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Woolwich moves to sell surplus properties Township pondering heritage designations for former township halls; holdings to be sold off through tender process STEVE KANNON The old township hall in Conestogo, and its newer but also redundant counterpart in Elmira have been declared surplus, but the buildings won’t be on the market anytime soon. Both are candidates for heritage designations. In the case of 69 Arthur St. S., the township is also looking at transferring some of the land to neighbouring Woolwich Community Services, and establishing a right-of-way to the property. “Although the properties may be declared surplus by council this evening, they won’t necessarily be sold immediately because there are some further things that are going to have to happen with respect to some of these properties,” director of engineering and planning Dan Kennaley told councillors meeting Tuesday night. The township has declared as surplus five larger properties and six small pieces of land, mostly unused road allowances. All will be sold at some point. The properties up for grabs include the old Floradale fire station on Ruggles Road – replaced by a much larger facility on Florapine Road – the former administration building on Arthur Street in Elmira and the soonto-be vacant Elmira pool. Also on the See SURPLUS page »02
SERIOUS BUSINESS Competitor pam hammer gets her game face on before racing down nafziger Road at the fifth annual Wellesley soap Box Classic on Labour day.
Woolwich launches detailed roads study Survey to analyze condition of roads, aiding in maintenance and budgeting STEVE KANNON Hoping to spend a little now in order to save much more later on, Woolwich has hired an engineering firm to study the condition of its roads. A comprehensive inventory and detailed analysis of current conditions will allow the township to develop a maintenance program to extend the lifespan of its roads. As well, the study will let staff know just how long they can put off major reconstruction work, director of engineering and
planning Dan Kennaley told councillors meeting Tuesday night in Elmira. With that in mind, council awarded an $80,000 contract to AECOM Canada Ltd. Information gathered from the study, to be completed by year’s end, will assist the township with its long-range planning for major road work, he added. “It will allow us to stay on top of pavement problems and drainage problems that potentially affect the condition of the roads.” Greater maintenance today means putting off farther into the future big, expensive projects.
More than just a roads inventory, the study also comes with software and a database to that will allow the township to keep track of the condition of its roads going forward, Kennaley said in explaining the price tag. “A survey of what we have – does it really have to cost that much, $80,000?” Coun. Mark Bauman had asked. Given that the last roads study was carried out in 1990, the contract with AECOM should prove to be an investment with a big payoff. “It will allow us to stay on top of See ROADS page »02
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ON THE BLOCK Woolwich council this week declared a number of properties surplus in advance of selling them off to help finance a string of new buildings. The sites that will be up for grabs include (from left) the former township hall in Elmira, the Elmira Swimming Pool, the old township hall in Conestogo and the former Floradale fire hall.
Surplus: Sale part of financing plan for new rec. facilities » From cover
list are the old Woolwich Township hall on Sawmill Road in Conestogo and a former gravel pit in Maryhill. Once cleared, each of the properties will be sold by tender. Woolwich has had each appraised. Only those sealed tenders that come in no lower than 15 per cent below the appraised value will be considered, with the property going to the highest bidder. The public won’t know in advance what the appraised values are, Kennaley said in response to a question from Coun. Mark Bauman. “We won’t divulge that information until after the tender process is complete.” The smaller pieces of land will be offered to ad-
jacent property owners. The value of vacant land on Arthur Street North and at Kramp Road has been set at $5,000 per acre. The Balsam Grove Road land is valued at $3,000 per acre. A small piece of land at the end of Woolwich Street South, by Fountain Street in Breslau has a price tag of $75,000. A small piece of land on Princess Street West, adjacent to St. Jacobs Public School, and another small piece at Klinck Street and University Avenue, adjacent to Elmira District Secondary School, will be sold to the Waterloo Region District School Board for $2, plus surveying and legal costs. Those sales are expected to move ahead quickly.
