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Residents making a racket about revisions to noise bylaw

Storm unleashes destruction Friday storm left a mess behind in townships, with homeowners’ roofs appearing to get the worst of it FAISAL ALI

VERONICA REINER LOOKING TO PROVIDE RESIDENTS with more clarity and provide enforcement officers more tools, Wellesley Township is proposing changes to its noise bylaw. The process has not been without contention, however.

Last revised in 2008, the bylaw would feature clearer, more specific language spelling out what constitutes excessive noise and what could be done to deal with complaints, for instance.

The draft bylaw expands on the current version and provides for clearly defined hours and regulations in which members of the community can perform certain activities that may produce louder amounts of noise, for instance. An application process is being proposed where organizers/businesses and/or residents may apply for exemptions for specific types of events which could include, but not limited to: construction projects, fundraisers, private weddings and music festivals.

“The current bylaw is very vague and the proposed bylaw is detailed,” said Grace Kosch, municipal clerk for the Township of Wellesley.

That’s apparent just on the surface, as the current bylaw is two pages long while the proposed revised version NOISE BYLAW | 32

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Winds reached 122km/h on May 4 in the region, causing some damage in the townships, including at Elmira’s Gore Park.

THE TOWNSHIPS, ALONG WITH much of southern Ontario, were battered on May 4 by strong gusts of wind that snapped trees, downed hydro wires and blocked roadways across the region. Winds reached a peak of 122 km/h in the Waterloo Region as a result of a storm system that tracked north and east from the U.S. Municipal crews were out Friday and on the weekend to clear township roadways and assess the damage, while homeowners tended to roof shingles lifted by the winds.

In Elmira, a tree at Gore Park fell onto a vehicle on Arthur Street, reportedly missing the driver.

“Well what happened on Friday was courtesy of a low-pressure system that actually tracked north of the region,” said Ryan Rozinskis, a meteorologist with Environment Canada.

“We did have some showers pass through early in the morning ahead of the system, along with the warm front which ended up bringing in the warm

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“So we saw those go through the Waterloo area around 2:30 p.m. and along with those we did see a peak of around 80 km/h,” explained Rozinski.

“Then in behind that line of thunderstorms, that’s when the stronger winds actually came. And those were along with the cold front, and those actually didn’t accompany any showers or any precipitation of any kind,” he said, with the winds reaching up to 122 km/h in the region.

The stormy weather left a mess in its wake.

“We had a couple of roads closed in the village of Wellesley. One of them was Gerber Road because hydro wires were ripped down and a tree branch took them down,” said Charlie Koebel, lead hand for the Township of Wellesley, adding the road was closed likely overnight.

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Homeowners were tending to their roofs after strong winds pried shingles off in a widespread swath.

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was cleared the same day.

Farther out in the township, road 116 was blocked by a fallen tree for a few hours.

“Basically, the rest of the township was just tree branches, little stuff, and signs broke off. Lots of shingles off roofs,” he added.

As of Monday, township building inspectors had not received any calls of major structural damage to

homes though.

“We also had the crew in and we patrolled all the roads at that time just to be sure we had everything pretty well looked after,” added Koebel.

In Woolwich, township roads fared a bit better, with no closures necessary thanks to the assistance of local farmers.

“There were a couple of instances where we had trees that had been reported that had blocked the roads, but the farmers

came and shoved them off,” said Barry Baldasaro, public works superintendent for Woolwich. He added that the township was still responding to calls as of Monday, however.

The Region of Waterloo says tree debris may be disposed off during the curbside yard waste collection program. The debris has to be kept under three feet in length and must be bound with twine in bundles under 50 lbs.

The students at Linwood Public School and St. Boniface Catholic School were out in force this week to participate in the global We Walk for Water fundraiser. Hitting the tracks and the trails, the students walked in an effort to raise money for providing clean drinking water for those in need.

The fundraisers were part of the schools’ student-run We Teams, which runs several initiatives and charities throughout the year. In both Linwood

and Maryhill, the students challenged themselves and their peers to raise money for the cause.

“So our goal was $450, and we actually doubled it and raised $1,065,” said Travis Brubacher, a member of the Linwood We Team.

Over at St. Boniface, which had its walk on Tuesday, the total raised was still being tallied up by publication time, but the school of 150 had already been able to bring in more than $600.

According to the global We organization, which

supports the independent We Teams, it costs as little as $25 to provide a single person with potable water for life. Yet for many, the act of getting clean water is an arduous task assigned to children and, in particular, women. To symbolize the difficulty, students participating in the walk were tasked with carrying jugs of water.

“What shocked me is that it’s not that they just have to walk once a day, [but] they have to walk three or four times a day, WATER | 5

Students at St. Boniface school in Maryhill were out Tuesday for the We Walk for Water fundraiser – as part of the event, students were tasked with carrying heavy jugs of water to represent the struggle for many in the developing world.

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COUNCIL / WELLESLEY

Few changes for Wellesley roads Region to stay the course in township in new transportation master plan if everybody had one, they could have it drive them to work and the car potentialFROM DRIVERLESS CARS ly could drive back home TO the increasing abunback by itself. So now that’s dance of ride-sharing services like Uber, big changes two trips at the same time in the morning instead of are coming that will have one trip. Instead of driving a significant, if unclear, to work and parking.” impact on how the Region In the township, the plan of Waterloo plans future was to continue to mainroadways. tain the rural roads as they Those changes are beare, while increasing the ing taken into account amount of bicycling routes. as the region updates its “In Wellesley, there transportation master plan, aren’t any expansion projwhich guides how transects in the portation would master plan be handled in the because there’s region until 2041. no significant Speaking to growth idenWellesley countified that cillors last week, would require Steve van De expansion of Keere, director for the roads, new transportation in roads or widthe region, said the ening existing region expects the roads,” said most significant van De Keere. changes in the Steve van De Keere “So basicities, while for cally the plan the Township of for staff with respect to Wellesley, the plan was to Wellesley is to keep an eye stay the course for the next on traffic volumes, look at several decades. strategic intersection im“Driverless cars are comprovements, where they’re ing,” said van De Keere. warranted. To keep an eye “They’re already testing and make sure we accomthem on Ontario highways, modate special vehicles, they’re being tested heavwhether they be horseily in the U.S., and so they are coming whether we like drawn buggies or large farm equipment.” them or not. There’s good In response to a questhings and there’s potention from Coun. Peter van tially some challenges with der Maas, van De Keere driverless cars.” said that the region was Potentially, the use of considering ways of impledriverless cars could see menting a public transit fewer cars owned per famroute in the township. One ily as members share the possibility, he said, was to same vehicle. However, subsidize a ride-hailing how this would affect road service in the township, traffic and congestion in such as Uber, rather than the area remains to be provide a dedicated bus or seen. train route.

“There’s some thought “It’s been tried in other that they will actually crecities in Ontario, I think ate more traffic congestion rather than less,” van De MASTER PLAN | 5 Keere noted. “Because of

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Recipients of the 30-year long service awards smile with their residents at Chartwell Elmira on May 9. From left, Vera Martin, Victoria Rau, Joan Norris, Brenda Fry and residents Lois Winger and Reta Brubaker.

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They’ve been of service for years and decades

Chartwell Elmira Retirement Residence presenting awards to staff members in recognition of 10, 15, 20, 25 and even 30 years of service VERONICA REINER RECOGNIZING THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF its staff, Chartwell Elmira Retirement Residence is presenting awards to its long-serving employees this evening (May 10).

Among the recipients are four who’ve been there for three decades, long enough to see many changes in the industry.

Joan Norris is the general manager at Chartwell Elmira. She is also the recipient of the 30-year award.

“There are a lot more regulations from the government since I started, of course,” she said. “And people getting frailer and living longer. That’s probably one of the biggest changes: people are living a lot longer.”

Norris speculates that this is due to higher-quality technology and general medical advancements.

“People take better care of themselves too,” she added. “I think it’s just Elmira. I think it’s the air or something, or the rural community, possibly because there’s less stress in a small town.”

Another recipient of the 30-year award is Victoria Rau, the recreation manager and volunteer coordinator at Chartwell Elmira.

“Things tend to change slowly, and then all of a sudden you look back and see the difference,” said Rau. “All of the chartings are done on computers now. Your care plans ... everything is computerized now. At the beginning when you transition over, you think oh, this is going

to take forever to get used to. Now I can’t ever imagine going back.”

“We didn’t even have lifts 30 years ago to get people in and out of bed,” added Norris. “People were a lot more independent. Now we’ve got lifts. We’ve got residents that are given so much heavier care.”

The long service awards to recognize staff are a well-established tradition kept up before Norris joined the team in 1988.

There are a total of 14 recipients of these awards this year, recognizing service in five-year increments, including 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30.

That ceremony is not the only way that employees at Chartwell are celebrated.

There is also Employee Appreciation Week, the Circle of Excellence Awards and

Service Hero Awards.

Chartwell believes in recognizing excellent employees because the job comes with intense challenges. For starters, there is a shortage of PSWs not only in Elmira, but across Canada, said Norris. According to Personal Support Worker HQ, there is a high demand for PSWs in certain areas of Canada such as Sudbury, but very few takers.

They must also deal with the difficulty that the people who live there may eventually pass away there.

“Losing a resident is very tough. And people think that you’ve been in it so long that you get used to it, you do not get used to it,” said Norris. “You get to know the residents and the families. Because it’s YEARS OF SERVICE | 5

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VERONICA REINER YOU MAY NOT HAVE blocked off your calendar for it, but we are in the midst of Emergency Preparedness week, which runs May 6-12. To mark its 23rd annual iteration, themed events are being featured across the region, including in Elmira.

The aim is to ensure that the public knows how to best prepare in case of any kind of emergency.

“This week highlights the importance of being prepared by focusing on three simple things: know your risks, have a plan and get a kit,” said Steve LaRochelle, manager of emergency management and business continuity for the City of Kitchener. “The community emergency management coordinators (CEMC) will be at various events this week to discuss emergency preparedness with individuals and families. We encourage people to ask themselves the basic question, ‘If you had to leave your home in 10 minutes, what would you and your family need to survive for the next 72 hours?’”

Being prepared in those first three days after an emergency is crucial, said Woolwich CEMC representative Avril Tanner.

“We really do want the public to understand that emergency planning starts with you,” she said. “So being prepared for your family for that 72 hours helps first responders because during that first period of time we really want to focus on trying to get to those individuals that really need our help.”

Since emergency responders are focusing on those desperately in need in the case of an emergency, it is best to prepare as much as possible because it may take some time for them to reach you.

There will be an emergency preparedness open house on May 11 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Woolwich Memorial Centre in Elmira. Attendees can speak with emergency management professionals, watch live demonstrations and check out information displays. Admission is free.

Other upcoming events include the Waterloo Regional Police open house on May 12 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Children’s Safety Village, 200 Maple Grove Rd. There will be Kitchener emergency management staff available to speak to the public and an emergency preparedness booth.

There is also the Cam-

bridge Farmer’s Market on June 27 and Sept. 29 at 40 Dickson St., Cambridge.

This event focuses on preparing an emergency kit for your pet and flood information.

“With respect to an emergency kit, you want to prepare your family for 72 hours,” said Tanner. “So you want to have things like food, bottled water, medications, flashlight, radio, batteries, those kinds of things. And then you also want to think about if you have any special considerations for your family, so any of your small children – you might want to have diapers, formula, that kind of stuff – your pets.

“And you might also want to think about having a go-bag,” she added. “If you need to actually evacuate your home, you want to have things that you can just take with you, so have a bag packed with clothes, sleeping bags, a few personal items and things like that.”

Anyone interested in more information can visit the website at www.wrem. ca/beprepared. It describes how to act in specific disasters such as earthquakes, tornados and floods. There are also tips on how to behave in an emergency and what exactly to do.

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not like a hospital where they’re in for a couple of days and gone. They’re in for years, some of them. So you get to know them so, so well and their families.

And when they die, it’s like losing a grandmother or parent or an uncle or something. And then you don’t see their families either, so

you also lose their families.

So you’re losing a whole group of people when someone dies. And it’s tough for the staff. Because you know when someone goes into long term care that it’s their end of lifetime, but it doesn’t make it any easier.”

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career. The staff have all formed close relationships with one another and invite all of their retirees to the awards ceremonies, said Norris.

“I think it’s amazing that this many people have committed this many years,” added Rau. “It’s a career, it’s a passion, it’s a love. Because it’s hard work and people do it because they care.”

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Home sales, prices down again in April There were 616 residential properties sold through the Multiple Listing System (MLS) of the Kitchener-Waterloo Association of Realtors (KWAR) in April, up 13.7 per cent compared to last month and down 19.6 per cent compared to home sales a year ago.

Residential sales in April included

343 detached (down 30.7 per cent compared to April 2017), and 185 condominium units (up 12.8 per cent) which includes any property regardless of style (i.e. semis, townhomes, apartment, detached etc.). Sales also included 41 semi-detached homes (down 22.5 per cent) and 46 freehold townhouses (down 13.2 per cent).

The average sale price of all residential properties sold in April decreased 6.6 per cent to $478,578 compared to the same month a year

ago. Detached homes sold for an average price of $569,159 a decrease of 4.2 per cent compared to April of last year.

During this same period, the average sale price for an apartment style condominium was $296,958, an increase of 10 per cent. Townhomes and semis sold for an average of $386,072 (up 2.5 per cent) and $402,842 (down 3.3 per cent) respectively.

The median price of all residential properties sold last month was down 7.4 per cent compared to April of last

year at $440,000, and the median price of a detached home during the same period decreased 3.9 per cent to $511,750.

KWAR listed 974 residential properties in K-W and area last month, down 2.2 per cent compared to April of 2017. The number of active residential listings on the MLS system to the end of April totalled 993, 78.6 per cent more than April of last year but still significantly below the historical ten-year average of 1,637 listings for April.

Homelessness down in region Waterloo Region’s latest Point in Time Count shows fewer people were homeless last month than during the last snapshot taken in 2014.

The April 23 count found 264 individuals and families reported being homeless, 12 per cent fewer than the last count. The number of homeless youth was down by 11 per cent.

The latest count saw a group of more than 90 regional and local agency staff and volunteers visit shelters, drop-ins, transitional housing and walk the streets.

Eighty-five per cent of those counted said they were staying in local shelters; the rest were sleeping in unsheltered places, including tents or public places.

“We are headed in the right direction as a community; but there is more work to do before everyone has a place to call home,” said Deb Schlichter, director of housing services.

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Regional police host open house on Saturday WATERLOO REGIONAL POLICE WILL hold an open house May 12 to kick off Police Week.

The theme this year is “Celebrating Policing and Community Partnerships,” which acknowledges the tremendous work of police personnel and community partnerships, said regional police in a release.

