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STEVE KANNON Changes could neuter the watchdog group monitoring a contaminated Elmira chemical site, current members warned this week, but Woolwich council pressed ahead with plans to dissolve the Chemtura Public Advisory Committee (CPAC). In its place will be two new bodies – the Remediation Advisory Committee (RAC) and a Technical Advisory Group (TAG) – that will provide much less public input and oversight of Chemtura’s remediation of polluted groundwater and ongoing concerns of continued contamination. There’s a different priority, however, as the move spearheaded by Mayor Sandy Shantz aims to bring back to the table the Ministry of the Environment and Chemtura, both of which have been skipping CPAC meetings since last fall. Council’s decision Tuesday night jeopardizes the public oversight of cleanup efforts, warns current CPAC chair Dan Holt. “I am saddened that this public advisory committee, which has not been under company rule, has fiCPAC | 6
Park Manor students Shelby Mikel, Ben Hall, Delaney Keen, Charlise Roth, Quinn Brown and Spencer Young celebrated the end of the school year on June 25.
Subdivision cleared for south end of St. Jacobs
Township reaches compromise with Valley View Heights; residents still have oustanding concerns
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STEVE KANNON The long-delayed next phase of a St. Jacobs subdivision will go ahead after the township and developer reached a compromise on some sticking points, including the provision of parkland. However, the decision is unlikely to impress residents, particularly parents of young children, concerned about traffic
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STARS COME UP FOR A CRUISE IN LINWOOD Tribute artists, classic cars and sunny skies highlighted the eighth annual Cruisin’ with the Stars fundraiser at the Linwood Recreation Complex June 20. [ SCOTT BARBER / THE OBSERVER]
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Breslau school issue the topic of another public discussion July 8 WHITNEY NEILSON Breslau residents will once again have the opportunity to express their opinions about the proposed sale of four acres of parkland to house a new school in their community. The taskforce appointed by Woolwich council has organized a public consultation night for July 8 at the Breslau Community Centre to hear from residents, but group member Bill Smith says it will be a less hostile environment than the previous one. “It’s not going to be like an open mic night where people can just sign up and fire off questions, complaints, criticisms, or whatever,” Smith said. “It’s going to be more of small table discussions and really more of an intimate setting where people can share their views, their questions, their concerns in a much more welcoming and respectful environment without the fear of being intimidated by the mob that we had at the first meeting.” Seeing the discontent, to say the least, from some 200 people who showed up, council created a task force of seven people, two
against the proposal, two in favour of the proposal, and three undecided. “They asked us to basically look at the proposal, look at the issues, ask questions and really try to get a better understanding of what the proposal is, how does it fit with the municipal strategic plan, what kinds of misunderstandings and misconceptions are there and what are the questions and concerns in the community and how can those be addressed,” Smith explained. He says they’re also looking at alternative options, like if the project didn’t proceed how they’d address the upgrades in the park, how they’d address Breslau’s desire for a library, and how would those things get paid for. They’ve been meeting every two weeks since May and are tentatively scheduled to report back to council on August 11. They’re supposed to make a recommendation, which council can choose to follow or do nothing with. “It’s been some lively discussion. The one thing that we’re really tasked with is gathering more TASK FORCE | 4
Park Manor will be welcoming former Breslau PS principal Sharlene McHolm, as James Bond is heading to Tait Street in Cambridge.
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Park Manor, Breslau schools part of principal mash up WHITNEY NEILSON Woolwich kids will notice a shakeup at two of their schools come September as Park Manor and Breslau public schools will both be getting new principals. Current Breslau PS principal Sharlene McHolm is making the move to Park Manor, while Park Manor’s James Bond will head up Tait Street Public School in Cambridge.
Tait Street’s principal, Marcia Lubert, will take over principal duties at Breslau PS. The shuffling was initiated by the Waterloo Region District School Board. “They have the abilities to look at the bigger picture piece of things. What they try to do is they try to match the talents and skills of an administrator with the needs of a community,” McHolm said. “In this case they have determined that
it would be a good move for me to move to Park Manor and for James to go to Tait. Typically principals stay at a school for a certain period of time and then they move them to other sites.” She took over as principal this year after serving as vice-principal. Locally, she also worked at Keats Way Public School and Lincoln Avenue Public School. She’s also taught internationally, and at a prison school.
“It’s kind of exciting for us to have the opportunity to go into different communities and have the opportunity to get to know different communities. It’s a lovely opportunity. “I have been fortunate because I have taught K-12 and I’ve been an administrator for K-12, so I’ve had the opportunity to see the most wonderful part of every age group,” McHolm PRINCIPALS | 32
Board changes tack on plan for year-end, will issue report cards by August 31 SCOTT BARBER Responding to pressure from concerned parents and students, the Waterloo Region District School Board will hire 40 temporary staff members to get students their marks by August 31. One of the last boards in the province to hold out on a decision to provide grades
for the 2014-15 school year’s second term, the board changed its tune June 17. “As a result of labour action, no data was put in electronically for report cards,” WRDSB spokesperson Marty Deacon said. “We felt (at first) that we would be able to do a placement letter, but we went back, and the board of trustees met in camera and
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said okay, ‘how can we go about this, and how can we do better?’ We listened to our parents’ feedback and we regrouped. So we had to find the money, and the money to get 40,000 report cards inputted is up to four weeks work for 40 people.” Where that money is coming from – in other words, what will go without funding as a result – has
not been determined, Deacon said. The board also declined to comment on a ball park dollar figure for the process. But the result will see students receive a summary of marks by the end of August. The summary of marks will not include teacher comments and will not be filed in official student
records. Instead, placement letters released as of June 22, indicating which grade the student would be attending in the fall and some basic attendance information, will take their place in the official records. The report card kerfuffle arose after the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario instructed its mem-
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Breslau groups shifts into fundraising mode for accessible playground SCOTT BARBER Inspired by the stateof-the-art Kate’s Kause playground in Elmira’s Gibson Park, a group of parents have begun a fundraising campaign to upgrade the park in Breslau’s Hopewell Heights neighbourhood. Now a subcommittee of the Breslau Recreation Association, the Hopewell Heights group got approval from Woolwich council to move ahead with plans to renovate the
existing playground off of Fountain Street, with the goal of making the space accessible and friendly to a variety of age groups. “We are a group of 15-20 moms in Hopewell Heights and we are just trying to bring an all-inclusive playground that all the kids can use, even if they have some type of disability,” organizer Jennifer Schade said. “Also, for the one- to five-year-olds in our community, there isn’t much for them to really do because the playground
that we do have now has rocks, which isn’t good for crawling. So we want to get a rubberized play surface area.” Currently, there is a metal play structure and a pair of swing sets, surrounded by a grassy area that could use more trees for shade, Schade said. While council is supportive of the initiative, they have not pledged any money for the project. Schade says the group is in the early stages of fundraising, and is looking to
bring in between $85,000 and $145,000 to incorporate most of the items on their wish list. “All parks that are built now have to be accessible under the accessibility act,” Schade said. “In the one- to five-year-old play structure, we are hoping to have some type of sensory wall or some type of sensory activity that the younger kids can do as well, whether it’s sound or some type of touch wall.” The Breslau Recreation Association held a family fun day June 20 in support of the project, and organiz-
ers are planning to host a fundraiser golf tournament at the Ariss Valley Golf and Country Club in September. If things go well, Schade is hoping the renovation will take place next spring. “I got involved in the Breslau Recreation Association, and then I knew all the moms had been talking to me about the park and the fact that the gravel wasn’t great and there was nowhere to sit and there was no shade for the kids,” she said. “Just by going to Kate’s Kause, and all of us have had to travel there,
and that’s 20-25 minutes, which isn’t a huge deal, but when you have kids, it would be nice to have somewhere (local) where they could go. And there are kids in our community who have different needs and we have seen that and so it would be great if everybody could use the park. ... We’re just moms who want to make the park great for everybody.” For more information, or to donate through the group’s go fund me campaign, contact hopwellheightspark@hotmail. com.
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Wednesday July 8, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. at the Breslau Community Centre Join the Task Force for coffee and desserts and an “Information Evening” to learn more about the proposal and share your ideas regarding the Breslau/WCDSB Project, with the Task Force.
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public input, hearing from more voices. The one thing we decided early on is that we need to do another public consultation because the first one that was done earlier this year, it wasn’t a great environment,” Smith said. He continued, “I was there and personally I’m against the project, but readily admit it would have taken a lot of courage for anybody that was for the project to stand up and speak that night.” He believes council is sincere in their desire to
hear from as many people as possible to understand what is it that Breslau residents want. Residents don’t have an issue with a new school being built in the community, but many are angry about the proposal to take away parkland to do so, which wasn’t paid for by the township. “This is by no means a done deal,” Smith said. “We need as many people as possible to come out and participate in this. Typically these types of events are going to draw the people who have an issue and we especially
want people who are for this project to understand everybody’s voice is wanted and welcome at this event.” The consultation night is July 8 at 7 p.m. at the Breslau Community Centre. Smith notes this is fully organized by the task force, and not by the township, school board, or library. “It’s kind of a lot like voting,” Smith said. “If you don’t go out and share your opinion on this project then we don’t really have a great feel for what’s the true sentiment of the community.”
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Another day in court for Cowan Former Woolwich mayor Todd Cowan’s court date in Kitchener was adjourned for the sixth time on Tuesday. His next appearance will come on July 21 at 9 a.m. in courtroom 106. Cowan is accused of double-billing expenses to the Region of Waterloo of Woolwich Township to the tune of $2,700, which he claims was an accident. A review began last July after a private citizen acquired Cowan’s expense claims from the regional government through a freedom of
information request, and compared those figures with the township’s records.
LRT disrupts tourist train
Due to the disruptions to the public and businesses in the region caused by the LRT construction on the Waterloo Spur Line, the Southern Ontario Locomotive Restoration Society can no longer use the line and has temporarily relocated its operations to run from the St. Jacobs Farmers’ Market to Elmira. Regional council this week approved
an extension of the existing agreement for an additional 12 months to accommodate the ongoing tourist train operations.
Woolwich awards sidewalk tender
Woolwich lined up its sidewalk work for this summer, awarding a $56,000 contract to GJR Construction Ltd. at this week’s council meeting. The company was the lowest of three bidders. The schedule calls for the bulk of the work to be carried out in Elmira, specifically along sections of Crane Drive, Peregrine Crescent, Eagle Drive
Pheasant Drive, Oriole Parkway, and Queen Street. Also on tap is a stretch of First Street (just west of Arthur Street) and a couple of small patches on Barnswallow and Mockingbird drives. In St. Jacobs, sidewalk work is slated for small stretches on Henry Street and Parkhaven Drive. In Floradale, a stretch of Ruggles Road will be done.
Tar-and-chip work approved
Several tar-and-chip roads in the township are slated for a fresh surface treatment this summer, with council deciding Tuesday night the work will
be carried out by Duncor Enterprises at a cost of $156,000. In Breslau, a fresh layer will be applied to portions of Joseph and Berlin streets, Kennedy Road, Menno Street, Elroy Road, Cooper Crescent, Sheridan Drive, Dovercourt Road. Also to be done are Foerster and Village View roads near Maryhill. At its own cost, the contractor will also be redoing some roads in Conestogo, where work done in 2013 showed poor results. The township will pay some $20,000 for upgrades to the treatment this time around, however. The streets to be re-treated are Glasgow Street, Misty River Drive,
Flax Mill Drive, Ferland Avenue, Elgin Street, Evening Star Lane, Feodore Street, and Grandview Drive. Coun. Murray Martin was the lone vote against awarding the contract, challenging the value of the work. “We have yet to get a good job done,” he said of the surface treatment, having been critical in the past of late applications that fail to adhere prior to the cold weather setting in. “For me, this is just a total waste of money.” Overall, the township has some 44 kilometres of tar-and-chip roads, which receive a new surface treatment on a five- to seven-year cycle.
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Police warn residents to be cautious about “Canada Revenue Agency scam” Waterloo Regional Police have been receiving numerous calls regarding the “Canada Revenue Agency scam” which has been circulating again. Fraudsters are phoning people and claiming they are representatives of Canada Revenue Agency and using pressure tactics to obtain the victim’s personal and banking information. At this point, police are not aware of any losses occurring. Canada Revenue Agency has posted information on their website to help the public. Go to www.craarc.gc.ca for more details and tips on how to avoid become a victim of fraudu-
lent communications. Waterloo Regional Police remind the public to be extremely cautious when being contacted by strangers via telephone, email or the Internet. Before providing any personal or financial information, take steps to assure yourself of the legitimacy of the caller. If in doubt, hang up or delete the email. Complaints may be registered with the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre at www.antifraudcentrecentreantifraude.ca. For tips and additional information to prevent fraud, visit our website at www.wrps.on.ca/staysafe/your-personal-safety/ fraud-prevention
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involved in a minor collision at the roundabout at Sawmill Road and Arthur Street near St. Jacobs.
4:07 PM | Police received a report of a driver backing into another car in a parking lot on Arthur Street South in Elmira. JUNE 17
12:18 PM | A driver reported that a cyclist threw an object at their car in the vicinity of Erbsville and Kressler roads in Wellesley Township. The vehicle was scratched. 1:50 PM | A Wellington County OPP officer investigated the female driver of a 2010 Chevrolet for a Highway Traffic Act violation on Wellington Road 12 near Wellington Road 8, Mapleton Township. Police located suspected marijuana and arrested the driver. The 29-yearold Hickson woman was charged with ‘possession of marijuana under 30 grams.’ She is to appear in Guelph Criminal Court on August 25 to answer the charge. 2:41 PM | A handmade quilt valued at $750 was stolen off a clothesline from an address on Cedar Waxwing Drive in Elmira. 3:12 PM | Two cars – a Chevrolet and a Chrysler – were
10:45 PM | A driver travelling on Line 86 near Sideroad 16 in Woolwich Township struck a deer. JUNE 18
12:29 PM | An Acura parked in a lot on Weber Street near St. Jacobs suffered minor damage to its bumper when the driver of a pickup truck backed into it. JUNE 19
6:17 AM | The roundabout near St. Jacobs was the scene of a fender-bender involving a Ford van and a Peterbilt transport truck. 7:54 AM | Police received a report of an attempted break-in to storage units at a Floradale Road location in Woolwich Township. Nothing appeared to have been taken, however 10:49 AM | Another collision occurred at the St. Jacobs roundabout. Deemed minor in nature, the drivers reported to the Police Reporting Centre in Cambridge.
