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FAISAL ALI THE LATEST REVISIONS TO Wellesley’s proposed new noise bylaw was a much quieter affair Tuesday night, without the attimes heated discussions earlier in the process.

The current draft of the bylaw differs somewhat from the initial version unveiled in April, recognizing the input of about 150 people who responded to the township’s survey and emailed their comments.

Councillors were mostly approving of the revisions to the new bylaw, but have asked for another minor change to be made before they formally give it their seal of approval – most likely two weeks from now at the next council meeting.

“I think it’s a good bylaw and I think that residents should be happy with it,” said Coun. Peter van der Maas, noting the initial concerns raised by Wellesley residents have largely been addressed.

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Despite some light drizzle over the weekend, the annual Taste of Woolwich event was well attended on Saturday. Held at the Elmira Farmers’ Market, the event featured a variety of fresh, locally grown produce alongside educational events and the launch of 2018 edition of the Buy Local! Buy Fresh! guide map to the region. Featured is the very life-like Mootilda the Cow, there to teach kids the proper way to milk a cow.

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Child poverty rates among lowest in KitchenerConestoga in riding-by-riding study VERONICA REINER CANADA MAY BE FALLING behind in addressing child poverty, but this area is significantly better off than the national average, according to a new study.

Using federal ridings as a comparator, the Campaign 2000 report finds Kitchener-Conestoga’s

8.5 per cent is less than have the national rate of 17.5 per cent.

Campaign 2000 is an educational movement organized in the late eighties that aims to increase Canadian awareness and support to reduce the childhood poverty rate. It publishes data listing the childhood poverty rate in each riding that comes

from the tax filings of Canadians, notes Anita Khanna, the group’s national coordinator.

“Canada is actually falling behind other countries in terms of addressing poverty,” explained Khanna. “Canada has the 12th highest poverty rate among 26 countries. These are wealthy

A SMALL SHUTTLE SERVICE that will move people around Elmira and connect with the Grand River Transit bus will be launched in September for a six-month trial period.

The pilot project proposed by Kiwanis Transit has been approved by both the township and the Region of Waterloo.

Meeting this week, Woolwich councillors approved spending some $13,000 to support the trial, $9,000 to pay for the service and another $4,000 for signage and promotion. The bulk of the $54,000 operating cost will be paid for by Kiwanis Transit.

The project is set to run from September 4 to Mar. 1, 2019.

While the region won’t provide any funding, if the pilot proves successful, it will look at extending the service through the rest of 2019, including the project in next year’s budget talks.

A small bus will circle Elmira at peak times during the day, dropping off passengers at a Grand River Transit bus stop where they can board the main bus and link to the transit hub in Waterloo.

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Improvements to Snyder’s Flats Road and Bloomingdale community centre parking lot on target for next year STEVE KANNON SYNCING ITS OWN PROJECT in Bloomingdale with the region’s plan to reconstruct Sawmill Road, Woolwich is now budgeting to pave a portion of Snyder’s Flats Road and the parking lot at the community centre.

The township has earmarked $50,000 to get the design work done this year, piggybacking on the region’s efforts. Likewise, the actual construction will be done in conjunction with the region’s work on Sawmill Road, coordinating the grading, storm sewers, paving and the like, councillors decided this week.

Though advancing the project, Woolwich will not be deferring needed improvements to High and George streets in Elmira, a previously suggested trade-off to get the work done sooner. Instead, director of engineering and planning Dan Kennaley suggested postponing the sewer-lining program to clear the schedule for this project.

While the region had originally planned to tackle the Sawmill Road

project this year, delays pushing it back to 2019 provided an opportunity to cooperate, he noted.

“Under this option the region would complete the roadway and parking lot design and ensure that the storm sewer system along Sawmill Road would be adequately sized and installed at an appropriate depth to accommodate Snyder’s Flats Road and the surrounding area,” reads a report prepared by his department.

Working with the region also avoids any potential conflicts of having the engineering and construction overseen by the developer of a small subdivision slated for land across from the community centre, an option floated by council at an earlier meeting.

The new subdivision proposed for Bloomingdale currently calls for seven residential lots, ranging in size from 1.63 to 1.85 acres, and a commercial property on some three acres. The new homes would be on septic systems and served by private wells. Municipal storm sewers would be installed, however, and would serve to drain runoff from a newly paved

parking lot at the community centre.

The developer is seeking official plan and zoning changes to permit the project to go ahead. Kennaley said he expects that process to take some six months, meaning that, if approved, the work could also fall within the 2019 timeline.

As currently planned, the paving of Snyder’s Flats Road would extend to just past the area of the new subdivision, though Coun. Larry Shantz suggested the pavement or perhaps tar-and-chip treatment be extend to the church property.

The surface treatment option being more likely, Kennaley said that extended portion would be better off as a standalone project later.

Though initially hesitant about an option that postponed the sewerlining work, Coun. Patrick Merlihan said the ability to find efficiencies in doing the work all together outweighed that concern.

“It’s time this gets done,” said Coun. Murray Martin, noting the township has been talking about the project for at least 15 years.

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cerns,” he said. “But we did get some very constructive comments from several residents that helped make it a little more focused.”

The changes in the latest draft of the proposed bylaw generally have the effect of softening the restrictions laid out and clarifying confusing language.

A new section was added to clarify that the new bylaw won’t be enforced against “normal social and economic activities,

including noise associated with spontaneous events such as celebrations, weddings, church bells, etc.”

The list of exemptions have been widened so all sports and recreation activities at public parks would be exempt from noise complaints, as opposed to only those with a special event permit as was previously the case.

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restrictions now; while the proscription on discharging firearms was revised to apply only to the township’s settlement areas.

The after-hours prohibition against disruptive yelling, shouting, hooting, whistling and singing has now been clarified to be a concern only when “persistent or repetitive.”

The seeming ban on loud music and amplification devices has been updated from being prohibited at all times to the period from

11 p.m. at night to 7 a.m. in the morning everyday (9 a.m. on Sundays).

Mayor Joe Nowak noted that, far from being “oppressive,” the township had significantly changed the way it enforced its bylaws to be more conciliatory.

“When we first came into office here, we had a fulltime bylaw enforcement officer. And that bylaw enforcement officer was told to be proactive. To, virtually, go out and look

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“So it’s not that we’re being overly oppressive when it comes to having a good time in Wellesley Township,” said Nowak.

If the new bylaw is approved by councillors, it would still need to have a legal review before it could be made official. Once that happens, it would replace the current, much less robust noise bylaw, which was adopted by the township in 2008.

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for problems. Maybe that’s being a little bit unfair, but really that’s what he was doing,” said Nowak.

“This council changed that.”

The system used now is more “reactive,” said Nowak, where bylaws are only enforced when a complaint is raised. In the case of the noise bylaws, someone has to first complain about the noise before the bylaw comes into effect. Once the complaint is made, the bylaw becomes the reference

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its door-to-door specialty transportation, not only linking to GRT route 21 but allowing people in Elmira to access local stops such as shopping or appointments, the agency’s general manager, Cheryl Fisher, told councillors Tuesday night.

If just 1,500 of the agency’s 50,000 annual rides can be diverted to public transit, it would recoup the $45,000 investment, she

noted.

“For us, there is definitely a financial benefit to shift riders to public transit.”

The service, to be operated without fares for the six-month trial, would be open to all residents looking to make use of a bus looping around Elmira.

“I think it’s going to prove one thing or another thing. It’s either going to prove that people are interested in using transit and

getting on to route 21 and moving on into the city, or we’re going to find out it is a car community and bussing doesn’t work,” said Coun. Larry Shantz.

The prospect of the pilot project being extended or the route being made permanent met with some concerns, however.

Coun. Patrick Merlihan, though supportive of Kiwanis Transit’s efforts, said he worried about costs escalating if Grand River

Transit took over the route eventually. Moreover, he added, there’s the matter of which tax base would be funding the service.

Though GRT route 21 runs through St. Jacobs and Elmira, everyone in the township pays taxes totalling some $500,000, with fares covering less than a quarter of the costs.

Mayor Sandy Shantz, who represents the township on regional council, suggested the service

would be paid for by a special levy on properties in Elmira.

Though no fares would apply in the initial run, the goal would be to have the shuttle integrated into the GRT fare system. How many of the early riders would continue to use the service when fares are introduced remains to be seen.

Coun. Murray Martin said there should be a charge from the get-go.

“There’s nothing free out

there – let’s not kid ourselves.”

Councillors did seem to be on the same page of a “use it or lose it” philosophy that significant ridership would determine the fate of the pilot project.

The local shuttle service would make a five-kilometre loop through Elmira time to coordinate with the GRT’s scheduled stop outside the township administrative office at Church and Maple streets.

Wellesley contributes $2,000 to Smart Cities Challenge FAISAL ALI THE TOWNSHIP OF WELLESLEY is contributing $2,000 towards the government of Canada’s Smart Cities Challenge. In a decision approved at Tuesday night’s council, township council-

lors agreed to support the Region of Waterloo, the tri-city municipalities, and the region’s townships, in a combined bid for the Challenge, which awards prizes of up to $50 million to fund technology-driven initiatives in municipalities.

The region and it’s submunicipalities are seeking the maximum $50 million grant to support their proposed initiative, which will focus on the wellbeing of children and youth in the community. The region successfully passed the

first phase of the Smart Cities Challenge, receiving $250,000 to further develop their idea.

Ultimately, the Region of Waterloo has proposed the creation of a web and mobile application that will link all the disparate com-

munity groups and organizations in the region that support children’s wellbeing. The application will allow all these organizations to share data between them and the public, while accounting for privacy issues, allowing the region

to create “Canada’s first real-time child and youth wellbeing dashboard.”

The region is also proposing to create technology-based educational programs and promote volunteerism with a “volunteer database.”

Woolwich hosts Canada Day festivities in Elmira on Sunday VERONICA REINER

THE 27TH ANNUAL CANADA Day celebration hosted by the Township of Woolwich will take place July 1 at Gore Park in Elmira.

Representatives from a

variety of businesses and clubs around town will be present. While the official ceremony begins at 6 p.m., there are plenty of other activities to enjoy during the course of the day.

“Through the generous

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support of Canada Heritage, local businesses and the Township of Woolwich, all activities at the celebration are free,” said Sarah Hignell, township recreation/community development coordinator. “The event kicks

off at the Woolwich Memorial Centre from 1-3 pm with a free Public Swim. Festivities continue at Gore Park in Elmira from 4-7 pm.”

At 6 p.m., there will be a Canada Day cake divvied up. Local dignitaries will

be delivering remarks and there will be the singing of O’Canada.

“Locals can meet and mingle with MP Harold Albrecht, MPP Mike Harris, regional Chair Ken Seiling and Township of Woolwich

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Paradise Lions celebrate 45th Charter members Ed Gerstenkorn and John Pfaffinger will be presented with commemorative gifts Thursday night as the Paradise & District Lions Club celebrates its 45th anniversary.

The two have been with the Lions since the local club’s inception. The St. Jacobs Lions Club sponsored its formation when it was determined there weren’t any service clubs in the vicinity. Forty-four men signed up under their first president, Bill

Strauss.

The name Paradise & District Lions Club was chosen as a neutral name since members came from Heidelberg, St. Clements, Linwood, Hawkesville and surrounding areas.

The group remains involved in a variety of community events, including the annual Santa Claus parade, roadside cleanup, park cleanup and run a weekly bingo to raise funds to contribute back to the community. The club also runs the annual Tree of Light campaign, which has raised $61,000 for community causes since it was launched in 2008.

Woolwich OKs paving work Woolwich plans to spend $1.3 million dollars on paving projects this year, with council this week awarding the work to Steed and Evans Ltd. The company’s was the lowest of six bids received, with costs coming in at about $63,000 less than the township had budgeted.

Work is planned for portions of Crowsfoot Road near Maryhill, Woolwich Street in Breslau and Erb Street in Elmira. Maintenance

paving is scheduled for Thrush Court and Canary Court in Elmira, as well as Hemlock Hills Drive, between Three Bridges Road and Broadway Street, near St. Jacobs.

All work is scheduled to be finished by September 28.

Pointing to the surplus, Coun.

Patrick Merlihan gained support for resurfacing Weigel and Norman avenues in Elmira, a project with an estimated costs of $25,000.

Coun. Murray Martin pushed for the township to consider speed bumps as part of the Woolwich Street project in Breslau.

“They work. That would be a good place to put them in,” he said of the traffic-calming measure.

Woolwich lowers food truck fees Much lower fees for food trucks looking to operate in Woolwich are part of changes to the township’s licensing bylaw approved this week by council.

The move sees the annual fee to license such business operations fall to $350 from $1,100, which was the highest rate in the

region by far – Wellesley has a fee of $750, though the cities charge from $225 to $325.