“Police Week is about celebrating policing and the work our members do to ensure the safety and wellness of everyone in our Region,” said Chief Bryan Larkin. “This year, we want to highlight the importance of maintaining

strong community partnerships between government, businesses, community groups and community members. It’s because of these partnerships that we are able to identify safety and well-being needs and work towards a better community for all. The annual Open House is a great way to kick off Police Week because it is an opportunity to bring everyone together to celebrate this positive relationship in a fun-filled, family-friendly day.”

The Open House will take place at the Waterloo Regional Police Service’s headquarters, 200 Maple Grove

Rd. in Cambriedge, on May 12 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

There will be a variety of activities and events including live music, demonstrations and displays from the Emergency Response Team and the Traffic Motorcycle Unit, displays and information booths, a charity BBQ and activities for kids: pedal cars, balloon twisting clown, puppet show, Jack the Nimble Bus, pony rides, climbing wall, bouncy castle and face painting Admission is free, however donations of non-perishable food items will be accepted on behalf of the Food Bank of Waterloo Region.

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fresh odour of marijuana emitting from within the vehicle. The driver was subsequently arrested for possession of marijuana. A search located a quantity of the drug.

The 18-year-old Kitchener man was charged with ‘fail to comply with undertaking’ and ‘possession of marijuana over 30 grams.’ He is scheduled to appear in Guelph Criminal Court on May 29 to answer to the charges.

was charged with ‘driving with over 80 mgs of alcohol in 100ml of blood.’ An Administrative Driver’s Licence Suspension (A.D.L.S.) and seven-day vehicle impoundment were initiated as per statute. He is scheduled to appear in Guelph Criminal Court on May 29 to answer to the charge.

7:20 AM | A Wellington County OPP officer was monitoring traffic on County Road 109 in the Township of Mapleton when he observed a male driving a grey car 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. Pulled over, a 27-year-old Tecumseh man was charged with ‘racing a motor vehicle. ’ He is scheduled to appear in Guelph Provincial Court on June 20. His driver’s licence and vehicle were seized for a period of seven days as per statute.

8:00 AM | A Wellington County OPP officer responded to a report of a motor vehicle collision on Highway 7 at Wellington Road 32, Township of Guelph-Eramosa.

Police arrived on scene and observed a lone male in the seat of one of the involved vehicles. While speaking with him, police detected a very strong

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6:20 PM | Wellington County OPP received a report of an erratic driver on Highway 6 southbound near in the Township of Centre Wellington. A second call advised that two drivers had pulled over and were having an altercation.

Police attended and while speaking with one of the drivers, formed the opinion that he was under the influence of alcohol. A roadside test was administered which resulted in a fail. He was arrested and transported to a local detachment for further testing. The driver, a 38-year-old Guelph man,

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9:10 PM | A Wellington County OPP officer was monitoring traffic on County Road 7 near Sideroad 14, Township of Centre Wellington when he observed a male driving a black car at a speed that appeared to be well above the posted 60 km/h speed limit. The vehicle was locked on radar in excess of 115 km/h, exceeding the posted speed limit by at least 50 km/h. The driver, a 20-year-old Guelph man, was charged with ‘racing a motor vehicle,’ and is scheduled to appear in Guelph Provincial Court on June 20. His driver’s licence and vehicle were seized for a period of seven days as per statute.

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and it can be a seven hour walk their and back,” said Brubacher. “So they’re spending pretty much all day walking.”

“It’s not just the issue of getting clean water for their family, it’s the issue of time because it does take time to get the water and that sacrifices kids’ ability to go to school. A lot of girls can’t go to school because they’re carrying water,” noted Evelyn Jewitt-Dyck.

“Or a parent can’t have a job and make money for their family because they have to go walk to get water all day, so they don’t have time to work,” she added.

Over the year, students in the school We Teams participate in a number of fundraising events over the year. Under the We organization’s model, teams typically alternate in focus

The Linwood We Team, which organized the school’s walk last week. Members are: Kaiden Stevens, Rylan Edwards, Travis Brubacher, Keaton Borutskie, Faith Neumann, Kim Hiebert, Solenne Brown, Damian Bauman, Evelyne Jewitt-Dyck, Clara Rose, Kaden Sherrer, Noah Charlton. Not pictured are members Dustyn Stecho, Leah Weber, AnnaMarie Hahn, Kirsten Frey and Deanna Frey.

[FAISAL ALI / THE OBSERVER] between international fundraisers, like We Walk for Water, and local initiatives

such as the Toasty Toes sock drive and Christmas present drives.

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Innisfil has implemented a subsidized ride-hailing. So let’s say you want to take a ride to the GO station, the municipality actually subsidizes the rider so they get a break on the Uber costs to take a ride to the GO Train station. Rather than providing a transit service at great cost to fulfill that same need. So that’s an innovative way to supply a service without investing heavily in infrastructure,” he said.

Other possibilities included an on-demand

transportation service by Grand River Transit (GRT).

Mayor Joe Nowak questioned if the Kiwanis Transit bus service could be expanded to Wellesley, which van De Keere said was an option.

“That could be possible,” van De Keere. “It’s certainly not going to be as fast and convenient as a regular route but it’s a good start.”

Nowak also questioned van De Keere on four intersections in the township that he said were a major concern to residents. Those were the intersections between

Hergott and Lobsinger, Gerber and Queens Bush, Gerber and Nafziger, and Nafziger and Queens Bush. Nowak added that the Lobsinger intersection in St. Clements was more of an immediate concern with the addition of a factory in the area.

Van De Keere noted that the intersections had been assessed but did not have sufficient traffic to warrant signals. However, he said they could perform another count in St. Clements next year to take into account the traffic from the factory.

“Promise or Potential for Your Stressed or Anxious Teen” Parent Engagement Session at Elmira District Secondary School The goal is to engage and empower parents to take an active role in their students’ well-being, with a focus on teen anxiety. The session will provide strategies to help your teens succeed in school academically, socially, and emotionally.

May 16, 2018 • EDSS Library • 7:00pm doors open, presentation at 7:15 - 8:30

Dr. Michele Foster, Ph.D. Clinical Psychologist and Co-Director

Dr. Nina Mafrici, Ph.D. Clinical Psychologist and Co-Director

Workshop funding made possible by a Parent Reaching Out (PRO) Grant from the Ontario Ministry of Education.

Message sponsored by PIC (Parent Involvement Committee of the WRDSB) and PCMH (Parents for Children's Mental Health)

This free event for parents and caregivers is hosted by the Elmira District Secondary School Council.

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Municipal race is a call to arms, not to Kool-Aid THE NOMINATION PERIOD FOR candidates running in this year’s municipal elections having opened, now would be a good time for some right-minded citizens to think about doing some good as municipal councillors.

It’s early days – the nomination period runs through July 27 – but already there’s been some movement, with a few incumbents and newcomers having filed their papers. There’s always room for more.

Whether or not you agree the incumbents are doing a good job or like what the newcomers bring, putting them through the trial of a widely-contested election is a good thing: good for voters, good for debate and, most of all, good for democracy.

For that reason, we’re calling on public-minded citizens in both townships to come forward and stand for election – the pay’s not too great (mayors’ aside), the hours erratic, the public ungrateful and the media coverage scathing, but aside from that, it’s a great job and a way to both shape and serve the community where you live.

Municipal councils do have a great deal of influence over the quality of life in their communities. That’s especially true in the townships, where even small decisions can have a noticeable impact. Because that’s the case, it’s even more important to have community-minded people at the helm, those with the drive to enhance the quality of life here.

From our perspective, that requires candidates who are willing to act in the interests of the public. That seems self-evident, but in Woolwich particularly that’s far too often not the case. As with the bureaucrats to which councillors often defer, the elected officials conflate their interests with those of the citizenry. Co-opted into the bubble, they take on the mindset of the public sector employees whose interests are increasingly at odds with residents’ needs, particularly when it comes to spending priorities and keeping budgets under control.

For the system to work properly, even municipal politics must be like the legal system: adversarial. When warranted, council members must be at odds with staff and even with each other, as debate makes for better representation. Unfortunately, such democratic and accountable action is in short supply.

With aging infrastructure putting mounting pressure on budgets at the same time as most Ontarians face rising costs, particularly for housing, and stagnating incomes, something’s got to give. That will require council decisions that puts the public’s needs ahead of administrative and program spending that serves few if any residents.

Properly engaged councillors will identify cuts and stick with doing what’s best for residents, bringing their own strength to an environment that will try to co-opt them.

While candidates will often talk about limiting tax increases, the real questions revolve around what gets done with the money that’s collected. Clearly, money spent on padding the bureaucracy and its members’ pockets is money wasted, unproductive dollars that could be used for proper purposes of value to the public.

The ability to make such decisions is the paramount trait to keep in mind when contemplating whether to take the plunge and put your name on the ballot for your fellow residents to choose on October 22.

Voters, too, should take note.

It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good ... well, almost nobody ...

WORLD VIEW / GWYNNE DYER

Marx at 200: inequality is still an issue today WORLD AFFAIRS “Karl Marx was right: socialism works. It is just that he had the wrong species,” wrote sociobiologist E.O. Wilson, the world’s leading authority on ants.

But it’s really a little more complicated than that, and now is a good time to discuss it, because last weekend was the 200th anniversary of Marx’s birth.

Marx died in London in exile in 1883, so he cannot be blamed for the tens of millions who were killed in his name in the Soviet Union, China and elsewhere in the 20th century.

But he did want to change the world, and his goal was equality: the ‘classless society.’

At its peak, in the mid1980s, ‘Marxism’ ruled the lives of one-third of the world’s people. Now it is the official ideology in only five countries, and even there it is mainly an excuse for authoritarian rule, not a real belief system. But the principle of equality remains a central value in

human politics, and now we sort of know why.

Egalitarianism among human beings poses a problem that cultural anthropologist Bruce Knauft dubbed the “U-shaped curve.” He observed that all non-human primate species – chimpanzees, gorillas, etc.—are intensely hierarchical (a vertical line), whereas for up to 100,000 years before the rise of civilization our hunter-gatherer ancestors were extremely egalitarian (a horizontal line).

But as soon as mass civilizations arise five thousand years ago, it’s back to chimpanzee values. Until quite recently, all civilized societies were steep hierarchies of privilege and power. So draw another vertical line, and you have the U-shaped curve.

This raises two questions: how did human beings break away from the primate norm, and why did they succumb to it again as soon as they became ‘civilized’? The best answer to the first question came from another anthropologist, Christopher Boehm, who pointed out that humans were intelligent

enough to realize that the usual primate dominance struggle among all the adult males could only have one winner.

Everybody else was bound to lose, and to be bullied and dominated by the dominant male. Since each individual was far more likely to lose than to win, it was in their collective interest to shut the whole dominance game down – and unlike other primates, humans had language, which enabled them to conspire in minirevolutions that achieved exactly that goal.

All of those little huntergatherer societies were egalitarian because they were, in Boehm’s phrase, “reverse dominance hierarchies”: the rank and file got together and overawed the would-be alphas. Even today the customs of aboriginal societies reflect this old revolution: they are fiercely egalitarian, and have strong social mechanisms for taking down those who are getting too big for their boots.

Human beings lived in tiny bands with no hierarchies, not even any formal leaders, for long enough to

entrench those egalitarian values in our cultures and maybe in our genes. But even the earliest civilizations had many thousands of people, which disabled all the social control mechanisms that relied on spotting and discouraging the would-be alphas. Moreover, mass societies had complicated economies that needed centralized decision-making.

So the alphas took charge, and the millennia of tyranny began. They only ended in the past couple of centuries, when democratic revolutions started to overthrow the kings, emperors and dictators. Why now?

Probably because the rise of mass media (just printing plus mass literacy, in the early phase) gave the millions back their ability to organize, and to challenge those who ruled over them.

They were still egalitarians at heart, so they seized the opportunity; and by now more than half the world’s people live in countries that are more or less democratic. But it’s only DYER | 8

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THEIR VIEW / QUESTION OF THE WEEK

What are you doing for Mother’s Day?

»»Sam Silva

»»Justin Matesa

»»Liam Russel

“I will go to a restaurant with my family, and I’ll also give her a card I worked so hard on.”

“We go to my grandma’s house and have supper and me and my sister make a special card.”

“What I usually do for mother’s day, we “I’m going for brunch with my mum and my usually head for dinner at a very nice sister at the Maryhill Inn.” restaurant and then we wrap presents before she even knows.”

»»Athena Kanellis

»»Jonathan Szyska “I am probably making my mum a card and getting sweets and flowers with my dad.”

“Absolute equality comes at too high a price. But too much inequality also exacts a price.” Gwynne Dyer | 6 HIS VIEW / STEVE KANNON

Odds are Michael Harris was a victim of party politics endemic to our system EDITOR'S NOTES Both of the previous provincial elections were the Conservatives’ to lose.

And they did just that. The third time might be the charm, or they could be in for a three-peat come June 7.

Just as Democrats in the U.S. picked the one candidate (Hillary Clinton) who could lose to Donald Trump, the Tories may have picked the one candidate (Doug Ford) who could lose to Kathleen Wynne, as universally acknowledged as corrupt and widely reviled as she is.

Ford took advantage of a common tactic in party leadership races, in which each of the hopefuls scrambles to sign up new members – usually members of convenience – to the party in order to line up votes at the leadership convention. In this case, the rushed process was made necessary by the abrupt departure of Patrick Brown, himself the beneficiary

of the new-memberships strategy.

The direct cause of Brown’s departure were allegations – increasingly spurious – introduced at the height of the MeToo movement. There is much speculation what happened was an internal putsch, though perhaps with an outcome (Ford) that wasn’t intended.

Interestingly enough, there may have been something similar at play in the more recent defrocking of Kitchener-Conestoga MPP Michael Harris. It may be just a coincidence Harris was pushed out after co-chairing the campaign of rival PC leadership candidate Christine Elliott.

Or that the allegations followed the failure of Mike Harris Jr., son of the former PC premier, to secure the nomination in the neighbouring Waterloo riding.

Harris (the current MPP) is understandably reluctant to talk in much detail about what happened, preferring to discuss the happier, finer moments of his seven years on the job. But he does note that the 2012 texts with a party intern

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could perhaps do without the politics of the system itself. In looking back at the past seven years, most of his recollections are of his constituency work – the one-on-ones – and representation of local issues at Queen’s Park. Pointing out all the rewards that come from that work, he maintains that he doesn’t want his public service to end at that and as things played out last month.

Some elected officials revel in the backgrounders, the backroom and the backstabbing inherent in politics and the party system specifically, however – playing the game, as it’s known.

Others arrive in office with good intentions but soon find the game trumps all. And the money of large donors precludes doing what’s actually in the public good in favour of undemocratic policies that harm the majority of citizens.

