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Water study in works for Breslau Council approves $100,000 to look at servicing options Over mixed messages from the audience, Woolwich councillors this week decided to go ahead with a $100,000 study of the water issues in Breslau. Consultants will be hired to come up with a solution to a problem that arose last summer, when some residents of the village core saw their shallow wells run dry. Homeowners quickly blamed development at the Riverland subdivision, saying grading work had disrupted groundwater flows. The township is now looking at a range of options, including the extension of full municipal services to the older areas where residents are still using wells and septic systems. If Tuesday night’s meeting was any indication, the village remains divided on the issue. While only four people addressed council, they were evenly split on whether to go ahead with the extension of services. Initial estimates put the cost of full water and sewer services at $30,000 for each of about 100 homeowners. For just water, the price tag would be $15,000. That’s far too costly, said resident Rudy Hane, arguing the expense should be covered by Empire Communities, developer of the Riverland subdivision south of the village. He, like many others, blames last year’s water woes on construction at the site, where 475 new homes are to be built. He also took councillors to task for approving the subdivision without requiring any studies of the environmental impact. “Did anyone study how we get our water in Breslau?” Hane asked. “Before you give approval, you make sure the community is not disadvantaged in any way.” Having lived in Breslau for 25 years, he noted the site has always been wet and boggy. With the drainage required to make for dry basements in the new homes, the township should have known there would be an effect See WATER page »07

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a brIGHT IDEa students from Floradale Public school enjoy spending their free time creating works of art using plasticine. Building from the back to the front, layers of plasticine are placed on paper to create images inspired by magazines, art books and children’s imaginations. corrine lichty, an educational assistant, volunteers her time six days a week to mediate the club’s activities.

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Unique features demanded for Wal-Mart store as township ﬁnalizes plans

STEVE KANNON Still recognizable as a Wal-Mart, the store in St. Jacobs will sport some unique features when it opens. As part of the site plan approved this week by Woolwich council, the anchor store of the 305,000-squarefoot power centre will feature peak

roofing, stone façade elements and awnings. “As far as we know, this is the first Wal-Mart with a clock tower,” said John Scarfone, manager of planning services. Preliminary work is underway at the 33-acre site, adjacent to the St. Jacobs Farmers’ Market, running concurrently with the widening of

the King Street overpass crossing Hwy. 85. Waterloo Region demanded the bridge improvements prior to the opening of the big-box retail centre. That project has a price tag of $5 million, with developer King/86 Development Ltd. contributing $2 million. If construction goes well, stores could be open before Christmas, said See WAL-MART page »08

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“Was I excited? Absolutely. Like, look at the bears!”

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IN HIS ELEMENT Bamberg resident Dusan Cizman has been photographing wildlife for years. One of his most recent trips involved travelling to Alaska to capture Kodiak bears in their natural environment. The background photos, PHOTO | marc miquel helsen and other samples of his work, can be viewed at www.dusancizman.com.

Wild about photography Bamberg’s Dusan Cizman takes pleasure in capturing animals in their element MARC MIQUEL HELSEN No matter how far he backed up or how much noise he made, the angry elk showed no signs of giving up the chase. The massive rack of sharp horns that could easily pierce a man’s side was nothing if not terrifying, and Dusan Cizman knew he had to get out of the pines as soon as he got the chance. When the animal finally took a step back, Cizman made his move. “I started to get out of the area, and he came after me once more; in the end, I thought, ‘well, I may have to try and hit his rack with my tripod and not worry about the cameras,” Cizman explained, recounting one of his many stories about run-ins with animals while photographing them in the wild. “But I did escape out of there and I still have no idea why this young bull would be so aggressive.” A seasoned photographer, the former

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Wellesley Township councillor has travelled and shot with the best, from professional photographers compiling images for best-selling calendars to videographers making documentaries for CNN. He has travelled from Northern Ontario to Alaska capturing images of elk, buffalo, Rocky Mountain sheep, goats, moose and bears. A shift engineer by profession, Cizman has never put down his camera since his father gave him a Kodak Brownie when he was a nine-year-old youngster in Chapleau, Ontario, where he and his family lived on the outskirts of town sharing their surroundings with bears, foxes and moose. Eager to train his photographic eye, the young Cizman absorbed his surroundings and submitted his pictures to numerous photography competitions hosted by the local Legion. Later, when he discovered his neighbour’s National Geographic magazines, he knew he had outgrown his equipment. “I loved the pages and it was nowhere

near the same as my Brownie, so, I moved to another camera – I still have the old cameras,” said Cizman. A few years later, Cizman took a more professional interest in photography. He enrolled in Sheridan College for the Applied Arts, worked for his photography instructors and picked up several gigs photographing, among other things, the Toronto Marlies for area papers. After all these years, he remains enthralled by the art. “This is hunting with a camera; every minute the situation changes. Things change when you’re in the woods. All of a sudden there’s a herd of sheep coming right at you and you’re in their way, so you have to either find a rock to hide behind or get to safety because it is dangerous. You’re always in their home, they are wild – elk are extremely unpredictable,” said Cizman, noting he once had to dive into a freezing river, tripods and equipment held high above his head, to avoid the charge of an angry, bellowing elk that knew bet-

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ter than risk breaking a leg on a slippery, pebbled river bed. Cizman’s most recent trip involved flying into savage Alaska, some two hours from Anchorage, to photograph wild Kodiak bears within their domain as they ate, hunted and played. Back in 2006 one of the professional photographers with whom he had become acquainted asked Cizman whether he’d consider travelling to Alaska to photograph the massive mammals. Cizman initially balked at the idea, deciding it was too expensive. But when he was offered a reasonable price, the Bamberg resident jumped on the chance. “Was I excited? Absolutely. Like, look at the bears!” he exclaimed, noting that he and a crew of other photographers regularly ate their breakfast from their lodge, watching through the front window as the bears did the same. The rest of the days involved following the animals, sometimes venturing as close as 30 metres to catch a See WILDLIFE page »08

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Summertime, and the breathing ain’t so easy While the weather has been up and down so far this spring, we’ve had several days where you could take great delight in stepping outside and simply breathing in the air, clean and full of uplifting scents (unless, of course, you find yourself downwind from a particularly active farm). One of my favourites is the smell of freshly mown grass, in ready supply on those days where the rain lets up. The trick is to take it all in before the inevitable arrival of that summertime staple: smog. Just as we’re itching to be outdoors to enjoy the warm weather – particularly necessary after the long, harsh winter we endured – the experience is lessened by the degrading air quality. Although suffering neither allergies nor respiratory difficulties, I am certainly aware of just how bad the air can get. For many of us, however, poor air is more than just a damper on outdoor fun. According to the Ontario Medical Association, air pollution will account for some 6,000 premature deaths this year, costing the province almost a billion dollars in health-care and lost productivity costs. In a 2005 report, for instance, the OMA estimated the number of Ontarians admitted to hospitals with health

problems related to air pollution exposure at approximately 17,000. That number is expected to jump to more than 24,000 by the year 2026. The number of emergency room visits, pegged at almost 60,000 cases, could rise to 88,000 in that time. “We are paying the price for poor air quality with our lives and if we don’t take action immediately, the cost will continue to rise significantly,” says Dr. Greg Flynn, a past president of the OMA. “If we do nothing to tackle air pollution in Ontario, it is going to cost billions of dollars and thousands of lives. “The cost of inaction is clearly much higher than any price our province could pay to improve air quality.” Smog is a complex mixture of pollutants, mainly ground-level ozone and fine particulate matter. Ground-level ozone is different from the stratospheric ozone layer, which protects us from the sun’s harmful ultraviolet rays. At ground-level, ozone gas is toxic to the respiratory system, and is the pollutant that has historically triggered nearly all of the smog alerts in Ontario. Fine particulate matter consists of tiny specks of liquid or solid particles that are suspended in the air, and contain soot and acids, which can lodge deep in our lungs. The main sources of the manmade chemicals that make up smog are automobile emissions, coal-burning power plants and heavy industries. The toxins may be local, or from as far away as the U.S.: prevailing winds often carry

pollutants from the Ohio valley up into the province. Since polluted air masses cover large areas, and usually move slowly, the smog problem is not only confined to cities and industrial centres. Smog builds up in both urban and rural areas, blanketing southern Ontario, from Windsor to the Quebec border, along the Lake Huron shoreline, and as far north as Sudbury and North Bay. Smog episodes can also last for days at a time. That’s why the haze of the worst smog days can be seen out in the townships. Nothing like what you’ll see coming over the crest of the hill into Hamilton, for instance, smog is still a fact of life here. Ironically, the air quality is worst just as we want to be outside. We’re encouraged to be active – walking, hiking and cycling – but also warned about the increased stress on our lungs due to the pollutants. A quick jump on a bike in the thick of traffic, even now, will let you know why that is. The heat and exhaust pouring out of cars, buses and trucks can be stifling. A bout of that makes

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you appreciate the wide open spaces and sparse traffic to be found on township roads. Avoiding traffic will make your own life more pleasant, but the smog levels will remain the same. The key is to reduce or eliminate those practices that contribute to poor air quality. Driving less is an obvious choice, as is conserving electricity (some of which is generated by coal-, gas- or oil-fired sources). However, the barbeque on which you’re grilling up some steaks or the campfire over which marshmallows are turning an inviting golden brown also contribute to the problem: talk about taking some of the fun out of summertime traditions. Even creating that freshly cut grass I so much enjoy is apparently a bad idea, unless a push-mower is used to do the job. Gas mowers are notoriously dirty devices, churning out more pollutants than a fleet of cars. Perhaps, as we enter into the lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer, it might be advisable to focus on the lazy part: park the car, park the mower and park yourself in a hammock, still an environmentally friendly pursuit.

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How long have you been coaching the Aquaducks? “I’ve been coaching for four years now and I’ve been the head coach for the past year.” How did you become the head coach of the Aquaducks? “I was a member of the Aquaducks when I was a kid. I grew up swimming on the team. I really enjoyed doing it. I stopped when I was in high school, then a friend, who was a coach for the Aquaducks, asked if I wanted to become a coach.”

What did you like about competing in swim meets? “I like that you’re competing against yourself. Even though you are on a team and the whole team is cheering for you, you are still competing to get your best time and you get to challenge yourself.” What’s going on right now in your life? “I am a second-year geography student at the University of Waterloo. It’s a five-year program because it includes co-op as well. I just finished a co-op as an assistant to a research technician. I helped him with his research for a road salt study.”