In a presentation to council this week, staff member Kiera Schlueter said the lower rates would encourage more businesses to take annual licenses instead of using day rates. The fees would also bring more vendors into compliance without a reduction in overall revenue, she suggested.

The township plans to reimburse the difference to the four operators who’ve already bought annual licenses for this year.

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Regional police supporting blood drive heading into long weekend The Waterloo Regional Police Service has partnered with Canadian Blood Services and local emergency service workers for this year’s Sirens for Life campaign, which encourages local emergency service workers and residents to come together and donate blood.

The event will take place Friday at 9:30 a.m. at police headquarters, located at 200 Maple Grove Road in Cambridge.

Just one person who is seriously injured in a vehicle collision could need as many as 50 blood donations to help save their life, police note in a release.

“There is an urgent need for blood right now,” said Tara Gutscher, territory manager for Canadian Blood Services. “There is almost always an increased need for blood on long weekends and this coming weekend is no exception. We are so thankful that these Emergency Services Personnel are giving their time and their blood to save lives. Most of the blood collected at this clinic will be used within five days, helping a family member, neighbour or friend.”

The goal for this year’s Sirens for Life campaign in Waterloo Region is to collect 150 units of blood. As well, organizers hope to recruit 30 new donors.

“When you make the decision to give blood, you are making the decision to save someone’s life,” said Bryan Larkin, chief of police. “We hope to see a lot of community members make a commitment to give blood, not only during the Sirens for Life Campaign, but any day.

Together, we can help ensure an adequate supply of blood donations is available in our clinics.”

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4:30 PM | A Wellington County OPP officer was monitoring traffic on Wellington Road 12, south of Drayton. The officer observed a

male driving a newer model black sedan at a speed that appeared to be well above the posted 80 km/h speed limit. The vehicle was locked on radar in excess of 130 km/h, exceeding the posted speed limit by at least 50 km/h. The driver, a 24-year-old Chatsworth man, was charged with ‘race a motor vehicle,’ and is scheduled to appear in Guelph Provincial Court on August 1. His driver’s licence and vehicle were seized for a period of seven days as per statute.

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9:30 AM | A single-vehicle collision in the Township of Perth East resulted in criminal charges.

Members of the Perth County OPP attended the collision on Perth Road 145 and arrested the driver at the scene, charging the 18-year-old Stratford man with ‘take motor vehicle without consent,’ ‘driving while ability impaired-motor vehicle (drug)’ and ‘drive motor vehicle-no licence.’ He was later released on a Promise to Appear and is scheduled to appear in court at a later date.

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countries, so we’re not talking about developing ones. So if you compare to peers, we’re falling behind, so there certainly needs to be more invested. Canada has quite a way to go.”

Advancements in family policies include parental leave, child benefits, and other supports, have remained unchanged for many years. Canada’s social spending is below the OECD average, and that number has remained unchanged since 1990, according to Khanna.

“Child poverty actually has a higher rate today than it did in 2000,” added Sid Frankel, a professor at the University of Manitoba and steering committee member at Campaign 2000. “Our new goal is what we think the government should put into place as a target in its poverty reduction strategy.”

Campaign 2000 has outlined its recommendations for the government in reducing child poverty, including a crystal clear strategy and firm goals such as reducing the child poverty rate by 50 per cent by 2020, according to Frankel.

“The Trudeau government promised during the last federal election a child poverty strategy,” he said. “They’ve made various promises about when it would be released; we’re a bit concerned that it’s so late in their mandate. The latest indication is that it will be released either in this month or in very early July.”

This release of a poverty reduction strategy will be the first in Canada’s history.

“This is a huge step, and it’s something that we and other groups have advocated for decades,” said Khanna.

“So, obviously, we want to welcome the strategy; we want to see strong support for families with children and strong antipoverty measures. The data here is used to build support, also awareness among all MPs because clearly child poverty is an issue for all of them and for all Canadians. It is so widespread, and there are alarming numbers of children with poverty.”

Childhood poverty reduction strategies include several specific methods.

“A way they can meet that goal is to improve child benefits but also to invest in child care services,” said Khanna.

“So to create a universal childcare program. So people can use it if they need it. And support services of childcare as well as invest in affordable housing, universal Pharmacare and, of course, helping the creation of good jobs ... so people don’t have to work two

or three jobs at a time.

Also that there are decent wages, and benefits or support for workers as well.”

Any time spent living in poverty, even a short time, will affect a child’s achievement in school,

lead to stress and anxiety, and potentially develop lifelong conditions such as asthma or diabetes, the group suggests.

More information about the group’s report can be found online at www.campaign2000.ca.

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Transit trial run will have to be monitored closely DOUBLING DOWN ON ITS bus experiment, Woolwich is hoping it’s not throwing good money after bad in supporting a pilot project organized by Kiwanis Transit.

The plan is to boost ridership on the lightly used Waterloo-to-Elmira bus by running a pickup service in Elmira that will feed into Grand River Transit’s route 21. To that end, Kiwanis Transit is covering the bulk of the cost, looking to the township for $9,000 of the $54,000 price tag.

That comes on top of the $500,000 a year Woolwich taxpayers pay for the few hundred riders who use route 21.

The township had previously balked at efforts to beef up the main service to attract riders, unwilling to shell the tens of thousands of dollars. That this pilot project is being offered by Kiwanis Transit rather than GRT means the operating costs are much more manageable, at least for now.

Funnelling more riders onto the GRT system would save Kiwanis Transit more than enough money to cover the $45,000 it has pledged to the project. Likewise, other community groups who organize services such as rides to doctor’s appointments would also benefit.

In that regard, the project, if successful, makes sense.

Council, however, has to look at the big picture. That includes the prospect of escalating costs if the service becomes permanent, especially as the entire cost would likely fall on taxpayers. More importantly, there must be a cost-benefit analysis of massive costs for the route as a whole, weighing the expense against the limited number of users.

There is reason to believe that improving the service would boost ridership, but the numbers would likely be inconsequential. As with all of Grand River Transit, you could double and double again the amount of money spent on the system, and it would still be too slow, too inconvenient and too costly for anyone to choose to use it where another option exists.

Therein lies the rub for public transit in the region: it’s generally used only by those who don’t have other options.

It’s a captive audience, who’ll use transit no matter what state the service is in. Nobody will opt out of taking his or her car in favour of the public transit unless the service is some combination of faster, cheaper or more convenient – that’s not applicable in the region, and never will be.

Systems that meet those requirements do exist, but in much larger cities. For all the region’s growth forecasts – historically not accurate – the numbers will never work out in any version of the foreseeable future.

As is stands in the region today, transit provides a necessary service to relatively few residents. It’s essential in some form, though every effort must be made to reduce costs in order to make the system more manageable. Technology such as autonomous vehicles could remove the costly labour component from public transit or could even render it obsolete as people turn to safer, more convenient door-to-door options. Any kind of transit expansion – including the ill-considered LRT and bus routes such as Elmira’s – should have been put on hold until other options, including the elimination of high labour costs, became clearer.

It remains to be seen how the pilot project will go over, though the numbers will have to be impressive – and take into account the fact the no-fare option may boost ridership disproportionately, but is not sustainable – to warrant continuation of the service at a direct cost to Elmira taxpayers already burdened with a lightly used GRT service.

School’s out. Long weekend. Hot, hazy and humid. It’s a perfect storm of summertime.

WORLD VIEW / GWYNNE DYER

Saudi Arabia is home to nothing but a populist dictatorship WORLD AFFAIRS Joy and pride among Saudi women who are at last allowed to drive. Delight in the car dealerships that anticipate a lot of new business. And dismay in the families of the 1.4 million chauffeurs, almost all from South Asia, who have been earning around $1,000 a month driving Saudi women around. But it will take a lot more than this to change Saudi Arabia.

Just before driving became legal for women, seventeen women activists who have been campaigning for years against the driving ban were arrested.

Eight have now been released, but the others are facing possible trial in a counter-terrorism court and long prison sentences for their activism. Does the right hand know what the left is doing?

Yes, it does. Letting women drive is part of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s project to win popular support by mod-

ernizing some aspects of daily life. Looking like he is giving in to popular pressure is definitely not part of his program. The change must look like a free gift from his hand, not a retreat in the face of public protest.

It’s a less dramatic initiative than last winter’s three-month anti-corruption campaign, which detained 56 high-profile royal family members and prominent businessman (in the capital’s best hotel) until they had ‘paid back’ some of their ill-gotten gains.

The exercise allegedly yielded $100 billion to the government, although none of the thieves saw the inside of a courtroom, let alone went to jail. But the message was the same: I’m on the side of ordinary people and I’m doing the right things, but I make the decisions when and as I choose.

The notion that Mohammed bin Salman is liberalizing the Saudi system is a fantasy. Having ruthlessly sidelined all rival claimants to the throne – his father, King Salman, is 82 and ailing – he has now centralized power to an un-

precedented extent. Saudi Arabia was a traditional, deeply conservative monarchy that always ensured there was a fair degree of consensus among the elite.

It is now a dictatorship.

MbS, as he is known, is an impulsive man, and one of his bigger mistakes was to invite the UN’s special rapporteur on anti-terrorism, Ben Emmerson, to visit the country to report on how it was reconciling the need to prevent terrorism with respect for human rights. Emmerson came back in early May. His report was unusually frank for a diplomatic document, and in a subsequent media interview he went well beyond that.

The Saudi anti-terrorism law is written in a way that criminalizes all dissent, he told The Guardian. Torture in Saudi jails is commonplace, the guilty officials go unpunished, and Saudi Arabia “is undergoing the most ruthless crackdown on political dissent that the country has experienced in decades.”

“Reports that Saudi Arabia is liberalizing are completely wide of the mark,” Emmerson said.

“The judiciary has now been brought entirely under the control of the King, and lacks any semblance of independence from the executive. Put simply, there is no separation of power in Saudi Arabia, no freedom of expression, no free press, no effective trade unions, and no functioning civil society.”

Moreover, MbS’s successes in crushing dissent within the country have made him over-confident about his skill in foreign policy. He summoned Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri to Riyadh and forced him to resign, only to see Hariri get his job back in alliance with Hezbollah, a Shia Islamist group that MbS utterly detests.

He declared a blockade of Saudi Arabia’s small but wealthy neighbour, Qatar, to force it to close down the Al-Jazeera network, the most influential Arabiclanguage news service, and to break its ties with Iran, the country that MbS fears most. One year later Al-Jazeera is still alive and kicking, and Qatar has moved closer to Iran.

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THEIR VIEW / QUESTION OF THE WEEK

What are your plans for the summer break?

»»Lukas Storer

»»Adaya Jantz

“Camping and going to the cottage.”

“Starting to go to the cottage and going to New “Play, bike and going to the beach.”

Jersey.”

»»Kaitlyn Noordam

»»McKenna Ellacott

»»Callum Simonds

“We’re going to go to Canada’s Wonderland, we’re “This summer we’re going strawberry picking.” going to go swimming in our backyard... and we’re going to Grand Bend and we’re going to go swimming at the beach.”

“The Saudi anti-terrorism law is written in a way that criminalizes all dissent.” Gwynne Dyer | 6 HIS VIEW / STEVE KANNON

Two national celebrations, two very different paths ... a least to date EDITOR'S NOTES Does the U.S. president’s attack on Canada’s goods and government boost the patriotic quotient July 1?

That’s the date countertariffs come into effect, and the country’s 151st birthday, thankfully bereft of the wasteful and largely woeful Canada 150 hype.

Trade wars and inanities aside, the fact we’re not subject to the administration Americans are saddled with may be enough to give this weekend an added boost. Certainly we’ve got no plans for a Stalinist-era military parade – or space force, for that matter – that seems to be the speed of the U.S. executive branch leading up to July 4 or some future version of it.

Just three days apart, the countrywide birthday parties in Canada and the U.S. will have a decidedly different flavour. While our American neighbours make much of their Independence Day festivities

– they are not shy about flying their colours – we Canadians are usually more reserved.

In years past, the anniversary of our country’s founding has, often as not, been seen as just another statutory holiday – ideally leading to a long weekend, as is the case this year.

Yet there are signs that is changing. Although nothing akin to the red-whiteand-blue flag wavers, anecdotal evidence suggests we are displaying the maple leaf more often than we used to – more homes, business and even cars appear decorated with the flag, and not just leading up to July 1.

That movement has certainly been boosted by recent political wranglings that served to differentiate us from our cousins to the south. Despite maintaining overall support for the U.S., many of us have shown a little pride in Canada’s decision to strike its way – to maintain its own identity – in the wake of security clampdowns following the events of Sept. 11, the split over the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, border issues

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of life.