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On June 22 at 11:30 a.m. a 40-year-old man Hawkesville man driving a Ford SUV collided with an unoccupied tractor trailer which was parked on the side of the road at the top of a hill near 3309 Ament Line. The driver was taken to hospital with minor injuries and the road was closed for three hours while the police investigated. [WHITNEY NEILSON / THE OBSERVER]
5:58 PM | Travelling on Church Street West at Floradale Road, a Kitchener man driving a 2012 Dodge made a left turn across the path of a motor scooter driven by an Elmira woman, causing about $1,500 in damage. Injuries were minor, and an ambulance was declined. 10:30 PM | Officers stopped a vehicle on Goldfinch Drive in Elmira. The lone occupant was found to be breaching two terms of his criminal recognizance. He was arrested and search of the vehicle resulted in a quantity of crystal methamphetamine. A 46-year-old Woolwich Township man was charged with ‘breach of recognizance’ and ‘possession CDSA.’ JUNE 20
10:17 AM | A Pontiac driven by a 44-year-old Listowel woman was travelling east on Line 86 in Wellesley Township when it collided with a horse-drawn buggy being operated by a 33-year-old Wellesley Township man was also travelling east on Line 86. The horse suddenly bolted from the gravel shoulder across the roadway into the path of the Pontiac and was struck. The buggy flipped on its side and was dragged a short distance by the horse before the horse broke free. As a result of the collision, the buggy operator suffered critical injuries and he was airlifted to Hamilton General Hospital. The horse was not injured. The female driver was not injured. Anyone who witnessed this collision
is asked to contact Waterloo Regional Police at 519-650-8500, ext. 8793. 10:17 AM | A vehicle was rear-ended during heavy stopand-go traffic at King Street and Farmers Market Road south of St. Jacobs. A 64-year-old man from Jackson Point, Ont. was charged with ‘careless driving.’ 3:00 PM | A 41-year-old Hawkesville man was charged with ‘care or control of a motor vehicle, over 80 mgs’ after a Perth County OPP officer on patrol observed a vehicle parked in a driveway at the Optimist Park along Line 87 north of Listowel. The officer noted that a male was sleeping in the driver’s seat. The man was awakened and a strong odour of an alcoholic beverage was detected on his breath. He failed a roadside breath test and also failed a subsequent Intoxilyzer breath test at the Wellington County OPP Teviotdale detachment. 3:43 PM | Two vehicles – a Chevrolet pickup truck and Honda Pilot – collided at Ament Line and Herrgott Road near Hawkesville. A Waterloo woman was charge with ‘making an unsafe turn.’ Damage was estimated at $8,000. 3:51 PM | Police received a report of a minor fender-bender in a parking lot on Lobsinger Line in Wellesley Township.
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2:30 AM | A Perth County OPP officer spoke to a motorist on Road 136 west of Milverton. The male driver of the car was found to have the odour of an alcoholic beverage on his breath. He was administered a roadside breath test which he failed and was transported to the Listowel OPP Detachment where he also failed Intoxilyzer breath tests. The 20-year-old man, a resident of the Township of Perth East, was charged with ‘drive with over 80 mgs of alcohol in 100mls of blood.’ He has a court appearance scheduled for the Ontario Court of Justice in Stratford on July 27. 4:00 AM | Perth County OPP officers were patrolling the village of Milverton when they observed a single horse, black open buggy, with three occupants. The buggy was being driven at a greater than normal buggy speed and was swerving on the streets. The buggy proceeded southbound on Main Street South while the cruiser followed the buggy without emergency lighting activated as not to frighten the horse. The buggy continued driving in an erratic manner with the driver attempting to make a sudden sharp left turn as it approached Pugh St. The horse jumped the curb while the buggy tipped causing the three male occupants and the buggy contents (including bottles of liquor) to spill onto the road. The horse and the buggy occupants
did not sustain injuries and there was no damage to the buggy as it had landed back on its wheels. The buggy driver, a 23-year-old resident of the Township of Perth East, was charged with ‘careless driving.’ The driver and the two male passengers in their early twenties were also charged with ‘having liquor in other than licensed premises, residence or private place.’ The driver walked the horse and buggy back to the farm from where it was borrowed. JUNE 22
11:37 AM | Police and emergency services responded to collision on Ament Line in Wellesley Township. A 40-year-old man from Hawkesville was operating a Ford SUV east on Ament line when he struck the back of a un-occupied tractor trailer that was parked at the edge of the road while the driver was making a delivery. The road was closed for about three hours while police investigated. The driver of the SUV was taken to hospital with what appeared to be minor but undetermined injuries. 2:26 PM | Emergency services responded to 5903 Ament Line near Linwood for a report of a fire. It started when residents were grinding in a outbuilding on the property, sparks ignited flammable material that quickly spread to the rest of the building. The fire destroyed the outbuilding, but there were no injuries reported.
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Fashion show looking to dig out old prom dresses, similar apparel from big events WHITNEY NEILSON Dive into your closet and dig out your fanciest duds because they’ll be hitting the runway at the Parties and Prom: Past and Present Fashion Show in Wellesley this fall. Spearheaded by Wendy Richardson the fashion show will highlight prom dresses, mother of the bride dresses, and other special event clothes from as far back in time as possible, right up to the present. Funds raised will go toward the Wellesley North Easthope Fall Fair and the Wellesley accessible playground. They held a similar show, but for wedding dresses, back in 2010. “The wedding dress show was such a hit,” Richardson said. “I personally love to see the girls in their prom dresses. I have three daughters. I just loved prom, the limousines and the girls get all dolled up and the boys get all dolled up and everybody looks fun and fantastic.” They had 51 dresses at that show and she’s hoping to get some 50 this time around, too. That means they’re on the hunt for any
kind of fancy dresses from any era. And you don’t have to be from Wellesley Township, she added. “The girls are going into prom this Thursday for Waterloo-Oxford. One of the girls is handing out flyers, so hopefully they’ll contact me because I want their dresses,” Richardson said. They’ve just started collecting for the October show, but already she’s had women offering up their dresses from a variety of decades. They can showcase any dresses they get and it looks like there will be quite a few. “I would have thought that the ’40s and ’50s would have been hard,” Richardson explained. “I was thinking more it might start with the ’70s and up, but since Diane Peters came to me and said she’s got some from the ’40s and ’50s, I thought ‘fantastic.’” The dresses from Peters and prom dresses from this year will be a good base to grow on. She also plans to get their past fair ambassadors involved, whether it’s supplying dresses or modeling them, or both. “I really hope that people who own the dresses, espe-
cially the young girls, I’m hoping that they will all model their own dresses. But some are shy about that so we’ll get models for them,” Richardson said. She notes she hopes new people to Wellesley will come out to the show and bring their dresses forward, to help them get more involved with the community. The current and new fair ambassador will be the emcees for the show. There will also be vendors around the perimeter of the community centre, just like at the wedding show. She’s had this fashion show in the back of her mind for a while, and she figures if she wants to see it other people will want to too. “The wedding dress show was great because you’re getting your local fashions,” Richardson said. “And we actually had one from 1843 and then it jumped up to 1910 and it had some from every decade on. It was a lot of fun so we think this is going to be a lot of fun too.” Between Wellesley Idol and the fair ambassador competition, Richardson spends a lot of time work-
ing with teenagers – something she enjoys. She says many of the older dresses will have to be modeled by them because the dresses made before 1950 are typically very small. “It’ll be interesting to see how the different trends go. Long, short, plain to really fancy,” Richardson said. The funds raised for the fair will go toward things like children’s entertainment, prizes, and posters. She notes all ages are getting involved, with children making centerpieces for the show. “I just hope that they have as much fun at this event as at the wedding show,” Richardson said. “We’ve been hearing back from that for four years now that people really enjoyed that. I’d really like to bring the younger generations into this, not just the teenagers, but their mothers.” The show goes on Oct. 16 at 7 p.m. at the Wellesley Community Centre. Tickets are $15 and anyone interested in donating dresses and/or modeling them can contact Richardson at wrichardson@bell. net or 519-656-2961.
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nally been brought under the control of the company it is supposed to oversee. The new structure of this committee will take the public out of the picture, allow the contamination to continue to flow offsite, the aquifer to stay contaminated, and make a mockery of the protection that the environment and people are supposed to enjoy under the auspices of the government,” he predicted. “I sincerely hope that I am wrong about all of this, but am afraid I am not.” Holt was not alone in that assessment, as other members of CPAC weighed in. “How will this lead to action for clean drinking water?” asked Vivienne Delaney of council’s changes to CPAC. She noted there are concerns about persistent organic pollutants – known as POPs – continuing to leach from the site, specifically DDT, dioxins and furans. Will the new groups press Chemtura and the MoE, which has done little, to act on the concerns? “I would urge you to
think carefully and critically before approving any motions regarding the dissolution of CPAC,” said Graham Chevreau, taking issue with the outcome of an April 9 meeting arranged by Shantz to find out what it would take to get Chemtura and the ministry to resume attending meetings. “The meeting notes of the April 9 meeting identified approximately 20 roadblocks to the process of remediation of the Chemtura site. Surprising to me, 13 of these 20 were attributed to CPAC,” he said. “Simply put, the report ... has essentially identified CPAC as the major roadblock to the cleanup of this site.” He dismissed that assertion, noting that no one from CPAC attended what was billed as a gathering of stakeholders because only one representative was invited to what was not a public meeting. For CPAC member Sebastian Siebel-Achenbach, the changes proposed by the township appear to hinge on personalities, not the issues that the minis-
try and Chemtura won’t address. “Much of the driving motivation for the coming change appears to us to be about personalities. Specifically, CPAC’s association with Mr. Alan Marshall has raised hackles. The hostilities go back over a decade and have festered,” he explained. “We understand the urge to retaliate, but want this council to consider that this is ancillary to the true purpose of monitoring and compelling Chemtura to abide by its commitments. “In short, Alan’s transgressions are a red herring which allows the real culprits to escape closer scrutiny.” Councillors were not swayed, however, voting to dissolve CPAC when its current term ends on August 31 in favour of the two new groups. “This is not a condemnation of CPAC,” said Coun. Patrick Merlihan. “I’m willing to give this a try.” He voted for the format change despite reservations about a lack of public representation – a “professionalizing” of
the oversight committee. RAC, in particular, with be dominated by paid employees and bureaucrats: two representatives from township council (the mayor will serve as chair), someone from the Region of Waterloo and Grand River Conservation Authority, and three people from TAG. Chemtura and the MoE will attend. “I would still like the feel of this being a citizens’ committee,” said Merlihan, calling the lack of public representation “cringeworthy.” In support of more public input, Coun. Mark Bauman pushed for a change to technical group’s terms of reference to allow for written submissions from the public, though the body will not allow delegates or public input at meetings. The township will be taking applications for volunteers looking to serve on the new bodies, and will consider the bids of those current CPAC members who already submitted applications in advance of the next term if they’d like their names to stand given the changes.
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of development charges – levies added to the price of each new home to cover the costs associated with growth – is expected to be settled over the next couple of months. More pressing to residents are the deal’s parkland provisions. The existing park in phase one of the subdivision will be doubled by adding land to the east, with the remainder of the mandatory parkland dedication met by two blocks of open space immediately north of the subdivision, adjacent to the much larger floodplain/ valley land. The township had been pushing for a larger allotment beside the current park, with the developer winning the battle to retain building lots for six semi-detached units. Woolwich also wanted Valley View to build a multi-use sports pad in the new park. Instead, it will provide $20,000 towards a smaller project on the scaled-back parkland. The compromise displeased parents looking for new facilities for young children. Nor were they happy with the lack of any measures to deal with increased traffic. Others were mollified by the fact the developer will turn over to the township some 15 acres of otherwise unusable land in the floodplain, home to a well-used network of trails Valley View had threatened to cut off if the township did not agree to the company’s position on parkland. Conflicting neighbourhood concerns were the subject of two hours of discussion at this week’s council meeting. A group of neighbours calling themselves the St. Jacobs Community Association pushed for the larger park originally demanded by the township, citing the lack of nearby recreational space for young children. “At this point in time in the neighbourhood, families and children are playing sports out in the street, mostly because there isn’t anywhere close for them to go and enjoy those activities. The rise in traffic in the last couple of years is making that increasingly difficult and dangerous,” said Melissa Fishman, adding that failing to get more useful parkland will “jeopardize the safety of children.” “The increase in traffic and population in the area requires space that is use-
ful for sports, activities for children, bike riding and whatnot.” Not everyone was onside with the association, however, with some residents claiming the group failed to tell the whole story when circulating a petition signed by some 150 people. “This has been a very, very frustrating process in the neighbourhood. There was a lot of miscommunication. I don’t think we were represented very well to council, and the communication to the neighbourhood could have been handled a lot better, said resident Susan Scurry, who brought a 21-name petition in support of the compromise proposal. “The 16-acre trail is the most important to me in all of this mess,” said Marlene Meechan, who also praised the developer’s proposal. St. Jacobs resident Tim Waters expressed frustration at the township’s “inability to work with the developer,” adding that the position staked by the community association and by the township in the earlier stages put the trail network at risk. “Having to alter the trail system or cut it off is a huge detriment to my community. As an avid trail user, I would be disappointed to see it compromised in any way,” he said. For another resident, the increased traffic the new subdivision will bring adds to the need to deal with what is already a problem with volume and speeds. “We as a community are growing increasingly concerned about traffic,” Nicola Bywater told councillors. She noted that a 2012 traffic study by the township showed trafficcalming measures weren’t warranted along the older stretches of Young and Water streets, where neighbours are worried about the safety of their children. “Young Street and Water Street are used as main throughways for town people to bypass King Street. We see an increase of the use of these two roads in the evening commute hours and on the weekends, because people are bypassing the tourism, they’re bypassing the traffic,” said Bywater, adding she expects the situation to worsen next year when the region starts to reconstruct King Street. “We feel we need your help now.”