Having served in opposition throughout his tenure at the Ontario legislature, Harris is undoubtedly aware of how frustrating the system is. The reality

is that past the municipal level, the party system ensures that things are run by a few pulling the strings of the purported leader – bought and paid for – and a handful of sycophants.

Even when on the government side, the MPPs and MPs are just placeholders, voting as they’re told – the concept of being whipped remarkably apropos. (It’s a reality reflected in Pierre Trudeau’s 1969 musing that MPs were nobodies 100 feet from Parliament Hill.)

The concept of the person you vote for in your ward/riding actually representing your interests is anachronistic. Any elected official trying to do that is quickly shut down by the system.

Likewise, only the most partisan among us would agree we’re well governed: from the autocratic financial mismanagement in Ottawa and the scandal-prone missteps at Queen’s Park right on down through regional and local governments, we’re hardly getting full value, yet along anything resembling true representation.

That’s true not just of the incumbents – though there’s much left to be desired – but a reality of what we’ve allowed our form of democracy to become.

Complaining about government typically trumps discussing the weather as the Great Canadian Pastime. Would those of us with a litany of complaint be prepared, however, to put do something about it? I’m thinking in particular of reforms that would move our democracy closer to the form practiced in ancient Greece, the foundation upon which resides the West’s complex and often dysfunctional (see America, United States of) democratic system.

Instead of elections, we could have a form of direct democracy, in which every citizen entitled to vote would get to have a say in how things are run.

Unworkable? Perhaps, especially at the federal and provincial levels, but more probable at the local level – Athens, after all, had upwards of 60,000 eligible participants at one time, KANNON | 8

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occurred before he was married, were reciprocal, didn’t involve anyone that worked in his office and did not generate any complaints. The intern made mention of the relationship in another, unrelated context.

One could infer from a well-researched piece in the Record by Greg Mercer that Harris was essentially jobbed by the new party leader due to his support for Elliott.

Political parties are said to keep dossiers on all MPPs, particularly their own. In part, that helps prevent any surprises from surfacing – though they still do – but can also be helpful in maintaining control and compliance.

The incident involving Harris was inconsequential ... until the emergence of the MeToo movement gave rise to a zero-tolerance environment in which there was no recourse for those accused. The mere accusation is enough to end things.

Harris himself won’t broach these issues. At 38, he still has political aspirations, though he

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THIS WEEK IN HISTORY

In the last ten years, Ontario has more than doubled the province’s debt, which is the largest sub-national debt in the world, and the government continues to spend more than it collects, to the tune of $12 billion this year. Between 2003 and 2017, the government increased program spending at an average annual rate of 4.9%, and in the last two years this pace increased to 12.2%. This is faster than economic growth, inflation and population growth.

“Even with the expenditure of $26 billion on refurbishments of the Bruce and Darlington reactors, Canadian nuclear power is set to decline by about 39 per cent over the next two decades unless new reactors are constructed. Compared to other forms of electrical generation building nuclear power plants costs five times more than gas, three times more than onshore wind and two times more than utility-scale solar.”

The unveiling of a new subdivision plan for Conestogo saw a full house at Woolwich council chambers May 7 as neighbours came to express their concerns. Featuring 21 lots for single-family homes, the project is slated for lands fronting on Sawmill Road, just east of Golf Course Road. The houses, on large lots, would start at $375,000. The public planning meeting was the first step in acquiring a zone change needed to let the project get rolling.

»»Canadian Taxpayers Federation

»»Energy expert David Hughes Per notes capita consumption of nuclear energy

»»From the May 11, 2002 edition of The Observer

peaked in Canada in 1994 and in the world as a whole in 2002

DYER: Too much inequality

NATIONAL VIEW

likely to come at a high price

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political equality; we never got the material equality of the hunter-gatherers back, and the social hierarchies persist.

Marx’s goal was to reconquer the remaining lost ground (though he would never have put it like that), and create a classless society that lived in absolute equality. It was such an attractive goal that millions sacrificed their lives for it, but it was a pipe-dream.

The only way to achieve that kind of equality again in a modern mass society was by strict social controls – and the only people who could enforce those controls were ruthless dictators. So we learned something from the collapse of Communism. Absolute equality comes at too high

a price.

But too much inequality also exacts a price. People living in modern democratic societies will accept quite a lot of inequality, especially if there is a welldeveloped welfare state to protect the poor. But if the income differences get too great, the politics gets ugly.

Why did Canadians elect Justin Trudeau as prime minister, while Americans chose Donald Trump as president? The two countries have similar cultures and almost identical per capita incomes, but the richest 20 per cent of Canadians earn 5.5 times as much as the poorest 20 per cent – whereas the richest fifth of Americans earn eight times as much as the poorest fifth.

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far more than in the townships.

Or we could use an allotment system, whereby names are drawn in a lottery system, something akin to jury duty. With a significant number of representatives, numbering dozens or even hundreds, this would be more wieldy than having thousands of people out to vote on pol-

icy – online voting of this magnitude is certainly not ready for primetime.

As Michael Harris found out, the current system – the one the aforementioned Trudeau’s son, Justin, vowed to change, then promptly changed his mind – doesn’t work. Often, it’s democratic only in name. Don’t expect things to get better until enough of us force them to, quite likely literally.

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TRACK & FIELD / HIGH SCHOOL

EDSS puts up solid numbers at annual “Track Wars” event

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Elmira team competitive at meet hosted at Jacob Hespeler Secondary School in Cambridge FAISAL ALI The EDSS track and field team headed to Jacob Hespeler Secondary School in Cambridge last week for the annual Track Wars event. Competing against some 52 schools, and 2,000 athletes, from the region and beyond, the small EDSS contingent certainly held their own.

“Some years we have a slightly bigger team, but this year it’s a very committed team,” said Janice Harper, EDSS teacher and coach.

It’s a far cry from where the team had been at the start of season, explains Harper, not because of the athletes participation, but because of staff turnover at the school. There simply weren’t enough staff members left available to keep the EDSS track and field team running. Fortunately, though, some of the senior student members of the team stepped up to help keep it going.

“The team was going to fold this year but we kept it alive,” said Harper. The students volunteered to coach and mentor their peers to keep the team going this season.

“It’s a lot harder than I thought,” admits Lizzy Klosa, one of the senior students coaching the team, with a laugh. “Just coming up with workouts and stuff to do.”

“I used to coach basketball but the kids were a lot younger. So it’s pretty

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The EDSS track and field team competed at the annual Track Wars May 3 at Jacob Hespeler Secondary School. cool when the people on you team are the same age as you, or just like a year younger,” adds Paul Cento of the experience. “Because it’s more like you’re a part of the team then just trying to tell other people what to do.”

The EDSS team made some significant strides at this year’s Track Wars.

Standouts included the likes of Elmira runner Owen Read, another senior volunteering his time

to coach the team, who placed second in the senior boys’ 100-metre dash.

Read’s qualified for the OFSSA thrice before, two times for the 100m race, and the three times for the 200.

“It’s a long road going all the way through all three of the other meets, and then having to run well in every single one in order to make it,” he says, adding that he was hoping to make it again to OFSSA

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this year.

In the girls 300-metre dash Lizzy Klosa took the bronze medal. John Wang was another bronze medal winner for the local high school in the boys’ 2km steeplechase open.

EDSS also fielded a fifth place winner, Colby Van Bargen, in the boys’ junior discus throw. In the boys’ high jump Connor Cortes took the silver medal, and claimed the bronze in the triple jump midget. The

senior EDSS girls’ relay team, meanwhile, claimed the fifth spot out of 28 competing teams.

The Track Wars event was just the prelude to the WCSSA competition being held May 16 at Jacob Hespeler. From there, the cream of the crop will rise to the top to compete at the CWOSSA event in Cambridge, and from there only the most elite will move on to the provincial OFSSA games.

The other day a good friend of ours emailed us a beautiful photo of a wood duck drake in full plumage.

I looked at it, shook my head and said, “That’s a gorgeous duck.”

Even so, I felt sorry for it. When it comes to birds and some mammals like deer, moose, elk, lions, and Silverback gorillas, the female of the species has it easy. The female, after all, is often beautiful in a subtle, subdued kind of way that remains consistent throughout the year. The males, on the other hand, must dress a lot more dramatically, just to get a little attention. Basically, this makes them look very desperate and also leaves them open to bullying.

This, I think is what separates modern man from the beasts. Wood ducks dress up when they want to find a mate. Modern man is more likely to text at 11 p.m. while wearing track pants.

It cannot be easy being one of these animals, however. After all, texting is difficult enough without man-sized thumbs and autocorrect.

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Wet weather delays maintenance, use of sports fields FAISAL ALI With the sun finally shining and spring in the air, people are sure to want to get outside and enjoy some recreational time.

Unfortunately, a succession of stormy weather has put a hold on maintenance of some of the local sports fields.

In Woolwich, the opening of the fields was delayed as crews worked around the inclement weather.

“Right now, we had pushed our field back – you see we have an opening of May 1 for all of our sports fields,” explained Brad Hergott, maintenance supervisor for Woolwich. “This year we pushed it back to May 14 just to be kind of in the same line as City of Kitchener, City of Waterloo, all of the surrounding regions.”

The recent wind storms that wreaked havoc across the region last Friday certainly didn’t help, but

township crews are hoping to be able to make the new deadline.

“Pushing forward, we’re hoping to meet that mark, but the rain and the ice storm and the wind storm is definitely taking it back,” said Hergott. “The groundwater, the amount of water on the fields is still a problem, we’re battling that. I know our landscapers are having trouble getting in to cut those fields because of the water sitting on it.”

Families looking for-

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ward to making use of the Bolender Park splash pad will have to wait just a little while longer until the weather definitely stabilizes.

“Just with the weather the way it’s been bouncing around where we had freezing weather a week and a half ago, we don’t want to open the lines for the very first year and find out we’ve got frozen lines for the very first year and find out we’ve got frozen lines,” said Hergott.

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The water is expected to start running this year on June 2, the first Saturday of the month, giving people plenty of time to enjoy the pad for the season.

The facility, which opened in Elmira just last year, had initially been scheduled to be up and running in time for the summer in 2017, but was delayed into the early fall because of more rainy weather. While residents still had enough warm weather to enjoy the splash

pad for a while, this year will be the first full summer the splash pad will get to be used.

The last of ice at the WMC arenas is scheduled for a thaw in the next few weeks as well, after which the floor space will be available for rentals.

“We took the ice out of the McLeod rink for the maple syrup festival,” said Hergott. “We still have the ice in Snyder and that’s coming out … the last rental is May 17.”

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mean, if you think about it, a bull or buck pays a high price for a little love too.

Human males sometimes act like boneheads in order to attract a mate.

Male ungulates such as deer, elk and moose take it literally. They actually

grow bones out of their heads. These bones get progressively heavier until early fall when they stop growing. Until that time they are also tender and basically useless.

All this changes once their antlers harden in September.

Then, antlers just serve

to get them in trouble.

The buck or bull spends much time rubbing them against trees to remove the ragged green velvet that remains. After that the sole uses of antlers is for fighting off rivals who are interested in the same female you are and revealing your position when you are lay-

ing down in the tall grass.

The good news is females will give bucks or bulls with antlers a second look and, should the mood be right, the male will get a day or two of love before the female kicks him to the curb.

Then he continues his quest for true love.

To recap: A buck must

carry somewhere between three and nine pounds worth of antlers on the top of his head for most of the year, just to have a few nights of love with ladies that are using him; similarly, a bull moose must carry up to 80 pounds and a bull elk carries somewhere in between.

Meanwhile, most human males must only bathe, wear cheap cologne, know how to use cutlery and own a car. If you think about it, this is hardly fair. Given the chance to wear antlers or cheap cologne I would have chosen antlers too.

I believe this also provides ample evidence the females of these species are smarter. After all, wood duck drakes wear their full plumage from autumn to spring, which means they are easier to see and more desirable targets for hunters and other predators than the less colourful female.

Bucks and bulls with their antlers are also targeted far more than cows and does.

How is any of this useful to the outdoorsman?

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Woolwich Lions dog walk taking it to the streets for club’s 13th event VERONICA REINER THE WOOLWICH COMMUNITY LIONS Club will be hosting their 13th annual dog guide walk this year on May 27 starting at PetValu in Elmira at 9 a.m. Walkers of all ages will travel down Arthur Street and loop around back to the starting location, a different route than the path usually taken.

“We’ve changed the route this year,” said Nancy Booth, event organizer for the Woolwich Community Lions Club.

“We used to do it on the Kissing Bridge Trail by the Observer, and we’d walk to the Floradale Road and back. A lot of members in our club thought we needed more exposure, so we decided to walk the main street.”

Anyone is invited to participate in the walk, whether they have a dog or not. The group will meet at 315 Arthur St. S. for the

five-kilometre trek.

Sandi Thurley is the assistant manager of PetValu.

“PetValu is one of the main sponsors of their Walk for Dog Guides,” said Sandi Thurley, assistant manager of the Elmira location. “As such, we want to participate with the local Lions Club in the walk.”

Participation in the event is free; however, the group does accept donations.

They have raised more than $100,000 to date.

The Lions Foundation of Canada has been around for over 30 years and has matched some 2,700 dogs to recipients in need of a guide animal.

Members raise a variety of dog breeds, the most common being Labradors, standard and miniature doodles and golden retrievers.

“Puppies are fostered in volunteer homes for a year, and then they go on to ‘university’ to gain their training,” said Booth.

If they have any health issues, they are put in a separate category and sold to anyone wishing to adopt a housebroken puppy.

Healthy dogs are completely trained.

Training is an intensive four- to eight-month period, one-on-one with a qualified instructor. When they are fully trained, they are matched with a handler for two to four weeks at the Oakville training school to learn how to handle, trust, and bond with their new dog guide. Each training session is aimed towards a specific cause.

For example, one category is called canine vision and helps the visually impaired. Dogs are trained to navigate obstacles found on daily routes such as curbs, steps and crowds.

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It costs approximately $25,000 to raise a dog guide and they are given to qualified applicants at no cost.

The foundation receives no government funding and relies purely on the generosity of Canadians to meet its mission.

“Registration starts at 8:30, and the walk begins at 9,” said Thurley of this year’s event. “It’ll be about an hour, and then we’re going to have a barbecue that will wrap up about 12 o’clock. The barbecue will be about 10:30 or 11 and will go until about 12 o clock.”

“We have bottles of water that we’re going to give anyone who would like one,” added Booth.

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CYCLING / ON THE ROAD FOR A CAUSE

His Cross-country cycling trip goes well beyond taking in the scenery Ryan Martin to set out from Tofino, B.C. Monday with a goal of reaching St. John’s Newfoundland, with a few stops south of the border for good measure, in fundraiser for Canadian Mental Health Association FAISAL ALI

It was not easy for Ryan Martin to confront his mental health problems at first, and bring them out into the open. But now, the 23-year-old is speaking publicly about his journey, and is championing mental health awareness by embarking on a journey of another kind, a cross-country bike ride starting Monday.

