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Province nixes idea of forced amalgamations Local officials welcome news Ford gov't to maintain status quo following review

BY STEVE KANNON skannon@woolwichobserver.com

EDCL auction sale committee member Wendy Vandenberk was one of some 100 volunteers who contributed to the day's success on Oct. 26. This years' event featured 125 quilts, the most profitable of which sold for $2,500.

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Quilt auction raises $100k Record-setting $2,076 raised for one blueberry pie in exciting pie auction

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With everything from soup to nuts – well, make that home-baked bread to handmade crafts – the annual Elmira Charity Quilt Auction draws hundreds of bidders looking for good deals and the chance to support those in the community living with developmental challenges.

The event is the prime fundraiser for Elmira

District Community Living (EDCL), with last weekend’s outing bring in near-record amounts of revenue for the group.

While the revenue is still being tallied, executive director Greg Bechard expects the total to be slightly under $100,000. The proceeds go directly towards the work of the not-forprofit organization, which supports individuals with an intellectual disability and their families.

“We’re certainly happy with the day, that’s for sure,” said Bechard. “We don’t expect to break the record every year.”

A longstanding tradition in the community, the event’s 46th annual iteration drew hundreds of people to the Elmira Produce Auction Cooperative on Reid Woods Drive.

Visitors to the auction site were met with a smorgasbord of options, including live and silent auctions

of handmade furniture, crafts, baked goods and, of course, the intricate quilts that are the star of each year’s show. Also up for bid were a wide assortment of items donated in support of the EDCL cause.

This year’s auction featured some 125 quilts, many of them painstakingly created by community organizations such as church groups and sewing circles, with the most feaAUCTION | 05

The latest threat of amalgamation in Waterloo Region has been removed, as the province says it will not force a “top down approach” on municipalities.

Friday’s announcement by Municipal Affairs Minister Steve Clark follows a regional governance review launched in January.

The review – led by former regional chair Ken Seiling and former provincial bureaucrat Michael Fenn – looked at Ontario’s eight regional municipalities (Durham, Halton, Muskoka District, Niagara, Oxford County, Peel, Waterloo and York), the County of Simcoe, and their 82 lower-tier municipalities.

Instead of amalgamation, Clark offered $143 million in funding to help municipalities find ways to lower expenses and improve services.

The decision was welcomed by local officials, who’d spoken out against the prospect of amalgamation in the region.

“I think it’s good news for the township, for all the townships,” said Woolwich

Mayor Sandy Shantz, arguing amalgamation would have lessened government representation for the rural areas of the region. “We could have definitely ended up with less access to services.

“For the rural areas, amalgamation wouldn’t have benefited us.”

She noted many of the myths about amalgamation, such as lowering costs, refuse to die.

Shantz extended kudos to the province for listening to the feedback from the municipalities.

The province received more than 8,500 submissions during the review process, carrying out nine consultation sessions.

Local municipalities also consulted with the public, via meetings and online, in crafting their own submissions to the province.

Both the region and lower-tier municipalities made their feelings clear to the province, said Wellesley Mayor Joe Nowak, who welcomed the news last Friday.

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ELECTION COUNT Validated numbers from the Oct. 21 federal election show Liberal candidate Tim Louis received 20,480 votes (39.7% of ballots cast) to edge out Conservative incumbent Harold Albrecht, who took 20,115 votes (39%). The NDP’s Riani De Wet got 5,204 votes (10.1%), Green candidate Stephanie Goertz received 4,946 (9.6%) and Koltyn Wallar of the People’s Party rounded out the field with 790 ballots (1.5%). Of the 74,562 voters on the electoral list, 51,896 cast votes (69.6%).

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The Region of Waterloo International Airport is the latest beneficiary of infrastructure funds, as the senior levels of government this week announced funding totalling more than $4.7 million. The money will allow the airport to build a new 2,600-square-metre facility that will bring fleet maintenance, the fire hall and operations maintenance under one roof.

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Woolwich raises concerns about province's aggregate policy

BY STEVE KANNON skannon@woolwichobserver.com

Perhaps concerned by the Ford government’s “open for business” policy, Woolwich councillors pushed for stronger protections for the public in drafting a response to the province’s proposed changes to the laws regulating gravel pits.

The province is currently reviewing the Aggregate

Resources Act, with an eye to reducing regulations on operators, and streamlining the application process, while still allowing for public input and environmental safeguards.

Manager of planning Jeremy Vink has been working on the township’s comments, but notes the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry has been short on specifics

even as the November 4 deadline for submissions nears.

“It’s hard to respond without the details,” Vink told councillors meeting Tuesday night.

Among his chief concerns are ensuring there’s a robust public review process, with requirements for strong studies and reports backing an applicant’s claims. The township is

also stressing the need for controls over depth of extraction, namely below-the-water-table mining of gravel.

“Any change in an operation from an above water table extraction to a below water table extraction should require a detailed public process. ...

As extraction in or near the groundwater table has the potential to impact water

quality, it is vital that municipalities have a key role in such decision making,” he wrote in his report to council.

While generally supportive, councillors pushed for stronger language in the written response.

Coun. Larry Shantz noted the lack of details in the provincial proposal, which leaves the door open to a loss of local control over

the process.

“I thought it was pretty vague,” he said of the government’s position.

With the extraction depth issue, for instance, a full application process, with a chance for municipal and public input, should apply if an operator wants to change the license to mine below the water table.

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Restored Victorian home in Elmira the subject of TV competition HGTV Canada is now airing its holiday-themed “Home to Win” series, featuring a Park Avenue home up for grabs

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Along with the influx of visitors that comes with the holiday season, Elmira will see one new family join its ranks – but first they’ve got to win the chance to call it home.

A Park Avenue Victorian house, renovated by a cast of HGTV Canada stars, is the prize up for grabs in the latest round of the “Home

To Win” show.

“It’s not too far away from Toronto, it’s close to Kitchener-Waterloo. It’s a sense of community when you’re there,” said show host Sangita Patel of why HGTV chose the property in Elmira.

For its fourth year, HGTV has done something a little different by giving the show a holiday theme, with the three families competing to win the home just in

time for the Christmas season, explained Patel.

The all-star cast of builders, contractors and designers all chose a nearly 100-year-old Victorian house this year to renovate and prepare for the winning family.

“Whoever wins this house, it’s going to change their lives,” Patel said.

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businesses in the Elmira area, he noted, adding this is the first time the crew has worked on a home that is entirely made of brick.

“The thing that is beautiful about this home for us is that its different than any other home that we’ve ever worked on in this show,” said Clovis.

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Woolwich agrees to pitch in dollars as four rural townships look at ways to work together

BY STEVE KANNON skannon@woolwichobserver.com

Though the province has ruled out the prospect of forcing amalgamation on Waterloo Region, the four rural townships are moving ahead with a review of services that might satisfy the Ford government’s drive for cost-cutting measures.

Meeting this week, Woolwich council signed on to a joint service delivery review, agreeing to pay a quarter of the $100,000 contract awarded to KPMG to carry out a study. The money will be drawn from the $725,000 in modernization funding the township received from the province.

The study will focus on areas previous meetings between the townships identified has having the best chance for finding common ground: fire services and emergency management, library services, information technology and corporate communications, explained chief administrative officer David Brenneman.

Brenneman noted the

conversation among the four townships began before the province announced its regional review, seen by many as a prelude to another round of amalgamation talks.

By working together, the townships hope to demonstrate efficiencies can be found without reducing the region to a single-tier government from the current system.

The regional governance review process wrapped up last week when the province declared it would not impose top-down on the municipalities in its study.

Brenneman stressed that working on efficiencies would send a signal to Queen’s Park that there’s no need to revisit the amalgamation debate.

“If we don’t do enough, the province can always reverse course in the future.”

Councillors endorsed the township-led service review during the summer, and were generally supportive Tuesday night, though Coun. Patrick Merlihan remained unconvinced and ultimately voted against the expenditure.

He balked at spending $100,000 on a consultant, noting the municipalities could find common ground in direct discussions.

Furthermore, he was skeptical about the possibility spending the money would return at least $100,000 in reduced expenses.

“Where are we going to find $100,000 in savings?” he asked.

Brenneman noted the price tag was part of the summertime discussion, adding that finding commensurate savings wasn’t part of the original equation.

Instead, the four township will look for ways to streamline services and for ways they can support each other.

For example, Woolwich has been ahead of the curve with emergency management efforts, so there’s an opportunity to bring in some revenue by offering that expertise to the other three townships, which in turn get to provide better emergency services to their residents, he said.

With library services, the townships see the potential

to save money by offering the services themselves rather than letting the region do so, Brenneman added.

“I think at the end of the day, this will end up costing us more,” Merlihan countered of the library proposal, noting the province’s review of regional government was fuelled by the pursuit of cost-savings.

The same is true of the Ford providing funding to municipalities to boost efficiencies.

“I’m not seeing the spirit of efficiencies here,” he said.

“I think $100,000 is a little rich. I’m not going to support this contract.”

Other councillors signed on, however.

“It’s a little late in the game to reverse course,” argued Coun. Larry Shantz, who noted the joint projects could help Woolwich work with other townships to present a united front at the region.

In response to a question from Shantz, Brenneman said he expects the consultant would have a report ready for the first quarter of 2020.

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to the backyard, Clovis said is excited of the changes to the property.

Aside from Clovis and Patel, the team also includes the likes of Bryan and Sarah Baeumler, Dave and Kortney Wilson, Scott McGillivary, Sarah Richardson, Mike Holmes, Jonathan Scott, Drew Scott, Jo Alcorn, Paul Lafrance and Brian McCourt. As with previous seasons, each of the TV personalities is tasked with using his or her expertise to ready a part of the home for the eventual winner of the competition.

Many of these wellknown contractors, designers, and builders have their own television shows, but what is unique about this experience is bringing them together on one show for one great cause, said Patel.

“We’re in season 4 and they’re like family – they know each other. This show is about them coming together, but also building this gorgeous house with the best of the best,” she said.

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the team to this Victorian house in particular was the community it was in, said Clovis, emphasizing that Elmira has so much culture and heritage that they tried to preserve when repairing the home. The house was modernized to extent, but the team also made sure to pay homage to its roots.

The most rewarding part of it all is the final episode when the winning family is announced, said both Patel and Clovis.

“It’s very emotional, I’m about to say a family’s name and their life is about to change – they’re about to win a house. If you think about that, it’s pretty spectacular. And on top of that, it’s a house that is designed from the best people at HGTV Canada,” Patel added.

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over your head for the last year.”

Regional Chair Karen Redman also welcomed the “clarity” of the provincial announcement, but noted the province didn’t completely rule out the possibility of amalgamation resurfacing.

While saying there would be “no top-down decision-making,” the minister indicated there’s the possibility of a locally-led initiative, without specifying what that might mean, she said.

A few business-oriented groups, for instance, continue to propagate the idea that one level of government would be more efficient, though that idea has largely been debunked “They left the door open slightly,” she said of the provincial stance.

The province did get it right, she added, when noting there’s no good blanket approach that could apply to all regional municipalities.

“One size does not fit all,” she said.

Likewise, the province has given municipalities some leeway in spending the collective $143 million it’s providing to find efficiencies and to work on collaborative efforts to reduce costs.

The region’s share of that

funding should help make worthwhile changes rather than just going through the motions, Redman said.