Liona Boyd concert a first for the performer and the Elmira venue WHITNEY NEILSON She’s performed for kings and queens, flown with Prince Philip, and is making her way to little ol’ Elmira for the first, and possibly last, time to share her music. Affectionately called The First Lady of Guitar, Liona Boyd is putting on a night of classical music from her numerous albums, helped by the St. James choir and fellow guitarist and vocalist Michael Sovano. “I’ve never played Elmira and it’s going to be fun to play in a little church there,” Boyd said from her home in Toronto. Born in London, England, she moved to Canada with her family when she was eight years old. The five-time Juno award-winner took up the guitar at 13 years old after attending a concert with her mother. She’s hoping families will follow her lead and also bring their children to her concert. “Many times people have said we brought our son or our daughter to a concert and years later they’re still playing guitar and they fell in love with the guitar just like I did,” Boyd said. She says to expect some songs from her most recent album, The Return… To Canada with Love, along with new ones from her album, No Remedy for Love, which drops this fall. “I’m actually going to be premiering quite a few new pieces on this little mini tour of Ontario,” Boyd said. She says the addition of a choir and Savona, along with her own singing – which she just started six years ago – will make for a more interesting program than she used to do.
Liona Boyd is bringing her classical guitar and impressive repertoire to Elmira’s St. James Lutheran Church on July 4, for likely the only time. [SUBMITTED] “I used to just play solo classical guitar. We still have some solo classical and we have some duos because I’m accompanied by Michael Savona. There’s a lot of variety so I’d encourage people to bring their kids if they possibly can,” Boyd said. After spending 20 years in the U.S., between Los Angeles, Miami, and Connecticut, Boyd decided it was time to come back to Canada. She realized Canada was lacking in the patriotic song department, unlike the States. “I realized Canada, other than the anthem, didn’t really have a patriotic song. I’ve played it with different choirs,” Boyd explained. “I did the Governor General’s awards two years ago and I’m performing at the mayor’s lunch for the Pan Am Games. I’m playing a theme song about the city of Toronto called The Toronto Song and also
playing a new theme song I wrote for the province of Ontario. So I seem to be on a theme song roll.” She said she wanted Canadians to celebrate their diversity and landscapes. Also, Ontario hadn’t had a popular song done about it since Ontari-ari-ari-o! This will probably be the last time she plays in Elmira because she’s cutting back on performing, she says. But at 65, she still plans on performing, just not as much. In a career that’s seen her fly around the globe performing for big audiences and dignitaries, it’s hard to pinpoint just a couple moments that stand out. “I’ve been a pen pal with Prince Philip for 30 years and recently I wrote a song and asked if I could dedicate to him. He just wrote back last week and told me yes he’d be delighted. It’s called Love of the Horse,
because he’d written me a letter all about horses,” Boyd said. She also adds playing Carnegie Hall in her 20s, playing a concert for the Cree natives in Moosonee, and playing for the king and queen of Spain as highlights. “On a personal level one of the highlights was I was asked by the family if I would give a dying man his wish, which was he always wanted to hear me play Malaguena,” Boyd said. “He lived in Quebec and I didn’t have any concerts coming up, so they called me and he was basically on his deathbed and I played it over the phone. And then I didn’t realize this, they filmed the dad. There was just a big smile on his face and it just really made his day, and then he died two days later.” She encourages people to stick around after the concert to chat, where she’ll sign CDs, which she’s bringing along to sell. This will be the second of just five concert dates in Ontario this July. She’ll also be performing at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Fergus on July 10 at 8 p.m. for those who can’t make it to the Elmira concert. “I think it’s a good way for people in small communities like Elmira to meet other like-minded people,” Boyd said. “People have told me that they’ve met new friends because we have an intermission and people can mingle.” The doors open at 7:30 p.m. on July 4 at St. James Lutheran Church in Elmira, with the concert starting at 8 p.m. Tickets are $39.50 for adults and $34.50 for seniors and students. They can be purchased at www.ticketweb. ca, by calling 1-888-2226608, or at The Window
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since August of last yearmoving in their direction. At first, the WRDSB said it would not be possible to make up the time needed to input all the grades, and that it would be too expensive to hire additional staff to get the job done. But now, they have done just that. For months, union representatives insisted teachers are looking to maintain prep time and class size limits along with other
student learning-centered initiatives at the bargaining table. However this week, the Ontario Public School Boards’ Association went public with the teacher’s demand of three per cent raises for the first three years of a new deal, on top of cost of living increases. ETFO local representative Greg Weiler denied the assertion, saying there has been no formal proposal put on the table. “There have been no monetary issues dis-
cussed,” he said, adding that he has no idea where the OPSBA would have gotten the three per cent figure. He did speculate that, “in the past, when you start a negotiation, and I can only speak to locally, because that’s the level I am involved in, you would always come forward with some kind of starting position, which was certainly never something that you expected to get. … I can tell you I would not go in
front of my members, in the climate we are in, and say we are going to do a job action just to get salary improvements. I wouldn’t support that and I know my members wouldn’t support that.” Teachers’ salaries increased by 21.5 per cent from 2004-2012 in Ontario, holding steady since in part due to the lack of a new contract. OPSBA says the union’s demands would cost the province some $3.2 billion.
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Pan Am Games a failure to all but those who profit ONLY THOSE LYING TO the public for their own gain – read all the politicians, bureaucrats and lobbyists involved – and the severely deluded – unfortunately, a number larger than zero – will fail to admit the Pan Am Games are primed for failure. Less than two weeks before the unneeded, unloved and unfathomable event creates additional traffic chaos, and nothing of benefit, in the GTA, even those paid to paint a rosy picture admit that more than 60 per cent of the 1.4 million tickets available remain unsold. The real number is likely much higher. We can expect the truth to come out somewhere down the line, just as we’ll eventually know how far over budget the now-$2.5-billion games have gone, and just how huge the losses were. Make no mistake, the already pointless billions spent will grow. The purported economic benefits and profits – which never materialize with any of these spectacles, though the lie continues – will not be spoken of again, swept under the same rug as every other government economic fiasco, corruption scandal and outright theft of public money. In its wake, the games won’t even leave some foolish national flag-waving or post-party buzz. Quite frankly, nobody cares about the Pan Am Games, save for those set to pocket the billions the rest of us will have lifted from our wallets. In the end, those seeking to justify the misappropriation of funds will fall back on the infrastructure argument: it wasn’t about the games, but about the catalyst for getting needed projects built. In this case, they’ll point to the rail link from the airport to downtown, itself a much-criticized project. Such a link, actually, a much better one, should have been built years ago, as those connections are a matter of course in most larger cities. Almost all of the other infrastructure built for the games will prove to be a liability. Even in the case of profitable sports such as hockey, sports economists widely agree government involvement in arenas and stadiums is at best a sub-optimal use of money. Usually, it’s another loser. For the sports involved in these games, it’s simply money flushed away. All of the shortcomings are detailed in a recent article in the Journal of the American Planning Association by geography scholar Martin Müller. From cost overruns, gentrification, oversized infrastructure, elite capture, environmental degradation, the study looks at the long list of negative impacts that plague hosts of mega-events from Rio to Johannesburg and from Vancouver to Sochi. “The same mistakes are repeated over and over again in different mega-event host cities,” he says. “They promise a lot, but they don’t live up to the promises.” He is explicit about who gains from such events. “The public sector provides the deficit guarantee demanded by event-governing bodies in almost all cases, thus accepting the risk of failure. The government must deliver the defined facilities and infrastructure and cover all budget shortfalls, while the profits accrue to the event-governing bodies and the contractors. This guarantee encourages profiteering: Contractors know that the government is obliged to finish the project regardless of price,” the study notes. “You can bank on the fact that there will be cost overruns, and it’s the public who picks up the bill in the end,” Müller says. “The irony of mega events is that they’re sold and marketed as an event for everyone. But money and benefits really accrue to a select few.” The select few will be watching from private boxes, dining lavishly. Those paying the bill will be stuck on the 401.
Doing some redecorating upon taking office, the new mayor follows her predecessor in remodeling the public oversight function of CPAC to be more to her liking. WORLD VIEW / GWYNNE DYER
We can count each one of us among the Walking Dead WORLD AFFAIRS “There are examples of species all over the world that are essentially the walking dead,” said Stanford University professor Paul Ehrlich. “We are sawing off the limb that we are sitting on.” He was talking about the Sixth Extinction, the huge loss of species that is underway right now. It has been discussed in public before, of course, but what Ehrlich and other scientists from Stanford and Princeton universities and the University of California Berkeley have done is to document it statistically. Animals and plants are always going extinct, usually to be replaced by rival species that exploit the same ecological niche more efficiently. But the normal turnover rate is quite slow, according to the fossil record: about one species of vertebrate per 10,000 species goes extinct each century. Ehrlich and his colleagues deliberately raised the bar, assuming
that the normal extinction rate is twice as high as that – and still got an alarming result. In a study published this month in Science Advances, they report that vertebrates (animals with internal skeletons made of bone or cartilage – mammals, birds, reptiles and fish) are going extinct at a rate 114 times faster than normal. In a separate study last year, Professor Stuart Pimm of Duke University estimated that the loss rate may be as much as a thousand times higher than normal – and that includes plants as well as animals. “We are now entering the sixth great mass extinction event,” said Gerardo Ceballos of the Universidad Autonoma de Mexico, lead author of the Science Advances study. “If it is allowed to continue, life would take many millions of years to recover and our species itself would likely disappear early on.” Indeed, Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson has estimated that at the current rate of loss, half of Earth’s higher lifeforms will be extinct by 2100. The previous five mass
extinctions, all during the past half-billion years, each wiped out at least half of the existing species of life. Four of them were probably caused by drastic warming of the planet due to massive, millennia-long volcanic eruptions. The warming eventually made the deep oceans oxygen-free, allowing sulphur bacteria to emerge from the muds. As they took over the oceans, they killed off all the oxygen-based life – and when they finally reached the surface, they emitted vast quantities of hydrogen sulphide gas that destroyed the ozone layer and directly poisoned most land-based life as well. The fifth and most recent mass extinction, at the end of the Cretaceous era 65 million years ago, was different. It was caused by a giant asteroid that threw so much dust up when it hit Earth that the Sun was effectively hidden for years. First the plants died, and then the animals. But the cause of the sixth extinction is a single species: us. It’s fair to say that we are the victims of our own success, but so is the entire biosphere. There were one
billion of us in 1800. We are now seven and a half billion, on our way to 10 or 11 billion. We have appropriated the most biologically productive 40 per cent of the planet’s land surface for our cities, farms and pastures, and there’s not much room left for the other species. They have been crowded out, hunted out, or poisoned by our chemical wastes. Their habitats have been destroyed. Even the oceans are being devastated as one commercial fish species after another is fished out. And still our population continues to grow, and our appetite for meat causes more land to be cleared to grow grain not for people, but for livestock. All this even before global warming really gets underway and starts to take huge bites out of the ecosphere. We are on the Highway to Hell, and it’s hard to see how we get off it. In a way, climate change is the easiest part of the problem to fix, because all we have to do is stop burning fossil fuels and reform DYER | 10
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THEIR VIEW / QUESTION OF THE WEEK
How do you plan to celebrate Canada Day?
»»Lucas Moore
»»Emmett Weissenboeck
»»Wesley Wilson
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“Watching fireworks.”
“Going to the festival in Fergus.”
“Going to our family cottage.”
“Having a barbeque.”
“Going to the Elmira gazebo during the day and watching fireworks in the evening.”
“If we continue business as usual, our species may never again enjoy the lush and verdant world we had only a hundred years ago.” Gwynne Dyer | 8 HIS VIEW / STEVE KANNON
In today’s economy, talking about job growth usually means falling behind EDITOR'S NOTES Once upon a time – all good fairytales start thusly – crappy, low-paying jobs were a rite of passage for students, something you did in your youth before moving on to bigger and better things. And so it was for most, though not all of us. Today, those McJobs are an increasing part of our lives, not just for students – ironically, they’re having a harder time finding summer employment – but for those of an age for the bigger and better of the past. The real fairytale is one of good jobs for Ontarians, indeed all Canadians. While good jobs are increasingly hard to come by, the low-wage workforce in Ontario grew by 94 per cent over the past 17 years, vastly outstripping the 30 per cent growth in total employment, as detailed in a study released last week by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Using figures from Sta-
tistics Canada between 1997 and 2014, the group found more of us are in precarious employment situations than ever before. CCPA’s study was spurred by the provincial government’s current review of its Employment Standards Act and the Ontario Labour Relations Act, both of which are found wanting in today’s economic climate. It also makes the correlation between declining private sector unionization levels and falling incomes and standards. Very much indicative of the problem is the increase in the number of workers earning the minimum wage, 11.9 per cent of employees in 2014 versus just 2.4 per cent in 1997. Over that same period, the share of low-wage workers (making within $4 of the minimum wage) went to 29.4 per cent from 19.8 per cent. Not only do these jobs pay poorly – often not enough to cover basic living expenses – those in them are some of the most exploited and vulnerable workers. There are few, if any benefits. No sick days or leave provisions. Lack
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In other words, one out of two workers in Ontario don’t have a 40-hour-aweek job. In 2014, there were 695,000 minimum wage earners in Ontario. More than a million workers earned between $11 and $15 an hour. Add to that the number of minimum wage workers and more than 1.7 million Ontarians work for low wages – almost 30 per cent of all workers, the CCPA report notes. Among those minimum wage earners, 234,000 (one in three) are of prime working age, 8.7 per cent are older than 55; and 57.6 per cent are under 25. The age distribution of workers making between $11 to $15 per hour shifts dramatically: 70 per cent of those workers are 25 years and older. This dispels the myth that minimum wage earners are teenagers who are working for the latest smart phone or other non-necessity. In reality, 66 per cent of minimum wage workers are older than 20 and only 34 per cent are teens. In other words, two out of every three wage earners
are adults trying to make ends meet on a minimum wage that keeps a full-time, full-year worker below the poverty line. Employment growth in trade (retail and wholesale), business services (which includes temporary agencies, cleaning, and security services), and accommodation and food services outpaced overall Ontario employment growth. All of these industries have median wages that are far below the median for all workers. In short, a rising share of Ontario workers are in lowwage work. These workers are more likely than higher-wage employees to have variable hours where their schedule and pay is unpredictable, says the report. “The findings make a compelling case for modernizing the outdated labour laws in Ontario,” says CCPA-Ontario senior economist Sheila Block. “There is also scope for the province to raise the minimum wage, to require employers to schedule more predictable work hours, to improve access to sick leave and vacation time, and to
make it easier for low-wage workers to unionize.” Unionization is a divisive issue. Unions have a mostly negative image, even as the numbers of unionized workers continue to drop in the private sector, to 14 per cent in 2014 versus 19 per cent in 1997. Private sector labour disputes of the past are, for the most part, things of the past: the large strikes of many decades ago, and even the regular action in the auto industry, have gone the way of the dodo. That’s partly due to the losses in the traditional large industries, coupled with decades of assault on unions and workers led by proponents of globalization. Today, unions are most associated with the public sector, where rates have held steady around 70 per cent. Government workers, however, are typically well compensated (read overpaid), have copious benefits, overgenerous pensions and a long list of perqs, almost none of which exist in the private KANNON | 10
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From 2003 to 2013, employment in Canada’s public sector increased by 22.6%, more than double the rate of increase in the private sector (10.7%). The public sector in Canada (including federal, provincial and local government employees) is growing and reaching proportions not seen since the early 1990s, an era marked by large government deficits and high debt. Ontario’s economic woes mirror the increased hiring and deficit patterns.
