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RECORD-bREAKiNG RELAY Elmira District Secondary School’s Relay for life fundraiser generated over $92,000 for the Canadian Cancer Society may 23, the second highest amount recorded in Ontario. Just under 600 people camped out in the field from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. may 24, taking turns walking laps around the track. Inset: Taylor murdoch (front left), Kelsie Buckley, Carolyn Cosgrove. Back: Jessica martin (left), Alayna Frey, Heather Arsenault, PHOTO | VAnESSA mOSS Kirstyn Young, Stacey Snyder were Pretty in Pink.

Wellesley wants region to truck off

Councillors would rather see water hauled from source other than St. Clements site on township road MARC MIQUEL HELSEN Waterloo Region vehicles are making frequent trips to St. Clements to draw from a well there, but it’s not the transfer of water to other areas that has Wellesley council worried.

Rather, it’s the volume of traffic on a municipal road lead-

ing to the well in question.

Though the extraction of potable water from one area of the region to supplement others in need is standard practice, councillors this week voiced concerns about the consequences of trucks using Expo Drive.

“The only concern that we had is what it’s doing to the

road, because the road’s not really meant to take that kind of traffic,” Coun. Jim Olender said following Tuesday night’s discussion of the issue.

“It’s beating the road up.”

When quantities of water diminish at any one point, the region, which is responsible for the provision of potable water to all its communities,

will often haul water from one area to another: St. Clements, where water is often in abundance, is one of the principal sources. Wellesley councillors, however, believe other areas could service the region just as well.

“We’d like to get them to use the Wellesley well because it’s right off of Gerber Road

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In Wellesley village, the region could gain access to the well via the regional road, designed for higher traffic volumes, rather than using a township road.

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Water: Region makes a case for using St. Clements well » From cover

Nancy Kodousek, the region’s director of water services, said the upper-tier government is responsible for providing all communities with safe potable water, which often means tap-

ping into one community’s well or treatment plant and transferring it to facilities in other communities.

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The St. Clements well is one of more than 120 regional wells that in 2007 accounted for 72

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“He’s instrumental in the whole sport and the whole patrolling aspect.”

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WHO YOU GONNA CALL? Rick Trafford recently received a Waterloo regional police Community Dedication Award for his work patrolling township snowmobile trails.

On the trails, he’s on the case Rick Trafford honoured by Waterloo regional police for his work with snowmobile patrols MARC MIQUEL HELSEN When a snowmobiler gets lost or stranded along the meandering trails in the Elmira area, standard procedure sees a quick response from local police officers and a crew of volunteers from the local snowmobile clubs.

If the responding police officers cannot locate the target area or, on the odd chance that they themselves get lost, then they can count on people like New Hamburg’s Rick Trafford, who can easily rely on his trusted internal GPS system – i.e. a solid knowledge of the “lay of the land.”

He knows the trails so well, a quick description is all that’s needed to pinpoint the location.

“I just ask them, ‘well, what do you see? Tell me exactly what you see. OK, I’ll be there in 10 minutes,” said Trafford with a chuckle. “It’s a whole different world out there.”

Trafford, a member of the Nith Valley Snow Surfers Club, recently

received the highest civilian recognition – the Community Dedication Award – from the Waterloo Regional Police Service for his years of volunteerism, dedication to the community, and collaboration with the service ensuring the safety of local residents and snowmobilers.

And in the thick of winter, navigating the area’s network of serpentine trails that traverse miles and miles of private land bereft of fire code numbers can be quite tricky. A solid relationship between the trails’ most avid users and the local police detachment is thus of paramount importance.

“When things arise, even like criminal activity, you need the assistance of the local people in order for the police to be able to act quickly; whenever there’s a snowstorm or an emergency, we’re there,” said Trafford.

This year, for example, the group quickly mobilized when a depressed individual left a note at home and took off on a snowmobile in a distraught state of mind. Trafford and his con-

freres were called in to act as guides for the police; the individual was eventually found by a trail groomer, who offered assistance.

“Since they know the trails better than we do, we take them along to assist us with it,” said Sgt. Don Scott, who heads the New Hamburg detachment of the regional police.

“He likes to get involved in the community. He’s very concerned about the wellbeing of the community, and he’s very dedicated to the program that we have here: the trail patrol, as well as the overall safety of the community, the snowmobile community, when they’re out on the trails.

“It’s definitely a family sport and he wants to make it as safe as he can for all to enjoy,” said Scott.

This collaborative relationship between local snowmobilers and the New Hamburg and Elmira detachments goes back to the 1990s, when safety concerns in the New Hamburg area prompted council to consider shutting down the trails. Trafford and

other club members decided to take a proactive approach and together with police, came up with a community policing program.

From that time, Trafford helped establish the local trail patrol through the Nith Valley Snow Surfers Club; with the assistance of a retired police sergeant, Trafford has also advised the Township of Wilmot on the implementation of a new snowmobile bylaw. He established a snowmobile safety seminar with the local high school that all students were required to take should they wish to drive a snowmobile to school in the winter; and was instrumental in having proper personal snowmobiling equipment donated to the service.

Since 2000, Trafford has set up and run the basic snowmobile drivers course, a prerequisite for all officers before they are allowed to operate the department’s snowmobiles.

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» FROM THE EDITOR | STEVE KANNON

When it comes to transportation, trash is gas The personal automobile as we know it is on life support. Unfortunately, largely due to those same cars and trucks, so too is the planet. Clearly, something has to give.

Our current dependence on oil simply costs too much, both in direct expenditures and the negative impacts on our ecology and health. And oil is a finite resource, which is growing scarcer with each passing day.

Although the vested interests are working against them, alternatives are springing up. Right now, ethanol and biodiesel are top of mind, though we’ve already seen the error of our ways: the impact on food crops and the continued dependence on petrochemical inputs to grow corn and soybeans obliterate the benefits.

Joanna Underwood, however, points to another readymade alternative: biomethane.

The idea is to take biogas created by waste, including sewage treatment plants, convert it to biomethane and run vehicles in the same way natural gas is used.

“We have this technology today.

There’s nothing ground-breaking about it. There’s nothing experimental about this,” says Underwood, president of New York-based Energy Vision, a non-profit organization promoting cleaner transportation fuels.

Around the globe, there are some 7.4 million vehicles running on natural gas. Bi-

omethane is a ready substitute for natural gas, itself composed in part of methane.

And it’s a resource that is renewable.

Biomethane is already in use in Europe. Sequedin, France, for instance, is now rolling out a combined biogas plant and bus depot for 150 buses running on biomethane. There are more than 2,000 such buses and 200 refueling stations across the country.

The idea is just starting to catch on in North America, where we’re typically slower to adopt better environmental and health standards. Still, she sees reason to be optimistic, pointing to a growing demand for natural gas-powered garbage trucks in places such as New York, New Jersey and Texas.

“This isn’t just flaky California. It’s here in New York,” she says from her Manhattan office.

Garbage and recycling trucks are a natural fit for biomethane, Underwood adds.

In European centres, the biogas is collected at the landfill sites and converted to fuel, which in turn powers the trucks dropping fresh loads at the dump.

In the U.S., there are some 200,000 garbage and recycling trucks in use.

Of those, only about 2,000 are natural gas-powered. But that’s starting to change as municipalities demand service with the cleaner trucks. The gaspowered vehicles are 50 to 90 per cent quieter, create fewer greenhouse gases and fewer health-damaging emissions.

They’re also cheaper to operate, more so given the escalating cost of diesel.

Annual savings of about $10,000 help offset some of the higher upfront costs of about $50,000 to $75,000 per truck.

Fleet vehicles such as garbage trucks, buses and taxis are ideal candidates for conversion to natural gas, says Underwood. As the infrastructure grows to service those vehicles, others can follow suit. As other fuels, biomethane and perhaps hydrogen, come online, the non-renewable can be replaced with a renewable source.

The only thing holding back the change is the will. Sooner or later, however, change will have to come as oil supplies drop off and the price continues to skyrocket.

“Oil is not forever. We’re going to need alternatives,” she says. “This is a true revolutionary step forward that takes us on another path – all we have to do is take it.”

Because of the environmental woes, the timing and speed of the change has become more critical, however. We need to get away from oil. Walking, cycling and using public transit are good choices, ones that can be implemented quickly and easily. Where vehicles are to be used, biomethane – made from the organic waste generated by farms, food processors and households – takes us away from our dependence on oil.

Transportation is not a good use of

the oil we have left, she argues. Oil would be better used in the petrochemical and plastics, rather than burned in mass quantities to get us around.

It’s important to put resources to their best uses. While biogas is used today for such things as home heating, it would be better used to displace oil in transportation systems. There are many ways to generate power for stationary uses – solar, wind and geothermal, to name a few alternatives – but not many for fueling vehicles, says Underwood.

A study by the U.S. Department of Energy found existing waste streams, if tapped for biogas, could supply the equivalent of six per cent of all natural gas used in the U.S. If channelled into transportation, that would eliminate the need for some 10 billion gallons of gasoline every year.

Those figures would be enhanced by the use of fast-growing plants such as switch grass to make the organic material for the process. This has the advantage of avoiding the use of feed crops, and using hardy materials that grow where crops aren’t viable.

The options exist. The key is to act on the opportunities. Time is of the essence.

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Woolwich excels at annual muster

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Elmira, Conestogo and Floradale departments dominate muster events

CUP FEVER Morgan MacPhee checks out the Memorial Cup with Home Hardware CEO Paul Straus.

Handymen help MacPhee Elmira’s Morgan MacPhee got a $300 fundraising boost from Home Hardware May 22 in his quest to “Ride with Lance” Armstrong.

The 13-year-old is trying to raise $25,000 to take part in the 100-kilometre bike ride with the seventime Tour de France champ. The event benefits the Grand River Regional Cancer Centre in Kitchener and Sunnybrook’s Odette Cancer Centre in Toronto.

Over the past three weeks, MacPhee has raised $4,616.90 by canvassing local businesses and households.

This recent $300 came about after Home Hardware employee Rosanne Moore – whose son plays hockey with MacPhee – suggested the company help out, said Jessica Passmore, staff events coordinator.

Home Hardware head office employees, their friends and family were asked to donate at least $1 to have their pictures taken beside the Memorial Cup. Normally the company would offer these profits to a charity, but since MacPhee is a local kid raising money for a good cause, he was a logical choice, Passmore said.

EQAO literacy results are in

Ontario’s Grade 10 students have achieved record literacy levels for the third year in a row, according to the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test (OSSLT) results released Wednesday.

The Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO) reported that 84 per cent of the 145,603 English-language students who wrote the test for the first time were successful; this number has remained stable since 2006 and represents an increase of seven per cent over the past five years.

