - Dimension: 107' x 196'. Zoned M1-Dry Industrial. Located on Floradale Road (west of Elmira). NEW MLS $94,900.

CHARMING, WARM, ELEGANT ELMIRA RACEWAY ESTATES

DRAYTON AREA ESTATE LOT - $119,000

4.77 acre lot in estate residential area.

Driveway in. Recently trees are planted. 30 minute drive to K-W and Guelph. This property allows you to have some horses and chickens. Do not hesitate on this one as they do not come like this anymore!

$320,000 - Paradigm Homes 1360 sq. ft. open conept bungalow â&#x20AC;&#x201C; now under contruction: spacious great room and master bedroom both with walkouts, lavish ensuite, gas fireplace and more.

Please call for details and other plans. MLS

Further Information: WEBSITE: www.royallepage.ca EMAIL: Elmira@royallepage.ca

Solid Gold Realty (II) Ltd., Brokerage

WE HAVE BUYERS LOOKING FOR â&#x20AC;˘ Hobby farm property with or without buildings, less than 50 acres â&#x20AC;˘ Broiler Farm, 25,000 units plus â&#x20AC;˘ 100 acre or larger operational farm

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www.paulanddavidrealtors.com

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LEON MARTIN

$69,900

Solid Gold Realty (II) Ltd., Brokerage | Independently Owned and Operated

LOTS FOR SALE Country Lots with high speed internet access, 40 to 45 minutes from K/W or Guelph. They are located in the small hamlet of Carthage. Individual well and septic Great opportunity to build your own house or get us to customize a home for you. For more information please call Leon Excl.

Coach House Realty Inc. Brokerage

QUAINT SETTING! Retirement property within 5 minutes of great shopping area and other amenities offers two bedrooms, country kitchen, large living room, laundry and four piece bathroom.

Backs to green area. MLS. Call Bert for details.

OFFICE PHONE: 519.343.2124

159 William St., Palmerston (Across from Home Hardware)

BUILDING LOTS Ready to build on these 50' x 165' level lots are in a quiet area in a small rural community. Municipal water & sewer, natural gas at lot line. MLS. Call Bert for details.

$34,900 per lot

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26 HIDDEN CREEK DR., KITCHENER PREMIUM HOME IN HIGH DEMAND NEIGHBOURHOOD - Close to schools and

shopping centre. Fenced yard, Finished rec room, gas fireplace, air conditioning, roughedin bathroom in basement, ceramic and laminate floors, walkout from dinette to deck and fenced yard. Walk-in closet and cheater ensuite, newer paint in some rooms. MLS. For a personal appointment call Paul 519-503-9533

Paul Martin Sales Representative

$469,000

$239,900

$269,000

180 Weber St. S., Waterloo www.remaxsolidgold.biz

enjoy this gorgeous finished townhouse. Backs onto greenbelt, features maple kitchen cabinets, breakfast bar, ensuite, walk-in closet, carpet free main floor (hardwood and ceramic), finished basement, air, fenced yard. NEW MLS. For a personal appointment call Paul 519-503-9533.

Edith McArthur * 519.638.2509 Marg Sorensen * 519.343.4489 Kathy Robinson * 519.343.4816

SEEKING THE ULTIMATE IN A HOME? This Drayton home with itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spotless, uncluttered space could be the one.

Formal yet inviting. 3+2 Bedrooms, 3 baths, cathedral ceilings, hardwood floors, livingroom w/fireplace, kitchen w/eating area, diningroom, decks, finished basement. This home has it all. Call Marg Sorensen 519-343-4489 MLS 0744073

Solid Gold Realty (II) Ltd., Brokerage Independently Owned and Operated

OFFICE: 519-888-7110 DIRECT: 519-503-9533 EMAIL: paul@remaxsolidgold.biz $287,900

4 Eldale Road, Elmira 100 Oakcliffe St., Elmira 24 Tanager St., Elmira WOW - Spacious property features extra large FIRST TIME HOME BUYERS DONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;T DO LOCATION PRIME LOCATION - Close to kitchen,gas fireplace,large island, walkout to ANYTHING BUT MOVE RIGHT IN and schools, this beautiful bungalow is well maintained your stamped conc patio sit and listen to the waterfall and the birds chirp while you watch the fish swim in the pond. stroll upstairs to your mast bedr with walkin closet and ensuite,tuck your children into 3 large bedrooms. in-law suite on main fl MLS. For a personal appointment call Paul 519-503-9533