“Voters should be skeptical of politicians’ promises, and even if the Liberals made all the changes they promised everyone in politics and government would still be allowed to lie to voters, politicians would still be allowed to make money from their decisions, secret lobbying would still be legal, wealthy individuals would still be allowed to use money to have unethical influence, whistleblowers would still not be effectively protected, and enforcement and penalties would still be too weak to stop wrongdoing.”
In the liner notes of their new album – set for release Tuesday – the Tragically Hip dedicates the first track to the late Dan Snyder. The band contacted the Snyders several months ago “out of the blue,” after penning the song “Heaven Is A Better Place Today.” It was then that they asked the family’s permission to include the track on their album, In Between Evolution.
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the way we farm to cut carbon dioxide emissions. More easily said than done, as the history of the past 30 years amply demonstrates, but certainly not impossible if we take the task seriously. Maintaining the diversity of species (some of which we haven’t even identified yet) that provide essential “ecosystem services” is going to be far harder, because the web of interdependence among apparently unrelated species is very complex. At the very least, however, it is clear that we must restore around a quarter of our agricultural land to its orig-
inal “wild” state and cut back drastically on fishing. It’s far from clear that we can do that in time and still go on feeding all of the human population, but the alternative is worse. James Lovelock put it very bluntly in his book “The Revenge of Gaia.” “If we continue business as usual, our species may never again enjoy the lush and verdant world we had only a hundred years ago,” he wrote. “What is most in danger is civilisation; humans are tough enough for breeding pairs to survive ... but if these huge changes do occur it seems likely that few of the teeming billions now alive will survive.”
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Nathaniel Mechler bests all comers in Ottawa to win the Canadian championship, earn trip to the junior Pan Am Games in Edmonton SCOTT BARBER Nathaniel Mechler is officially the top junior decathlete – and arguably the top allaround athlete – in Canada. Competing in his first decathlon last weekend in Ottawa, the 18-year-old Elmira District Secondary School student out ran, jumped and threw the nation’s best to win the Canadian National Junior Decathlon Championship. With the victory, Mechler earned more than bragging rights and a gold medal for his trophy case, he also earned a spot on the Canadian track and field team for the junior Pan Am Games in Edmonton later this
summer. “It’s really exciting and really a big honour,” Mechler said of the chance to represent Canada for the first time. He was happy with the way things went in Ottawa, despite the fact that soreness played a big factor on the second day of the competition. “It was a long weekend,” he said. “I was sitting second after day one, but that’s what I was expecting, since I usually have a better day two. That’s because most Canadian decathletes aren’t very good at the events that take place on day two, where as there are some good events for me there, so that’s usually where I can make up a lot of points on
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the other competitors.” Traditionally the contest for the “world’s best athlete,” the decathlon includes: 100-metre, 400-metre, 1,500-metre, 110-metre hurdles, long jump, high jump, pole vault, javelin, shot put, and discus. A strong runner, Mechler had the best times in the 400-metre dash (48.48 seconds) and the 100-metre hurdles (14.50 seconds) and was the second fastest in the 1,500-metre race (4:51.77). He also had the best pole vault of 4.50 metres and set a personal best in the javelin, with a throw of 40.59 metres. His other results were: 100-metres time of 11.77 seconds; long jump of 6.49 metres; shot
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put of 12.87 metres; high jump of 1.82 metres; and a discus throw of 34.06 metres. Now, Mechler will take a couple weeks off before ramping up training once again for the Pan Ams, which will take place July 31 to August 2 in Edmonton, Alberta. The competition there will be stiff, and he’ll need to step up his game, since some of the world’s best decathletes –particularly the American and Cuban teams – will be on hand for the event. Mechler wrapped up a successful high school track and field season earlier this month at the Ontario Federation of Secondary DECATHLON | 13
As I write this, bass season is two days away in the place where I do most of my fishing. Needless to say, I’m excited. But not for the reasons you might think. Some anglers get revved up over the prospect of lots of bass action or of catching a lunker or just spending time on the water. As for myself, I enjoy how everyone suddenly turns into a southern TV show bass angler. This is happening more and more among my circle of acquaintances, likely because they have overdosed on fishing shows in the offseason. Some of the best bass shows come from anglers in the southern U.S. where bass grow bigger and fishing seasons sometimes allow them to fish for bass that are on their spawning beds. Luckily, our seasons in most of Ontario prevent this from being an option. Otherwise, you’d hear hooting and hollering on the lake even earlier in the year. Most of the anglers on these southern-based fishing shows are good ol’ boys and gals. Predictably, they have heavy southern drawls and overuse phrases like “Oh son!,” “Whooeee!” GALEA | 13
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ELMIRA SQUAD MAKES IT TO THE SEMIS
Ryan Roth (number 253) won the 133-kilometre Tour de Waterloo cycling race, which began in St. Jacobs and stretched across much of Woolwich and Wellesley townships June 21. [SCOTT BARBER / THE OBSERVER]
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Kitchener native and 2012 Canadian Road Race Project Name: Woolwich Bio-En Inc. champion Ryan Roth capProject Location: The Project is located at tured double gold at a pair 50 Martin’s Lane, Elmira, Ontario of Cycle Waterloo events last weekend. Contract ID: F-000682-BIG-130-203 The 32-year-old Sibler FiT Reference Number: FiT-F0MH1Z7 Pro-Cycling team member narrowly edged by a talDated at Elmira this the 19th day of June, 2015 ented field of racers at the Kitchener Twilight Grand Woolwich Bio-En Inc. (Bio-En) has prepared the following notification Prix June 19. letter for the Application for a Technical Amendment to Renewable There, Roth completed the downtown Kitchener Energy Approval (REA) No. 6428-8LGLBH issued for the Woolwich course – the streets surBio-En facility located at 50 Martin’s Lane in Elmira, Ontario (see figure rounding city hall for a below.) The REA was issued to Bio-En by the Ontario Ministry of the total of 55 kilometres – in Environment and Climate Change (MOECC) on March 26, 2012 to one hour, thirteen minutes engage in the operation of a Class 3 Anaerobic Digestion Facility. and one second, just a hair before Barrie’s Ed Veal and Bio-En believes that communicating with the residents of Elmira, local Australian Jason Lowndes. businesses and community leaders is important. Two way communicaTwo days later Roth was tion between Bio-En and members of the public with respect to issues back at it, this time at the Tour de Waterloo in St. relating to the construction, installation, use, operation, maintenance Jacobs. and retirement of the Facility creates a positive community relationship. A longer, gran fondo The community liaison committee (CLC) is the medium and conduit for style event, Roth con information communication and the CLC has been made aware of the quered the 133-kilometre Technical Amendment included in this notification letter. route in three hours, four teen minutes and three The Amendment proposed by Bio-En will have minimal/insignificant seconds, a solid 24 seconds impact the environment. The following four technical changes are on ahead of second-place finbeing proposed in the Amendment Application: isher, and last year’s cham pion, Bruce Bird. 1. Additions of organics received at the facility “It was awesome,” race organizer Brent Ellis said. 2. To install a biogas upgrading system to provide purified biogas to the “We had a great weekend natural gas grid and the weather turned out 3. To supply heat from the co-generation system to a proposed building to be phenomenal. It stayed perfectly dry all day for the on an adjacent property Tour de Waterloo, there was 4. To reduce the biofilter fans operating speed absolutely no rain on any parts of the course, which was perfect.” Project Contacts More than 500 racers and Information participated in the Tour de Waterloo, split amongst the Earl Brubacher 46-kilometre, 76-kilome4 Arthur Street North tre and the 133-kilometre Elmira, ON N3B 3A2 courses. For the second straight Phone: 519-669-5171 year, the routes all spanned Ext.240 across Woolwich and earlb@marbro.com Wellesley townships. The 133-kilometre main
More than 500 cyclists participated in the event. event headed northwest through Wallenstein and around Conestogo Lake, followed by a long stretch across Country Road 121. Next, riders turned left onto Line 61, right onto Township Road 20 and left on Deborah Glaister Line, before wrapping around Wellesley Village and travelling east on Weimer and Lobsinger Lines. The homestretch included a stint on Three Bridges Road before the final sprint along Henry Street. The middle distance race began in the same direction, however racers made a left on Herrgott Road instead of right, cutting the Conestogo Lake portion from the course and shortening the route down to 76-kilometres. Finally, the 46-kilometre race also travelled to the northwest, stretching from Hemlock Hill Drive in the north, Greenwood Hill Road to the west and Weimer Line at its southernmost point. Organizers have set up three categories to make the event accessible to a variety of skill and experience levels. The long course features some of the best road racers in the country, and is truly designed for elite cyclists. But the shorter routes offer up challenging, com-
petitive races as well. “What we really like to see is the people who ride the 46-kilometre event, hopefully they’ll come back the following year and bump up to the 76-kilometre event,” co-organizer Malcolm Steven said. They work hard to put together a great experience for riders, from road safety through lead vehicles and paid duty officers and a great meal at the race banquet following the races. “From our perspective, these races certainly draw in that cycling tourism component to the St. Jacobs area,” Steven said. “A lot of people will come in for the weekend to get there race guides, check out the courses and do some shopping. From our numbers, pretty close to 70 per cent of the people taking part in the race are from out of town, and we hope that they’ll come back again, too and bring their families.” The Tour de Waterloo registration fees also raised some $18,000 for the Grand River Hospital Foundation and Kitchener Waterloo Counseling Services, with more donations still coming in from private donation pages. Launched in 2010, the event has raised more than $100,000 for charity to date.
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and “Will you look at that toad?” These are just a few of the phrases that have somehow found their way up north. They don’t always translate well. For instance, the first time I heard the phrase “Will you look at the toad?” I was actually wondering why a toad would be in the middle of a lake and why
my buddy wanted me to look at that rather than the large bass he was reeling in? I have similar reactions to the word “hawg.” A bass, after all, does not look like a pig in any way shape or form. Ask any kindergarten kid and they’ll be able to make the distinction. And some of my buddies might, too. The terminology is
entertaining, but what is truly funny is the southern drawls that materialize as soon as a fish is hooked. If you closed your eyes and listened, you’d think you were in Alabama. I have friends with thick “Trawnno” accents who sound like southern bubbas every time a 10-inch bass is on the line. They’ll say things like. “Ohhh Lordy! Ain’t that
purdy?” or “Man! She hit that lure like a June bug on a windshield! Whooeee!” It’s getting to the point where I half expect them to show up at the boat launch driving the General Lee and wearing Daisy Duke shorts. The first I could take. Daisy Duke shorts notwithstanding, there’s no harm done with all of this. It’s just that the southern boys we see on
television seem to exaggerate the significance of a bass. I mean do we really need tears of joy, a heartfelt thank you to our sponsors, America, and the Lord above with every moderately sized fish? If you ask me that’s crazy. And yet it has become such an ingrained part of bass fishing that no trip would be the same without it. Even getting to the boat
launch requires a healthy dose of “Sweet home Alabama” playing on the radio. Luckily, I’m going fishing on Saturday with the one guy I know who is as Canadian as they get. Keith watches nothing but the CBC. This means he should be immune to this and other forms of excitement. Unless that hawg is over five pounds. Then the South just might rise again.
RELAY FOR LIFE AIMS TO BRING HOPE TO THOSE WITH CANCER
Cancer survivors led the way for the opening lap of the Woolwich Relay for Life, held June 20 at St. John’s Kilmarnock in Breslau. [SCOTT BARBER / THE OBSERVER]
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Win in Ottawa just the latest in a string of successes for the young EDSS athlete FROM | 11
School Athletic Associations meet in Toronto. There, the Alma resident won a bronze medal in the 100-metre hurdles and finished fourth and fifth in the pole vault and 400-metre dash respectively. Mechler also competed in the pentathlon at the New Balance Indoor track and field meet in New York City back in March, winning silver. To keep up with Mechler’s progress, check out www.nathanielmechler. com.
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Milking it for generations now Steeped in the dairy industry, Floradale’s Schuurmans family are happy to host visitors to their farm Saturday Henk Schuurmans and Floradale’s Milky Wave farm will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Dairy Farmers of Ontario with an open house from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. June 27.
