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Lancers win Battle of the Barns The EDSS senior boys’ football team romped to a 42-0 win over Waterloo-Oxford District Secondary School visitors Oct. 8. The junior boys won their game 16-3. [WHITNEY NEILSON / THE OBSERVER]
Both junior and senior football squads emerge victorious against visiting counterparts from Waterloo-Oxford
WHITNEY NEILSON BOTH EDSS FOOTBALL TEAMS came away with bragging rights on Oct.8, destroying WaterlooOxford District Secondary School at the annual Battle of the Barns in Elmira. For the junior boys, the first half went without a
touchdown, locked at 3-3. But Elmira came into its own in the second, taking the game 16-3. Elmira touchdowns were scored by Keshawn Holland and Bennett Uliana. They sit third in the league with two wins and one loss. Waterloo-Oxford has yet to win a game this season.
The senior team fared even better, not allowing Waterloo-Oxford to score a single touchdown or field goal all game. EDSS took the game 42-0. Elmira is second in the league with a 2-1 record. WODSS hasn’t won a game yet. FOOTBALL | 12
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Seniors lend their support to Thanksgiving food drive WHITNEY NEILSON IN THE SPIRIT OF the season, Chartwell Elmira/ Chateau Gardens put their creative juices together to gather food and cash donations for the Woolwich Food Bank, through its Stomp Out Hunger campaign. Kelly Christie, the director of community supports at Woolwich Community services, was on hand on Oct. 9 to accept the food donation and a cheque for $871. “We have an egg farmer now that donates eggs to us. But we’ll buy milk and margarine and fresh bread and carrots and potatoes, so they’ll have some fresh produce for their meals as well. Thank you so very much because we can’t do it without you. You always do a great drive,” Christie said to the residents. Chateau Gardens administrator Joan Norris notes they try to do a different theme each year for the food drive to inspire residents to get involved. “We got more money this year than food. I don’t know if people don’t have the time to go and shop. They just write us a cheque, which is good, too, because then you can go and buy perishable products.” They don’t do a special Thanksgiving food hamper
like they do at Christmas, but they’ll give the roughly 60 families they give food hampers to some extra potatoes and carrots and a fresh chicken that’s donated by a local chicken farmer. They also had squash donated last week, which some families took as part of their hamper. “It’s now really starting to come in. So the high school just dropped off their food drive, we’re getting this collection today. It was a little light as of Tuesday of this week, but it’s okay. It usually does come together and then we have a church group that comes next week and sorts it all and puts it away. This is our major food drive. The spring food drive is usually not as plentiful, so we really look for this one to fill our shelves after the summer,” Christie said. The Thanksgiving food drive kicked off in September in conjunction with Hunger Awareness Week. She says their shelves are almost always light. Recently, a local businessman stepped up and made a cash donation so they could buy what they needed. “And then Travis from Food Basics, I invited him to the food bank and he saw what shelves were empty and he and his staff made a decision to fill those shelves. So
Residents at Chartwell Elmira/Chateau Gardens gathered to present their donated food and $871 for the Woolwich Food Bank’s Thanksgiving Drive. Back row: Joan Norris, Vicky Rau, Kelly Christie, Mandy Holmes, and Matthew Bombardier. Front row: Metilda Gingrich and Susannah Martin. [WHITNEY NEILSON / THE OBSERVER] those now have some stuff on them, which already have been used a lot. This hopefully will fill those shelves,” Christie said. They food bank is always in need of juice, canned fruit, and canned meat.
“For us it never ends. We’ll just keep accepting. We weigh the food for the Thanksgiving food drive until we finish our sort, which is on Wednesday,” Christie said. For every donation of
food or financial support the residents got a paper boot to put their name on, which now decorate the walls at Chateau Gardens. They’ve been donating to the Thanksgiving food drive for 20 years.
“They’re always really creative with what they do. I think that really helps get people involved. It’s families, residents, staff, everybody. It’s always been great,” Christie said.
Province provides $2.4 million towards new child care centre in Elmira LIZ BEVAN ELMIRA IS GETTING ITS chunk of a province-wide $120 million Child Care Investment, announced at the beginning of the month by the leading Liberal Party. Some $2.4 million is going towards the now-underconstruction Riverside Public School in Elmira, covering a large portion of cost to build the new child care centre within the school. The current plan is
to fill up 88 spots, housed in five rooms. Nancy Dickieson, director of children’s services at the Region of Waterloo, says the funding will save the region some money. “The provincial funding announcement will reduce the funding obligation for the region by $2.4 million for this project,” she wrote in an email to the Observer, adding that even with the funding announcement, the future of the regionally-
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on the new facility is complete, the region will unroll a transitional plan, aimed at a smooth switch for the 31 children currently attending the Elmira Children’s Centre, and prepare to expand the program to enroll another 57 children by January 2017, bringing the centre up to its full capacity. The money comes during a push by the provincial Liberals to open up child care to more and more families in Ontario.
May Nazar, communications and public relations with the provincial government, says the close proximity of the day care to the new public school will make life easier for both parents and children, especially in Elmira. “Creating more licensed child care spaces in local schools will give children the opportunity to transition from child care into full-day kindergarten at the same location, making for
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Metal recycler gets rough ride in Woolwich Township, new owner at a standstill over plans to do more with former Paleshi Motors site in Elmira STEVE KANNON CATCH-22? CHICKEN-ORTHE-EGG? WHATEVER THE label, Frank Rattasid finds himself in limbo over his plans for the former Paleshi Motors site in Elmira – he won’t go ahead with a planning application for expanded uses until he gets some assurances staff will cooperate; planning staff won’t render an opinion until he files some formal paperwork. Once home to a municipal dump, then operated for decades as a wrecking yard and used auto parts depot, the Arthur Street North site is now owned by 86 Auto and Metal Recyclers. Rattasid wants to expand the types of metal collected be-
yond motor vehicles. Initially, Woolwich planning staff insisted Rattasid needed to apply for a full rezoning of the property, which would require environmental assessments and a host of other costly studies at a site that is bound to have more than a few surprises lurking underground, straddling part of the former dump that is now home to Bolender Park. Staff later decided Rattasid could apply to the township’s committee of adjustment for a minor variance. While the latter route would be less involved and costly, Rattasid argues that without planning staff’s endorsement, his application would likely be turned down, leaving a costly legal
appeal to the Ontario Municipal Board as his only option. “We don’t know why staff is opposing our plans to open a much-needed recycling facility,” Rattasid told councillors in unveiling his plans. “Why does Woolwich Township have a restriction on this property? We don’t understand why we can’t recycle steel. There is no change of use or change of material.” Rattasid purchased the property and the auto salvage business – most recently operated by Alex Auto Parts – planning to expand the metal recycling options. The site will need to process 50 tonnes of metal daily to be viable, he said. That translates into 50 cars
being crushed each day. If other forms of metal are accepted there – residents could sell or drop-off unwanted metal items – then there would be less need to truck in cars for processing. Township planners had been adamant the property’s current zoning allows for the processing of only salvaged vehicles – the M-1 classification has a sitespecific exemption for cars dating back to 1987 – but approved other forms of steel salvage. Rattasid maintains that Woolwich’s stances forces him to do all of metal collection, sorting and crushing out in the front parking lot. Dan Kennaley, Woolwich’s director of engineering and planning, argues
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that Rattasid is free to put a bin for collecting scrap metal at the back of the property behind the 10-foot fence. That would defeat the purpose of allowing people to drop off scrap metal at their convenience, he admits. A commercial operation whereby loads of scrap metal would pass over a scale and customers would be paid for what they brought in would be more problematic, said Kennaley. A bin out front would be an accessory use to the auto salvage business, whereas a larger process would not. “It’s about the scale of the operation,” he said. He insists Rattasid needs to put in a formal application for a zone change or minor variance before staff can provide input. “It requires a Planning Act application of some sort. Until then ... it remains hypothetical.”
In that regard, 86 Auto and Metal Recyclers is not being treated differently than any other business, Kennaley maintains. But Rattasid and his son, Frank Rattasid Jr., who’ve been attending Woolwich council meetings regularly, beg to differ. Planning staff has been defensive and not helpful, Rattasid Jr. has told councillors, adding he and his father have been treated “rudely.” “Why is staff giving us such a hard time?” asked Rattasid. “We don’t understand why a new business in Woolwich is being stalled.” Calling a zone change application too costly, he said the company won’t apply for a minor variance without staff support beforehand. Kennaley maintains the application must come first. Councillors can expect another visit.
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Momentum shifts to Liberals ahead of vote on Oct. 19 Canadians head to the polls Monday to choose a new government. In the campaign’s final week, polls have the Liberals out front with national support of 41.2 per cent of voters, while the Conservatives sit at 34.5 per cent and the NDP at 19.5. Those numbers project to 134 seats for the Liberals, with 170 needed to form a majority in the new 338-seat Parliament. It’s the first time in 12 months the
Liberals now lead the Laurier Institute for the Study of Public Opinion and Policy (LISPOP) seat projection In Kitchener-Conestoga, a forecast by LISPOP has the riding leaning towards the Conservatives. That’s in line with numbers compiled by the website threehundredeight.com, which averages out poll numbers to put the Conservatives at 44.7 per cent, the Liberals at 37.4, NDP at 13.6 and the Greens at 3.8. Both LISPOP and 308 put the Liberals ahead nationally. Locally, the Conservatives won the riding handily in 2011, taking 54.4 per cent of the votes. The runner-up, the
Liberals, won 23.5 per cent. Incumbent Conservative MP Harold Albrecht is seeking re-election on Oct. 19, running against Tim Louis (Liberal), James Villeneuve (NDP), Bob Jonkman (Green) and Rich Hodgson (Libertarian).
MECAC hearing for Shantz Oct. 26 Woolwich Mayor Sandy Shantz will be back before a regional audit committee Oct. 26, two days before she returns to court over concerns about expenses related to last year’s municipal election.
The Municipal Elections Compliance Audit Committee meeting will look into a request from Elmira resident Alan Marshall to review Shantz’s filings. He maintains her expense reports remain incorrect despite an audit and previous review by MECAC. It was Marshall’s original request for an audit that led to Shantz being served with a notice of default in July, stripping her of the mayoralty. She was subsequently returned by appealing to the courts. He’ll make another attempt to convince both the committee and a provincial judge that Shantz’s paperwork errors warrant further action.
Home sales down 11% in September There were are total of 395 home sales through the Multiple Listing System (MLS) of the KitchenerWaterloo Association of Realtors in September compared to 444 during the same period in 2014, a decrease of 11%. Year-to-date 4,393 homes were sold, which is the highest number of units sold to the end of the third quarter since 2008, and 4.6% above the same time last year, the organization reported this week.
Single detached homes in September sold for an average price of $387,219 a decrease of 1% compared to last year. The average sale price for a condominium was $246,933 an increase of 6.2%, while the average sale price of all residential sales in KitchenerWaterloo and area increased 2.4% to $347,633 compared to figures compiled in September 2014. Residential sales in September included 274 single detached homes (down 2.5% from last September), 36 semi-detached (up 2.9%), 26 townhomes (down 16.1%) and 61 condominium units (down 37.1%).
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2:00 PM | A collision involving a Bloomingdale woman is under investigation by Waterloo Regional Police after a claiming the life of a 26-year-old Kitchener Man. The collision occurred on Erb Street West in Waterloo between a minivan and a motorcycle. The motorcycle was westbound on Erb Street approaching Dietz Avenue when the minivan, being operated by the Bloomingdale woman, proceeded from a stop sign to make an eastbound turn onto Erb Street. The motorcycle struck the minivan. The driver of the motorcycle succumbed to his injuries at the scene. The driver of the minivan was taken to hospital with minor injuries. The investigation is continuing and police are asking any witnesses to call the traffic services office at (519) 6537700, ext. 8791 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS.