“We should look at how we deliver services ... as long as it’s transformative – it’s no use nibbling at the edges.”

Among her priorities are issues such as funding for arts and culture. She also sees much room for improvement of offload times for paramedics and police, with efforts needed to avoid having paramedics and officers sitting around for hours at the hospital until care of the patient is handed off to medical staff.

Shantz, too, welcomed the funding to improve efficiencies, saying the governance review helped bring that issue back to the fore.

“The process reminded us again that we need to do it,” she said.

The region’s four rural townships are already working on a review of how they might work together to reduce costs, Nowak pointed out.

“We’re already behind that process. It’s time to move forward,” he said of the post-review agenda.

While much of the review process was public, Clark has stated the report submitted by Seiling and Fenn will be kept private and not released.

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The ministry, for its part, has routinely objected to controls on extraction depth.

“The province has been very resistant to vertical zoning,” said Vink.

Coun. Scott McMillan also called for stronger language on extraction depth.

“This language is far too vague for me.”

Shantz also pushed for a sunset clause, in essence putting a time limit on how

long a company can operate a pit before closing it down. That would prevent an operator from stretching out the “active” phase to avoid rehabilitating the site, while also giving a end-date for neighbours living with a pit in the vicinity.

Coun. Fred Redekop was perhaps the most critical of the province’s plans, arguing the government was just looking to muddy the waters in favour of more

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extraction. Changes that would lessen municipal control, already fairly minimal, could make matters worse.

“It goes always beyond our decision. In the end, it’s out of our hands – it doesn’t seem democratic,” he said of the process.

The commenting period on the changes to the ARA runs until November 4, with public input accepted online at: ero.ontario.ca/ notice/019-0556.

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ture quilt selling for $2,500.

Other high-profit items included perennially favourite deep-dish pies – some 300-400 pies were sold throughout the course of the day. One blueberry pie ended up raising more than $2,000, said Bechard.

“This set the record for the pie auction,” said Bechard. “The pie sold for $1,076; it was donated back, auctioned again and it raised another $1,000 on top of the original $1,076.”

That pie may have set a new bar in the decades-long tradition of auctioning, buying and donating the baked goods, but it wasn’t the only one to break four figures: an apple pie raised more than $1,000 through the process of being donated back and then auctioned off again.

“That was a lot of fun – you get people bidding against one another, spending $1,000 on a pie, that’s really exciting stuff,” he said.

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The pace was furious as seven auctioneers shared center-stage Saturday.

auctioneers, work to make the day a success. It is the biggest fundraising event for the EDCL, who use the funds for various projects in their organization.

“The proceeds from this help purchase things that we don’t receive funding for from the government,” explained Bechard. “So things like wheelchair vans, maintaining our properties, and towards new projects that we may undertake as an organization.”

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“We use these vans to provide transportation for people to and from day programs, personal events, doctor’s appointments,” said Bechard.

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Province makes right call in ditching amalgamtion scheme continues to surface on a regular basis, usually at the behest of some business group or other sticking with the ideological approach, no matter how much proof debunking claims of cost-savings and efficiencies.

And we can probably count on the idea rising from the grave yet again. Should the zombie return, local politicians should keep in mind that gust because a small group of people is intent on raising the issue, there’s no reason for municipalities to pay them any heed.

That’s true whether the advocates are doing it for their own financial gain, adhering to ideological fallacies, or armed with good intentions but no useful grasp of the facts.

Amalgamation has been a non-starter for years. Whether protecting their turfs or fighting

omebody must have talked Doug Ford off the ledge, as the regional government review he launched earlier this year finds us right back where we started: the province won’t force amalgamation on any of the municipalities.

That was something of a surprise for those of us who thought the scheme was a foregone conclusion, either as cover for the premier’s attempts to kneecap former PC leader Patrick Brown – Ford blocked an election in Peel Region, where Brown was poised to run for the chair’s position, for instance – or as an exercise in ill-informed ideology.

That same kind of ideology won the day during the previous Conservative government of Mike Harris, ending badly in each case where it was tried.

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antas, the Australian airline, has just testflown the world’s longest commercial airroute: 10,200 miles (16,500 km.) from New York nonstop to Sydney. There were only 60 passengers aboard the Boeing 787, all in business class, because the plane needed all the rest of the weight for fuel. And, we are told, they danced the Macarena in the empty economy class to stay limber during the 19-hour flight.

I don’t think Greta Thunberg would have been pleased.

There is a Swedish neologism, ‘flygskam,’ that has gained some currency among environmental activists in Europe. It means ‘flight-shame,’ which is the

climate, they’re joined by people who like the idea of sending politicians packing, the appeal of fewer councillors. Again, nice idea in theory, but the savings are miniscule – one-half of one per cent of the total budget goes to council administration.

Even with the much more expensive bureaucrats – an area of cost-savings worth exploring by each municipality – the ball has been dropped. While there can be a bit of initial cost savings by casting off duplicate senior staff members, it doesn’t take long before most of the money to be eaten up by the middle managers who are added to help administer a larger population and the services offered to them.

When it comes to the idea of amalgamation, putting it to rest permanently would be the wisest course of action.

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representation at the table. As it now stands, Woolwich and Wellesley each have just one place on regional council, which doesn’t amount to much. But each remains autonomous for the most part, able to control its future at the local council level – in the absence of that structure, the priorities of the cities could quickly overwhelm each of the four rural townships.

The smallest municipalities must retain the right to say “no” when it comes to incursions from the city. The fate of the development lands in Breslau, for instance, is in much better hands at Woolwich council than it would be if the cities were calling the shots – just look at the poor development legacy visited on the residents of Kitchener and Waterloo.

Depending on the political

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off the loss of independence, critics have been right to dismiss a concept whereby the seven existing municipalities in Waterloo Region would be wiped out in favour of one.

The case against consolidating seven municipal governments into one über-government at the region is as weak today as it was during the height of the ill-fated amalgamation frenzy. Removing direct local representation for a gamble on reduced costs hasn’t paid off, and never will. Moreover, people have ties to their communities, and like to have direct access to their municipal politicians, who have the largest impact on their day-to-day lives.

In the townships, the loss of direct say over planning and other issues is too big a price to pay. An amalgamated region would see precious little rural

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We trust the political system less with each passing year

iven the preponderance of poor leadership and a decided lack of good governance, there’s a strong case to be made for arguments our democracy has been reduced to showing up at an election booth every four years.

And even that’s more than a little suspect.

Just out of a federal election, Canadians are even less satisfied with our democratic system. Just 48 per cent of us expressed trust in the current electoral system in a survey in the week after we went to the polls, according to figures released this week by research firm Proof Inc. That’s down from 52 per cent at the start of the year, and 56 per cent the year before.

The percentage of Canadians who trust the current election system to adequately represent the votes of citizens dropped to 44 per cent, down from 51 per cent at the beginning of last year.

Not surprisingly, those numbers are much lower out on the Prairies – home to much talk of Western separation in the aftermath of the Liberal minority win – where trust in the election system is 33 per cent.

Western alienation is one of those cyclical things, an issue right now given the issues with the tar sands and pipelines, but more systemically a creation of the urban/rural divide that continues to grow – it’s visibly represented in the electoral maps, especially where Tory blue is dominant.

Beyond that, some Canadians are becoming aware that politicians and bureaucrats act in their own interests, not on the public’s behalf. In that light, the first-past-the-post system tends to aggravate the perception the electoral system does not reflect the popular will. That’s why Justin Trudeau campaigned on electoral reform the last time around, though he quickly dropped it when back in power, as the current method does favour the governing party.

Likewise, Trudeau’s government weakened controls on accountability through the likes of Bill C-76 (Elections Modernization Act), with the goal of benefitting its position.

The government’s implementation of Bill C-76 ignored the call by all experts, a House Committee, the Chief Electoral Officer, the Commissioner of Canada Elections, and tens of thousands of Canadians for more effective changes to the Canada Elections Act to actually stop fake online election posts and ads, false claims about candidates, and big money interest group ad campaigns, and to protect voters’ privacy, notes Duff Conacher of Democracy Watch.

“Bill C-76 severely weakened the rule that prohibits false claims about candidates, more than doubled the spending limit for wealthy interest groups, and didn’t do enough to stop false,

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online election ads, false election promises or big money donations,” he argues. “As a result, the fall 2019 federal election was much like the 2016 U.S. presidential election – dishonest, unfair and driven by false claims of wealthy interest groups, party leaders and parties.”

Bill C-76 also increased the advertising spending limit for wealthy, big money third party interest groups by 250 per cent, to $511,700 from about $200,000.

Instead of protecting the integrity of Canada’s elections, the Trudeau Liberals’ actions

protected their friends at social media companies, and their own data mining of voters’ private information, Conacher maintains.

“If the Trudeau Liberals actually want to ensure that the next election is fair and democratic, they should introduce a short, simple bill as soon as possible to reverse the bad, weak changes made by Bill C-76 and to strengthen other key rules,” says Conacher. “The bill should prohibit all false claims and false promises, lower donation limits, reverse the increase in interest group ad spending, require all media and social media companies to disclose to the Commissioner of Canada Elections all election-related ads, empower the Commissioner to delete any false post or ad from social media, and extend the privacy law to political parties with penalties high enough to actually discourage violations by social media

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companies that have tens of billions in annual profits.”

These statistics echo comments from Canadians who are disengaged from politics: “Politicians are concerned for their own interests.” “They don’t really care what people want.”

Canada’s system of democratic representation is faltering if a majority of Canadians do not believe their interests are well represented by their elected representatives.

Canadians believe their elected representatives are not accountable and don’t pay attention to what they think. In fact, only 36 per cent of Canadians are satisfied with how MPs do their jobs. Of particular note, the study found Canadians feel their MPs represent their political party better than they do their constituents.

Ideally, the goings-on will prompt more of us to take note that democracy is under attack, a problem that goes well beyond electioneering and corruption.

The goal should be the reinvention of democracy. Well, really, restoring democracy to its original intent: widespread and decentralized decision-making in the public good rather than the top down, hierarchical structure prevalent today.

Hearing directly from Canadians should prompt politicians to act in our best interests, a different message than the one they hear from well-financed corporate lobbyists on a daily basis.

That might even put MPs’ actions more in line with what the public wants, as opposed to the special interests that pull the strings.

Better government is the goal.

The current process is unethical, dishonest and secretive, which means politicians are more likely to make decisions that are bad for the average Canadian, while favouring corporate interests. We would be better served by a more open, honest and accountable system. On that front, governments occasionally talk a good game, but never deliver.

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Hitting the refresh button on community traditions

here is a common misconception across communities that in order to grow, you must leave behind all your traditions. But growth and tradition are not mutually exclusive.

Your community is able to thrive and succeed while maintaining your most valued traditions. With the correct approach, bringing your traditions forward can not only maintain your foundation and identity as a community, but welcome in the new generations in support of collective success.

People have a tendency

to believe that in order to have growth within and as a community, you must eliminate traditions. Alternatively, to undermine growth, you must keep traditions. However, in reality, the best way to perceive traditions is to acknowledge them and work towards finding ways to build and grow with and around them. To ignore your traditions is to lose a part of who you are, to lose part of your identity. Rather than viewing these traditions as something that is hindering or holding you back, see their value and learn from them. You have

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the unique ability to bring together the old with the new to create a community that is part of each other as much as it is its own entity standing strong within the larger economic picture. If you don’t find ways to grow with them, your traditions will die out because there will be no one to hold onto

them, to nurture them, and to feed them.