SCOTT BARBER Dairy farming is in the Schuurmans family’s blood. Yes, Henk Schuurmans can trace his roots in the industry all the way back to 17th century Holland. That makes the owner of Floradale’s Milky Wave farm a ninth generation dairy farmer, and his sons John, Eric and Tom the tenth. On Saturday (June 27) the Schuurmans will welcome the general public to their farm on Jesse Place Road just off of Floradale Road. “It’s the 50th anniversary of the Dairy Farmers of Ontario and to celebrate that they are holding a dozen of these open houses, or open barns as we call them, throughout Ontario,” Schuurmans said. “There are 7,950 dairy farmers in
Ontario and there are a dozen that will be opening their doors to the general public just to educate them and give them a chance to visit one of these farms.” It’s important for people to understand where their food comes from and how it’s produced, he said. “A lot of people know about farms, maybe their grandfather owned a farm and they have the idea of what his farm was like in their minds, but things have changed so much over the years, and it’s good to show people what those changes are all about. We volunteered to do this because there wasn’t one in this region and since we have the tri-cities close by as well as Elmira and all of the surrounding villages, we thought that this would be a good spot to host one. The next closest one is in
Milverton, and there’s one in Ingersoll, and that is quite a ways, so we decided to take part.” Schuurmans, whose surname fittingly means “man of the barn,” is looking forward to giving visitors a tour of his 750-acre operation, home to 215 dairy cows. In the past, school groups and visitors were common, Schuurmans said, but strict health regulations put a damper on the practice. Coupled with the fact that more and more people are living in urban areas rather than family farms, there is a real disconnect between the public and food producers, he added. This event strives to break the trend, giving visitors a good idea of where
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help them reach consumers. Ontario has responded by starting to modernize its archaic approach to liquor sales, breaking down monopolies such as the Beer Store, and offering more venues outside the LCBO for wine sales. The province is hoping about 150 grocery stores will be selling beer by May of 2017, a number which could rise to 450 in time. It’s a timely measure. Lack of access seems to be behind the surprising
results of a new study showing Canadians overall aren’t thinking local when they shell out for beer and wine. The survey, conducted in May with almost 1,650 Canadian consumers, showed that when asked to rank the importance of purchasing locally sourced products, less than 40 per cent of shoppers said it was very to somewhat important that beer is produced or sourced local. The figure was even lower for wine, at 35 per cent for
wine. Both those numbers are miniscule compared to fruits and vegetables. They topped the list, with an amazing 98 per cent of local shoppers saying it is very to somewhat important that they are produced and sourced locally. In second place was meat, at 90 per cent. I suspect analysts are trying hard right now to interpret these figures. Maybe the huge gap occurred because we’re heading into the buy-local
season with fruit and vegetables dominating consumers’ attention. Beer and wine are much less seasonal. The LoyaltyOne survey also found there’s a relationship between the emphasis consumers place on local, and the premium they are willing to pay. Nearly half of the respondents said they’d pay 15-30 per cent more for local food, and more than 85 per cent said they’d increase their monthly grocery spending if local
food alternatives were available. So why don’t they see it that way when it comes to beer and wine? There are local alternatives available year-round. Some retailers do a good job of promoting local, such as the Scottsdale LCBO in Guelph that’s built a following with its Ontario Riesling challenge. More LCBO outlets should follow its example; survey respondents said access, much more so than price, is the biggest impediment
to local food sales. However, this can’t all be put on the shoulders of retailers. It’s not as is local beer and wine is hidden from plain sight. Spend an extra 30 seconds in the cooler at the LCBO and you’ll find some of it. Same goes for VQA wine. LCBO staff can point you to it easily. And of course we are part of a region that produces some of Canada’s best local beer and wine. Check it out, and happy holidays.
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Birds of a feather Fluck together Would-be empty-nesters get more than they bargained for in Drayton Festival production of Hilda’s Yard WHITNEY NEILSON Kick back and prepare yourself for gut busting laughter as Norm Foster’s uplifting comedy Hilda’s Yard comes to Drayton next week. Premiered in Fredericton just three years ago, the play highlights the challenges of being ready to be an empty-nester when your kids need the comfort of home. Enter the Fluck family, where Hilda and Allan are settling into life without kids in the house. Portrayed by Patti Allan and David Nairn, they’re in for a shock when those pesky kids, Janey and Gary, come flying back to the coop. Janey (Mairi Babb) discovers a life as a housewife is no life for her. And Gary (Alan Kliffer) is just having a rough go at adulthood. Gary’s girlfriend, Bobbi Jakes (Emma Slipp), and smooth neighbourhood bookie Beverly Woytowich (Brad Austin) get mixed into the kerfuffle, and add a little mess of their own. “I can tell you why I resonate with it which is because it’s Canadian and it’s Norm Foster. I love the 1956 setting, that sort of nostalgic thing,” director Mark DuMez said. The cast and crew are mostly Ontarians, with Mark DuMez a few
British Columbia folks in for good measure – DuMez included. Normally found on Vancouver Island, he’s been the artistic director of Chemainus Theatre Festival since 2009. Allan is also from BC, known by theatre audiences there and for her film and TV work. Slipp also hails from BC. They’re also no strangers to Foster’s work, with Nairn previously performing in The Love List and On a First Name Basis, and Austin in Melville Boys and Bedtime Stories. DuMez says the audience will find laughs in the “what if” scenarios of the characters, particularly Gary whose dreams are quickly dismissed by his father as high in the sky ideas. “There’s broad, wonderful comedy, there’s love interests that are crossed. There’s the empty nesters who are trying to keep an empty nest but it quickly gets filled up again,” DuMez said. “But inside of all that terrific comedy is some really interesting heart and a couple themes that
we should look at. When is a child grown up enough to make their decisions? When do you allow them to fail? How do you celebrate being in the golden years of your life?” Directing a play by arguably Canada’s most iconic playwright is a welcome challenge. He says he loves the timing and rhythm of comedy, but most importantly, making other people laugh. “Taking all of that and making sure what we have are real human beings at the centre, that they live in extreme situations in a play like this at times but they’re real living human beings with real needs,” DuMez explains. DuMez says he hopes audience members walk away with a feeling of familiarity to the Fluck family, and a night full of laughs at the all too real trials and tribulations they undergo. When it comes down to it, it’s a story about family. “This man just really wants to sit with his wife and watch TV together and enjoy the hard work that he’s done. He wants to cherish the time they have together. All those things I think speak to what I know of the Drayton audience,” DuMez said. Hilda’s Yard runs July 2 through July 18. Tickets can be purchased in person at the Drayton Festival Theatre, online at www. draytonfestivaltheatre. com or by calling the box office at (519) 638-5555 or toll free at 1-855-drayton (372-9866).
Norm Foster’s uplifting Hilda’s Yard hits the Drayton Festival Theatre from July 2-18, with more than a few laughs on the line.
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Due to recent promotions within the company, Wallenstein Feed & Supply Ltd. is currently seeking two highly motivated individuals to provide superior service to our poultry and livestock customers. We pride ourselves on being the leader in customer service for the livestock feed industry. The successful candidates will have strong communication and computer skills and excellent attention to detail. These are full time, hourly positions based out of Wallenstein and candidates must be available to work some evenings. Compensation for these positions includes $44,000 or more in wages and a full benefit package (health, dental and RRSP contribution). If you are interested in a rewarding work life please submit your resume via mail to P.O. Box 22, 7307 Hwy 86, Wallenstein Ont., N0B 2S0 or via email to recruiting@wfs.ca by July 10, 2015. We are committed to diversity and inclusion, and thank all applicants in advance. Accommodations are available during all stages of the recruitment process.
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HELP WANTED PART TIME RETAIL Clerk with sales and customer service experience required for Thurs., Sat., & Sun. Drop off resume 426 Albert St. Waterloo or fax to 519-7467848.
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OF FARM PROPERTY WITH 4 BEDROOM HOUSE & HORSE BARN WITH 10 PENS AT 5865 HWY. 9, NORTH OF HARRISTON & SOUTH OF CLIFFORD ON HWY 9, PLUS TRACTORS, VEHICLES & MISC. FOR RAY & SANDY GILMORE
MONDAY JULY 18, 2015, AT 10:00 A.M. PROPERTY: Part Lot 78, Con. D, Town of Minto, Approx 49.48 Ac. Approx. 40 Ac. Workable Land w/ No Chemicals for Past 5 Years. Land is Being Pastured. Leased Until Oct. 15, 2015, 4 Ac. Bush. Snowmobile & X Country Trails Through Property. HOUSE: 1½ Storey Brick House w/Large Country Style Kitchen w/Large Amount of Cabinets, Dining Room, Living Room, Family Room w/Wood Ceiling & Brick Wall Fireplace, 4 Bedrooms, 2 Bathrooms, Mud Room. Second Floor Has Roughed In Bathroom & 2 Sleeping areas & 500 Sq.Ft. Unfinished Attic Space, Original Plaster on ½ of Main Floor, Open Basement, 2 ½ Car Garage, Propane Furnace, House has Own Well. Patio at Back of House. 2 Driveways. BARN: Horse Barn w/10 Pens, 3 Paddocks, Own Well & Hydro Service For Property Viewing Call: Ray & Sandy – 519-338-3722 or Barry cell 519-323-7837 TERMS OF PROPERTY: Property being sold with reasonable reserve . $20,000.00 Down Day of Sale, Balance on Closing in 60 Days or Sooner. Property being sold at 1:00 PM
HEALTH CARE BOWEN THERAPY YOUR choice for effective treatment of specific health conditions or wellness maintenance. KEVIN BARTLEY, Professional Bowenwork Practitioner, Clock Tower Wellness Centre, 69 Arthur St. S., Elmira. 519-669-0112. Every Body is Better with Bowen!
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VEHICLES: 1926 Model T Doctor’s Coupe, Restored in 1980, Wooden Spokes, Running; 1958 Edsel 4 Door Hard Top Corsair, Built in Oshawa, As Is; 1958 Edsel 2 Door Hard Top Corsair, Built in Oshawa, As Is; 1986 Ford F350 1 Ton V8 Dsl.,w/ 10’ Flatbed & Hoist, As Is; 2003 Dodge Ram 2500 Dsl. Pickup, Crew Cab, 4W.D.,Aut, Air, 200024KM, Running; 2002 Dodge 3500 Dsl. w/5’ JerrDan Tilt N Load, Hyd. Winch, 172,000KM, Cert. Tires As New. BOBCAT EQUIPMENT: Bobcat 328 Excavator. Rubber Tracks, 18”Bucket, 55” Blade & Thumb, 2467 Hrs; Bobcat T190 Track Loader, Dsl. w/Rubber Tracks, 1096 Hrs.; Attachments: 90” Blade; 2 Buckets; 6’ Snowblower Model SB200; Bobcat 2570 Breaker & Bit; Bobcat HB 880 Breaker, Like New; Bobcat 2200 Side by Side w/Honda Gas Engine, Manual Dump. TRACTORS: 1937 Pacemaker Tractor, Gas, Running; Massey Harris GP or General Purpose Steel Wheel, 4WD, Restored; M.F.35 Gas, Running; WD45 Allis, Gas; Minneapolis Moline Jet Star 3, Gas, for Parts; M.F. 4500 & 6500 Industrial Forklifts, for Parts; M.F. 4225 Tractor w/ ALO Front Loader, Hi-Vis Hood , Approx. 1000 Hrs, 3PH, Hyd, Running, Pallet Fork, Bale Fork & Bucket ; 50 Cockshutt Dsl, As Is; M.F. Super 90 Dsl 8 Speed, Hyd,3PH, Running; 540 Cockshutt Gas Tractor w/Freeman Loader, PS, Live PTO, 3PH; 550 Cockshutt, Gas, 3PH, for Parts; 5300 Kabota Lawn Tractor, 48” Deck; 285 Ferguson, Parts; (2) Massey Pony Tractors, Parts; Engine for Pony Tractor; M.F. 2135, Dsl, w/Loader;Yanmar YM165D 4 wheel drive tractor; 540 Cockshutt w/Loader, Parts; M.F. 165, Parts. MISC: (2) Kinsie Fert. Boxes; 6T. Wagon & Rack; 34’ Steel Bale Rack & Wagon; 6 x 12 Dump Trailer; 7’ Rhino 3PH Box Scraper; (4) 4x4 Sections Chain Harrows; 3PH 8’ Blade; Black Hawk 1500 Engine Hoist; Floor Stand Drill Press; 250AC/DCWelder; 5HP Air Comp; 5HP Cut Off Saw; Bolt Bins; Bobcat Loader Frame Parts; Parts for Massey, Great Plains & Macdon; Sleeve for 860 Massey; Top ,Middle & Lower Sleeve for 750 or 850Massey Combine; Concaves for MF850; M.F. Combine Belts; Disc Blades, Plough Shares; V Belts for Combine; Motion Bars for Wilrich; Woods 1020 Quick Attach Loader; (2) Rear Wheel Drives for Combine; (2) Sets Wilrich Chisels; Coulters, Fenders; 8T. Wagon Gear; Engine Parts; Steel Gates; 16.9x28 Duals; Rasp Bars; PTO Sleeves; 354 Dsl. Engine for MF1135; 372 Dsl. Engine for MF750 or 850 Combine, Rebuilt; Perkins 540 Engine for 860 Dsl. Combine; 327 Chevy Gas Engine; V Belts for Combine; Coulters, Fenders; Rasp Bars; Hyd. Parts; (15) Hyd Cylinders; Filters; Plough Parts for Massey & Wilrich; Air Cond. Kit; Ass’t. Metal Shelves; Racking; 3 Bolt Bins; 1914 Beatty Washer; Sunflower Sign; Numerous Owners Manuals, Parts Books & Literature; Scrap Metal; Plus Many Other Misc. Items.
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2002 GMC ENVOY SLE. 320 kms, excellent condition. Oiled yearly, tires good. New front wheel bearings, brakes, rotors, PS cooler, new battery, e-tested. $3000. Phone 519-580-4172.
RENTALS 1 BEDROOM MODERN apartment, close to downtown. Secured entrance, free laundry, A/C, gas stove, lots of closet space. Call Hugh at 519-669-5533 after 6PM available August 1st. 3 BEDROOM HOME with finished basement. All appliances included. $1550/mth, utilities extra. Available Sept. 1, 2015. Call 519-5032753. BRIGHT, SPACIOUS 1BEDROOM apartment in quiet, adult building. Seeking non-smoking mature tenant. Close to downtown. Laundry, parking. Phone 519-6693423.
ELMIRA - 3 Bedroom/upstairs apt. Available immediately. Includes utilities and single car garage plus outside parking. Close to downtown. $1100.00 monthly. Call Mildred or Len Frey to view. 519-669-1544 or call direct, Mildred 519-747-0231.
DEATH NOTICES FEICK, GRACE KAREN | Peacefully passed away on Sunday, June 21, 2015 at Freeport Health Centre, at the age of 77 years.
ENJOY LAKE HURON with your family this summer at our water-view cottage on 5 acres of trees. Now booking for the summer. Just before Pike Bay, 25 min north of Sauble Beach. Details at www.rentmycottage.snappages.com
FETTER, MARY MARGARET | (56 Year Member-Catholic Women’s League) Passed away peacefully at Hillside Residence in Maryhill on Friday, June 19, 2015 at the age of 90.