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Horsepower vs. horse power Cars have the edge when it comes to speed and distance, but using a horse to get around does have some pluses Unlike cars, horses powering the buggies come with a mind of their own, a good reason for drivers to give them a wide berth when passing. [WHITNEY NEILSON / THE OBSERVER]
WHITNEY NEILSON CAR FANATICS ARE QUICK to spew stats on how much horsepower their prized Camaro or Corvette has, but do they know what horsepower even means? For most of us, it has nothing to do with horses. For Mennonites, who live largely off the grid, what kind of literal horsepower do they have when they travel – as they do – by horse-drawn buggy? Local Old Order Mennonites Wesley and Esther Weber explain how horsepower factors into their life. “I once had a horse that did about 30 miles an hour, but that’s a short distance. If a horse travels 10 miles an hour at an average speed he’s an extremely good horse. That’s with a buggy and a couple of people on it,” Wesley says. They’ll use one horse if it’s pulling a buggy and a couple people, but if it’s the whole family they’ll add a second horse – their way of increasing horsepower. Doubling it, in fact. Technically, horsepower refers to a unit of power equal to 550 foot-pounds per second, or 745.7 watts. The term was coined by James Watt in the late 18th century to compare steam engines and draft horses. Nowadays, a car’s horsepower ranges anywhere from 109 for a 2014 Nissan Versa Note, for instance, to 788 for a 2015 Ferrari LaFerrari.
When drivers estimate how long it will take to get to their destination, they’re basing it off of the highway’s speed limit, so anywhere from 80100 km/h in Ontario. For horse-and-buggy drivers, Wesley says they budget travel time off of 10 miles an hour – a notably slower pace. But there’s more than speed to consider when looking at these two modes of transportation. “It’s a slower pace of life
so you see more in a short distance. Basically the reason that we don’t drive cars is not that we’re saying there’s anything wrong with it. It’s just we choose not to because of the effects it can have on the next generation,” Wesley said. And there’s good reason for concern. With a constantly expanding global population requiring transportation, there’s more stress on the Earth and its resources.
Margaret Insley, associate professor and economics department chair at University of Waterloo, explains what to take into account when comparing the two. “Cows produce a lot of greenhouse gases but horses don’t. If you look at the feed and so on, if you do all that, it seems that in terms of the impact on the environment the horse is better, a horse and buggy is better. So if you’re looking at an individual decision, if
someone decides to travel by horse and buggy I think that would be a benefit to the environment. If they make that choice because personally they like that, then that’s good. It’s sort of like choosing to ride a bike,” Insley said. If the government were to add a carbon tax so that the price of gasoline was a lot higher, all of our infrastructure would evolve in response to that, so that people wouldn’t have to commute so far, she sug-
gests. “We’ve built our cities and we’ve built all out infrastructure to accommodate the car, so that it makes it difficult for people to make other choices. But if the price of gasoline truly reflected its environmental cost, then there would be more bike lanes, safe places where horse and buggies could go,” Insley said. She suggests doing a cost HORSE POWER | 7
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benefit analysis to determine which option is more viable, on an individual basis. One of the biggest differences would be the time it takes to get where you’re going. But how do you put a quantitative value on time? Insley says you could take the average wage rate of an Ontarian, or use your own, and plug that into the formula multiplied by however long it takes you to get to work. This way you account for lost wages, due to travel time. “If you’re looking at it from an individual basis, certain individuals maybe don’t have to travel that far, people who kind of live in a more rural setting and who enjoy horseback riding just like some people enjoy bicycling. So they get personal benefits from that. In that case the time wouldn’t be a big factor. If you look overall, clearly for most people that would be a big factor,” Insley said. And if you don’t mind taking your time going to and fro, you really can’t argue with the gas mileage, as it were, for a horse. Ken Fitzgerald, race horse specialist at Sharpe Farm Supplies, breaks down the cost of fueling up a horse for the day. “Grain … race horses eat five kilos a day. [Non-race horses] could probably eat about three or four. Feed is basically a buck a kilo. So about $4 a day for grain. Hay would be a third to a half of a bale. So let’s say $7 a bale, we’re talking $3 a day,” Fitzgerald said. That works out to $7 a day to keep the horse fed and running. Wesley estimates 40 miles roundtrip is the most they’d make a horse go in a day. And if it’s humid out, they’d never ask that much of them. When you think about it,
40 miles for $7 isn’t half bad. The only downside being that there is a maximum distance per day, unlike cars. Just as with a car, there are additional expenses. “Bedding, shavings, which is half a bag a day, it’ll be $3 a day. Blacksmith would be around $100 a month, so say $3 a day. Then you’ve got vet. Normal vet bills for a fairly sound horse would be a couple hundred dollars a month, so about $7 a day,” Fitzgerald said. Budgeting for vet bills is always the wildcard. But that’s the same as with a car, where you never know if it’s going to run fine one month or suddenly need a new alternator. Car owners also have to pay for licensing, plates, insurance, and regular maintenance like oil changes and safety inspections. Horse-and-buggy drivers don’t require any of that. Wesley says they’re encouraged to check their buggies often for loose parts and their harnesses for broken hardware. Wesley estimates a good horse costs around $2,500, while a new buggy is $3,000, and a new harness would be $700 or $800. Fitzgerald said he’s seen a Mennonite buy a former race horse to pull their buggy, with a price tag as high as $11,000. “They’re buying race horses from the track that are basically their career is done at the track. They pay between $5,000 and $8,000 for these things. They’ve really increased because the supply is down. When the government pulled the plug on the slots everybody got rid of their horses and then now the Mennonites are looking for buggy horses and there aren’t that many to be found,” Fitzgerald
said. Wesley says they handle their “insurance” for their horse and buggy through their church brotherhood. They rely on the charity of the brotherhood if something major happens. Otherwise, they deal with it themselves. “It’s always kind of complicated when there is an accident. Say a horse spooks and jumps in front of a car, theoretically the horse should be sued,” he says with a laugh. They’ve started adding turn signals on some buggies and improved the lights to LED for nighttime driving. There also are fiberglass buggies and wheels now, instead of wood. The move to fiberglass was to keep the buggies as light as possible. Buggies have no seatbelts or airbags, and users would rather they stay that way. “We never do want seatbelts because if it’s an open buggy it’s better to fly from it than stay in a wreck with broken wood and so on,” Esther said. Aside from those small changes, there haven’t been any modifications to the buggy we see today compared to the ones their parents would have driven. While driving in a buggy might sound less than ideal to most folks in the winter, there’s actually an advantage to using real horsepower. “We can get through a lot longer than an automobile in the snow. If a horse can plough through the snow we’ll get through,” Esther said. Young Mennonites start to learn to drive when they’re 12 with the help of their dad. By the time they’re 15 they’re driving on their own. Aaron Bowman, local farmer and secretary of his community’s safety com-
mittee, says education is an ongoing process, both with Mennonites and automobile drivers. In conjunction with police and the Ontario Ministry of Transportation, a pamphlet is distributed to Mennonites with tips on how to be a safe driver. He notes drivers would be wise to ensure they always tie down tarps well when driving with any sort of covered load because if a horse hasn’t been exposed to much road travel that sound could be unusual and frighten the horse. And a horse isn’t about to follow the rules of the road. “The horse is always the biggest the thing in the equation. A horse is not a machine. A horse has a mind of its own. It is not a totally predictable creature, as neither are we,” Bowman said. He says when passing a horse-drawn buggy it’s better to leave two metres of space rather than one, to account for the unpredictability of the horse. Wesley says the local community generally accepts their lifestyle and they’re lucky to have wide shoulders on many roads to make it easier and safer to travel alongside cars. Now, they’re looking for other towns to take root. The Mennonite community continues to grow, but there’s very little land available in Waterloo Region, and the land that is for sale is expensive. “Our culture, we stay as a community. With the horse and buggy we don’t want to spread too far. We’ve got outlying areas now and young people move out there. We’re trying to find farms for the next generation, that’s why we’re pushing out,” Wesley said. “We’re trying to spread our wings and don’t know which way to go.”
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Local artists getting set to open their studios to the public LIZ BEVAN WHILE THE LEAVES ARE changing and the temperatures are cooling down, the local art scene is heating up with 15 artists opening their studios to the public. For the weekend of Oct. 25, The Kitting Bridge Trail Studio Tour is back. With artists opening up their workspaces from Bloomingdale to Winterbourne to Elmira, art lovers will have plenty to see. Shirley Frey is one of
the artists featured on this year’s tour. Her media of choice? Paint and any canvas she can get her brush on. “I do some oils, some acrylics. I paint on canvases, but also almost any other object with a flat surface. I do milk cans, saw blades and I paint on wood, fabric, fungus, tins, old coffee pots,” she said. The subject matter she depicts in her pieces isn’t limited to a single category. “I do all kinds. Just the
Shirley Frey is just one of the 15 local artists opening their studios to the public for the annual Kissing Bridge Trail Studio Tour on Oct. 24 and 25. [LIZ BEVAN / THE OBSERVER]
other week, I did a couple of still-lifes that I had set up myself with fruit in it and a small china pitcher in it. I have done quite a bit of scenery, too. I like doing local stuff. Now with more experience, I like taking my own pictures and painting those rather than taking some other picture that I have seen.” Frey has been a stop on the Kissing Bridge Studio Tour around 10 times, and she really enjoys being able to showcase her work to guests.
“I am just a hobby artist,” she said. “I am not full time at all and (the tour) gives you a chance to show your work off. Just meeting the people. Just come on in and enjoy if you like to look at art. Just come and enjoy the works.” The tour runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Oct. 24 and 25 and is free for all art lovers. Frey’s studio is only open on Saturday, but to get full list of the participating artists, their medium and locations, visit. www.kbtstudiotour.ca.
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Canadians eager for change as they head to the polls WITH CANADIANS TIRED OF poor governance and looking for change, voting in Monday’s federal election is as simple as ABC – anything but Conservative. Well, the idea is simple, but executing it will prove a little trickier in much of the country. If the goal is to turf Stephen Harper – and, ideally, put an end to the troubling Reform experiment – residents of each riding will have to assess which of the other parties has the best chance of winning – in some, it will be the Liberal candidate, in others the NDP. The Greens, while making inroads, still remain on the outside, though they run the risk of splitting the centre-left vote. While the NDP looked most likely to topple Harper, it’s now the Liberals that are surging – polls put the party some seven percentage points ahead of the Conservatives. Here in Kitchener-Conestoga, currently held by Harold Albrecht, the riding is leaning towards the incumbent. Voting patterns are such that only the Liberals under Tim Louis have a realistic shot of unseating the Conservative candidate – the riding had been Liberal prior to the 2006 election that sent Albrecht to Ottawa. Few of us, however, vote for the local candidate, opting for the party instead. On that front, too, the choice should exclude the Conservatives, as their policies are ultimately destructive for middle-class Canadians, whose incomes and standard of living have been eroding under neo-conservative ideologies. Tory times are tough times, as history has shown, both here and abroad. If Canadians voted in their own best interests, there would be no talk of a Conservative government. Alas, that is not always the case. With just a few days until we go to the polls, major swings in core support are not in the cards. The key will be voter turnout: the more people that cast a ballot, the better for opposition parties. That includes both the party faithful, particularly Liberal supporters who stayed away in 2011, and the disenchanted who feel politicians aren’t getting it done for them. Of course, each party’s fate depends on the leadership. Harper has proven himself unworthy of the top job given his autocratic manner, dishonesty, poor economic performance and outright corruption. His party’s efforts to shape the public image of the Liberal’s Justin Trudeau, so effective against Stéphane Dion and Michael Ignatieff, has largely backfired. Canadians have now made him the frontrunner. Thomas Mulcair has shown himself to be an able debater, but hasn’t displayed any of the appeal of his predecessor Jack Layton, who led the NDP to its best showing ever in the last election. Elizabeth May is a bright spot, taking aim at the status quo and daring to speak the truth on a range of issues – from oil wars to economics – on which others repeat the same tired lies. But she has been largely invisible this time around, and has no chance of becoming prime minister at any rate. The battle really comes down to Harper versus Trudeau. The latter may be something of an unknown factor – the name carries unwarranted baggage for some, particularly out west – but Harper is the devil we know. His attacks on the Parliamentary democracy, corruption in the name of blatant power grabs and attacks on parts of the country’s very fabric means it’s time for him to go.