Women outperformed men on the test 88 per cent to 80.

For students learning English as a second language, 59 per cent were successful, up from 42 per cent five years ago.

A breakdown of OSSLT results by school and school board, along with a detailed report about the findings will be released June 11 and posted at www.eqao.com.

In keeping with their winning reputations over the past four years, the Floradale and Conestogo stations of the Woolwich Fire Department swept the competition at the Doon Muster Games May 24 in Kitchener, taking home two trophies apiece.

The 16th annual event saw eight teams – Conestogo, Rodney, Conestoga College Part-time #1, Conestoga College Part-time #2, Conestoga College Full-time, Floradale, Elmira and Wingham – battle each other rather than fires for a change in ladder, hose and bucket relays, along with a waterball game at Doon Heritage Crossroads.

Although the winners celebrated their accomplishments, the purpose of the event was to bring the departments together for a day of fun.

“It’s nothing to get real serious and real uptight about,” said Dennis Frey, Floradale district fire chief. “It’s the entertainment for the people to watch is really what it’s about, so the side effect is yeah, there’s a few trophies to take home that they get to polish now.”

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RUSHING IN Elmira firefighter Kalen Hamilton competes in the ladder relay as part of the 16th annual Emergency Services Muster at Doon Heritage Crossroads May 24. Bottom right: Joshua Pooley takes over the fire chief role.

Ladder Relay Conestogo Fire – 24.15 seconds Elmira Fire – 27.105 sec.

Floradale Fire – 27.665 sec.

Wingham Fire – 38.155 sec.

Rodney Fire – 39.03 sec.

Conestoga College Fulltime – 39.14 sec.

Conestoga College Part-time #2 – 41.24 sec.

Conestoga College Part-time #1 – 1 min. 8.59 sec.

Bucket Relay Conestogo Fire – 1 minute 18.78 seconds Floradale Fire – 1 min. 27.345 sec.

Elmira Fire – 1 min. 27.77 sec.

Conestoga College Part-time #1 – 1 min. 34.045 sec.

Conestoga College Part-time #2 – 1 min. 37.755 sec.

Conestoga College Fulltime – 1 min. 40.915 sec.

Wingham Fire – 1 min. 47.215 sec.

Rodney Fire – 2 min. 16.25 sec.

Hose Relay Floradale Fire – 38.94 seconds Conestogo Fire – 44.175 sec.

Rodney Fire – 55.915 sec.

Elmira Fire – 56.235 sec.

Conestoga College Fulltime – 56.565 sec.

Wingham Fire – 56.925 sec.

Conestoga College Part-time #2 – 59.355 sec.

Conestoga College Part-time #1 – 1 min. 3.72 sec.

Waterball Round Robin (winners bolded) Wingham Fire & Conestogo Fire Elmira Fire & Floradale Fire Conestoga College Part-time #1 & Rodney Fire Conestoga College Part-time #2 & Conestoga College Fulltime Conestogo Fire & Floradale Fire Rodney Fire & Conestoga College Fulltime FINAL: Conestoga College Fulltime & Floradale Fire

Elmira Scouts host regional awards Local organizers looking to kick it up a notch for annual award ceremony MARC MIQUEL HELSEN Not typically associated with a rip-roaring good time, award banquets are sometimes described as being somewhat “stuffy.”

Looking to stray a little bit from that tradition, the 1st Elmira Scout Group will add some flare to its own event as it hosts the 2008 Central Escarpment Youth Recognition Award ceremony on June 8 at

Elmira District Secondary School, honouring Scouts and Venturers from south-central Ontario.

“It’s usually pretty stuffy: you go up, get your diploma or award, whatever, shake hands, get a picture taken, get a piece of cake and take off; well, I’ve got bagpipes coming and I’ve got this band to play – liven the place up a bit,” said 1st Elmira Scout Group commissioner Brian Soehner.

“We’re going to have bagpipers piping them in, and that should really resonate inside the gym,” he explained, noting local Venturer Dan Bossenberry will lead his group of musicians with some rock and roll entertainment.

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as though it was OK not to know that much. And we all come from different backgrounds … we wear many hats, but we can’t wear them all,” said Cnst. Bill Hand, a police officer at Division 3A in Elmira who was trained by Trafford last year.

The fact that Trafford, now a site supervisor with Nith Valley Construction, had experience as an officer with York Region police also helped him relate to the students taking his courses, said Hand.

“He’s instrumental in the whole sport and the whole patrolling aspect.”

For his part, Trafford is quick to underscore the efforts of others as well, insisting that the successful program is costeffective and efficient because it is built upon the support of many volunteers.

“There are key people in the Elmira area and the New Hamburg area with the local clubs who can jump on their sled and go and help.

“So, this award really represents many people; I may have been one of the originals that were involved in getting this program up and running but it wouldn’t have worked, it wouldn’t have survived the last 10 or 12 years if it wasn’t for

the dedication of all the volunteers, all the trail patrol people.”

Though snowmobiling is one of his favourite pastimes – indeed, Trafford moved to New Hamburg some 15 years ago in large part because of the area’s great snowmobiling – he’s never bored during the offseason.

When not planning for the upcoming winter by maintaining trails during the spring or preparing equipment, Trafford will likely be found doing “normal family things” with his wife and two sons, such as camping, boating, motorcycling, or racing and working on one of the family’s thunder cars.

Scouts: Gathering in Elmira » From page 05

aid, leadership training and community service.

The Queen’s Venturer Award is presented to Venturers who have acquired competence and skills of considerable use to themselves, their company and their community. The award signifies that a Venturer has both the character and ability to be of significant help to others.

Among other things, Venturers must demon-

strate leadership training, camping skills and knowledge of first aid.

This year, Elmira boasts six individuals who will receive awards at the ceremony. Soehner noted that the number is so high because of a healthy mix of ambitious, motivated youth and encouraging leaders.

The June 8 ceremony will mark the first time that the 1st Elmira Scouts Group hosts the Central Escarpment cer-

emony.

“I was quite surprised when they picked Elmira; people have to drive from the farthest corner all the way up here. It’s quite an honour, so I’m hoping to make the best of it.

“We’re pretty thrilled to have this opportunity … it’s only for a few hours but it will be our 15 minutes.”

The ceremony takes place at EDSS from 2 to 4 p.m.

Region takes stock of its efforts to go green VANESSA MOSS The Region of Waterloo has made great strides in reducing its environmental impact over the last 25 years, according to a report released last week.

Entitled “Towards Regional Environmental Excellence,” the document lists more than 70 past and present ecological initiatives the region has introduced in six areas: transportation, water conservation, waste, energy, materials management, and community development.

Regional staff will now use this information to develop an environmental sustainability strategy that will integrate all aspects of environmental protection and enhancement, including air quality, waste, energy, land and water resources. That strategy should be completed by early 2009, said David Roewade, the region’s sustainability planner.

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ence document: our inventory of environmental initiatives.”

Among the achievements benefitting Woolwich and Wellesley were the cutbacks in air pollutants (1,288 tonnes) and road salt (7,000 tonnes from 2000-06).

“Whenever there is an achievement of reducing energy use and reducing air emissions, in particular greenhouse gas emissions, everybody in the community benefits. … When we make [regional fleet vehicles] cleaner so there’s less air pollution going out, Woolwich [and Wellesley] can benefit because their air is shared with us,” Roewade said.

Also noted in the report was the fact that in the last three years, the amount of land designated as protected due to its environmental sensitivity – based on the rarity of species in the area, etc. – doubled to 17,000 acres, mostly thanks to the efforts of regional residents.

“Private landowners, particularly in the townships, have been instrumental in enabling us to protect areas such as environmental sensitive landscapes and there may have been quite a path to get to that point, but I think the community is showing that they see a lot of these environmental priorities as important to them as individual citizens, so they’ve helped play a big role in many ways.”

Residents have also contributed to waste diversion, Roewade said, noting that Waterloo Region was the first North American municipality to introduce the blue box program.

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“We have a lot to be proud of both as a municipality and as a community. Within the report, we point out a lot of the firsts [like bike racks on city buses] and again, many of these couldn’t have happened without the uptake of these programs by the community.”

The rain barrel, water conservation and toilet replacement initiatives are yet other ways locals are doing their part to ensure environmental sustainability.

Since 1994, 49,000 lowflush toilets have been implemented in area households and the number of rain barrels handed out each year continues to impress regional staff.

“The first time I saw the lineup for rain barrels in this community, I thought some tickets for Bruce Springsteen were going on sale or something. They were lined up at 6 a.m.”

These water conservation methods have greatly paid off since the region has the lowest water consumption per person of any major municipality in Canada; a great feat considering the rate of population growth, Roewade said.

“We should be encouraged that we’re a progressive community and that in a lot of areas, we’re moving in the right direction.”

However, as a growing community, the process of maintaining the environmental health of the area will be a challenging ongoing process, he said.

“While we all have something to be proud of, … we also do recognize that for sustainability, there’s a lot more work to be done.”

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» LAW & ORDER

Witnessed by off-duty officer, erratic driver

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May 21

8:57 AM | A resident of Arthur Street South, Elmira notified police that, while they were driving behind a dump truck on Three Bridges Road, a large rock fell from the truck, breaking the windshield. The complainant wanted a report for insurance purposes.

4:12 PM | Two vehicles collided at the roundabout on Sawmill Road near St. Jacobs.

Two Waterloo residents had been southbound on Arthur Street South when the lead vehicle stopped suddenly and was subsequently bumped from behind. There were no injuries, damage was minor, and there were no charges.

5:54 PM | A collision involving two vehicles brought police to the area of Crowsfoot and Durant roads, east of Bloomingdale. A Breslau man was operating his vehicle on Crowsfoot Road, turning left onto Durant when, slowing down to make the turn, he was struck by another vehicle being driven by a Conestogo man. Damage was moderate, but because the roads were wet from rain, there were no charges.

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May 22

5:20 AM | Police were called to the 1210 area of Durst Road in Woolwich Township. A small storage shed containing garden supplies erupted into flames and burned to the ground. Officials believe a small debris fire that had been set close to the shop the previous day might have been the cause.

11:39 AM | An elderly woman seemingly disoriented was wandering around King Street in St. Jacobs. A concerned individual notified police; when officers arrived, they found a resident of an area retirement home who was in fact disoriented. She was brought home to her residence.

4:17 PM | Police were called to Benjamin Road by the farmers’ market when a disruptive Toronto woman alleged that she had been mistreated and possibly assaulted by security. An investigation found the complainant had no case.

She was removed by officers and taken home by a family member.