One of the greatest examples of embracing tradition while demonstrating exponential growth, is the tradition of the Calgary Stampede. The Calgary Stampede is an annual rodeo, exhibition, and festival held in Calgary, Alberta. Founded in 1886, the Stampede began as an individual exhibition held by Calgary and the District Agricultural Society. In 1912, an American promoter organized the first rodeo and festival and in 1923 it merged with the Calgary Industrial

Exhibition to create what we know today as the Calgary Exhibition and Stampede. The Stampede brings together thousands of volunteers from the Calgary community with the support of civic leaders and together, the event that is so strongly rooted in the identity of Calgary itself, has grown into one of the largest tourist attractions and means of revenue for the city. Instead of letting go of this over 130-yearold tradition, the city of Calgary embraced it, cared for it, and grew with it. Not only does this annual event support the community

through an income brought in from the thousands of people being drawn to it from around the world, but it has built a community within the city of residents who are proud to take on this identity, even going to the lengths of referring to themselves as “Stampede City” and “Cowtown,” and naming their Canadian Football League team the Stampeders.

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emissions, and the only way to avoid them is not to fly.

Aviation accounts for around 2.5 per cent of human-caused greenhouse

GRIFFITHS: There is potential for every place to embrace tradition

gas emissions at the moment, but the contrails the planes leave in the stratosphere turn into cirrus clouds that reflect heat back to the surface, and that causes an equal amount of heating.

So in reality five per cent of current warming is already due to aviation, and industry representatives estimate that the number of people flying annually will almost double (to 8.2

billion) in the next twenty years. By then flying will have grown to 10 per cent of the global heating problem, or even more if we have made good progress on cutting our other emissions. So must we stop flying?

That’s not the way we deal with other climate-related transport problems.

We haven’t abolished automobiles; we have just worked on ways of

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to adapt and adjust, staying too attached to their traditions without seeing the potential for growth with what they have already established. Without the willingness to build and evolve their traditions, they have failed to draw in a new and younger membership base.

This loss is felt greatly in their communities, falling behind by their unwillingness to looking forward.

There is so much potential in every community to embrace their traditions and be proud of who they are and where they began while having an openness to the new and wonderful ways society has developed to bring growth and undoubted success to the people that make up who they are as a community.

■■ Trudeau’s pipeline policy is economic madness To the Editor, Prime Minister Trudeau’s plan to expand the Trans Mountain pipeline will be an economic disaster nationally. He’ll obligate all Canadian taxpayers to spend $7 billion-plus to triple the capacity of the current TMX, and we have no proof of firm contracts with foreign countries to by this extra tar-sands crude.

Even if Canada receives revenue of $500 million annually as Trudeau claims, it will take us 14 years to pay off this debt.

So this is a non-profit

proposal even by 2033, and that’s not considering the millions of dollars for maintenance and repair of these extra pipes, as well as the potential billion-dollar lawsuits from B.C. indigenous nations whose water supply could be destroyed by a major carbon-polluting bitumen spill.

The only winner in this “pipe dream” will be Alberta’s oil companies, which haven’t even offered to pay $100 towards the construction and maintenance of the TMX expansion. This is economic madness.

Moreover, this will constitute another failed promise from Trudeau’s hypocritical government, which promised to reduce Canada’s carbon footprint in the coming decades.

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reducing and ultimately eliminating the emissions associated with them. Electric cars now lead the field, but other alternatives may emerge.

By contrast, we are told, there are no alternatives available for aviation.

People have been nibbling around the fringes of the fuel problem, but ‘biofuel’ won’t cut it: it would take an area the size of Australia to grow the plants needed as feedstock for the fuel that aviation industry consumes. Batteries are too heavy to use in electric planes, and there’s no solution for the contrail problem. We’ll just have to stop flying.

Not necessarily. The problem has been neglected, because the aviation industry was too lazy or stupid to look down the road and start preparing for a future that more attentive people could see 20 years ago. But the fuel problem is not insoluble.

In fact, it has already been solved. The solution just needs to be scaled up.

A number of people have been working on DAC (Direct Air Capture of carbon dioxide) for more than a decade already, and the leader in the field, David Keith’s Carbon Engineering, has had a pilot plant

running in British Columbia for the past three years.

Keith’s business model involves combining his captured carbon dioxide with hydrogen (produced from water by electrolysis). The electricity for both processes comes from solar power, and the final product is a high-octane fuel suitable for use in aircraft.

It emits carbon dioxide when you burn it, of course, but it’s the same carbon dioxide you extracted from the air at the start. The fuel is carbon-neutral. Scaling production up would take a long time and cost a lot, but it would also bring the price down to a commercially viable level.

The contrails and the cirrus clouds in the stratosphere are a considerably harder problem, but there are a number of measures that would help.

The planes are flying so high for two reasons. The air is less dense up there, so you don’t use so much fuel pushing through it.

But the main reason, especially for passenger planes, is that there is much less turbulence in the stratosphere than in the lower atmosphere. If the planes flew down there, they’d be bouncing around half the

time, and everybody’s sickbag would be on their knee.

So what can you do about it? Well, contrails only form in air masses with high humidity, and therefore only affect 10-20 per cent of flights. With adequate information, most of those flights could simply fly around them.

Alternatively, fly below 25,000 ft. for that section of the flight, and contrails won’t form anyway.

It will be more turbulent down there, so in the long run we should be building aircraft that automatically damp out most of the turbulence. This is probably best achieved by ducted flows of air that instantly counter any sudden changes of altitude or attitude, but if aircraft designers started incorporating such ducts into their designs today, they’d only come into regular use in about 15 years’ time.

So the order of business is first, carbon-neutral fuels (half the problem solved); second, flying around or under air masses with high humidity (another quarter solved); and finally, turbulence-damping aircraft technology (most of the rest done).

By the way, how is Greta Thunberg getting home again?

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Though the building is just 10 years old, the WMC has been plagued with issues, none more so than the refrigeration plant. While it should have lasted for a few decades, the equipment will be replaced if the township is successful in this week’s bid for an Investing in Canada Infrastructure Program grant. The project is valued at $1.8 million, with Woolwich’s share set at $500,000 if senior governments kick in.

While the junior girls’ basketball team was locked in battle with Cameron Heights on Oct. 24, the senior girls’ squad was also struggling with their Kitchener counterparts, losing 43-36. The junior boys’ volleyball team was a less-gracious visitor, defeating CHCI 3-2.

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Kings win on the road, drop a pair at home A 3-1 win in Brampton followed by OT loss to Waterloo, 3-2 decision against Cambridge

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Facing three teams below them in the standings, the Elmira Sugar Kings came away with just one win last weekend.

A road game Friday night against the weakest of the three, the Brampton Bombers, netted the Kings a win, but home ice was no advantage as the team dropped a 6-5 OT decision to the Waterloo Siskins on Saturday before losing outright Sunday to the Cambridge Redhawks by a score of 3-2.

When the dust settled, the Kings found themselves in third place in the GOJHL’s Midwestern Conference standings, looking up at Listowel and firstplace Kitchener.

The weekend got off on the right foot as the Sugar Kings travelled to the Brampton Arena on Friday night to play against the Bombers, who have yet to post a win against Elmira.

Matthew Tolton drew first blood in the opening stanza at 8:29 during a power play, with assists from Brody Waters and Niki Molson, putting the visitors up 1-0. While there was no more scoring in the first 20 minutes, the Kings kept pressing their case, outshooting Brampton 16-8.

The momentum carried on to the middle frame, with the Kings scoring again on the power play at 2:48 courtesy of Mason McMahon (Hunter Dubecki, Harrison Toms). Ten minutes later, another man-advantage saw the visitors make it 3-0 when Toms potted one of his own, assisted by Jacob Black.

It was a special-teams sweep less than two minutes later when Brampton finally got on the board thanks to a power play.

The period would end with Elmira up 3-1. That’s in fact where the scoreboard would remain through

the final buzzer, as the two sides exchanged eight shots apiece in the final frame, but couldn’t bury any of their chances.

Shots were 31-28 for Elmira, which capitalized on

three of their seven power plays, while Brampton was 1-7.

Back home Saturday to face the Siskins, another team they’d been on top of this season, the Kings may

not have been braced for the action that followed.

Despite outshooting Waterloo by a wide margin, 46-19, and forcing double overtime, Elmira would never lead and eventually

original, intended purpose – which, as everyone should know, is to wake up teenagers who are late for school.

This is mainly because modern day goose call owners are now fixated on calling in geese rather than the education of their children – which is fine, albeit a little selfish.

I mean, without an education, how are they ever going to choose the right goose call or know how to set up decoys properly?

Unless my theory is totally made up, the goose call was originally introduced as the “Creating mayhem and annoyance in the household call (patent pending)” in the year 47 AD (give or take a year.) And, as anyone who has used a call for this purpose knows, they still are exceedingly effective in this regard.

Somewhere along the way however, a vindictive matriarchal society banned goose calls from

being blown inside a house under penalty of death. Because of this, users were forced to go outside and honk loudly by the windows instead.

Soon after this became the norm, people began to notice that, while doing this, belligerent geese would circle and land as callers made futile attempts to wake up people inside the house. These people did not wake easily, however, because they were holding pillows over

their heads – probably because all those geese were so noisy.

And thus, it seemed the heyday of calling was relegated to ancient history.

It didn’t take waterfowlers long (a mere two centuries) before they realized that the call they were using could prove useful for other things too. Unfortunately, it is difficult, if not impossible to play Greensleeves on a goose call so they didn’t catch on. Luckily,

Elmira’s Brody Leblanc looks to hold his ground in front of the net during Sunday’s 3-2 loss to the Cambridge Redhawks at the WMC. [ANETA REBISZEWSKI]

have to settle for a single point.

The Kings set the pace in the opening frame, putting up 12 shots to Waterloo’s six, but the visitors would score twice late in the frame, including a power-play marker, to indicate what kind of night it would be.

Not ready to back down, the Sugar Kings made it a one-goal game with their first of the night at 11:43

by McMahon (Black, Dubecki) during a power play.

But the Siskins scored late in the frame, burying one of just five shots, to make it 3-1 after 40 minutes.

The visitors’ lead would expand to 4-1 in the third period before Elmira seemed to find an extra gear where scoring was concerned. At 5:48, Tolton potted a goal and then at 7:22 Brody Leblanc (Brett Allen, Keaton McLaughlin) also got one, making the score 4-3. The Kings made a real game of it when KINGS | 10

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Dubecki (Tolton, Azzano) gave the team its fourth goal of the night. The tie was short-lived, however, as just 30 second later, the Siskins restored their lead.

With netminder Dawson Rowe on the bench for an extra attacker, Dubecki got another equalizer to force the game into overtime with the two teams knotted up at 5-5.

The first overtime set-

tled nothing, the Kings outshooting Waterloo 5-3 but neither team scoring.

The Kings put up four more shots in the second OT before the Siskins got one away, but it found the back of the net, ending the match at 3:27 with a score of 6-5 for the visitors.

“I was really happy with the effort but it was one of those one-off games where everything they tried to shoot found its way in

the net. Just one of those games – that’s hockey,” said head coach Rob Collins after Satuday’s match.