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Turks not falling for Erdogan’s self-serving war efforts WORLD AFFAIRS THE DEATH TOLL FROM the twin suicide bombs at a peace rally in Ankara last Saturday has reached 128. The Turkish police were not present to provide security (they never are at “opposition” events), but they did show up to fire tear gas at the mourners afterwards. Who did it? Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu offered three possibilities: the Kurdish separatist organization PKK; anonymous “extreme leftists;” or Islamic State. Selahattin Demirtas, the co-leader of the pro-Kurdish HDP party that organized the rally, offered a fourth alternative: people trying to advance the interests of President Recep Tayyib Erdogan’s Justice and Development (AK) party. The atrocity certainly served Erdogan’s strategy of creating an atmosphere of fear and impending calamity before the elections on Nov. 1, in which he hopes to get back the
parliamentary majority he lost in the June elections. But it’s hard to believe that the AK Party has suicidebombers at its disposal: it is an Islamic Party, but nothing like that extreme. It’s equally unlikely to have been the work of the PKK, because a very large proportion of the people at the rally were Kurds. Moreover, the PKK is a secular group, which makes it an improbable source of suicide-bombers. The suggestion that “extreme leftists” were responsible is ridiculous: what would be their motive? Which leaves ISIS, aka Islamic State, as the probable perpetrator. ISIS uses suicide-bombers as a matter of course, and it is certainly angry at President Erdogan. He treated it quite well in the early years of the Syrian civil war, keeping the Turkish border open for its volunteers to flow across by the thousands. He even closed the border to Kurds who wanted to help the defenders of Kobani, a city in the northern, Kurdishmajority part of Syria – a siege that lasted four months and ended in an ISIS defeat.
Erdogan is a deeply religious Sunni Muslim. He wanted to see the overthrow of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, an Alawite (Shia) ruling a mostly Sunni country, and he didn’t much care who the opposition were so long as they were Sunnis. He also didn’t want to see a Kurdish ministate appear just across Turkey’s southern border, so he preferred an ISIS victory over Syria’s Kurds. But his priorities changed after he lost the June election. Now his own power was at stake, and to keep it he needed a crisis. In fact, he needed a war. Assuming that the AK Party would not only win its fourth straight election this year but gain a twothirds majority of seats, Erdogan moved on from 10 years as prime minister and got himself elected president last year. The presidency is a largely ceremonial office, but with a two-thirds majority he could change the constitution and make it allpowerful. But his party didn’t get a two-thirds majority in the June election. It didn’t get a majority at all: only 258
seats in the 550-seat parliament. The main reason was that the HDP, a party demanding that Turkey’s one-fifth Kurdish minority be treated as equal citizens in every respect, including language, managed to get into parliament. Most of the HDP’s voters were Kurds, including many conservative and religious Kurds who had previously voted for Erdogan’s party, but its secular and liberal values also persuaded many ethnic Turks to vote for it. It only got 13 per cent of the vote, but that was above the 10-percent threshold a party must exceed to win any seats in parliament at all. The arrival of the HDP changed the parliamentary arithmetic and deprived the AK of its majority. Erdogan could have opted for a coalition, but he was stranded in the powerless presidency, unable to change the constitution, and could not even personally be part of such a coalition government. So he decided to gamble on another election. The Kurdish votes were DYER | 10
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“Now his own power was at stake, and to keep it he needed a crisis. In fact, he needed a war.” Gwynne Dyer | 8 HIS VIEW / STEVE KANNON
Like most trade deals, TPP will create more losers than it does winners EDITOR'S NOTES STEPHEN HARPER WAS EAGER to announce a deal was reached in the TransPacific Partnership trade negotiations. At first blush, that seems like a hollow victory – the TPP is a secretive, likely harmful pact that could take years to actually advance, if it ever does. But even the premature news – and a host of costly supports for sectors that will take a hit, including supply management agriculture – gives the besieged government a “win” it can sell, at least to the unquestioning base. We know, of course, that sweeping trade agreements have largely been detrimental for our economy, encouraging the kind of globalization that has gutted the manufacturing sector in Ontario, as it has even in the U.S. heartland. In keeping with the secrecy, misinformation and lack of transparency in almost everything it does, the government offers
nothing to Canadians but platitudes when it comes to trade negotiations. TPP is a classic example, where even few politicians have been privy to the terms, though there’s been plenty of corporate involvement from day-one – don’t worry, they’re looking out for you, not their own selfinterest. Just like the government is. Laughable, if the consequences weren’t so troubling. This isn’t about trade. It’s about lowering standards to global levels, and providing no recourse for contesting it, as the TPP ensures a greater loss of local sovereignty than in previous trade deals. Erasing democracy and putting control in the hands of global interests that will force wages down, hasten environment degradation and threaten the civil rights. But, hey, maybe we’ll pay 20 cents less for something. Maybe. Trade agreements have failed Canadians time and time again, yet we’re moving into another one – quietly, as is usually the case, so as not to draw attention to the process. History
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ity gains, no job growth and no increase in our incomes, which have stagnated for decades. Calling them trade agreements is rather disingenuous. The real goal is the ability to move capital with the intent of securely offshoring jobs, intellectual property rights, extending pharmaceutical patents to raise the cost of drugs and reduce oversight. Language in existing deals such as NAFTA becomes even more pronounced in the TPP and CETA, the deal with the European Union, allowing for end-runs around national governments, essentially constraining their powers. In many ways, its continued deregulation by stealth, as governments would be handcuffed. As parties to the negotiations, they do so willingly, attempting to hide from the public the desire to turn more power over to corporations. Critics of deals such as the TPP, including those in the U.S., point to changes that would take away even the minimal controls over the financial system that
caused the economic meltdown in 2008. Instead of more regulation, we’ll continue down the road that led to the crisis in the first place. It can be argued that liberalized monetary policies and trade deals that favour corporate interests over the well-being of citizens – policies that have eroded our standard of living for three decades – culminated in the 2008 financial meltdown. The cure, we’re told, is yet more deregulation and globalization, essentially offering a drowning man more water instead of a lifejacket. The risks and prospect of very few rewards have been flagged by a variety of groups, as noted in a report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. “Canada already has free trade deals in place with four of the larger TPP countries (Peru, Chile, U.S. and Mexico) and tariffs on trade with the others are already low. TPP countries with which Canada does not already have an FTA make up only 3% of its total exports and 5% of its imports. Canada has
a trade deficit with these countries of $5 to $8 billion annually. Eighty per cent of Canadian exports to these countries are raw or semiprocessed goods (e.g. beef, coal, lumber) while 80% of imports are high valueadded goods (e.g. autos, machinery, computer and electrical components). The TPP is therefore likely to exacerbate the erosion of the Canadian manufacturing sector and jobs that has been taking place since NAFTA,” the group points out. “Canada has not released an economic impact study of the TPP, likely because the effect on GDP and job growth will be so small (and possibly negative, according to one study). A pro-TPP study in the U.S. estimated only a 0.13% increase to U.S. GDP by 2025 from the TPP. Many prominent economists, including Paul Krugman, Joseph Stiglitz and Dani Rodrik, feel that the trade impacts of TPP are far less important than the serious concerns it raises about excessive intellectual property rights, KANNON | 10
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has shown the free trade deal with the U.S. and later NAFTA have been hugely detrimental to the middle class in Canada and the U.S., while even further eroding Mexico’s economy in the case of the latter. Look, for example, at the original deal with the U.S. penned by Brian Mulroney and Ronald Reagan. The numbers tell the story. Canada’s exports to the United States accounted for 19 per cent of Canadian GDP. Twenty-five years later, they accounted for 19 per cent of GDP. Where Canada once accounted for 19 per cent of all U.S. imports, after gaining “unprecedented” access to the market, we account for 14 per cent of imports. In the mid-1980s, most of Canada’s exports to the U.S. consisted of relatively sophisticated manufactured goods (including automobiles, electronics and machinery). Today, most of our southbound exports consist of unprocessed or barely processed primary and resource products. Expect that situation to worsen under the TPP. We’ve seen no productiv-
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Pessimism about the national economy climbed sharply among professional accountants in leadership positions in the third quarter of 2015. Optimism levels in the quarterly research fell to 17% in Q3 compared with 29% in the second quarter of 2015.
“We’re being ripped off and it just keeps getting worse. Without our permission, Kathleen Wynne is taking away something valuable that we all own and giving it to her rich backers on Bay Street. Now, we find out she’s giving it away for even less than she first said.”
DLM Foods Canada Ltd. (a subsidiary of Del Monte Foods Company) completed a transaction that saw the ownership of the former Martin Pet Foods plant in Elmira transfer to a management group. The buyout will see the plant continue to produce the same private-label, premium brands of dry dog and cat food it has been since 1984.
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not coming back to the AK Party, and the only other possible source were the ultra-nationalists who had been alienated by his peace talks with the PKK. (The talks began and the shooting stopped four years ago, although the official ceasefire was only declared in 2013.) Now he needed to restart the war against the PKK, and that would be most unwelcome to his American allies. He solved the problem by saying he would attack ISIS and other “terrorists,” which got Washington on board – but since the Turkish air strikes began in August, they have hit 20 PKK targets for every strike against ISIS. It’s not even
clear that Turkey has finally shut its border to ISIS volunteers. The PKK is fighting back, of course, but ISIS has not been appropriately grateful that Turkey is only bombing it (quite lightly) for diplomatic reasons. It is almost certainly responsible for all three masscasualty attacks using suicide-bombers in Turkey this year. There is only one consolation in all this: Erdogan’s electoral strategy doesn’t seem to be working. A poll last month showed that 56 per cent of Turks hold him directly responsible for the new war. The polls also show AK’s share of the vote falling, and that of the HDP rising. Erdogan is facing defeat, and he richly deserves it.
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Once the agreements are in place – the TPP has to be ratified by the governments of each of the participating countries – national governments can simply wash their hands of any issues raised by their citizens. It’s a corporate-friendly agenda, to the detriment of other priorities citizens may have, turning over the levers of control from public hands to private. That’s why Harper is hoping the deal itself is seen as a win before the details become known and the full extent of the betrayal sinks in.