9:42 PM | A men’s multispeed bike suddenly went missing after it was parked at the No Frills parking lot in Elmira.

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May 23

8:22 AM | A resident of the 430 block of Sandy Hills Drive near Floradale reported that, at some time between May 15 and the time of the report, 10 to 12 bales of wood shavings and 10 to 12 bales of hay were stolen from an unlocked storage area at that location.

The total cost was estimated at $100.

4:57 PM | An electrical line in the 1900 block of Arthur Street North was brought down. The cause is unknown, but police believe a large piece of farm equipment may have clipped the pole. Waterloo North Hydro was called in to make repairs. Damage was pegged at $500.

5:52 PM | A cyclist was struck by a car near the intersection of Wyatt and Centre streets in Elmira. The cyclist did not suffer any serious injuries. An Elmira man had been driving his vehicle westbound on Wyatt when he failed to stop for a stop sign and struck the cyclist; he was later charged with ‘disobey stop sign, fail to stop.’

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May 24

6:48 AM | A resident of Flamingo Drive in Elmira reported the attempted theft of a motorcycle. At some time overnight, the ignition was tampered with and damaged, but the bike was not taken.

There are no suspects.

4:34 PM | A small, children’s bike was found abandoned near a construction site on Roberta Street in Elmira. The rightful owner of the bike may pick it up at the 3A detachment.

8:00-10:30 PM | Police officers conducted a RIDE program at Arthur and South streets in Elmira, where they checked 270 vehicles. Three breathalyzer tests were administered resulting in one 12-hour suspension and one area adult being charged with impaired driving and ‘over 80.’

11:00 PM | As a result of a traffic stop at Church Street West in Elmira, a man was issued a

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At approximately 6:30 a.m on May 27, an off-duty police officer was driving to work when a black Nissan Maxima heading northbound in the oncoming lane of Arthur Street South overtook the constable at an extremely high rate of speed.

The officer then watched as the Nissan passed five other vehicles at once before coming head-on with a tractor trailer heading southbound on Arthur. The driver of the tractor trailer had to drive onto the shoulder of the road to avoid a collision.

The police officer then followed the Nissan as it continued to zigzag through traffic and was subsequently able to get assistance from a nearby uniformed patrol unit. The driver was arrested for stunt driving under new racing legislation and was also charged with several other offenses. He had his driver’s license suspended and motor vehicle seized for seven days.

thru highway.’

11:30 AM | Police received a report that a motorcycle was stolen from Church Street in Elmira. A 2006 Suzuki was taken from a Church Street Address. The bike bears the marker 118 M4. Police believe the thief involved in this incident is likely connected to the theft of a van stolen from a chicken farm on Arthur Street North in Elmira the previous day. An investigation into these thefts is being conducted by both the WRPS and the OPP. 5:51 PM | Fire officials are treating as suspicious a fire at a business complex on King Street in St. Jacobs. The fire CRUNCH TIME A Kitchener man was charged with ‘fail to yield to traffic on thru highway’ Tuesday when he col- was contained to a ground lided with a car travelling eastbound on South Field Drive in Elmira. The Kitchener driver was on Union Street, floor washroom and was quickly extinguished. Damage apparently stopped at the South Field stop sign, but then entered the intersection and collided. was minimal. Businesses with12-hour suspension after blow- There no suspects. of age, jumped into a 2007 in the building were not daming a ‘warn’ on the roadside 9:47 AM A 20-year-old man Ford van bearing the marker aged. The building had been screening device. Alternative was working on a forklift at 0690TZ (which was used to evacuated as a precautiontransportation was arranged Home Hardware warehouse transport chicken catchers) ary measure, and there were and the vehicle parked for the in St. Jacobs when it fell on and drove off. The man, de- no injuries. The investigation night. him, injuring his legs. He was scribed as approximately 5’5” continues. Anyone with intaken to the hospital with seri- to 5’7” tall with a beard and formation is asked to contact »» May 25 ous, but non-life-threatening wearing a motocross shirt detectives at 519-653-7700, 1:08 PM | The Ministry of injuries. The Ministry of La- and shorts, was carrying a ext. 3399 or Crime Stoppers at Health was notified after a dog bour was notified and the in- white motorcycle helmet at 1-800-222-TIPS. bit a woman on Cedar Street the time. The van was later vestigation continues. in St. Jacobs. A tourist from found abandoned on Dunke 6:37 PM | Police continue an out-of-town had been walking 10:08 AM | A worker at a con- Street North in Elmira. It was investigation concerning a in the area when the dog bit struction site at the Woolwich not damaged. Through the collision involving two veher in the thigh. Though the Memorial Centre reported to course of the police investiga- hicles on Reid Woods Drive bite caused bruising it did not police that his Honda Accord, tion, it was later determined near Elmira. A man had been puncture her skin. The owner bearing the marker 777 YZL, an ATV from Alma had been reversing from a private drive was notified of the incident had been stolen some time found abandoned on Arthur on Reid Woods Drive when he and it was determined that the within the previous two or Street across from where the drove into the path of another animal had its required shots. three hours. van was stolen. Under the vehicle. A collision ensued, but damage was minimal.

2:30 PM | A single-vehicle 8:00 PM | Police were sum- investigation, which is being There were no injures. The moned to King Street North in conducted in conjunction with collision occurred on Walker individual responsible for the Street in Elmira. A man from St. Jacobs in the area of Print- the OPP, it was suggested that collision alleged that he had ery Road after a vehicle left the the thief who drove the ATV Nobel was driving his vehicle been distracted by a screamon Walker Street when he lost road and ended up in a ditch. to Elmira was then likely reing and disruptive child in the control of the vehicle, left the The Buick had been taken from sponsible for stealing the van vehicle.

Father David Bauer Drive in and then abandoning it on roadway, hit a street sign and 8:03 PM | The 1991 Honda ended up against a tree. The Waterloo. Four youths were Dunke Street.

Accord (bearing the marker driver and only occupant was seen fleeing from the scene. »» May 27 777YZL) that was stolen a arrested and charged with With the assistance of an off‘impaired driving,’ ‘over 80’ duty firefighter, police were 9:00 AM | A collision involv- few days before was used able to take the four youngsters ing two vehicles occurred at for a gas drive-off at Wagand ‘dangerous driving.’ from Kitchener into custody. South Field Drive and Union ner’s Corner outside St. Ja3:50 PM | A quantity of cash The male driver was charged Street in Elmira. A Kitchener cobs. The driver of the vehiwas stolen from the reception with possession of stolen prop- man was driving on Union cle pumped up in excess of area at the Elmira Pool some erty and theft. The other males Street when he apparently $50 of gas before driving off time between 3:10 and 3:20 were warned under the Youth stopped for a stop sign at without paying. The suspect p.m. The money had been left South Field, but then entered was described as a white Criminal Justice Act. unattended in a zip-lock bag.

9:09 PM | Police were called the intersection and collided male with a dark waistThere are no suspects. to a chicken farm in the 560 with a vehicle travelling east- length jacket, and wearing 4:01 PM | There are no susarea of Arthur Street North. At bound on South Field. The a cowboy hat at the time; pects in connection with an ME1000-306-ChateauElmAL_Woolwich_May31.qxd:Layout PM Page was last 4:31 seen heading to- 1 that location it appears a Cau- Kitchener driver was charged 1 he5/21/08 attempted motorcycle theft with ‘fail to yield to traffic on wards Waterloo. casian man about 20 years from 30 Flamingo Dr., Elmira.

A 2007 Yamaha bike had its ignition tampered with and damaged some time between May 23 and 25.

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May 26

8:11 AM | Conestogo Public School reported that at some time over the weekend, a barrier between two portables was kicked down and a swastika scratched on one of the doors. The offensive symbol was removed. There are no suspects.

9:27 AM | A business on Park Avenue in Elmira notified police that at some time over the weekend a cement block was thrown through a window, causing $300 worth of damage. Entry was not gained.

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» EDITORIAL

Ecology trumps convenience “Will that be paper or …” Paper it is, at least at the LCBO, which this week announced it’s phasing out the use of plastic bags at all its outlets. Paper bags it is, or perhaps a cardboard box – always up for grabs – or the reusable bag you brought along with you.

Once existing supplies of LCBO plastic bags run out, likely this summer, approximately 80 million fewer plastic bags will be in circulation, many of which end up in landfills.

That still leaves plenty of plastic floating around: Ontarians use about 2.5 billion such bags every year.

There is a push, however, to reduce that number, with the provincial government encouraging retailers to cut back without moving toward an outright ban. Premier Dalton McGuinty is calling for a voluntary 50-per-cent reduction in plastic bag use by 2012.

Liquor stores in Nova Scotia, Manitoba and Quebec have already moved forward with the plan announced by the LCBO. Other communities in the country are moving toward bans or other restrictions on the ubiquitous plastic bag.

In Toronto, for instance, the municipal

works committee is looking at ways to reduce plastic shopping bags and other consumer packaging. Its chair, Coun. Glenn De Baeremaeker, is a longtime advocate of change, calling for a 90-per-cent reduction. He’s proposed a 25-cent levy on each shopping bag, pointing to a similar initiative in Ireland, where a 20-cent charge has seen a 90-per-cent drop in the use of plas-

tic bags since the policy was introduced in 2002.

Whichever reduction strategy comes into play, we’ll be better off for the change.

More so if we make adjustments – minor inconveniences in the grand scheme – sooner, forcing governments and business to follow suit. We should know better than to expect them to take the lead.

Business as usual in Ottawa As political offenses go, it wasn’t particularly dubious, but former foreign affairs minister Maxime Bernier’s blunders came equipped with some juicy tidbits, in the form of a sexy ex-girlfriend with ties to biker gangs. That both he and Julie Couillard – no shrinking violet, having gone on the offensive, including attempts to sell her story – are Quebecers heightens the national appeal of the brewing scandal.

That Bernier was forced out of cabinet is no surprise: As a minister, you don’t leave classified military documents lying about at your girlfriend’s home.

Stephen Harper, meanwhile, is attempt-

» VERBATIM

ing to downplay the incident, conveniently skimming over the fact the documents were missing for five weeks, as well as the public antics of both Bernier and Couillard. While he’s well advised to ignore opposition calls for a full-blown inquiry – we had quite enough of such over-used games – the affair is not the trifle the Prime Minster is making it out to be.

Clearly, he’s assuming the same defensive posture we’ve seen with each disgrace committed by this government, despite claims of honesty and transparency. Rather than change, we’ve seen stifling micromanagement and business as usual on the Rideau.

» THE MONITOR

“Clearly, Mr. Bernier has a cavalier pattern of dealing with government documentation.”