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on a nice quiet cres,it has numerous upgrades including new maple kitchen in 06, laminated flrs, most windows replaced,ceramic tile foye and kitchen floor, sliding door (2007) off spacious dinette to covered patio, 5 potential bdrms spacious fenced yard features pool and deck. MLS. For a personal appointment call Paul 519-503-9533

$749,000

1347 Martin Grove Rd., Woolwich DONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;T MISS THIS BEAUTIFUL 12 ACRE PROPERTY - 3 min from Waterloo backing on

Conestoga River, bungalow with walkout to patio features hardwood, laminate, carpet, walkout to lrg deck,window and doors replaced except bay,insul rec rm flr, kitchen in basement,A/C, unique 2 lev garage, 3 out build app 5000 sq ft incl 1000 sq ft insul and heated, septic tank 07, bush and workable ld. MLS. For a personal appointment call Paul 519-503-9533.

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The Observer | Saturday, June 21, 2008

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OPEN HOUSE Saturday 2 - 4pm

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$650,000 ENERGY STAR QUALITY! Custom built all brick on a premium lot. Finished top to bottom. Excellent floor plan with No Waste of Space! Ceramic & hardwood throughout the home w/extra wide solid wood staircases. A Chefâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dream kitchen w/two double sinks & two dishwashers! Super size bedrooms, master w/dressing room. Upper floor laumdry, second flr family room, gorgeous landscaping. IMPRESSIVE!

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Wendy Taylor

SALES REP*

BROKER OF RECORD***

BROKER**

Sunday, June 22 2:00-4:00PM

519.579.4110 MODEL HOME HOURS Saturday & Sunday 1-4pm or by Appointment.

Paul Robb Broker, Coach House Realty Inc., Brokerage

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HAPPY 40th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY

MARLENE & DOUG HAHN

8083 CON 6, MAPLETON $169,000 - 1.52 acre county lot. Over 6,000 sq. ft. commercial building 35 min. N/W of K/W. Approx 1450 sq. ft. for office space is presently being used as living quarters. 3 overhead doors and loading dock. Losts of room to build a house on property. Drilled well and full septic system. MLS CALL LEN FREY* TO VIEW.

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17 BOOTH STREE, E, MOOREFIELD $289,900 - Bungalow on oversized lot w/3+2 bedrooms, 3 baths, oak kitchen w/ sandwich bar. Totally finished basement w/2 bedrooms, bath & games room. Walkout basement. Mod colors & new paint. MLS CALL MILDRED FREY* TO VIEW.

anniversary

June 22, 1968 - June 22, 2008

Happy 40th Anniversary Mom & Dad

SALES REP*

7286 WELLINGSTON RD. 10, MAPLETON $569,900 - Stunning executive stone bungalow on 1 acre backing to farm land. Gr. room with 2 walkouts to deck. W/out from m/bdrm. Fin. recroom/ infloor heating, hot tub room, wet bar & 2 bdrms. 2 car attached gar. and sep 26x30 det. gar with upper loft apt. Many extras. Shows â&#x20AC;&#x153;AAAâ&#x20AC;? MLS CALL LEN FREY* TO VIEW.

$262,900 This Elmira Home is less than 2 years old and very well kept! Lots of extras: unique deck off kitchen with spiral staircase, upgraded maple kitchen cabinets, ceramic floors in kitchen & bathrooms, and generous use of exteriour brick. MLS

OFFICE

Lisa D. Edwards

50 WELLINGTON ST., S., DRAYTON $229,900 Beautiful renovated century home. This house is much bigger than it looks. Great opportunity for the growing family to have the extra space they need. Many upgrades including vinyl windows, carpet free, newer oak kitchener, furnace in 98, roof in 03 & a main floor powder room have all been done for you. 2 tier deck & pond at the back on this park like setting. Not many lots this size. Upstairs office would make an ideal nursery. MLS CALL WENDY TAYLOR** TO VIEW.