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Lady Lancers off to a strong start on the court this season EDSS’ junior and senior basketball squads putting together good numbers this season WHITNEY NEILSON THE GIRLS’ BASKETBALL TEAMS at EDSS are off to a successful start with the senior team winning two tournaments in a row and the juniors holding a 4-1 record. They played to a packed gym on Oct. 8 as part of the Battle of the Barns versus Waterloo-Oxford District Secondary School. Karley Sider led Elmira with 19 points in their 45-15 win over WODSS. Nicole Cressman followed close behind with 15. Seniors girls basketball coach Brian Carter commends the two veteran players for their teamwork. “We’re led by two great fifth-year players that have been on the team for three years now and they have been playing together for so long, and they feed off each other very well. But they’re also showing great
Nicole Cressman goes to the net in the senior squad’s 45-15 win over Waterloo-Oxford last week. She finished the game with 15 points. [WHITNEY NEILSON / THE OBSERVER]
leadership for the rest of the team,” Carter said. Point guard Cressman scores, but she also distributes the ball well to her teammates. Power forward Karley Sider often leads the team in points, while also rebounding and providing a great presence defensively. Carter says with those two on the floor they have a good basis for the rest of the girls to build off of. Half of last year’s team is back again this year. He says they have different strengths from last year’s team. So far, they’re playing more defensively and spreading around the ball to involve more players. “They’re talking on the floor, they’re starting to play together and the more they play together they realize where each other are on the floor so that they can make passes more consistently and they can help each other on defense more
often, and play as a unit, instead of an individual,” Carter said. Against WODSS, they started slow. But once they started getting some shots in they relaxed and picked up the pace. Not used to such a big crowd watching, Carter says they fed off the crowd’s energy. “Yesterday’s game was definitely our best all round game of the year, both offensively and defensively. We’ve had good offensive games, we’ve had good defensive games, but I thought we put it all together yesterday and we played very well,” Carter said the following day. The team won their own home tournament two weeks ago and followed it up the next weekend by defending their title at the Rockway tournament, which they’ve won two
goal was the one that tipped the scales on the ice, and it could have easily prevented. “The first goal was a gaff by the defenseman and the goalie, and Kitchener put it in the open net, so that one we would certainly want back, and that one would KINGS | 14
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FOOTBALL: A good day for both the senior and junior squads versus WODSS counterparts FROM | COVER
Senior football coach Steve Karn said there are only four of their starting players back from last year, but that hasn’t slowed them down. “The last three years we’ve been strong with a lot of seniors. This year we’re pretty young as a senior team, but you know what, the boys are working really hard. Hopefully this week we can rebound after last week. We lost 31-21 to KCI and we made a lot of mistakes that a young team’s going to make. But this week hopefully we’ve worked out some of the kinks and we’ll be good,” Karn said prior to their win over Waterloo-Oxford. Leading Elmira were Greg Huber and Jacob Fulton with 18 points apiece, and Nathan Schlupp with six. Their quarterback took a late hit before the Kitchener Collegiate Institute game and had to sit out. Karn substituted his running back for that game. He said the loss to KCI could have gone either way. “At KCI we were winning at halftime 7-3 and then without my quarterback we were trying our best. And it was 24-21 with three minutes left and we were
The EDSS junior boys’ football team emerged victorious in the Battle of the Barns Oct. 8, handing Waterloo-Oxford a 16-3 loss. marching the ball down the field and our receiver caught it and he was trying to get extra yards and their defender stripped it away from us. Then they went the other way and scored another touchdown,” Karn said. He noted they’re missing their quarterback Jordan Frey who played three years of senior football with them, but their new quarterback is strong and doing a good job. Frey was on hand with the coaching staff for the Battle of the Barn. “Last week I think we
had three turnovers and the team that has the most turnovers isn’t going to win usually. So we made some key mistakes at key times. That’s the growing pains being young. They have a lot of positives. Greg Huber, he’s had five touchdowns for us now as a receiver. We’ve had some really positive, big things happen. It’s just getting everybody to learn all the basics and get them down pat. We’re only going to get better each game, that’s the positive,” Karn said. This was the first time the two teams have played
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since 2011 because WODSS was in the B pool of the league. Elmira won that time too. Last year’s senior team was on the right track until three of their key players were injured in the final stretch of the regular season. They lost to Sir John A. MacDonald Secondary School in the quarter-finals last year. Karn said last year’s string of injuries was the most they’ve had in the 12 years since starting the football program at EDSS. He’s hopeful they’ll make it out of this season largely unscathed.
“Eventually bad luck catches up to you, but hopefully this year we won’t have that issue and we’ll just be able to keep moving and progressing each game without having to worry about injuries. It’s a contact sport. It’s the same as anything, like hockey, you’re definitely going to have some bumps and bruises along the way, hopefully just everybody’s able to continue playing.” This year the WCSSAA football format changed. They used to have to play all the A team because they were in the elite division,
but after removing the Catholic school board teams they made two even pools of seven teams. Come playoff time the top four teams in each pool will cross over and play each other. “I think we can compete with anybody really. We have a good talent pool, so we’ve been impressed actually. Our first game we won 42-14 over Glenview Park,” Karn said. Up next, they’ll play the two-time defending champs, Jacob-Hespeler Secondary School. He says that will be their hardest game. JHSS has some 15 players who play rep football on top of their high school football. That experience adds up. But if the Battle of the Barn game proved anything, it’s that Elmira is in it to win it. “They’ll be in every football game. They’ll work hard, that’s the good thing about them. That’s one of the things we’ve always prided ourselves on is they never give up and they always work hard. And this group of kids is no different than that. They’re the same motto,” said Karn. Both teams returned home on Oct. 14 looking to take on JHSS.
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GALEA: By doing a dance, deers fail to provide a proper target to the mindful bowhunter FROM | 11
all took off to their own corners of the woods, leaving me with arrow in hand. The reason I didn’t shoot was because they were always in a position where any arrow that passed
through the intended target would hit the deer behind it too. We bow hunters avoid this sort of shot like the plague. We only want a lethal, ethical shot on un-alerted game. That makes for a hu-
mane harvest. That’s why square dancing might be such an effective defensive ploy. As you can see, any group of deer that enjoy square dancing makes a shot virtually impossible.
They’re moving too often and getting in the way of each other. Call me paranoid but I’m almost certain a squirrel called “promenade left.” I tell you it was maddening. The only thing that could make this situation worse is if someone taught them to break dance. I don’t know what I’d do if the buck I line up started spinning on its head or moon walking. I suspect I’d go right back to duck hunting. The point here is this is an evolutionary advantage that these particular deer have developed. And if they pass it along to their
fawns, they might up their survival rate in the woods by 100 per cent. The scary part was how good they were at it. Of course, it was not actually planned. This was just how the deer reacted to each other and the food source on the ground. It’s not like they were wearing twirly skirts or cowboy hats – yet. But it was interesting to note that there was only one little buck in the group. And the poor guy looked sufficiently embarrassed that I might not have arrowed him even if I could have. I’ve been forced to square dance before; I
could relate. Before all this, I thought I had it made. Two fawns walked into the clearing followed by a mature doe and the buck. I raised my bow for the shot at the deer which were only 14 yards distant. All I needed for the others to clear away from the big doe, the deer I decided to take. Then she saw another doe inside the far edge of the woods and the nervous dancing began. As I said, it wasn’t intended. But I guess square dancing just breaks out as soon as you get into doe see doe situation.
Cal Jeffries and David Elford fight for the puck at Saturday night’s Wellesley Applejacks home opener against New Hamburg. The Jacks lost the game 7-4. Their next home game is on Oct. 24 against Tavistock. [LIZ BEVAN / THE OBSERVER]
Jacks in tough in homeopener loss to New Hamburg Growing pains are evident, says coach, as Wellesley squad heads into a busy stretch to end this week LIZ BEVAN THE WELLESLEY APPLEJACKS FELL 7-4 to the New Hamburg Firebirds at their opener at the Wellesley arena last Saturday night. Head coach Brad Gerber says the team is going through some growing pains and it showed on the ice, especially in the first period. “We did have a bit of a slow start,” he said. “I don’t know if it was nerves because of our home-opener, or what, but we just weren’t prepared to start. “ By the end of the first, the ‘Jacks were down 2-0. The team went under a transformation during the break, scoring three goals – two for Nicholas Breault and one to Brenden Goran. “We just told the boys to start doing the little things and play with a little intensity,” he said. Gerber’s between-period pep talk seemed to have taken effect, drawing four penalties for New Hamburg. Breault and Goran capitalized on the power play. Firebird Walker Davison also scored in the second, closing out the period with a 3-3 tie. “That seemed to help.
We are a young team and we are going to go through adversity this year and we obviously need to learn how to play (more effectively). Every team goes through it.” The final period of the game didn’t play out in the Applejacks’ favour, with New Hamburg scoring four goals to Wellesley’s single point, put to the back of the net by one of the team’s veteran players, Cal Jefferies, helped along by Justin Lebold and Sean McEwan. The Applejacks have some young blood new players on their roster after some of their experienced players were called up to the Elmira Sugar Kings. Gerber says it is going to take time to get the team to play as one, and with two more games this week, and another this weekend, Wellesley is going to have plenty of practice. “I think we just have to prepare the boys. We talk about the little things that win hockey games,” he said. “Playing better without the puck and learning to play in tough situations against veteran teams” Even though the ‘Jacks couldn’t pull out a win at
their home opener, Gerber says there were a couple of players that stood out on the rink on Saturday, but wants to emphasize, the Applejacks are a team, not a collection of individual players. “I thought some of the veteran guys were good. Jefferies had a really good game, again,” he said earlier this week. “You miss guys like (those called to the Kings) but I think some of our younger defensemen really held their own. Whether you win or lose, it is still a team effort.” Gerber also mentioned Breault and his steady improvement over the last couple of weeks. “He is starting to show his offensive side, and it is starting to come out in the last few games,” said Gerber. The loss put the Jacks’ record at 4-3, though those numbers will change in short order: the team plays three games to end the week, hosting Woodstock Oct. 14 before heading out to Ayr Thursday and Paris on Saturday night. Their next home game isn’t until Oct. 24 against Tavistock.
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KINGS: Back on home ice again Sunday night FROM | 11
have been the difference in the game,” he said after Tuesday’s practice. The second period saw two more goals from Kitchener, and Elmira went into the final 20 minutes of play down by a goal, 3-2 The final frame was full of goals and a stoppage in play for a Sugar Kings injury. The teams traded penalties and goals, and with just six minutes left in the third, forward Ryan Maksymyk took a hit to the head and game play stopped while emergency services
were called to the rink. “I think he has a bit of a concussion. The ambulance was certainly precautionary, but he hit his head pretty hard,” said Flanagan. “He went to the hospital and they said there was no damage that they could see or ascertain. He is going to be out for a little while, but just for how long, we aren’t sure yet.” Once Maksymyk was off the ice and being treated by medical professionals, the game continued with Quinten Bruce putting the puck past the Dutchmen goaltender, tying it up 5-5.
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Zac Coulter faces off against the Kitchener Dutchmen defense, trying to get a puck to the back of the net on Sunday night at Dan Snyder Arena. The Kings lost the game 6-5 in OT. [LIZ BEVAN / THE OBSERVER]
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Apples to be in shorter supply Like many farmers, Ontario growers hit by bad weather see WHITNEY NEILSON ANYONE PLANNING TO GO apple picking this fall should call U-pick farms ahead of time, as Mother Nature wasn’t kind this year, leaving only half of Ontario’s usual apple crop. A harsh winter, dry spring and late frost left apple trees in rough shape, and unable to produce as much as Ontarians are looking to buy. Charles Stevens, Ontario Apple Growers chair, says usually apple growers deal with one weather-related problem per year, and they can manage that. “But this year we had many, many an extreme weather issue that caused problems with the apple crop. This past winter, January and February were extremely cold and they weakened the trees extremely and there were some trees even in the Georgian Bay district, young trees that were actually killed by the cold,” Stevens said. He doesn’t see there being a shortage of apples just yet. But come winter, they might be harder to come by and more expensive. The first major weather event that hurt the trees was a freezing cold winter. They were weakened going into the spring. “An apple tree’s like a groundhog. It gets all its reserves of sugar and carbohydrates to stay alive during the winter. The harsher the winter is the more those resources are used up. So in the springtime when they
go into bloom, that’s the maximum amount of stress that’s on a tree. It’s kind of like a woman giving birth, that’s the way I put it,” Stevens said. Martin’s Family Fruit Farm owner Steve Martin says the last two years have been good for apple growers and this year’s weather issues are nowhere near as bad as in 2012 when there was only a 15 per cent apple crop across Ontario. “Right now you hardly notice it, other than there are less apples to pick. We obviously have fewer pickers hired to pick them. It doesn’t seem that we’re any less busy at this time of year. Where it could have some effect obviously is late winter, early spring, and into next early summer. There could certainly be somewhat of a shortage of Ontario apples around,” Martin said. Of the five apple districts in Ontario, four of them experienced an extremely dry May. Essex County was the odd man out, seeing excess moisture. Because of the lack of moisture in the ground during bloom and just after bloom, the trees were in worse condition by the time the frost happened on May 23. Garden experts will advise you not to plant tomatoes or any sensitive plants before the 24th of May. They were definitely right this year, with the frost that damaged the apple trees happening the day before. “It was the combination of the dryness and that frost that gave us the major impact that we’re dealing
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Ken there will with today. We call that frost event a dry freeze. Because moisture gives off heat and because we didn’t have that moisture in the trees, they were suffer-
Martin of Martin of Martin’s Family Fruit Farm in St. Jacobs, where be apples in supply. [WHITNEY NEILSON / THE OBSERVER] ing from hard. It exemplifies being a lack of dry. It exemplifies the low moisture, temperature damage,” Stenothing in vens said. the ground. If they would have had The dew point, an inch of rain the week before, the apple crop would that’s what the scientists call it, was minus six or APPLES | 16 greater. That really hit us
PROFILE-WISE, THIS YEAR’S WORLD Food Day on Oct. 16 should certainly benefit from the ever-growing concerns and public handwringing about feeding the planet. But when it’s done, then what? For a multitude of farmers and the industry and researchers that supports them, every day is World Food Day. Every day they are engaged in some aspect of feeding the world. If they stop, the planet doesn’t get fed. It’s that simple. The need doesn’t get more basic. The challenge is being addressed in many ways. For example, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization has set 2030 as the date to “end hunger, to achieve food security and to end malnutrition in all its forms,” according to director-general José Graziano da Silva. He says he has no doubt the generation that lives then will be the “Zero Hunger Generation.” So, what will this effort take? At the UN level, it will require a lot of talk, as the organization brings countries together to develop action policies on their own soil. ROBERTS | 16
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ROBERTS: Finding new techniques and technologies that can help feed the world’s population FROM | 15
An effort like must be based on, or driven by, more than a few countries or companies. As food security expert Prof. Evan Fraser at the University of Guelph says, a key feature of sustainability is having strong farm communities everywhere, not just in developed nations, and not having a food system that relies too heavily on exports from other countries. Seizing on the World Food Day momentum, on
the weekend Fraser and his team are scheduled to bring students from Guelph and three other universities together electronically for what’s called The Feeding 9 Billion Challenge. It’s a forum for building bridges across the country and beyond, so the students can converse about the problem and further, try to develop their own solutions. “We believe that solutions for the innumerable problems in the food sys-
tem require input from all angles, and especially from young people,” says Fraser. Technology has always had a vital role in agriculture, and will continue to do so as efforts to feed the world intensify. Guelph’s global outreach in agriculture was underlined earlier this month when plant agriculture Prof. Jay Subramanian was invited to a United Nations showcase in New York City, to profile technologies that can help feed the world.