In Canada, we’re in better shape than the U.S., and have the luxury of watching the meltdown there at a distance. Americans are angry. So are we, though not to the same extent. And our outlets for anger are fewer and much less shrill.

What’s playing out next door could be a version of our future. Go beyond the “entertainment” value of the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Fox News and we see just what politics has become in the U.S., and what it’s threatening to become here. Dumb.

Partisan. Bereft of policies.

And the opposite of an engaged citizenry, despite the populist trappings.

The problems in the U.S., and to a lesser extent in Canada, are complex. Partisan sniping and sloganeering won’t help. Apparently, that’s the best we can do.

That’s why we have pundits yelling on TV. Ersatz politicians using homey platitudes. And issues reduce to the lowest common denominator.

The U.S. is particularly bifurcated at this point, not just along Republican/

Democrat lines – the parties are essentially just slightly different extensions of corporate control, the current occupant of the White House notwithstanding – but also culturally. There are plenty of sociological reasons for the rift – from economics to education – but there’s definitely an increasing divide where facts and logic are no longer relevant. No more is that evident than in the blind support for military imperialism that has taken on pro-fascist undertones, going well beyond the jingoism many in this country find both alarming and incomprehensible.

The situation in the U.S. has become so bad that waves of patriotic propaganda have overwhelmed the voices of the fair and just, notes journalist and author Chris Hedges in a piece this week about Spenser Rapone, who received an “other than honorable” discharge from the U.S. military for speaking out against the culture of violence.

Rapone, who served on the ground in Afghanistan

as a young recruit before attending West Point to become an officer, saw firsthand how the military created an environment of violence and hate, often becoming the biggest problem in the countries occupied by U.S. forces.

Patriotism brings in recruits and shields the U.S. military from criticism that is very much warranted, says Rapone.

“The United States is almost religious about its patriotism,” he tells Hedges. “Military personnel are seen as infallible.

You have someone like [Secretary of Defense] James Mattis, who is a bona fide war criminal. He dropped bombs on a wedding ceremony in Iraq. He’s responsible for overseeing many different massacres in Iraq. Or [general and former national security adviser] H.R. McMaster.

These people can’t do any wrong because they’ve served. This reverence for the military is priming the population to accept military rule and a form of fascism or protofascism.

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There is a danger, of course, in putting too much weight on “not being Americans” – that is no way to form a strong national identity. Still, there appears to be a welcome window of opportunity for our (usually self-serving) leaders to encourage this pride, to promote some of the “can-do” mentality that makes up the attractive part of American patriotism. And without some of the over-the-top jingoism that clouds the issue – a development likely held in check here by our inherent politeness and pragmatism.

Both Canadians and Americans have fewer reasons to celebrate these days given the financial and political mess in both countries – much worse to the south, of course. Still, perhaps that’s a reason for citizens to enjoy the holiday, put the politics on hold for a day or two, and reflect on what’s really important before coming back to reality with a fresh perspective on what politicians and their paymasters have done to our quality

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High-priced specialty drugs continue to dominate the new drug landscape. Many new drugs come with a high cost, as 35% of those launched in 2015 were oncology drugs with a treatment cost exceeding $5,000 for a 28-day treatment, while 30% were non-oncology drugs with treatment costs exceeding $10,000 per year.

“What’s particularly poignant is that the kids and their parents aren’t just fleeing to the U.S., they’re fleeing from the results of U.S. policies in violence-drenched countries like Guatemala (where U.S. complicity extends to a CIA-backed coup in 1954); El Salvador, where the U.S. was behind a gory civil war in the 1980s; and Honduras currently, where the U.S. supported a 2009 military coup against a democratic election, and has meddled forever.”

Woolwich residents who help beautify township land with plantings and landscaping efforts won’t be penalized under a new encroachment policy adopted this week by councillors. So-called soft encroachments – gardens and flowerbeds, for instance, that spill over onto boulevards and municipal rights-of-ways – are fine, but the township will be cracking down on cases where fences, sheds and the like intrude on its property.

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And in his biggest blunder, he launched a military intervention in the Yemeni civil war to defeat the Houthis, a Shia tribe that has captured most of Yemen and that he believes (wrongly) is controlled and armed by Iran.

Saudi Arabia’s air strikes have killed thousands, its ally the United Arab Emirates has thousands of troops on the ground – and three years later the Houthis still control most of the heavily populated parts of Yemen, including the capital.

It’s not exactly Saudi Arabia’s Vietnam – the

Saudis have no troops on the ground, and the Emiratis are mostly using foreign mercenaries – but the Yemeni intervention is very expensive, deeply embarrassing, and probably unwinnable. In the long run, it may be MbS’s undoing.

The wealth has been more widely shared in Saudi Arabia than in most oilrich countries, and for the non-political majority life is still pretty good. Even for women, things are very gradually getting better: 60 per cent of Saudi university graduates are female, and now they can drive too. But the country is now being run by an erratic and overconfident dictator.

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“The public doesn’t understand how regressive and toxic military culture is,” he notes. “The military’s inherent function is the abuse and degradation of other people. It is designed to be a vehicle of destruction. It’s fundamental to the system. Without that, it would collapse. You can’t convert the military into a humanitarian force even when you use the military in humanitarian ways, such as in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. The military trains soldiers to see other human beings, particularly brown and black human beings, as an imminent threat.”

It’s a toxic environment that will decidedly not be on the agenda for

Independence Day celebrations next week. And it’s a culture that we shy away from here, where, as with many countries, there really isn’t the equivalent of an “anti-American” fervour for citizens who question the decisions of the state.

We’ve also thus far avoided the demagoguery to the south, which mirrors the despots so admired by the current president.

It’s something for us to reflect on here as we head into our own national celebration. Barring that kind of introspection, perhaps we should simply be thankful for the benefits we take pleasure in as Canadians – including the chance to make muchneeded improvements without (as much) partisan vitriol – and to enjoy ourselves this Canada Day weekend.

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Goaltender Matt Onuska gets invite to the U17 Team Canada tryouts VERONICA REINER Somebody has taken note of the years of Matt Onuska has put into his goaltending skills. The 16-year-old has been invited to the U17 Team Canada tryouts in Calgary.

The camp is set to take place July 21-27 at the Markin MacPhail Centre at WinSport’s Canada Olympic Park.

“I’m super excited,” said Onuska. “Being able to compete with all the other top players in Canada and kind of see where I compare to those guys. I’m just really excited to meet some of their top players from across Canada.”

A total of 111 players across Canada have been selected to participate in this camp. It features 12 goaltenders, 36 defencemen, and 63 forwards split into six teams for a variety of tests and training, including fitness testing, off- and on-ice training, classroom sessions, practices, and squad games.

Onuska plays for the Waterloo Wolves Minor Midget Triple A team.

Head coach of the team is Shawn Dietrich, with 20 years of previous experience.

“I coached Matt basically for two years,” explained Dietrich. “He played for me last season in Waterloo. And then I coached the U16 team for team alliance where he

was my goalie there, and that’s where he got invited to Calgary. The U16 team within our league, they created eight teams, take the best players, and then there was a weekend event and then they evaluate that and take the top up to 120, if I remember correctly.”

Dietrich said the secret to coaching is passion to developing young players.

He also commented on the maturity of Onuska.

“I’ve always described Matt as a 30-year-old trapped in a 16-year-old’s body,” he said. “He’s very mature. He’s a young adult. Dealing with him over the last few years is like dealing with an adult; he’s very professional and mature.”

Although Onuska is not sure currently what to expect of the tryouts, he knows that the tryouts will challenge him and show how he compares to other players.

“I don’t really know any specifics yet,” said Onuska. “But I definitely know that they’re there to really challenge you and really push you to make you prove yourself and show everything that you’ve got to be selected to play in Halifax in November for the U17 tournament.”

“My goal is to try to play professional hockey one day. I want to do everything I can to make that possible, just trying to work as hard as possible

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The fish flop photo as a work of art OPEN COUNTRY

Matt Onuska will be attending the U17 Calgary tryouts in Calgary as a goaltending prospect. The camp will paint a picture for players of what to expect if they decide to pursue hockey professionally.

[VERONICA REINER / THE OBSERVER] getting noticed now at “He’s got a really great to make that happen.” the hiring levels. He’ll do hockey mind; prepares It is quite possible that really well in Calgary, havhimself off ice and on ice, this dream could become ing the right mindset as like a professional,” said a reality for him, accordan athlete and a goalie.”

Dietrich. “Hence why it’s ing to Dietrich.

Having just unhooked the muskie, I gently handed the fish over to my son who had caught it, and reached for my camera. Then, I got what every angler hopes for – an almost flawless, wholly authentic, fish flop photo.

One worthy of framing in fact.

Admittedly, the fish flop photo is rarely spoken of, and as a result, few people understand it or recognize the style of photo for its great artistic merit.

For those unfamiliar, permit me to explain.

A fish flop photo is one taken exactly a millisecond after a big fish has flopped free of the angler’s hands. As such it is a true depiction of the futility of the human condition and a great Christmas gift.

In a really good fish flop photo, such as the one I took of my son, the fish is actually out of frame – which gives the angler even more time to develop an appropriate reaction.

This is my favourite sub-genre by the way – although I am also a huge fan of the tail-slappingGALEA | 10

Woodland girls take soccer gold at OFSAA

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The Woodland Christian High School girls’ soccer team made history on the field this season with a gold finish at the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations (OFSAA) championship. Taking on a slew of competitors from across the province, the team powered through a

few early setbacks in the season to come out on top in the OFSAA girls’ A division.

“This is the first time in our school’s history that a soccer team has won OFSAA gold,” said head coach Scott Kooy.

It was a roller coaster of a season, he notes, with the team starting on uneven footing, and nearly getting

knocked out of the earliest round of play.

“We dug ourselves a hole immediately. The girls never lost faith in it, which was pretty awesome,” said Kooy.

Competing at the District 8 Athletic Association tournaments against neighbouring schools, the team suffered four straight losses and a tie before get-

ting its first win. At one point, Kooy even believed that the team’s low points meant they had nixed their chances at making the subprovincial CWOSSA games.

The math, he was sure, meant that they would be eliminated at the district level.

“And then somehow they found a way,” he said, adding with a laugh that math

was never his strong suit.

“From that point on, they went on a winning streak.”

The team had dropped nearly to the bottom of the standings in the district, but their game dramatically turned around in time for the quarter-finals, where the team pulled off a dramatic 2-0 victory against St. Benedict. The win was enough to give Woodland a

pass to CWOSSA league.

From CWOSSA on, the girls saw an immense improvement to their overall game. Over the course of the entire regular season, from the district level to OFSAA, the Woodland team had a record of 16-6-2. Of those six loses, four took place in the District 8 TourWOODLAND | 10

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glasses-off-of-his-head genre too.

The problem with a fish flop photo with fish out of frame is that some people think they can be easily faked – after all you don’t even need a fish to do it.

Well, if that were the case, we would all have one in our wallets wouldn’t we?

But nothing could be further from the truth.

Anyone who has ever

fished can spot a fake right away.

The first dead giveaway is the angler’s face. As the photo of my son illustrated, the strained look on the anglers face should be very similar to the look that a toddler gets in mid-process of filling his diaper. As for the angler’s eyes, they should be wide open and staring off into the direction the fish just flopped, which is gener-

ally out of the boat or off the dock. On a good fish flop photo you will be able to guess the size of the fish within half an inch or mere ounces based on the horrific anguish expressed in the angler’s eyes.

And while the angler’s hands in a badly faked photo are basically level and static, in a real fish flop photo, you’ll see the angler is in the midst of a highly animated and lop-

sided shrug. In some cases, if you are lucky, you’ll even catch the angler as he or she is in process of deciding whether it is wise to lunge in the water after the fish. If you are really lucky, you will just capture a splash as it comes into frame.

As you might imagine, these are rare photos indeed.

Sadly, the world hasn’t learned to appreciate this

genre of photography thus far. Yet, I still hold out hope.

I mean soon enough people are going to have to get a little tired of pretty photos of autumn country roads, baskets full of kittens or mist rising off a lonely lake. And how many artistically posed nudes can you look at before people start thinking you are not actually fascinated by the contrast of

light and shadow? (You’re not fooling anyone, you know.)

No, sooner or later people will learn to truly appreciate the fish flop photo in all of its glory. In the meantime I’ll keep collecting them for my own edification as well as for posterity.

Who knows? One day, they might actually make a big splash in the art world too.

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nament, and only one each at CWOSSA and OFSAA. Entering into the CWOSSA tournaments, Woodland barreled through the competition, with three wins and a loss in the regular season, and a perfect streak through the finals.

“The final was really tight,” noted Kooy. “It was against Emmanuel Christian High School – they’re a school from Fergus. We had beat them in a tournament a couple weeks before as well so they already knew how we played, and we knew how they played, so it was pretty tight all the way through.”