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EDSS preps for Relay for Life The field at Elmira District Secondary School will be lit up all night on May 23 as students hold their annual Relay for Life fundraiser. Teams of 10 will camp out for 12 hours starting at 7 p.m., taking turns walking laps around the track in memory of those who have battled cancer. Organizers hope to raise $85,000 this year, $10,000 more than their goal two years ago. If they reach their target, some students have volunteered to shave their heads. To entertain the all-night participants, there will be bands playing and a barbecue going, along with games, movies and competitions. The opening ceremony will feature a victory lap celebrating cancer survivors.

Legion plans June jamboree

A Country Jamboree to be held June 14 at the Royal Canadian Legion in Elmira won the blessing of Woolwich council this week. The township granted the organization an exemption from its noise bylaw, allowing amplified music from five bands slated to play at the event between 2 p.m and 1 a.m. The event can accommodate up to 1,700 people. A licensed event, the jamboree, which last ran in 2005, will offer a shuttle bus for patrons from Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge and Guelph. In a related vein, though likely a far different situation, councillors also approved a similar exemption for the St. Jacobs Mennonite Church picnic in Elmira’s Gibson Park the following day, June 15.

King for a day EDSS student gets the royal treatment as he’s wheeled around school in an armchair MARC MIQUEL HELSEN For one day, Scott Barry was treated like royalty in the halls of EDSS as his retinue of classmates carted him around from class to class on his own personal throne – a La-ZBoy armchair, to be precise. Having picked the winning ticket in a school draw to support the ecofriendly production of the yearbook, the Grade 11 student won the honour of sitting through classes – and an assembly – from the comfort of his own recliner. As he described it, it was an experience that made him feel a bit like a king – a very nice one at that. “At the beginning, I was like ‘oooh,’ but then I saw them bringing it into the assembly and it kind of brought me back down to earth – seeing two girls carrying in this chair for you, and they put it front and center, right in front of the whole thing; we got some laughs at it – it was fun,” said Barry, who confessed to feeling a little uneasy at times with all the fuss.

TRAVELLING IN COMFORT Grade 11 student Scott Barry had the chance to feel like a king May 9. As the winner of the “La-Z-Boy for a Day”draw, Barry was transported by two other students, Brendon Martin and Benji Jagger, wherever he wanted to go.

In addition to being carted around by members of the school’s leadership class, Barry was also indulged with coffee and goodies from Tim Hortons. The benevolent monarch, in turn, was evergraceful and grateful for the royal treatment. “He was being so nice

– he offered to carry the chair instead of us doing it; he was so nice about it, it was amazing,” said Jessica Mighton, who coorganized the event with fellow student Steph Thomas. “I was shocked that he would actually offer: ‘it’s your day, you get to be See LA-Z-BOY page »06

New measures in place for tourist train STEVE KANNON Hop on board and visit downtown St. Jacobs, but leave the car elsewhere, say operators of a tourist train service. Concerns about parking near the stop in the village saw Woolwich council firm up suggestions for reducing complaints from a neighbouring business, Artefacts. The township also wants the operator, Waterloo Central Railway, to encourage riders to use trails to reach the core, rather than cutting across private property. The former CN lands opposite from St. Jacobs Public School are now owned by the Region of Waterloo, encompassing property on the east side of the tracks, between Spring and Cedar streets. Portions of the land have been leased to private businesses, including Artefacts. The largest segment has been leased to Woolwich Township, which established Schaner Park. It’s at this site the railway stops to drop off and pick up passengers. Plans are in the works to build a 5,000-square-foot facility. Reacting to complaints

passengers were using the nearby Artefacts store for its washrooms and as shelter from inclement weather, the railway has installed a temporary shelter and portable toilets. The new building, primarily a workshop for restoration work on old steam engines, will provide washrooms and cover for passengers when completed. Construction is ready to go pending final approval from the township. Under an agreement endorsed Tuesday night, the railway is to encourage people to use the Waterloo station or stockyard locations for parking and boarding the train, limiting St. Jacobs as a destination point. If people want to park in St. Jacobs to board the train, they should be directed to appropriate spots in the village. That said, the township agreed to establish a few short-term (15 minute) parking spots on the site to allow passengers to be picked up or dropped off. The goal is to keep people from using Artefacts’ spots, explained Dan Kennaley, the township’s director of engineering See TRAIN page »08

WBF moves forward with $2.1-million addition

Continued growth in membership has Elmira church planning a series of expansions VANESSA MOSS Elmira’s Woodside Bible Fellowship is set to undergo a $2.1-million transformation in the fall, with plans for another $1.4 million in additions later on. The project’s steering committee announced Sunday it will be moving ahead with phaseone of the addition now that the necessary funds have been secured. This stage will see a structure added to the

rear of the facility that encompasses a gymnasium, foyer, café, designated youth space, meeting rooms and upgrades to the Sunday school areas. As time goes on, the committee has the option to add two more phases, depending on how much money is available. At around the $2.6 million mark, phase two would allow for more meeting and Sunday school rooms to be constructed; the third phase comes in at the $3.5 million stage and would be

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Buying local and fresh foods will soon be easy as pie as Foodlink Waterloo Region releases its 2008 Buy Local! Buy Fresh! map May 24 at the St. Jacobs Farmers’ Market. Now in its sixth year of publication, the guide lists more than 70 farms and various farmers’ markets, food processors, shops and restaurants that offer applicable foods. Foodlink strives to link consumers with local food and the farms that produce it in order to highlight the benefits of eating foods grown or created within a 100-mile radius. These advantages include supporting local communities and farms, having more confidence in the food, getting better freshness and taste and reducing carbon footprints. Free copies of the map will be handed out during the launch and local farmers and Foodlink representatives will be on site to answer questions throughout the day.

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ON THE GROW Pastor Dan Allen and Kevin Presseault check out the site of a new addition to be built at Woodside Bible Fellowship in Elmira.

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WBF: First of three phases off the ground La-Z-Boy: Taking a load off for the day

As of May 11, 125 families had pledged a total $1.512 million over three years toward the project. Those funds, along with $200,000 from the church’s account and a $400,000 mortgage, allowed the committee to give the project a green light. Kearns said that there are still 60 families yet to return their pledge cards, so he expects the funds to increase over the next few weeks. “We also believe too that once we actually start the project, more people will get on board,” he said. The concept of adding to Woodside’s space came about three years ago when the elders began seeing growth in the church, especially in the youth and children’s ministries. Originally formed by a group from the Wallenstein Bible Chapel who began meeting at Riverside Public School in 1975, Woodside has grown from 300 to 700 members since the current facility was built in October 1989. At that point, the struc-

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PLANNING IT OUT WBF staff look over plans for the proposed $2.1-million addition. Front row: Carol McKinley (left), Heather Bowman, Lynette Weber. Back row: Dan Allen, Kevin Presseault, Randy Baker, Andrew Martin.

ture was larger than necessary, but now, it is getting too small, especially with the projected future growth, Kearns said. “We’re kind of feeling lots of pressure in lots of different areas of our facility.” When the elders began talking about the lack of space, they debated over whether to build a new church and divide the congregation between the two or add to the current one, Kearns said. The latter decision was endorsed by the congregation in November af-

ter bylaws were considered and preliminary plans and budgets were drawn up by Frey Building Contractors, the company that built the original structure. Since then, the steering committee has been working to generate financial backing through the Imagine Campaign. “Our reason for picking that [name] is because we really want to imagine what God can do to impact our community,” Kearns said. By explaining the reasons for building an addition, along with stress-

ing the importance of giving both time and money to God, the committee accomplished its goal, but it was not easy. “It’s a tricky thing to talk to a congregation about giving of their own money for a building project: it’s a fairly big deal,” Kearns said. Now that the plans are underway however, the effort of the stewardship ministry has been worth it, he said, adding that the new building will contribute to the church’s overall mission of “helping people to grow in their relationship with God.” The new space will allow the already busy weekly schedule of activities to expand even further, Kearns said. “It’s really about people getting involved in the life of the church.” Phase one of the project will take between 10-15 months and the shovel should be in the ground within six months, Kearns said. The next meeting with the Frey builders is scheduled for May 22 and a solid timeline will be presented to the congregation on June 8.

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in your chair, we’ll take care of you,’ but he was so nice about it,” she explained. Barry was the winner of a draw that sold 50-cent tickets in support of creating a “green” yearbook. As it turned out, the allure of sitting in the armchair was strong among teachers and students alike. “The staff thought it was such a great idea that they bought tickets, too, because they thought that they wouldn’t mind teaching the classes from the comfort of a La-Z-Boy,” quipped Dave Conlon, student activities director at EDSS. “It was a Salvation Army special: $17.99 – heck of a deal,” he chuckled. La-Z-Boy Day was initiated some six years ago, but takes place every second year in an effort to keep the novelty alive. Though a popular event, it’s about more than just fun, said Conlon. “One thing we try to do with student activities is make connections with kids, and one way to make a connection is to have something that’s fun.” To facilitate Barry’s transportation, the

crew of students placed the armchair on a dolly and brought him to his classes using the school elevator. At lunch, they took him wherever he wanted to go. “It was just such a nice feeling to see him being so happy. I’m so glad he won because he was so grateful; you can tell that he was enjoying himself,” said Mighton. Though he enjoyed attending class from the comforts of his own throne, on more than one occasion Barry offered up his seat to classmates and even offered to trade places with his charges. “When I first came in, I felt kind of bad because they were carrying the chair around, just the two of them,” said Barry, who suggested mounting the chair on a cart or trolley. “I just had them kind of leisure off and even at lunch I tried to get my friends to pull me around just so they could at least enjoy their lunch too: it was awesome, it was a great experience,” he explained, noting he has since given the La-Z-Boy to his sister – on loan – who will likely get good use out of it at her university residence.