Subramanian leads a 35-person international team at Guelph, India and Sri Lanka that has developed a technology to slow down spoilage in fruit and vegetables. It’s a natural plant product called hexanal, that plants produce as a defence mechanism against spoilage. By extracting it and applying it as a spray or incorporating it into packaging, it extends the fruit life in trees by up to three weeks, and on the shelf by a whopping 3-6 weeks. This technology is poised
to have a major positive effect internationally. After regulatory review, hexanal use was recently approved as a standard growing practice for mangoes in the state of Tamil Nadu, and will be included in the state government’s recommendations for mango cultivation. Achieving approval was huge. Subramanian is further enthused about the possibilities the technology offers to other farmers, such as banana producers
in Africa. There, farmers grow some of the world’s finest bananas, but climate and transportation challenges work against them once the bananas are harvested. Hexanal helps address this problem. Oct. 16 is World Food Day because that’s when the Food and Agriculture Organization first met, back in 1945, in Quebec City. Canada has a rich history of feeding the world, through farming and development. There’s no turning back now.
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be in a much better state. May was followed by a wet June, which didn’t cause many problems. In his 40 years of apple growing, this is the second largest frost damage he’s seen. What makes things worse is the worst frost damage in those four decades was only three years ago. “All farmers have a bad year because of a weather issue. Usually Mother Nature will give you four, five years of happy crops to recoup and rebuild. That hasn’t happened. We were knocked down even harder
in 2012 with only 20 per cent of an apple crop. This year we have half an apple crop,” Stevens said. He notes a lot of the apples produced have been reduced to a juice grade because they’re small and misshapen, or have frost rings. This means there are probably less than 50 per cent of the usual fresh apples for sale. And as can be expected in a world of supply and demand, the price is going to be higher this year for Ontario apples. He doesn’t expect it to peak quite as high as in 2012, but the low Canadian dollar will also
cause a negative impact. “Today it’s very difficult for any marketer, or even the United States, to pump apples into Ontario because of our dollar, a 30 per cent extra cost. If you were in the United States and had extra apples and Loblaws picks up the phone and says ‘I’ll pay you this price,’ and you say ‘well you know there’s a big difference in the dollar. I need to up my price by 30 per cent if I’m going to be shipping anything’ and they may say ‘no can do,’” Stevens explained. This created problems for the half a dozen major
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packers of Ontario’s apples. They can’t just hop across the border to buy apples to keep their operation going and their customers satisfied. But, they’re able to buy apples from other provinces like Quebec, BC, and Nova Scotia. Those markets are relatively small compared to Ontario who produces at least a third of the apples in Canada. “One of the problems with this frost also is it hammered some of our most in-demand apples, Honeycrisp and Gala and Ambrosia. Those three varieties got hit harder, so there are probably less than 50 per cent of the crop for those. Whereas MacIntosh, I’d say there are probably 65 per cent. There are more MacIntosh out there than other apples,” Stevens said Which apples prosper and which apples fail depends on timing. Apple varieties come into bloom and produce at different times. Apple growers are divided into commercial growers who market their apples to chain stores, and smaller growers who sell through a farm market, on their farm, or at a U-pick. “The pick-your-own operations are running into serious problems because the consumer doesn’t watch the weather and they don’t pick up the phone and call. They go ‘oh we’re going to go pick apples at so-and-so’s this weekend,’ drive into the driveway and they have no apples. Or the price is up and they don’t know why,” Stevens said. This means a double loss for the grower who’s seeing a loss in income alongside unhappy customers. He recommends calling ahead before going to pick apples, to ensure they have enough supply. And it wasn’t just apples that were hit hard this year. Numerous other plants
Steve Martin expects to see normal supplies this fall. [WHITNEY NEILSON / THE OBSERVER] spring and a lack of frost. Summer should be warm and sunny with moisture here and there, and then a cool, sunny fall to ripen and harvest the fruit. “I would love to see the industry grow because we only supply half of the apples that are consumed in Ontario and we could grow and sell more apples in Ontario. That’s good for Ontario because we create jobs and the consumer gets more of what’s growing right in their backyard. That’s a win-win. But with having two major weather instances this close together, it’s very difficult to have some extra money to plant that next acreage of apples,” Stevens said. Martin has Gala, MacIntosh, Honeycrisp, Ambrosia, Empire and Cortland apples for sale at his store right now. Ambrosia and Empire are just starting to become available. He says customers will see the normal amount of apples they’ve come to expect at his store, but that could change by spring depending on what kind of winter Mother Nature throws our way. “I will have apples in our retail store all year round, I can guarantee that,” Martin said.
were affected, like strawberries and grapes. “My neighbour planted corn, he got his in early some of it. He had to replant 300 acres of corn. It just fried right off. I’ve never seen that in the history of my life or my dad’s life. It just went brown. There were fields of soybeans that were killed in the Norfolk area, the drought affected the hay. There was no hay. Usually the month of May is wet and it produces a great crop of hay for harvest in the month of June. It didn’t happen,” Stevens said. He adds there have been extreme weather events across the country this year from dry, hot weather in BC to an extended icy winter in Nova Scotia. Farmers have to adapt to change and to our changing environment. Apple growers are buying more protection for their crops from frost, he says. “That’s the solution, you have to keep changing. If your environment has changed, you better adapt. If not, you’re not going to do very well,” Stevens said. The ideal apple growing weather would be a winter with lots of snow, but not extreme freezing temperatures, followed by a moist
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HELP WANTED SMALL MENNONITE CABINET shop looking for general cabinet assembler for custom furniture and kitchen cabinet manufacturing. Countryline Furniture 519-669-4118.
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BUSINESS OPS BUSINESS FOR SALE Furniture repair and finishing, estate clear outs and sales. Call 226-606-0710 for more information.
HELP WANTED FOR SALE ANNUAL FALL SALE at Martin’s Drygoods, 519-6982152. 15% off storewide, October 1 to 31. Monday to Saturday, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
• Loader Operator and Tri Axle truck driver. Full time and part time available. • Part time snow plow operator also required. Reply to Kuntz Top soil at: 889 Bridge St. W., Waterloo or fax 519-888-9207
AUTOMOTIVE EQUIPMENT FOR sale. Mintex brake drum lathe, one Kwik-Way brake disc lathe; both in good working condition. Manuals available. Call Waterloo Marine and Auto Service, 519-725-2628. BOOK SALE - Oct 20, 10 -8; Oct 21, 10 - 8. Salema Martin, 15 Snyder Ave. S. Elmira, 519669-3941.
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FABRIC SALE IS on for the month of October. Come in and see what savings we have for you. We have someone to service your sewing machine for you. “Blue Ridge Impressions” 2015 - 2016 catalogues available now. Busy Bee Quilts, Elmira. 519-669-3441. HILLCREST HOME BAKING Fall Sale Oct. 13 - 29. Closed Sun. and Mon. 519-669-1381. 10% off all fabrics, table cloths, hosiery, underwear, sweaters. 50% off selected fabrics. 10% off garden dawg and Zsandals. NEW Homemade shirts formerly sold at Pares & Erma Bauman. CHECK the bargain table for discontinued socks etc, blue shirts, bed spreads and more all at HALF PRICE. LAWN FERTILIZER AND LAWN SEED - Call George Haffner Trucking, 519-574-4141 or 519-669-2045. SOFTNER SALT - 20kg bags, minimum 25 bags, skid lots of 56. Delivered in St. Jacobs, St. Clements, Elmira & Linwood areas. Call George Haffner Trucking, 519-5744141 or 519-669-2045.
AUCTIONS AUCTION SALE OF 100 acre farm, machinery, butcher equipment, feed, and miscellaneous items, to be held at 966484 Oxford Waterloo Rd. Blandford Blenhein Twp. (approx. 4 miles south of New Hamburg. South on Walter Rd, then east), for Owen and Carol Cook, on Saturday, October 24th at 9:00 a.m. WED. OCT 28 at 10:00 AM Clearing auction sale of furniture; antiques; household effects; collectables; and miscellaneous items to be held at the St. Jacob’s Community Centre in St. Jacob’s for an area estate with additions. Jantzi Auctions Ltd, 519-656-3555. www. jantziauctions.com FRI. OCT 30 at 5:00 PM - Farm Toy auction of approx 350 toys including; Cockshutt collection; JD collection; precision; farm show collectors; and other collectables to be held at the St. Jacobs Community Centre in St. Jacobs for 2 local collectors. Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 519-656-3555. www.jantziauctions.com
FRI. OCT 16 at 8:45 PM charity auction of gift certificates; new furniture; gift items; and crafts for the KW Pregnancy Resource Centre to be held at the Victoria Park Pavilion 80 Schneider Ave in Kitchener. Jantzi Auctions Ltd., 519-656-3555. www.jantziauctions.com
SAT. OCT 31 at 9:00 AM Annual Charity auction of quilts; donated new furniture; household goods; farm miscellaneous; and other items to be held at 7400 Reid Woods drive in Elmira approx 3 kms north of Elmira for the Elmira and District Association for Community Living. Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 519-656-3555. www.jantziauctions.com
AUCTION SALE OF 1965 firetruck, cars, tools, lawn & garden equipment, antiques & miscellaneous items, to be held at 1029 Bean Rd. Wilmot Twp. (2 miles south of New Hamburg Highway 7&8, south of Walker Rd, left on Bean Rd.), for Ross & Glenda Roth, on Saturday, October 17th at 10:00 a.m. Gerber Auctions Ltd. 519-699-4451.
AUCTION SALE OF Country property, car, household effects, antiques and miscellaneous items, to be held at 1366 Wilby Rd. Wilmot Twp. 2 miles northeast of St. Agatha (between Notre Dame & Wilmot Line), for the Robert Moser Estate on Saturday, November 7th at 11 a.m. Gerber Auctions Ltd. 519-699-4451.
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FARM SERVICES BAGGED PINE SHAVINGS Agricultural Spray Lime, 22.5kg. bag; feed grade lime, 25kg. Delivered. Call George Haffner Trucking, 519-574-4141 or 519-6692045.