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| Died peacefully on Sunday, June 21, 2015 at her home, RR 2, Alma, at the age of 73 years.
INDUSTRIAL UNIT - For lease or rent. M-2 zoning, 2640 ft2, 16’x16’ electric OH door. 600V, 600 Amp service, gas radiant heat, natural and energy efficient lighting. Please call 519-669-8776 for details.
MARTIN, SELINA | Passed away on Saturday, June 20, 2015 at Martin’s Rest Home, Elmira, in her 81st year.
TRADES & SERVICES RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL Mortgages with the best rates and terms to suit you. Call Suzanne at Dominion Lending Centres 866-244-3289.
GARAGE SALES FRIDAY JUNE 26, 3:30 6:30; Saturday June 27, 8:00 12:00. Three Garage Sales 21, 23, 25 Queen St. Elmira. Items include: toys, videos, books, girl’s clothes, single bed, tools, household items. GARAGE SALE - Sat. June 27, 7:30 a.m. 70 Oriole Pkwy, Elmira. Toys of all types, kid’s clothes, household items.
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MARTIN, ALMEDA (FREY)
OGRAM, MABEL MARIE | Mabel peacefully passed away on Tuesday, June 23, 2015, at the age of 82 years. PENN, IAN PAUL | Passed
away peacefully at Twin Oaks Nursing Home in Maryhill, Ontario on June 16, 2015 in his 81st year. SHANTZ, KEITH | Passed away peacefully on Thursday, June 18, 2015 at the Oncology Unit of Grand River Hospital, K-W Health Centre, Kitchener at the age of 54. Local relatives are his sister Sandra Bean and her husband Ralph of Wellesley.
HALF PRICE GARAGE Sale. Also, sale on bedding plants. June 27, 29, 30, July 1, 9:30a.m. at Mervin and Louisa Gingrich. 7279 4th Line, Mapleton. 519669-2043.
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Wasylycia, Harry 1919-2015 Harry died on June 19, 2015 at the age of 96, feeling satisfied with his life. He greatly missed his beloved wife Klazina who died on January 1, 2015. He will be sorely missed by his six children: Elizabeth Macdonald (David), Mary Ann Wasylycia (Ken Coe), Judy Wasylycia- Leis (Ron), Andy Wasylycia (Deb), Neil Wasylycia (Ibolya), and Nancy Coschi (Frank). Harry is remembered with love by his 17 grandchildren and 9 great-grandchildren. He is also lovingly remembered by sisters Katie, Helen, Xenia, Luella, and Martha, brothers Joseph and Jim, sister-in-law Janny Swijters and family, and by Margaret and Kathy. Harry was predeceased by his brothers Michael and Jacob and sisters Annie, Christine, and Sophie. Harry was the son of Maria (Woytkiw) (1973) and Andrew (1980). Born April 15, 1919 in Myrnam, Alberta, he left the farm and later joined the Governor General’s Horse Guards. From 1941–1946 he served in North Africa, Italy, France, Belgium, and Holland. In Holland, he met Klazina and convinced her to come to Canada to marry him. They settled in Winterbourne where they raised their six children. Harry worked for Uniroyal for 34 years in addition to his own electrical and plumbing business. He was very active, even climbing hydro poles in his 80s. He was a longtime member of Conestogo United Church, and later West Montrose United Church, and of the Elmira Legion. Thanks to the caring staff at Barnswallow Place who were so kind to Dad. Cremation has taken place. Friends are invited to share their memories of Harry with the family at the Dreisinger Funeral Home, Elmira on Thursday, July 2, 2015 from 2-4 and 7-8:30 p.m. The funeral service to celebrate Harry’s life will be held on Friday, July 3, 2015 at 11:30 a.m. in the funeral home chapel. Donations to the Elmira Legion Poppy Fund would be appreciated.
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Happy 13th Birthday
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Colin
Our heartfelt thanks to our children and grandchildren for all their hard work planning our 50th anniversary celebration.
Enjoy your teenage years, before you know it you’ll be all grown up!
Thank you to all who conveyed their best wishes by their attendance and for the many cards we received.
Andy Colclough
April 5, 1936 - July 1, 2002
Dear Father, Grand Father and Friend December 31, 1948-June 28, 2012 What Cancer cannot do, it cannot kill love or kill friendship. May the winds of Heaven blow softly and whisper in your ear How much we love and miss you And wish that you were here. Loving You Always, Forgetting You Never.
Love Mom, Dad, Cassandra and Nicole
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Jocelyn and Gary, David, Becky, Kieron, Rachael, Steve, Naz, Jason and Hazel.
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What we would give to clasp her hand Her dear, sweet face to see, To, hear her voice, to see her smile, That meant so much to our family, You left behind some aching hearts, That loved you most sincere, We never did, or never will, Forget that you were here. The Walter Family
OBITUARY Jarvis, Trevor John
Soehner, Esther
Martin, Adeline
Esther Soehner, daughter of the late Aaron and Verna (Shoemaker) Lichty, was born on September 25, 1917 on the family farm at New Jerusalem. Devoted wife to Percy (deceased 2000), married on July 9, 1943. Survived by daughter Gladys Bauman, sons Brian and Richard and his wife Teresa, four grandchildren, five great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild. Also survived by her sister Elaine and Percy Lethbridge of Restoule. Predeceased by her sisters Ruby Hickman and Valera Adams, and her brothers Fred, Howard, Edward, Glen and Wilson Seiling. Esther enjoyed quilting, assembling Braille bibles, preparing and serving food for church functions and helping during summer bible school at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church. Esther spent many hours tending to her large garden. Esther also enjoyed picnics at the cottage and daily walks. The family will receive their relatives and friends on Thursday, June 25, 2015 from 3-5 and 7-9 p.m. at the Dreisinger Funeral Home, Elmira. A funeral service will be held on Friday, June 26, 2015 at 2 p.m. at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Elmira. Interment will follow in Elmira Union Cemetery. In her memory, donations to CNIB or St. Paul’s Lutheran Church would be appreciated as expressions of sympathy. A special thank you to all the staff at Chartwell – Elmira and to Janet Johnson for all the love and care given to Esther.
Peacefully passed into the presence of her Lord on Wednesday, June 24, 2015 at Heritage House, St. Jacobs. Adeline at the age of 91 years was formerly of Floradale. Sister-in-law of Velina (Mrs. Amos L.) Martin of Parkhill. Lovingly remembered by her many nieces, nephews and their families. Adeline was a registered nurses aid for many years. She was the last surviving member of her family having been predeceased by her parents Anson and Lydia Ann (Lichty) Martin, her sister Edna (Mrs. Emerson) Weber, her brothers Lincoln L. (Mary), Clayton L. (Lila), Amos L., Ervin L. (Beatrice), George L. (in infancy). The family will receive their relatives and friends at Floradale Mennonite Church on Friday, June 26, 2015 from 7-9 p.m. A memorial service will be held at the church on Saturday, June 27, 2015 at 2 p.m. A family interment will take place at 1:45 p.m. In Adeline’s memory, donations to MCC or MCEC (The Village International Mennonite Church, Ottawa) would be appreciated as expressions of sympathy. A special thank you to all the staff at Heritage House, St. Jacobs and Chartwell Retirement Home, Elmira for the exceptional care provided to Adeline.
“They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles.” Isaiah 40:31
Downey, Rose G. (Runstedler) Tuesday, June 23, 2015, Rose passed away peacefully in her 79th year surrounded by her loving family at St. Mary’s Hospital, Kitchener. Beloved wife and best friend of Maurice for over 60 years. Loving mother of Linda (Murray) Buchan, Karen Downey, Dennis (Dana) Downey, Stephen (Evelyn) Downey, Terry (Mary) Downey, and Darlene (Rick) Hauser. Proud grandmother of 17 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren. Survived by her siblings Irene Geier and Gerard Runstedler. Rose has been reunited with her youngest son the handsome “Young Prince Philip”. Also, predeceased by her parents Anthony and Regina (Strauss) Runstedler, three brothers Hubert, Jacob, and Walter, and four sisters Doretta Bratherton, Eleanor Kroetsch, Shirley Lessard, and Monica Witmer. Rose’s greatest passion in life was the love of her family and a good game of cards. She will be missed immensely by the many lives she has touched. Rose’s family will receive friends and relatives at the Dreisinger Funeral Home, Elmira on Friday, June 26, 2015 from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Funeral mass will be celebrated at St. Teresa of Avila RC Church, 19 Flamingo Dr., Elmira on Saturday, June 27, 2015 at 11 a.m. A private burial service will be held following the reception. As expressions of sympathy, donations may be made to The Lung Association or St. Mary’s Hospital Foundation.
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Died Sunday, June 21, 2015 at the Listowel Memorial Hospital after a brief illness. Predeceased by his father Albert Seiling (1970) and his mother Gladys Jarvis (2000). He will be remembered by his son Steven (Kathryn) and daughter Lindsay Joseph (Scott Shantz), granddaughter Stephanie (Chris Norris), grandson Ian, granddaughter Nyla Joseph, great-granddaughter Kathryn Norris, and his partner Linda Love and her family. Born in Hanover, he was a lifelong resident of Elmira and after high school he attended Ryerson Institute of Technology. Trevor subsequently worked for McKee Brothers and was responsible for the design of the Insta-Hitch and SnoLander products. In 1964, Trevor established a successful custom metal manufacturing company, located in Elmira, which continues to serve local area businesses and international companies. He was a talented mechanical designer responsible for the innovative designs which solved all the challenges his customers brought to his doorstep. He also designed and evolved the North American farm snow blower which was distributed throughout North America. Trevor continued to be involved in the business until recently. He will be missed by Vern and the staff at Astron Tool and Machine. Many thanks to the first floor nurses of the Listowel Hospital for their kindness and support. Memorial donations may be made to the Heart and Stroke Foundation or the Canadian Diabetes Association. Arrangements entrusted to the Dreisinger Funeral Home, Elmira.
www.dreisingerfuneralhome.com OBITUARY Scott, Murial In the blink of an eye on Wednesday, June 24, 2015. Murial passed away after a brief battle with cancer in her 88th year. She is survived by her daughter Susan and son-in-law Art Bolduc, Tricia and Kenny, Jacob and Owen Fulcher, Travis and Kelly, Addison and Hayden Bolduc all of Elmira. She is also survived by her daughters Sandra and Bob Esplen of Owen Sound, Cindy and Nigel Higenbottom of Calgary, her grandchildren Miranda Cook, Philip Cook and Melissa Britney. Predeceased by her husband J.D. Scott ($cotty), (2003) her daughter Pamela Britney (1987), her parents Charles and Daisy Houghton and her sister Marion Houghton. She was employed by Borg Textiles and Metzgers Egg Grading for many years. She enjoyed many afternoons at “The Shop” as greeter with Jenny and Dayna Black and Staff. The family will receive their friends and relatives at the Dreisinger Funeral Home, Elmira on Monday, June 29, 2015 from 7-9 p.m. where the funeral service will be held in the funeral home chapel on Tuesday, June 30, 2015 at 11:30 a.m. with Pastor Hans Borch officiating. Interment in Elmira Union Cemetery. In lieu of flowers donations can be made to Toronto Sick Kids Hospital or St. James Lutheran Church, Elmira. “All is well in Murial’s world”
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$235,000 BUNGALOW ON QUIET STREET
Drayton - Eat in kitchen, spacious living room, walk out from the master bedroom to the large back deck, this house would be a great starter home, or retirement spot. The finished basement includes 2 extra bedrooms and a 3 piece bathroom. Lots of room in the oversized shed for all of your outdoor toys at the back of the property. MLS 1521798.
$524,900
NEW LISTING
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$324,900 STUNNING YARD
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3 Arthur St. S., Elmira 519-669-5426
FAMILY COMMUNITY
Hawkesville - This beautifully maintained 3000 sq foot home features the following updates: new hickory custom kitchen, all windows & exterior doors, newer roof, furnace & a/c, cement pad for rec. vehicle next to driveway. No upgrades required for years! Small town living at it's best. Minutes from KW. MLS 1517094.
Elmira - Charming family home!! Located on a sought after street, this home has much to offer. Lots of space inside with the family room addition and an attic with potential. Sit on your large 2-tired deck while enjoying the stunning gardens and fish pond in the private yard. Convenient setting near public school and short walk to down town shops.  MLS- 1528168
$464,000 BACKING ON WALKING TRAIL
Elmira - You'll be impressed with this upgraded open concept Verdone home. With a gourmet kitchen open to the dinette, and family room with a gas fireplace. Walk out into the private back yard, backing on green space and enjoy the 4 year old salt water heated pool. MLS 1517611.
$369,000 BACKING ON FARMLAND
$630,000 PRIVATE HAVEN!
Elmira - Great location overlooking farmland. Welcoming entrance in this open concept home, equipped with huge kitchen and dinette open to great room with vaulted ceiling. Enjoy sunsets through the large windows or from the back patio while entertaining guests. Large 3 bedrooms and convenient upper floor laundry. MLS 1527694.
Drayton - Located on 6 acres this extraordinary home is nestled in picturesque scenery. Featuring: Private lane, 1500 sqft, (30ft x 50ft) workshop with 60amp service, and 1600sqft home. Finished top to bottom with an open layout this rare find is extremely well kept. MLS 1527262.
$319,000 LARGE YARD
$749,000 CUSTOM BUILT HOME
Heidelberg - Exceptional Custom Built 5 bedroom home boasts a 1500 square foot triple car garage with a drive through to the back yard. Situated on a 133 x 165 foot lot with a beautiful country view, enjoy relaxing on your back deck around the pool. MLS 1517249.
Elmira - Situated on a quiet street, close to schools, parks and rec centre, this 69 x 140 foot lot has a large private backyard. The main floor has 3 bedrms, a dining area off the kitchen, and an inviting living room with picture window. Huge rec room in the basement as well as a 3 pc bathrm and extra bedrm. Attached garage with inside entry. MLS 1527479.
FREE
HOME EVALUATION.
$305,000 ATTENTION FIRST TIME BUYERS
Elmira - This beautiful home is the opportunity you have been waiting for! This 1600 sq.ft semi detached home is bigger than it looks with a large eat in kitchen and walk out to the back deck into the fully fenced yard. Cozy up next to the gas fireplace in the living room or take the time to enjoy your finished basement. MLS 1527086.