The bike trip will take Martin coast to coast, from the small town of Tofino on the west side of Vancouver Island to St. John’s in the east. And in the process, Martin will be raising money for the Canadian Mental Health Association.

Martin has never tried anything on this scale before, but says he is excited to take on the challenge.

“I’m a big cyclist and I love cycling, but I’ve never taken on this big of a challenge before. So I’m so excited for it. Just the adventure and the awareness and everything,” he said.

Martin will be kicking off on his journey this Monday and arrive in St. John’s in Newfoundland sometime late August. He won’t be travelling straight through Canada, though. Instead he plans to take what he calls the “scenic route,” extending the trip to about 9,000 kilometres over three months as he winds his way through Canada and parts of the U.S., touching on most of the major cities in the country.

“I’m kind of doing an impractical route. A lot of people just beeline it across the country and finish in a

month-and-a-half. I’m doing more of a scenic route, just because I want to see the country,” explained Martin.

He’ll be doing the trip mostly solo, though he has family members – his father, mother and sister – who will be joining him separately at different points for a few days.

Martin will also be relying on the kindness of strangers, in a sense, by using the app Warm Showers, which opens the homes of individuals to cyclists for free who are passing through.

Along the trip, Martin will be camping in other spots as much as possible to save on hotel costs.

It’s an immense journey for anyone to undertake, but Martin believes it will help raise awareness and donations for his cause.

Martin himself has struggled with his own mental health difficulties, which is what motivated him to undertake his bike ride.

“One of the big parts is because I’ve gone through a pretty long journey figuring out and accepting my mental health challenges,” he said.

In high school, he says candidly, he suffered from anxiety which affected him off and on. But as he entered university, he found his mental health worsened.

“My depression, episodes of depression started coming in, in conjunction with the anxiety. So I’d have these weird episodes and mood swings. I was really confused why this was happening, when everything

Ryan Martin will be heading on a cross-country bicycle ride starting May 14 to raise funds and awareness for mental health. [SUBMITTED] in my life was going pretty well how I wanted it to go. But I was having these [mood swings] up and down, for no reason.”

For a long while, Martin didn’t talk about it, but

gradually started to open up to a social worker at the university which helped, for a time. However, the feeling didn’t last, so he returned to the social worker, and once again talking

about his problem helped.

But then, just as before, his depression and anxiety returned.

This went on for a few times, but it was only after he had an emotional break-

down that he was able to open up to his friends and family. He eventually was diagnosed as bipolar type-2.

“So right now I’m at this place where I’ve gone through this whole journey, I really want to help other people who are going through it,” said Martin.

“And I want to help instill that courage in them to open up to someone and start talking about it and to just not give up on themselves and to keep working hard to find the tools that they can use in their toolbox to help manage their mental health challenges.”

Martin is a Guelph resident, but he has deep roots in Elmira. His family was the original owner of Elmira Pet Foods and Martin Mills. His grandfather, Don Martin, is enshrined in the Waterloo County Hall of Fame while his great-grandfather started the feed mill business in Elmira in 1923.

“I’m incredibly proud in a number of ways,” said Ryan’s father, Tim Martin, of his son’s efforts. “His ability to speak about it and to talk and to engage with a number of different people is certainly helping him and helping a lot of people. In that sense, I think it’s just incredible.”

The younger Martin will be heading off on his journey May 14, starting in B.C. Anyone who would like to learn more about him, or make a donation to his cause, can head over to his website www.mindcycle.ca.

All donations will go towards the Canadian Mental Health Association.

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HEALTH MATTERS / SHARING AN APPROACH

A personal take on recovery Drawing on his own experience, David Mohr plans health and wellness event in Wellesley FAISAL ALI When David Mohr experienced a workplace accident almost 20 years ago, it was the start of a long and difficult journey for the Gads Hill resident and businessman. Mohr says that he fell, face down, onto the hard, concrete floor of a factory, knocking him unconscious and burdening him with a host of health problems that would prove unresponsive to whatever treatments he tried.

What did work for him, says Mohr, was a natural herb supplement – a treatment that Mohr is now hoping to share with the public.

Mohr will be hosting a Health and Wellness event at the Wellesley Community Centre to promote his “self-care program” on May 16, 17 and 18.

“Four-and-a-half years ago, I got introduced to these five natural herbs that helped me get out of a wheelchair and stop using crutches. I regained my health,” says Mohr, while reducing the amount of drugs he had to take to nil.

Based on his own posi-

tive experience with the herbs, a supplement called an “Nrf2 activator,” Mohr was motivated to start a business promoting it to others. While the Nrf2 activator helped Mohr with his particular injuries, he says that the Nrf2 activator can have benefits for average adults as well. The supplement works, explains Mohr, by activating the Nrf2 protein in the body, which in turn regulates the levels of oxidation of the cells in the human body.

“By activating your Nrf2, first of all you are turning on your survival gene. It slows the aging process and delays disease,” he says. The Nrf2 activator is a licensed natural health product under Health Canada, he adds, noting the products aren’t intended to diagnose, cure or treat any disease.

“What I basically do is, I teach people and then I connect them to our distribution centre, and then they purchase the product from there directly online,” he says.

Before setting up his health and wellness event, Mohr had manned a booth

A new approach to helping fight food waste FIELD NOTES

tion of the Nrf2 activator though, says Mohr, is in how it works.

“This product is the only product that we know that is endogenous. It’s an endogenous food. So what it does, it activates the cell from the inside.

Supplements, super-drinks, potions, drugs are all exogenous,” he says.

We all need to keep an eye on sustainability. And lately, that means being mindful of food waste.

This cause is getting some significant support from a major retailer, in what could turn out to be a very effective, methodic way.

Walmart has announced a commitment to achieve zero food waste by 2025 in its Canadian operations, and will support $19 million worth of food waste reduction initiatives by non-profit organizations throughout the food chain.

Locally, this includes more than $1 million to the University of Guelph for two initiatives. The first is an effort to gather best practices from key mu-

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David Mohr will be presenting his self-care program May 16-18, at the Wellesley Community Centre. at the Wellesley Home and Garden show earlier last month, and was encouraged by the response he got to host a solo event.

“We had a really overwhelming success there introducing people to the program, and also just getting some background from people there,” says Mohr about the home show display. Speaking with people who passed by his booth, he

says he definitely identified a demand from residents of the township.

“There’s a need in that community for better health. So people are looking for that and so that’s why we’re holding another [event],” he says.

There are many healthcare products in the market that purport to help individuals live longer healthier lives. The notable distinc-

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nicipalities that have initiatives focused on reducing household food waste, and conduct a deeper level evaluation of interventions in two regions.

The second initiative is to help develop a low-cost nutritional supplement from fruit by-products that normally would go to landfill. This research will specifically focus on addressing the issue of waste in the banana supply chain. And who doesn’t eat bananas?

As well, the Guelphbased Canadian Centre for Food Integrity and Provi-

sion Coalition will receive nearly $600,000 to work with 50 manufacturers across Canada to conduct food loss and waste assessments, and identify solutions based on findings.

Ultimately, says Walmart, this work will help identify effective strategies that can be implemented across the industry to reduce food waste and loss.

Other efforts include support for food banks to maximize surplus food donations.

To me, this is not simply a public relations exercise.

Food waste costs money.

In Canada, Walmart has reduced food waste in its

own operations by 23 per cent between 2015 and 2017. So, it knows what’s possible, and has launched its own creative efforts such as a value program for consumers, for the quick sale of fresh meat, bakery, dairy and produce items approaching their bestbefore dates.

As well, it speaks to the depth and breadth of food waste. It’s not an isolated problem, nor is it an easy one to grasp. Kudos to Walmart for addressing it, especially with fruit and vegetable season about to start … and these commodities are among the most

susceptible to food waste.

Nearly half of the $27 billion worth of food we waste each year in Canada comes from the kitchen, and where some of the Walmart studies will focus.

But I wonder when a similar program will come forward to tackle food waste on the farm?

It’s been a couple of years now since researchers at the Canada-based Value Chain Management International estimated about 10 per cent of the total food waste in Canada occurs right the farm.

That’s a result of factors such as incorrect planting,

management and harvesting, as well as over-production, over-feeding, climate change, weather conditions and lack of connectivity downstream to processors and other participants in the value chain.

Martin Gooch, the researcher who conducted the study, said at the time farmers lose profits when they spend money on the likes of fertilizer and crop protection that goes towards producing food that is wasted along the value chain or discarded.

Breadth-wise, that is huge.

However, since that pronouncement by Value Chain

Management International, I don’t recall seeing activities related to reducing it.

And is there a bigger connection to food waste and farmer’s mental health?

Talk about complex problems – other research from Guelph has underlined the problems farmers have dealing with the likes of depression. And there’s no question that if almost half of what they produce ends up as waste, it’s pretty disheartening.

Let’s keep farmers in mind in all aspect of food production – including the production of food that gets wasted.

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“So the difference is our product activates the cell from the inside by activating the survival gene. So it turns the cell on and each cell does what it’s designed to do, while an exogenous product is trying to get into the cell,” says Mohr.

“We use the analogy of a burning house. ... You have a burning house, so you have all the fire trucks outside the house and they’re all starting to spray water

on the outside of the house.

But the fire’s on the inside of the house.”

Instead, says Mohr, the Nrf2 activator works like a sprinkler system, dousing the fire from the inside.

While the wider efficacy of the treatment remains unknown, Mohr at least swears by it. He’s encouraging anyone seeking more information on his selfmade program to join him at the his health and wellness events at the Wellesley Community Centre on May

16 and 17 from 7-9 p.m, and on May 18 8-9 p.m.

“I owe my life to ... the Nrf2 activator. With this second chance at life, we created our ‘self-care program’ business to share the information and benefits of Nrf2 activation with likeminded people,” he said.

“And then connect them to our distribution centre so they too can enjoy a new life with longevity and quality. We have helped hundreds of people start their second life.”

David Mohr found the blend of five herbs did the trick for him on his own journey to wellness.

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RBC and Royal Bank are registered trademarks of Royal Bank of Canada. Φ(Finance) Eligible 2018 Sierra 2500 Denali 4WD Diesel with Duramax Diesel Engine: Offer available to qualified retail customers in Canada from May 1, 2018, to May 31, 2018. 0% purchase financing offered on approved credit by TD Auto Finance Services, Scotiabank® or RBC Royal Bank for 72 months on a new 2018 Sierra 2500 Denali 4WD Diesel with Duramax Diesel Engine. Other trims may have effective rates higher than 0%. Participating lenders are subject to change. Rates from other lenders will vary. Down payment, trade and/or security deposit may be required. Monthly payment and cost of borrowing will vary depending on amount borrowed and down payment/trade. Example: $80,000 financed at 0% nominal rate (0.2% APR) equals $1111.11 monthly for 72 months. Total Value consists of $4,272 manufacturer-to-dealer Delivery Credit (tax exclusive), $500 manufacturer-to-dealer Finance Cash (tax exclusive), and $1,000 manufacturer-to-consumer GM Card Application Bonus (offer applies to individuals who apply for a Scotiabank GM Visa Card [GM Card] or current GM Card cardholders) (tax inclusive). Cost of borrowing is $0, for a total obligation of $83,788. Freight and air charge ($100, if applicable) included. License, insurance, registration, PPSA, applicable taxes and dealer fees not included. Dealers are free to set individual prices. Limited time offer which may not be combined with certain other offers. General Motors of Canada Company may modify, extend or terminate offers in whole or in part at any time without notice. Conditions and limitations apply. See dealer for details. ®Registered trademark of The Bank of Nova Scotia. RBC and Royal Bank are registered trademarks of Royal Bank of Canada. ∆(Lease) Eligible 2018 GMC Terrain SLE FWD: Lease based on suggested retail price of $32,195, includes $1,500 manufacturer-to-consumer Bonus Cash (tax inclusive), and $750 manufacturer-to-dealer Lease cash (tax exclusive) towards the lease of an eligible new 2018 GMC Terrain SLE FWD at participating dealers. Bi-weekly payment is $159 for 48 months at 0.9% interest rate on approved credit to qualified retail customers by GM Financial. $1,150 down payment is required. Total obligation is $17,672, plus applicable taxes. Taxes, license, insurance, registration and applicable fees, levies, duties and, except in Quebec, dealer fees (all of which may vary by dealer and region) are extra. Option to purchase at lease end is $13,200. See dealer for details. Discounts vary by model. Dealer may sell for less. Limited time offer, which may not be combined with certain other offers. General Motors of Canada Company may modify, extend or terminate offers in whole or in part at any time without notice. Conditions and limitations apply. Offers may not be redeemed for cash and may not be combined with certain other consumer incentives. ʵ(Finance) Eligible 2018 GMC Acadia SLE-1 AWD: Offer available to qualified retail customers in Canada from May 1, 2018 to May 31, 2018. 0% purchase financing offered on approved credit by TD Auto Finance Services, Scotiabank® or RBC Royal Bank for 72 months on a new 2018 GMC Acadia SLE-1 AWD. Other trims may have effective rates higher than 0%. Participating lenders are subject to change. Rates from other lenders will vary. Down payment, trade and/or security deposit may be required. Monthly payment and cost of borrowing will vary depending on amount borrowed and down payment/trade. Example: $30,000 financed at 0% nominal rate equals $416.66 monthly for 72 months. Includes $1,500 manufacturer-to-consumer Bonus Cash (tax inclusive). Cost of borrowing is $0, for a total obligation of $37,628. Freight and air charge ($100, if applicable) included. License, insurance, registration, PPSA, applicable taxes and dealer fees not included. Dealers are free to set individual prices. Limited time offer which may not be combined with certain other offers. General Motors of Canada Company may modify, extend or terminate offers in whole or in part at any time without notice. Conditions and limitations apply.

See dealer for details. °Sierra 5-star Overall Vehicle Score applies to 1500 series vehicles. U.S. Government 5-Star Safety Ratings are part of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA’s) New Car Assessment Program (www.nhtsa.gov). ^Full functionality requires compatible Bluetooth® and smartphone, and USB connectivity for some devices. Data plan rates apply. >Not compatible with all devices. ▲Whichever comes first. Limit of four complimentary Lube-Oil-Filter services in total. Fluid top-offs, inspections, tire rotations, wheel alignments and balancing, etc., are not covered. Conditions and limitations apply. See your dealer for details. Ω Whichever comes first. Conditions and limitations apply, see your dealer for details.