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OPEN HOUSE - DRAYTON

TEL. 519-669-5431

8 Arthur Street South, Elmira

$299,900

519-669-1544

OPEN HOUSE | Sun., June 22 | 1:30-4:30pm 13 South Parkwood Blvd., ELMIRA

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STAG & DOE STAG and DOE

The family of

Harvey & Erma Gingrich invite you to join them in celebrating their parentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

(Linda and Stu Shoemaker)

50th Wedding Anniversary HILLARY BEATTY & JEREMY WEBER

Love Heather, Dave and Ryan, Dean, Victoria, Koron, and Maya

Love from family and friends anniversary

Sunday, June 29, 2008 2:00-4:00 P.M. Woodside Bible Fellowship 200 Barnswallow Dr. Elmira birthday

stag & doe

STAG & DOE for Matt Martin & Tracy Wideman

in memoriam

HAPPY 6TH BIRTHDAY

Allen & Yvonne deBoer Happy 25th Anniversary

The family of Allen & Yvonne invite you to an Open House on June 29th at Alma Bible Church from 2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Best wishes only.

Michael (Samantha), Jacob and Seth

Saturday, June 28, 2008 8pm at Elmira Lionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hall $10/person Late Lunch Provided

Get tickets at the door or call: Monica at 519.210.0182 | Sherry at 519.497.4415

Sat., June 28, 2008 Elmira Legion, 11 First St. Elmira.

8 p.m. - 1 a.m.

Tickets $10/person at the door.

Food, games, dancing and prizes.

TROY AND SCOTT CLEMMER June 10th

In loving memory of

Walter C. Taylor who passed away June 22, 1998 A million times I needed you, A million times I cried.

If love alone would have saved you, You never would have died.

In life I loved you dearly, In death I love you still, In my heart you hold a place, No one can ever fill.

Sadly missed and lovingly remembered by Barb & Family

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Business

FREE CONSULTATION

After Hours Emergency Services: 1-800-465-2667

Farm 3435 Broadway St. Hawkesville 519-699-4641 www.freybuildingcontractors.com

 Chicken BBQ and Dance â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Wellesley Lions Club. Dinner 5-8 p.m., dance 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Live music by Jeff Tanner. For tickets please call 519-6562260 or 519-656-3147.

519.669.5377

Allen Morrison, Agent/Owner

Life

JUNE 21  Art Round the Pond â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Wellesley Pond Restoration Group. A day of fine art entertainment featuring the talents of local artists and artisans. Rain or shine; 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

COMMERCIAL 24 â&#x20AC;˘ Truck & Trailer Maintenance CARDLOCK FUEL DEPOT HOUR â&#x20AC;˘ Cardlock Fuel Management

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The Observer | Saturday, June 21, 2008

JUNE 22  Two-hour hike and geocache on Lions Lake Trail near Floradale â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Woolwich Trails Group. Discover geocaching, the adventure that uses GPS to locate hidden caches around the world. John Robinson a veteran geocacher will introduce us to this new exciting trend. Trail rating: easy, well maintained trail; includes gravel, earthen and grassed sections. Washroom available. Call Paul Miller 519-664-3643 to confirm meeting times and locations.  Two-hour family hike on the Health Valley Trail in St. Jacobs â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Woolwich Trails Group. Trail rating: easy walking stone dust trail. Baby buggies are welcome. Call Paul Miller 519-664-3643 to confirm meeting times and locations.  Benefit Concert â&#x20AC;&#x201C; St. Jacobs Mennonite Church at 7 p.m. Featuring Bethany Horst, soprano and Abby Horst, piano. An evening of classical, sacred and popular music. Free will offering towards St. Jacobs Mennonite Church kitchen renovation.

JUNE 24  Stepping Out: Putting Your Best Foot Forward â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Woolwich Community Health Centre. Health education session on keeping your feet healthy.

9:30-11:30a.m. at the Clubhouse, 1 Pond View Dr. Wellesley. For more info, call Karla 519-656-9028, ext. 224.

JUNE 25  Community Well Water Forum â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Residential Energy Efficiency Project (REEP). Join us for a free evening of presentations to local well owners about wells, water quality, testing and treatment, septic systems, source protection and local funding. Learn what you can do to protect your water and your familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s health. Free admission, door prizes and refreshments.

Woolwich Community Health Centre, 10 Parkside Dr., St. Jacobs. Call 519744-9799, ext. 224 or see www.reepwaterlooregion.ca for more info.

JUNE 26  Cholesterol Solutions â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Woolwich Community Centre. Find easy ways to improve your cholesterol level; 1:30-3:30p.m. Call 519-664-3794 to register.

JUNE 27  H.U.G.S. Program â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Woolwich Community Health Centre. Topic: Kindermusik, a music oriented session to portray the importance of music in child development; 9:15-11:45a.m. For parents and their children (zero to five years); 10 Parkside Dr., St. Jacobs; 519-664-3794.