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VANESSA MOSS While most schools in Waterloo Region celebrated Earth Day or even Earth Week, Riverside Public School teachers Connie Lepp and Barb Finn went a step further and introduced a full month of activities, wrapping up this week in Elmira. “We wanted people to start thinking about it and changing habits,” Lepp said. “I have a real concern about the environment and I feel very strongly that it is something we need to teach and pass on to the next generation because they are going to be our leaders and it’s sort of outside of the regular day-to-day stuff, but there’s a lot of really important learning that I think teachers pass on beyond the everyday curriculum.” Starting Apr. 18 with an assembly, the students were challenged in two ways. First, they were encouraged to get to school without using a car by walking, taking the bus, biking or using a scooter. On Wednesdays, the teachers held “walk days” to monitor who was getting to school “by their own power.” Students who needed to take the bus had the option to walk or skip around the track when they arrived, many choosing to take more than one trip

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SHOE-INS Mr. Rohr’s Grade 3/4 class won the prestigious Green Shoe Award by having 100% of the students participate in the Walk Wednesday program, established to promote environmentally friendly transportation. Kids were asked to ride or walk to school, or walk around a track set up on school property.

around just for fun. Lepp and Finn made sure the participants understood the benefits of these physical activities for the environment, one’s health and the community. Each week, the “Green Shoe Award” went out to the class with the highest percentage of students who participated in the Wednesday walks. The trophy consisted of hiking boots with green laces (painting the boot would not have been environmentally-friendly) mounted on a piece of wood and adorned with a raccoon, the school’s mascot. The second aspect of Earth Month was the litter-less lunch and composting program. Students were urged to bring food in reusable containers and to put their bio-

degradable material in a bin that was then taken home by teachers to be composted. On average, the teachers collected about four litres of compost per day. Some of the Grade 4 students performed random litter-less lunch bag checks twice a week; those without any litter received a ticket that they put in a draw for a prize. The winners received pencils and other tools that provided “a little practical reminder for something that they’re trying to change,” Lepp said. Throughout the month, most children were really keen about bringing litter-less lunches, even though that sometimes meant more effort on their part. “[We told them] you can’t just expect your

parents to say, ‘yah, we’re going to do more work.’ You have to say at home, ‘that’s OK. I know it’s a lot of work, so I’m going to help out with my lunch.’” Lepp’s experience on yard duty and in the lunch rooms over the years has made her acutely aware of the waste that is produced at the school, so she is glad the program has caught on. She also realizes however, that getting people to change their habits is a process that does not happen overnight. “There’s all kinds of different ways of looking at it and there’s probably no one really easy way to figure it out, but we’ll keep working on it and see what we can develop over time. These things grow usually.”

on the groundwater in the area. A hydrological study should have been done prior to any work getting underway. “I would suggest you do the study that you didn’t do in the beginning, and don’t charge the homeowners for that study. See to it that those people benefiting on the other side, that’s Riverland, bear the cost, and not the homeowners who’ve been here for decades and had no problems before.” Hane’s assertions were backed by Joseph Street resident Robert Slater, who challenged the results of a township survey showing most residents favour municipal services. His own canvassing of the neighbourhood last week found the majority opposed to the idea. While he may have found opponents to the servicing plan, Woolwich Street resident Maryanne Szuck was not among them: she argued forcefully in favour of municipal water and sewers. “We need to think long-term. With climate change and population growth, the stress on water will only increase in Breslau,” she told councillors. “Do both municipal services at the same time: this would be more costefficient. The cost will only increase if we wait – water and sewage will

have to be done eventually, so just go ahead and do it, the sooner the better. Why wait and do a new study? You know what the problem is: use that money on water and sewage services.” The study will go ahead, however, as part of it will include gathering information required under the Environmental Assessment Act, explained director of engineering and planning Dan Kennaley. The process will take a detailed look at all the alternatives, including a cost-benefit analysis and the financial implications for the range of options, from maintaining the status quo to installing full services (water, sanitary and storm sewers). Though the study will help the township decide which path to follow, staff continues to monitor the health of wells in the village. “We are concerned about the health and safety of people relying on shallow dug wells in Breslau, especially in proximity to old septic systems that would not meet modern separationdistance standards,” said Kennaley. The Breslau servicing study will see homeowners in the core and Elroy Acres pick up 30 per cent of the $100,000 price tag; the 197 properties would each be assessed a special services levy of $152.

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and planning. While parking will also be an issue when the building is in place, the township wanted to separate the current concerns from the discussions about the new facility, added chief administrative officer David Brenneman. “It’s an option to help improve the situation,” he said of the decision. Roy Broadbear, general manager of the Waterloo Central Railway, said he is happy with the measures, adding many of the concerns will be dealt with when the new building is completed, perhaps as early as this summer. In its first year of operation, the railway car-

ried some 11,000 passengers between the station on Father David Bauer Drive in Waterloo and downtown St. Jacobs. The train also stops at the farmers’ market. Some 20,000 are expected this year. “We had better-thanexpected ridership for the first season. People seem to love it,” said Broadbear. As part of the King/86 Development Ltd. power centre, the developer will provide a new platform and shelter at the market site, as well as parking for 50 cars. The developer is also required to put up $60,000 to help establish the infrastructure for the train to stop at the site.

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Train: New facility on tap for summer

VICTORIOUS Brianne Bearinger and Caleb Redekop are the new EDSS co-presidents for the 2008/09 school year. Bearinger won the election with the most votes, with Redekop coming in second. Two presidents are elected to share in the responsibility that the position demands.

Prakash David, a representative for SmartCentres, the retail developer and operator behind the project. In the final design approved by council, the size of the Wal-Mart store has been reduced to 128,900 square feet from 134,000 sq. ft. due to the removal of an auto service centre. The extra space will be allocated to the smaller buildings spread out across the site. Only one other tenant, Mark’s Work Wearhouse, has been identified; the remaining dozen or so retailers have yet to be announced. Mayor Bill Strauss said he’s happy with the design plans for the WalMart store, elements required by the township in order to have the building better match its surroundings. The idea is to have a

building that “will not detract from the existing development at the stockyards area and does not resemble a typical commercial box store,” according to Scarfone’s report to council. Earlier this year, the township and City of Waterloo agreed to a cross-border servicing agreement that will extend water and sewer services to the site. Among a host of conditions imposed after a lengthy legal battle over the project, the developer will pay $90,000 to the Elmira Business Improvement Area, $60,000 to the township for environmental compensation, $64,000 cash in lieu of parkland and $60,000 for a tourist train station on the site. King/86 must also erect directional signs to downtown Elmira, Conestoga Mall and Uptown Waterloo.

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This driver’s week got off to a bad start

About 3 a.m. Monday morning, a vehicle was northbound on Arthur Street north of Church Street Elmira when its driver lost control, and the vehicle subsequently hit a pole, causing it to fall on the car. The driver was able to leave the vehicle with minor injuries. The vehicle was towed as it had incurred serious damage. The roads were wet and it appears that the vehicle had been travelling too fast for the road conditions. No charges were pressed. Waterloo North Hydro crews were called in to repair damage to the pole and overhead lines. »»

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jured in a ditch in the 1500 area of Sawmill Road in Woolwich Township. The responding officer, finding a bleeding deer with a broken leg, euthanized the animal.

1:50 PM | A Waterloo man who was operating a lawn mower with a rear steering assembly was killed when he struck or went over a sevenfoot-high retaining wall, causing the mower to flip and land on top of him. The owner of property on Wilby Road, near St. Agatha, found him unconscious and bleeding from a serious head injury; he was pronounced dead at the scene. The coroner’s office was notified and the Ministry of Labour is investigating.

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7:40 AM | Police were called to downtown Elmira as a result of a complaint by an area resident that their vehicle was unlawfully entered some time

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6:25 AM | There were no injuries in a vehicle rollover in the area of Northfield Drive East, near Conestogo.

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7:08 AM | A work truck had been left running, unlocked and unattended in front of a downtown Elmira store; when its driver returned, the vehicle was gone. Police later found it in another nearby parking lot: this time the keys were not in the ignition and the doors were locked. There was no damage and nothing was missing. Police remind residents to lock their vehicles when unattended, to never leave the keys in the ignition while the vehicle is unattended, and to keep all valuables out of sight. 8:04 AM | Another vehicle was broken into overnight in downtown Elmira. The driver’s side door was forced open and the glove box was rifled through. It appears nothing was taken. 8:50 AM | Police continue to investigate an incident involving a threatening phone message. The complainant received a phone message indicating that he had a certain amount of time to live. The perpetrator then hung up. 8:53 AM | Police received a report that a vehicle stationed in a parking lot behind a building in downtown Elmira was broken into and rifled through. The rear plate, bearing the marker AWRT 668, was stolen. The investigation continues.

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10:06 AM | A plate bearing the marker AXWL 157 was lost somewhere in Wellesley Township. 5:26 PM | A resident of Young Street in Elmira reported to police that, within the last week, persons unknown entered the garage and stole a combo 24-pack of Molson Canadian and Coors Light beers. There are no suspects but police consider the case closed. 5:40 PM | A Chevy Yukon had been left at a Church Street East, Elmira location to be repaired. After it was repaired it was taken for a test drive and then left in the lot with the keys in the ignition; when the owner returned to the vehicle after paying the bill it was gone. At 10:56 p.m. police located and recovered the vehicle, which had been left on Line 86 near the Elmira town limits. 8:56 PM | A white, four-door Chevy Blazer was left unlocked with its windows down and the keys left in the vehicle while parked at a residence on Snyder Avenue north in Elmira; the vehicle is believed to have been taken some time between 4:30 and 8:30 p.m. 11:01 PM | A safe belonging to a veterinary clinic was found in the Conestogo River. Police were alerted, and the safe was eventually returned to its rightful owner.

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7:55 AM | Employees of a business on King Street North, between Sawmill Road and Northside Drive in St. Jacobs, reported to police that between 6 a.m. on May 8 and 7 a.m. on May 9, two work vans were entered and approximately $3,000 worth of tools were stolen. The investigation continues. 8:42 PM | Elmira Bus Lines on Union Street reported several damaged buses: first aid kits were ripped open, fire extinguishers were set off and twoway radios were stolen from the buses that had been left unlocked at the time. Police continue their investigation.

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after 4:30. The window on the passenger’s side door of the vehicle was smashed. Nothing appeared to be missing, despite the fact that there had been valuables in the vehicle. 9:32 AM | A vehicle license plate bearing the marker C106 OXX was lost somewhere in Wellesley Township. 10:58 AM | A collision occurred near the intersection of Arthur and First streets in Elmira. A red Dodge Charger stopped for a red light while heading northbound on Arthur Street and was subsequently struck by a silver Dodge Caravan travelling behind. The driver of the Caravan was charged with ‘careless driving.’ Both vehicles were driven from the scene. Only minor damage was reported. 1:57 PM | There were no injuries as a result of a collision in the 3969 area of Ament Line in Wellesley Township. A Listowel man had been driving a silver Jeep westbound on Ament Line when his vehicle left the roadway and collided with a guard rail. The vehicle sustained serious damage and was later towed from the scene. The driver was charged with ‘careless driving.’