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THE ARTS ON STAGE / MUSICAL THEATRE

Pack your load down the road and come to Holiday Inn Drayton Entertainment presents the Canadian premiere of the stage version of the classic 1942 film, opening May 16 STEVE KANNON HOLIDAY INN, THE 1942 film starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire, is essential viewing every time the yuletide season rolls around. It’s certainly not the only movie featuring Der Bingle on my list, but is notable for the first appearance of White Christmas.

Beyond that monster hit, the film contains a dozen songs penned by Irving Berlin, including Easter Parade, Blue Skies and Cheek to Cheek, indicative of a storyline that covers a whole year’s worth of holidays, not just that rather notable one on December 25.

That’s why there’s nothing incongruous about Drayton Entertainment rolling out a stage version of Holiday Inn in the middle of May. “It’s not just about Christmas,” says Alex Mustakas, Drayton’s artistic director. “It’s a parade of hits from Irving Berlin.”

As with the movie, Holiday tells the story of Jim Hardy, who decides to leave the tough slog of performing with partners Ted Hanover and Lila Dixon for some easy country living.

He buys a farm in Connecticut, plans to marry Lila and settle into the good life. Lila bails on the plan before it even begins, opting to stay in show biz and professing her love for Ted. Pushing ahead with his plans for becoming a farmer, Jim quickly discovers there’s nothing easy about life on a farm. A year later, he’s come up with a new plan: converting the

Drayton Entertainment presents the Canadian premiere of the stage version of Holiday Inn. Zach Trimmer takes on the role of Bing Crosby’s Jim Hardy, Jayme Armstrong is Linda Mason, Zachary Scott is Ted Hanover, the role played by Fred Astaire in the film, and Alexandra Herzog is Lila Dixon. The show opens May 16 at the Drayton Festival Theatre.

[SUBMITTED] farmhouse into an inn that will be open only on holidays. In that venture, he’s joined by Linda Mason, a young woman with dreams of becoming a musical performer.

Things get complicated when Ted, having been ditched by Lila, decides Linda would be an ideal dance partner, leaving Jim with a case of déjà vu and

worried that Ted will spirit Linda away from the cozy setup they’ve created at the inn.

Along the way, there are plenty of spectacular singing and dancing numbers, which have made the jump to the stage version, says Mustakas.

“It’s the 1942 film in 3-D,” he laughs.

Plenty of music, big

dance numbers and hundreds of costumes, not to mention the changing seasons and holidays, from New Year’s through Easter and Thanksgiving, means plenty of challenges in taking Holiday Inn from film to stage, he notes.

“I really challenged the people here with this one,” he said. “We’ve got a skilled creative team. They like the

challenge.”

The logistics are particularly tough given that Holiday Inn will play at the intimate Drayton Festival Theatre before moving on to Grand Bend and then Cambridge.

“This is probably going to be the big musical for us this year, the big showcase of the year,” said Mustakas.

“It’s an old movie, but it’s a new musical – it was on Broadway just last year.”

The Drayton production is, in fact, the Canadian premiere of the stage musical.

“We are thrilled to be the first theatre company in Canada to produce Holiday Inn. It’s a brand new musical with spectacular dancing and terrific songs by Irving Berlin that spans all four seasons – spring, summer, fall and winter.”

Taking on Crosby’s Jim Hardy is Zach Trimmer, who was Jimmy in last season’s production of Thoroughly Modern Millie. He has played Danny in Grease among other notable roles at regional theatres across the U.S., as well as Hans in Frozen for Disney Cruise Lines.

Jayme Armstrong is the sweet, small-town schoolteacher Linda Mason, whose budding talent creates a rivalry for her affections. Armstrong is no stranger to Drayton Entertainment stages having appeared as Janet in The Drowsy Chaperone, Reno in Anything Goes, Betty in White Christmas and many other productions, including Millie in Thoroughly Modern Millie opposite

Trimmer.

Newcomer Zachary Scott Berger is the irrepressibly charming playboy Ted Hanover (The Astaire role in the film), Jim’s best friend and occasional foe. Hailing from New York, Berger has appeared in the U.S. National Tours of Jekyll & Hyde and Hello Dolly! and in numerous productions across the country including 42nd Street, Into The Woods, and Sting’s The Last Ship.

Alexandra Herzog makes her Drayton Entertainment debut as the vivacious starlet Lila Dixon, who is reluctant to give up the stage for a quieter life in the country with Jim. Herzog has spent many seasons at the Stratford Festival, playing Kristine in A Chorus Line and Liesl in The Sound of Music, among other roles. She also appeared on the popular Canadian TV series Bomb Girls.

Fresh off his comic turn as the witty butler Underling in The Drowsy Chaperone, Keith Savage takes on the role of wily agent Danny, while Laura Caswell is brassy handywoman, Louise Badger, who helps Jim fix up his farm – and a few other things.

The Drayton Entertainment production of Holiday Inn runs May 16 to June 3 at the Drayton Festival Theatre. Tickets are $46, available online at www.draytonentertainment.com, in person at the box office or by calling 519-638-5555 or toll free at 1-855-DRAYTON (372-9866).

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CLASSIFIED HELP WANTED

HELP WANTED

Community Care Concepts is a non-profit organization that provides services to enable seniors and adults with unique needs to remain independent in their own homes throughout the Townships of Woolwich, Wellesley and Wilmot.

We are searching for a full-time Administrative Assistant to perform administrative and clerical tasks in a busy office environment. Duties include providing exceptional customer service, maintaining client accounts and client service records, and providing support to the organization’s finance, human resource, IT, facility, program and administrative needs. The ideal candidate will possess a diploma or degree in Administrative services accompanied by 3-5 years of experience working in an administrative role.

Strong administrative, word processing and data entry skills are essential. The position also requires a general understanding and aptitude for accounting principles. Exceptional customer service skills, strong oral and written communication skills, time management skills, an ability to work independently and strong problem-solving skills are essential.

We are also searching for a part-time Community Support Worker (4 days per week). Duties include working collaboratively with clients, caregivers, community partners and the staff team to identify and assess client needs and to develop, implement and monitor care plans that address identified needs. The ideal candidate will possess a diploma or degree in the Social Sciences, Health or a related discipline accompanied by 3-5 years of experience working with older persons or adults with disabilities. Well-developed intake, assessment, referral, crisis assessment, intervention, counselling and case management skills are essential. The position also requires a well-developed knowledge base of local communities, community resources and service systems. Computer proficiency as well as strong oral and written communication skills, an ability to work independently, strong problem-solving skills and a knowledge of the needs of the client base are essential.

A valid driver’s license and access to a reliable vehicle are essential for both roles.

Qualified candidates are invited to submit a resume and cover letter no later than 4 pm on Friday May 18, 2018 to: Cathy Harrington, Executive Director Community Care Concepts 929 Arthur Street S., Elmira, Ontario N3B 2Z2 cathyh@communitycareconcepts.ca

HELP WANTED

Fermon Construction Ltd Construction Labourers WANTED! Fermon Construction Ltd is looking for lead hands and or labourer’s to become apart of our team immediately.

Are you a hard worker, reliable and a team player?

Full time and part time positions avalible.

For more information contact Fermon Martin at 519-699-4828 ext 1

HOW TO REACH US

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NOW HIRING! SYSTEMATIX in North Waterloo is now hiring for the following positions: • Painter • Machine Tool Builder (Tool & Die, Millwright, MTBI) • General Machinist A Rewarding Experience You will receive a competitive salary, health benefits, pension plan, profit sharing and service awards. Join life at SYSTEMATIX and enjoy many social and wellness activities.

If you are hardworking, reliable and looking for an excellent career, apply now at www.systematix-inc.com, by mail or in person!

SYSTEMATIX Inc. 815 Bridge St. W, Waterloo N2V 2M7

HELP WANTED Willow Brae Pallets

Transport Truck Driver (Local)

We are currently hiring for the position of Transport Truck Driver - Local. The successful candidate will be a dedicated and dependable individual with a strong work ethic and excellent customer service skills. They will be responsible to operate a tractor trailer for delivery of product to customers within the K-W and surrounding area and will comply with all legislation, keep accurate log books and deal professionally in all interactions with customers and staff. Work hours will fluctuate between 6AM and 8PM, Monday to Friday.

Requirements: ∙ Eagerness to comply with company safety policy. ∙ Experience in operation of a Tractor Trailer ∙ Class “AZ” Commercial Driver’s License ∙ The ability to lift and handle 30 - 50 pounds ∙ Committed to provide professional, courteous conduct in any dealings with the customer ∙ Must have safety boots. All other safety equipment provided. ∙ Comply with all rules and regulations pertaining to vehicle maintenance, inspections, record keeping, and vehicle operation. ∙ Availability to work flexible hours and overtime as required ∙ Clean Abstract Job Type: Full-time Experience: Transport Truck Driving – 2 years (Preferred) Apply in person with resume to: 3 Bast Pl. Waterloo, Fax: 519-664-1689 or email: cheryl@willowbraepallets.com

Hours: Sunday through Thursday 2pm-2am + OVERTIME after 44 hours!

What We Do: We reclaim different types of bi-product material to include bakery, whole grain and even snack food bi-products in order to keep any waste out of landfills! RECYCLE! What We Do For YOU: • HOME DAILY! LOCAL ROUTES • Fun environment bringing pride to your work every day • Great Compensation & BENEFITS! (medical, dental, life, LTD) • Recognition • Safe and well maintained equipment

Don’t miss this chance! Apply today! WE WANT YOU! Email to: truckdriver@sanimax.com 270 Arthur Street North, Elmira, ON. N3B 2Z1 FAX: 519-669-4433

Sanimax strongly supports equality in employment.

OBSERVER CLASSIFIED LISTINGS HELP WANTED HELP WANTED 2-3 full days per week at The Corner Store in Linwood. Job includes kitchen and retail duties. 519-698-2600.

LOOKING FOR A Full time automotive apprentice or mechanic required for fast paced automotive shop in Waterloo. Competitive wage and benefits. Send resume to northfieldauto@bellnet.ca Attention Kevin WOOLWICH BIO-EN, A waste to energy biogas facility located in Elmira, is seeking a full time Floor Operator to join our team. Duties will include cleanup, basic mechanical

and receiving incoming loads of waste. Forklift or excavator experience is an asset. Organizational skills must be strong.

This opportunity will pave the way for possible advancement. Please send resumes to jhillier@woolwichbioen.com no later than Tuesday May 22nd.

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

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

519-635-8737.

FOR SALE UPRIGHT GRAND PIANO. Rosewood, Hientzman & Company. $200. Call 519886-4625.

AUCTIONS FRI. MAY 11 at 3:00 PM Property auction of a 3 bedroom bungalow on a large approx. half acre lots; household effects; antiques; tools; and miscellaneous items to be held at 592 Rustic Dr in Waterloo for the estate of the late John Neufeld Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 519 656 3555 www.jantziauctions.com

AUCTION SALE OF 1 1/2 storey brick home, household goods, antiques and miscellaneous items, to be held at 244 Sydney St. South, (corner of Sydney and Courtland), in Kitchener, for Erma Roth, on Saturday, May 12th @ 10:00 a.m. Gerber Auctions Ltd. 519-699-4451 or 698-0138 AUCTION SALE OF Oil signs, antiques, collectibles, and miscellaneous items, to be held at the K.W. Khaki Club, 2939 Nafziger Rd. 2 miles south of Wellesley, for a Perth South Resident, on Monday, May 21st @ 10:00 a.m. Gerber Auctions Ltd. 519-699-4451 or 698-0138.

SAT. MAY 12 at 9:30 AM Clearing auction sale of farm machinery; household effects; antiques; miscellaneous items; and a collection of approx. 400 including farm; banks; cars; etc. to be held at 7590 Line 86 Macton for Amsey and Eileen Metzger. Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 519 656 3555 www.jantziauctions.com WED. MAY 16 at 4:00 PM -Auction sale of household effects; quality furniture; and miscellaneous items to be held at 23 Spring St. in St. Jacob’s for Erma Wideman. Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 519 656 3555 www.jantziauctions.com AUCTION SALE OF Tools, antiques, household goods and miscellaneous items, to be held at the K.W. Khaki Club, 2939 Nafziger Rd. 2 miles south of Wellesley, on Thursday, May 24th @ 10:00 a.m. Gerber Auctions Ltd. 519-699-4451 or 698-0138 DOUBLE RING ESTATE and Consignment Auction of furniture, appliances, antiques, house hold effects and lawn and garden equipment. Sale to be held at #7213 Line 86 Wallenstein, Saturday May 26, 10:00 a.m. Gerald Bowman Auctions 519-638-5708.

SAT. MAY 26 at 8:30 AM Annual charity auction of approx. 250 quilts; comforters; crafts; household items; and much more. For more info visit www.nhmrs.com.

Held at the New Hamburg Fair ground for the Mennonite Central Committee. Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 519 656 3555 www.jantziauctions.com CLASSIFIED LISTINGS CONTINUE ON PAGE 21

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HELP WANTED

HELP WANTED

Part-time Student Office Assistant

Mill Cleaner

We are seeking motivated individuals to join our Elmira Team to perform office duties: reception, phones, sending out correspondence, submitting electronic records, other administrative tasks as assigned, and light cleaning. This position is 18-20 hours a week: 2 weekdays and Saturdays.

Candidate must have strong writing skills, good organizational skills and excellent customer service.

An Agricultural background would be an asset.

Email: careers@stoltzsales.com In Person: 6805 Line 86, Elmira, ON N3B 2Z6

Full Time Afternoon Shift Position IS HIRING FOR THE FOLLOWING POSITION:

Wallenstein Feed & Supply Ltd. is accepting applications for a Full Time Cleaner. This position is responsible for cleaning in and around the mills and basic maintenance. The successful candidate will be a hard-working individual with excellent attention to detail, and have the ability to repeatedly lift heavy objects.

LONG HAUL TRUCK DRIVER

WFS provides an attractive compensation package including RRSP and Group Benefits.

ANNUAL EARNINGS = $70,000 TO $80,000 HOME ON WEEKENDS

We are committed to diversity and inclusion, and thank all applicants in advance.

Accommodations are available during all stages of the recruitment process.

For more information, you can visit our website www.horstsystems.com/careers or give us a call at 519.669.1300 Apply directly at: recruiting@horstsystems.com

FIND IT TODAY!

If you are interested in a rewarding work life please submit your resume via email to recruiting@wfs.ca by May 25, 2018.

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How to sort your waste Maximum weight 23 kilograms (50 pounds) for each bag, bin or can.

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Flexible film plastic

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Paper and plastic bags

Green bin organics

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Meat, chicken, Paper plates, paper fish and bones towels and napkins

Diapers, feminine Straws, chip bags, hygiene products snack wrappers

Pasta, bread, rice and pizza

Fruits and vegetables

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Pet waste (see below)

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AUCTIONS

AUCTIONS

AUCTION SALE Of Oil signs, antiques, collectibles, and miscellaneous items, to be held at the K.W. Khaki Club, 2939 Nafziger Rd. 2 miles south of Wellesley, for a Perth South Resident, ON

MONDAY, MAY 21ST @ 10:00 A.M.