In a typical home, 20 per cent of household energy costs are created by hot water, and the average household does 37 loads of laundry per month, using 6,817 litres of water, a prime target for Energy Conservation Week.

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» HARD TALK | RAFE MAIR

Time for Canada to have a king and queen of its own My heart skipped a beat ... maybe more than one as I read the story.

“Peter Phillips, the Queen’s eldest grandchild, became the first royal of his generation to marry yesterday.

“In the presence of 300 guests including the woman he calls ‘Granny,’ the Prince of Wales, the Duchess of Cornwall, Prince Harry and his girlfriend Chelsy Davy, the 30-year-old son of the Princess Royal exchanged vows with Autumn Kelly, his Canadian fiancée.”

I haven’t been so excited since Elizabeth Taylor married Eddie Fisher!

Then it dawned on me. Peter doesn’t have a title, so Autumn will just be Mrs. Phillips. Maybe even, though perish the thought, plain Ms. Phillips. Or Ms. Kelly-Phillips. Or in the McTeer tradition, Ms. Kelly.

This is not fair, and it had me running to the 1931 Statute of Westminster, whereby we became a self-governing dominion. But alas, I found no loopholes. There is nothing legal we can do about this. Max Aitken, a rich Canadian press baron of rather dicey private habits, became Lord Beaverbrook and our best known and much beloved felon Conrad Black became Lord Crosseyes, or Crossbow, or something like that.

But Autumn stays Autumn.

This just isn’t fair. Especially since

Peter’s grandmum offered to give him and sister Zara titles, but mummy, the Princess Royal, wouldn’t hear of it.

Take Camilla, the former ParkerBowles, who became the Duchess of Cornwall. She couldn’t even pass the virginity test administered to Diana.

(I applied for the job of virgin testing, but realized I was getting a bit long in the tooth for it.) Nevertheless, Camilla not only became a Duchess but a Royal Duchess at that. Those who take these matters seriously, which I’m sure most of you do, will remember that when Wallis Simpson married the Royal Duke of Windsor, until shortly before King Edward VIII, she was not made into Her Royal Highness because of the spite (understandable) of the new Queen Elizabeth, later the Queen Mum. This rankled poor David (Edward when he was King) for the rest of his life. Bad enough that Wallis was only a plain Duchess, but she was stuck with David, the world’s best known premature ejaculator, forever after.

I’ve thought a lot about this and other royal minutiae for a long time. The Scots, that is the Highlanders with the exception of Clan Campbell (who supported the despised Hanoverians), bitterly resent Elizabeth being styled II when she is only Elizabeth I of Scotland. The Black Campbells – as all we descendants of Somerled, first Lord of the Isles, know – murdered the Macdonalds in their sleep at Glencoe in 1692, which, far from being erased in our

memories, increases, and is fortified every time we see and read the latest pronouncements from the Great Dictator in Victoria. But I digress.

Here’s what we do. We tell the present Queen that the retirement time for Canadian monarchs is 80 and that she’ll just have to go. We’ll be nice about it – a coat of recently slaughtered seal pups will keep her lovely memories of Canada alive and for Philip yet another Stetson hat, this one autographed by Ralph Klein.

Then we ask Peter and Autumn to become King and Queen of all the Canadas including La (or is it Le? and why does it matter?) Nation de Quebec. Of course, there will be a training period of a couple of years as a CBC presenter.

Many of us of a certain age yearn for the days when instead of party hacks, pretty women and inspired political choices as governors-general, we had chinless British aristocrats. I well remember as a young army cadet in World War II being reviewed by the Earl of Athlone (actually Sir Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George Cambridge, Prince Alexander of Teck in real life) and he was perfect. How thrilled I was when he mumbled something to me without having to move his lips. He was married to a granddaughter of Queen Victoria and is, for true monarchists and the scattered remains of the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire, the last real, honest-to-

goodness viceroy of this, our beloved Canada, a country that fights to its last breath to maintain the last vestiges of colonialism.

Admittedly Peter is not old and he is not chinless, but by God he’s British, descended as all royals are from the best of impoverished German aristocrats.

He has his father’s looks (the saints be praised), his mother’s athletic ability (if riding horses is athletic for the rider too) and his grandfather Philip’s intellect, having studied “Sports Science” (how long is a football field? and such like) at the University of Exeter.

Actually as I work my way through this mindless minefield I’ve entered, it occurs to me that having our own King and Queen, with the Queen a Quebec Anglophone, is a capital idea.

Countries need a head of state, and electing them is a bad idea because then they think they have a real mandate.

Appointing people reminds one of Louis XIV who said, “Every time I create an appointment, I create a hundred malcontents and one ingrate.”

So let’s just accept the gift that has fallen into our collective laps. All hail King Peter and Queen Autumn, the new Canadian royals!

Of course it’s a bit late for the prescribed virginity test, but fertility must be a condition precedent so that once they get rolling on the job, so to speak, they will ensure peaceful passage of authority to the next generation of suitably bred leaders of our great realm.

» INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS | GWYNNE DYER

Melting Arctic ice cap fuels debate over oil and gas What connects oil at $135 a barrel with last month’s discovery of huge cracks in the Ward Hunt ice shelf off Ellesmere Island at the top of Canada’s Arctic archipelago?

And what might connect those two things with a new, even Colder War? The cracks in the ice, further evidence that the ice cover on the Arctic Ocean is melting fast, were discovered by scientists tagging along with a Canadian army snowmobile expedition that was officially called a “sovereignty patrol.” The army was showing the flag because Canada, like the other Arctic countries, suspects that valuable resources will become accessible there once the ice melts. And the most valuable of those resources are oil and gas.

The strongest evidence for accelerated melting is the fact that more and more of the Arctic sea ice is thin “first-year” ice. Only about a metre (three feet) thick, it spreads across the ocean each winter, but tends to melt the following summer.

Melting has taken big bites out of the edge of the much thicker “permanent” ice in most recent summers, and unless some of the “first-year” ice that replaces it lasts through the following winter, then the melting really is speeding up. So everybody is watching to see what happens this

summer, explained Dr Jim Maslanik of the University of Colorado-Boulder.

“If we see all the first-year ice melt out again, then probably we will have another record reduction in ice cover,” said Maslanik. “If we see this a couple of years running, that tells us ... that we are about 20 or 30 years ahead of where we are supposed to be based on the climate models.”

If we are heading for an Arctic Ocean that is mostly ice-free in the summer, then drilling for gas and oil beneath that ocean can soon begin.

Hardly a week goes by without somebody pointing to the U.S. Geological Survey’s report that the Arctic basin contains a quarter of the world’s undiscovered oil and gas. But the event that did most to trigger this new concern about sovereignty was Artur Chilingarov’s publicity stunt last summer.

Chilingarov is a polar explorer of the old school (he was made a Hero of the Soviet Union in the old days for saving an ice-bound ship in Antarctica), but he is now deputy speaker of the Russian Duma (parliament) and Vladimir Putin’s personal “envoy” to the Arctic. Last summer, he took a three-man submarine down to the bottom of the Arctic Ocean precisely at the North Pole, and planted a Russian flag in the seabed.

“The Arctic is Russian. We must prove the North Pole is an extension of the Russian landmass,” he said afterwards, and affected surprise at the

fact that other countries with an Arctic coastline saw this as a challenge to their sovereignty. Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper, for example, flew to the Arctic the following week, and subsequently announced that Canada would build six to eight new “ice-strengthened” warships for Arctic patrols.

The other three countries with Arctic coastlines, the United States (Alaska), Denmark (Greenland) and Norway, are equally suspicious of Russian intentions. The real issue is about who owns the rights to the seabed, and the Russian claim is pretty ambitious.

Moscow claims that the Lomonosov Ridge, the sub-sea mountain range that goes straight across the middle of the Arctic Ocean, is an extension of the Russian territorial shelf, and therefore belongs to Russia all the way to the North Pole. Alternatively, if the Law of the Sea tribunal does not ultimately accept that claim, Moscow may have an even broader claim in reserve.

In the early 20th century seven countries laid claim to parts of Antarctica on the basis of “sectors”: pie-shaped slices running along lines of longitude (which converge at the poles).

The width of those slices depended on where the various claimants owned territories near Antarctica, mostly islands in the Southern Ocean. Those claims are dormant because of a subsequent treaty banning economic development in Antarctica, but the

precedent has not been forgotten.

By that precedent, Russia could lay claim to about half the Arctic Ocean on the basis of lines of longitude running from the far eastern and western ends of the country up to the North Pole—and in 1924 the old Soviet Union did precisely that. Nobody else accepted that claim then, and they wouldn’t now if Russia raised it again. But Russia has the big Arctic ports and the nuclear-powered icebreakers to make its claim stick, and nobody else does.

That is where the current panic comes from. It probably won’t end up in a new Cold War, but it has certainly got the hens in the chicken coop all stirred up.

As is often the case with hens, they are over-reacting. Russia is in a more assertive mood than it was a decade ago, but there are no signs that it intends to pursue its claims by force.

Moreover, there is no serious basis for the claim that a quarter of the world’s undiscovered oil and gas reserves lie under the Arctic Ocean.

It always seemed implausible, given that the Arctic Ocean only accounts for slightly less than three per cent of the Earth’s surface, but in fact the U.S. Geological Survey never said anything of the sort. Neither has any other authoritative source, yet this factoid has gained such currency that it even influences government policy.

Isn’t it interesting how readily people will believe something when they really want to?

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LCBO puts environmental improvement in the bag MARC MIQUEL HELSEN It’s not a deathblow for the ubiquitous plastic shopping bag, but the LCBO’s decision this week to discontinue using them is another step down that path.

The government-owned organization will stop offering the bags when existing supplies run out, likely this summer at most outlets. The move will eliminate from circulation some 80 million bags each year, though Ontarians currently use about 2.5 billion of them annually – an average of four per week for every resident.

The decision goes beyond the government’s call for a voluntary 50per-cent reduction in the use of plastic bags by 2012. The province has no plans for a sweeping ban.

Instead of plastic, Liquor Control Board of Ontario stores will offer paper bags or cardboard boxes. They’ll also be selling reusable bags, and encouraging customers to bring their own.

“The ultimate goal is to get everybody just in the habit of bringing a reusable bag, ideally. We don’t really care what type of

reusable bag they use, we’d like them to bring their own reusable bag and just keep bringing it,” said Chris Layton, a spokesperson for the LCBO. Reusables, he said, trump even paper bags, which have their own environmental impacts despite being recyclable and more readily biodegradable – shipping, for instance, is more burdensome because of weight.

“If people can keep in the habit of bringing their own bag, then less bags have to be produced of any kind. The first goal of the environment is to reuse, so that’s the best solution.”