JULY 1  Tim Hortons Swim â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Township of Woolwich. A free swim is being offered in conjunction with the 17th annual Canada Day celebration; 1:153:15p.m.  17th Annual Canada Day Celebration â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Township of Woolwich. Fun-filled afternoon of events including: Live entertainment by Byron Shantz, BBQ by the Optimist Club, ice cream from Foodland and the Kiwanis Club of Elmira, pop from local Girl Guides and brownies, firefightersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; games with our local department, and the annual cake cutting ceremony. There is a bouncy castle and magic show for everyone to enjoy. Come celebrate 141 years with the Township of Woolwich in Gore Park, Elmira.

JULY 13  Bug Out â&#x20AC;&#x201C; KW Bug Club. KW Bug Club presents the 2008 Canadian Bug Out. Come and see over 100 Volkswagens, old and new; $5 to view, $15 to show, $10 to vend; 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. KW Optimist Club in Heidelberg.

JULY 19  Third Annual Autorama Car show â&#x20AC;&#x201C; St. Clements Recreation Service Board. Vintage, classic and custom car show, silent auction, food, and refreshments. Fun for the whole family 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. free admission. Call 519-699-4989 or e-mail stclemautorama@yahoo.ca.

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OBITUARY Bauman, Ronald. On Tuesday, June 17, 2008 at his home in Elmira. Ron Bauman age 68 years of Elmira formerly of RR#1 West Montrose. Beloved husband and best friend of Beatrice (Bowman) Bauman for 45 years. Dear father of Lew and Kathy, Gary and Cathy all of RR#1 West Montrose. Charmaine and Chris Snider of Elmira. Also lovingly remembered by his grandchildren Josh and Jake; Haley, Riley and Cole: Mary, Nicole, Andrew and Amanda. Brother of Mabel and Amsey Martin of RR#1 Waterloo. Ruth and Melvin Weber of RR#2 West Montrose, David and Jean Bauman of Lethbridge, Alberta, Ernie Bauman of Waterloo, Dorothy and Enoch Weber of Drayton.

Predeceased by his parents Alvin S. and Adeline (Martin) Bauman.

The family will receive their friends and relatives at the Dreisinger Funeral Home, Elmira on Thursday from 3-5pm and 7-9pm. A Memorial Service for family and friends will be held at the Elmira Mennonite Church on Friday June 20th at 2:00 pm with Pastor Steven Janzen and Pastor Renee Sauder officiating.

The casket will remain open in the church until 1:45pm. Interment in the Elmira Mennonite Cemetery.

In Ronâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s memory donations to Grand River Regional Cancer Centre or Mennonite Central Committee would be appreciated by the family as expressions Wonderful Wines of sympathy.

DEATH NOTICES

(Behind Bank of Montreal) KITCHENER

BOWMAN, Elo M.

MARTIN Moses B.

29 Church St. W., Elmira

â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Peacefully, on Tuesday, June 17, 2008, at his home RR2 Wallenstein, Elo M. Bowman in his 76th year.

â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Peacefully went home to be with the Lord , on Tuesday, June 10, 2008, at Leisureworld Care Centre, Elmira.

Moses B. Martin in his 91st year, of Elmira.

519.744.9770

519.669.0799

FREEMAN, Melvin

New to the Community?

Do you have a new Baby?

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to call your Welcome Wagon Hostess.

Elmira & Surrounding Area If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not long distance to Elmira, you are welcome to a visit.

SHARON GINGRICH 519.291.6763

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â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 1926-2008. Peacefully, on Monday, June 16, 2008, at KW Health Centre. Melvin Freeman, age 81 years of Conestogo.

HILL, Wade Wesley

â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Of Kitchener, passed away peacefully at St. maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hospital, on Monday, June 16, 2008 in his 82nd year.

Local relatives are daughter Donna Kieswetter and her husband Ron of Paradise Lake.

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â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Peacefully, on Saturday, June 14, 2008 at Countryview Retirement Home, RR3, Listowel. Amos M. Weber in his 91st year of Floradale.

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â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Peacefully, went home to be with the Lord, on Friday, June 13, 2008 at Winston Park Retirement Home, Kitchener, Howard Shuh, in his 83rd year, of Elmira.

â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Peacefully surrounded by his loving family on Monday, June 16t, 2008, at his residence, Irvin Reed in his 73rd year of Elmira.

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The Observer | Saturday, June 21, 2008

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