SIGNS: Rare Red Indian 5ft. porcelain sign,

round, 2 sided. Texaco 5 ½ ft. porcelain sign, round, 2 sided. BA 5 ½ ft. porcelain sign, round 2 sided. Imperial Esso Dealer porcelain sign, approx. 7ft. wide X 4ft. tall, 2 sided. Old signs (Co-Op, Gehl, Black Cat, Row Feeds, Stag, etc.).

Reproduction tin signs (beer & other).

ANTIQUES/COLLECTIBLES: Early wooden wheeled horse drawn wagon. 3 door, 3 drawer flat wall cupboard. 2 door flat wall cupboard.

En-Ar-Co, White Rose, MF and other oil cans.

Red Indian Pathfinder 1935 road map. Oil bottles. Early bear traps. 20 cast iron implement seats. Old parking meters. Maxwell, St. Mary’s wooden washing machine c/w wringer. 2 cream separators. Table top cream separator.

Small wringer washer (possibly salesman’s sample). Maxwell bag carts. John Labatt’s 2 gal jug. Small Dodge coin bank. Western saddles.

Wooden butter churn. License plate collection back to a rare 1911 plate in good condition. Early Quebec wooden child’s sleigh (old paint). Chain saw collection including 2 – 5ft. ice saws. Brass torches. Oak wall phone. Pay phone. Rotary phone collection. Metal riding pelican. Wooden hand pump. Broad axes. Ice tongs. Hay forks.

Yokes. Human yoke. Grain cradle. Wooden fork & rake. Wooden and cast moulds. Sets of longhorns. Wooden wagon wheels. Sausage stuffers. Snow shoes. Milk & cream cans (1 – copper). Wooden decoys. Lantern (railway and other). Oil lamps. Oilers. Miniature & other irons. Lots of pictures (native, sporting & other).

Tinware. Stenciled boxes. List goes on!

GUNS: Janssen & Sons double barrel shot gun (PAL needed). Double barrel shot gun (PAL needed). Unknown display musket. French Charleville converted to percussion. Early percussion pistol (cannon barrel). Charles Ingram, Glasgow Scotland percussion revolver.

NOTE – Any interesting auction! See www.gerberauctions.net for photos. TERMS – Cash,debit or cheque with I.D. 10% buyer’s premium.

AUCTIONEERS:

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

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

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

Police, Municipal, Repo, Fleets & Others Monthly PUBLIC Vehicle

AUCTION to be held at

BRESLAU AIRPORT ROAD AUCTION COMPLEX 5100 FOUNTAIN ST, North, BRESLAU (Kitchener)

Sat May 12th 9:30 am 5 - 13/14 TAURUS Interceptor AWDs 5 - 2013 CHARGER Enforcers 2011 Chev MALIBU LT-048kms 2011 Ford ESCAPE XLT 3 -10/13 Chev IMPALA’s 4 - 10/12 CHARGER Enforcers 2010 Nissan MURANO AWD 2 - 10/11 Grand CARAVAN Wgn’s 2005 Chrysler 300C - Hemi 6 - EZGO Electric Golf Carts 2 - Kayaks c/w Paddles & Access 2005 TOMAS Gas Moped 2012 Chev EXPRESS 3500 12-Pass Van 2012 GMC CANYON Ext Pickup 2 - 2008 Sprinter 2500 Diesel Vans 2 - 07 /09 GMC Savana Cargo Vans 2008 Chev 3500HD 4x4 Diesel Dump 2004 Ford F450XL 4x4 Diesel Dump 2004 GMC SIERRA 2500 Pickup 2001 Chev 3500 Diesel Coffee Truck 2000 Chev 3500 Diesel Bucket Truck 99 Ford FX150 XLT Sport 4x4 2013 Moritz TA Dump Trailer 2012 Roadway TA Landscape Trailer 2011 Car-Mate 6x12 Enclosed Trailer

AUCTION AUCTION SALE OF Machinery, large quantity of scrap metal, and miscellaneous items, to be held at 687267 County Rd. 2, BlandfordBlenheim Twp. (approx. 1 mile southeast of Princeton or 3 miles west of Paris), for Sue Kaufman (former John Beulenkamp Farm), on Wednesday, May 30th @ 10:00 a.m. Gerber Auctions Ltd. 519-699-4451 or 698-0138 WED. MAY 30 at 9:45 AM - Clearing auction sale of furniture; household effects; antiques; collectables; tools; and miscellaneous items to be held at the St. Jacob’s Community Centre in St. Jacobs for an area estate with additions. Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 519 656 3555 www.jantziauctions.com RETIREMENT AUCTION OF groceries, store shelving, chest freezers, display coolers, commercial meat slicer and more for Gourlays Grocery Store located at 38 McGivern St. Moorefield.

Friday June 1 at 5:00 p.m.

Gerald Bowman Auctions 519-638-5708.

AUCTION CONSIGNMENT FARM MACHINERY and Farm support items, Lawn and Garden Equipment.

Consignments welcome, one piece or the entire line up. Sale to be held at #7213 Line 86 Wallenstein approx. 6 km west of Elmira. Saturday May 12, 10:00 a.m. Gerald Bwoman Auctions 519-638-5708. www.bowmanauctions.ca

FARM SERVICES BAGGED PINE SHAVINGS Agricultural Spray Lime, 22.5kg. bag; feed grade lime, 25kg. Delivered. Call George Haffner Trucking, 519-574-4141 or 519-669-2045.

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

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P.O. Box 158

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

TOWNSHIP OF WOOLWICH CLASS ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT Peel Street Bridge # 270148 NOTICE OF PUBLIC CONSULTATION CENTRE / OPEN HOUSE Phone: 519-669-1647 Fax:hosting 519-669-1820 AfterConsultation Hours Emergency: 519-575-4400 The Townshipor 877-969-0094 of Woolwich is a Public Centre (PCC)www.woolwich.ca to review

and discuss a Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (EA) study for the twospan steel truss bridge located on Peel Street, approximately 600 metres west of Katherine Street, in the settlement of Winterbourne (see key map below). The steel truss structure previously had a 3 tonne load limit, but was recently closed due to significant structural deterioration observed during an enhanced bridge inspection.

More Vehicles Arriving Daily!!!!

Check Website for Daily Updates No BUYERS Premium or Penalty!!!

VIEWING: Friday May 11th, 2018, 1 pm to 5 pm TERMS: $500 Cash Deposit on Each Major Item, or as announced

M.R. Jutzi & Co DIVISION OF 658347 ONTARIO INC.,

PROFESSIONALS IN THE ORDERLY LIQUIDATION AND APPRAISALS OF COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRIAL, CONSTRUCTION, MUNICIPAL EQUIPMENT & VEHICLES 5100 FOUNTAIN ST. NORTH, BRESLAU, ONTARIO, N0B 1M0

www.mrjutzi.ca

519-648-2111

AUCTIONS

AUCTION SALE 23 Spring St. in St. Jacobs for Erma Wideman on:

WEDNESDAY MAY 16 AT 4:00 PM

CONT FROM PG. 19

Community Information Page

HOUSEHOLD EFFECTS AND ANTIQUES:

quality furniture including; chest freezer; 5 pc bedroom suite (solid oak, queen size poster headboard, chest of drawers, 2 night tables, matching chest); 3 piece oak bookcase; leather in lay table; oak desk; glider rocker; solid oak extension table with 9 leaves and matching 3 door china cabinet very good; folding chair; nesting tables; old sideboard with mirror; old extension table with 2 leaves; 3 piece bedroom suite (double bed, dresser, night table); lazy boy reclining loveseat; couch; oak wall unit; child’s table and chairs; foot stools; single bed; area rugs; lamp tables; milk cans; king size bed with newer mattress; oak night table; assorted chairs; chest of drawers; oak desk; office chairs; toaster oven; cookware; variety of glass and china; dinner sets; Tupperware; small meat slicer; coolers; bedding; and other items too numerous to list.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS: Lawnboy self

propelled lawnmower newer; extension and step ladders; wheel barrow; pressure washer; skil saw; Mastercraft grinder; cordless drill; 2 ton floor jack; tool cabinets; fish pole; hedge trimmer; shop vac; rain barrel; flower pots; baskets; bushel baskets; assorted hand; power; lawn and garden tools; etc.

NOTE: an exceptional clean afternoon auction, full of quality furniture. Cash, cheque, debit.

AUCTIONEER:

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

The Municipal Class EA study will examine these issues in greater detail, evaluate potential options and impacts associated with each option, and identify the preferred solution to address the short and long term needs of the bridge Several alternatives are being considered for the bridge as part of the study and may include: rehabilitation, replacement, conversion to a pedestrian bridge, permanent closure, removal including construction of cul-du-sacs and a “do nothing” alternative, which would eventually result in one of the other alternatives.

An integral component of this study is consultation with directly affected stakeholders, agencies and the general public.

The PCC will be an open house drop-in format with staff from the Township of Woolwich and GM BluePlan Engineering available to provide information related to the project and address any questions or concerns that you may have. Display boards of the Municipal Class EA information, along with information packages and comment forms, will be available for your review.

Place: Council Chambers, Township of Woolwich Municipal Office, 24 Church Street West, Elmira Date: Wednesday May 16, 2018 Time: 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm If you have any questions or comments about this study, or would like to be contacted about future public events associated with this study, please contact: “PROUDLY REMEMBERING OUR PAS T; CONFIDENTLY EMBRACING OUR FUTURE.”

Jared Puppe, C.E.T. Acting Manager of Engineering Township of Woolwich 24 Church Street West, P.O. Box 158, Elmira, ON N3B 2Z6 Tel: 519-669-6029 E-mail: jpuppe@woolwich.ca

Jack Turner, P. Eng. Consultant Project Manager P.O. Box 158 24 Church St. W. GM BluePlan Engineering Limited Elmira, Ontario 650 Woodlawn Road West, Block C, UnitN3B2 2Z6 Guelph, ON N1K 1B8 Tel: 519-824-8150 Email: jack.turner@gmblueplan.ca

Community Information Page

Information will be collected in accordance with the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. With the exception of personal information, please note all comments will become part of the public record.

This Notice first issued April 30, 2018. http://www.woolwich.ca/en/newsevents/Engineering_Public_Notices.asp 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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REAL ESTATE

HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY May 12 1-3pm OPEN HOUSE 194Saturday, Bridgeport Rd E, Waterloo th

Sue From

Alli Bauman

226-750-9332

519-577-6248

SALES REPRESENTATIVE CALL DIRECT suefrom17@gmail.com

SALES REPRESENTATIVE CALL DIRECT

allibauman17@gmail.com

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

THANK-YOU FOR CHOOSING RE/MAX!

NEW LISTING

$425,000 Waterloo - Space for Home-based Business Close to WLU and downtown core. This 3 bedroom home has an eat in kitchen, finished rec room, deck, gardens & single garage. The large family room is currently set up as a hair salon with parking for 2 off of Bridgeport as well as a parking lot for at least 3 cars off of Margaret Ave. This property is perfect for a growing family and/or home based business!

3 Arthur St. S., Elmira | 519-669-5426

$324,900

$570,000

Moorefield- Investment Opportunity!!! First time home buyers, this well cared for duplex is the property for you!

Why not offset your mortgage payments by renting out one of the units? Unit A has two bedrooms and one bathroom, Unit B has been updated and has two bedrooms and two bathrooms. Two newer high efficiency gas furnaces (2016/2017), Roof 2015, all appliances included and parking for three cars. Don't wait, call today!

Drayton - Spectacular open-concept 3 bedroom bungalow (2013) with 9' ceilings. Large kitchen has cherry cabinets, gas stove and huge island while living room has gas fireplace and 10’ ceiling. Master with walk in closet & 4pc ensuite. Main floor laundry has loads of storage. Oversized double garage with air compressor and 220 service. Unfinished basement (1600sq ft) with rough-in for bathroom and 9' ceilings. Back yard has privacy hedge, 20x25 deck, shed and play structure.

SELLING? CALL US FOR A FREE MARKET EVALUATION.

Bert Be Martin Re/max Solid Gold Realty (II) Ltd., R BROKER

Brokerage

Independently Owned and Operated

DIRECT: 519-572-2669 3 Arthur St. S. Elmira DIREC OFFICE: 519-669-5426

Shanna Rozema

www.remaxsolidgold.biz

EMAIL: bert@remaxsolidgold.biz

FREE Market Evaluation

BROKER

A portion of each sale commission is donated to The Woolwich Community Services.

Brubacher

BROKER

HELPING YOU IS WHAT WE DO…

OPEN HOUSE | SAT, MAY 12TH • 13PM • 12 PINTAIL DRIVE, ELMIRA

WELCOME TO THIS FAMILY HOME $534,000 ELMIRA Desirable location,

featuring a highly sought after pool sized lot! Bonus is the bordering green space creating a park like setting. Spacious 3+ bedroom, 2.5 bath raised bungalow.

Generous room sizes, walk out basement, double car garage, ample parking. Ready for your added touch. New MLS.

OPEN HOUSE | SAT, MAY 12TH • 13PM • 16 WELWOOD AVE, WELLESLEY

ELMIRA INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY $494,000 / $519,000

ELMIRA Downtown location, attractive adjoining commercial buildings on Arthur and Church Street for sale.

Long term tenants for both the main floor commercial and the 8 residential apartments.

NEW MLS

APPEALING INTERIOR DESIGN! $754,900 WELLESLEY Gorgeous custom

built bungalow with almost 3500 SQ.FT of living space. Main floor great room, formal dining and attractive eat-in kitchen, hardwood, gas fireplace, 3 bdrms including main floor master w/ensuite. Entertainers DREAM basement complete with wet bar, rec rm, wood fireplace, games area, walk-up to oversized triple car garage. NEW MLS

APPEALING INTERIOR DESIGN! $559,900 ELMIRA Shows like a model

home! Owners eye for decor is definitely appreciated throughout, accented wallpapered walls, grey tones, custom kitchen has granite counter tops, appliances, dining area w/walkout to professionally finished covered deck, fenced yd & garden shed. 3 bdrms, 3 bathrooms including an upgraded ensuite.