The LCBO was using approximately 80 million plastic bags a year before it embarked on its plastic bag reduction strategy in 2004. Within six months, the LCBO had reduced the use of plastic in its stores by 30 per cent. Layton noted that public response to the LCBO’s efforts was so positive that it decided the time was right to accelerate the process.

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REDUCE, REUSE ... Elmira LCBO manager Doreen Cook holds a canvas resuable bag (left) and one of the plastic bags the LCBO plans to phase out by the summer, promoting reusables instead. played an important role in diminishing the overall consumption of disposable plastic bags. And the trend appears to be growing among custom-

ers of other retail outlets.

Elmira Foodland’s Doug Pagett, for example, noted that his clients, too, are overwhelmingly eschewing disposable plastic

bags in favour of reusable cloth bags that go for a dollar apiece.

“I would say these reusable bags probably have cut the plastic in half, at

least,” he said, noting that he expects that number to climb in the future.

While his store still offers plastic bags free of charge, as well as paper bags and boxes, Pagett said he wouldn’t rule out a complete phase-out of plastic bags in the near future.

“Probably, every second person is using those reusable bags,” he said, noting the bags, which were introduced about one year ago, are replaced free of cost if they break.

While many retailers have reusable bags branded with their logos, they see all kinds pass through their doors.

This is not a worrying trend to the LCBO, said Layton.

“Without any question, the plastic bags were highly recognizable and as a result the LCBO brand was highly recognizable, but I think the thing is we’ve entered into a time now when everyone has to reexamine and look at ways that they can better help the environment, so, it’s one of those things where the most important goal now is to try to reduce waste where possible – we see that as the priority.”

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Âť FOOD FOR THOUGHT | OWEN ROBERTS

Every day counts for chicken farmers When it comes to whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s called broiler chickens, the ones that are processed into food, every day counts.

In just 32 days, they hatch from eggs, grow and make a beeline to our dinner plates. That brief time period is fascinating from a nutrition perspective, because a bird must grow up incredibly fast and stay extremely healthy to be ready for marketing in five-ish weeks.

Some find the timeframe troubling, because these are such young animals, and getting younger all the time. Indeed, the time to market has dropped

about a half-day a year for the past 15 years. But our global appetite for meat is increasing, and when we demand more, faster and economical production from farmers, they try to respond with a healthy, developed animal, in fewer days.

A whole industry has grown up around keeping these birds healthy.

The animals live in close quarters, so disease must be rigidly controlled at the same time fast growth is encouraged.

To that end, the animals get an aerosol mist vaccination when they leave the hatchery, and later, they get antibiotics to fight infections. The large-molecule antibiotics live in the birdsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; intestines to kill bacteria and never enter the animalsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; bloodstream. So, they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get

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quickly praised by some environmental groups, including the Clean Air Foundation and the Recycling Council of Ontario. Not everybody is happy with the decision, however. The plastics industry, defending the packaging material, claims the decision was political, not based on the facts. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Study after study has concluded that paper bags are a poorer environmental choice. We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t understand why the Ontario government has made this

decision in the face of sound science,â&#x20AC;? said Serge Lavoie, President and CEO of the Canadian Plastics Industry Association (CPIA), in a release in reaction to the announcement.

The organization points to a 2004 study comparing paper to plastic bags that shows that the manufacture of paper bags is more energy intensive, requiring 2.2 times more non-renewable energy than plastic shopping bags, 4.7 times more water and emiting 3.1 times more greenhouse gases.

into the meat.

The birdsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; growth spurt is particularly crucial in the first four to seven days, a period called the pre-starter cycle, when they switch from being sustained by the yolk in the egg, to eating corn and soybeans on their own. But these are complex proteins that sometimes cause indigestion in the young birds.

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Finely tuned feed enhancements â&#x20AC;&#x201C; ones consumers and chickens alike find palatable and acceptable â&#x20AC;&#x201C; represent a new direction for the industry. Think of it a bit like a sports drink instead of water, or nutrient-enhanced cereals, or omega-3 eggs. It comes down to enhancing performance, of your muscles, your immune system or your cardiovascular system.

Same thing with chickens. They get supplements to keep them healthy and make them grow faster, but thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still a lot that can be done to optimize the amount of energy the animals can extract from their feed.

Some people think chickens are fed hormones. Once, they were. But in Canada, chickens havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been fed hormones since the 1950s. Producers say part of that reason is because the supply and price for chicken in Canada is set by the government, high enough so producers can make a living and use the safest measures possible to get their chickens through the barn.

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For me, it was an opportunity to revisit Leesonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s thought-provoking delivery earlier this spring to a global audience of several hundred farmers and industry representatives at Alltechâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual feed symposium in Kentucky.

He talked about the precision approach (once called animal husbandry) needed to keep the birds in top form, and urged farmers to consider what he calls â&#x20AC;&#x153;the lost art of brooding management.â&#x20AC;?

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EDSS hosts students from around the region at Tinman Triathlon

A TRUE FITNESS TEST Elmira District Secondary School hosted the fourth annual Tinman Triathlon Tuesday that saw 339 athletes from roughly 17 schools race in three categories from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. The 375m swim, 15km bike ride and 5km run were completed by both individuals and relay teams, with the overall goal of having fun. Results have been posted at www.chiptimeresults.com.

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Cheers and tears for a notable season

Sugar Kings wrap things up by passing out the hardware at awards banquet, feting departing players VANESSA MOSS By the end of the Elmira Sugar Kings banquet Sunday night, more than a few people were fighting back tears.

After an impressive 30-7-8-3 season, followed by a Cherrey Cup win over the Cambridge Winter Hawks and a hard-fought battle against the Tecumseh Chiefs in the Sutherland Cup finals, the Kings, their families and fans had many reasons to show emotion.

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Chad Hepburn, Brock Zinken, Cal Myerscough, Scott Lepold and captain John Lunney were honoured with graduation rings for their more than two years of dedication to the Kings organization both on and off the ice.

“I had fun my four years,” Lunney said later in the week of his time with the team.

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Lunney and his assistant captains accepted this award on behalf of the whole team that Haddaway said showed impressive leadership and drive in the playoff run. He cited examples of this hard work, including Addison

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» THE NOT-SO-GREAT OUTDOORSMAN | STEVE GALEA

Putting joggers on the spot is the only sensible thing to do I looked out my window the other morning and saw the strangest thing.

A man was jogging past my house.

Bear in mind that it was cold, wet, miserable and very

early in the morning. And we live on a torturously long and steep hill.

So I did the only thing a good neighbour could do. I went and got out the shotgun.

“What are you doing?” my wife asked.

“Look over there,” I said sadly, as I pointed out the window.

“Oh my goodness, do you think he’s being chased by a bear?”

“What else would force a man to jog up this hill?” I said nervously.

“You’re not going to shoot him are you?” she asked.

“No,” I replied, “as much as that would put him out of his misery, that would probably be wrong.”

Instead, I had planned on doing the only sane thing a man could do. I was going to step outside in the patchedup long underwear I keep for just such an occasion, wave the scattergun in the air, and ask him if he’s ever seen the movie “Deliverance”?

“That ought to give him the adrenalin burst he needs to get a real good lead on that bear,” I explained. “That way, no one – not even the bear – gets hurt.”

“But what if you’re wrong?” Carol asked. “What if he’s just jogging?”

I laughed out loud. “Up this hill?

Woman, are you crazy?”

“People do jog for fun and fitness you know,” she reminded me.

“Yeah right,” I replied. “And we have robots on Mars too …”

Maybe I’m wrong but jogging for jogging’s sake is sort of like pulling out chest hairs just for pulling out chest hair’s sake. Oh, I’ve listened to the arguments about it being good for you. I’ve heard how it improves your fitness level and makes you live longer. But, you’ve got to ask yourself the big question: “If I have to jog for two hours a week for the rest of my life, is that life really worth

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living?’

Even so, as I donned my long johns and billy boots, blacked out several teeth, put on my straw hat, and picked up the gun, it occurred to me that my wife just might be right.

Maybe this person was simply jogging up the hill for fun and fitness.

I got out the binoculars.

“What are you doing now? Carol asked.

“Looking for chest hairs on the man,” I stated.

“I won’t ask,” she whispered.

Sadly, I couldn’t see any. Instead he was decked out in quality running shoes and clothes tailor-made for running. He wore headphones and appeared to be breathing evenly.

And there was not the telltale lump at the back of the pants that a close encounter with a bear brings either.

“I don’t get it,” I mumbled. “I think he’s actually doing this willingly.”

Before long, he had crested the hill and disappeared over the horizon.

And I put the gun away and changed back into my normal clothes.

“Now, I’ve seen everything,” I muttered.

“Yeah,” she said as she wiped the black from my teeth. “Some people are just strange, huh?”

“Kind of makes me wonder about the last few runners that I’ve helped along,” I said.

And right there and then it occurred to me that I should have known better. Heck, even a hungry bear wouldn’t run up this hill …

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“I was proud to coach him and see what he brought every night,” assistant coach Darren Wideman said of Shantz.

The James Austin Memorial Trophy for best defenceman was given to Trent Brown, followed by the coaches’ cup handed to Jeff Zippel. Described by Haddaway as a jack of all trades, Zippel was honoured for best exemplifying perseverance and dedication to hockey.

His seven points on the season did not represent his overall value as a player, Haddaway said.

Sugar King forwards Brent Freeman and Jeremy Hilliard were entrusted with handling important on-ice situations throughout the regular season and play-

offs, and were thanked for their efforts with the Norm Hipel Memorial Trophy.

To round out the celebrations at the Elmira arena, the crowd gave a standing ovation to Volunteer of the Year Marilyn Craig for her tireless efforts billeting players, selling tickets and supporting her favourite team. She accepted the Dawn Farr Memorial Award in honour of a woman who was always dedicated to enhancing the Sugar Kings organization.

With yet another season officially under their belts, the Kings now have other activities on their minds: motorcycling and golf.

They will host the third annual motorcycle poker run June 7, followed by the seventh annual golf tournament June 9.

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Kings: Plenty of reasons to celebrate the 2007-2008 season

TEAM EFFORT assistant captains Brock Zinken and Scott lepold and captain John lunney accept the alumni Trophy from coach Geoff Haddaway Sunday in Elmira. normally awarded to the playoff mvP, this year the prize was given to the whole team for its drive all season long.

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Merrymaking in the offing for Gibson Park Preparations in final stages for eighth annual Robin in the Hood festival VANESSA MOSS

greatly from the festival experience.

“Everything we are today and everything we have today comes from history and I think that after the fall of the Roman Empire and the rebirth of society, a lot of things came in the middle ages that we have today.”