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Thinking About Selling? $439,000 OPEN CONCEPT BUNGALOW
Elmira - Make yourself at home in this beautiful bungalow. The master bedroom boasts 2 closets in the dressing area into the ensuite bath. With wet bar, games area, and a projector included, this rec room was made for entertaining or simply relaxing. MLS 1527515.
$234,900 4 BDRMS ON HUGE LOT!
Rothsay - This century old home has been refinished top to bottom including new kitchen, bathrooms, deck, main floor laundry, poured concrete foundation, windows, siding, steel roof, electrical and plumbing. Situated on a huge 264’ x 132’ lot, enjoy the country view from the back deck. MLS1525051.
OBSERVER PUZZLE SOLUTIONS
1121 Geddes St., Hawkesville
$275,000
Contact Duane @ 226-748-3289 or duane000@hotmail.com
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Historic century home built in the late 1800’s, lots of history and character! Situated on the banks of the Conestoga River in the beautiful town of Hawkesville with a great view of a wooded ravine. 3+1 bedroom home with walkout basement, main floor living, large exterior deck, and finished bedroom in basement.
PRIVATE SALE:
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REAL ESTATE LISTINGS LET OUR 50+ YEARS OF EXPERIENCE WORK FOR YOU!
LUKE SHANTZ
BROKERAGE
Real Estate Sales Representative
R.W. THUR REAL ESTATE LTD. | 519-669-2772 45 Arthur St. S., Elmira | www.thurrealestate.com WINTERBOURNE
BRAD MARTIN
JULIE
TRACEY
LUKE
WILLIAMS Broker of Record, HECKENDORN SHANTZ Broker Sales Rep. MVA Residential Sales Rep. Res: 519.669.1068 Res: 519.669.8629 Cell: 519.505.0627 Cell: 519.584.4400
HERBERT ST.
WEST MONTROSE
NEW PRICE
$559,900 Unique property on 1.8 acres, siding to water and overlooking the countryside! Updated windows. Hdwd. flrs. In LR, DR & 2 bdrms. Ensuite bath. Gas fireplace in L.R. & wood F.P. in fin. rec. room. Updated kitchen.. W/O to deck & hot tub. MLS
$545,000 Lovely brick bungalow on a large lot. Lots of windows facing south. Main flr. fam. rm. w/fireplace. All rooms are spacious! Unfin. bsmt. w/walkup to garage. MLS
ARTHUR ST. S.
$355,900 Updated from top to bottom! Everything on one level! Quiet street. Finished bsmt. 2 baths. A must see! MLS
HOBBY FARM
$539,900
$319,900 Lots of parking! Updated furnace, bathrms. shingles, cupboards. 2 tiered deck & private back yd. Rec.rm. & 4th bdrm. MLS
BEEF FARM
Brad Martin, Broker of Record is proud to introduce
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Near Alma. 11 acres, park-like grounds. Well maintained., 4 bdrm. home. Lge. kitchen & D.A. Bank barn for cattle and hogs. Det’d garage/shed. MLS
148 ACRES, north of Alma. Approx. 325 head of cattle. Newer barn. TWO houses. 3 silos. TMR mixer. Lge. machinery shed. MLS $2,250,000.
CALL FOR YOUR FREE MARKET EVALUATION
Bert Martin Re/max Solid Gold Realty (II) Ltd.,
An Honours Graduate of Wilfrid Laurier’s Bachelor of Business Administration, Luke is a motivated young man who is looking to make a name for himself in his home-town. Son of Brian and Sandy Shantz, Luke has been involved in the community his entire life. Starting at a young age he was a referee for both soccer and hockey and carried that forward into coaching Midget hockey for 3 years. Through his business education, Luke has learned effective communication skills, time management, and attention to detail. Luke’s passion is guided by integrity and honesty, as his main concern is to ensure every client gets the attention and professional care they deserve. Luke has built a strong network within Woolwich through his personal connections and his past 4 years working at the Elmira Sip and Bite, and he will continue to build on these relationships as his career develops. Luke will work tirelessly throughout your moving process to ensure each stage is as stress-free as possible, while negotiating a deal that meets or exceeds your expectations. Call to book an appointment:
Office: 519-669-2772 | Cell: 519-584-4400 Email: luke.shantz@outlook.com
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Saturday & Sunday, 2-4pm 12 Burlwood, Elmira
NEW PRICE $449,900! Elmira two storey on large lot offers 4 bathrooms, 3+1 bedrooms, open concept main floor features ceramic & hardwood, two sided gas fireplace, centre island, finished basement with gas fireplace, new roof (2015), beautiful landscaping, fenced yard, stone patio. MLS. Call Bert to view. ELMIRA FREEHOLD BUNGALOW TOWNHOUSE $309,900 located close to bus route and Seniors Centre offers main floor laundry, large bedroom, bath with walk-in shower, gas fireplace, kitchen with dinette, dining room, finished rec room, 4 piece bathroom and workshop in basement. MLS. Call Bert to view.
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519.500.1865 (Direct) 519.747.0231 (Office)
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410 Conestogo Road, Unit 210, Waterloo, ON N2L 4E2
5 minutes to Conestoga Lake/Country living in Dorking!
www.KellerSellsRealEstate.com | dale@kellersellsrealestate.com
Renovated | Kitchener | $169,900
SOLD
Bright spacious 3 bedroom townhouse condo. Great location near Fairview Mall. MLS Call Dale.
Drayton | $337,000 A lot of house for the money. Large 4+1 bedroom, with walk-out finished basement, huge master and ensuite, separate detached insulated and wired workshop, above ground pool, large fenced yard and more. This is a great value! Enjoy the pool this summer! MLS Call Dale.
Model Home | $371,900
$325,000
Great Income Property in Scone.
Enjoy the covered deck out back this summer with walk out from both dining area and master bedroom. This bright open concept custom home by Verdone is sure to please the discriminating buyer looking for a bungalow on a generous sized lot .Gourmet kitchen and ceramic and hardwood floors. Other models and lots to choose from.MLS Call Dale.
SOLD
Sale or Lease Elmira | $329,000 Commercial building, great exposure from 2 main streets, Arthur and Church, retail on main floor and large 2 bdrm upstairs. Upgraded and renovated 2011. Both up and down currently rented. Also available for lease. MLS Call Dale.
For info on these or any other real estate enquiries, Call Dale
1 ½ story 3 bedroom 3 bathroom home beautifully redecorated and updated w/central air, central vac, main floor laundry, large newer country kitchen – too many upgrades to mention. Covered front porch , back yard patio, 2 garden sheds , timber frame. Black chain link fence completely enclosing the large back yard! Next door to home baking and grocery store. MLS
$795,000
Chip truck, restaurant, and 2 apartments, building is completely updated, commercial kitchen and 40 seat dining, the apartments are clean and redone in latest styles, big bedrooms, open concept living area, balcony, parking, located beside small lake
ADDRESS: 3 Arthur St. S., ELMIRA DIRECT: 519-503-2753 EMAIL: leonmartin@remax.net
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REAL ESTATE LISTINGS
HAPPY Elmira Real Estate Services
INDEPENDENTLY OWNED & OPERATED, BROKERAGE
CANADA DAY!
Bonnie
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BROKER OF RECORD
BROKER
“HELPING YOU IS WHAT WE DO.” 90 Earl Martin Dr., Unit 4, Elmira N3B 3L4
OPEN HOUSE | SAT JUNE 27 • 1-3PM | 45 BOBOLINK PL, ELMIRA
MUSKOKA SETTING $579,900
PRICED FROM $322,900 | 162 Ridgeview Dr., Drayton
NEW PRICE 10 ACRES $550,000
174’ DEEP LOT $274,900
ELMIRA Solid older home on a beautiful tree lined street, steps to downtown, some updates include windows, furnace, roof, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, garage. MLS
ELMIRA Located in sought after area, traditional cape cod on a bush lot, private backyard oasis, large inviting deck, great for entertaining. 2349 sq.ft, 4 bdrms, 4 baths, new kitchen with granite & built-in appl's. MLS.
$386,900 Need more room for your growing family? This 9 year old home features 2050 sq. ft. with 4 spacious bedrooms and 2 bathrooms plus a 4 pc. ensuite for mom and dad. Main floor familyroom with walkout to deck and fenced pool-sized yard, eat-in kitchen, separate diningroom, mainfloor laundry, carpet free main floor. To view or for more information please email Wendy Taylor at wendytaylor1.com or call 519-669-1544. MLS
NEW PRICE
SMALL BUSINESS UNIT South end Industrial Park of Elmira. 1350 sq ft includes bay and office, back entrance w/overhead door - 22’ ceiling height in bay with additional space available. CALL for further details. MLS.
NEW LISTING!
NEW LISTING!
Build your dream home on one of two-one acre building lots available near Goldstone. $124,900 and $114,900. Located on paved roads. 15 minutes to Elmira or 5 minutes to Drayton. MLS. For more information please call Wendy Taylor at 519-669-1544 or email wendy@wendytaylor1.com
“You dream...We’ll work.” Free, no obligation, Opinions of value
ATTRACTIVE HOME $329,900
NORTH WATERLOO Well maintained two storey with many updates, open concept main floor, walkout to deck & fenced yd., finished basement, c/air, appl incl. NEW MLS
Twin City Realty Inc., Brokerage
Suzanne Denomme
Independently Owned and Operated
BRICK BUNGALOW $267,000
ELMIRA ELMIRA Lovely mature street, 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, large main floor family room, walkout to backyard, updates throughout, original hardwood. MLS
END UNIT CONDO $229,900
NORTH WATERLOO Updated 3 bdrm, 2 bath condo, low fees, carport, freshly painted, newer flooring, bright kit, appl included, fin basement with gas fireplace, w/out to deck. MLS
DRAYTON 1.06 acre building lot mins outside of Drayton on paved road, buyer to satisfy permits, development charges, well & septic required. MLS
TIME FOR YOUR FREE SPRING MARKET HOME VALUATION! CALL TODAY! AFFORDABLE HOUSING AT THE END OF THE RIDE
More than 100 participants took part in a bike-a-thon June 20, raising some $40,000 for MennoHomes’ planned affordable housing development on the Woolwich Community Services site in Elmira. [SUBMITTED]
Sales Representative
Office: 519-885-0200 | Fax: 519-885-4914
83 Erb St. W., Waterloo, ON N2L 6C2 suzanne.denomme@remax.net
Direct: 519-574-2996
1 ACRE LOT $119,900
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Elmira 2 Storey
ELMIRA FOR LEASE $900/Month + cam.
ALMA Private property between Arthur & Fergus, 1650 SQ.FT Bungalow offering a characteristic blend of new and old. New kitchen and many other updates walkout basement to spacious patio. A MUST SEE. NEW MLS
D L O S
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wendy@wendytaylor1.com
Thinking of Buying or Selling call or email today!
OPEN HOUSE | SAT JUNE 27 & SUN JUNE 28 • 1-3PM
NEW LISTING!
17 Church St. W., Elmira
24hrs 519-669-1544 24hrs
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$239,900 | BUNGALOW OPEN HOUSE | Sat. June 27th 2-4pm | 191 Wesley Cres. Gorgeous bungalow in desirable adult living community of Martin Grove Village. Beautifully updated, large kitchen, huge private deck, fully finished basement Close to St.Jacob’s market, Hwy 85,Waterloo shopping, etc
Call Suzanne for info: (519) 574-2996
IT’S ALL ABOUT THE ART ROUND THE POND
Sean Lehan worked on an acrylic painting while Keya Chakraburtty, Molly Musselman and Katie Musselman posed alongside a decorative scarecrow at Art Round the Pond in the Village of Wellesley on June 20. [SCOTT BARBER / THE OBSERVER]
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Higher education really did expand her worldview EDSS grad, recent recipient of University of Guelph award, found herself taking on broader interests WHITNEY NEILSON Laura Jane Weber had a little something extra to celebrate at the University of Guelph convocation ceremony on June 9. The EDSS graduate received the W.C. Winegard Medal for her academic and community achievements. It’s named after the university’s first president, William Winegard. “In all honesty, I’m very honoured,” Weber said. “I was a little bit surprised. It’s the most prestigious convocation award at the undergraduate level at the University of Guelph. I wasn’t expecting it, by any means.” The 22-year-old just finished her Bachelor of Science in biomedical science and is in Toronto interning for the summer at Romera House, a transitional housing and settlement organization for refugee claimants. She originally planned to go straight to medical school after completing her undergraduate degree, but one year into her program she found herself pulled in a slightly different direction. She loved the courses she was taking, but her extracurricular activities and community involvements made her re-
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Ph.D in epidemiology and international development. It was through her undergrad she realized she is indeed interested in health, but more specifically the social, political, economic and environmental factors that influence it, not purely the biomedical aspects. There isn’t another university in Canada that offers a collaborative epidemiology and international development graduate
Strawberry desserts are so much fun to make because the “wow factor” is instantaneous. It does not matter what you make with them, it will look and taste delicious! Of course the best way to eat a strawberry is when it is warm from the sun in the patch or sliced in a bowl sprinkled with crispy white sugar, but a little more effort will reward you with a stunning dessert. This fresh strawberry pie recipe is nothing new but it seems new every summer. It is made with instant clear jel; which means you do not need to cook it. Be sure to use the instant clear jel, not regular clear jel or the pie won’t set.