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No trust in these trustees The antics of trustees on the Toronto Catholic District School Board highlight why the public often takes issue with public officials. They’re also why the previous provincial government cracked down on school boards across the province. A report by provincial adviser Norbert Hartmann earlier this month found trustees with the board in question had been claiming exorbitant expenses of up to $100,000 a year, covering such things as car allowances and extravagant meals. The report found trustees provide themselves benefits and services that are not permitted by the Education Act; incur expenses unrelated to their responsibilities as board members; and exercise powers to allocate funds that are not provided in legislation. Education Minister Kathleen Wynne has directed the board to follow the recommendations made by Hartmann, casting an eye around to boards across the province. As with every school board, TCDSB trustees had their remuneration cut to a flat $5,000 during the time of the Harris government. The move was in response to the sometimes handsome wages, exceed-

ing $50,000 in some cases, trustees of various boards had approved for themselves. Expense accounts were also curtailed. The Liberals have allowed the pay to climb – $18,671 in this case. But money has been channeled through compensation for expenses, which can far outstrip wages. In Waterloo Region, both the public and Catholic boards were quick to distance themselves from the scandal in Toronto. Trustees here have expenses nothing like those outlined in Hartmann’s report, “Enhancing Public Trust and Confidence,” said representatives of both the Waterloo Region District School Board and Waterloo Catholic District School Board. For the previous school year (Sept. 1, 2006 to Aug. 31, 2007), WRDSB trustees spent a total of $29,000 between them, covering travel expenses, conference fees and the like. What happened in Toronto would never happen here, assured WCDSB chair Wayne Buchholtz. “It’s impossible. Number one: we don’t have our own secretaries. Number two, we don’t have our own offices. Number three, we don’t have our own personal as-

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sistants,” he stressed. “We don’t have access as a board to the kind of money that Toronto has; our board has always had the philosophy that we’re not there to gain anything from the public purse.” Those assurances are certainly reassuring to area taxpayers, now more than ever in no mood to foot the bill for frivolous expenses. We’re already paying more in remuneration to trustees. Granted some leeway by the province, the public board here tripled trustee pay to $15,000 immediately before the last municipal election in 2006. Trustees predictably attempted to justify the decision with the standard line about higher pay being needed to attract good candidates. While the total dollar value is minor in comparison to overall budgets, the increases look bad at a time when school boards across the province are constantly scrambling for more money, often resorting to cutbacks to stay within budget. In the wake of the Hartmann report, trustees in every board can expect their spending habits and expense reports to come under major scrutiny.

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“This is a situation that’s totally outrageous in Toronto, totally outrageous. My concern is that the ministry may turn around and penalize all boards for what’s happening in Toronto, and the reality is most boards are very responsible in terms of dealing with trustee expenses”

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» HARD TALK | RAFE MAIR

Public power, environment under siege in privatization bid As with other jurisdictions, public hydro is under fire out here on the coast. The B.C. government has blessed the proposal by the BC Transmission Corporation to put up transmission lines that Delta residents believe, based upon solid evidence, will pose a severe safety hazard in residential areas. What is the BC Transmission Corporation? It is the spin-off entitity that the Campbell government spawned as part of the increasingly obvious plan to privatize BC Hydro. The irony here is that the Tsawwassen victims of BCTC transmission lines are financing their own poison, as their government feeds those lines by giving away their rivers and streams to private companies, which in turn alter their flows to generate power. Those companies then make a killing selling this power to BC Hydro and sending it over the heads of and into the bodies of the people of Tsawwassen. The Campbell government is issuing water licenses for privately owned power plants on rivers and streams all over B.C., creating power. BC Hydro is compelled by the Campbell government to buy this power at a price that will bring enormous profits for the private producers. Before the Campbell government took over, BC Hydro, a Crown corporation, produced and distributed 90 per cent of our power requirements, giving B.C. homeowners and industries the lowest power costs in North America.

When BC Hydro made money, it went to the government as dividends providing money for schools, hospitals and the like. Under the Campbell government plan, we will pay amongst the highest costs in North America and all the profits will go to shareholders, most of whom don’t even live here. Not only is this a license to print money, but the rivers and streams will be badly abused, fish will be at great risk, roads will be built and transmission lines erected and the wilderness will no longer be a wilderness. These private companies aren’t competing in the market place – they are private monopolies on the dole, big time, from taxpayers’ money. Why would the Campbell government want to drive up the cost of electricity, give away taxpayer money to (mostly) huge private companies and desecrate the environment at the same time? Is it for campaign funds from grateful corporate supporters or for right wing philosophical reasons, or both? All British Columbians have local governments to handle zoning, meaning that decisions are made by folks who work just down the road, so to speak. Why would the Campbell government take this power away from locally elected bodies and force residents to accept zoning that favours private monopolies? Until recently, the BC Utilities Commission had the power to examine power producing projects and provide the public with the information it needs to make an informed judgment. Thanks to Bill 15, that power is no longer there. Why would a government calling itself democratic deny democracy to the peo-

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ple affected by decisions taken? One hesitates to suggest that the government puts the interests of corporations ahead of those of the people, but what is one to think? Could it be for campaign funds from grateful corporate supporters or for right wing philosophical reasons, or both? The public is supposed to be protected against defilement of the environment by the Environmental Assessment Act but the EAA doesn’t operate until the decision has been, to all intents and purposes, reached, and it has no power to stop even the most egregious of environmental insults. When citizens want to be heard, such as with the Eagleridge project, the many facets of the Gateway project, the proposed project on the Pitt River and the Delta transmission lines, why don’t the government MLA and the environment minister show up at the meetings? I ask this because when I was B.C.’s environment minister many years ago, not only did I go to decidedly unfriendly meetings and listen, I toured the province inviting all and sundry to give me their views. When the Environment Ministry was set up by Bill Bennett in 1975, the intention was that it acts as the policeman enforcing necessary and often tough environmental rules, yet Campbell government ministers of environment have publicly stated that their role is to help industry. Is the Campbell government afraid it might offend corporate friends if tough rules are enforced by tough ministers? Is the government perhaps ideologically married to the far right wing views of the Fraser Institute and Mil-

ton Friedman to such a degree that its decisions are not on the basis of doing good things but doing things that their philosophical god images say they should do? I must, in fairness, state my position. I am an environmentalist and I have recently been named advisor to and spokesperson for the Save Our Rivers Society which stands four-square for public power and is opposed to the run of the river projects, which will do enormous environmental damage while slowly but very surely castrating BC Hydro by making it hostage to private monopolies. Surely the road map is clear. The government has made it impossible for BC Hydro to increase its power except by buying from the environmentally destructive private companies that will put in the pockets of their shareholders unconscionable profits they will receive while driving up the cost of electricity to B.C. industry and to homeowners. In effect, the Campbell government has taken your money and given away your water so that private monopolies can export our energy, our environment and our money out of province, driving electricity costs sky high. My message, as I travel the province, will not be to support any political party, but to only support candidates of whatever stripe who stand firmly for public power and for the preservation of our rivers, streams and environment in general. Does any candidate who does not stand on that ground deserve a single vote from anyone who loves their province?

A tough time figuring out Burma’s response to cyclone The Burmese regime is not to blame for the powerful cyclone that struck the Irrawaddy delta and Rangoon early this month, killing up to a 100,000 people. But it certainly will be to blame for the next wave of deaths if aid does not soon reach the survivors. A hundred years ago, the victims of such a catastrophe were on their own, but there are now well-established routines for getting help in quickly from outside. We saw them at work in the same region during the tsunami that killed at least twice as many people in 2004. Nothing could be done for those who died in the first fury of the event, but relatively few died from disease, injuries, exposure or sheer hunger or thirst in the days and weeks that followed. Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka and India, the nations worst hit by the 2004 tsunami, are reasonably well-run countries that were able to help their own stricken citizens, and they had no hesitation in welcoming international aid as well. Burma (which got off lightly in 2004) is very different. The question is: why? What sane government would block the entry of foreigners bringing exactly the kind of help that is needed,

people whose professional lives are devoted to disaster relief when at least a tenth of the country’s people are living in the open, with little access to food or clean water? The short answer is that the generals who rule Burma are ill-educated, superstitious, fearful men whose first priority is protecting their power and their privileges. They almost lost both during the popular demonstrations led by Buddhist monks last year, and they are terrified that letting large numbers of foreigners in now might somehow destabilize the situation again. They are sitting atop a volcano, and they know it. But that is not really a complete answer, for it begs the question: why has Burma fallen into the hands of people like that not just for a few years, but for four and a half decades? Thailand has the occasional short-lived military coup, Indonesia had its problems with Sukarno and Suharto, and Cambodia had the horrors of Year Zero, but no other country in the region has been misgoverned so badly for so long. It seems incredible now, when neighbouring Thailand has four times Burma’s per capita income, that at independence in 1948 Burma was the richest country in South-East Asia. With huge resources, a high literacy rate, and good infrastructure by the standards of the time (due to the Brit-

ish empire’s obsession with railways and irrigation projects), it seemed fated to succeed. Instead it has drifted steadily downwards, and is now the poorest country in the region. The problem is the army, obviously, but why is the army such a problem? Perhaps it is the legacy of the “Thirty Comrades.” Rarely has such a small group of people dominated a whole country’s history for so long. The Thirty Comrades were a group of young Burmese students (average age 24) who went abroad in early 1941 to seek military training so they could come home and launch a rebellion against British rule. Most of them were more or less Communist in orientation, and their original intention was to get training from the Chinese Communists. However, by chance they fell in with the Japanese instead. They returned under the wing of the Japanese invaders at the end of the year as the “Burma Independence Army,” but switched sides in 1944 when it became clear that the Japanese would lose the war. They combined the authoritarian traditions of the Imperial Japanese Army with the ruthless ideological certainty of militant Marxism, and they dominated the army of the new republic from its independence in 1948. It was this army, the nastiest behavioural stew imaginable, that seized

power in 1962 and has ruled Burma ever since. The last of the Thirty Comrades, Ne Win, only retired in 1988, and continued to exercise great influence from behind the scenes until only 10 years ago. Whatever ideology the army once had is long gone, and it has become so corrupt that Burma now ties with Somalia for last place on Transparency International’s corruption index. The country exists merely to serve its armed forces, which have never shown any hesitation in shooting citizens who question their right to rule. Its commanders are fully aware that most Burmese hate their rulers, and fear that the presence of large number of foreigners might serve as a spark for another popular uprising. Even if another million and a half lives depend on the rapid delivery of emergency aid to the desperate survivors in the delta, as Oxfam fears, the army will severely restrict the entry of foreign aid personnel as long as it can resist the international pressure to let them in. Hundreds are probably dying each hour who could be saved if the food, shelter, water purification equipment and medical teams could pour in as they usually do after a disaster, but the army is half a million strong, so nobody is going to fight their way in. The Burmese, as usual, are on their own.