Heppler added that people are eager to learn about the medieval era because of its many facets.

“I think it’s a very kind of glamorous time period ... but it was such a real down and dirty time, too, so it’s got this double-sided aspect to it.”

Although the festival is a yearlong endeavour that takes many volunteer hours to pull off, the organizers said it is worthwhile.

“I love performing, I love history, I love theatre: this is a way that I get to combine my passion for medieval history with my passion for performing,” Carroll said.

Robin in the Hood takes place June 7 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The cost is $4 per person and $12 for a family of up to five people.

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“Watching a blacksmith make armour is so much better than looking at a picture in a book,” added volunteer Sarah Heppler.

New to the education day this year is a mini catapult and Jacob’s Ladder game designed to challenge the kids, Carroll said, adding that teachers really enjoy bringing their students to the festival.

“We have teachers who, when they’re done this year, I get e-mails the following week asking to book for next year. … They want in now.”

Originally developed as an EDSS event, Robin in the Hood is branching out on its own for the first time this year. Now designated as a not-for-profit organization, all proceeds will go back into the festival coffers and donations from local businesses, service groups and Woolwich Township have been greatly appreciated, Heppler said.

A longtime volunteer with the festival, she said she could not be happier taking part once again. Currently working on her masters degree in medieval studies, Heppler thinks children and adults benefit

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GUARD UP Festival coordinator Kelly McNeely and fight coordinator Jonny Arnold practice one of many duels they will perform as part of the Robin in the Hood medieval festival June 7 at Gibson Park in Elmira.

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Noble families will wage battles over land in Gibson Park next weekend when the eighth annual Robin in the Hood medieval festival gets underway.

Following this year’s theme of “the family,” about 125 actors will portray their own version of the Robin Hood story throughout Saturday, interspersing dialogue with fighting tournaments, games and magic shows.

The idea is to give visitors of all ages an interactive and fun lesson in medieval history.

“We get a little bit of leeway because in history there are about a dozen different Robin Hood [tales], ranging over about a 300-year period of time, so we have a little bit of flexibility in the stories and the myths,” said DJ Carroll, event founder.

Carroll had been involved with other medieval festivals for many years before he decided to start his own in Elmira. Since there are only about five in all of Canada and three in Ontario including his, Carroll said it was a unique and important event to bring to this area.

“This is a fun thing to do and because they [volunteers] are having so much fun, I’m having fun, so I’m going to keep it going.”

Robin in the Hood consists of an education day June 6 open strictly to 1,000 Grade 4 students, followed by an open event for the public June 7 that usually sees about 1,200 people take part. The former comprises performances and games geared at teaching students about medieval jobs, weapons, tournaments and animals, all of which complement the Grade 4 curriculum.

“It’s a chance for the kids to touch history and experience it instead of just reading about it,” said Carroll, head of the drama department at Elmira District Secondary

MEDIEVAL POISE Sarah Heppler will portray Lady Maryn of Norfolk when she and 125 actors recreate the story of Robin Hood.

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For newly planted sod/seed lawns contact the Region for a sod/seed permit.

NOTICE OF INTENTION TO PASS AN AMENDMENT TO THE LICENSING FEES & CHARGES BY-LAW The Region of Waterloo intends to pass an amendment to By-law 04-072 (Establish Fees and Charges for Licensing and Regulatory Services). The amendment is with respect to the Tree By-law permit fees.

The amending by-law will be considered at the Regional Council Meeting scheduled for: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 7:00 p.m.

Regional Municipality of Waterloo Council Chamber, 2nd Floor Administration Building 150 Frederick Street, Kitchener A copy of the amendment will be available for review starting May 30, 2008, in the Clerkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office, Region of Waterloo, 2nd Floor, 150 Frederick Street, Kitchener. If you have questions concerning the amendments, or require accessible services to participate, please contact Licensing and Regulatory Services at 519-575-4591.

If you wish to speak at the Council meeting, please register as a delegation with the Regionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Council and Administrative Services Division at 519-575-4420 by June 12, 2008.

This notice is in accordance with the Municipal Act, 2001.

Kris Fletcher Director, Council and Administrative Services/Regional Clerk 2nd Floor, Administration Building 150 Frederick Street, Kitchener 519-575-4420 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 Licensing and Regulatory Services office.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING Tuesday June 24, 2008 7:00 p.m.

Township Council Chambers 69 Arthur Street South, Elmira Regarding

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING Tuesday June 24, 2008 7:00 p.m.

Township Council Chambers 69 Arthur Street South, Elmira Regarding

OFFICIAL PLAN AMENDMENT APPLICATION 4/2008 STUDY REQUIREMENTS FOR MINERAL AGGREGATE EXTRACTION APPLICATIONS

Allen and Hannah Sauder (Zone Change 7/2008) and Earl M. Gingrich (Zone Change 8/2008)

The Township of Woolwich will hold a Public Meeting, under Section 17 of the Planning Act, to consider the following Official Plan Amendment application. No decisions will be made at this meeting; its purpose is to provide additional information to the public and agencies and to receive comments and information from them.

The Township of Woolwich will hold a Public Meeting, under Section 34 of the Planning Act, to consider the following Zone Change applications. No decisions will be made at this meeting; its purpose is to provide additional information to the public and agencies and to receive comments and information from them.

Purpose and Effect

Allen and Hannah Sauder (Zone Change 7/2008)

The purpose and effect of draft Official Plan Amendment Application 4/2008 is to add policies to the Township of Woolwich Official Plan that will clarify the requirements and expectations for studies for applications to establish new or expanded mineral aggregate extraction operations in the Township of Woolwich. It is proposed that these requirements will include studies relating to:

The Township has received a Zone Change application from Allen and Hannah Sauder for the property located at 1172 New Jerusalem Road (see Map 1). The property is designated Rural Land Use and Restricted Land Use in the Township Official Plan and is zoned Agricultural (A). The 22 hectare property contains a single family dwelling, farm shop and livestock operation.

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HYDROLOGICAL IMPACTS QUALITY AND QUANTITY OF MINERAL AGGREGATE RESOURCES LOCATED ON SITE IMPACTS ON NATURAL AREAS FEATURES AND SYSTEMS TRAFlC IMPACTS IMPACTS ON DUST AND AIR QUALITY NOISE IMPACTS IMPACTS ON CULTURAL HERITAGE RESOURCES VISUAL IMPACT LAND USE COMPATIBILITY

Official Plan Amendment Application 4/2008 will also indicate what studies, information and materials are required for an application for new or expanded mineral aggregate extraction operations to be considered complete in accordance with Section 22(5) of the Planning Act. The proposed Official Plan policies associated with Application 4/2008 will apply to all of the lands in the Township of Woolwich, accordingly a key map is not being provided.

Please Note: If you wish to be notified of the adoption of the proposed Official Plan Amendment, you must make a written request to Dan Kennaley, Director of Engineering and Planning Services, Township of Woolwich, Engineering and Planning Services, Box 158, 69 Arthur Street South, Elmira, Ontario N3B 2Z6.

If a person or public body that files a notice of appeal of a decision of the Council of the Regional Municipality of Waterloo in respect of the proposed Official Plan Amendment, does not make oral submissions at a public meeting or make written submissions to the Council of the Township of Woolwich before the proposed Official Plan Amendment is adopted, the Ontario Municipal Board may dismiss all or part of the appeal.

A copy of the draft Official Plan Amendment and other supporting information is available for review at the Township of Woolwich Municipal Office between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday to Friday, or by contacting Engineering and Planning Services staff at 519-669-8706 or 519-664-2613.

If you cannot attend the meeting, you can express your concerns/comments about the proposed change in writing to the Township of Woolwich. Any comments received on or before June 17, 2008 (Note that this date is before the public meeting) will be included in a report prepared

by Engineering and Planning Services and presented at the Public Meeting. Any comments received after the Public Meeting, but prior to Council making a decision on the applications, will also be considered.

If you wish to be notified of additional Township public meetings or Township staff reports regarding this application you must make a written request to Engineering and Planning Services at the Township of Woolwich at the address shown at the top of this page.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING Chemtura Public Advisory Committee

Monday, June 2, 2008 | 9:00 a.m.

Township Council Chambers | 69 Arthur Street South, Elmira

The purpose of the application is to amend the Agricultural zoning with a site-specific amendment through a Temporary Use By-law, to allow a mobile home to be located on the property for a 10 year period, to accommodate the applicant’s mother-in-law and sister-in-law. The mobile home would be attached to the house with an enclosed breezeway.

Earl M. Gingrich (Zone Change 8/2008) The Township has received a Zone Change application from Earl M. Gingrich for a 1.2 hectare property located at 2065 Floradale Road (see Map 2). The property is designated Rural Land Use in the Township’s Official Plan and is zoned Agricultural (A) with site specific provisions permitting a mobile home as a Temporary Use until August 25, 2008.

The purpose of the application is to extend the Temporary Use By-law for an additional three-year period to allow the mobile home to remain on the property to accommodate the applicant’s mother-in-law. The property also has site specific approval for a custom meat processing shop with accessory retail sales.

Please Note: Zoning Amendment If a person or public body that files an appeal of a decision of the Council of the Township of Woolwich in respect of the proposed zoning by-law does not make oral submissions at a public meeting or make written submissions to the Council of the Township of Woolwich before the proposed zoning by-law amendments are adopted, the Ontario Municipal Board may dismiss all or part of the appeal.

Additional information pertaining to these planning applications is available for review at the Township of Woolwich Municipal Office between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday to Friday, or by contacting Engineering and Planning staff at 519-669-8706 or 519-664-2613.

If you cannot attend the meeting, you can express your concerns/comments about the proposed change in writing to the Township of Woolwich. Any comments received on or before June 17, 2008 (Note that this date is before the public meeting) will be included in a report prepared by Engineering and Planning Services and presented at the Public Meeting. Any comments received after the Public Meeting, but prior to Council making a decision on the applications, will also be considered.

If you wish to be notified of additional Township public meetings or Township staff reports regarding these applications you must make a written request to Engineering and Planning Services at the Township of Woolwich at the address shown at the top of this page.

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A. You and your parrot occupy a select niche in the animal kingdom: the ability to learn vocal signals is restricted to songbirds and hummingbirds and parrots among birds, humans and bats and whales among mammals, says biologist Timothy F. Wright.

Depending on the species, the regional â&#x20AC;&#x153;dialectsâ&#x20AC;? that arise from large numbers of wild birds imitating each other may help males and females from similar areas find one another, says avian biologist Michael Schindlinger in Scientific American magazine. Regional song learning may also allow territorial neighbors to become familiar and help identify drifters. Further, imitative vocal learning is a ready-made display of healthy neural functioning that embraces hearing, memory, muscle control for sound production -- all potentially important in mate selection.