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CUSTOM APPLE JUICE pressing. Also, juice sales. Place order early for best availability. Cedar Ridge Pressing, Wesley Martin, 3175 Northfield Dr., Elmira. 519-669-3541. GARDEN SERVICES TILLING and plowing available for residential gardens. Call (cell) 519-503-5641 or 519669-2043 for details. NEED YOUR LEAVES and Fall Clean Up Done? For a free quote call John’s Quality Home Services 519-669-4955. TRAVELLING SOUTH THIS Winter? Do you need someone reliable, insured and bondable to watch over your home for insurance purposes? Call John’s Quality Home Services 519-669-4955.
GARAGE SALES GARAGE SALE - Fri. Oct. 16, 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., Sat. Oct. 17 8 a.m. t0 12 p.m. 3 Meadowlark, Elmira. Household items, home decor, furniture and more.
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Tuesday November 10, 2015, 7:00 p.m. Township Council Chambers 24 Church Street West, Elmira Regarding Zone Change Application 5/2015 Vien Quang Vietnamese Buddhist Association Kitchener Waterloo Take Notice that in accordance with the Planning Act, R.S.O., 1990, as amended, the Township of Woolwich has received a complete application for the above noted proposed Zoning By-law amendment as detailed below. Please be advised that Notice of a Complete Application does not indicate whether the municipality is in support of, or in opposition to the proposal. That determination will be made at a later date. The Township of Woolwich will hold a Public Meeting, under Section 34 of the Planning Act, to consider the following Zone Change application. No decision 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.
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2015 Tree Maintenance in Elmira Proper maintenance is essential in developing trees with strong structure and desirable form. The Township of Woolwich has contracted All Green Tree Service to prune and elevate Township owned trees throughout Elmira in the near future. Our clearance standards require that: • The lowest branches must clear the public sidewalk (if present) by at least 2.5 meters. • The lowest branch reaching over the roadway must have no less than 4.2 meters of clearance, measured at the curb line. This work is necessary in order for: • Pedestrians to walk safely; • Sidewalk snow clearing operations; • Street sweeping, winter plowing operations, garbage and recycling pick-up and deliveries to be completed effectively without risk of damage to vehicles, equipment or the trees and also to maintain adequate site lines for street signage. It is expected that privately owned trees that encroach into the public right-of-way meet the same standard. These trees will be elevated at the same time at no cost to the property owners. Please note that trees that are not yet over the road but will present clearance or site line issues in the near future may be pruned as well. This pruning work will be performed by trained Arborists. We thank you for your cooperation, if you have any questions or concerns please contact: Barry Baldasaro C.E.T. Public Works Superintendent Township of Woolwich 519-669-6043 bbaldasaro@woolwich.ca
Any persons may attend the public meeting and make written and / or verbal representation either in support of or in opposition to the proposed application. The Township has received a Zone Change application for the property located at 689 St. Charles Street East (see Map 1). The property is designated Rural Land Use and Restricted Land Use Area in the Township’s Official Plan and is zoned Agricultural (A) with site specific provisions (Section 26.1.278) to permit banquet facilities, private club and recreational sports fields in the Township Zoning By-law. The 7.9 ha property contains a banquet hall /meeting centre, accessory buildings and outdoor sports fields. The applicants are proposing to amend the site specific provisions for the property as follows: • to add a place of religious worship / church as a permitted use; and • to remove the private club and recreational sports fields as permitted uses. Please Note: APPEALS: 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-laws 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 passed: a) the person or public body is not entitled to appeal the decision of the Township of Woolwich to the Ontario Municipal Board; and b) the person or public body may not be added as a party to the hearing of an appeal before the Ontario Municipal Board unless, in the opinion of the Board, there are reasonable grounds to add the person or public body as a party. NOTIFICATION: 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. 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 November 3, 2015 (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. The personal information accompanying your submission is being collected under the authority of the Planning Act and may form part of the public record which may be released to the public. Questions about this collection should be directed to the Records and Freedom of Information Officer at 519-6696005 or 519-664-2613 ext. 6010. MORE INFORMATION: The public may view planning documents and background material relating to this application at the Township of Woolwich, Engineering and Planning Services Department between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, or on the Township website at www.woolwich.ca. Questions or written submissions may be directed to: Township of Woolwich Engineering and Planning Services Department Box 158, 24 Church Street West Elmira, Ontario N3B 2Z6 Dated at the Township of Woolwich this 16th day of October, 2015.
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NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNERS The 2nd Installment of the 2015 Final Tax Bill Is due November 4, 2015
Taxes are payable at the Township of Wellesley Municipal Office (4639 Lobsinger Line) by cheque, money order, cash or debit; at Financial Institutions located within the Township of Wellesley, Telebanking, Internet Banking or by Pre-Authorized Payment. Credit Cards are not accepted. There is a mail box available at the office for payments being made after hours. Postdated cheques for the due dates are accepted.
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DEATH NOTICES FREY, LYDIA (NEE MOLTZAHN) | Peacefully passed away with family by her side on Tuesday, October 6, 2015 at Barnswallow Place, Elmira at the age of 88. LAKE, VIVA FLORENCE (NEE CRYDERMAN) | Mom passed away peacefully on Tuesday, October 6, 2015 at the age of 97. Local relatives are her daughter Mary Jane Lennox (Duncan) of Elmira. SAUDER, GEORGE | At RR6, Mount Forest on Thursday, October 8, 2015, at age 76. Local relatives are his sisters Salinda Gingrich and her husband John of Floradale and Lydiann Reist and her husband Paul of Elmira and brother Orvie Sauder and his wife Esther of Wallenstein,
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CONSTRUCTION INC. (519) 569-0772
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519-880-9165
• Commercial & Industrial General Contracting • Specializing in Concrete Work & Excavation • Retaining Walls
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Stamped Coloured Concrete Demolition Bin Service Machine Bases
Concrete Breaking & Removal
HOME IMPROVEMENTS SERVICES
The Right Window Treatment Can
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Hours: M-F 8:30 - 5:30 Sat 9:00 - 3:00
WINDOW FASHIONS • Residential • Commercial • Industrial
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519.669.1462 Fax: 519.669.9970 Tel:
Evenings By Appointment
18 Kingfisher Dr., Elmira
Free in-home Consultations. Call someone you can trust. Call Cindy. A Brand You Can Trust 22 Church St. W., Elmira
Tel: 519-669-5537
STORE HOURS: M-F: 8-8, SAT 8-6, SUN 12-5
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IRA HOME COMFORT M L E (519) 669-4600
COMMERCIAL • RESIDENTIAL
ST. JACOBS
GLASS SYSTEMS INC.
APPLIANCES – FURNACES – FIREPLACES AIR CONDITIONERS – WATER HEATERS SPRING SPECIAL ON AIR CONDITIONING TUNE UP $99, INSTALLED FROM $1999 FURNACES INSTALLED FROM $2499 FRIDGES $499, STOVES $399, WASHERS $399, DRYERS $369, FREEZERS $199 Come visit our show room FREE QUOTES 1 Union Street, Elmira
1553 King St. N., St. Jacobs, ON N0B 2N0
• Store Fronts • Thermopanes • Mirrors • Screen Repair • Replacement Windows • Shower Enclosures • Sash Repair TEL:
ehc@hotmail.ca (519)-669-4600
Ltd.
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AGRICULTURAL | RESIDENTIAL
For all your Plumbing Needs. 24 HOUR SERVICE Steve Jacobi
ELMIRA
519-669-3652
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AMOS R O O F I N G
Interior/exterior Painting, Wallpapering & Plaster | drywall Repairs
• Specializing in residential re-roofs • Repairs • Churches
NOW ACCEPTING VISA OR MASTERCARD
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Lawn Maint Maintenance Main tenance Programs | Spring Clean-up Flower Bed Maintenance Programs Leaf Clean-up and Removal | Soil & Mulch Delivery & Installation | Snow Clearing & Removal | Ice Control 27 Brookemead, St, Elmira
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OWNER-OPERATOR
OBSERVER PUZZLE SOLUTIONS Since 1998
•Final grading •Lawn repair & complete seeding well equipped for large stoney areas •Spike Aerator/Overseeding •Natural & Interlocking Stone •Retaining Walls, Walks & Patios •Help for Top Water & Drainage issue
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Plumbing and Maintenance Inc.
Driveways • Sidewalks • Curbs • Patios Finished Floors • Retaining Walls • Steps Decorative/Stamped and Coloured Concrete
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REAL ESTATE LISTINGS
RESULTS THAT MOVE YOU STUNNING LOG HOME NEW LISTING
$624,900
Near Hawkesville - Stunning custom built log home on a mature 2 acre lot just 10 minutes from Waterloo. Character is evident everywhere, from the exposed logs to the open banister over the front door. With 4 +1 bedrooms, there is tons of room for your growing family. This could be your forever home! MLS 30501159.
Donating back to the community we call home.
$464,000
FAMILY HOME GREAT PRICE NEW PRICE
Alli Bauman Paul Martin Sue Wideman SALES REPRESENTATIVE CALL DIRECT
SALES REPRESENTATIVE CALL DIRECT
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allibauman@rogers.com
paul@remaxsolidgold.biz
suewidemanhomes@gmail.com
519-577-6248 519-503-9533 226-750-9332
BREATHTAKING SUNSETS Conestogo Lake - Enjoy the beautiful views overlooking the lake right from the back deck. Tastefully updated, this open concept cottage provides sleeping for up to 10. Concrete boat launch with electric winch, dock, tiered deck and garage. Located only 40 minutes from KW, or Guelph, this makes the perfect weekend getaway. MLS 1534798.
$309,900
Drayton - This beautiful bungalow with loft is currently being built, located in the town of Drayton just a scenic drive from KW, quality at every turn, 1800 sq ft with hardwood and ceramic, 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms. large master bedroom ensuite and walkin closet. MLS 1537660.
$422,500
BEAUTIFUL CENTURY HOME Elmira - Character and charm are evident throughout this Century home! This spacious 2 storey is elegantly decorated throughout with large principal rooms Including a study on the main floor. Beautifully landscaped with a detached double garage. Located in the friendly town of Elmira 10 minutes from Waterloo and close to downtown and the Elmira rec center. MLS 30500671.
BRAND NEW!
$225,000
Elmira - This 4 bedroom home is perfect for a growing family as well as a retired couple due to the convenience of the main floor master bedroom with ensuite and walk in closet. Enjoy a morning coffee in the East facing sun room, and family time in the large living room. Walking distance to downtown and Rec Centre. Much larger than it looks! MLS 30500120.
SPACIOUS CONDO WITH WALKOUT
Solid Gold Realty (II) Ltd., Brokerage Independently Owned and Operated
3 Arthur St. S., Elmira | 519-669-5426
$334,900
Waterloo - Immaculate end unit bungalow condo has everything you need on one level. Two bedrooms with a private ensuite plus a spacious open concept kitchen, dining room living room combo that backs onto a nice deck and green space as well as a double car garage. MLS 1531346.
Call today Thinking About Selling? and book a FREE HOME EVALUATION
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Bonnie
Shanna
Brubacher
Rozema
BROKER OF RECORD
BROKER
INDEPENDENTLY OWNED & OPERATED, BROKERAGE
“HELPING YOU IS WHAT WE DO.” 90 Earl Martin Dr., Unit 4, Elmira N3B 3L4
FREE
HOME EVALUATION Call for details: 519-503-2753
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OPEN HOUSE | SATURDAY & SUNDAY • 1-3PM
OPEN HOUSE
SUNDAY OCTOBER 18TH • 2-4PM 138 WATER STREET, ST. JACOBS
MODEL HOME 162 Ridgeview Dr., Drayton 2nd Phase
®
40%
SOLD OUT
REALTY LTD., BROKERAGE INDEPENDENTLY OWNED AND OPERATED
3 Bungalow units left with $12,000 Builder Bonus*
519.500.1865 (Direct)
INTRODUCING THE LAST PHASE
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Bungalow lofts with $8000 Builder Bonus*
BUILDING LOT 8006 CONCESSION 12, DRAYTON
PRICED FROM
$354,900
$98,500 Build your dream home on this 1.06 acre
parcel just outside of Drayton, situated one paved road, permits required, development charges apply, water & sewer required. MLS.