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» LETTER TO THE EDITOR Response to Eldorado case was overkill To the Editor, The human race dropped the baton when it abducted 463 children from a Texas commune. This dreadful act, separating parent and child, has ominous similarities to the Iraq war, where George W. Bush insisted Saddam Hussein harboured weapons of mass destruction, reason enough for the invasion. Search as they might, none was ever found, a situation not unlike Eldorado, where a teen made a call to the outside alleging abuse. The authorities sprang into action, the caller has never been identified – it may well have been made by anyone on the planet. Then again, it may not have been a crank call, but a measured act by – let our minds wander – someone in law enforcement.

This isn’t to suggest rampant abuse didn’t exist. Before we begin to play the holierthan-thou card, we need not travel far to discover we did much the same, snatching aboriginal children from their homes, and putting them in school settings where many were later sexually abused. In Eldorado, American officials were imposing plans on the offspring of the polygamist sect, similar to their intent on imposing a Western lifestyle on the Iraqi people. One sound bite featured a resident of Eldorado who applauded the invasion, explaining with obvious glee that the children would now be able to learn about Elvis and the Beatles, so limited had their experience been. What is curious is that Eldorado happened in a climate that champions the rights of the individual to live just as he or she wishes. Mix in the trend toward an isolated ex-

istence where folks live in gated communities, high fences and the spread of security systems, and you have a conundrum. The media have had a field day, with a recent lead reading, “Officials stand guard as polygamist teen gives birth.” The foregoing would make the creators of the tabloid blush, so outrageous is the obvious profiting from a sad situation. The debate over whether they should or shouldn’t have taken the children doesn’t center around polygamy or sexual abuse, but around common decency. You don’t drop an atomic bomb if something less damaging will do. The authorities, after decades of turning a blind eye to a group flouting the law, brought down the hammer to save face, and in the process created immeasurable hurt.

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City style for Elmira market VANESSA MOSS Five weeks of window shopping, Internet surfing and travelling to Toronto, Tricia Horst has opened Frendz Fashion & Accessories in the newly-renovated Elmira Shopping Village at the corner of Arthur and Church streets. She is offering pre-teen to adult clothing and accessories for both men and women, ranging in style from relaxed to business casual. Horst, 36, said her main goal is to offer reasonably-priced items that will make local residents reconsider venturing to Kitchener-Waterloo for shopping. “Right now I’m going after community support,” she said. Having grown up and raised two teenage girls – Meagan, 15, and Kristen, 13 – in Elmira, Horst gradually picked up on a gap in the local shopping market. Although she had no trouble finding second-hand items for her daughters, their growing desire to sport the latest trends made shopping trips to the city more frequent. So, when she heard about the upgrades happening at the Elmira Shopping Village, Horst got inspired. A short time later, she met with the building’s owner, browsed the Internet for ideas

and window-shopped with her daughters to determine what to carry and at what price. “I know how fussy they are about what they wear, so I thought, ‘yeah, this might be an exciting new thing to come into Elmira.’ As of May 10, Horst and her partner, Calvin MacCandless, were open for business, the first of 12 proposed ventures in the updated building. Horst chose the location because of its “rustic but clean look.” “[The owner] has just really given it the facelift that it needed and it’s been such a waste of space that it’s sat empty for so long. It’s nice to see that someone has taken an interest in refinishing it and giving it some potential for income.” Frendz consists of a 500-square-foot booth filled with tank tops, skirts, shorts and a small inventory of jewelry, flip flops and scarves. In the future, Horst hopes to add purses, sunglasses and more business wear: as much as she can fit in the limited space. She will not expand further with jewelry, though, because that type of store will likely be moving in soon. Vendors in the Elmira Shopping Village must avoid carrying the same merchandise, she said. Horst’s prices range from about $10 for a tank top to $20 for a denim skirt, affordable for the average family, she

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Check the pumps: Big Oil is no alternative to biofuel As you gas up for the long weekend and spit at the way weâ€™re getting ripped off at the pumps, ponder the logic in federal politiciansâ€™ aboutface on biofuels. Not long ago, Ottawa thought biofuels were good. Federal politicians embraced the hope that biofuels would provide competition for Big Oil, help the environment, and give farmers additional income. But lately, headlines and polls have scared them into thinking biofuels are to blame for what they perceive as skyrocketing food prices, and a scared public. Given the ever-present threat of a federal election, they want to distance themselves as quickly and as far as possible from policies that could associate them with real or imagined rising food prices â€“ real, because in some countries, prices have indeed risen. Imagined, because in Canada, weâ€™re sheltered by grocery store wars that are keeping prices down. Nonetheless, parties are scrambling for the liquid paper, anxious to change

their manifestoes on renewable fuel immediately. But what parts will they white out? Their disdain for Big Oil? Their concern about climate change? Their interest in greater energy selfsufficiency? Their stand against environmental degradation? Their support of Canadian farmersâ€™ ability to diversify and make a living with fewer subsidies? Theyâ€™ll have plenty of issues to choose from. Whichever ones they pick will mark a difference in their thinking, and beg the question why. For example, Ottawa used to call Big Oil a bully. Politicians held special committee hearings on the price of gas when it was half as expensive as it is now, and vowed to do something. Watching the gas pump meter hit nearly $75 Monday for the same tank of gas that used to cost me under $50 makes me think they failed. Federal politicians also used to think Canadaâ€™s energy needs shouldnâ€™t be controlled by foreign countries, and that policies favouring domestic energy were important. They were right. Canada has the sci-

ence and technology to be much more self sufficient, and thereâ€™s significant research underway at institutions such as the University of Guelph to help get us to the point where nonrenewable resources arenâ€™t our only energy option. And finally, they also thought if farmers could grow crops, trees and other biomass for energy, theyâ€™d have more choices. That would lessen farmersâ€™ dependence on taxpayer-supported bailouts that, in the end, simply mean that one way or another we have to pay the real cost of food. Itâ€™s that cost that has politicians shaking. But blaming biofuel for rising food costs is like blaming it for jacked-up plane fares. The main causes are the same: Big Oil. In the past year, oil has doubled in price. Oil is used to produce and transport food. So when oil prices jump, the price goes up too. Rising oil prices were one of the reasons we as a country became so interested in biofuels in the first place. So now, as oil skyrockets, politicians want to turn away from it? On the contrary, we should be in-

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to kill time. Eventually, Horst thought of â€œFrendzâ€? and it stuck: fitting for a family that enjoys the television show Friends. â€œWe watched the show for years and I think that maybe is what made it pop into my head.â€? Up until recently, Horst had been working in the financial field, a far cry from this new enterprise. So far, she is welcoming the change, even though

The Region of Waterloo will be holding a public information centre to introduce a draft Regional By-law respecting signs on Regional roads. The proposed Sign By-law addresses all types of unofficial signs on Regional roads including election signs, business accessory signs, farm accessory signs, mailbox accessory signs, open house signs and poster signs. The proposed Sign By-law establishes requirements for unofficial signs including: s ,OCATION AND PLACEMENT s 3IZE SHAPE CONSTRUCTION AND CONTENT s )MPACTS TO THE FUNCTION OF THE ROAD s .UMBER OF SIGNS AND TIMING OF PLACEMENT AND s 3IGN REMOVAL Staff are also proposing an amendment to the Regionâ€™s Tourism and Essential Services Signing Policy to allow tourism signage on Regional roads for agri-toursim activities. 7HEN 4UESDAY *UNE DROP IN P M 0LACE 2EGIONAL !DMINISTRATION (EADQUARTERS LOBBY &REDERICK 3TREET +ITCHENER This public information centre is being held for the purpose of providing information and receiving comments from the public. A copy of the draft By-law is available for review in the Clerkâ€™s Office, Region of Waterloo, 2nd floor, 150 Frederick Street, Kitchener or on the Regionâ€™s website at: WWW REGION WATERLOO ON CA TAB .EWSROOM TAB 0UBLIC .OTICES If you have questions concerning the By-law, please contact Nancy Button, Manager, Transportation Engineering at 519-575-4520 or by email at bnancy@region.waterloo.on.ca If you require accessible services to participate in this meeting, please contact the above noted person by Tuesday, June 10, 2008. All comments and information received from individuals, stakeholder groups and agencies regarding this project are being collected to assist the Region of Waterloo in making a decision. Under the Municipal Act, personal information such as name, address, telephone number, and property location that may be included in a submission becomes part of the public record. Questions regarding the collection of this information should be referred to the person indicated above.

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vesting in more research to figure out cheaper ways to make it, including using commodities other than corn. To be fair, Canadian politicians arenâ€™t the only ones standing at the biofuel exits. In the U.S., ethanol critics are drawing a line in the sand, pitting state against state. Just imagine how much more intense the debate would be here if Prime Minister Stephen Harper had a direct line to Big Oil. This armâ€™s length gives Canada a real opportunity to be a leader, with a sane and measured approach to the food versus feed versus fuel hysteria. The farm community is livid about talk that farmers are callously causing rice shortages and making poor people starve. â€œThereâ€™s no evidence to support theories that using grains like corn to produce ethanol is a conspiracy against humanity,â€? says Geri Kamenz, president of the Guelph-based Ontario Federation of Agriculture. The main thing rice shortages and grain prices have in common is Big Oil. Ottawa, take note. And check the pumps. Big Oil is no alternative to biofuel.

business has been slow-going to start. â€œI think itâ€™s going to be a great venture. Iâ€™m looking forward to the word spreading around a little more and seeing more and more faces popping up. â€œIâ€™d like to be here in another five to 10 years. Maybe have the opportunity to branch out if things go well.â€? And in that case, she may have to recruit some helpers by the names of Meagan and Kristen, she said with a laugh.