Ultimately, Woodland

prevailed, but with a nailbiting 1-0 victory, moving on to OFSAA in Delhi.

Playing at the provincials, Woodland was again 3-1 in their pool, placing them once again in the quarter-finals, where the team won handily against É.S. Louis-riel. With the win, Woodland was moving up to the semi-finals the following day.

“After that game I said to the girls, ‘I finally get to make the phone call that I’ve wanted to make at every OFSAA that I’ve been to.’ Which is, calling the hotel who are holding our rooms and saying, ‘we’re coming back,’” said Kooy with a laugh. “So that was fun.”

The team moved on to win the semis the next day 2-0 against E.S. La Citadelle, and in the finals took on St. Michaels Catholic High School. The game was played down to the wire, with Woodland scoring the only point of the match. After the first point, the goal for Woodland was to hold on to their lead.

“When the final whistle went, the bench just streamed out onto the field to hug the goalie. The goalie made some amazing saves during that game,” said Kooy.

The team came away from the Delhi tournament with the gold, which Kooy credits to the team’s

The Woodland Christian High School girls’ soccer team claimed the gold at OFSAA this year. Back row: Scott Kooy (coach), Anika Koops, Aria Groot, Naomi Fast, Jenna Duimering, Harmony Groot, Alanna Parker, Brittney Dirkse, Katelyn Reitsma. Rachel Oudman, Priscila Reyes, Raquel Reyes, Veronica Reyes (assistant coach). Front row: Sarah Dirkse, Emily Tigchelaar, Alyssa Hogeveen, Sydney VanderHoef, Erin Ensing, Cassie Hobbs, Larissa Zomer, Jaime Koetsier, Elissa Gibson. Absent: Nicole Hellinga.

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“They’re just such a very supportive group of girls with each other, and they played with so much heart throughout this

year. They never got down which was awesome. Even early in the season, when we were playing in D8 and we lost a number of games,” he said.

With few graduating players this year, Kooy notes that the team is looking to come back just as strong next year – forecasting a good 2019 season.

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THE WOOLWICH WAVE SWIM team kicked off the competitive season with a strong showing last Saturday.

Taking on their long-time friendly rivals, the Fergus Flippers and Kincardine Kippers, the Waves were in Fergus for the first of a series of swim meets over the summer.

Complementing the Wave’s performance at the swim meet was the significant jump in enrollments in the team this year. The volunteer-run recreational team saw interest rise so much that a few sessions even had waiting lists this year, while the team had to extend their hours at the pool to fit everybody in.

“That’s a change from a couple of years ago, and as a result we have a lot more [kids] at the meet this year.

I think around 58 kids are signed up to do the swim meets, and last year we probably had around 30 to 35 kids,” said Erin Schmidt, Woolwich Wave team manager and volunteer.

A lot of the newcomers were kids under the age of 8, said Schmidt, while the team

also saw an uptick in interest from boys.

“We have a bunch more boys this year, so I’d say things are looking pretty [good]. Definitely we have a chance to take the boys’ championship this year too if everybody comes out and does well,” she said.

Amongst the many Woolwich swimmers with podium finishes, long-time Wave member Isobel Speiran broke some new ground. No stranger to success in the lanes, Speiran came away with three golds in all her events and two new records as well.

“She broke a 100-metre freestyle record and the 100-metre breaststroke record. So that would be in the 11-and-12-year-old [category],” said Schmidt.

Speiran has had more than a few first-place finishes on the team over the years, added Schmidt. “So she’s been a crazy strong swimmer.”

With the ground swell of interest in the team, Schmidt explains that they’ve had to rework their schedule slightly from the normal 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. twice weekly lessons, to include as many people as

possible.

“Because we started to get so full, we actually expanded to have instead of just one group of kids that come from 5:30 to 6:30, we’ve split them into three different levels. So we start at 5 p.m., and we have a half-an-hour program for the really little kids, or the new swimmers,” she said.

“And then the intermediate kids, they’ve swam before but they’re still building up endurance, we have a 45-minute class – actually two of them, so we can fit two 45-minute classes in that hour-and-a-half, and then the regular normal swim team session from 5:30 to 6:30.”

Schmidt can’t entirely account for the sudden jump in interest in the team, suggesting word of mouth as partially responsible. However, she is happy to see more youths in the community keeping active and joining the team.

After the Fergus meet last Saturday, the next meet is being held in Kincardine July 7, and then Elmira at the WMC two weeks after that. The finals will again be held in neutral waters in Baden this year on August 11.

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Partners employing AI to help speed up the diagnosis phase Huron Digital Pathology and Grand River Hospital are part of UW study to improve analysis of biopsies FAISAL ALI Waiting for the results of a biopsy can be an harrowing experience.

The anxiety it creates for the patient, as they wait for the results on a suspect growth or damaged tissue, can even lead to sickness, through a phenomenon known as biopsy stress.

The challenges, however, of obtaining a fast diagnosis and turnaround are immense, not in the least because a sample can require the expert vision of a number of highly trained doctors to successfully diagnose. The more doctors reviewing a case, the more accurate the diagnosis, but the practicality of getting five or ten – or, better yet, a hundred – pathologists to review the samples of every single patient at a hospital, and form a single consensus-based diagnosis, are of course nil.

Artificial intelligence may provide an answer to the problem, or at least provide tools to find one, says Hamid Tizhoosh, director of KIMIA Labs at the University of Waterloo’s Artificial Intelligence Institute.

Tizhoosh envisions a novel approach that is “pathologist-centric,” and has partnered up with several organizations, including St. Jacobs-based business Huron Digital Pathology as well as the Grand River

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Hospital, to bring the idea to life. The project has also received the backing of the province through a $3.1-million grant from the Ontario Research Fund.

“If you look at the mainstream AI right now, the absolute majority of people – companies and research units and universities – are actually investing in AI making decisions,” explains Tizhoosh, who is the lead researcher on the project.

Organizations are investing millions into developing AI that can look at tissue samples for a specific illness, and then spit out a binary answer: ‘yes, this sample is showing signs of malignant cancer’, for example, or ‘no, it is not.’

“And as long as you can come with several thousand if not millions of images [of biopsies], then you can train an AI to learn the difference. Which is fantastic, but the only problem is a piece of smart software telling the pathologist ‘yes’ and ‘no’ – ‘yes cancer’, ‘no cancer’ – it doesn’t really help,” says Tizhoosh.

This is because when a pathologist puts a sample under a microscope or, as is the increasingly the case nowadays, pulls it up on a screen, they are not simply looking for a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answer. Rather, they have to bring their extensive training to the fore and come up with a detailed

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by showing how they had diagnosed similar-looking samples. Moreover, most hospitals will have an extensive number of biopsy samples to draw on, he adds.

“If you just look inside one hospital, you already have a huge amount of information from past patients, the past 10-20 years, which have been evidently diagnosed. And we know what was the outcome...

So this is a huge amount of medical wisdom that is already there,” says Tizhoosh.

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Even though Kentucky’s first-ever agricultural trade mission was eight months in the making, no one would have blamed the state’s trade commission for delaying last week’s five-day trek to Ontario until the air cleared of anti-Canadian rhetoric from U.S. President Donald Trump.

After all, not only are trade tensions high, but Kentucky is as pro-Trump a state as they come. Only two of its 120 counties did not vote for Trump in the 2016 U.S. federal election. It’s understandable that Kentucky politicians and business leaders might be edgy about toasting their counterparts in a country their president vowed just weeks ago to punish with huge tariffs.

But politics are one thing. Business and trade are another, and they’re critical to Kentucky – just like its relationship with Canada.

According to the state’s chamber of commerce, trade supports 540,000 jobs in Kentucky. Many of those jobs are the result of connections with Canada.

Last year, Canada accounted for one-quarter of the state’s record $30.9 billion

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Hamid Tizhoosh at Huron Digital Pathology, a St. Jacobs-based producer of digital imaging technology. Tizhoosh is the director of KIMIA Labs at the University of Waterloo’s Artificial Intelligence Institute, and the lead researcher on the project. [FAISAL ALI / THE OBSERVER] explanation why they believe their diagnosis to be the correct one. They have to parse over the cellular structure of the sample for clues, little irregularities and abnormalities, and then present their arguments in a detailed report that other doctors and experts can evaluate.

“In that sense, the majority of works that are being done world-wide, and several companies are getting started on doing this, are training artificial intelligence software to tell us ‘yes’ or ‘no’, is actually of not much use,” says Tizhoosh.

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In seconds, the program would be able to procure previous samples that were extremely similar, with detailed reports on how those cases were diagnosed, as well as how they were treated and the eventual outcome for the patient.

The image search would essentially allow the pathologist to virtually “collaborate” with his or her colleagues instantly,

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in exports.

Among the provinces, Ontario is Kentucky’s leading agricultural product export market. In 2017, the state sent $264-million worth of processed food and beverages, bourbon, horses and forest products our way.

“Whether it is automobiles and auto parts, agricultural commodities, aerospace products, or our bourbon moving north, Kentucky is supplying important products to the Ontario economy,” Dave Adkisson, president and CEO of the Kentucky chamber said earlier this year as NAFTA negotiations were developing. Indeed, in 2016, Kentucky was among the top 10 states importing into Ontario.

And going the other way, Ontario realized a huge spike in exports to Kentucky in 2016, hitting $3.5 billion, which was about 65 per cent of the total exports from Canada to that state.

Auto parts were a big part of that amount.

Kentucky, known world over for Kentucky Fried Chicken, is a superpower for poultry production.

Last year, poultry accounted for a full 20 per cent of its $5.6 billion in farm gate receipts. That’s more than any other commodity (horses were second, at 18 per cent), and production has been on the rise.

Helping finding markets for all those birds is a priority for the state’s ag commissioner Ryan Quarles, who led last week’s delegation to Ontario. And there’s no question his state is looking for deeper and long-lasting trade relations.

Says Quarles: “I believe access to Canadian markets is a major trade objective.”

That’s why, from his delegation’s perspective, it was the ideal time to be in Ontario – to develop new trade relationships and reaffirm existing ones, in the face of potential change.

“The timing couldn’t be better to have a presence in Ontario, given the potential changes coming,” Quarles said, following an

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image search, as opposed to the binary ‘yes-no’ system, is that the AI keeps the trained pathologist at the centre of the whole process.

“We don’t want to replace them as the mainstream AI claims can do, which we find ridiculous and preposterous. We want to assist the pathologist ... by giving him access to the collective wisdom of his colleagues in the same hospital.”

The technology is still in an early phase of development and needs extensive testing and verification, which is where Tizhoosh’s healthcare partners come in. Three hospitals are working with the group: Grand River Hospital

(GRH), Southlake Regional Health Centre in Newmarket, and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in the U.S. “The role of the hospital is kind of a two-step role.

One part of the role is to provide that clinical expertise that will be needed to validate what the University of Waterloo is trying to validate,” said Carla Girlametto, manager of research and clinical trials at the GRH. The second part is to provide Tizhoosh and his team with the digital biopsies they need to test their program.

On the hardware and commercial end of the project is Huron Digital Pathology in St. Jacobs, which develops the medical scanners that allow pa-

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afternoon-long information exchange Wednesday in Guelph between faculty members from the University of Guelph and from the University of Kentucky and Kentucky State University.

“It’s coincidental, but it’s a powerful message that we showed up at this time.

Ontario and Kentucky have more in common than we are different. We’re good neighbours, and our governments both want the best deals for our agricultural communities.”

To him, that means supporting U.S. trade negotiators intent on updating NAFTA and expanding trade – in both directions.

“Our governments both have competent people at the negotiating table,” he said, adding that U.S. ambassador to Canada Kelly Craft is native to rural Kentucky and understands agriculture. “We’ll be good trading partners regardless of the outcome … we’re getting caught up on some things,” said Quarles, “but we have a lot of advantages being neighbours.”

thologists to digitize biopsy samples to extremely fine resolutions.

“We’re hoping we can develop some very specific solutions within a year, year-and-a-half timeframe,” explained Patrick Myles, CEO of Huron Digital Pathology, of the shortterm prospects for the project. The software would be able to work with data from any scanner, but potentially could be integrated into Huron’s own hardware.

“Our goal is to move into something that can benefit Grand River initially and the Waterloo Region, but also to be able to commercialize it broadly so that it can help other hospitals in Ontario and Canada and hopefully worldwide,” added Myles.

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Redefining the term “super food” Research and development has turned a corn-based water additive into another tool for fighting fires FIREFIGHTERS COMMONLY USE PETROLEUMBASED foams and gels to get fires under control, but the lasting effects of those products – on soil, waterways and the firefighters themselves – has recently been called into question.