The larger properties, however, will take some time. The fire hall will likely go to tender relatively soon. The pool site, however, will require the facility to be decommissioned and cleaned up before the property can be moved. Coun. Sandy Shantz asked if the township is looking at holding on to the Elmira pool site as a potential location for overflow parking from the Woolwich Memorial Centre. While that was considered, the property was deemed to be of no future need, said Kennaley. With the former township hall building, designation under the Heritage Act will take at least another three months, meaning the sale will be sidelined at least that long. A study is now underway to determine if the buildings should be protected and, if so, to what extent. “With the old town hall in Elmira, we appreciate
Roadwork: Taking an inventory of roads pavement problems and drainage problems that potentially affect the condition of the roads,” said Kennaley in a later interview. “All of that is going to help us with determining our capital needs as far as the roads are concerned.” A traffic count to be included as part of the study will be used to determine priorities for maintenance and reconstruction. Currently, the township is home to approximately 345 kilometres of roadway, about 40 per cent paved, 40 per cent gravel and 20 per cent with other forms of surface treatments such as tar and chip. For next year, Woolwich already has some major roadwork on the
books. Two projects valued at about $2.6 million apiece will take place in Elmira: the reconstruction of Snyder Avenue between Church and First streets; and reconstruction of a portion of Riverside Drive, Samuel, Herbert, William and Ann streets. Both have been promised money from the senior levels of government. The township will pay a third of the cost, with Ottawa and Queen’s Park each picking up a third, working out to $1,733,334. Each of the senior governments will contribute $400,000 toward the resurfacing of Floradale Road and the rehabilitation of the Floradale Bridge, a project estimated to cost $1.2 million.
• 1924 Sawmill Rd., Conestogo – old township hall • 69 Arthur St. S., Elmira – former administration building • 18 Ernst St., Elmira – indoor swimming pool • 5 Ruggles Rd., Floradale – former fire hall • Former Maryhill gravel pit lands, Maryhill (between 1220 and 1230 Maryhill Rd.)
Road allowances to be sold • A portion of Arthur St. N. • A small piece of land at the end of Woolwich Street South, by Fountain Street, Breslau • A small piece of land at the on Princess Street West, adjacent to St. Jacobs Public School • A small piece of land at Klinck Street and University Avenue, adjacent to Elmira District Secondary School • An old road allowance on Northfield Drive, at Balsam Grove Road • About 1,000 square metres of land near 1248 and 1190 Kramp Road, east of Shantz Station Road that there have been additions and other modi-
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List of properties to be sold
designating two of the facades or three of the sides of the building, and not necessarily designating the interior of the building. The interior has undergone many modifications over the years, so its historical integrity may not warrant a designation,” said Kennaley. For the Conestogo building at 1924 Sawmill Rd., the exterior may be the only part protected, allowing for renovations inside. Coun. Murray Martin, noting the property is zoned for residential use, said the township could move quickly to sell the building to someone who wants to renovate the interior to make it a home. Both he and Bauman called for staff to wrap up the heritage process by the end of the year. Funds from the sale of all of the properties will go towards Woolwich’s recent facilities building boom.
THAT TIME OF THE YEAR Gavin McLean and Brianna Taylor, Grade 1 pupils at Riverside Public School, strap on their backpacks, while Mrs. Rank’s Grade 1 class gets into the groove of the classroom on their first day back to school.
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“People say I should go back and write again.” Allen Martin
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STILL ONE TO TELL STORIES A Floradale resident when he penned his popular column From My Side of the Dam, Allen D. Martin and his wife Pauline moved to Elmira as the effects of Parkinson’s disease limited his mobility. PHOTO | JONI MILTENBURg
Home now on this side of the dam Coping with Parkinson’s disease has meant many changes for former columnist Allen D. Martin JONI MILTENBURG Allen D. Martin first noticed that his handwriting was shaky. A teacher, Martin could still write on a blackboard because it was bigger, but he struggled with pen and paper. Those small tremors proved to be the first symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. Parkinson’s is a neurodegenerative disease that causes people to gradually lose control of their muscles. Tremors are the best-known symptom, but Parkinson’s also causes stiffness of the muscles, a shuffling gait and stooped posture, soft speech and fatigue, among others. When thousands of people lace up their shoes for the annual SuperWalk for Parkin-
son’s this weekend, they’re walking for Allen and the 100,000 other Canadians living with the disease. Parkinson’s is both chronic and progressive, which means it is long-lasting and gradually gets worse. From his diagnosis in 1992, the disease has slowly crept into all aspects of Martin’s life. “Some days are good days, and other days I’m too tired to do anything,” he said. Martin was a career teacher, teaching a few years at Salem Public School in Elora and John Mahood in Elmira before moving to Linwood Public School. Martin enjoyed working with the David Martin Mennonite population at Linwood, starting up an industrial arts program in a portable classroom with power tools from his own
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shop. He also launched the annual sports day for the Mennonite children who couldn’t go on the class trip. Martin’s tenure at Linwood stretched into three decades, years he fully enjoyed. But in 1995, he was forced to cut back to teaching part-time. Three years later, Martin retired. He also retired from the Floradale Fire Department – another 30-year post – at the same time, which proved to be a mistake: with nothing to do, he sometimes felt useless and struggled with depression. “That was a bad move,” he said. “If I had to do it over again, I’d do it differently.” A few years later he lost his driver’s licence, which was a blow to his independence. He had always been the person who drove cancer patients to their appointments; now he