Sunday night, the Sugar Kings welcomed back the Cambridge Redhawks to the WMC. Leblanc drew first blood in the first frame at 2:55, with assists from Tolton and Cooper Way. The momentum was with the Kings, who outshot the visitors 13-2.

The middle stanza was

closer – shots were 8-7 for Elmira, though it was the Redhawks who scored the lone goal. The teams locked at 1-1, the third period would prove to be decisive.

“We had control of the game in the first period, second period we took our foot off the gas pedal and let them back in again,” said Collins.

Not backing down from a fight, the Redhawks got two goals before the third

period was eight minutes old. Down 3-1, the Kings mounted an attack, but it proved fruitless until the Collins pulled netminder Greg Brassard in favour of an extra skater. At 16:32, McMahon (Dubecki, Kurtis Goodwin) made it 3-2, but that’s where things would stand at the buzzer.

“Two good games that we can learn from,” said Collins of the losses on home ice.

With a record of 11-3-

0-2, the Kings sit in third place in the conference, trailing Kitchener (12-3-11) and Listowel (12-4-0-1).

The team has a chance to regain the top spot this weekend, however, as they play a home-andhome series against the Dutchmen. The teams are in Kitchener late Saturday afternoon (4:30 p.m.) before returning to Elmira Sunday for a rematch at the WMC. The puck drops at 7 p.m.

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Oct 28 vs Atom LL#1 HOME: 3 VISITOR: 0 GOALS: Cooper Jones, Braun Draper, Aiden Basler ASSISTS: Braun Draper Shutouts: Ronan Doherty Atom: Minor Atom A

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Owen Porter, Ethan Straus, Kitson Bakker, Carson Kellough, Carter Crane, Sullivan Shantz, Liam MacGregor Atom: Minor Atom A

Oct 25 vs New Hamburg Huskies HOME: 3 VISITOR: 2 GOALS: Kolten Noot, Owen Porter, Cody Paquet ASSISTS: Liam MacGregor, Jack Wood, Ethan Straus, Madden Habermehl Atom: Minor Atom A

Oct 26 vs Flamborough Dundas HOME: 9 VISITOR: 0 GOALS: Ethan Straus (3), Owen Porter (2), Kolten Noot, Kitson Bakker, Sullivan Shantz, Jackson Gillies ASSISTS: Carter Crane (2),

Kitson Bakker, Nate Seller, Cody Paquet, Jack Wood, Maxwell Rintoul Shutouts: Maxwell Rintoul Atom: Major Atom A

Oct 24 vs Oakville Rangers Blue HOME: 6 VISITOR: 2 GOALS: Colton Sinclair, Nolan Martin (2), Cruz

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Oct 26 vs Walkerton Capitals HOME: 2 VISITOR: 0 GOALS: Chole Futher, Megan Nixon ASSISTS: Emma Huber, Taylor Rayfield, Andreana Chalhoub, Hailey Thom

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PeeWee: Major PeeWee A

Oct 21 vs Guelph HOME: 3 VISITOR: 2 GOALS: Evan Woods, Gavin Neabel x (2) ASSISTS: Hunter Bender x (2), Brandon Fishman, Karsten Smith Shutouts: n/a PeeWee: Major PeeWee A

Oct 25 vs Centre Wellington HOME: 2 VISITOR: 2 GOALS: Evan Woods, Hunter Bender Shutouts: n/a PeeWee: Major PeeWee A

Oct 26 vs Owen Sound HOME: 2 VISITOR: 2 GOALS: Brandon Fishman, Ethan Burkholder ASSISTS: Karsten Smith, Carter Snider, Joshua Carson, Rylan Heimpel Shutouts: n/a PeeWee: Minor PeeWee A

Oct 08 vs FlamboroughDundas HOME: 7 VISITOR: 5 GOALS: Mitchell Krasovec (4), Tate Berfelz, Adam Bloch, Spencer Hume ASSISTS: Tate Berfelz

(2), Alex Veitch (2), Bryce Brubacher (2), Mac Zettel, Luke Wood, Carter Weir, Mitchell Krasovec, Spencer Hume PeeWee: Minor PeeWee

Oct 19 vs Oakville Rangers Blue HOME: 3 VISITOR: 3 GOALS: Mitchell Krasovec, Caleb Paquet, Declan Martin

The Woolwich Wildcats Major Atom A took home the gold medal at the Kitchener Oktoberfest Tournament last weekend, after winning 2-1 in the final game Sunday. First row: Cohen Hamburger, Cohen Patterson. Second row: Nolan Martin, Cruz Balog, Josh Wraight, Mason Gear, Levi Adams, Jordan Martin. Third row: Matthew Kochut, William Krubally, Cameron Fisher, Grant Rintoul, Colton Sinclair, Colton Brito, Reese Martin. Back row: Assistant coach Jason Hamburger, trainer Greg Martin, assistant coach Mark Rintoul, head coach Dave Gear. [SUBMITTED] HOME: 1 VISITOR: 5 GOALS: Adam Bloch ASSISTS: Spencer Hume,

Jackson Kellough PeeWee: Minor PeeWee A

Oct 23 vs Centre Wellington Fusion HOME: 2 VISITOR: 3 GOALS: Mitchell Krasovec (2) ASSISTS: Tate Berfelz PeeWee: Peewee AE

Oct 24 vs Orangeville HOME: 2 VISITOR: 5 GOALS: Haiden Wagner, Brooks Lehtonen ASSISTS: Drew Snyder PeeWee: Peewee AE

Oct 27 vs Brampton HOME: 2 VISITOR: 5 GOALS: Connor Goebel, Brooks Lehtonen ASSISTS: Nate Dyck, Austin Roth, Spencer Miller, Wes Aitken PeeWee: LL3

Oct 26 vs Center Wellington HOME: 1 VISITOR: 5 GOALS: Clyde Chico ASSISTS: Matthew Hutchison Bantam: LL #3

ASSISTS: Mitchell Krasovec,

Oct 25 vs Woolwich LL1 HOME: 3 VISITOR: 1 GOALS: Brandon Girling, Andrew Zettler, Avery Egbokheo

Caleb Paquet

ASSISTS: Nathan Lipp,

PeeWee: Minor PeeWee A

Avery Egbokheo, Hudson Habermehl (2), Adam Short

Oct 20 vs Oakville Rangers Blue

Midget: Minor Midget A

Atom: Major Atom A

Oct 25 vs Guelph Gryphons HOME: 7 VISITOR: 3 GOALS: Andrew Gear, Elliott MacCarey (2), Aiden Von Kannen (2), Mitchell Hartman (2)

Oct 25 vs Game 2 HOME: 8 VISITOR: 0 GOALS: William Krubally, Colton Sinclair (2), Josh Wraight, Colton Brito (2), Jordan Martin, Levi Adams

ASSISTS: Griffin Boerner

ASSISTS: Cameron Fisher,

(3), Zack Bender, Coleton Benham (2), Carter Cousineau

Colton Brito, Josh Wraight, Jordan Martin

Midget: Minor Midget A

Oct 26 vs Owen Sound HOME: 4 VISITOR: 5 GOALS: Curtis Bisch (2), Elliott MacCarey, Cohen McIsaac

Shutouts: Cohen Hamburger Atom: Major Atom A

ASSISTS: Cohen MacIssac

Oct 26 vs Game 3 HOME: 1 VISITOR: 0 GOALS: Nolan Martin ASSISTS: Reese Martin Shutouts: Cohen Patterson

(2), Andrew Gear (2), Carter Cousineau, Reid Burkholder

Atom: Major Atom A

KITCHENER OKTOBERFEST TOURNAMENT Novice: Major Atom A

Oct 27 vs Semi Final Game HOME: 3 VISITOR: 1 GOALS: Grant Rintoul, Colton Sinclair (2) ASSISTS: Nolan Martin (2), Cruz Balog Atom: Major Atom A

Oct 25 vs Game 1 HOME: 7 VISITOR: 1 GOALS: Matthew Kochut, Josh Wraight (2), Mason Gear (2), Grant Rintoul (2) ASSISTS: Josh Wraight,

Reese Martin (4), Matthew Kochut (2), Mason Gear, Colton Brito (2), Cruz Balog (2)

Oct 26 vs Game 4 HOME: 7 VISITOR: 0 GOALS: Nolan Martin, Colton Sinclair, Mason Gear, Josh Wraight, Matthew Kochut, Jordan Martin, Reese Martin ASSISTS: Reese Martin,

Nolan Martin, Jordan Martin, Josh Wraight (2), Matthew Kochut (2), Mason Gear (2), Colton Sinclair Shutouts: Cohen Hamburger Atom: Major Atom A

Oct 27 vs Championship Game HOME: 2 VISITOR: 1 GOALS: Grant Rintoul, Colton Sinclair ASSISTS: Colton Brito, Cameron Fisher

Oct 22 vs Mount Forest Lady Rams HOME: 7 VISITOR: 0 GOALS: Emily Brubacher (2), Megan Nixon (2), Andreana Chalhoub (2), Taylor Rayfield ASSISTS: Megan Nixon

(2), Taylor Rayfield, Leah Hunter, Emily Brubacher Shutouts: Hailey Thom Atom: Atom B

Oct 23 vs Twin Centre Hericanes HOME: 6 VISITOR: 0 GOALS: Megan Nixon (2), Emily Brubacher, Rowyn McDowell, Sophie Hallman, Andreana Chalhoub ASSISTS: Megan Nixon

(2), Addison Gunn, Rowyn McDowell, Seryna Hessels, Brynn Berfelz, Sophie Hallman, Andreana Chalhoub Shutouts: Hailey (Hei Hei) Thom Atom: Atom B

Oct 28 vs Ayr Rockets HOME: 2 VISITOR: 1 GOALS: Emily Brubacher, Chloe Futher ASSISTS: Andreana Chalhoub Shutouts: Hailey Thom Atom: LL

Oct 26 vs Waterloo Ravens #2 HOME: 2 VISITOR: 1 GOALS: Maria Martin, Evie Klaehn ASSISTS: Addison Searth, Macey Robbins, Madison Klaehn, Lexi Weber

PeeWee: Woolwich Wild PeeWee A

Oct 25 vs Saugeen Maitland HOME: 3 VISITOR: 0 GOALS: Kara MacPherson, Kendra Hill, Sara Forwell ASSISTS: Lexie de Jeu (2), Kaeley Parker, Emma Braun, Kylie Rayfield Shutouts: Grace Breen PeeWee: Woolwich Wild PeeWee A

Oct 26 vs Wilmot HOME: 3 VISITOR: 1 GOALS: Claire Catton, Olivia Straus, Emma Braun ASSISTS: Brooke Kroetsch, Lexie de Jeu, Kyla Sargent, Kylie Rayfield, Kendra Hill, Sara Forwell Bantam: Bantam B

Oct 20 vs Brantford Ice Cats HOME: 2 VISITOR: 1 GOALS: Meghan Dietrich (2) ASSISTS: Nora Beatty, Harlow Fisher, Cara Wing, Madison Savage Shutouts: Jennifer Macpherson Bantam: Bantam B

Oct 24 vs Woodstock Wildcats HOME: 1 VISITOR: 2 GOALS: Kylee Lubbers ASSISTS: Alison Martin, Jadynn McCracken Shutouts: Jennifer Macpherson Bantam: Bantam B

Oct 26 vs Woodstock Wildcats HOME: 1 VISITOR: 3 GOALS: Alison Martin Shutouts: Jennifer Macpherson Midget: Midget B

Oct 26 vs Kincardine Kinucks HOME: 1 VISITOR: 3 GOALS: Marlee Fraser ASSISTS: Avery Leech Midget: Midget B

Oct 27 vs Walkerton Capitals HOME: 2 VISITOR: 4 GOALS: Marlee Fraser (2)

PeeWee: LL

Midget: LL

Oct 19 vs Waterloo Ravens 1 HOME: 2 VISITOR: 6 GOALS: Maggie Ropp, Jaiden Radler ASSISTS: Addison Bettke (2)

Oct 26 vs Guelph Jr. Gryphons Red HOME: 0 VISITOR: 0 Shutouts: Cailyn Wilkie

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A sibling Scottish odyssey to warm a footballer’s heart Elmira’s Austin and Cassidy Hunt get the experience of lifetime playing soccer with the Glasgow Rangers club

BY ANETA REBISZEWSKI

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A friendly visit to Scotland fuelled by an Elmira family’s passion for soccer quickly turned into an experience they won’t soon forget.