Steps to Riverside Public school. MLS

FREEHOLD BUNGALOW TOWN HOMES BUILT BY PARADIGM (ELMIRA) HOMES - PERFECT FOR EMPTY NESTERS. PRICED AT $459,900 These executive style bungalow towns

offer all main floor conveniences. Open concept layout, gorgeous custom kitchens complete with island/breakfast bar, hardwood floors in the great room, gas fireplace and walkouts, master offers a walk-in closet and full ensuite bath with walk-in shower, main floor laundry/mudroom, central air conditioning, privacy fencing + more included! Call today for further details and to reserve your unit today! AUGUST CLOSINGS AVAILABLE. Located in the South Parkwood subdivision on Buroak Drive. EXCLUSIVE

$304,900

ELMIRA NEW LISTING! Elmira starter home in a quiet location close to the new Riverside School offers hardwood in the living and dining room, walkout from living room to deck and partly fenced yard. Gas fireplace. The dining room has space for a large table, hutch and buffet. Main floor laundry and part basement. Original windows have been replaced. MLS Call Bert to view.

!

EW E N RIC P

Bonnie

$139,900

ELMIRA Business Opportunity! Here's a chance to be your own boss. Pizza shop in Elmira operated for 11 years by current owner. Includes chattels, fixtures and inventory. MLS. Call Bert to view.

Serving the community for 25 years!

Your referrals are appreciated!

Independently Owned and Operated wendy@wendytaylor1.com 24hrs 519-747-0231 24hrs

Wendy Taylor BROKER

www.peakrealestate.com

Thinking of Buying or Selling call or email today!

ARE YOU THINKING OF BUYING OR SELLING IN 2018? CALL US TODAY AND WE CAN HELP YOU ACHIEVE THIS!

ELMIRA OFFICE: 519-669-3192 | www.YourFamilyTeam.ca | 90 Earl Martin Dr., Unit 4

FIND YOUR DREAM HOME IN THE #1 COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER IN ONTARIO

NEW PRICE $469,900 ELMIRA – This centrally located 3 bedroom, 2 bath

bungalow on 60x130 pool sized lot shows AAA. Situated in a mature neighbourhood, this nicely maintained, all brick home is within walking distance of all Elmira schools, Gibson Park and the Woolwich Rec. Centre.

Many updates! MLS 30650863 Call or email Wendy Taylor to view.

“You dream...We’ll work.”

Free, no obligation, opinions of value

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FAMILY ALBUM

BROKERAGE

R.W. THUR REAL ESTATE LTD.

ANNIVERSARY

BIRTHDAY

Congratulations on 50 Years Together

John DeWildt 90th Birthday Open House

Office:

519-669-2772 45 Arthur St. S., Elmira www.thurrealestate.com

BRAD MARTIN

JULIE

LUKE

SHANTZ Broker of Record, HECKENDORN Broker Sales Rep. MVA Residential Res: 519.669.1068 Cell: 519.588.7562 Cell: 519.584.4400

LET OUR 65+ YEARS OF EXPERIENCE WORK FOR YOU!

NEW LISTINGS

Best Wishes Only Please.

Please join us in celebrating John DeWildt in his 90th Birthday! He has shared a lot of wisdom, had work and love with all he has shown us how to have fun along the way!

Open House Sunday, May 13, 2018 - 1:30 - 4 pm Linwood Community Center 5279 Line, Linwood Please NO GIFTS! Cards or donations to your local food bank welcome.

ANNIVERSARY

OBITUARY

11 STONEFIELD DR. WEST MONTROSE Over 2700 sq. ft. 4 (or 5) bdrm. home on a beautiful 85’x230’ lot. Fam. room with stone fireplace ( woodburning). Gas f.pl. in living room with several windows.

Hdwd and ceramics on main level. 2 walkouts to new deck (2016). Fin. rec. room and office/bedroom in lower level. 4pc ensuite. Extra long driveway. New MLS

$749,900

78 GERBER MEADOW DR. WELLESLEY

$664,900

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. Covered rear porch & concrete patio. Some infloor heating (2 heat zones – great for utility costs!) Lovely kitchen w/walkin pantry & spacious dining area. Huge master bdrm. & 5 pc. ensuite. Partially fin. bsmt). NEW MLS

Lorne and Camilla Mackinnon are celebrating their 50th Wedding Anniversary with an Open House on Saturday, May 12th at the Elmira Curling Club beginning at 7p.m.

Come help us celebrate this milestone in our lives

50th Anniversary - Schmidt May 10, 1968 - May 10, 2018

30 FLAMINGO DR. UNIT 29C ELMIRA Affordable Condo with low monthly fees. End unit.

Two large bedrooms. Electric fireplace. Newer carpet on steps and basement. 2pc. bath in lower level. 6 appliances included. Newer sliding door to patio area. Quiet building. New MLS

Groff, Clara Peacefully passed away May 7th, 2018 at the age of 89 at Tall Pines Long Term Care Facility in Brampton, Ontario where she had been a resident for many years. Clara was predeceased by her husband Don.

$217,500 9 PHEASANT DRIVE, ELMIRA

$449,900

Single family bungalow under $450,000.! Spacious kitchen w/oak cupboards & dishwasher. Hdwd floor in L.R. Updated bathroom. Rec. room w/gas fireplace, den, office & 3pc. bath in lower level.

Updated windows and doors. Shingles (2013).

Newer deck. Partially encl. carport. Extra-long dble. driveway. MLS

2499 KRESSLER ROAD, ST. CLEMENTS NEW PRICE

Neil and Sheila (Snyder) Schmidt celebrate fifty years of marriage on May 10, 2018. Congratulations on your golden anniversary Mom & Dad. All our love.

Jamie & Steph, Jennie & Tony, Mikayla, Jayde, Sophie, Tehya, and Jake

OBITUARY

Country living on the edge of HEIDELBERG. 1/3 acre lot. Brick bungalow w/3 bedrooms, living room and eat-in kitchen. Partially fin. bsmt. Forced air propane furnace, central air. Steel roof. MLS NEW PRICE

BRUBACHER, ABNER Passed away at St. Mary’s Hospital, Kitchener on Wednesday, May 2, 2018 surrounded by family in his 90th year. Abner resided in Wellesley.

$349,900 LOT 205, CONESTOGA LAKE

$289,900

Enjoy this west facing 3 season cottage on the water. 2 bedroom with open concept living/dining & Kitchen area. 3 piece bath plus an enclosed sunroom. Extra Bunkie for guests. Well treed lot for added privacy. MLS

CALL FOR YOUR

FREE MARKET EVALUATION RETIREMENT

Congratulations on Your Retirement Wayne Jantzi!

“Wiener” has decided it is time to hang up the keys. You have had an interesting career-from hauling hogs to Burns and Schneiders; chickens to Tenderfresh, feed and fertilizer to all parts of Ontario and for the past 40 1/2 years you have delivered hardware across Canada.

We are very proud of your achievements and hope you enjoy your well deserved retirement.

Love from your family: Phyllis; Jason and Cindy, Connor and Hudson; Scott and Andrea, Adaya, Kai and Piper.

DEATHS

Ward, Glenn Richard Passed away peacefully on Sunday, May 6, 2018, with his family by his side, at Lisaard House, Cambridge, at the age of 61 years. Glenn Ward of Woolwich, formerly of Thunder Bay, was the beloved husband of Doris Winfield. Cherished father of Alyssa, Lauren, and Rachel Winfield-Ward. Dear son of Janee Ward, and brother of Valerie Vanderzwaag and Barry Ward. Predeceased by his father Richard Ward. Glenn had a passion for teaching, learning, and his family. At Glenn’s request, cremation has taken place. The family received their relatives and friends from 6-8 p.m. on Wednesday, May 9, 2018 at the Dreisinger Funeral Home, 62 Arthur St. S., Elmira. A Memorial Service will be held at 11 a.m. on Thursday, May 10, 2018, at Calvary United Church, 48 Hawkesville Road, St. Jacobs, with a reception to follow. Interment in Calvary United Cemetery. As expressions of sympathy, donations to the Thunder Bay Art Gallery (First Nations Youth Program) or Canadian Cancer Society would be appreciated by the family.

www.dreisingerfuneralhome.com

HEIPEL, GRACE CATHERINE Peacefully in her sleep, at her home in Wellesley on Saturday, May 5, 2018, Grace (nee Lips) in her 85th year.

QUEHL, MARY ANN (nee Bender) - Passed away peacefully, surrounded by the love of her family on Wednesday, May 2, 2018.

Local relatives are her son Greg and his wife Val of Linwood.

SMITH, ANGUS - We are heartbroken to announce the passing of our Dad, Angus Smith at the age of 88 formerly of Glace Bay, Nova Scotia on May 3, 2018.

Local relative is his sister Joyce Ferneyhough of Maryhill.

WILTON, BILL - At Palmerston Hospital, on Wednesday, May 2, 2018, Mr. William Frederick ‘Bill’ Wilton of Moorefield, in his 86th year.

She is survived by her son, Phil and his wife, Mary; her son Stephen and his wife Nancy, and their daughters, Sierra and Jaiden; and her brother Lester; Sister-in-law Verna; as well as Charlotte, Phyllis, Debbie, Barb her nieces; Dale, Brian, Steve, Kelly, Marty her nephews and other extended family members and friends Clara was born on March 9th, 1929 to Henry and Rebecca Bauman, in Floradale, Ontario. She had two brothers, Orton Bauman (deceased) of Elmira, Ontario and Lester Bauman of Elkhart, Indiana. She earned her RN at KW Hospital in the class of 1951, and as a young nurse served in the Middle East with the Mennonite Central Committee from 1953-1955. Returning to the KW area, she married Donald Groff of Kitchener, Ontario on October 6th, 1962. They raised two sons, Philip Robert Groff, and Stephen David Groff.

She worked as a child-care worker for Family and Children’s Services of KW for more than two decades, and was an active member of the congregation of Calvary Memorial United Church.

Family and friends will be received at the Memory Gardens Funeral Home 2723 Victoria St. N. Breslau 519 904 0400 on Thursday, May 10th, 2:004:00pm and 6:30-8:30pm. Funeral services will be held on Friday, May 11th at 11:00 am. Interment at the Memory Gardens Cemetery. Memorial contributions to the Alzheimer’s society or to the Calvary Memorial United church would be appreciated by the family.

If so desired a book of online condolences may be signed at www.memorycemetery.ca.

THE FAMILY ALBUM DEADLINE IS WED BY 10AM

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OBSERVER SERVICE DIRECTORY GENERAL SERVICES

OUTDOOR SERVICES COMMERCIAL & RESIDENTIAL SERVICES

SPACE FOR RENT

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” (Formerly The Kids Diesel Shop)

100 SOUTH FIELD DRIVE, ELMIRA

Lawn Mowing Packages Lawn Maintenance & Landscaping Your source for year-round property maintenance.

Call mobile:

• Mulch Delivery & Installation • Full Flower Bed Maintenance • Snow Plowing & Ice Control

Jeff Basler, Owner/Operator, at 519.669.9081

519.505.0985 | fax: 519.669.9819 | ever-green@sympatico.ca

HOME IMPROVEMENT SERVICES COMMERCIAL • RESIDENTIAL

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

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

519-664-1202 / 519-778-6104

SPACE FOR RENT

ST. JACOBS

FAX: 519 664-2759 • 24 Hour Emergency Service

“25 years in Business”

Steve Co.

Plumbing and Maintenance Inc.

RESIDENTIAL • COMMERCIAL • INDUSTRIAL

For all your Plumbing Needs.

24 HOUR SERVICE Steve Jacobi

ELMIRA

CONSTRUCTION INC. info@trappconstruction.ca www.trappconstruction.ca

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

519-669-3652

• • • •

Stamped Coloured Concrete Demolition Bin Service Machine Bases

Concrete Breaking & Removal

HOME IMPROVEMENT SERVICES

AMOS

WINDOW FASHIONS

INC

R O O F I N G

- Design and build -

AGRICULTURAL | RESIDENTIAL

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

FRAMING • ROOFING RENOVATIONS • EAVESTROUGHS

Wayne Martin | 519-504-2016

Free in-home Consultations.

Call someone you can trust.

• Specializing in residential re-roofs • Repairs • Churches WORKMANSHIP GUARANTEED

Brands You Can Trust

CALL JAYME FOR YOUR FREE ESTIMATE.

519.501.2405 | 519.698.2114

darwayconstruction@icloud.com | Alma, ON

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

• Residential • Commercial • Industrial Randy Weber

ECRA/ESA Licence # 7000605

www.rwelectricltd.com 18 Kingfisher Dr., Elmira | 519.669.1462

HOME IMPROVEMENT SERVICES

The Right Window Treatment Can

Save you

 Drywall & Taping  Painting  Flooring Installation

 Trim & Moulding  Tiling  Appliance Installation & much more

FREE ESTIMATES ON ANY SIZE JOB

Over 30 Years Experience

CALL US TODAY! 226-220-1196 info@martinandmousso.ca | www.martinandmousso.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

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 1 Union Street, Elmira

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

Blinds

by Elite or Mera

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

FREE

INSTALLATION When you buy 3 or more

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

RESIDENTIAL & AGRICULTURAL

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 Since 1998

•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

YOUR BUSINESS RIGHT HERE. Advertise your business services in our service directory. Weekly exposure with fantastic results!

Call Donna at 519.669.5790 Ext 104.

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CLASSIFIED LISTINGS FROM PAGE 21 HORSES

RENTALS

BIG HORN “HAFLINGER�

Trail Saddle, 17�, with matching breast collar $650. Saddle pad and matching leather bridle (headstall) also available.

Call 519-589-1581.

WANTED

1 BEDROOM IN newer 6 plex, bottom unit, stairs involved.

Laundry & parking on site, excellent building and location. Require a single retired or working professional. No pets & non smoker of any type. $700/mth + utilities. Available June 15/18.

Call 519-669-2212.

PROFESSIONAL COUPLE LOOKING to rent farm house within 30 mins of Elmira.

References available.

Call Paul @ 519-500-9640.

RENT FREE - Elmira Office space available WiFi included - 519-489-0103.

TRADES & SERVICES CUSTOM LAWN SEEDING, garden tilling, sweeper rental.

519-669-2043, 519-503-5641.

RON’S DRYWALL AND Renovations. Over 35 years experience. Please call 519-496-7539 or email ron.spncr@gmail.com

GARAGE SALES 172 ORIOLE PKWY Elmira.

Sat. May 12. Baby items, kids toys and Christmas decor.

Corner of Oriole Pkwy and Mockingbird Dr.

42 BRISTOW CREEK Dr. Elmira. Sat. May 12, 8 a.m.

Fish tank, sport equipment, adult clothes, household items, chest freezer and more!

ANNUAL MULTI-FAMILY GARAGE Sale. May 16, 17, 18, 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. 5134 Ament Line, Linwood. Dishes, clothes, books etc. Something for everyone!

GARAGE SALE - Fri. May 18th, 8 a.m. - 8 p.m. and Sat. May 19th, 8 a.m. - 1 p.m. 3672 Manser Rd., Linwood. Something for everyone. Weather permitting.

HEIDELBERG 26TH ANNUAL Town-Wide Garage Sale.