519.747.0231 (Office)
$453,900 Beautifully maintained family home on 100' wide lot in mature family
neighbourhood. Welcoming foyer leads you into this inviting two storey, large principle rooms, main floor family rm w/gas fireplace, spacious kitchen & dining area, finished basement with gas fireplace, upper level offers 3 bdrms including a master with ensuite. MLS.
INDUSTRIAL LOT $568,000 EARL MARTIN DRIVE, ELMIRA
2.43 acre South end business park location! Easy highway access, M-5 ZONING, some restrictive covenants apply, buyer to satisfy specific use approval with township. NEW MLS.
CALL TODAY FOR YOUR FREE FALL MARKET ANALYSIS!
Dale R. Keller Sales Representative
410 Conestogo Road, Unit 210, Waterloo, ON N2L 4E2
www.KellerSellsRealEstate.com | dale@kellersellsrealestate.com
For Sale Elmira | $329,000 Commercial building, great exposure from 2 main streets, Arthur and Church, retail on main floor and large 2 bdrm upstairs. Upgraded and renovated 2011. Both up and down currently rented. MLS Call Dale.
For info on these or any other real estate enquiries, Call Dale
LISTINGS NEEDED Call Dale Today! 519-500-1865
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REAL ESTATE LISTINGS
LANCERS RUN AWAY WITH IT
LET OUR 50+ YEARS OF EXPERIENCE WORK FOR YOU!
BROKERAGE
R.W. THUR REAL ESTATE LTD. | 519-669-2772 45 Arthur St. S., Elmira | www.thurrealestate.com SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17 VOISIN CR. OPEN HOUSE 36 Voisin Court, St. Clements
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BRAD MARTIN
JULIE
TRACEY
LUKE
WILLIAMS Broker of Record, HECKENDORN SHANTZ Broker Sales Rep. MVA Residential Sales Rep. Res: 519.669.1068 Res: 519.669.8629 Cell: 519.505.0627 Cell: 519.584.4400
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GEDDES ST., HAWKESVILLE NEW LISTING
$789,999
$279,900
ST CLEMENTS – Outstanding 3 bdrm. bungalow, only 3 yrs. old. Open concept from lovely kit. to great room, dinette & dining rm. Vaulted ceilings, lots of windows. Spacious ensuite. Huge rec. rm. & 3pc. in bsmt. PLUS 1 bdrm. in-law suite w/separate entrance. Huge lot – 401’ deep (partially fenced). Quiet court location. Detached shed 20’x20’ w/bsmt, gas, hydro & water. MLS.
“CHARACTER” GALORE in this quaint home backing to Mill Race in Hawkesville. 3+ bdrms. Formal LR/DR and eat-in kitchen. Main flr. family room w/walkout to a deck. Office in lower level w/separate entry. Zoning will allow for some commercial uses. NEW MLS.
LINE 86, ELMIRA
HIGH ST., DRAYTON
COUNTRY LIVING – 1.89 acres, close to Elmira, K-W & Guelph. Scenic back yard with a trout stream & concr bridge. Lovely ‘Chervin’ kitchen w/built-ins, quartz and fireplace. Newer windows. Hdwd. in LR/DR. Huge deck w/hot tub. Fin. bsmt. w/2 bdrms. rec. rm. games rm. kitchenette & 2 walkouts (Great income potential!). 27’x16’ shed. A MUST SEE! MLS.
DRAYTON – Custom built one owner bungalow w/walkout bsmt. 98’wide lot. 3 bdrms. Main flr. laundry & family roo. Fin. bsmt w/games room, rec. rm, exercise rm & storage rms. INGROUND pool & hot tub – great place to entertain! MLS.
GREEN WARBLER CR., ELMIRA
BOBOLINK PL., ELMIRA
$695,000
$459,900
LD O S
LOCATION! GREAT FAMILY HOME W/LOTS OF PARKING. 3 bdrms. w/cheater ensuite. Main flr. family room w/fireplace and office w/separate entrance. Updated windows. Large kit./dining area. Fin. rec. rm. games rm. & 3pc. MLS.
$454,900
$649,900
LD O S
EXCEPTIONAL LOT – 107’ x 228’ on a very desireable crescent. FOUR bdrms. 3 baths. Large main flr. family rm. & separate liv. rm. Spacious D.R. Kitchen w/island & ‘bump-out’ dinette. 2 fireplaces. Almost 2700 sq.ft. PLUS unfin. bsmt. Shows AAA MLS.
CALL FOR YOUR FREE MARKET EVALUATION
The EDSS senior boys’ football team dominated the visitors from Waterloo-Oxford in the Battle of the Barns in Elmira last week, winning 42-0. [WHITNEY NEILSON / THE OBSERVER]
NEW DEADLINE FOR FAMILY ALBUM
IS TUESDAYS BY NOON FOR THURSDAY PUBLICATION The Elmira Charity Quilt Auction IS MOVING! to the Elmira Produce Auction Cooperative 7400 Reid Woods Drive, Elmira
For over 10 years Riverdale Poultry Express has generously hosted the Elmira Charity Quilt Auction. As we move to our new location at EPAC we would like to thank Riverdale for their years of service. Come to Family Night
Friday October 30th
with a Beef Brisket Dinner from 5:30 to 7:00pm (or when sold out) Preview the quilts and enjoy our silent & live auction. Phone: 519-669-3205 Website: www.elmiraquiltauction.com
The Charity Quilt Auction Saturday Oct.31 8:00am-3:30pm 9:00am Live General Auction 11:00am Solid Wood Furniture Auction 12:00 noon Quilt Auction plus: Silent Auction, Country market: baking and produce
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LIVING HERE CHEF’S TABLE/ DONNA GINGRICH
WORLD VIEW / MAKING A DIFFERENCE
EDSS students eager to help with growing refugee crisis Café for Change fundraiser to raise awareness for the Mennonite Coalition for Refugee Support
Not just decorative, those pumpkins make a tasty treat RECIPE NOTES
EDSS students Janelle Macleod, Nadia Dingelstad and Madison Brueckman put together posters promoting this weekend’s Cafe for Change. The show starts at 2 p.m. on Oct. 18 and will feature two hours of entertainment and snacks in support of the Mennonite Coalition for Refugee Support. [LIZ BEVAN / THE OBSERVER]
LIZ BEVAN STUDENTS WILL BE STEPPING up with a few tricks and a tango this Sunday at the most recent installment of Elmira District Secondary School’s (EDSS) Café for Change. From 2 to 4 p.m. on Oct. 18, the Youth in Action Club at EDSS is hosting a fundraiser and awareness event filled with song, dance and some sleight of hand in aid of the Mennonite Coali-
tion for Refugee Support (MCRS), a Kitchener-based organization which provides supports for refugees who are new to Canada. The club has put on other cafes for other causes, but the struggle of a refugee is a topic that has been in the news for the last few months and the students want to help. Charly Bax is a Grade 12 student and one of the organizers of the Sunday afternoon event. She wants to make a dif-
ference outside of her own community while giving supporters an entertaining afternoon. “I think it really gives us in Elmira – we are very secluded here and we are all kind of the same culture – a different view on the world,” she said. “We can’t really see what is going in other places and it is really important not to be so centered on ourselves and see what is going on outside of us.”
EDSS drama teacher DJ Carroll says he is happy to see students getting involved with a needy cause and becoming active and effective global citizens. “It is important because we live in this world together,” he said. “We are so interconnected now that we need to be aware of what is happening in other countries. I think it is important for us as good Canadians to stand up and say what is going on over
there is wrong and we want to help.” The café is happening in partnership with Crossing Borders, a group of students that have been through the refugee process, or have had family members experience the hardship of moving to a foreign country. “They’re coming out and doing some spoken word, they are doing a dance CAFÉ | 27
EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK THERE are pumpkins, squash, gourds and more pumpkins! Front porches are decorated with corn stalks, mums and cheery orange pumpkins. Today as I was driving, the wind blew the leaves across the road and the clouds were dark and rolling on one side. On the opposite side the morning sun was bright – making the colours vivid. I love fall! It is my favourite season. So I’ve been thinking about all things pumpkin and rooting through my recipes to find something to share with you this week. I want to make everything. These Pumpkin Cream Cheese Bars could be cut into small pieces as a square or cut into larger pieces for dessert. Garnish with a dollop of whipped cream and a sprinkle of nutmeg. The shortbread crust is what makes this delicious ... you must use real butter! Put your oven rack in the middle of the oven so the crust does not get too dark; as the filling takes time to bake. CHEF’S TABLE | 27
Did You Know? All-season tires can lose their grip even in low temperatures. Below 7 degrees C, the rubber compound in the tire starts to lose its traction and this is the perfect time to switch over to winter tires. We suggest booking your vehicle in late October to get the tires swapped over to beat the rush and keep you safe when the snow starts to fall! Call 519-669-1082 to make your appointment today! – Gary
Tel: (519) 669-1082 Fax: (519) 669-3084
20 Oriole Parkway E., Elmira, ON
info@leroysautocare.net
www.leroysautocare.net
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Kleensweep Carpet Care
Everything Vacuum
COMMUNITY EVENTS CALENDAR
Cardlock Fuel Management
COMMERCIAL 24 CARDLOCK FUEL DEPOT HOUR M&G MILLWRIGHTS LTD. • Design • Installation • Custom Fabrication
MATERIAL HANDLING & PROCESSING SYSTEMS
519.669.5105
E-MAIL: ads@woolwichobserver.com
OCTOBER 15 HUGS AT ST. PAUL’S First Lutheran Church in Wellesley from 9:30-11 a.m. Topic: Kindermusik, introduce your child to rhythm and movement. Parents and children age 0-5 are welcome to attend. Call Heidi 519-6643794, ext. 237 for more information. ELMIRA LIONS BINGO - Doors open at 6 p.m., starts 7 p.m. sharp. Lions Hall Elmira. For more information call 519-500-1434. SENIORS LUNCH CLUB AT noon. Breslau Community Centre, 100 Andover Dr., Breslau Cost: $6. Join us for a noonday light lunch and fellowship. Call Community Care Concepts at 519-664-1900 or toll free: 1-855-6641900 by Oct. 13 for more information.
OCTOBER 17 26TH ANNUAL BRESLAU CRAFT Show, Breslau Public School - 58 Joseph St., Breslau; 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. Handmade crafts, jewelry, food, homemade decor, clothing, raffles, candles, gifts and much more! Vendor opportunities: please email bpcraftshow@ gmail.com. ELMIRA KIWANIS HAUS, 40 South St. W. (Lions Hall), Elmira; 7 p.m. - 1 a.m. Live band “Moonshine.” Proper dress and photo I.D. required. Advance tickets $15, at the door $20 (capacity permitting). Available from: www.oktoberfest.ca, Kiwanis Club members, Food Basics (Arthur St. S.) FB and Me (40 Arthur St. S.), Read’s Decorating (27 Arthur St. S.).
1540 FLORDALE ROAD
EVERYBODY’S INVITED! WOOLWICH COMMUNITY Services is hosting the 22nd Annual Bowl-a-thon in support of the Family Violence Prevention Program. Register your team with us, collect some pledges, and join us for bowling & prizes from 1-4 p.m, Elmira Bowl. Families are asked to raise minimum $50, businesses $100. Bring the family and get out those fancy bowling shoes. For more information call 519-669-5139. CHORD SPINNERS 8TH ANNUAL spaghetti dinner, 5-7 p.m. St. James Lutheran Church, St Jacobs, (across from Stone Crock Bakery). Cost - freewill offering. A fundraising event for your local ladies’ barbershop chorus.
OCTOBER 19 BINGO FUNDRAISER MINOR ATOM AE hockey; 6 p.m., Lions Hall, 40 South St. W., Elmira. Support the Woolwich Wildcat Minor Atom AE Hockey teams trip to the Nations Cup tournament held in Michigan with a fun evening of Bingo. Canada vs SA. Go Canada Go! This group of 8 year olds appreciates your support.