Siblings Cassidy and Austin Hunt earlier this month found themselves testing out their skills with professionals from the Glasgow Rangers football club.

Austin, 13, was taking part in a soccer camp hosted by Kitchener’s Red Academy of Soccer, where he trains. While he lives in Elmira, Austin is often found on the field in Kitchener, where he is playing for the Red Academy. During the summer the Academy invited the Glasgow Rangers to come visit Kitchener to see how things were on this side of the pond. In return, Austin and eight of his teammates got the opportunity to visit Scotland to be a part of a high development camp.

“It was really fun, the facility was really nice and I got to stay with the coaches. Everyone was really comforting,” said Austin, who was chosen to participate in the camp.

As Austin joined in on various activities and training during the camp, his sister and the rest of the family were taking in the Scottish experience. Cassidy’s skills caught the eye of the Glasgow Rangers.

Cassidy, who plays for the Kitchener Academy soccer

Austin Hunt, 13, and his sister Cassidy Hunt, 16, spent 10 days in Scotland where they had the opportunity to train and learn new skills with the Glasgow Rangers football club.

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team, has been involved in the sport since she was very young. She says she was honoured when the Rangers took interest in her.

“They taught me a new style of how to play like in a different position, but other than that it was kind of a twist on how I’m used to playing. It gave me new ideas and things to try out when I get back,” said the 16-year-old who got to train with the U19 and U23

Glasgow Rangers women’s team.

During her time in Scotland, Cassidy got to meet with girls her own age who gave her some pointers on the sport she has always loved.

“It's amazing how they all kind of bonded over a short period of time,” said her dad, Jeff Hunt, who was there to support both his kids.

As the week went on,

Austin was able to play in a few games where he scored seven goals in three matches, earning him the ‘man of the match’ title during his time with the Glasgow Rangers. Aside from all the training, the athlete also got to tour the Ibrox Stadium that was built in 1872.

The highlight of his trip, he said, was getting to meet two soccer idols, Jermain Defoe, who previously played for the Toronto

Football Club (TFC), and Scott Arfield, the captain of the Canada national team.

“They surprised all of us when we went to take a tour of Hummel Training Centre. We got pictures and signed shirts and stuff,” said Austin.

As the women’s Glasgow Rangers team took a liking to Cassidy and her skills, they invited her to join

them to play a friendly with a professional team, Ayr United. During the match Cassidy didn’t hold back for a second and was even able to score the winning goal, which left her with a feeling of accomplishment during her time in Scotland.

Both of the siblings have been playing the sport for as long as they can remember and instantly fell in love with the game.

“I got a stuffed animal that was a soccer ball and I started kicking that around and just loved it,” said Austin, the younger of the two.

While for Cassidy, her love of the sport comes from her parents who have always encouraged her to play even as she first started out playing for the Timbits team.

What originally was a trip for a soccer camp quickly turned into a family memory that will be remembered for years ahead, they enthused. As Austin and Cassidy get older, they both intend to continue playing soccer and hopefully go professional some day, but for now they’re happy with the opportunity they had to play and train with the professional club.

“I think the neat thing is ... both of them going across the world to a country where football is life.

And to have had as much success as they did, I think it is a testament to their work ethic and their commitment to the sport,” said Jeff.

Out of first place, Jacks on unfamiliar ground Wellesley give up overtime loss to Norwich, Tavistock and Woodstock to move ahead

BY VERONICA REINER vreiner@woolwichobserver.com

As things tighten up in the PJHL’s South Doherty Division, an overtime loss was enough to drop the Wellesley Applejacks from first to third place. Friday night’s 5-4 decision in favour of the Norwich Merchants was the Jacks’ sole action of the weekend, providing some room for their nearest competitors.

With a record of 7-1-1-3, Wellesley’s 18 points trails first-place Tavistock (10-1) and Woodstock (9-4), the first time the Jacks have been out of the top spot this season.

“It was a tough loss,” said club president Terry Brick. “We didn't play as well as we should have.

“Woodstock is right there with us ... we lost to them last week on Sunday in overtime,” he added.

“Most of the teams are pretty close – there’s not a big difference between the top and the bottom.”

During the Oct. 25 match, it was the Merchants who drew first blood, unassisted at 10:08.

Wellesley was quick to retaliate, courtesy of Daniel McCutcheon (Owen Lane) at 10:58. Norwich stayed ahead, however, potting one more before the buzzer sounded to make it 2-1.

The Merchants continued to push ahead after the intermission, scoring quickly at 1:36. Wellesley wasn’t about to go down without a fight, however,

with Austin Cousineau (James Ranson) responding at 2:24. Carson Wickie kept up the momentum at 6:36. Brendan Baker picked up the assist to make it a tie game at 3-3 after two periods of play.

The close battle saw tensions running high when the teams got back on the ice for the third period, with the officials seeing plenty of action and the penalty box plenty of company courtesy of the nine minors doled out.

Back on the ice, it was Norwich that broke the deadlock with a goal at 5:15, though that situation was short-lived as Wellesley’s Eric Vander Eyk returned the favour at 7:05, assisted by Shaun Pickering and Matt Caskanette,

to make it 5-5.

Neither side was able to do anything about the tie for the remainder of the frame, so it was off to OT. Well, at least for a little while, as the Merchants needed just 48 seconds to settle the matter.

The finally shot tally – 48-45 for the home side – was indicative of the night’s play.

Now, the Jacks look to get back on track this weekend. On the road in Delhi Friday night to face the travellers, they return home Saturday for a rematch with the Merchants.

Game time both nights is 8 p.m.

“We're going to be working on getting back in first place – that'll be the big thing we want,” said Brick.

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It’s full-court impress for EDSS junior girls’ basketball squad Plenty of wins this season for the high school basketball team that looks primed to excel for years to come

BY VERONICA REINER vreiner@woolwichobserver.com

Not known as home to powerhouse squads on the basketball court, EDSS may just be primed to change that situation thanks to the remarkable success of the junior girls’ team, which has posted a near-perfect record so far.

Since the start of their season in mid-September, the Grade 9 and 10 Lancers have achieved win after win on route to a 11-1 record that puts them in second place (tied with Huron Heights High School) out of 16 teams in the overall standings.

The most recent win came Tuesday afternoon, a 41-29 decision over Jacob Hespeler Secondary School.

Given that many of them are early in their high school careers, it’s a safe bet things will only improve over the upcoming years.

“This season speaks for itself in terms of numbers and whatnot, but overall the girls have worked very hard,” said coach and EDSS teacher Jesse Buchenauer.

“They’ve come together in a great way to support one another in different ways both on and off the court.”

Some highlight games for the team include 59-7 against Forest Heights Collegiate Institute on September 24, where Macy Weber achieved 16 points and Faith Neuman scored 10.

Other teams they have won

Both the EDSS junior girls’ basketball team and their counterparts from Cameron Heights went into an Oct. 24 game with records of 9-0, with the Lancers ultimately losing for the first time this year by a score of 47-38. The team bounced [VERONICA REINER / THE OBSERVER] right back Tuesday with a 41-29 win over Jacob Hespeler Secondary School.

against include Preston High School 56-13, Grand River Collegiate Institute 41-20, and Bluevale Collegiate Institute 38-15.

On October 1, EDSS won 53-17 against Glenview Park Secondary School, with Weber once again taking the top scorer spot at 20, and Caela McLennan netting six.

The nearly 6-foot-tall Weber is the team most valuable player, who brings outside experience playing for a London-based basketball team.

“Caela and I have been playing with each other

since we started basketball.

We started together continued playing on the same team, and we have really good chemistry,” said Weber.

The pair had success dating back to elementary school days; Weber and McLennan played together on the Conestoga Colts girls basketball team back at Conestogo PS. The Colts achieved a perfect record in championship play, back in March, and went undefeated for four years.

“She and Macy feed off each other very well – [Caela] might not show up on

the scoreboard as much as some people would think your next best player would, but she sets the tone right from the getgo as soon as she gets the ball,” said Buchenauer.

The sport is a huge commitment in most of the players lives: Weber plays an upwards of 12 hours a week, while her teammate, Megan Hume, plays 10.

Overall, the team is made up of six Grade 9 students and five Grade 10s.

In addition to the physical benefits of exercise, team members have bonded more deeply through

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“Basketball has really tied us together. Before, I didn’t really know many of the girls but now we’re all pretty tight I would say,” said Weber.

Their sole loss of the season came at the hands of Cameron Heights Collegiate Institute, who narrowly edged out EDSS 47-38 in a nail-biter last week in the EDSS gym. It was expected to be a challenging match beforehand, as the two schools shared undefeated records of 9-0 going into it.

“They have a couple of really good all-star players on their team who are much better than other players we have seen so far.

So it’ll be a tough match for us,” said Buchenauer, just before the game.

The team will look to improve their strategy until the next matchup against CHCI. In the meantime, the EDSS junior girls expect to carry on the success for years as the move up to the senior ranks over time.

“They definitely make coaching much easier than it should be for sure, because of their talent and their ability to work together and communicate,” said Buchenaeur. “As with any team, there are always little things you have to work on – practice and get better at.

“Definitely a promising future for these young ladies, hopefully they stick with it and see success for the next couple years with their high school careers.”

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of Honks versus Growls secured the right to use a goose call in the house at almost every time but 6 a.m. on a weekend morning. To this day, this is still punishable by death in some less progressive jurisdictions.

That’s why goose callers like myself are now realizing the additional benefits of using the goose call for its intended purpose: to put roosters to shame.

I can attest to the effectiveness of this and so can my partner on several early mornings last week. I would have done more testing to ascertain effectiveness, but I seemed to misplace all of my calls and the one I did find buried in the shed had mysteriously been stuffed full of mud. Who can say how or why this happened?

Nevertheless, it is good to know that when you buy a goose call it will serve dual purposes, which validates the extra money you will invariably spend. I actually think a call is easier to justify when you know that you can use it year round in the house.

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Safety at WNH extends beyond "call before you dig"

Waterloo North Hydro receives a pair of awards for its safety record, including psycholgoical efforts

BY VERONICA REINER vreiner@woolwichobserver.com

A multi-pronged approach to safety, from the dangers posed to customer to the mental wellbeing of employees, has netted Waterloo North Hydro (WNH) a pair of prestigious national awards, particularly for their thorough work breaking down the barriers surrounding mental health.