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He’s out for the ride of his life VANESSA MOSS Biking from Elmira to RIM Park is an easy feat for 13-year-old Morgan MacPhee, and he thinks raising $25,000 in one month will be too. The Grade 8 Park Manor Public School student wants to participate in the 100-kilometre “Ride with Lance” Armstrong on June 14 and he needs those funds to do it. “If you raise more money for it [cancer], then you can prevent it,” MacPhee said of his decision to take on the challenge. MacPhee has until June 5 to generate the entrance donation, which will support both the Grand River Regional Cancer Centre in Kitchener and Sunnybrook’s Odette Cancer Centre in Toronto. He has been visiting businesses and households in Elmira to ex-

plain his goal and ask for support. So far, no one has turned him down. “[They say] alright, let me get my wallet,” MacPhee said. Having learned about the effects of cancer through his grandmother’s experiences – now in remission, she suffered from Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, cervical and skin cancer – and those of a teacher, MacPhee has been impacted in many ways by the disease, said his mother, Jacinta Faries. “It’s one [cause] that’s near and dear to his heart.” When MacPhee first came to her with his fundraising idea, she admitted she was not immediately supportive because the task seemed so daunting. But, once her son started writing up letters and showed how dedicated he was, she was on board. “I’m incredibly proud of him. I’m actually

quite amazed he took that on,” she said, adding that learning to approach people he does not know has been a good experience for him. “He’s pretty brave that way. He’s not afraid to go up and think of ideas and ask people.” MacPhee said that he was nervous approaching the first household and business, but he quickly became more confident and learned from his mistakes. “I just try to say it and see what their reaction is.” The cause has encompassed most of his free time, as he spends three hours a day canvassing, weekends selling hot dogs and pop, and one and a half hours biking to and from RIM Park whenever he trains for the ride. “It’s taking a lot of my time, but I think it’s worth it,” he said, adding that his $25,000 goal keeps him going. See RIDE »21

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VANESSA MOSS Elmira District Secondary Schoolâ€™s soccer and rugby teams have experienced their share of ups and downs this season, but overall the coaches are pleased and already pumped about next season. â€œWe have really competed with everyone,â€? coach Keith Halley said of his boysâ€™ soccer team. Although the squad posted a 1-5 regular-season record, it still has a chance to make the Central Western Ontario Secondary School Association rounds, if other teamsâ€™ games fall in their favour. This year, the boys were placed in the premier division based on their performance over the last three years, so it made the competition tough, Halley said. Next season they will be in the lower division, which should mean better results. For now though, the

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DOUBLING UP Lancers Jarod Martin (left) and Jason Horst tackle a Bluevale Knight player during the senior boysâ€™ rugby game Tuesday afternoon at EDSS. The Lancers emerged with a 14-5 victory over their Waterloo rivals. son. â€œWe have a lot of new players this year, a lot of rookies, so itâ€™s been a real building year and yet theyâ€™ve been fabulous. Theyâ€™ve really stepped up and played well.â€? Having yet to compete against KCI this year, Raymer was unsure how Wednesdayâ€™s match would turn out. â€œIâ€™m excited to see what kind of game they bring out to be honest because we had a lot of pretty easy games during regular season, so Iâ€™m curious to see if theyâ€™re ready to bring their best game in the quarter-finals.â€? The male rugby players were divided into junior and senior teams this year, with the former consisting mainly of Grade 9s. They ended up 0-6 on the season, but celebrated a win in their pool at the Centennial Cup Tournament in Guelph May 9. â€œThey had a fantastic day and they enjoyed them-

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» THE NOT-SO-GREAT OUTDOORSMAN | STEVE GALEA

Being inventive to help keep the flame alive Just last week, I bought myself a brand new Zippo lighter. This is one piece of gear that I believe every outdoors person should own. Forget waterproof or windproof matches, ignore the idea of placing steel wool across battery terminals too. And perish the thought of rubbing two sticks together to build an emergency fire – all these things have now been rendered unnecessary. The company provides complete assurance that it works in the wind, rain, snow, sleet, or hail. I think the wind part was what finally convinced me to buy it. That guarantee alone will make the lighter worth its weight in gold at hunt camp. In any case, the beauty of one of these things is that they’re guaranteed for life. It’s no wonder; with so few moving parts, not much can go

wrong. Unless, of course, you lose the flint while pulling it apart to see how it works, or pull the wick right out of the chimney while making adjustments – not that I did, although I’m sure it’s a common occurrence that could happen to even the most intelligent person. Anyhow, after replacing the flint and wick, just to be sure I had new ones, I discovered the only real problem with a Zippo lighter. There are just not enough things for a nonsmoking outdoorsman to do with one. Let’s face it; you can only light one so many times in front of your friends and family before you start looking like a bit of a pyromaniac. And, quite frankly, my wife is getting sick of barbecued food – I suspect that the grilled spaghetti was the final straw. And even though the kids love roasted marshmallows, they’d prefer if I built a fire rather than have them roast one at a time over my lighter. Then again, what do

they know about quality control? Luckily, these lighters also have excellent educational value. Last night, for instance, I got the kids all excited about the Olympics by simulating a torch run through the house. True, they lost interest after my third lap around the kitchen, but up until then, they were riveted. And, tonight, I plan on doing yet another imitation of the Statue of Liberty. It’ll be better than the one I did a couple of days ago, if only because I’ll keep clear of the smoke alarm this time. Admittedly, that detracted from the “Give me your tired, poor huddled masses …” speech. Other than that though, I’m running out of options to justify the purchase. In fact, things are getting so desperate around here that I’m actually considering going to a rock concert or midnight vigil just so I

can use that lighter legitimately. Or I might try exploring caves. Why not? This morning I discovered that the lighter has two modes, the regular flame and the torch setting that happens after you fill it and spill lighter fluid all over your hand just prior to lighting it. In that mode, the first flame actually acts as a pilot light that ignites the wick that is your hand. The sad part is that my wife has no sense of humour about this sort of thing. She actually confiscated my lighter – like I was some sort of mischievous child. So, after I held my breath for a while, I told her that I don’t need it right now anyhow. I even agreed that a bit of time apart wouldn’t hurt at all. But, between you and me, I can hardly wait to rekindle the old flame …

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That and the fact that he has already raised more than $1,000 and secured an agreement with the Elmira McDonald’s whereby he receives 50 per cent of the proceeds from the $3 McFlurry coupons he sells. He has also worked MacPHEE with teachers at his school to organize fundraisers at the end of May, including Freezie days and bake sales. On Tuesday, he planned to visit some car dealerships with his dad and even more households. He said he will canvass as many houses as needed. “I just really want to make the $25,000 and that’s basically it.” Although his parents have helped with some of the logistics, MacPhee is proud to be working on this task alone, even if that means missing out on time with friends. “I try to help him, but he really doesn’t want help. He just goes off by himself,” said his sister, Holly Faries, 6. MacPhee said he is inspired by Armstrong’s accomplishments, including battling cancer and winning the Tour

de France seven times. “I think that’s just incredible,” he said. Having first learned about Armstrong through his friends’ book reports, MacPhee took a further interest in the athlete because of his own love of biking. His dad takes him riding along Lake Ontario in Toronto, and his grandfather often shows him the trails in Oakville. The young cyclist saved money from time keeping, allowances and dog walking to purchase his $1,100 Rocky Mountain Trail Head bike that should get him to the finish line in good time on June 14, regardless of whether or not he achieves his monetary target. But it sure would be cool if he did, he said. “It’s pretty big, but if I accomplish it, then I would be pretty proud of myself, because it would be one of the biggest goals of my life.” For more information or to make a donation visit www.ridewithlance. ca or contact Morgan MacPhee at 519-669-8625 or e-mail him at becoolya@rogers.com.

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WHAT FUN Sisters Lindsay (right) and Katie Glofcheskie put a little fun into their Aquaducks practice Tuesday night in Elmira.

SWING BATTER! The EDSS girls’ slo-pitch team took on Sir John A. MacDonald S.S. May 7 at Hillside Park in Waterloo.

MARC MIQUEL HELSEN Elmira District Secondary School finally has its own softball team. After years of mulling it over, and fielding requests from students that the school enter a Waterloo County league, coaches Brian Carter and Melanie Austin decided to form a girl’s slow pitch softball team. “A few girls on the basketball team have been bugging me for a couple years because their friends in other schools were in a league, so they were seeing if we could get a league here at the school as well, so, we looked into it and crunched some numbers and financially it made sense,” said Carter, who also coaches basketball at EDSS. “We’ve all kind of wanted it for a while,” said pitcher Kendra Mills. “A lot of girls are really into it and excited to have the team this year,” added rover Steph Thomas. “We really want to show the teams that we can do as good as they can and prove ourselves good in the league,” she explained.

Carter, along with Austin, co-coaches the squad, which is made up of mostly Grade 11 and 12 students, along with some Grade 9s. So far so good: the girls are 2-0 since the very brief season kicked of during the first week of May (the season concludes in June). The squad will play just six regular season games and a playoff tournament if it qualifies. “Our goal is to make the final playoff tournament; certainly starting out 2-0 we have a pretty good shot.” Thus far the Elmira squad defeated Cameron Heights 10-7 and Sir John A. MacDonald 11-3. Crucial to their early success, said Carter, is a healthy mix of team unity, and strong offensive and defensive units. “We just have a great group of girls and we all work together,” said Mills. The fact that many of the girls are veterans of extracurricular fastball teams also helps, he explained. Carter noted that if the sport does well, a boys’ team might be formed next year.

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EDSS awash in music during spring concert

PHOTOs | AMBER WILSON

SOUNDS OF SPRING Five bands from EDSS performed Tuesday night to a packed house of parents, students and music enthusiasts. Taking part were the Grade 9 concert and string bands, the Grade 12 string band, the senior orchestra and the Little Big Band. From left: Grade 9 student Janna Martin picks her strings; Tristan Neil plays the cello in the senior orchestra; Biye Chen makes big noise in the Little Big Band.