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 Q. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; a problem faced by baseball catchers, welders, surgeons: How do you sneeze with a mask covering your face?

A. Catchers and welders only have to deal with the unpleasant bounce-back, but surgeons have to worry about spraying multitudinous microbes directly into the gaping hole theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve carved in a patient, says Steve Mirsky in Scientific American magazine. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So how do you avoid an uh- oh following an achoo?â&#x20AC;? As reported in the â&#x20AC;&#x153;British Medical Journal,â&#x20AC;? the accepted wisdom has been to sneeze while facing the sensitive area so the mask will redirect the ejecta backward and out the sides, i.e., away from the open wound. But when two plastic surgeons from a British hospital scoured the literature, they could find no actual evidence for this advice so they set out to test it, using high-speed photography and some finely ground pepper sniffed by masked volunteers.

Upshot: Very little of the blast goes sideways, though a bit sneaks out the bottom onto the surgeonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s upper chest.

Most of it apparently stays safely with the doctor, leaving the patient pristine. At this point, advised the Journal, â&#x20AC;&#x153;itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best for surgeons to follow their instincts when sneezing during operations.â&#x20AC;?

 Q. What on earth are scientists thinking cre Q. Do you know the cultural sources of super- ating robot cockroaches when there are already stition surrounding Friday the 13th? too many real ones to contend with?

A. The day is doubly worrisome in that both Fridays and the number 13 have been believed unlucky. Fear of 13 goes by the seemingly unpronounceable â&#x20AC;&#x153;triskaidekaphobia,â&#x20AC;? from the Greek â&#x20AC;&#x153;trisâ&#x20AC;? for three, â&#x20AC;&#x153;kaiâ&#x20AC;? for and, â&#x20AC;&#x153;dekaâ&#x20AC;? for 10, plus â&#x20AC;&#x153;phobiaâ&#x20AC;? for fear, says Julian Havil in Nonplussed! Mathematical Proof of Implausible Ideas.

Fretting over the number 13 has any number of justifications: 13 were present at the Last Supper; in Norse mythology there were 13 at a banquet when the son of Odin was slain, leading to the downfall of the gods; the near-catastrophic explosion on the Moon rocket â&#x20AC;&#x153;Apollo 13â&#x20AC;? on Apr. 13, 1970, two days after its launch at 13:13:00 CST from pad 39 (13 x 3).

And as unluck would have it, every year has at least one Friday the 13th and many have three, in February, March and November for a non-leap year; January, April and July for a leap year. As you can see, the only possibility for consecutive months having Friday the 13th is February and March of a non-leap year. For you triskaidekaphobes, the next consecutives are in 2009,

A. The tiny robo-roaches lack legs, wings or antennae but nonetheless the wheeled machines pass muster with their real â&#x20AC;&#x153;peers,â&#x20AC;? at least once the bots are scented with roach pheromones, says Elizabeth Pennisi in Science magazine. In fact, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re so well accepted they become part of the insectsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; collective decision-making process.

And by tricking the roaches into making bad decisions, the robo-roaches are helping humans win the Battle of the Bugs.

The key is that the robots are autonomous, able to interact on their own. At first they were programmed to hang out in the darker places cockroaches prefer but then to switch to lighter areas in hopes the real ones would follow suit, hiding in more vulnerable locations. So instead of the robots â&#x20AC;&#x153;rounding up the cockroaches like sheepdogs,â&#x20AC;? they work via social attraction. This is a powerful idea with many applications beyond pest control, said Massachusetts Institute of Technology robotocist Daniela Rus, possibly including the mechanical herding of livestock.

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Paul Samis & David Samis Sales Representatives

Brokerage

BONNIE BRUBACHER Broker of Record

SHANNA ROZEMA Broker.

DARREN ROMKEY Sales Rep.

LAURIE LANGDON Sales Rep.

DALE KELLER Sales Rep.

MONIQUE BRUBACHER Sales Rep.

DEBBIE YEOMAN Sales Rep.

BRAD MARTIN Broker of Record

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

THIS WEEKS FEATURE PROPERTIES

MVA Residential

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

OPEN HOUSE SAT & SUN MAY 31 & JUNE 1, 2-4

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

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

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

Lovely Classic Home - $219,900

OPEN HOUSE - Sun. June. 1, 2-4 pm 57 Porchlight Drive, Elmira

10 ROBERTA ST. ELMIRA ELMIRA RACEWAY ESTATES

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

BEAUTIFUL TOWNHOUSE - loaded with upgrades! Maple cabinetry and ceramics in enlarged kitchen, living room with W/O to patio and landscaped, fully fenced yard. 3 Bdrms, 2 baths - custom window coverings, c/a, air exchanger, finished basement. NEW MLS $238,500.

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

OPEN HOUSE SUN JUNE 1, 2-4 20 SNOW GOOSE CRESCENT

$245,900, You’ll be impressed with this 1600 sq. ft. semi-detached home with finished basement, 4 bdrms, 3 bathrooms, maple kitchen with walkout to large yard, gas fireplace, attractive décor throughout. Won’t last long!!!!!!!!!! NEW MLS

Perfect Starter Home - $192,000

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

OPEN HOUSE SUN JUNE 1, 2-4

8271 CONCESSION 12, MOOREFIELD PARK LIKE COUNTRY HOME

$253,000, Beautifully treed park like country acreage. Solid house new windows (1997), furnace (1993) original woodwork; fenced for horses, paved road, close to K-W. New MLS

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.

24 WELLINGSTON ST. S. DRAYTON

$325,000, NEW PRICE, This thriving restaurant business located across the street from the Drayton Festival Theatre comes complete with all equipment, large banquet facilities, newer roof, wiring and furnace and a two bedroom apartment. MLS

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VICTOR ELGAWLY

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Independently Owned and Operated

BEAUTIFUL IN-LAW ADDITION

$669,000 - Prime location close to K-W, Elmira, Guelph. Large lot backs onto greenbelt; bush at rear; almost 6000 sq. ft of living space; engineered septic system; lots of water; ideal family set-up; Access to trails. MLS

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.

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

Coach House Realty Inc. Brokerage TEL. 519-669-5431

8 Arthur Street South, Elmira

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

LOVELY HOME LOADED W/EXTRAS! - 3 baths (whirlpool ensuite). W/O from dinette to stamped concrete patio. 3 appl. included. Upper level family room. Central air. REDUCED MLS $259,900.

DOWNTOWN BUNGALOW - $237,900

Elmira semi-detached backing onto parkland with walkout lower level. Two bedrooms up, 2 washrooms and finished rec room. Rare opportunity to own a bungalow convenient to shops & services! MLS Paul Robb Broker, Coach House Realty Inc., Brokerage 519-669-5431 or 519-669-8582

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.

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 ALE lot with mature perennial TE S A V 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

NEW IMPRESSIVE DESIGN. Built by Virina Homes, 4 bdrms, 3 baths, 2 storey home. Main flr formal dining rm, 2nd flr laundry. M/bdrm with luxurious 5 pc ensuite. Natural stone tiles (Travertine) & maple hrdwd flrs, stairs & railing. Gourmet Maple kitchen family rm with corner gas fireplace. Modern lighting throughout, TARION Warranty.

Ready for immediate occupancy.

MLS 0814458 $439,900.

OPEN HOUSE, SUN 1:30 - 4:00PM 34 CORAL GABLES CRES., ELMIRA

Coach House Realty Inc. Brokerage

OFFICE PHONE: 519.343.2124 *SALES REPRESENTATIVES:

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

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AMAZING NEW LISTING! Prestigious raised bungalow, custom built 2001 on spacious corner lot. 3+1 bedroom, 3.5 baths, ceramic, hardwood, “impressive” kitchen, stainless appliances, cathedral ceilings, California shutters, exceptional lighting, finished basement, 2 gas fireplaces, triple garage. Call Edith McArthur 519.638.2509 MLS 0825125.

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OPEN HOUSE JUNE 8 2-4PM 16 Stanley Ave., Kitchener 4 ELDALE RD., Elmira WOW - Spacious property features X-large Invest your rent money in this well kept

kitchen, gas fireplace, large island, walkout to stamped conc. patio sit & listen to the waterfall & birds chirp. Stroll upstairs to your mast bdrm with walkin closet and ensuite, 3 lrg bdrms. In-law suite on main flr, ad your touch to this unfin basement 1/4 mile to Golf course MLS. For a personal appointment call Paul 519-503-9533

Paul Martin Sales Representative

semi-detached on a deep lot in this quiet Bridgeport neighbourhood, fenced in yard allows freedom for children or pets, great starter home for young couple.

Upgrades include newer flooring on main floor. MLS. For a personal appointment call Paul 519-503-9533

4B Arthur St. S. Elmira www.remaxsolidgold.biz

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

OFFICE: 519-669-5426 DIRECT: 519-503-9533 EMAIL: paul@remaxsolidgold.biz $249,900

3 Mockingbird Dr., Elmira 24 Tanager St., Elmira LOCATION PRIME LOCATION - close to PERFECT SIZED BUNGALOW - close to schools, this beautiful bungalow is well maintained on nice quiet crescent, has many upgrades incl. new maple kitchen in ‘06, laminated flrs, most windows replaced, ceramic tile foye & kitchen flr, main flr laundry, sliding door (07) off spacious dinette to covered patio, 5 potential bdrms spacious fenced yard, pool & deck. MLS. For a personal appointment call Paul 519-503-9533

catholic, public & secondary schools, Two gas fireplaces,40ft.+ of rec rm in basement, mud rm , large deck, backyard offers on ground pool & spacious deck, current owner installed gas furnace in 06, radiant & baseboard heat can be used as backup. seller will remove pool but if required by buyer. MLS. For a personal appointment call Paul 519-503-9533

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1347 Martin Grove Rd., Woolwich DON’T MISS THIS BEAUTIFUL 12 ACRE PROPERTY - 3 min from Waterloo backing on

Conestoga River, bungalow w/walkout to patio features hardwood, laminate, carpet, window & doors replaced except bay, insul. Rec. rm flr, kitchen in basement, A/C, unique 2 level garage, 5000 sq ft incl. 1000 sq ft insul. & heated, septic tank 07. MLS. For a personal appointment call Paul 519-503-9533.

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 St. Jacobs Reptile Expo â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Woolwich County Community Center. 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 on 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. Call 519-884-0246.  Lions Foundation of Canada, Purina Walk For Dog Guides â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Woolwich Community Lions Club. Registration starts at 8 a.m. Everyone is welcome: all ages and abilities, with or without dogs. For more information, please call 519-669-5084.