The publically owned utility was the recipient of a gold award in the Psychological Safety category and a silver award in the Utilities and Electrical category from Canada’s Safest Employers during a special award ceremony held last week in Toronto.

“We’re a fairly safe organization; I don’t think that was a surprise that we won that one,” said WNH spokesperson Jeff Quint.

“The psychological safety one was something we were definitely surprised at.”

WNH introduced a corporate wellness program back in 2010 that has grown to include a robust mental health component.

A psychological health and safety management program was incorporated in 2012 following the tragic death of an employee within the company.

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Waterloo North Hydro staff received two Canada's Safest Employers awards during a special ceremony in Toronto Oct. 22. From left to right: Jeff Quint, Jim Idsardi, Andrea Gregoris, Heather Schnurr and Will Stratford.

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Mental health first aid training, awareness programs, informative health-related sessions, and campaigns are all elements of this program.

“It’s simply enough training so that if you noticed someone’s behaviour is a little off, you would take the first step in asking ‘Are you okay?’ If they weren’t, that you help them to find the right help,” explained Quint on the mental health first aid training. Employees are further taught how to identify specific signs that someone may be struggling.

“Today, you might be good, but tomorrow you’re not. Every day changes, every day is different. It’s about breaking down barriers that make people more comfortable having those conversations.”

Awareness on the topic is also brought to the forefront through WNH’s support of Bell Let’s Talk Day, an annual initiative aimed at fighting the stigma associated with mental health. WNH also supports the Movember movement, a yearly event throughout November involving the growing of moustaches

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WNH employees also participated in the Region of Waterloo’s five-week Road to Mental Well-Being campaign over the summer. Other more casual initiatives undertaken by WNH include workout classes, team-building sessions, and cooking classes.

Quint said that the program has transitioned from formal to more informal over the years – the efforts are all employee-driven.

“It’s the little things ... it’s not one big momentous thing; we don’t go out and

bring in a high-priced guest speaker,” said Quint. “It’s these little pieces that you keep slowly arming people with, and providing them so that they can build up their toolbox, so to speak.”

Examples of these little pieces could include an email or a consultation.

WNH employs approximately 128 employees, who are encouraged to use as many resources as needed.

Some may use all, while others may use just one component, said Quint.

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he groundwork to help close the huge gap between what we should know about agriculture, compared to what we actually do know, took a step forward Wednesday.

The province announced it was giving $400,000 to AgScape, the organization entrusted with agricultural education in the classroom and helping to deliver agrifood learning and promote careers in agriculture, where so many jobs go unfulfilled every day, month and year.

AgScape delivers curriculum-linked learning materials and programming to teachers and classrooms across the province. The province says the money will help students learn about food production, the links between food, farming and health, and how to get involved and build a successful career in the ROBERTS | 14

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WNH: It's not always big moves, but a series of small steps that improves safety in the workplace, says utility five consecutive years with zero lost-time injuries. The organization also holds safety training sessions for first responders, contractors, and other community groups to improve public safety further.

“We educate customers on what they need to do with safety: how to be safe when a power line is down, call before you dig, what to do if a power line falls on your car, how far you should stay back,” said Quint, listing examples of what these public safety training sessions consist of.

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tion to attend a financial health session option that takes place after hours.

These sessions help to destress attendees with their various money-related issues, including planning for retirement or working through a financial crisis.

“The mental health, well-being, and safety of our employees is always a top priority for Waterloo North Hydro,” said WNH’s president and CEO Rene Gatien in a statement. “We are honoured to be recognized with this award.”

The silver award was somewhat to be expected for the company; WNH has recorded more than

a retired WNH employee who delivers fun electrical safety sessions to students.

Larry made presentations to 3,548 students, amounting to 85 per cent of students within the WNH service territory, throughout 2018. His work is part of the School Safety Program, in which some 18,000 have participated since 2012.

WNH provides regulated electricity distribution services to 57,000 residential and business customers spanning 683 square kilometres in Wellesley, Woolwich and Waterloo. The utility is jointly owned by the three municipalities in proportion to their populations.

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agri-food industry.

With the government’s support, AgScape will expand its Teacher Ambassador Program, deliver its Agri-Trekking Across Ontario interactive game, host learning events such as Agri-Career Competitions and develop curriculum-linked learning resources.

Ernie Hardeman, Ontario’s minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, has long been a booster of getting young people more involved in agriculture.

“When students learn the ABCs of the agri-food industry, they’ll quickly realize that it’s so much more than cows and plows - it’s a driving force for innovation and economic growth in our province,” he says. “Giving teachers and students the tools to learn about agri-food will help shape our next generation of leaders and achievers.”

Adds Stephen Lecce, Ontario Minister of Education: “Teaching kids about how food is grown and produced will help inspire more youth to enter the

fast-growing agriculture sector and attain good-paying jobs.”

The key to all this is what AgScape executive director Glenna Banda had to say about the support.

“Through this project, more students will be curious, conscious and will think critically as they explore their food choices and careers in the industry,” she said.

For that reason alone, AgScape should be flush with money from all sources – the government, yes, but the agri-food sector in particular.

Critical thinking is key to society accepting farmers’ products, to people understanding how and why farmers use technology, and that it’s actually good for sustainability and holding down the cost of food.

Education is also key to appreciating manufacturers’ role in the food system, particularly in processing, why some crops need to be processed in order for humans to consume them, and why processing can add value to commodities,

provided it doesn’t add copious quantities of sugar, salt and fat.

This understanding in society is called agricultural literacy. It follows agricultural education, or at least it’s supposed to, depending on who’s educating who.

That’s why the ag sector needs to step up and support AgScape. Who do you want educating children about the agri-food system – teachers, or bloggers? I say teachers, following a provincially approved curriculum.

That’s what AgScape delivers: balanced information about agriculture.

This kind of agricultural education can help lead to a more agriculturally literate society. I believe those who produce food understand that. Now, they have to get behind such efforts, like the province did.

Yes, it’s a cost, in an industry that already works on very slim margins. But consider the ramifications of trying to sell into an agriculturally illiterate society, and the cost will seem much more like an investment than an expense.

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Plenty of laughs figuring out retirement The Elmira Theatre Company explores the transition into a new phase of life with staging of A Red Plaid Shirt

BY VERONICA REINER vreiner@woolwichobserver.com

The newest offering from the Elmira Theatre Company follows the comedic journey of two couples that step into a new chapter of their lives after retirement.

But just what exactly does one do when employment no longer claims more than a third of the day? That’s precisely what’s explored in A Red Plaid Shirt by the late playwright Michael G. Wilmot.

Marty, played by ETC veteran Joe Brenner, has just retired from working as a school teacher for 35 years. As the role was a core part of his identity, the uncertainty about how to spend his newfound time drives him up the wall. Along for the ride is his wife, Deb, played by experienced community theatre actor Kristine Fortner.

Marty truly wants to buy a Harley Davidson. Fearing for his safety, Deb encourages him to take a woodworking class as a more reasonable option instead.

Brenner said he drew on his own experience to get into the role, including talking to retired friends.

“Once upon a time, I shared a story early on that my wife was on maternity leave ... I run a window-washing business, so I’m not very busy in the winter,” said Brenner.

“This was a long time

Fred (Brian Otto) and Marty (Joe Brenner) pick up brand new hobbies such as woodworking to fill the void left by retirement in the ETC production of A Red Plaid Shirt.

ago. I remember her one day saying to me, ‘Don’t you have someplace to go?’

Which made me think of how my wife in the play is feeling ... ‘just do something!’”

Joining them in the journey is the couple’s old friends, Fred (Brian Otto) and his wife Gladys (ETC founding member Chris Grose). Fred has spent his newfound time watching countless television medical shows, which led him to become a hypochondriac. Gladys coaxes him into taking the woodworking

class with Marty.

“It’s about love in a way ... the guys are both lost.

It’s very sitcom-like that,” explained Brenner. “The wives are the logical ones, and the guys are the doofuses. They do a ridiculous thing in the middle of the play.

“But it’s love that keeps them together. Love and humour, really.”

Every actor on stage brings decades of experience to the table, which is sure to reflect in their performances. The comedy is described as family

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Producer Bev Dietrich and Brenner were in agreement that just about anyone could find themselves relating to the play.

“That’s basically what the play is about – it’s a journey to another change, another stage in your life,” said Dietrich. “I’m sure most people in our audience will be able to relate to it one way or another.

Especially because our audiences tend to be older.

Either people have retired or are thinking about re-

tirement.”

Trish Starodub laid the foundation for the show, but had to step down from the role of director along the way. In true community theatre style, other members of ETC stepped in to fine tune the production, and it will be all ready for tomorrow’s (Friday) opening night. The show is sure to get audiences laughing and thinking (or re-thinking) about retirement.

The ETC production of A Red Plaid Shirt offers dinner and show-only options.

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Show-only performances run November 1, 7 and 15 at 8 p.m. For the dinner-andshow option, performances take place November 2, 9 and 16 at 7 p.m., and November 3 and 10 at 1:30 p.m.

Tickets are $20 (show only) or $60 with the dinner option, available at KW Tickets by calling 1-800265-8977 or 519-578-1570 or in person at Centre In The Square box office at 101 Queen St. N., Kitchener.

Alternatively, tickets can be purchased online at www.elmiratheatre.com.

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LEAF DISPOSAL Please do not rake your leaves onto the road. This practice has been prohibited by bylaw in the Township of Woolwich since 1994. There is a fine of $125 for depositing any debris or refuse, which includes leaves, on Township Roads. These piles of leaves are a safety hazard as they encourage children to play on the road. They can also result in flooding issues when the leaves block storm drains.

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SATURDAY NOVEMBER 9 AT 9:30 AM HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE: BT battery

powered narrow isle fork lift; General 1hp dust collector; Calpe hydcopy lathe MH 1000; Calpe Hydcopy lathe MH 1300; 2 Nash sanders 150; gun drill; 3 Nash 50 sanders; Mattison manual rotary cutter lathe with extension bed and hollow chuck; Mattison 30” manual rotary cutter lathe with extension; Leadermac 623 6 head moulder complete with heads and various profile cutters; 100hp dust collector c/w abort gate and spark detector complete with water pump and pressure tanks also complete with large quantity of piping and extra bags; Goodspeed 49” auto back knife with tooling; 18” Fell sander; 29” auto Seavey backknife lathe with tooling; 3 trim saws; 2 Diehl 48” auto rotary cutter lathes; Centauro T5E 1600 hyd copy lathe; Silver 44” planer/sander with belts; Taylor 6 manual pneumatic glue clamp; Taylor 14” glue spreader; partial barrel of glue; partial barrel of glue release; Cantek up cut saw; King 20” planer with spiral head; Boss straight line ripsaw; Leadermac Compact 623 moulder with tooling; King shaper; Craftex edge belt sander; 12” Sagar jointer; ABS 3 condar mister complete with R.O; Busy Bee 19” band saw; King 8” jointer with spiral head; Kreg jig machine; King hollow chisel mortise; rotary cutter grinder; nylon banding cart with clips; Trademaster bench drill press; King dust collector 12 amp; small air compressor; various oils and lubricants for the machines; various shaper tooling; large quantity of turned spindles and posts; large quantity of turn patterns; large quantity of lumber lifts common species; quantity of lumber drop offs; quantity of various trim; quantity of various wood panels for hobbyists; pipe and bar clamps; roller tables; variety of metal and wood shelving; woodworking tables; office supplies; file cabinets; PPE ear protectors, safety glasses, helmets etc; fire proof safe; large quantity of various tools; wrenches; sockets; hammers; power tools; large quantity of lumber and other items found in a well eqiupt woodworking shop.