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icled through story and song using hits and lesser-known gems to recreate the ambiance of that time. “I Got Rhythm,” “Blues in the Night,” “I’ve Got the World on a String” and a host of others set the mood. For Pelley, who came up with the story, Jazzabel is about chasing dreams, giving in but never giving up, and defining for one’s self what ‘success’ really

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at the Registry series. She’ll perform with local sidemen Dave Lewis on drums, Kevin Muir on bass, and guitarist Glenn Murch. Jazzabel takes to the stage May 23 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $20 ($15 for students), available at the Centre in the Square box office or by calling 519-578-1570 or online at www.centre-square. com. For those looking for something this evening (Saturday), the Registry will feature a perfor-

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A. At Daytona 2003, when Ryan Newman’s car pirouetted twice, then slid across the infield and landed upside down, his major complaint was dirt in his teeth, says Diandra Leslie-Pelecky in The Physics of NASCAR. “However, we aren’t that far removed from the days when drivers didn’t joke about crashes.” A race car at 180 mph has 16 times the motion energy as at 45 mph. If you used that same energy to shoot a 150-pound person from a cannon, it would propel the ejectee five miles straight up! In 2007, NASCAR started requiring six-point restraint harnesses, with two shoulder straps, two belts that wrap the legs and two lap belts that restrain the pelvis (the pelvic bone is one of the body’s strongest). The harnesses work with the seat to keep the driver in the car and to distribute the forces across the body. When a driver goes from 180 mph to a stop, all his (and the car’s) motion energy must be transformed into other types of energy, such as the brake force on the rotor, heat friction, sound energy and light. Crush zones extend collision time for a softer stop, front and back bumpers absorb energy, full-face helmets protect the entire head. Still, injuries will never be eliminated entirely from motorsports. As one official put it, “If you give 43 guys, most from age 20 to 35, cars this powerful, there’s only so safe you can make them.”

»» Q. Do you happen to know the nationality of the guy who invented the telephone? A. Which one? quips Jurgen Schmidhuber in Science magazine, drawing on “The Telephone Gambit” by Seth Shulman. The famous inventorship dispute of 1876 pitted Alexander Graham Bell vs. Elisha Gray, though

a number of others actually beat the famous duo to the punch by several years: French accounts tend to emphasize Charles Bourseul’s theoretical underpinnings of the phone (1854); many Italians consider Antonio Meucci to be the real inventor with his 1857 operational model; Germans cite the 1860 electric telephone by Philipp Reis. Bell is championed in his home country Scotland and his adopted home Canada and the U.S., where he became a citizen six years after filing his patent. Unlike his predecessors, Bell was able to create a successful phone company, yielding him money and the PR resources to promote himself as the inventor. Apparently when the time is ripe for an invention, it tends to be pursued in many places. Yet at least in popular culture, much of the credit is bestowed on the last contributor, even when the essential original insights came from others. “As they say, Columbus did not become famous because he was the first to discover America, but because he was the last.”

»» Q. When does a “hair dresser” become a “hair addresser”? A. When she or he gathers up clients’ shorn locks and turns them over to forensic anthropologists and analytical chemists, who can actually determine the approximate geographic region where the hair comes from, says Sid Perkins in Science News magazine. The water we drink, with its varying chemical isotopes of hydrogen and carbon, leaves a record in our hair which can be used to trace where we’ve been living, thus facilitating identification of victims of crime or disaster or helping poke holes in the alibis of suspected criminals. Because most of the water people drink is of local origin, its chemical signature becomes integrated into hair, fingernails, body tissue. Even though consumption of bottled water is up, much of the H20 in our milk, soda, beer, reconstituted juice is still likely derived locally. So once a large-scale isotopic map is drawn up, regional hair origins can be pinpointed. Said one Queen’s University, Belfast chemist, this technique won’t find the needle in the haystack but it will locate the haystack.

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$257,900 - This 6 year old home is better than new! Large oak kitchen with breakfast bar & pantry, dinette offers walkout to deck & 121' deep fenced yard, 3 generous sized rms, finished basement, central air & vac. MLS

OPEN HOUSE SUN MAY 18, 2-4 1 PORCHLIGHT DRIVE, ELMIRA

$255,000, - Beautiful open concept practically new home, features laminent, ceramic tile, maple cabinets, mostly finished basement, shed and much more. A MUST SEE. MLS OPEN HOUSE SAT & MON MAY 17 & 19, 2-4

10 ROBERTA ST. ELMIRA ELMIRA RACEWAY ESTATES

COZY STARTER HOME ON A GREAT LOT - Close to downtown. Lots of windows. Two bedrooms plus family room in upper level w/skylight. Spacious sunroom & side entry. Deck. Older detached garage. MLS $199,900.

L O V E LY H O M E L O A D E D W / EXTRAS! - 3 baths (whirlpool ensuite). W/O from dinette to stamped concrete patio. 3 appl. included. Upper level family room. Central air. MLS $264,900.

RETIRE IN COMFORT! - Open front entry to main flr. den and 2pc. bath. Spacious maple kitchen w/ dishwasher - open to L.R/D.R. w/ gas fireplace. Ensuite bath. Main flr. laundry. Oversized garage. Wide corner lot. MLS $249,900.

QUIET CRESCENT - Spacious 4 bedroom 3 bathroom home on a wooded lot. Large living room. Main flr family room w/fireplace & laundry. Newer furnace. Extra-deep dble. garage .MLS $399,900.

STARTING AT $292,000 - New home construction. Paradigm Elmira Homes, 42' lots, double garages, front porches, pick your favourite from their many styles of Bungalows and 2 Storey plans. MLS.

CONESTOGA LAKE

$525,000 - This grand 5 bedroom, 4 bathroom 3500+ sq. ft. home is located on a spacious property in Hollen features a 500 sq. ft. master bedroom with gas fireplace, balcony and ensuite bathroom, a gorgeous solarium, marble flooring in foyer, a completely finished basement and tons of extras. You’ll be impressed! MLS

COZY BACKSPLIT

$207,900 - This cozy 3 bedroom backsplit on a huge lot in Drayton features an impressive deck, walk-up from basement to backyard, mature trees, gas fireplace, finished family room and 2 tool sheds. MLS

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SALES REPRESENTATIVES Brokerage

519.745.7000

OPEN HOUSE s SAT MAY 17TH, 2008. 2 - 4PM 46 SPRING WAGON LANE, ELMIRA $269,900 EXCEPTIONAL TWO STOREY - Open concept, 4 years old, 3 bdrm, 2 baths with a huge 25x20 foot sunken great room with gas fireplace and sliders to a deck. Spacious dining area with cathedral ceiling, kitchen with updated cupboard, ceramic floor & quality carpet thru-out. Neutral decor, central air and numerous upgrades! Single garage, double car driveway. Shows great! MLS #0811928

LINWOOD -$424,900.00 3+1 bedroom, 3 bath, over 2600 sq ft. 3 finished levels, recently installed custom designed kitchen and den. Large 83x200 E SAL lot with mature perennial E T VA beds and landscaping. PRI Inground pool (new liner & cover), large deck with terrace, porch swing, double car heated garage, concrete drive, fireplaces, lots of built-in cabinets, hardwood flooring, sunken family room, tin ceiling, built-in appliances, main floor laundry. 7 kw natural gas stand by automatic generator.Call for viewing appt. 519-698-2319

Paul Samis & David Samis Sales Representatives

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$184,900, - This quaint three bedroom bungalow located on the edge of the village of Drayton features a detached 1.5 car garage, new roof (2007), very bright kitchen and living area and a reverse osmosis water treatment system. MLS

ELMIRA LOCATION

$457,000 - Mature treed lot, 68' frontage. 2393 sq ft open concept. Backyard tiered deck, spacious ensuite and huge walkin closet. Entertainers will welcome the finished basement. New MLS

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CLOSE TO GOLF COURSE! - 1 acre with income potential from bsmt in -law suite (self-contained). Huge great room w/ gas fireplace. 4 bdrms, 3 baths (ensuite). Main flr laundry. Pine kitchen, double garage-lots of parking. Alum. roof. New asphalt driveway! MLS $499,900.

Victorian Styled Home - $315,000

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

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3 Bedrooms, one 4 pc. bath, walkout basement, front porch, renovated living room, eat-in kitchen, refinished hardwood floors. Please call for your private viewing. MLS.

Lovely Classic Home - $219,900

3 Bedrooms, Two 4 pc. baths, seperate dining and living room, eat-in-kitchen, hardwood floors, newer windows, attached garage, walkout basement, mature lot. 10 mins from Waterloo, 20 OPEN HOUSE • Saturday May 17, 08, 2 - 4p.m. mins from Guelph. Well worth a look. 25 Park Ave. S., Elmira MLS. WE HAVE BUYERS LOOKING FOR • Hobby farm property with or without buildings, less than 50 acres • Broiler Farm, 25,000 units plus • 100 acre or larger operational farm

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yard with 20’x30’ patio, mature trees, garden shed, upgrades include new roof in 2006, laminate floors, oak cabinets in kitchen, appliances included. MLS $209,900 For a personal appointment call Paul 519-503-9533

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including new maple kitchen in 06, laminated flrs, most windows replaced, ceramic tile foye & kitchen flr, main flr laundry. MLS. $287,900 For a personal appointment call Paul 519-503-9533

deck, backyard offers on ground pool & spacious deck, gas furnace in (06), radiant & baseboard heat can be used as backup. MLS. $249,900 For a personal appointment call Paul 519-503-9533

bedroom w/ walkin closet & ensuite, 3 large bedrooms, in law suite on main floor, unfin. basement 1/4 mile to Golf Course. MLS $479,900. For a personal appointment call Paul 519-503-9533

high eff furnace, upgraded wiring + panels in 99, most wndws replaced, some drs replaced, gas frplce & lrg frt prch w/ back unit, close to public school + dwntwn.MLS. $169,000 For a personal appointment call Paul 519-503-9533.

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FAMILY ALBUM ANNIVERSARY

ANNIVERSARY

Happy 50th Anniversary Marie & Ed Ament

Carl & Ellen Dettwiler Happy 50th Wedding Anniversary May 31, 1958 - May 31, 2008

Family and friends are invited to attend an Open House on Sunday, June 1, 2008 at the Elmira Mennonite Church (58 Church St. W.) from 2:30 to 4:30pm. Best wishes only please, your presence is our cherished gift.