Now, a new competitor is on the market, and it’s proving as effective as traditional foams – made entirely from edible products, including Ontario corn.

Napanee-based company FireRein is the brainchild of veteran firefighter Quincy Emmons and Napanee entrepreneur Steven Montgomery. In spring 2018 the company announced a deal with U.S.-based technology holding company Ethonus to develop applications for Eco-Gel within the U.S. military.

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Belleville-based Eco-Gel is using corn to create a firefighting product that can stick to surfaces in an environmentally friendly fashion. centrations,” says Rui Resendes, president and CEO of FireRein. “In fighting class A and B fires, EcoGel is proven to extinguish fires in half the time of traditional foams and gels.”

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Depending on the class of fire, Eco-Gel is introduced into a water stream at concentrations ranging from two to five per cent by volume. And, once a fire is extinguished, the residual gel can be easily washed away with water.

Resendes notes the company has seen success working with fire stations and industrial clients across Canada that are drawn by Eco-Gel’s environmental and human safety aspects of the technology. The product is the world’s first and only hydrogel of its kind, certified through the USDA’s BioPreferred Program and made from food grade material.

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In agriculture, blueRover is developing new ways to give farmers cost-effective ways to be pre-warned on any non-optimal conditions on the farm and

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RYAN WEBER | 519.669.2198 63 Union St., Elmira | www.rytechmachine.ca

• Quality Drainage Systems • Backhoe Service A family tradition since 1921

Arthur, ON • 519-848-3113 • 877-669-1440 www.martindrainage.com

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Serving Woolwich & Wellesley Township and Surrounding Area

Perry Martin

7668 8th line Drayton

cleanfieldservices.ca

519-638-3457

WHERE TIRES ARE

A SPECIALTY

NOT A SIDELINE! We Stock Farm, Industrial, Truck, Passenger, and Even ATV and Lawn & Garden Tires.

Call Us for Tires!

A sensor on a grain-storage unit is an example of an Internet-enabled device.

FARM • TRUCK • INDUSTRIAL • ON THE FARM SERVICE

[SUBMITTED]

SMART FARM: Real-world applications

35 Howard Ave. Elmira, ON

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dustry, blueRover is considered a “full stack” IOT company. That means it engineers all aspects of a system, from sensors to servers, from hardware to software.

Customers are able to monitor important data points such as temperature, time, moisture and other quality control factors.

“We get deep into solving industry problems, and we take away the more mundane tasks of manually recording, inputting and interpreting data,” says Arbuckle.

“BlueRover technology

can retrofit almost any temperature or fill task to make it ‘smart.’ We’re problem-solvers.”

BlueRover first entered in to the agricultural technology space with its main product, SafeFood, a service that allowed users to monitor their cold storage facilities and assets in real-time to ensure compliance, quality, and food safety.

“Prior to using blueRover’s SafeFood in our facilities, we administered our temperature measurements manually,” says Kevin Stemmler of Stemmler Meats in Heidelberg and Waterloo. “Now, we have completely auto-

Monday - Friday Saturdays

mated the process, from temperature measurements to reports, allowing us to look great to inspectors and our present and future customers.”

Arbuckle says with IOT technology, there are plenty of real-world applications that can incorporate sensor technology to increase intelligence.

The company offers engineering expertise that can accommodate requests for plug-and-play and custom business solutions.

8am - 5pm 8am - 12 noon

519-669-3232 www.oktireelmira.com

Improving soil health & biodiversity are key reasons

By Lisa McLean for AgInnovation Ontario, a project of the Agri-Technology Commercialzation Centre (ATCC).

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Hours: Mon. – Fri. 8-5, Sat.8-3, Closed Sun. & Statutory Holidays

Egg supplies: cartons, flats, crates, candler, scale

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WEDNESDAYS BY 10AM HELP WANTED

LISTINGS

HELP WANTED NURSERY WORKERS NEEDED seasonal fulltime. Pay rate $14.00/hour. Working hours 7 a.m. - 5 p.m., 6 days per week. Work includes field potting, weeding in field and containers, truck loading, digging etc. Must be willing to work in all weather conditions and weekends. No education , no experience required. Own transportation required. Police clearance needed. Please send resume to: West Montrose Farms Ltd., 1614 Halm Road, West Montrose, ON. N0B 2V0.

HELP WANTED

Ph: 519.664.2642 • Fx: 519.664.3598

www.conestogocarpenters.ca sales@conestogocarpenters.ca

Enjoy the satisfaction of learning the hands-on trade of Carpentry!

Experience the excitement of crafting a turnkey home, from framing to finish!

Based in St Jacobs for over 35 years, our approach is to train our employees in all areas of residential & agricultural construction, including framing,timber work, siding & finish. This allows our carpenters to take a sense of ownership and satisfaction in each project we do, as well as giving them the opportunity to learn the wide array of construction skillsets needed to complete the project.

The following position is available:

PETRO CANADA ELMIRA Looking for part time and full time help. Apply in person to 110 Earl Martin Dr.

WE’RE HIRING! • Career position for an established or aspiring Construction Foreman

This is a full time, year-round opportunity. Previous construction experience welcome, but not required.

We can train a good candidate with no experience to become a leader and an expert in our field. And you can help us recruit your own team.

• Also hiring General Labourers

Full-time Carpenter / Framer Experience an asset, but not required.

Offering competitive wages & profit sharing If you are interested in joining our experienced team, submit your resume to sales@conestogocarpenters.ca, or fax; 519.664.3598.

Must be 16 years old. Willing to provide transportation.

Call Tim at 519-669-1300 for more information.

STUDENT HELP WANTED. 8 weeks guaranteed, 30 hours per week. Must be returning to school in fall.

Also full time store associate wanted. FARMERS PLUS 519-669-5475.

FOR SALE 14-FOOT SOLID-MAPLE EXTENSION \cs0 dining table. 42” square when not extended. Refinished. $1,150 Also 6 wooden chairs for sale. 519-503-3323.

LAWN FERTILIZER AND LAWN SEED - Call George Haffner Trucking, 519-574-4141 or 519-669-2045.

We want to thank all applicants, but will only contact those selected for an interview.

MATTRESS AND BOX Spring, new, never used, still in sealed bag. Sacrifice $195. Delivery available. 519-635-8737.

AUCTIONS www.conestogacontracting.com At Conestoga Contracting Group, we continue to lead the local Landscaping, Maintenance and Construction industry, in quality and efficiency. We’ve made the commitment to always provide the best quality and attention to detail.

SITTLER

HERE WE GROW AGAIN! We have an immediate need for: • JR. ESTIMATOR/SALES ASSOCIATE • MECHANIC/FLEET COORDINATOR • OUTDOOR CONSTRUCTION LEAD HAND • IRRIGATION FOREMAN • ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT

1921902 ONT. INC.

TRUCK DRIVER

HVAC Service Technician

Please send resume to:

We are looking for a safety conscious qualified and motivated individuals seeking full time employment with a well established company in the KW area.

AZ/DZ driver with dump truck experience, valid driver’s license, ability to represent the company positively, should be proficient enough to load the truck with a wheel loader or excavator when necessary.

If you are looking for a great work environment and challenging demolition projects, we want you to join us.

Salary commensurate with experience, health benefit plan included.

Office: 519-206-0336

Email resumes - info@sittler.ca

Qualifications: • 313A or 313D Refrigeration License • Service & Installation experience • Water heater experience an asset • Willing to work Overtime when needed • Must have clean drivers license We Offer: • Competitive wages • Clothing allowance • Benefits • Training

koebelhcm@gmail.com

HOW TO REACH US

We offer All Year Employment Benefits available after 3 months for full-time and regular seasonal employees

If interested please send your resume to

careers@conestogacontracting.com

AUCTION SALE OF Military items, guns, native pieces, RS Prussia & other china, Franklin Mint birds, Ross Butler paintings, and other interesting items, to be held at the K.W. Khaki Club, 2939 Nafziger Rd. 2 miles south of Wellesley, for Richard and Diane Stein, Tavistock, & Various Stein Estates, on Saturday, June 30th @ 9:45 a.m. Gerber Auctions Ltd. 519-699-4451 or 519-698-0138.

WED. JULY 4 at 3:00 PM - clearing auction sale of Craftsman snowblower and lawnmower; miscellaneous tools; furniture; household effects; and miscellaneous items to be held at 11 Sugar King Dr. in Elmira for Mark Nylund. Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 519 656 3555 www.jantziauctions.com

We would like to thank all applicants, however, only those under consideration will be contacted.

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HELP WANTED

Full Time

FRAMING & TRIM CARPENTERS required for a growing construction company based in Hawkesville.

Country Lane Builders is committed to being a leader in the construction industry, always looking for continual improvement, safety, quality products & service. Experience preferred but not required.

If interested please send your resume to

sales@clbuilders.ca Country Lane Builders will provide accommodation during the hiring process. We would like to thank all applicants, however, only those under consideration will be contacted.

HELP WANTED

NOW HIRING Millbank Enterprises Inc. has positions available for a full time Furniture

Finisher/Shipper/Receiver

Experience preferred but willing to train. Job requires spraying finishes & lacquers. Must have an eye for detail. Some heavy lifting involved.

Apply with resume at: Millbank Family Furniture Ltd. 4082 Waterloo St., Millbank, ON N0K 1L0 Fax: 519-595-7107 Email: mffurn@cyg.net Only suitable candidates will be interviewed.

HELP WANTED

AUCTION

AUCTION

AUCTION

AUCTION SALE

AUCTION SALE

AUCTION SALE

Of 37 acre farm, tractors, machinery, and miscellaneous items, to be held at 8437 Sideroad 13, of Wellington North Twp. (approx. 4 miles east of Arthur (north off Highway 109), for Cheryl and the Late Leonard Brubacher, on

FRIDAY, JULY 13TH @ 10:00 A.M.

FARM – Located at Pt. Lot 17 Con. 1

Wellington North Twp. (Highway 109 approx.

5 miles east of Arthur). Consisting of 37 acres, more or less, 1/3 clay loam, 2/3 Perth silt loam soil. Farm has recently been systematically tiled at 25ft and 40ft. Note – All workable - 1 large, easily accessible field with no open ditches. A prime piece of farmland! See www.gerberauctions.net for photo. WILL BE SOLD AT 8437 SIDEROAD 13 at 1:00 p.m. with NO RESERVE BID, 10% down sale day and the balance in 60 days or when possession is given.

To view call 519-504-2479.

MACHINERY: JD 4555 – 4wd diesel tractor,

cab, air, axle duals, front weights, 3ph quick tach. Kubota 7030 – 4wd diesel tractor with Kubota M640 loader, bucket, pallet fork, 6000 hours. JD 3020 – 2wd diesel tractor, second set of row crop tires (380-90R46 – selling separately), 1 owner. JD 3140 - 2wd diesel tractor, c/w Power Synchro. JD “D” for parts or restoration. MF 775 – 15ft. swather. Kongskilde 2800 – 26ft. Vibrashank cultivator, high clearance, 2pc. tines, spike & rolling harrows. Custom built 15ft. disc/stock chopper (vertical tillage). White 6100 – 6 row corn planter, liquid starter, row cleaner – good. Great Plains 1300 – 21 run seed drill, 7 in. spacing, liquid fertilizer – good. Great Plains 1205 NT – 12ft. no till drill, new grass seeder – good. Great Plains 13 – 24 run seed drill, 6in. spacing, grass seeder, markers - good. White 6600 – no till drill parts (many powder coated).

Weber Lane corn scuffler with cover crop seed boxes & liquid fertilizer. Weber Lane 6 row corn scuffler. 30ft. – 3ph tine weeder with hyd. wings. Turnco 400 bushel gravity bin on double reach wagon. 2 – 4 ton gravity bins on running gears. Custom built heavy duty dump trailer, hyd. lift box. Bergman vertical manure spreader Model # MX1144114M, 300 bushel.

28ft. sprocket packer with transport wheels.

14ft. sprocket packer with transport wheels.

Older rolling harrows with transport wheels.

Top-Air 3ph sprayer with tractor mount tanks & 45ft. booms. 2 - 7ft. 3ph snow blowers. JD 6ft. rotary mower. LAB 6in X 14ft. gravity box auger. Elevator with Honda engine (used for firewood). 3ph scraper blade.

Of Riding lawn mower, antiques, household goods, and miscellaneous to be held at 12 Pintail Dr. In Elmira (off Arthur St. South, near McDonald’s), for the Edna Martin Estate, on

THURSDAY, JULY 5TH @ 5:00 P.M.

MISC. ITEMS: CRAFTSMAN

20.5hp riding lawn mower, 42in, turbo twin cylinder, automatic, bagging system, good.

Craftsman 11hp, 30in. snow blower, electric start. Craftsman 6hp self-propelled mower.