Sat. May 12 8 am- 2 pm. Over 80 homes participating.

Walk through the town and find some treasures Information 519-699-4571.

HUGE GARAGE SALE. Renovation completed, storage locker emptied. Everything must go! Friday May 11th 11 a.m. 7 p.m., Saturday May 12th 7 a.m. - 12 p.m. 39 Centre St. Elmira.

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SCHOOLING / ENTHUSIASM FOR THE JOB

Making an impression on his young students

As Ontarian as good oldfashioned homemade apple pie

John Mahood teacher David Nunn nominated for Alexander Fleming Award FAISAL ALI TEACHER DAVID NUNN HASN’T been teaching very long, and this year was his first full year at John Mahood Public School. But after such a short time, it’s fair to say that he has already had a tremendous impact on the Elmira school.

This week, Nunn was surprised to discover that he had been nominated by a collection of his students and peers for the prestigious Alexander Fleming Award in teaching excellence.

“I had no idea,” he said of the nomination. “I think I was tearing up a little bit.”

Amongst those leading the nomination were Grade 4 students Addison Willard and Laurel Maguire, who, with the guidance of teacher Claire Campbell, put together an application for Nunn. The students, also members of the Kodaly Choir which Nunn leads, even handwrote a letter to the nominations committee describing him as a supportive and caring teacher.

“We think Mr. Nunn should get a teaching award because he makes us happy when we are sad.

He tells us to keep following up our dreams and he’s really nice and kind,” they wrote. “We look forward to him coming in our portable to teach us music.”

Fellow teacher Luanne

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John Mahood PS Grade 4 students Addison Williard (left) and Laurel Maguire nominated their teacher David Nunn for the Alexander Fleming Award, given out by the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario’s regional branch in recognition of exemplary teachers with less than five years of experience.

[FAISAL ALI / THE OBSERVER] Hanes added that Nunn brings “boundless energy and enthusiasm to his music pedagogy,” concluding, “he is a natural ham, whose operatic skills had students in stitches at our Christmas assembly.”

As the music, drama and

phys. ed. teacher at John Mahood, Nunn notes that he has a rather unique role at the school that brings him into contact with almost every student at John Mahood. He teaches every classroom at the school from kindergarten up to

Grade 6 for about half-anhour at a time, which gives him a real opportunity to connect not just with a single classroom, but the entire school.

“I have supervision almost every day out on the field, and I know every sin-

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gle personality out there,” said Nunn. “I know every single kid, I know every single name. And so when something’s not quite right, it’s easy to pinpoint and easy to follow up because I have relationships

APPLE PIE OFTEN GETS lumped in with lists that include motherhood, truth and justice. As such, it’s deemed to be a common staple, though the pies are certainly much more common – and a whole lot tastier – than the latter two items on that list.

Apples are a local commodity and not usually subject to seasonal restraints. And who doesn’t like pie?

For this particular offering, northern spy apples are a good choice, but you go with spartans, Ida reds, cortlands, crispins, golden delicious or empire apples, all of which hold their shape when baked. They vary in sweetness, so adjust amount of sugar accordingly. And according to taste.

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MAY 10 WOODSIDE EVERGREEN FOR SENIORS at Woodside Church, Elmira. “Our Life North of 60” photos and stories from NWT. Presented by Nolan and Fanny Swartzentruber. Devotional by pastor Dan Allen.

Suggested $7 donation includes a hot lunch.

NEW HORIZONS FOR ZOOMERS, boomers and seniors from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at the Maryhill Community Centre. Guest Speaker Noah Irvine, Youth Advocate for Mental Health. Topic: Resilience in the Wake of Mental Health.

SENIORS’ HIKE. 9A.M. TO 10:30 a.m. The Woolwich Trails Group invites seniors to meet at the Mill Race Trail entrance in St. Jacobs just before 9 a.m. for a 2.5 km hike. For more information contact Ann at 519465-8199 or aroberts@woolwich.ca.

HEART HEALTHY EATING. REGISTERED Dietitian, Karen Reitzel, will help you discover easy ways to improve your cholesterol level. 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Woolwich Community Health Centre, St. Jacobs.

MAY 11 ELMIRA AND DISTRICT HORTICULTURAL Plant Sale from 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.. Please bring labeled potted plants, you will receive a voucher towards the plant sale the next day, May 12, 8 a.m.- noon at the Woolwich Memorial Centre, Elmira.

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ST. TERESA OF AVILA Catholic Women’s League is hosting their Annual Mother’s Day Tea from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at the Church Hall. Door prizes, bake sale, penny table,

MAY 15 TUESDAY LUNCHEON AT GALE Presbyterian Church from 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. Russian chicken with noodles, hot vegetable, bread, salad, rhubarb dessert, beverage; $12.

MAY16 SENIOR LUNCH CLUB AT Wellesley Community Centre at noon. Community Care Concepts invites you to join us for a light lunch and fellowship. $6. Call 519-6641900 by May 14 to sign up.

YOUNG AT HEART. PLEASE join us for cards, games, puzzles and refreshments, 1-4 p.m. at the St. Clements Community Centre. Bring a friend!

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Fire safety workshop teaches the teachers to help protect children.

VERONICA REINER Elmira is the sole Canadian stop this year for a fire-safety workshop targeted at those who work with children.

The Play Safe! Be Safe! educational session is slated for May 17 at the WMC. It’s organized by the Rochester, NY-based Community Health Strategies, offered here in conjunction with the Woolwich Fire Department.

“We’ve been in every state in the U.S., every province in Canada. We’ve done over 200 workshops,” said Molly Clifford, the group’s executive director.

“We’ve distributed probably 220,000 educational kits, so it’s a great commitment to fire safety.”

The workshop is specifically geared towards daycare providers, teachers, safety educators and other community agencies. The goal is to give attendees a thorough understanding of how young children understand and react to fire using statistics from the National Fire Protection Agency. It will be led by Dr. Robert Cole, a clinical associate professor at the University of Rochester Medical Center School of Nursing and one of the leading experts on child fire safety in the U.S. The organization’s website lists alarming statistics. Children’ play leads to 49,300 reported fires each

year, with 7,700 being at home. Some 12.5 per cent of these residential fires injures or kills someone.

Furthermore, more than 50 per cent of children experiment with matches or lighters by the time they reach age 13. This is why, Clifford says, it is crucial to teach educators about fire safety.

“The workshops themselves are for the educators, because we know the educators are going to go work with the young children,” Clifford explained.

“In order for us to get the message out to as many people as possible, the idea here is that we work with the adults that work with them.”

Workshops are divided into six segments. They include the frequency of children’s fire play and fire setting, the young child’s understanding of fire, teaching children fire safety skills, fire prevention, involving families in fire safety and evaluation of the program.

“The workshop is going to be a PowerPoint presentation and they’re going to go through how to teach the program to the kids,” said Nicole Bowman of Cashman & Katz Integrated Communications.

“All attendees will get a fire safety kit. There’s a bunch of different games where attendees will learn how to teach to their students and children.”

Since the program has been running since 1992, there have been alterations to the presentations over the years.

“There have been some updates to the educational kit that each participant will get,” said Clifford. “We have actually updated the DVD which goes along with the kit. As well as activities that are available on the website both to teachers and for families.”

There a variety of tips that everyone can learn from the workshop.

“There are four main lessons. One is ‘go to the firefighter,’ where kids learn that firefighters are community helpers, that sometimes they might look different when they have all of their gear on, but they are helpers, and kids need to learn to go to the firefighter when he or she calls you,” said Clifford. “The second is ‘stop, drop and roll.’ So what to do when the fire gets on your clothing. The third is ‘get low and go.’ So what to do when the smoke alarm goes off, you want to stay close to the floor and get yourself to the door as quickly as possible. The fourth is ‘safe or play keep away,’ which is lighters and matches are adult tools. So when you find a lighter or a match, you need to tell a grownup.”

Anyone interested in more information can visit www.playsafebesafe.com.

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Our colourful, not odourful language reflects the weight given to the senses WEIRD NOTES

Q. Some diamonds may be â&#x20AC;&#x153;a girlâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best friend,â&#x20AC;? but there are other kinds of â&#x20AC;&#x153;diamonds.â&#x20AC;? Can you name a few?

A. Diamonds, a particular

form of carbon, are the hardest material we know of, typically formed under extremes of pressure and temperature deep in Earthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mantle, reports Gemma Tarlach in Discover magazine. Actually, only a small fraction of diamonds are cut for jewelry.

Naturally transparent, any hint of color indicates some imperfection: A trace of nitrogen atoms can make the rock appear yellow or brown;

a few boron atoms create a blue color, shimmering as in the famous Hope Diamond.

Yet most diamonds end up in an industrial setting.

In 1955, labs at General Electric created diamonds from carbon-based graphite, mimicking nature in subjecting it to extremes of pressure and temperature. Now, synthetic diamonds are routinely used in industrial settings for drilling and grinding.

Finally, of course, diamonds appear on playing cards. Likely invented in China more than a millennium ago, the cards apparently spread along trade routes, first to Egypt and then to Europe by the 14th century. Initially, European merchants kept the original four suits of swords, wands, cups and coins, but by the late 1400s,

the French had developed the ones we know today.

True to form, diamonds still represent the merchant class and wealth acquisition.

Q. We have many words for colors (red, green, â&#x20AC;Ś) but few for odors (musty, sweet, â&#x20AC;Ś). We name colors with ease but often struggle with odors and resort to analogy (smells like banana, chocolate, â&#x20AC;Ś).

Why the asymmetry?

A. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Olfaction has long

been considered the least significant of the human senses,â&#x20AC;? say Asifa Majid et al. in Current Biology. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Biological anthropologists have suggested that vision supplanted olfaction as humans became upright.â&#x20AC;?

During the evolution of stereoscopic color vision, genetic trade-offs between

alone among non-human animals â&#x20AC;&#x201D; share with Homo sapiens?

the senses of sight and smell left us sight-rich and smell-poor.

But recent studies of hunter-gatherers challenge this tidy theory. Majid and team tested several different hunter-gatherer communities and found that they name both colors and odors with equal ease.

Farming cultures -- even ones with a language closely related to their hunter-gatherer neighbors -- dramatically favor sight over smell. Conclude the researchers, â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;Ś lifestyle and subsistence are important determinants in the ineffability of odors, and explanations of human olfactory abilities must include a cultural dimension.â&#x20AC;?

Q. What remarkable act do lowly Matabele ants â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

A. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nurseâ&#x20AC;? ants actually

treat their comradesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; injuries, licking the lacerations of the fallen and helping them survive, reports Jasmin Fox-Skelly in New Scientist magazine. On a daily basis, soldier ants hunt termites, dragging them from their nests and carrying them back home. But not without a fight. The termitesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; powerful jaws can inflict lethal bites, and ants often lose limbs. Yet by releasing a pheromone, they prompt other ants to carry them to safety. When researcher Erik Frank and colleagues at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland filmed this nest activity, they found that nurse ants spend several minutes licking their

comradesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; wounds, 90% of which survived. Without such care, 80% of those that had lost limbs were dead within a few hours (Proceedings of the Royal Society B).

The treated ants, even those missing a leg or two, went on to run again at normal speeds.

Which leads to another interesting point: Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unlikely that the ants felt compassion but rather wanted to keep their numbers up, says Frank: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The rescuers were selective in who they picked upâ&#x20AC;Ś. They didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to help heavily injured ants that had lost five legs.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.

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with all 400 kids.”

As such, Nunn says that he’s always cognizant of what he brings to the students and to the school.

It’s important, he stresses, to be joyful and to able to inspire because of that connection and that influence he has with the entire school.

“I’m in a really privileged position in the school because I interact with nearly every student who walks through the doors,” said Nunn. “And the reason why I say it’s a privileged

position is because it gives you an opportunity to have an impact on the school climate and not just the classroom climate.”

Nunn runs the school’s music program, and outside of the classroom devotes his time to training the school’s choir. Beyond that, he commits himself to supervising various intramural sports. The results of his hard work, though, speak for themselves.

Campbell noted how effective the school’s music program has become with Nunn’s involvement.

“It really is. And it’s such a bonus that we can have that here at John Mahood. We can have all the kids involved and have a really strong music program.”

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what consitutes an offense in making changes out requirements and offenses more clearly, not all residents are happy with the restrictions.

“I’m disappointed actually, I didn’t realize there was a noise issue in Wellesley,” said Michelle Burke, a Wellesley resident. “I’ve lived here since 2010 and grew up here as a child.

The community has always been tolerant of people having fires and playing music in their backyard.

The new bylaw bans that.”

The noise bylaw states that “no person shall within the limits of the municipality cause or permit continuous noise from construction or other controllable causes between the hours of 19:00 (7 p.m.) and 7 a.m. or all day Sunday.” There is the exception against “normal social and economic activities of the inhabitants of the municipality including noises associated with spontaneous events such as celebrations, weddings, church bells, etc.” Those who break this bylaw are subject to a $50 fine.

“Wellesley is not a big city,” said Burke. “We shouldn’t have the same bylaws as a city.”

Many Wellesley residents were not even aware that there was a proposed bylaw in effect, according to Burke.

She ensured other citizens were made aware of this by posting to a Facebook group,

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The new bylaw features noticeable changes from the original.

The draft version begins by defining a variety of terms in great detail within the context of the document, including “holiday,” “implements of husbandry” and “motor vehicle racing.” It goes on to list general exemptions from the bylaw, such as noise created by the activity of snow removal and Remembrance Day celebrations.

The document lists general prohibitions. These specific bans include the persistent parking of any domestic pet, tire squealing, the detonation of explosives and the operation of a vehicle radio/stereo.

It compares the set bylaw noise times with Woolwich, the City of Waterloo, Mapleton, Perth East and Wilmot.

Wellesley is currently in the public consultation stage of drafting the new bylaw, with a feedback survey having just wrapped up this week. The township opened up its website to comments on April 20, closing out the commenting period May 9.

“We have received over 100 comments to date,” said Kosch this week.

While the revised version of the noise bylaw spells

where many members were unaware of the changes being considered.

“Certain things should be more visible to the community so that they understand what is happening,” she said.

Asked about that prompted the review of the bylaw, Kosch noted the process was launched at council’s request.

With the township still in the review stage, there’s no timeline for a new bylaw, if it’s ultimately approved.

Given that it’s an election year, the timing of council decisions become more of an issue the closer they get to the end of term. The municipal election is set for October 22. Depending on how many of the councillors seek re-election and if there are races in one or more of the wards, council could be in lame-duck mode as term winds down.

“Best case it would be close to the end of the year depending on if our council will be in a lame duck position or not,” said Kosch, when questioned when the potential law would come into effect.

“The bylaw needs to have a legal review and council adoption.”

For anyone interested in the specifics, the 2018 document is available on the Wellesley Township website under the “news” section.

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