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2 door, 2 drawer flatwall cupboard. Hossier kitchen cupboard. China cabinets. Pine blanket box.

Parlour tables. Nesting tables. Child’s press back rocker. Tub stand with hand wringer.

Spinning wheels and wool winders. Vega A6 counter top cream separator. Oil lamps.

12 Erb Transport tractor trailers. Home Hardware tractor trailers and coin banks.

Allis Chalmers toys and memorabilia. Few old tin trucks. Few Kawasaki parts. Ski Doo & Kawasaki manuals. Ski Doo advertising.

Bowes tire repair cabinet. Oil cans. Old pieced quilts. Hooked mats. Brass blow torches. Stanley & other planes. Old Pepsi cooler. Belleville Pottery 4 gal churn.

Redware. 2 handled miniature vase with green motifs (Jacobi or Biernstihl) – a little beaut! Crocks & jugs. Kitchen collectibles.

Wooden bucket. Brass and coppers pieces.

Tinware. Stenciled boxes. Pin cushions.

Old dolls. Cigar boxes. 2 pocket watches.

Canadian silver dollars (1940’s to 80’s). USA silver dollars. Few older Canadian bills.

Stamps. Duck decoy. Wooden mallet. Old pulleys and sprockets. Hummel figurines.

Royal Doultons. China & glass including cranberry & carnival glass. Carved bull.

Star Wars Collectibles. 5 Black horse original pictures. Black Horse Beer trays & blotter.

Black Horse ash trays & tip tray. Ross Butler Percheron stallion & Mare pictures. Pabst Blue Ribbon Winners picture at 1904 Chicago Horse show. Budweiser Hitch tin sign. 1977 Master Feeds calendar (Reg & Bob Black Percheron hitch at the Royal). Also black leather & pleather sofa.

HOCKEY RELATED: Large player photos by “Weekend Magazine” including Gordie Howe, Bobby Hull, Stan Mikita, Glenn Hall, Pierre Pilote & Jacques Laperriere. Hockey cards from late 60’s, 70’s & 80’s including rookie cards. Note – Hockey “stuff” to sell at approx. 11:00 a.m.

NOTE: Sam has been in business for 35

years and well known for his workmanship and products, this is a true liquidation of a complete wood turning business. Machines will be disconnected, forklift will be available for most machines excluding planer/sander and moulding machine where a licensed rigger is required. Machines and items must be cleared by Nov 16 during business hours excluding Sunday. Approx 25 machines will be available for internet bidding at approx 11:30. www.jantziauctions.hibid.com to register for online portion. (link coming soon)

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SAT. NOV 2 AT 9:00 AM - ANNUAL CHARITY auction of quilts; woodworking items; gift certificates; new furniture; donated items and much more at 7353 McCarthy Rd for the Gospel Echoes Team. Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 519 656 3555 www. jantziauctions.com

working machines; wood; Calpe hydcopy lathe; 100hp dust collector; and many more items found in a well eqiupt woodworking shop for Martin Woodturnings Inc. at 7111 Line 86 Elmira. Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 519 656 3555 www.jantziauctions.com

WED. NOV 6 AT 9:45 AM - CLEARING AUCtion sale of furniture; tools; antiques; miscellaneous items to be held at the St. Jacobs community centre 29 Parkside Dr. St. Jacobs Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 519 656 3555 www.jantziauctions.com

MON. NOV 11 AT 7 P.M. - ONLINE AUCTION closing of Nascar items; Dale Earnhardt memorabilia; Hotwheels; stamps; collectibles; and much more. Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 519-656-3555 www. jantziauctions.com

effects; furniture; antiques; and miscellaneous items at 67 First St. W in Elmira for Eileen Martin. Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 519-656-3555 www. jantziauctions.com TOY AUCTION OF LOTS OF TRACTOR TRAILers, farm tractors, pedal tractors, literature, display shelving and much more, to be held at the K.W. Khaki club, 2939 Nafziger Rd. 2 miles south of Wellesley, for Larry Ferguson, and additions, on Saturday, November 16th @ 9:30 a.m. Gerber Auctions Ltd. 519-699-4451 or 519-698-0138

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ELMIRA - 60 X 117 foot lot!!! Located in a quiet setting in the town of Elmira, this bright and cozy 2 bedroom bungalow will not last long! Most windows have been replaced (2015-2018), appliances included, roof shingles replaced (2012) and lots of basement space to model with your own taste and preferences. Walking distance to down town and high school, steps to walking trails and elementary school. This is the perfect opportunity for first time buyers or anyone looking to downsize. Don’t wait, book in to see this fabulous property today.

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ELMIRA Beautifully landscaped, well kept and updated, close to amenities, schools, sports complex and seniors centre.

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NOV. 18TH AT SCHWEITZER'S Martial Arts Self-defense, Self-disKILN DRIED CORN & CORN cipline, Self-confidence. No SCREENING DELIVERED BY EIN- experience needed. Beginners wechter. Minimum 15 ton lots. Call welcome! Group Classes for ages George Haffner Trucking 519-574- 4 to adult. Taught by Renshi Becky Schweitzer, 4th Degree Black Belt 4141 or 519-669-2045. and World Karate Champion. Location at the Heidelberg Community WANTED Centre, 2915 Lobsinger Line, HOUSING, FEEDING AND BED- Heidelberg. Our 10 week session DING FOR 14-18 YEARLING $90+HST Call 519-580-1418 or cattle November-June. Outdoor e-mail becky_schweitzer@hotaccess required. Feed Supplied. mail.com Wellesley area preferred. Contact Lindsay 519-500-0922 or lindsayGARAGE SALES bast@yahoo.ca.

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F A M I LY A L B U M OBITUARY

IN MEMORIAM

In loving memory of a dear Mother, Daughter & Sister

Weber, Lucinda (Bauman)

Judy Lynn Lorenz (Ward) May 9/64 - Nov. 4/16

You never said I’m leaving, You never said goodbye.

You were gone before we knew it, And only God knows why.

A million times we needed you, A million times we cried.

If love alone could have saved you, You never would have died.

In life we loved you dearly, In death we love you still.

In our hearts you hold a place, That no one could ever fill.

It broke our hearts to lose you, But you didn’t go alone.

For a part of us went with you, The day God called you home.

Missed and forever loved Alicia & Heather, Mom & Dad, Tracy & Angie

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DEKONING, ANNECHIEN "ANNE" (NEE HOEKMAN) - Of Palmerston, passed away peacefully at the Royal Terrace Nursing Home, Palmerston on Thursday, October 17, 2019 in her 86th year.

ELLIS, JOHN EDWIN, "ED" - of Orlando Florida (formerly of Drayton) passed away at the age of 91 on Oct. 4, 2019.

JOHNSON, CECELIA AGNES (KRAUSKOPF) January 20, 1920 - October 22, 2019 Passed away peacefully at Freeport Campus of Grand River Hospital in her 100th year.

Passed away peacefully at Derbecker’s Heritage House, St. Jacobs, on Saturday, October 26, 2019, in her 98th year. Wife of the late Aden Weber (2002). Mother of Laverne and Elsie of Elmira, Delfred and Doris of Wallenstein, Dorothy and Allan Frey of RR 1, Elmira, Marilyn and Floyd Gingrich of Elmira, Lorene Wideman of Elmira, Stephen and Rosanne of Elmira, and Jon and Elmeda Staken of Elmira. Mother-in-law of Grace Weber of Elmira. Survived by 43 grandchildren, 125 greatgrandchildren, and 14 great-greatgrandchildren. Sister of Adina Martin and Almeda Shantz. Predeceased by her parents Ozias and Nancy (Martin) Bauman, son Wayne, son-in-law Glenn Wideman, four grandchildren, a greatgrandson, and brothers-in-law Aaron Martin and Noah Shantz. A special thank you to the staff at Heritage House and Martin’s Rest Home. Visitation was held on Sunday, October 27, 2019 from 3-6 p.m. and Monday, October 28, 2019 from 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. at the Dreisinger Funeral Home, Elmira. A family service took place in the funeral home chapel on Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 9 a.m., then to North Woolwich Mennonite Meeting House for interment and public service.

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SCHEDEWITZ, EARL THEOPHIL (1931-2019) - After a blessed life, Earl passed away peacefully with family by his side on Saturday, October 26th at the age of 87 years.

SHANNON, HERBERT - Peacefully passed away after a 25 year battle with Parkinson's on Tuesday, October 22, 2019 at Lanark Heights LTC, Kitchener at the age of 75.

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Heller, Mildred Sophia Mildred Sophia Heller, of St. Jacobs, died on Saturday, October 26, 2019, at the age of 99 years.

Mildred was the cherished wife, for 67 years, of the late Lorne Heller (2012). She was the proud and loving mother of Keith Heller and his wife Dolores Smith of Hudson, Quebec, and Karen Cronin and her husband Timothy of St. Jacobs. Grandma is also missed by Tracey Cronin (Craig Hanley), Matthew Heller, Patricia Cronin (Kyle Grundy), Christine Bercovitch (Neil Bercovitch), David Cronin (Juli) and Joshua Heller (Marie Mathieu). Liam, Sophia, Nora (Hanley), Avery, Alexa, Stella, Logan (Grundy) and Caelem, Gideon, Evelyn (Cronin), Elle, Lennox, Pia (Heller) and Leo (Bercovitch) were also very lucky to have known their great-grandmother. Mildred was predeceased by her grandson, Kevin Cronin (2000).

Mildred was born to Louis and Violet Schweitzer on February 15, 1920. She was raised with her three sisters, Vera, Norma and Ruth at New Jerusalem, and attended New Jerusalem School.

Mildred fell for a boy from St. Jacobs, Lorne Heller, slightly before the outbreak of the Second World War. While Lorne served with the Canadian Medical Corps as a medic in Sicily, Italy, France, Belgium and the Netherlands during the war, Mildred moved to Louisa Street in Kitchener and worked as a piece worker at the Forsyth Shirt factory. Mildred and Lorne kept in touch throughout the war by letters. In the fall of 1945 Lorne came home and promptly married Mildred, on November 10, 1945.

Lorne and Mildred bought and settled on a small farm, just outside of St. Jacobs. Lorne agreed, however, that Mildred would not have to go out and work in the barn. Mildred kept house and worked as a full-time wife and mother until she and Lorne opened “Rural Hardware” around 1953. The hardware store served the local community for nearly 40 years until Lorne and Mildred retired in 1992. While she raised her children, Mildred was a member of the St. Jacobs Women’s Institute, St. James ELW and was a Sunday School teacher at St. James Lutheran Church in St. Jacobs. Mildred always made time for her grandchildren and encouraged them to stay in school and enjoy the privilege that she did not have.