Homelite electric light duty tiller. Electric saw chain and leaf blower. Small pressure washer. Fertilizer spreader. Wheel barrow.

Alum. ext. ladder. Garden tools, etc.

ANTIQUES: Waterloo County 2 door, 2 drawer corner cupboard, raised panels, grained, nice. Grained 2 drawer blanket box. Blanket box with old paint. Cherry bonnet chest with stencilling. Lamp table with drawer. Oak double bed (wooden headboard). Small slant front desk with bookcase. Tea wagon. Treadle sewing machine. Captain’s chair. Child’s press back rocker. 6pc. chamber set. Sets of china.

China & glass (crystal, coloured glass, depression, fancy cups & saucers, etc.

HOUSEHOLD:

Double bookcase bed.

6pc. dining room suite. Small chest freezer.

Upholstered furniture. Desk. Silverware in chest. Wooden stacking chairs, cookware, kitchen utensils, etc.

NOTE – See www.gerberauctions.net

for photos. Executors and auctioneers not responsible for accidents evening of sale.

TERMS – Cash or cheque with I.D. AUCTIONEERS:

Gerber Auctions Ltd. 519-699-4451 or 698-0138

2827 Hutchison Rd., RR#1 Millbank (Crosshill)

100% LOCAL

11 Sugar King Drive in Elmira for Mark Nylund on:

WEDNESDAY JULY 4 AT 3:00 PM

PARTIAL LIST ONLY: Craftsman 9.5

hp 24” snow blower like new; Craftsman lawnmower; Broil King BBQ; patio table and 6 chairs; Kodiak pressure washer; Stihl weed trimmer; Turf fertilizer spreader – new; leaf blower; step ladder; shop vac; hedge trimmer; extension cords; variety of hand; power; and good lawn and garden tools; Maytag washer and dryer; Maytag fridge; Kelvinator chest freezer; Whirlpool fridge; couch and matching loveseat; kitchen table and chairs; pine stand; hall table; storage cabinet; bookcase; cedar chest; rocking chair; wine rack; lazy boy recliner; couch and matching chair; large executive steel desk; 2 single beds; glider rocker; folding table; dresser; small chest; flat screen TV; small outdoor patio furniture; pedestal plant table; assorted chairs; variety of good glass; china; cookware; bakeware; and other household goods

AUCTIONEER:

Jantzi Auctions Ltd. Wellesley | 519-656-3555 www.JantziAuctions.com

AUCTIONS

AUCTIONS

TUES JULY 10 at 7:00 PM - Commercial property auction of a multi plex building with 3 apartments, and one commercial store front space. Great opportunity for this turn key property! To be held at 162 Garafraxa St. south in Durham for D. Horst. Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 519 656 3555 www.jantziauctions.com

AUCTION SALE OF 37 acre farm, tractors, machinery, and miscellaneous items, to be held at 8437 Sideroad 13, of Wellington North Twp. (approx. 4 miles northeast of Arthur off Highway 109), for Cheryl and the Late Leonard Brubacher, on Friday, July 13th @ 10:00 a.m. Gerber Auctions Ltd. 519-699-4451 or 519-698-0138.

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“PROUDLY REMEMBERING OUR PAS T; CONFIDENTLY EMBRACING OUR FUTURE.”

Community Information Page

P.O. Box 158

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

VEHICLES & MISC. ITEMS: 2001 Dodge

Part-time Cleaning and light janitorial Mornings, Monday-Friday Apply in person or email terry@stemmlermeats.ca

HELP WANTED

3500 diesel pickup with dump box and hoist, safetied yearly, 259,000km, selling as is. 1998 Dodge Caravan, running order, selling as is. Approx. 500 litres of Triple Ten and True Hume liquid fertilizer. Trimble E.Z. Guide Plus GPS. Polar outdoor wood burning furnace to be removed, like new! Anco heavy duty meat grinder with 50hp 3 phase electric motor. Hammer mill. 5 plastic totes. 525 gallon & other plastic water tanks. 2in. water pumps. Squeeze pumps. Miscellaneous planter parts. 10hp generator. Shop tools.

Drill press, Lincoln 225 AC welder. Acetylene torch. Hyd. press. Floor jack. Welding table.

Sand blasting cabinet. Scrap metal plus 2-3 wagonloads of farm related items.

NOTE – Leonard was a good caretaker with a special interest in refurbishing seed drills.

See www.gerberauctions.net for photos.

Lunch booth. Proprietress and auctioneers not responsible for accidents day of sale.

Fulltime Customer Service Food Prep Daytime Hours. Benefits/ Profit Sharing Apply in person or email terry@stemmlermeats.ca

AUCTIONS AUCTION SALE OF Riding lawn mower, antiques, household goods and miscellaneous to be held at 12 Pintail Dr., Elmira for the Edna Martin Estate on Thursday, July 5,@ 5 p.m. Gerber Auctions Ltd. 519-699-4451 or 519-698-0138.

SAT. JULY 7 at 10:00 AM - Clearing auction sale of coolers; racking; inventory; food inventory; Coca Cola cooler and displays; camera and recorders; and inventory found in a variety store to be held at 27 Queen St. W. in Cambridge (Hespler) for Little Stop Shop. Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 519 656 3555 www.jantziauctions.com

TERMS – Cash or cheque with I.D. Sale order – Wagonloads, miscellaneous items, vehicles & machinery.

PROPRIETRESS – Cheryl Brubacher (Carl

519-820-4516, Lowell 519-504-2479)

Want to make a difference where you live?

Run for the office of Mayor, Councillor, or English Public School Board Trustee.

Call 519-669-6049 or visit woolwich.ca/elections for more information about the nomination process, or to pick up a nomination package. Nominations for the 2018 Municipal Election are open until July 27 at 2:00 pm.

Information packages for Candidates are available now from the Clerks Office on the Second Floor of the Township Administration Building located at 24 Church Street West, Elmira ON, or Candidates can visit www.woolwich.ca/elections for more information.

Phone: 519-669-1647 or 877-969-0094 Fax: 519-669-1820 After Hours Emergency: 519-575-4400 www.woolwich.ca While an appointment is not required to submit a nomination or receive an information package, we encourage Candidates to plan for the submission process to take approximately 30 minutes. To book a time or call ahead of your arrival, please contact 519-669-6049 to ensure someone is available to receive your application and review the materials with you.

“PROUDLY REMEMBERING OUR PAS T; CONFIDENTLY EMBRACING OUR FUTURE.” Voters can visit voterlookup.ca to ensure that their information is correctly reflected on the Voters’ List. Make sure you get your Voter Letter and save time during the voting period P.O. Box 158 by checking your information now.

24 Church St. W. Elmira, Ontario Please visit www.woolwich.ca/elections for more information for both Voters and Candidates N3B 2Z6 for the upcoming Municipal Election or contact 519-669-6049 with any questions.

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AUCTIONEERS:

Gerber Auctions Ltd. 519-699-4451 or 698-0138

2827 Hutchison Rd., RR#1 Millbank (Crosshill)

FIND IT IN THE OBSERVER

Notice of Public Meeting Township of Woolwich Technical Advisory Group (TAG) Thursday, July 5, 2018 6:30 p.m. Public Meeting Council Chambers, 2nd Floor, Administration Building, 24 Church Street West, Elmira Phone: 519-669-1647 or 877-969-0094 Fax: 519-669-1820 After Hours Emergency:

519-575-4400 www.woolwich.ca

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OBSERVER SERVICE DIRECTORY GENERAL SERVICES

AUTOMOTIVE SERVICES

Diesel & Auto Repairs Inc. Various sizes & rates

CLEAN • DRY • SECURE Call

519-669-4964

519-669-8459

20A Arthur St. N Elmira ON

“Mechanics You Can Trust”

Auto Tech Inc. Providing the latest technology to repair your vehicle with accuracy and confidence.

ARE A

SPECIALTY, NOT A SIDE LINE.

Accredited Test & Repair Facility

Farm • Auto • Truck Industrial On-The-Farm Service

519-669-4400 30 ORIOLE PKWY. E., ELMIRA www.thompsonsauto.ca

(Formerly The Kids Diesel Shop)

100 SOUTH FIELD DRIVE, ELMIRA

WHERE TIRES

35 Howard Ave., Elmira

519-669-3232

SPACE FOR RENT

THOMPSON’S

TIRE

HOME IMPROVEMENT SERVICES COMMERCIAL • RESIDENTIAL

ST. JACOBS

GLASS SYSTEMS INC. 1553 King St. N., St. Jacobs, ON N0B 2N0

• Store Fronts • Thermopanes • Mirrors • Screen Repair • Replacement Windows • Shower Enclosures • Sash Repair

“25 years in Business”

BIKE SALES & REPAIRS PROFESSIONAL BIKE MECHANIC ON STAFF SEE US FOR

Window & Screen

REPAIRS 22 Church St. W., Elmira

TEL:

519-669-5537

519-664-1202 / 519-778-6104

CONSTRUCTION INC. (519) 569-0772 • Commercial & Industrial General Contracting • Specializing in Concrete Work & Excavation • Retaining Walls

• • • •

Stamped Coloured Concrete Demolition Bin Service Machine Bases

Concrete Breaking & Removal

STORE HOURS: M-W 8-6, TH-F 8-8, SAT 8-6, SUN 12-5

FAX: 519 664-2759 • 24 Hour Emergency Service

info@trappconstruction.ca www.trappconstruction.ca

HOME IMPROVEMENT SERVICES

AMOS

WINDOW FASHIONS

INC

R O O F I N G

- Design and build -

AGRICULTURAL | RESIDENTIAL FRAMING • ROOFING RENOVATIONS • EAVESTROUGHS

Wayne Martin | 519-504-2016

A Family owned and operated business serving KW, Elmira and surrounding area for over 35 years.

WORKMANSHIP GUARANTEED

Randy Weber

ECRA/ESA Licence # 7000605

Brands You Can Trust

CALL JAYME FOR YOUR FREE ESTIMATE.

519.501.2405 | 519.698.2114

darwayconstruction@icloud.com | Alma, ON

• Residential • Commercial • Industrial

Free in-home Consultations.

Call someone you can trust.

• Specializing in residential re-roofs • Repairs • Churches

www.rwelectricltd.com

22 Church St. W., Elmira

Tel: 519-669-5537 or 1-844-866-5537 STORE HOURS: M-F: 8-8, SAT 8-6, SUN 12-5

In Business since 1973 • Fully Insured

homewindowfashions.ca

18 Kingfisher Dr., Elmira | 519.669.1462

HOME IMPROVEMENT SERVICES

Steve Co.

Plumbing and Maintenance Inc.

Visit our website

www.biobobs.com or call today!

519-648-3004

or

800-232-6396

RESIDENTIAL • COMMERCIAL • INDUSTRIAL

For all your Plumbing Needs.

24 HOUR SERVICE Steve Jacobi

ELMIRA

519-669-3652

The Right Window Treatment Can

Save you

Blinds

by Elite or Mera

In home consultations Wide selection of styles & fabrics 1011 Industrial Crescent St. Clements | 519-699-5411 www.LetUsFloorYou.ca

HOME IMPROVEMENT SERVICES

John Schaefer Painting FREE ESTIMATES Interior/exterior Painting, Wallpapering & Plaster | drywall Repairs

519-503-6033 (CELL) 519-669-2251

36 Hampton St., Elmira

1 Union Street, Elmira

ehc@hotmail.ca (519)-669-4600

Hours: M-F 8:30 - 5:30 Sat 9:00 - 3:00

Driveways • Sidewalks • Curbs • Patios Finished Floors • Retaining Walls • Steps Decorative/Stamped and Coloured Concrete www.marwilconcrete.ca

Evenings By Appointment

519-577-0370

OUTDOOR SERVICES

RA HOME COMF ELMI (519) 669-4600 ORT APPLIANCES – FURNACES – FIREPLACES AIR CONDITIONERS – WATER HEATERS SPRING SPECIAL ON AIR CONDITIONING TUNE UP $99, INSTALLED FROM $1999 FURNACES INSTALLED FROM $2499 FRIDGES $499, STOVES $399, WASHERS $399, DRYERS $369, FREEZERS $199 Come visit our show room FREE QUOTES

FREE

INSTALLATION When you buy 3 or more

RESIDENTIAL & AGRICULTURAL

Since 1998

SMALL ADS. BIG IMPACT. DIRECTORY ADS GET RESULTS.

•Final grading •Lawn repair & complete seeding well equipped for large stoney areas •Spike Aerator/Overseeding •Natural & Interlocking Stone •Retaining Walls, Walks & Patios •Help for Top Water & Drainage issue

Murray & Daniel Shantz

ALMA, ONTARIO | PHONE: 519.846.5427

Quality Bedding

Premium Softwood

Blown or Pushed Off We are geared to meet your timing and volume requirements

BLENDED TO MEET YOUR NEEDS!