Love your family Ric, Corrine, Avery, Mallory, Randy, Lori, Rachelle, Ryan, Shawn, Rhonda, Mya, Ayla

marriage

engagement

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marriage

Emanuel & Mary Metzger Happy 50th Wedding Anniversary

May 24, 1958 - May 24, 2008

Family and friends are invited to attend an Open House on Sunday, May 25, 2008. At the St. Jacobs Mennonite Church, 1310 King Street North from 2:00 - 4:00p.m. Best wishes only please

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stag & doe for jon zitars & jenni hilker

Andy Van Esch of West Montrose and Joyce & Murray Martin of Elmira wish to annouce the upcoming marriage of their children Janet Van Esch to Travis Martin. The couple will be married on May 24/08 at Floradale Mennonite Church. Love & Best Wishes. Birthday

Jake and Theresa DeVries and Dave and Sharon McKay are happy to annouce the marriage of their children. Krista DeVries and Jeff McKay were married on April 26, 2008 at the Reformed Church in Drayton. The reception was held at Linwood Community Centre. They make their home in Linwood. We wish you God’s blessings on your life together.

Ronald Steven Letson and Laura Gabrielae Stoica were married with the love and support of our families on Thursday April 24, 2008 in Arad, Romania. Thank you to our family and friends for their best wishes and a special thanks to family members who were able to attend our wedding.

STAG & DOE

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Birth notice

friday, may 30, 2008 waterloo rod & gun 8pm - 1am $10/each

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DEATH NOTICES COBER, Olivia –

Happy 75th Birthday Amsey!

From Rose, Carolyn and families. Open House at Bethel Mennonite Church, May 25, 2-4pm

Best Wishes Only

The family of the late Rose Marie Hergott wish to express sincere appreciation for all of the support and sympathy received during the time of our recent loss. We would like to say a special thank you to the wonderful caregivers at the Elmira and District Association for Community Living for the many years of excellent care. We would also like to thank the staff of ARC Industries, Elmira, Ont who employed Rose Marie for 42 years. Thank you also to Father Robert Hetu and Father David Lewis for the celebration of Rose Marie’s life and ressurection at St. Clements Church in St. Clements, Ont. Thank you to the staff at the Erb Good Funeral Home for the care and guidance given to our family.

-The Hergott Family

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Colleen and Matt Ward are happy to announce the birth of their daughter Jocelyn Colleen Ward, Born on May 1, 2008 at 1:11a.m., weighing 7lbs, 10oz. A cousin for Riley and Claire Craig. Proud grandparents are Nan and Gramps Craig (Marilyn and John Craig) of Elmira, and Grandma and Papa Ward (Sheila and Tom Ward of Ariss).

Danielle Deckert & Matthew Ball Saturday, May 24, 2008 8pm to 1am

Tickets $10 or $15 at the door. For more info call 519-669-5708

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BIRTH NOTICE

Farrow/Reiter - Kevin and Stephanie proudly announce the birth of Hayden Charles born April 17th, 2008 at Mt. Sinai Hospital, Toronto. Loving grandparents Anna-Marie and Bernie and Diane and Murray. A sweet little boy.

Andrew and Michelle (Clausi) are excited to announce the birth of their daughter Quinlynn Isabelle Logan. Quinn was born March 29, 2008 and weighed 7lbs, 2oz. Thanks to Dr. Norris for the safe delivery of our sweet little girl.

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Passed away, on Sunday, May 11, 2008, at her residence, Nithview Home, New Hamburg. Olivia was born 96 years ago. Local relatives are son Donald Cober and his wife Ellen of RR1, Wellesley; son Bruce Cober and his wife Pauline of Wellesley and brother Joseph Knechtel of Breslau. DOWDALL, Linda June –

Passed away, on Monday, May 12, 2008 at the KW Health Centre, after a courageous battle with cancer, at the age of 59. SNIDER, Clarence Charles

– Formerly of Breslau, passed away peacefully at Sunnyside Nursing Home, Kitchener, on Saturday, May 10, 2008, in his 85th year.

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»» Lunch at Gale Presbyterian Church. Menu: chicken divine with buttered noodles, salad, rolls and peach cobbler for dessert, Tea/coffee, $9 per person. Soup and roll to go, takeouts available, wheelchair accessible, everyone welcome. 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.; 2 Cross St., Elmira; 519-669-2852. MAY 23

»» H.U.G.S. Program – Woolwich Community Health Centre. Topic: Brain Gym with Jan Yordy – Learn ways to maximize your child’s learning and attention; 9:15 to 11:15 a.m. For parents and their children (zero to five years); 10 Parkside Dr., St. Jacobs, 519-664-3794. MAY 27

»» St. Jacobs Quilt Shows – Waterloo County International Quilt Festival. Featuring: Quilts for the World; A Sampling of Quilts, UFO’s and Tea; Contemporary Quilts; Church Theatre Trunk Show; Merchant Mall; The Quilt Gallery. Visit www.stjacobs.com for times and locations. »» St. Jacobs Lions Community Fish Fry. Featuring Howell’s fish, adults $12.50, children (under 12) $6.50. Advanced tickets only. Wheelchair accessible. Woolwich Community Centre, 29 Parkside Dr., St. Jacobs, 5-7 p.m. Call 519-664-3941. MAY 29

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»» St. Jacobs Reptile Expo – Woolwich County Community Centre. Featuring a wide variety of reptile breeders, dealers, retail stores, rescues and educational groups from all over southern Ontario with many unique animals for sale and display. Fun for the whole family. Admission is $4/adult, $2/children under 12; 31 Parkside Dr., St. Jacobs, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; 519-884-0246.

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»» Robin in the Hood Medieval Festival. Join Robin Hood and his band of merry men for a day of fun in Sherwood Forest from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; $4 per person, $12 for a family of 5. Fun for all ages. Magic shows, knights in battle, jesters, musicians, jugglers, a gypsy fortune-teller, comedy, and archery. Merchants will be selling jewelry, leather goods, armour, toys and other period novelties; www. robininthehood.com. JUNE 8

»» Wheels in Motion Fundraiser – Woolwich Physiotherapy. Wheel, run, or bike to raise funds for spinal cord injury/research; 2, 5 and 10K routes. This year’s event benefits the Weber family. Registration begins at 1 p.m. Free BBQ, prizes, wheelchair basketball, etc. For info, call 519-669-3014 or 519-669-2578.

New to the Community? Do you have a new Baby? It’s time to call your Welcome Wagon Hostess. Elmira & Surrounding Area If you’re not long distance to Elmira, you are welcome to a visit.

SHARON GINGRICH 519.291.6763

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JUNE 13

»» 18th Annual Garden Party – St. Teresa of Avila Church. Cold buffet will be served from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Dinner tickets $12 per adult, $6 per child 6 to 12 years, free for children 5 years and under. Raffle, penny table, bingo and much, more. Call church office for tickets 519-669-3387. JUNE 18

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»» Beef/Pork BBQ dinner – Calvary United Church, St. Jacobs. Dinner with all the trimmings from 5-7 p.m. Adults $13, children 12 and under $6.50, preschoolers are free. Advance tickets only (deadline to order tickets is June 15). Call 519-6442311 or Barb 519-669-5912.

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»» Art Round the Pond – Wellesley Pond Restoration Group. A day of fine art entertainment featuring the talents of local artists and artisans. Rain or shine. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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»» Two-hour hike and geocache on Lions Lake Trail near Floradale – Woolwich Trails Group. Discover geocaching, the adventure that uses GPS to locate hidden caches around the world. John Robinson, a veteran geocacher, will introduce us to this new exciting trend. Trail rating: easy, well maintained trail; includes gravel, earthen and grassed sections. Washroom available. Call Paul Miller, 519664-3643 to confirm meeting times and locations.

NANCY KOEBEL

»» Two-hour family hike on the Healthy Valley Trail in St. Jacobs – Woolwich Trails Group. Trail rating: easy walking stonedust trail. Baby buggies are welcome. Call Paul Miller 519-664-3643 to confirm meeting times and locations.

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Rolling down the road in support of dad MARC MIQUEL HELSEN For the fifth year in a row the Grand River Hospital Foundation and the Waterloo Regional Police Association will rev up their engines in support of the annual Motorcycle Ride for Dad (GRMRD) to raise funds and awareness in the fight against prostate cancer. On June 7, motorcycle enthusiasts from around the region will rumble out from the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium Complex; approximately 1,000 motorcyclists are expected to take part in the oneday pledge ride as police escorts guide them on a parade through Kitchener and Waterloo, then onto a 200-kilometre scenic odyssey with stops in Elora, Brantford and Guelph. While weather conditions might determine how many “fair-weather” riders make it out to the event, organizers are expecting a significantly larger turnout than last year’s 620 motorcyclists. “We’re hoping the word has gotten out, that people last year who had a good time tell more friends, so we’re making prepaWonderful Wines rations for 1,000,” said ride captain Mike Sullivan of the police association. Sullivan, a detective constable with Division 1 in Kitchener, will be riding his 2000 Yamaha V Star 1100. If things work out, he might even get to ride a Harley lent by one of the event’s sponsors. Since its inception in 2004, the Grand River (Kitchener) Ride for Dad has raised more than $230,000 for prostate cancer research and education at the Grand River Regional Cancer Centre. On the national level, and with rides taking place in 21 cities across Canada for 2008, the Motorcycle Ride for Dad has collectively raised $2,500,000 in eight years. Sullivan underscored the importance of spreading awareness about the disease and is hoping that more wheels on the road will translate into more funds raised for cancer research, locally. “The goal is public awareness; that all the funds raised go toward research and education, so it is very much a public awareness campaign because of the reluctance of men to talk about those issues.” Each year, 18,000 new cases of prostate cancer are diagnosed and 4,300 Canadian men die of the disease, according to the organization. There are an estimated one million men with prostate cancer in Canada, most of which are unaware of their disease. Despite the fact that prostate cancer is curable if detected early, many men are often reluctant to discuss it. “We really feel that men need to get on top of their health and be more active and proactive with it,” said event co-chair Kit Wilton. “Awareness and education is optimum for us: we just want to get men to be able to talk about it more than anything else. Women tend to talk about their health issues, but men tend not to, so we also address women to make sure that they’re on their men to get checked. It’s all part and parcel, it affects women just as much as it affects men,” Wilton said. Registration begins at 7 a.m.; lunch in Brantford at the Wayne Gretzky Sports Centre is included in the $25 registration fee. Registration is free with $100 in pledges. For complete details visit: www.motorcycleridefordad.org/kit.

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