had to be driven to appointments of his own. Eventually, he was forced to give up writing his weekly column for the Observer, “From My Side of the Dam.” Martin’s nephew, Brian Jantzi, was the first editor of the paper and Allen got involved in the early days as a proofreader. From there he started his own column and kept it up for the next eight years. “People say I should go back and write again,” he said. Even after eight years, he hadn’t run out of ideas, but the typing had become too difficult. He has toyed with the idea of collecting his columns into a book, but it remains just an idea. While the Parkinson’s has forced them to give up a lot, Allen and his wife Pauline have adapted. Three years
ago, they moved from Floradale to Elmira, to a smaller house with fewer of the stairs that had become increasingly difficult. Moving to Elmira also means they see more of their two daughters and two granddaughters who live in town. Living in Elmira has given Allen back a measure of independence. He can get around by himself on his motorized scooter, covering the distance from home to downtown in a little less than 20 minutes, and he’s a regular at the Sip and Bite restaurant. Martin has also continued collecting model fire trucks, a hobby of more than 25 years. The majority of his 200 pieces, ranging from a few inches to a few feet long, are still in the basement, but he’s planSee MARTIN page »06
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We’re disposed to continue our love affair with gadgets
We love our electronic gadgets. Every year, there are more new toys to captivate our imaginations – and our credit cards. Even in the economic downturn, sales of electronic goods often buck the trend. Falling prices and ever-increasing variety have prompted us to buy an array of big-screen televisions, computers, MP3 players and cell phones. The new displaces the old, and we end up with literally tonnes of electronic waste on our hands, much of which ends up in landfills. Containing recyclable materials and toxic chemicals, the electronic detritus is better off finding its way into diversion programs, yet only nine per cent of the more than 14.5 million electronic units discarded in Ontario were bound for reuse or recycling. “Waste electronic and electrical equipment contains toxic and hazardous substances, including mercury, PCBs, PBDE, and cadmium. Waste of this type needs to be responsibly disposed of. Unsophisticated disposal takes up scarce landfill space and ignores the reuse and recycling opportunities,” says Anne Mitchell, executive director of the Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy (CIELAP). Estimates are that Ontarians currently have about 91,000 tonnes of computers, monitors, fax machines, printers and televisions that are sitting unused or are ready for replacement in homes
and businesses. In the next few years, it is estimated that number will climb to 124,000 tonnes. I freely admit to owning a not-inconsequential portion of that waiting-to-be-discarded electronic junk. My basement is full of old computer equipment, as I’ve collected dozens of them over the past two decades. I have, however, recently begun jettisoning much of it – really, what use is an original IBM XT, other than serving as a museum piece? Some of the computers – long obsolete machines that cost thousands of dollars at the time, and now worth less than nothing given the disposal fees – have gone out the door. So, too, have boxes and boxes of old peripherals, expansion cards and piles of hard drives measured in megabytes. I have, however, insisted on keeping the stuff out of the landfill site – most of it went directly to computer recycling firms, the rest to Waterloo Region’s e-waste collection system. There will be more come time for the next spring cleaning. Every new addition to my collection of new electronics, most computerrelated, bumps another piece into the “surplus” pile. I’m not alone in adding to the waste stream of electronic goods, referred to as Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE). Estimates show the WEEE stream has been growing at a rate of three to five per cent each year, three times faster than the average waste stream. And the lifecycle of electronic goods – the time from manufacture to disposal – continues to shorten. Today’s products are cheaper, and prone to fail-
ure. The return rate for some consumer electronics is more than 30 per cent, meaning that gadget you just bought has a very good chance of proving defective within the warranty period. Not surprisingly, we’re all familiar with goods that just scrape by the term of the warranty before breaking down. The way most items are built means it’s often cheaper to buy a new one than to repair the fault; in many cases, repair isn’t even an option. A report from CIELAP outlines the benefits of diverting e-waste, most of which is almost completely reclaimable, although it does require more work than the recyclables we deposit at the curb in our blue boxes. “A number of valuable metals, such as gold, copper, steel, aluminum, lead, and other substances, can now be recovered from WEEE and then recycled and reused in the manufacturing of other products. Technologies for the recycling and recovery of glass and plastics are also increasingly being developed and refined. Recycling and recovering these materials lessens the
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WMC opening set for today Saturday marks the official opening of the Woolwich Memorial Centre in Elmira. To celebrate the completion of the $23-million project, the township is hosting a series of free events. A noon-hour barbeque will offer free food, music and entertainment for the kids, including jugglers and magicians. That will be followed by the official ceremonies, then tours of the facility. In the evening, a dance starts at 7 p.m., aimed at families. At 9 p.m., the festivities become a licensed event. The township has already capped at 1,100 the number of people invited to the barbeque and dance portions of the day – only those previously issued wristbands may attend. The decision was made partly due to budget constraints and to the fact that about 1,100 people can fit on the floor of the Dan Snyder Memorial Arena.