Ph: Elmira (519) 669-5219

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REAL ESTATE

Sue From

Alli Bauman

226-750-9332

519-577-6248

SALES REPRESENTATIVE CALL DIRECT suefrom17@gmail.com

SALES REPRESENTATIVE CALL DIRECT

$560,000

allibauman17@gmail.com

NEW LISTING

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

THANK-YOU FOR CHOOSING RE/MAX!

$529,900

Step into the expansive living space and be wowed by this one of a kind residential property on a huge lot! Enjoy all the benefits that small-town living has to offer right here in Glen Allan. This fully renovated church was built in 1887 and the character has been maintained in the 12’ ceilings and deep window wells with a bright and airy feeling throughout. Fully updated in the last 10 years including a single detached garage. You will not want to miss this rare opportunity!

Guelph - A stylish and meticulously maintained home with 3 bedrooms, 3 baths & 1800+ sqft of living space awaits you! The elegant kitchen, with walk-in pantry and beautiful backsplash, overlooks the dining and living areas, with sliders to the large raised deck. Separate upper floor family room featuring high ceilings and natural light provides extra space for the growing family. The 3rd floor has a large master with walk-in closet & ensuite, as well as two other bedrms, a full bath and laundry.

$439,900

$629,000

Mapleton - Enjoy peaceful country living and open views in this spacious bungalow with a finished basement on nearly one acre.

The property comes with a Large Heated Shop (28x50), 2 Garden Sheds, immaculate yard and gardens. With ample parking and all appliances included, you don’t want to miss this one!

HELPING YOU IS WHAT WE DO…

Shanna

BROKER

Rozema

BROKER

OPEN HOUSE | THURS., JUNE 28 TH • 5-7PM 19 SOUTH PARKWOOD BLVD, ELMIRA

with bonus 2nd floor great room! Open concept main floor with eat-in kitchen, breakfast bar, appliances, slider to spacious deck, fenced yard and shed backing onto farmland. 3 bdrms, 3 baths including a master ensuite. Double driveway, single garage. NEW MLS

back yard of mature trees, huge entertaining deck and patio, drive though double car garage and more. 2-Storey home welcomes warmth & character blending a little old with the new. 2 mainfloor bedrooms and full bath, 2nd floor master with ensuite and 4th bedroom with 2 pc bath. Fully finished basement with walk up to garage. 3 gas fireplaces, beautiful hardwood flooring, inviting kitchen ++. MLS

SOLD

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AUCTIONS WED. JULY 18 at 9:45 AM - Clearing auction sale of furniture; antiques; tools; household effects; collectables; and miscellaneous items to be held at the St. Jacobs Community Centre in St. Jacobs for an area estate with additions. Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 519 656 3555 www.jantziauctions.com

FARM SERVICES BAGGED PINE SHAVINGS Agricultural Spray Lime, 22.5kg. bag; feed grade lime, 25kg. Delivered. Call George Haffner Trucking, 519-574-4141 or 519669-2045.

KILN DRIED CORN & CORN SCREENING Delivered by Einwechter. Minimum 15 ton lots. Call George Haffner Trucking 519-574-4141 or 519-669-2045.

WANTED BUYING BROKEN GOLD rings, chains, gold teeth, diamond rings, estate jewellery, Rolex, Omega Bretling wrist watches etc. Old pocket watches, rock & roll, jazz records, toys, sterling silver items, coins, paper money. gallamore@golden.net Terry at 519-242-6900, Elmira.

QUILTERS WANTED. HAND quilting for all sizes of quilts. Please call 519-595-7193.

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AUTOMOTIVE 2016 HYUNDAI ACCENT, 5 door, 4 cyl, air, tilt, cruise, p/windows, p/locks, p/mirrors, CD player, factory warranty. 28,559km. $11,200. Please call 519-584-4697.

TRADES & SERVICES RON’S DRYWALL AND Renovations. Over 35 years experience.

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COMING EVENTS WELCOME TO SUMMER Bible School at Calvary Conservative Mennonite Church, 5064 Arthur St. N., Woolwich.

July 4 - 13, K1 - Gr. 8. Contact: John M. Martin 519-638-2128, Aaron Burkhart 519-699-5366.

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You won’t be disappointed with this custom built home that is tastefully decorated! Hdwd. & ceramics on main level. Main floor den/office w/walkout.

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BIRTHDAY

FAMILY ALBUM

Happy Sweet 16 Colin!

OBITUARY

Kennedy, Keith Miller

June 28th

Keith Miller Kennedy, 91, passed away with family by his side on Thursday, June 21, 2018, at St. Mary’s General Hospital.

The family would like to express heartfelt thanks to the doctors, nurses, and support staff at SMGH, Clair Hills, LHIN, and Warm Embrace for their special care.

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BIRTHDAY

Happy 90th Birthday Lorne C. Richmond!

June 25th 1928

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With Love from Helen, your children, Mary, Donna (Bob), Dave (Michelle) & Jamie, your grandchildren, Matt (Carly), Maggie (Lee), Andrew (Jessica), Becca (Colin), Faith, Hope, Sadie & Molly Rose, & your greatgrandchildren, Braeden, Paige, Carter, & Everleigh.

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THOMPSON, PATRICIA SHIRLEY - Passed away peacefully at her home, Chartwell Elmira Retirement Residence, on Monday, June 25, 2018, at the age of 84 years.

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CUMMINGS, NINA ISABEL (Buchanan) - March 30, 1920 - June 22, 2018 On June 22, 2018 at Caressant Care Listowel in her 99th year. Local relatives are her son Jim and Darlene Cummings of Maryhill.

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Passed away peacefully at her home, Chartwell Elmira Retirement Residence, on Monday, June 25, 2018, at the age of 84 years. Beloved wife of the late Gerald Thompson (1995). Loved mother of Iris and Adrian Miltenburg, Ivy and Julian Yarrow, Wesley and Sandra, William and Denys, Ina and Rob Chambers, and Tim and Rhonda.

Loving grandmother of 12 grandchildren, Colleen, Christine, Christopher, Cynthia, Jonathan, Brittney, Michael, Josh, Mark, Monica, Meagan, and Lindsey, and 12 great-grandchildren, Luke, Evelyn, Andrew, Libby, Kayla, Owen, Ella, Henry, Brooke, Matilda, Hudson, and Albert. Dear sister of Ross Thompson. Lovingly remembered by many nieces and nephews. Predeceased by her sisters Gloria Gibbons and Doris Gougeon. Visitation will be held on Thursday, June 28, 2018 from 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. at the Dreisinger Funeral Home, 62 Arthur St. S., Elmira.

Visitation will also be held in Parry Sound on Friday, June 29, 2018 from 1 p.m. until the funeral service time at 2 p.m. at Loganâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Funeral Home, 81 James St., Parry Sound. Interment will take place in Sylvan Acres Cemetery, McDougall Township, followed by a reception at Loganâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Funeral Home.

The family extends their heartfelt thanks to the staff at Chartwell, Dr. Keleher, Dr. Jones, and the palliative care team for the excellent care our mother received. As expressions of sympathy, donations to the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario would be appreciated by the family.

IN THE REGION

Keith was an avid golfer, and a true bridge and cribbage enthusiast. Over the years he also enjoyed curling, cross country skiing and snowmobiling. He was a genuine scholar and a gentleman who cared deeply for his family and friends. Keith will be genuinely missed by all who knew him.

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After graduating from the Ontario Agricultural College Guelph in 1948, Keith accepted a position with Massey Harris in Alberta. During their time in Western Canada, Keith and Helen set up homes in Calgary, where John was born, Lethbridge, and finally Bassano, where Gail was born. In 1961, at the age of 35, Keith returned to Guelph where he completed his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree at OVC. In 1966, Keith received his doctorate with the second highest marks in his class amongst a much younger group of students.

Upon graduation, Keith joined Eldale Veterinary Clinic as a partner. To round off his career, Keith spent his last few years before full retirement working for the Ministry of Agriculture with the Animal Inspections Unit.

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Keith was born and raised in Tara, ON, the son of the late Catherine (Miller) and Rexford Kennedy. He was the loving husband for 61 years of the late Amy Helen (Beattie) Kennedy (2015). Dear father to John (Jo-Anne) Kennedy and Gail (James) Zippel. Proud grandfather to Courtney (Drew) Turner, Alexis and JAK Kennedy, Erika (Mike) McGarr, Lisa (Phil) Brown, Jeff (Sarah) Zippel, and great-grandfather to Harlow and Oliver Turner, Alex McGarr, Teddy and Winston Russell Brown. Brother to Marie Stride of Guelph and Barb (Ross) Smith of Fenelon Falls, and brotherin-law to Sue Kennedy of Guelph and Eleanore Beattie of Owen Sound. He was predeceased by his brothers Howard and Jim Kennedy, brothers-in-law Fred Stride, Glen Beattie, and Reginald Marshall, and sisters-in-law Norma Kennedy and Laura Marshall.

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LIVING HERE CHEF’S TABLE/ DIERRE ACHESON

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Revisiting the life and legacy of Dr. Norman Bethune Elmira’s Darrol Bryant co-authors new book that looks at a major figure in Canada-China relations FAISAL ALI SAY THE NAME OF Norman Bethune, and it is likely to mean little to the average Canadian. A doctor born in 1890 in Gravenhurst, Ontario, his is a name that has seldom graced the pages of grade school history textbooks or television documentaries at home.

But halfway around the world, the name Norman Bethune is well known – venerated even to this day. There are statues erected of Bethune, at least one museum wholly dedicated to his legacy; his deeds were taught to children at school, and there was a time every child was expected to learn of his tale.

It is that tale, though perhaps told with a different perspective, that is the subject of Elmira resident Darrol Bryant’s new book “Rediscovering Norman Bethune.” A long-time professor of religious studies at the Renison University College in Waterloo, Bryant coauthored the book with several other contributors.

“He’s a significant Canadian figure and I think his story is so absolutely fascinating,” explained Bryant of the allure of Bethune’s story. “It’s a complicated story, and some of the pieces in here address aspects of his life that are somewhat controversial.”

In Canada, the name of Bethune hardly regis-

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Of course earning the esteem of Chairman Mao did come at a price back home, and Bethune could easily be considered what was once called a “communist sympathizer.”

Bethune was in fact a vocal proponent of socialized medicine, believing in particular in the need for better care for the poor and disadvantaged. And after

DOWNTOWN ELMIRA HAS A great new meeting place.

This sweet little cafe is a welcomed addition to the neighbourhood, with freshground coffee and treats to enjoy. What’s not to like?

It’s another reason to come downtown and enjoy the flavour of Elmira – the locale in the local food movement. At Never Enough Thyme, we’re happy to be part of it.

This week’s flavours involve all things strawberry.

Local organic berries turned into jam, scones, and mini angel food cakes for a strawberry social – we love it when our guests get creative!

Not uncoincidentally, this recipe just happens to come out red and white.

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Elmira’s Darrol Bryant is the coauthor of “Rediscovering Norman Bethune,” a look at the hugely influential but nationally obscure figure in Sino-Canadian history. Bethune was also a medical pioneer during the Spanish Civil War. [FAISAL ALI / THE OBSERVER] tered, if at all; and when it did it was usually with contempt. But in the People’s Republic of China, and in the eyes of its founder and leader Mao Zedong and consequently, its people, the name Bethune was a glowing example to live by.

After his passing in 1939, the Canadian doctor was the subject of a Mao essay, “In Memory of Norman Bethune,” and far from being some obscure bit of

scholarship, it was an essay that was widely distributed and widely read.

“If you went to school in China, after 1949 and through the ‘50s and ‘60s, basically this was required reading for all school children. And Norman Bethune in Mao’s piece is presented as the ideal human being and the ideal communist,” said Bryant.

When Bryant travelled to China, he was amazed, he said, to see the extent

of Bethune’s fame and his status as Chinese hero in the Second World War – or the “war against fascism” as it is known there.

“When we went as this group we were taken to some museums. There was a museum that had these, I would say, kind of propaganda pictures that showed Mao leading the forces against the forces of evil – and who would be at his side? Norman Bethune,” said Bryant.

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WOOLWICH CELEBRATES CANADA DAY! Free Public Swim from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at the Woolwich Memorial Centre.

ELMIRA SUNDAY CONCERT SERIES. Free at Gore Park, Elmira 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Bring a lawn chair and enjoy Nelson Family Bluegrass.

WOOLWICH CELEBRATES CANADA DAY! Gore Park Festivities 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Ceremonies and cake cutting at 6 p.m. Live Music by Rob Witherspoon.