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EDSS grad Laura Jane Weber’s biomedical science studies took her to a different direction that she’d anticipated, earning the W.C. Winegard Medal for academic and community achievements this month.
alize her interests were much broader than she thought. “In particular the summer after my first year I was in Kenya for a research project for a number of months and came back from that realizing, ‘oh I’m so interested in international development and political science and economics.’ I sort of found
that my undergrad took a very different trajectory after that point,” Weber said. She says she went into her undergrad with an openness to the types of experiences that might be possible on campus and in the community, and an acceptance that her academic career might go many different directions. “In some ways this
award was never on my radar,” Weber said. “I just approached my undergrad with a sense of curiosity and then just walked through different doors that started opening for me. I think that the award is more just a little bit of the cherry on top, as they might say.” Starting a Ph.D program in September is definitely not what she had imagined, but it’s what she’ll be doing. She’s returning to U of G to do a collaborative
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Gardening by the foot at Gale church in Elmira SCOTT BARBER The seeds are sprouting and the flowers are blooming at the new Gale Presbyterian Church community garden in Elmira. Spearheaded by local gardening enthusiast Gil Langerak, members of the church and neighbouring homeowners built an organized set of uniform gardens on the south end of Gale’s Barnswallow Drive property last month. Currently, there are a dozen four-by-eight-foot plots, each surrounded and separated by a couple feet of mulch, which also helps ward off mud in high traffic areas. It’s a community garden like any other – Langerak spent many years with the Woolwich Community Garden at Bristow Park, now at Victoria Glen – but members have put in a great deal of planning, and experience, to make the most out of their space. “We are using what is called the square-foot gardening method,” Langerak said. “It was pioneered by
Mel Bartholomew who had a public broadcasting program in the States and I got acquainted with it 30 years ago when my wife bought me his book for a gift and I have been sort of hooked on it ever since.” The method sees gardeners divide their planting area into small square spaces – often by just one foot – to assist them in planning and maximizing the density while ensuring each plant has the room it needs to grow. The idea is to create simple, orderly vegetable gardens, and it really appeals to Langerak. “What I like about it is that it’s controllable,” he said. “So in other words, unlike with a community garden I was with back in Hamilton where they just plowed the land and put some strings out and you have the euphoria of May when everyone comes out and plants and the soil is nice and fluffy, but people walk around and the soil gets compressed and then come June or July people start going away on vaca-
tion and the weeds take over and it starts to look messy. So this on the other hand, is a nice controlled system, and being within a box, if something gets abandoned, it’s easy to fix, you just plant what you still can in the season and you can put other mechanisms like hoops and covGARDEN | 31
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program like this. “The topic of my thesis will be health in Canada, specifically in the Arctic,” Weber explains. “And there’s a community in Rigolet, which is on the Northeast coast of Labrador and I’ll be working a little bit with that community and also with potentially research partners in Uganda and Peru.” It’s part of a larger project at U of G called the Indigenous Health Adaptation to Climate Change. If biomedical science wasn’t challenging enough, she kept busy with plenty of community and campus activities while pursuing her degree, like the Guelph Campus Ministry and Best Buddies. “Guelph offered so many
I think they inspired me and throughout my undergrad I thought there are so many ways EDSS prepared me for the next step. I felt that the science training I received at EDSS was fabulous and I transitioned quite readily into my first year of the science program at the University of Guelph.” She’s especially grateful for the staff who helped her choose U of G, a place she’s eager to return in the fall to further pursue her passion for health. “I found the guidance counsellors at EDSS were really significant for me just in terms of helping me weigh different options that were in front of me,” Weber said. “One hundred per cent the University of Guelph was the best place for me.”
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Gil Langerak and the Gale Presbyterian Church launched a new community garden this spring at their Elmira location on Barnswallow Drive. [SCOTT BARBER / THE OBSERVER]
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STRANGE BUT TRUE / BILL & RICH SONES PH.D.
Appreciating music comes naturally, as right from the start it really delivers WEIRD NOTES
Q. How has music aided in the ease and speed of delivery–in the delivery room?
A. First some background: Would-be moms given epidural or spinal injections can have a hard time pushing baby out, reports “New Scientist� magazine. “The longer the duration of the pushing stage, the higher the likelihood of adverse outcomes ... because the drugs dampen nerve signals, which can reduce cues from the body to push.� Enter Dr. M. Bardett Fausett and colleagues from Louisiana’s Women’s and Children’s Hospital, who developed musical software that lets women in
labor know how well they are pushing. Electrodes attached to the baby’s head and the mother’s perineum signal the baby’s movement: “A successful push is marked with a graph spike and an ascending musical tone – the tempo of which matches the outward movement of the baby.� Initial trial results have found that women using the device reduced pushing time during delivery by almost 20 minutes (from 77 to 59) and experienced fewer problems. As Fausett commented, “The patients and their families loved it.� Q. Feral animals find their natural habitat in wild places, but some have been seen “hanging out� in more populated, urban areas. Which ones?
A. A fox was seen on the 72nd floor of the unfinished
Shard skyscraper in London rifling through the edible discards of the workers, says Nathan Seppa in “Science News� magazine. As journalist Tristan Donovan put it in his book “Feral Cities,� maybe this shouldn’t have come as such a surprise, given that the usual one fox per square mile in rural England jumps up to 14 in cities! And in Jaipur, India, thousands of rhesus macaque monkeys have been raiding fruit stands using a standard MO: One monkey distracts the owner while others steal the goods. Yet efforts to stop the practice are hampered by the Hindu religion protecting the animals. In Cape Town, South Africa, a baboon took to climbing into vehicles looking for food, “scaring people out of their cars and
degrees C (212 degrees F) at sea level. So why did science historian Hasok Chang conduct experiments to check this out?
their wits,� adds Seppa. Tourists were easy marks, as they left car doors open to take pictures. “The seasoned baboon just outran people to their cars,� even checking the glove compartment for treats. Monkeys and other animals probably live in cities for the availability of plentiful food: Bears, for one, know that dumpsters contain cold pizza. And when on occasion “elk show up in Banff, Canada, to calve their young in a safe neighborhood and eat up gardens..., grizzly bears show up to hunt the elk.� As Donovan puts it, “Cities are the least understood ecosystems on the planet..., places where much of what we think we know about the natural world doesn’t apply.� Q. We’re all taught that water boils at 100
A. While researching a book on the history of temperature measurement, Chang was puzzled by significant temperature variations reported in 18thcentury water-boiling experiments. In fact, so much uncertainty existed that, in 1776, the Royal Society of London appointed a special committee to make definite recommendations about the “fixed points� of thermometers. The committee concluded that the shape of the vessel holding the water, its material and surface smoothness, and the way in which it was heated all influenced boiling temperature by several degrees C. Around the same time,
Genevan polymath JeanAndre De Luc tested water with the air shaken out of it (like shaking the carbon dioxide out of a fizzy drink). In De Luc’s own words, “This operation lasted four weeks, during which I hardly ever put down my flask, except to sleep, to do business in town, and to do things that required both hands.� End result: his “precious airless water reached 112.2 degrees C before boiling off explosively.� Easily replicating this work, Chang confirmed the fickleness of water’s boiling point. So, he wondered, “how has a clear falsehood become scientific common sense?�
ABOUT THE AUTHORS Bill is a journalist, Rich holds a doctorate in physics. Together the brothers bring you “Strange But True.� Send your questions to strangetrue@compuserve.com.
OBSERVER CROSSWORD PUZZLER ACROSS 1. Shorty: Var. 5. Minute hairlike projection 10. Bridal path 15. “Carry __ !� 16. “Have some� 18. Bearing or manner 19. Archetype 20. Adaptable truck, for short 22. 40 winks 24. Exist 25. Beaver State 26. Guy Fawkes Day mo. 27. Auction offering 28. Door feature 30. Blazer, e.g. 32. Word before large 33. Flight data, briefly 35. Messy mass 37. Bawdy 39. Part of the verb “to be� 40. 007’s doctor foe 41. Nothing at all
43. ‘Monopoly’ square 44. Escalator feature 46. “No ___!� 47. Astir 48. “Step on __!� 49. Santa ___, Calif. 52. Buck 53. ‘People’ counterpart 54. “Follow me!� 55. Holiday drink 56. Do nothing 57. Word in a simile 58. Phobos, to Mars 59. ___ Bowl 60. Global currency org. 61. Unidirectional 62. Masthead name 63. PM preceder 65. Young Darth Vader’s nickname 66. “What are the ___?� 67. Coif 68. Australian runner 70. Jamaican exports
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36. Clobber 38. You and I 42. Aloof 45. Coffee break snack 46. Offensively deaf and mute 50. Aria, e.g. 51. Biology lab supply 52. Actor DeLuise 53. “It’s no ___!â€? 54. Playing hard to get 56. On, as a lamp 57. Associate in Nursing 58. Mom 59. __-fi 64. Japanese soup 65. Flyer 66. “La Bohème,â€? e.g. 69. Ornamental flower, for short 71. “Who cares?â€?
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ers over a contained space like this.” Mulch pathways in between each garden make sure no one is walking through anyone’s planting area, and it provides a nice aesthetic, Langerak added. And the spaces are only four feet in width so that you can reach the middle to plant or pull weeds from either side of the garden. Bartholomew’s book also provides a helpful list of how much space each vegetable needs to grow. Tomatoes plants, for example,
require a full square foot to themselves, where as beans only need three square inches of room per plant. There are 12 plots so far, including two that are still open and one that is designated for the Woolwich Community Services food bank. The group is eager to add another row in the coming weeks and ask anyone interested to e-mail glangerak@gmail. com. As for what you should grow in your garden, Langerak keeps it simple. “I always tell people, grow what you like to eat.”
MUSICAL HOPEFULS GET THINGS GOING FOR WELLESLEY IDOL
Eager vocalists showed off their skills at the first round of tryouts for Wellesley Idol. Moving on to the next round are Taylor Kelly, Christian Economides, Madison Kuehl, Paige Warner, Brooke Bauer, Sarah Gingerich and Jessie MacDonald. They will perform at the Wellesley Fall Fair on Sept. 15 at 7 p.m. [WHITNEY NEILSON / THE OBSERVER]
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Fresh Strawberry Pie 1 – 9” baked pie shell 1 quart (4 cups) fresh strawberries 1-3/4 cups white sugar 1/3 cup instant clear jel 2 cups sliced strawberries Whipped cream for garnish Additional fresh strawberry halves and fresh mint sprigs
for garnish
In a medium bowl, mash 1 quart strawberries with a potato masher. You can leave it a little chunky to add texture to the pie. In a small bowl, mix white sugar and instant clear jel. Quickly stir the sugar mixture into the mashed berries. It will thicken right before your eyes. Set aside while you slice the 2 cups of strawberries. Put half the mashed strawberry mixture into the
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pie shell. Spread the 2 cups sliced berries on top of the mashed berries. Top with remaining half of mashed berries. The pie can be chilled for a few hours at this point; it will set better or you can garnish it and serve immediately. Serves 6.
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said. “The [Grade] 6, 7, 8 children are exciting because they’re coming to know who they are and who they want to be. And they’re excited about what the future holds. But every age group is delightful for very different reasons.” She’s looking forward to working in Elmira since she also grew up in a small farming community, Welcome, Ont. She says it’s almost like going home because of the small town feel she’s used to. But there are definitely aspects of Breslau PS she’s sad to say goodbye to. “The smiles on little people’s faces when they say good morning or hello I will miss that terribly because I have become part of this community and will be sad to not be able to see them almost every day,” McHolm said. “It’s the relationships that you build with the children, with the staff, and with the parents that make the job such a rewarding job.” Bond spent time at Northlake Woods Public School, Lester B Pearson Public School, and Eastwood Collegiate Institute before his six-year stint at Park Manor, which came to
a close this week. Originally from Galt, Bond says he’s enjoyed helping the students get ready for high school. “From being a high school teacher and administrator I know where they’re going and it’s exciting to see how well equipped the students leave here,” Bond said. “I’ve heard from the high school our students do really well in high school, so I’m going to miss that.” One of the highlights for him was the holiday turkey luncheon they started the year he became principal. He says that tradition is all about celebrating community. They also had the Panther Cup last year where new Grade 6 students were mixed up with older students on teams to help them build school community between the grades. They also defined the four paws of a Panther a few years ago – know yourself, respect yourself, respect others, and work hard. “I think from the school’s point of view I feel like this is my second family,” Bond said. “I’ve been here six years, the longest I’ve ever been anywhere
in my career and we’ve been on such a journey together as a staff. Even with the technology, where we started to where we are now. It’s how the teachers have changed the way they teach. The way students learn is so different from when we started.” He says just watching how the teachers are committed to trying new technology and new ways that students learn has taught him a lot. It’s an exciting time for the students at these grade levels because they’re maturing and figuring out who they are. “Change is good. The new principal’s going to come in and she’s going to have a different skill set and passions which can help tweak some things that I wasn’t very good at or passionate about,” Bond said. He’ll miss the conversations with students he’s come to know, but he’s also eager to start learning from the younger children at Tait Street. “I’m going to miss the older kids for sure,” Bond said. “But it’s a great school too. It’ll be a good experience. I know we’re getting a good principal here.”
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SAT JUNE 27 9-6 SUN JUNE 28 11-5 EXTENDED HOURS MON JUNE 29 9-9 LAMINATE CLICK LAMINATE
LAMINATE CLICK LAMINATE
2 NEW COLOURS IN STOCK!
87
12.3 MM THICK!
97
¢
¢
PER SQ FT
REG 1.99
HARDWOOD OAK OR MAPLE
HARDWOOD CLICK ENGINEERED MAPLE
4¼ X ¾
2
2
$ 97 MADE IN CANADA
$ 97
PER SQ FT
REG 5.99
VINYL LUXURY VINYL PLANKS
1
1
$ 97
PER SQ FT
REG 2.99
CARPET HEAVY BERBER
FREE UNDERPAD!
1
¢
$ 37
PER SQ FT
REG 1.99
TILE
WALL TILES
16” X 16”
67
4” X 16”
1
¢
$ 97
PER SQ FT
REG 2.99
1
59
¢
$ 97
PER SQ FT
REG 4.99
44
¢
/SF
PER SQ FT
REG 8.99
LAMINATE $ INSTALLATION MINIMUM 300SF
24
$
$ 97
CARPET INSTALLATION MINIMUM 250SF
PER LIN FT
36” STAIR TREADS
MODERN LEDGESTONE
2
PER SQ FT
REG 4.99
3-7/8” X 12’ BASEBOARDS
BACKSPLASH TILES
FROM
PER SQ FT
REG 2.99
TILE FLOOR TILE
FROM
PER SQ FT
REG 3.99
CARPET SHORT SHAG OR PLUSH
FREE UNDERPAD!
MADE IN CANADA
PER SQ FT
REG 9.99
VINYL CLICK VINYL LUXURY PLANKS
$ 37
97
PER SQ FT
REG 2.99
1
19
/SF
HARDWOOD $ INSTALLATION MINIMUM 300SF
87 EACH
125
/SF
*products may not be exactly as shown. limited supply
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