Mildred has lived at Columbia Forest LTC home in Waterloo for many years. Keith, Karen and the rest of the family would like to give our thanks for the compassionate care that she received at Columbia Forest. Mildred’s family would also like to extend their deepest and most heartfelt thanks to MaryJane Berry and Michelle Delsaut, who cared for and showed such great kindness to Mildred these last years. Finally, we would also like to thank the St. James ELW for always remembering Mildred.

Friends are invited to share their memories of Mildred with her family during visitation on Friday, November 1, 2019 from 6-9 p.m. at the Dreisinger Funeral Home, Elmira.

Mildred and her husband Lorne were lifelong and active members of their church, St. James Lutheran Church in St. Jacobs. Mildred’s family welcomes friends and family to join them at the church for the funeral service to remember and celebrate Mildred’s life on Saturday, November 2, 2019 at 2 p.m., followed by interment in St. James Lutheran Cemetery.

All are welcome to join us for a reception at St. James immediately following the interment.

Donations in her memory may be made to Diabetes Canada, the Poppy Fund, Royal Canadian Legion, Elmira Branch 469, or to the St. Jacobs Lions Club.

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An estimated 50,000 pumpkins are used in Waterloo Region to celebrate Halloween each year. Those discarded pumpkins can produce about 200 metric tonnes of organic waste, which the regional government hopes to divert from the landfill site by encouraging residents to compost them, either in their own yards or via the green bin.

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A very visual – and visible – way to remember Linwood banners featuring names and faces of war veterans join Elmira displays in effort spearheaded by the Legion

BY VERONICA REINER vreiner@woolwichobserver.com

Many of the hydro poles in Wellesley have been transformed into a tribute for those who fought and died in the service of the country.

A series of double-sided banners featuring the names and photos of 16 local fallen soldiers of the First and Second world wars are now on display in the village of Linwood.

The first-time initiative is particularly meaningful to residents of the township, as each veteran is wellknown to the community and has relatives living in the area.

“This is a reminder for people,” said Wellesley Mayor Joe Nowak. “It’s going to be 75 years next year since the end of the war.

“We’ve had 75 years of relatively peaceful times … and I think people become complacent with that peace. This is a reminder that these folks fought hard to give us that peace.”

Many soldiers depicted have already left their mark on the community; veteran Earle C. Lavery was the inspiration behind the name Lavery Road, just east of Linwood. Ament Line, a route that passes through Linwood, honours Arthur “Archie” Ament, who lost a leg during combat in the Second World War. He later became the postmaster in Linwood upon his return.

Other commemorated soldiers throughout Linwood include Joseph Sherrer, who was injured in combat and later died in Italy. He has a brother,

Establishing banners that display the names and photos of local war veterans around Linwood was a collaborative community effort. Blaine Hergott, Joe Doherty, Herb Neher, Mary Ellen Genereux, Brad Brenner, Shelley Brenner, Judy Schaaf, Teresa Kuepfer, Jeremy Soehner, Sharon Hergott and Mayor Joe Nowak at the site of the banner for Arthur “Archie” Ament, for whom the road was named. [VERONICA REINER]

nieces and nephews living in Linwood. Charles J. Doherty joined World War I at age 20 as an army recruit in 1915, became a Private and saw action in Belgium, Holland and France.

Sam Friedmann was a soldier in World War I, and his three sons, Don, Jack, and Wally, served in World War II. His descendants are the Friedmann family, who reside in Linwood.

Linwood is not the only community involved with this initiative: Elmira already has many local soldiers on display through-

out the town and has been doing so every November for the past several years.

Mary Ellen Genereux of the Royal Canadian Legion’s Elmira branch 469 adds that community requests for veteran banners continue to roll in.

“Other people want to know when they can get in on this,” said Genereux, adding that no more could be displayed in Elmira Legion this year due to a regional retrofit of the light posts. “We have a growing list.”

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was spearheaded by Joe Doherty, a member of the Elmira Legion whose uncle served in the war. He was approached by Teresa Kuepfer, a member of the Linwood Wings Committee, with the possibility of war veteran banners for Linwood that she noticed displayed in Harriston.

Doherty discovered the names and contacted the soldier’s families using a roll call sheet that Genereux presents at the local cenotaph. He approached the council back in May to receive approval to move

forward with the project.

Wellesley gave the goahead but needed permission to use the local hydro poles owned by Waterloo North Hydro to move forward.

“It was nice that the community came together to do this; this wasn’t a township initiative,” said Nowak.

Funds for the veterans’ banners came from the profits of wing nights hosted by the Linwood Wings Committee during the winter months.

“We’re starting our

fourth season of wing night in November,” said committee member Blaine Hergott. “Our priority was a social event for the town that we’re able to fundraise money for our town. So this is our way of giving back. … It was a team effort, for sure.”

Once the banners arrived from a manufacturer, they were installed by Wellesley Township maintenance personnel last Friday.

They will be on display until November 20, and be stored in the Elmira Legion during the winter months.

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This Pumpkin Trifle is an interesting alternative to pumpkin pie. PurÊed squash or sweet potato can be used in place of pumpkin. Canned pure pumpkin works well and saves time, especially if your jack o’lantern is the kind that plugs in.

Along with the mashed pumpkin, this calls for Pumpkinseed Brittle, which is great on its own and has the added benefit of being handy to make ahead of time.

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Pumpkin Trifle 1/2 cup granulated sugar 3 Tbsp. cornstarch 2-1/2 cups milk 1 egg, lightly beaten 1-1/2 tsp. vanilla 1 cup mashed pumpkin 1 tsp. cinnamon 1/2 tsp. each ground ginger and nutmeg Pinch of salt 1 pound cake (400 g) Whipped cream Maple Pumpkinseed Brittle:

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2. In bowl, season pumpkin with cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and salt. Whisk in custard until smooth. To prevent skin from forming, place plastic wrap directly on surface. Refrigerate until cold, a few hours.

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Maple Pumpkinseed Brittle 5. In 2-cup heavy glass measure, combine pumpkinseeds and butter. Microwave on high for 1 minute to melt butter and lightly toast seeds.

6. Stir in maple syrup; microwave on high until mixture reaches hard-crack stage (300°F/150°C) on candy thermometer, 3 to 5 minutes. Do not stir. Pour immediately onto ungreased cookie sheet. Let cool and harden. Break up into pieces. Store in airtight container.

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12 „„ FULL MOON HIKE IN ST JACOBS. ENJOY A ONE-HOUR moonlit hike along the Health Valley Trail, St. Jacobs. Dinner afterwards downtown for those wishing to stay. Meet at 5 p.m. at the trail entrance at 35 Albert St. E. Contact Ann to confirm details at 519 465-8199 or aroberts@woolwich.ca.

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Today's language has a real courtship with Shakespeare Q. A riddle for you: It resembles a baked potato, with 22 symmetrical tentacle-like appendages sprouting from its nose. The wiggly, fleshly nose-fingers are covered with 25,000 sensory touch receptors, enabling it to “identify, capture and eat its prey, generally insects and worms, in an average of about 230 milliseconds ‌, roughly three times faster than a human driver’s reaction time to a red light.â€? In fact, it holds the “Guinness World Recordsâ€? title of the fastest mammalian eater. What is it?

A. The star-nosed mole, one of 20+ other burrowing mole species in the Northern Hemisphere, says Gemma Tarlach in “Discover� magazine.

A number of animals

called moles, like the mole rat, aren’t moles at all. However, moleskin, used to treat blisters, is made of fabric that mimics a mole’s velvety pelt, with no nap, “to avoid rubbing the wrong way as the animal moves through tight underground tunnels.� Also, the neutral color taupe comes from the French word for mole, and the Latin word “moles� refers to a structural mole – a large breakwater or pier of piled earth or masonry.

Finally, one of the seven base units in the International System of Units is a mole, widely used in chemistry to express the mass of particles and molecules.

tradition remains, but “in almost all cases, today’s saluting guns are firing blanks.�

either. It’s a 19th-century euphemism for ‘holy Moses.’� Well, holy moley!

Q. Why do the U.S. and nearly two dozen other nations follow the custom of giving a 21-gun salute? Why not 7 or 11 or some other number?

A. The custom predates guns themselves, stemming from “the Middle Ages practice of placing oneself in an unarmed position and, therefore, in the power of those being honored,� explains Dan Lewis on his “Now I Know� website, drawing on Arlington National Cemetery’s website. And while disarming works for swords, axes and the like, it doesn’t work for cannons on gunships. So, instead, the ships fired cannonballs into the water, and most likely, due

“Holy moley�! Explains Tarlach, “That expression has nothing to do with the burrowing animals,

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to superstition and a belief that the number seven was lucky, many ships carried seven cannons.

But since land batteries had a greater supply of gunpowder, they were able to fire three guns for every shot fired afloat. “Hence, the salute by shore batteries was 21 guns,� perhaps based on the mystical significance of the number three in many ancient civilizations (U.S. Army for Military History).

Concludes Lewis: The

Q. What do the following words have in common: “accommodation,� “assassination,� “barefaced,� “countless,� “courtship,� “dislocate,� “dwindle,� “eventful,� “fancy-free,� “lack-lustre,� “laughable,� “obscene,� “premeditated,� “submerged�? Clue: Think historically.

A. They were all first recorded in the works of William Shakespeare (1564-1616), considered one of the two most important influences in the development of the English language during that period, says David Crystal in “The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English

Language.� (The King James Bible of 1611 is the second major influence.)

Interestingly, many words first recorded by the Bard have not survived, including “abruption,� “exsufflicate,� “persistive,� “questrist� and “vastidity.�

Shakespeare also introduced phrases that have become part of the idiomatic expression of modern English, such as “a foregone conclusion� (“Othello�), “in my mind’s eye� (“Hamlet�), “it’s Greek to me� (“Julius Caesar�), “a tower of strength� (“Richard III�), and “love is blind� (“Merchant of Venice�).

Bill is a journalist, Rich holds a doctorate in physics. Together the brothers bring you “Strange But True.� Send questions to sbtcolumn@gmail.com

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ACROSS 1. Atlantic porgy panfishes 5. Blackest black 10. Founded upon 15. 'Tranna 16. Buddhist resistance 18. Raised foreward of foremast 20. Looked for a job 23. __ the people, or you know, us vs them 24. Not a particular thing 25. Bird for oil or meat 26. Educational volunteer organization 27. Figurehead's place 29. Easy as 1, 2, 3 31. I was what you are, I __ what you will be -Roman epitaph 32. Enumerate 34. Recurrent theme 37. Don' __ hatin' yo'!

38. Thin body classification 40. Sit in on, or be squashed by 42. Harbour town 43. Wide mouth water jugs 45. Ship top

48. Porridge grain 49. Attacked ship 50. Zamfir flute 51. Pressure measure 52. Limits 53. Dispense out punishment 54. Ship rear 55. To talk incessantly 56. Cobra chickens 57. Get with __!

59. Best of the sky killers 60. Solo song 61. Romeo's "two blushing pilgrims" 62. Tree trunk 63. Name before password 64. Troubled person

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DOWN 1. Paper clipper 2. Native Egyptian church 3. Short politician 4. Has a forecastle, deck and aft 6. __ then, else 7. Suck up to kow 8. Rises to the top 9. This man is Skeletor's nemesis 10. Forbid 11. To the same degree 12. Basically everything but the arts 13. Freddy lives on this street 14. Two-spot card 17. Wino type 19. Prickly pears 21. Gone by completions 22. Live wire, so to speak 28. Like wow, _______!

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