Many activities brought to you by the Elmira Fire Department, Woolwich Summer Camp, Robin in the Hood, Elmira Bowl and Little Ray’s Nature Centre.

JULY 29

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ELMIRA SUNDAY CONCERT SERIES. Free at Gore Park, Elmira 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Bring a lawn chair. Lance Russwurm performing.

AUGUST 5

ELMIRA SUNDAY CONCERT SERIES. Free at Gore Park, Elmira 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Bring a lawn chair and enjoy Ephriam Frey & Olde Time Country with family and friends.

ELMIRA SUNDAY CONCERT SERIES. Free at Gore Park, Elmira 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Bring a lawn chair and enjoy.

Fred Lewis & Riding High performing.

JULY 7

ELMIRA SUNDAY CONCERT SERIES. Free at Gore Park, Elmira 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Bring a lawn chair and enjoy Gerald Davidson perform.

ELMIRA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY GARDEN Tour, 9 am to 2 pm. Tickets $10 from Brian’s Photo and St. Jacobs Country Gardens. For more information contact: barbs@rogers.com or 519-580-7584.

JULY 8 ELMIRA SUNDAY CONCERT SERIES. Free at Gore Park, Elmira 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Bring a lawn chair. Wendy Lynn Snyder performing.

JULY 15 ELMIRA SUNDAY CONCERT SERIES. Free at Gore Park, Elmira 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Bring a lawn chair and enjoy The New Cumberland Band.

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AUGUST 19 ELMIRA SUNDAY CONCERT SERIES. Free at Gore Park, Elmira 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Bring a lawn chair. U Turn performing.

AUGUST 26 FINAL PERFORMANCE OF THE Elmira Sunday Concert Series. Free at Gore Park, Elmira 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Bring a lawn chair. Rick Loucks & Southbound performing.

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STRANGE BUT TRUE / BILL & RICH SONES PH.D.

Noise trumps service and even food in how we experience a restaurant WEIRD NOTES

Q. The most frequent

complaint diners have about restaurants is not the service, the crowds, or even the food. What then?

A. The noise level. Julia Belluz, in her article â&#x20AC;&#x153;Why restaurants become so loud â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and how to fight backâ&#x20AC;? on www.vox.com, posits some reasons why high noise levels are so common: 1. Wall, ceiling and floor coverings which are both attractive and soundabsorbing tend to be expensive.

2. Modern restaurants

often cultivate an industrial minimalist look, with â&#x20AC;&#x153;brick or concrete walls, bare tables and floors, high ceilings, and exposed ducts,â&#x20AC;? turning them into noise traps.

3. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Some spaces â&#x20AC;&#x201D; like former churches â&#x20AC;&#x201D; will always be noisy when filled with people.â&#x20AC;?

4. And, of course, no one wants to walk into a mausoleum. Noise can equate to spirited discussion, good times, and increased liquor sales.

But, says Gail Richard, past president of the American Speech-LanguageHearing Association: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Loud restaurants arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just irksome; theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a public health threat, especially for the people who work at or regularly patronize

them. Being exposed to noise levels above 70 and 80 decibels, which many restaurants boast these days, causes hearing loss over time.â&#x20AC;?

Q. On one rainy, foggy day in October, 2006, Austriaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s A2 roadway experienced a multiplekilometer traffic jam.

Though the weather factored into it, what was the main cause of the backup? Think rare, at that.

A. Forty dead birds were strewn on the road, looking â&#x20AC;&#x153;as if they had just fallen from the sky,â&#x20AC;? says Dan Lewis on his â&#x20AC;&#x153;Now I Knowâ&#x20AC;? website. No, they werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sick. In fact, they were drunk. According to â&#x20AC;&#x153;Discoverâ&#x20AC;? magazine, one Vienna veterinary author-

ity reported: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The birdsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; livers showed so much damage from drinking that â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;they looked like they were chronic alcoholics.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? And how did the birds get so snookered? Fermented berries, a favorite of the birds.

In that October season of freezing and thawing with enhanced berry fermentation, Lewis says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;the drunk birds had flown way too low, smashing into the ground, car windows, and everything else with fatal results.â&#x20AC;? Fortunately for the drivers on the road, no injuries were reported.

Q. Nature offers up a spectacular array of life, from the grand to the miniscule. In this latter category, whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a truly remarkable specimen and ferocious survivor?

A. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the tardigrade, a

pudgy eight-legged waddler, 1,000 species strong, with some so small â&#x20AC;&#x153;they could be padding about on the period at the end of this sentence,â&#x20AC;? says Dan Egan in his book â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Death and Life of the Great Lakes.â&#x20AC;? As zooplankton expert Rudi Stickler puts it: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The earth might be teeming with indomitable beasts, but nothing â&#x20AC;&#x201D; not the polar bear, not the crocodile, not the anaconda â&#x20AC;&#x201D; matches the ferocity of the microscopic tardigrade when it comes to doing whatever it takes to survive,â&#x20AC;? in temperatures from that of an oven broiler to weather hundreds of degrees below zero.

European researchers went so far as to put a pla-

toon of slumbering tardigrades on a rocket, blasted them into space and left then in an open satellite compartment for 10 days exposed to the frigid, cosmically radiated heavens.

Yet when these â&#x20AC;&#x153;tardinautsâ&#x20AC;? were brought back to earth, they woke up and walked around. (By contrast, a human will survive only a few seconds in the vacuum of the universe.)

Concludes Egan, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Not all the tardigrades survived, but among those that did were a group robust enough to have perfectly healthy offspring.â&#x20AC;?

ABOUT THE AUTHORS Bill is a journalist, Rich holds a doctorate in physics. Together the brothers bring you â&#x20AC;&#x153;Strange But True.â&#x20AC;? Send your questions to strangetrue@compuserve.com.

OBSERVER CROSSWORD PUZZLER ACROSS 1. Posterior vessels 7. Fee, fi, fo fum, he says.

11. Electrical unit 14. A boyscout, a dog and a grump ascend 15. Campaigner, for short 16. Swerve 17. Pandowdy, e.g.

18. Steinbocks 20. Flowering shrub 22. Came before the chicken, or did it?

23. Blue 24. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cogito ___ sumâ&#x20AC;?

25. Astern 26. Density symbol 27. A boring, socially inept and studious person 30. Bone doctor, sort of 33. Duke, Duke, Duke of this.

36. Balloon filler 37. Bit 38. Inkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s inside, no need for dippinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 43. Inclines 44. Setting for TVâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Newhartâ&#x20AC;?

45. Indonesian island 46. High school class, for short

47. All Christians agree 54. â&#x20AC;&#x153;To ___ is human ...â&#x20AC;?

55. Trinidad & Tobago island 56. ___ Khan 57. Chanel of fashion 59. Ditch the turboprop 63. Ancient greetings 64. Cantankerous Irish 65. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Good going!â&#x20AC;?

66. Brought to an end 69. Duties 73. â&#x20AC;&#x153;48___â&#x20AC;?

74. Blow stuff up with it, get a peace prize.

75. Hurting 78. Do-it-yourselferâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s purchase 79. If you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be first, be on time 80. Angel 82. The Eagle 84. Sci-fi, fantasy and the Universe!

85. â&#x20AC;&#x153;___ onlyâ&#x20AC;?

86. Carpentry tool 88. Logically ambivalent 89. I, with my little eye 90. Quickly!

91. Without equal

DOWN 1. To go from code to object 2. Violin movement 3. Exchange blows 4. ___ line (major axis of an elliptical orbit) 5. And fro 6. To disparage, smeltingly 7. Egg cells 8. Kind of mold 9. Leads to madness play faster style.

10. A Muse 11. Working 12. Check out my kicks, conversely 13. Mega-resistant unit 19. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Concentrationâ&#x20AC;? pronoun 21. Animal house 28. Dusk, to Donne 29. One up 31. Ed.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s request 32. Place for a barbecue 34. Drops from the sky 35. Airport pickup 38. Flipper 39. You can be my Yoko 40. Not needed

41. Nancy, in Nancy 42. Doll up 46. Split 48. Refuse 49. â&#x20AC;&#x153;___ any drop to drinkâ&#x20AC;?: Coleridge 50. Soon, to a bard 51. Social, fast, tsessebe 52. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Act your ___!â&#x20AC;?

53. Boy 57. Respects 58. Surpass 59. Cheap seat buses 60. Asmara is its capital 61. Chinese path 62. Grassland 67. Baffled 68. 40 winks 70. Schuss, e.g.

71. 2.2 pounders 72. Great balls of fire 76. Crack, in a way 77. Its motto is â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lux et veritasâ&#x20AC;?

81. Death on the Nile cause, perhaps 83. Universal resource locator 87. __ the people

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AUTHOR: Taking stock of what made Bethune notable FROM | 24

attending from a health conference in the Soviet Union, returned home with a newfound admiration of the ideologies of Marxism and socialism.

Embracing communism, he led a Canadian team that pioneered the use of front line blood transfusions to republican forces in 1936-37 during the Spanish Civil War. Bethune subsequently served as a battlefield surgeon and medical advisor to Mao Zedong’s 8th Route Army in 1938-39 during the Second Sino-Japanese War. After his death at the front in 1939, he became a national hero in China.

“He considered the communist revolution the biggest event in the west since the reformation. And that didn’t earn him any friends at that time (the 1930s),” said Bryant.

While the name of Bethune has slipped in and

out of the Canadian public’s attention, it seems he was rediscovered once again as just last week, doctor was recognized by the government of Canada for his historic significance.

“Norman Bethune was and still is Canada’s best known citizen in China, and he has been revered by hundreds of millions of Chinese people over the years,” said the Canadian ambassador to China, John McCallum, in a statement at a ceremony unveiling a Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada plaque at the Bethune International Peace Hospital in Shijiazhuang, China.

“He is an outstanding representative of Canadian achievement internationally, and a very worthy addition to Canada’s nationally significant historic persons.”

But the question to ask, says Bryant, is why? Why

The book is published by Pandora Press in Kitchener. was this one Canadian doctor from Gravenhurst, whose name few of his fellow countrymen even knew, why was Bethune transformed into such an icon for millions abroad?

That’s the question Bryant and his colleagues wanted to answer in writing their book. It’s a question many Canadians could ponder themselves, if only

CHEF’S TABLE: The tasty colours of Canada FROM | 24

Moist Vanilla Cake with Fresh Berries and Cream 2-3/4 cup all purpose flour 1-1/2 cup superfine sugar (run it through the blender or food processor to make it finer) 1 Tbsp. baking powder 3/4 tsp. sea salt 3/4 cup butter, softened 4 eggs 1 cup vanilla yogurt (not low fat!)

2 tsp. vanilla 1 pint of local strawberries 2 Tbsp. maple syrup 1 tsp. chopped mint 3 cups whipped cream

Preheat oven to 325 F. In a bowl place all the dry ingredients, flour, sugar, baking powder and salt.

Set aside.

Place butter in mixing bowl and whip until light

A FUN DAY IN MARYHILL

to learn of the immense impact this Canadian had had on the world.

But for Bryant, a religious studies professor, what he found most interesting was the “transfiguration” of Bethune, from a Canadian doctor into this almost spiritual figure, like a patron saint or a “living ancestor” to many Chinese.

“You have to understand in a Chinese context, specifically, that have always venerated the ancestors.

The afterlife is a much hazier notion in China then it is in a lot of other traditions,” explains Bryant.

“But there is this conviction that the ancestors are to be remembered and acknowledged. Typically in every Chinese home, you would offer prayers to the ancestors, and in China, I would say gods come up from being human.”

And Bethune, in a very real sense, achieved this type of apotheosis through his life and his example, with people even offering prayers to him. “[And] what I was interested in was sort of figure out, given Bethune’s life, why this transformation of him has taken place in China,” says Bryant.

The answer to that question may be gleaned from Bryant’s book, “Rediscovering Norman Bethune,” which is available through Pandora Press, based in Kitchener.

There was a carnival atmosphere in the air in Maryhill last week as the St. Boniface Catholic School held its Mission Day fundraiser. Proceeds raised from the event were earmarked for the Working Centre in Kitchener and the Me to We movement.

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and fluffy.

Add eggs one at a time, then add your yogurt in thirds until all is the yogurt is in. The butter mix should be light and fluffy, then finish with vanilla.

Add flour in by folding slowly in increments – be careful not to over mix.

Place in two parchmentlined 9” pans. Bake for approximately 20-25 minutes – a toothpick should come out clean when done.

Remove from oven and allow to cool.

While cake is cooling, wash and slice berries.

Sweeten with maple syrup

and mint.

Once the cake is cooled finish by placing one cake layer on a plate upside down, flat side up as whipped cream and place berries on top. Place the other layer on top and finish with more cream and berries.

Place in fridge until ready to serve. Enjoy!

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