OCTOBER 20 WEEKLY BINGO UPSTAIRS AT the St. Clements Community Centre, 7 p.m. Sponsored by the Paradise & District Lions Club. Wheelchair accessible. For more information contact Joe Brick at 519-699-4022. ALZHEIMER SOCIETY’S FAMILY LEARNING Forum. For family and friends of people with Alzheimer’s disease or other dementias. 3 week series learn about dementia, understanding communication and behaviour and more. Tuesdays, Oct. 20, 27 and Nov. 3, 10 a.m. - 12 noon. at Woolwich Community
Health Centre, 10 Parkside Dr. St. Jacobs. For more information call the Alzheimer Society Waterloo Wellington Dementia Support Counselor 519-742-1422.
w w w.elmiravacuumelectrical.ca Tuesday - Friday, 9am-5:30pm
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Saturday, 9am-3pm
TUESDAY LUNCHEON AT GALE Presbyterian Church from 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m., 10 Barnswallow Dr., Elmira. Harvest Roast, mashed potatoes with gravy, hot vegetable, salad, pumpkin dessert, beverage $12. Take outs can be ordered by calling 519-669-2852.
OCTOBER 21 STRESS AND ANXIETY REDUCTION through Mindfulness. This eight-week course explores your unique physical, emotional and spiritual response to stress. Facilitated by Joy Finney, MPhil in social work and Sue Arai, psychologist. Wednesdays, Oct. 21 - Dec. 9, 6:30-9:30 p.m. at Woolwich Community Health Centre, 10 Parkside Dr., St. Jacobs. For more information 519-664-3794, ext. 230. Pre-course interviews will be scheduled.
21 INDUSTRIAL DR. ELMIRA
519-669-2884
SENIORS LUNCH CLUB AT noon (doors open at 11:30 a.m.). Wellesley Community Centre, 1000 Maple Leaf St., Wellesley. Cost $6. Join us for a noonday light lunch and fellowship. Call Community Care Concepts at 519-664-1900 or toll free: 1-855-664-1900 by Oct. 19 for more information.
CORPORATE WEAR PROMOTIONAL APPAREL WORK & SAFETY WEAR | BAGS T-SHIRTS | JACKETS | HATS
OCTOBER 22 HUGS AT BRESLAU COMMUNITY Centre, 100 Andover St. from 9:30-11 a.m. Topic: Car seat safety and proper installation. Parents and children age 0-5 are welcome to attend. Call Heidi 519-664-3794, ext. 237 for more information.
245 Labrador Drive | Waterloo
519.886.2102
P.O. BOX 247, ELMIRA
www.mgmill.com
519-669-8362
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Truck & Trailer Maintenance
All Makes & Models
www.freybc.com
West Montrose, ON
Cell: 519.581.7868
Repairs Service Se
3435 Broadway St. Hawkesville 519-699-4641
Rugs and Upholstery
•Mattress Cleaning •Residential •Commercial •Personalized Service •Free Estimates
COLLEEN
Vacuum Sales,
Skilled craftsmanship. Quality materials. CONSTRUCTION STARTS HERE.
www.UniTwin.com
SUBMIT AN EVENT The Events Calendar is reserved for Non-profit local community events that are offered free to the
public. Placement is not guaranteed. Registrations, corporate events, open houses and the like do not qualify in this section. 24-HOUR EMERGENCY SERVICE
TOTAL
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Bus: 519.744.5433 Home: 519.747.4388
Individual life insurance, mortgage insurance, business insurance, employee benefits programs, critical illness insurance, disability coverage,
HOME ENERGY SYSTEMS
New to the Community? Do you have a new Baby?
RESIDENTIAL & COMMERCIAL
RRSPs, RESPs, RRIFs, LIFs and Annuities.
Elmira & Surrounding Area
11 HENRY ST. - UNIT 9, ST. JACOBS
SHARON GINGRICH 519.291.6763
519.664.2008
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PLACES OF FAITH | A DIRECTORY OF LOCAL HOUSES OF WORSHIP
building relationships with God, one another and the world
SUNDAYS - 9:00 & 11:00AM WEDNESDAYS - 7:00PM
St. James Lutheran Church
MACHINE WORKS INCORPORATED
COUNCILLOR | WARD 1 WOOLWICH TOWNSHIP
VERMONT Castings
652 Waterbury Lane, Waterloo
SANYO CANADIAN
PATRICK MERLIHAN
It’s time to call your Welcome Wagon Hostess.
YOUR OIL, PROPANE, NATURAL GAS AND AIR CONDITIONING EXPERTS
HOW CAN I HELP?
9:00 am: Christian Education 10:15 am: Worship Pastor: Hans J.W. Borch
Proclaiming Christ through Love and Service
60 Arthur St. S., Elmira 519-669-5591
NURSERY PROVIDED
SUNDAY SCHOOL
Zion Mennonite Fellowship 9:30am Sunday School Finding The Way Together 47 Arthur St., S. Elmira • 519-669-3153 www.thejunctionelmira.com
HEARING ASSISTED
Sun., October 18th 11:00 am
Know Yourself That You May Know God
10:45am Worship Service
Speaker: Jeff Martin
Discovering God Together
4522 Herrgott Rd., Wallenstein www.wbconline.ca • 519-669-2319
Sunday School at 9:30am
850 Sawmill Rd, Bloomingdale, ON N0B 1K0 (519) 744-7447 | kcf@kcf.org | www.kcf.org
33 Industrial Dr., Elmira 519.669.1591
Service at 10:30am Rev. Paul Snow
REACH OUT. KEEP FAITH ALIVE, ADVERTISE HERE.
REACH WITH LOVE. TEACH THE TRUTH. SEND IN POWER. 290 Arthur St. South, Elmira • 519-669-3973 www.ElmiraAssembly.com (Across from Tim Horton’s)
www.kcf.org/academy Worship: 9:30am Elmira Mennonite World Communion Church Sunday Communion & Footwashing Service
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Sunday, October 18th “Why We Need Each Other”
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STRANGE BUT TRUE / BILL & RICH SONES PH.D.
Basketball is your best option if you want to see the home team win WEIRD NOTES
Q. If you want your pro sports team to be winning games at home right before your eyes, what sport should you be following? A. Best bet would be basketball, where home teams overall win 60% of their games (vs. 40% on the road), followed by football at 57% of games (vs. 42% road wins), hockey at 55% (vs. 45%) and baseball at 54% (vs. 46%), reports “Time� magazine. “Grueling travel can take a toll on visitors, especially in the NBA and NHL, where many road games are back-to-back.�
Yet there are a few oddities to keep in mind: The Baltimore Ravens have a “perfectly average� record of 43% on the road while sporting a “killer� record of 78% at home, over a ten-year period. Interestingly, the team lost every 2005 road game but were undefeated at home in 2011. “Particularly in football, a boisterous crowd can interfere with a visiting team’s ability to communicate strategy.� In baseball, the home field advantage may be due to the fact that each stadium is unique, and the home team can best take advantage of its stadium’s quirks. Finally, referees can also be a factor in scoring more wins: According to a 2011
analysis of referee bias, officials – influenced by the crowd – were “prone to make calls in favor of the home team.� Q. “Don’t touch that dial.� “Carbon copy.� “You sound like a broken record.� “Bigger than a bread box but smaller than the ice box.� What do these expressions have in common?
A. They’ve been “hung out
to dry,� so to speak, phrases that once were but now aren’t so much any more, says linguist Richard Lederer in “Words and Phrases Remind Us of the Way We Word� on his verbivore.com web site. We were “living the life of Riley,� “cutting a rug in some juke joint,� then going “necking and petting and smooching and spoon-
As Lederer sees it, “We at the other end of the chronological arc have the advantage of remembering there are words that once did not exist and there were words that once strutted their hour upon the earthly stage and now are heard no more, except in our collective memory. It’s one of the greatest advantages of aging.� Q. Today’s elite athletes are being fitted with biometric gadgetry to enhance their performance. What’s in store for pro footballers this season?
ing and billing and cooing and pitching woo in hot rods and jalopies in some passion pit or lovers’ lane.� Are you old enough to remember: “Don’t forget to pull the chain.� “Knee high to a grasshopper.� “Turn-of-the-century.� “Iron curtain.� “Fail safe.� “Domino theory.� “Civil defense.� “Banned in Boston.� “Fiddlesticks.� “I’ll see you in the funny papers.� “Don’t take any wooden nickels.� “Sound as a dollar.� Also gone from the landscape and wordscape of our perception are the milkman, Mickey Mouse wristwatches, hula hoops, skate keys, candy cigarettes, little wax bottles of colored sugar water, beehives, pageboys and the D.A., spats, knickers, poodle skirts, saddle shoes.
A. Measurements that used to require bulky and costly lab equipment today are being taken via “wearable� sensors to provide on-the-go physiological data, says Emily Waltz in “IEEE Spectrum� magazine.
Nearly half of the NFL will be wearing OptimEye S5, a device that sits over the upper back inside a compression garment and utilizes “accelerometers, magnetometers, gyroscopes, and a GPS receiver to record as many as 100 data points per second.� Coaches can access this data in real time on the sidelines to monitor a player’s acceleration, deceleration, change of direction, jump height, and distance traveled, “keeping tabs on how hard players are working and to prevent injuries resulting from overtraining.�
ABOUT THE AUTHORS Bill is a journalist, Rich holds a doctorate in physics. Together the brothers bring you “Strange But True.� Send your questions to strangetrue@compuserve.com.
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number, they have videos and poetry,” said Carroll. “They are going to be sharing their stories with us.” Café for Change is also going to be an entertaining show, with two hours of performances by students, designed to keep guests on the edge of their seats. “We have done cafes in the past, and it has usually been a musical or something, but this time, we are have jugglers, magic acts and different speakers coming in,” said Cassandra Tuffnail, a Grade 12 EDSS student organizing the afternoon gathering. “I think it is going to be really awesome. We have a lot of different performers.” The money raised at
the Café for Change will be going directly to MCRS where it will be spent on providing settlement and legal support for refugees new to Canada, as well as a supporting community and education to make the transition to an unknown country a little easier. The café is being held in the EDSS cafeteria and tickets can be purchased at the door for $10, or $5 for students and seniors. The Youth in Action club will be serving coffee, tea and treats for guests to enjoy while keeping their eyes on the stage and their minds on the cause. For more information on the refugee struggle and to view a poster with event details, visit www.mcrs.ca.
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Pumpkin Cream Cheese Bars Crust: 2 cups flour 1/2 cup white sugar 1 cup butter, softened Cream cheese layer: 1 – 250gr. light or regular cream cheese, softened 1/2 cup white sugar 1 tsp. vanilla 1 egg Pumpkin layer: 2 cups pumpkin 3 large eggs 3/4 cup brown sugar 1 tsp. cinnamon 1/4 tsp. nutmeg 1/4 tsp. ginger 1/4 tsp. salt 1 – 385ml evaporated milk
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years in a row now. They came in eighth place last year. They want to at least match that this year or hopefully place higher. “For WCSSAA league play we should make the playoffs, that shouldn’t be a problem. Our goal right now is just to get the highest seat as possible so we can have a good first-round match in the playoffs,” Carter said. The senior team is seventh in the league of 16 teams, with a 2-2 record. The junior team is in third with a 4-1 record, out of 16 teams. As for the junior team, there are seven Grade 9 players and four Grade 10 players returning from last year. They lost to WaterlooOxford on Oct. 8, 47-25. Junior girls basketball coach Pam Germann says the team is getting along well and working on making sure they’re communicating on and off the court. “They’ve been playing really hard and they’ve been learning a lot from our games that we’ve been playing. The girls who played last year are taking on a little bit of a leadership role and showing the girls how to use plays. So we’re usually having a couple of them on playing with the other girls as well, so they can lead them through plays,” Germann said. She noted some of the new girls came out of Grade 8 with some basketball experience from the Woolwich Cougars Basketball program. Now, they’re building on those skills. “We want to learn as much as we can from each other and our games. We want to play hard and improve our skill level and we’re also focused on being competitive and winning
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