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JUNE 3

 Caregiver Coffee Hour â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Woolwich Community Health Centre. Learn how to make home a safe place for a loved one who suffers from Alzheimers disease or related dementia; 10-11:30 a.m. at Chateau Gardens. For more information, call Lorraine at 519-664-3794 ext. 229.

JUNE 7

 St. Clements Parish Homecoming. Show and shine, car and antique tractor show 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Family games throughout the day, face painting, family soccer challenge. KIX video dance 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. Silent auction 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.  Robin in the Hood Medieval Festival. Join Robin Hood and his band of merry men for a day of fun in Sherwood Forrest 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, fortune teller, comedy, and archery. Merchants will be selling jewelry, leather goods, armour, toys and other period novelties, and a. Visit www. robininthehood.com.  Songs in the Park outdoor worship at Gore Park, 7:30 p.m. For all ages. Rain location â&#x20AC;&#x201C; St. James Lutheran gym. Free-will offering to support Woolwich Community Servicesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; backpack project. More info, call Marilyn 519-669-5548.

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JUNE 8

 Wheels in Motion Fundraiser â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Woolwich Physiotherapy. Wheel, run, or bike to raise funds for Spinal cord injury/research; 2, 5 and 10K routes. This years 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.

JUNE 11

 Wellesley Township Cargiver Group â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Woolwich Community Health Centre.

Receive tips on how to make visits with an elderly or ill loved one meaningful to both of you; 2-3 p.m. at the WTC Health Centre. For more information, call Lorraine at 519-669-3794, ext. 229.

JUNE 13

 H.U.G.S. Program â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Woolwich Community Health Centre. Topic: savoury BBQ ideas with food safety in mind. For parents and their children (zero to five years); 10 Parkside Dr., St. Jacobs. Call 519-664-3794 to register.  18th annual Garden Party â&#x20AC;&#x201C; St. Teresa of Avila Church. Cold buffet will be served from 5 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.

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JUNE 18

MACHINE WORKS INCORPORATED

 Strawberry Supper â&#x20AC;&#x201C; West Montrose United Church. Continuous sittings begin at 4:30 p.m. Adults $12, children (six to twelve years) $4.

33 Industrial Dr., Elmira 519.669.1591

 Beef/Pork BBQ dinner â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 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.

New to the Community?

Do you have a new Baby?

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

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JUNE 21

 Art Round the Pond â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Wellesley Pond Restoration Group. A day of fine art entertainment featuring the talents of local artists and artisans. Rain or shine.

10 a.m. to 4 p.m.  Chicken BBQ and Dance â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Wellesley Lions Club. Dinner 5-8 p.m., dance 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Live music by Jeff Tanner. For tickets please call 519-656-2260 or 519656-3147.

Submit calendar listings to info@observerxtra.com

A walk along the Kissing Bridge Trail in Elmira tomorrow (Sunday) could benefit those coping with a range of disabilities. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an easy and enjoyable way to lend a helping hand, say the Woolwich Community Lions, organizers of Purina Walk For Dog Guides. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Walking is free, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so rewarding to come up with a few thousand dollars at the end of the day to be able to provide a disabled or a medically challenged person with a loving pet that could help them be more independent,â&#x20AC;? said club member Nancy Booth.

The Woolwich Community Lions Club is hosting the Lions Foundation of Canada event that will kick off at 9 a.m. at the Arthur Street entrance of the Kissing Bridge Trail and head to Floradale Road and back. Registration starts at 8 a.m.

The walk is the foundationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest Wonderful Wines fundraising event, with 100 per cent of the proceeds going toward raising, training, and providing dog guides to Canadians with physical disabilities at no cost to the recipient.

The event supports the work of Canine Vision Canada, Hearing Ear Dogs of Canada, Special Skills Dogs of Canada, and Seizure Response Dog Guides.

Last year the Woolwich Community Lions Club collected about $3,300 with just 20 walkers.

Dog guides become faithful companions for people of all ages who are blind or visually impaired, who are deaf or suffering from hearing difficulties and for people with physical or medical disabilities.

The cost of grooming a guide dog through basic training to program graduation â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a period of about two years â&#x20AC;&#x201C; can reach between $20,000 and $30,000.

Also on tap at the event will be free hot dogs, pop and water for participants.

There will also be a prize table. This year, the top individual fundraiser in Ontario will get a round trip for two from Toronto to Quebec City courtesy of Via Rail. The winner of that prize will be determined by June 30.

Register or donate on-line at www. purinawalkfordogguides.com.

Information and pledge forms are also available at most banks and some retail stores in the area. For further information, call 669-5084.

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 Strawberry Social â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Floradale Mennonite Church. Meal includes cold meat, salads, dinner rolls, cake and strawberries with whip cream; 4:30-7:30 p.m.

Adults $12, children (ages 10 and under) $5; 22 Florapine Rd., Floradale.

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Happy 50th Wedding Anniversary Mahlon & Edna Bauman June 7, 1958 - June 7, 2008

OBITUARY

surprise stag & doe for kristine yurko & jeremy haut

friday, june 13, 2008

With love and best wishes from all of your family - brothers and sisters, in-laws, children and grandchildren. We have all been blessed in sharing life with you these past 50 years!!

birth notice

8:30 p.m. - 1:00 a.m.

Lunch Provided • Music by DJ Western Theme St. jacobs community hall

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retirement

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NIVEN - Andrew & Christy’s dreams finally came true with the safe arrival of twin boys! Kyle Robert, 4lbs. 10oz., and Connor Jacob, 5lbs. 1/2oz., arrived at 6:36 p.m. and 6:37 p.m. on February 1, 2008.

Welcomed by grandparents Brian and Joan Newman and watching from heaven are grandparents Al and Mary Niven.

Special thanks to Drs. Oliver and Wakim, 4th floor nursing staff, and the entire team in the NICU River Hospital.

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I would like to thank everyone who attended the open house in my honor of my retirement from the Wellesley Fire Department after 35 years of service. Thank you for all the cards and the gifts and best wishes, it meant so much to me and will never be forgotten. A very special thanks to my wife and children and family members for their hard work in making the day a memorable one.

Thank you to all the men from the Wellesley Fire Department station #3 for helping on this special day. Again thank you to everyone the day will never be forgotten.

Roger Battler

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Martin, Mildred (Mrs. Abner B.) Peacefully on Thursday, May 29, 2008 at Leisureworld Care Centre, Elmira.

Mildred Martin in her 90th. year of Winterbourne.

Predeceased by her husband Abner B. Martin in 2003.

Dear mother of Elaine Richinger of Kaslo, B.C., Keith and Marg of RR1 West Montrose, Carolyn Todd of Seattle, Washington, Dennis and Helen of RR1 West Montrose, Quentin and Jean of RR2 West Montrose. Also lovingly remembered by her 14 grandchildren Monica, Lisa, David, Craig, Rachel, Jason, Angela, April, Kyle, Katrina, Alannah Mariah, Tarrah Joy and Rosaleigh, by her 8 great grandchildren Benton, Spencer, Jordon, Kelsey, Madeline, Lucas, Gwyneth and Lillian and by her brothers Abner S. and Ruth Martin of New Hamburg, Earl and Vera Martin of Waterloo. Predeceased by her parents David and Agnes (Shantz) Martin, son-in-law Fred Richinger and brother and sister-in-law Leonard and Fern Martin.

Mildred was born and raised in Waterloo County but was a citizen of the world. Her passion for reading and self-learning continued to her last days. While here life was centred around the family farms at Winterbourne, Mildred’s interests stretched across the globe as she travelled extensively to China, Russia, India, Europe, South and Central America. Locally, her keen sense of heritage was expressed in the writing of local history, collecting of antiques and dedicated involvement in Women’s Institute and the Woolwich Agricultrual Society. All of this, while supporting Abner in his endeavours that lead to inductions in to the Waterloo County and Ontario Agricultural Halls of Fame. The family will receive their friends and relatives at the Dreisinger Funeral Home, Elmira on Sunday from 2-4 and 7-9pm. At 9:00am on Monday, June 2nd. transfer will be made to Calvary United Church, St. Jacobs for funeral service at 11:00am with Rev. Drew Maxwell officating followed by interment in the adjoining cemetery. In her memory donations to Calvary United Church Building Fund (where she was a longtime, active member), House of Friendship or Canadian Food Grains Bank would be appreciated by the family as expressions of sympathy.

thank you Thanks Carolyn and Rose for the lovely 75th Birthday party you put on for me. Thanks to all who came and for the many good wishes and cards. May God bless you each one.

Amsey Martin

in memoriam Marie kraemer june 1, 1999 - Today we remember a wonderful Wife, Mother and Friend.

Nine years have gone by since we lost you.

However, your precious memory lives in our hearts forever.

The Vincent Kraemer Family

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GARAGE SALE

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Household & Business Garage Sale.

6805 Line 86 (Stoltz Sales & Service) Corner of Line 86 & Floradale Rd. Utility trailer 4x6, computers, printers, TV/Stereo cabinet TV stands, end tables, outdoor wicker furniture (8pc), kids clothes, toys, adult jackets, riding mowers, antique colour windows, bikes, dishes, digital cameras. May 30th 5-7p.m., May 31st 7:30-12:00p.m.

Rain or Shine, Inside. »»Multi Family Garage Sale, Saturday June 7, 8am-2pm. 47 Snyder Ave. N. Elmira. Household items, toys, books, furniture and many more items. »»Multi Family Garage Sale. Friday June 6 8am2pm. 50 Adelaide St. Linwood. Our junk your treasure. »»Multi Family yard sale, Friday June 6, 1p.m.5p.m., Saturday June 7, 7a.m.-1p.m. 83 Bristow Creek Drive, Elmira.

DEATH NOTICES BEEVER,Ethel“Winnifred” (Dinnick)

- Peacefully, after a brief illness, surrounded by her loving family, at Groves Memorial Hospital, Fergus on Monday, May 26, 2008, in her 75th year.

Local relatives are son Douglas Beever and his wife Marlene of Elmira.

O’CONNELL, Mary Sylvia “Betty”

- Peacefully on Thursday, May 22, 2008 at KW Health Centre. Betty (Wilson) O’Connell in her 83rd year of Elmira.

MOYER, Harvey Edward

– Suddenly at the Guelph General Hospital on Monday, May26, 2008. Harvey E. Moyer age 85.

Local relatives are his sisters Mary and Dorothy both of RR1 West Montrose.

SCHELL, Roy

– Peacefully at St. Mary’s Hospital on Thursday, May 22, 2008. Roy was 82 years old, of Bamberg.

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