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A picnic in the park, in this case Victoria Glen Park, is being organized to remind the public just what’s at stake as Woolwich Township considers selling off a part of the Elmira site for residential development. The township is looking at developing some three acres of the forested area. The Friends of Victoria Glen Park will host the event Sept. 20, 2-4 p.m. Participants are encouraged to pack a litter-free picnic lunch and gather in the park. Afterwards, there will be a walk through the woods, along with a general cleanup of any trash. “We want to make people aware of the park and what’s going on there,” said the organization’s Karen Orr. Additional information is available at www.PreserveVictoriaGlenPark.blogspot.com.
Waterloo Region’s technology-based industries are a model for economic development, says Michael Ignatieff. The federal Liberal leader made the comments Tuesday on a campaign-style swing through the area. Answering media questions before touring the Accelerator Centre at the University of Waterloo, Ignatieff focused his attention on building the relationships between the government and the technology leaders in the country, specifically the Waterloo Region. “People are creating the jobs of the future by the thousands here in the Kitchener-Waterloo region, but they need help from the federal government.” When asked how he planned to woo voters in an area currently held almost exclusively by Conservative MPs, Ignatieff highlighted his intention to provide more support for “Canadian champions,” success stories such as Research in Motion. “The world does not
Glasgow bridge remains closed
Opportunity for regional tourism in new proposal
A park picnic in Victoria Glen
Concerns about the condition of the underside of the structure are keeping the Glasgow Street bridge closed for the time being. Engineers from Gamsby and Mannerow Ltd., hired by Woolwich to carry out bridge and culvert inspections, have examined the bridge, and want to conduct further tests. Loose boards on the bridge deck forced the closure Sept. 1. Although eager to reopen the old steel truss bridge near Conestogo, the township wants to make sure all of the essential repairs are carried out before the structure resumes carrying traffic, said director of engineering and planning Dan Kennaley. In the longer term, the bridge is likely to require additional upgrades.
STEVE KANNON Waterloo Region’s tourism organization is looking to help shape a new provincial plan that would impose a new layer of bureaucracy and new taxes on tourism in Ontario. With the policy still in its infancy, this area is well positioned to take the lead in a regional body overseeing tourism, says the general manager of the Waterloo
PRAISE FOR THE REGION Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff is flanked by local party candidates Karen Redman, Teresa Huegle and Andew Telegdi as he photo | KATIE EDMONDS addressed a crowd Tuesday afternoon during a stop at the University of Waterloo.
owe Canada a living unless what we do is world class and at the right price. Kitchener-Waterloo understands that perfectly. [The Liberals] have got a great record of support for the high tech parks here and the ongoing research, which we want to continue.” Ignatieff was joined at the podium by Karen
Region Tourism Marketing Corporation. Susan Cudahy was in Woolwich this week to update councillors on the organization’s progress since its inception two years ago. WRTMC coordinates tourism efforts in the region’s cities and four townships. Now, in the aftermath of a provincial report released earlier this year, there’s a chance Ontario’s tourism organizations will be grouped into regions, with 11
Redman and Andrew Telegdi – former Liberals MPs who lost their seats in last October’s election. Both Redman and Telegdi are back in the running for office in the next election, Redman in Kitchener Centre and Telegdi in Kitchener-Waterloo. Also joining the team was newly appointed Kitch-
being proposed at this point. Discovering Ontario: A report on the future of tourism, chaired by former finance minister Greg Sorbara, suggests one of the regions would include Waterloo Region and neighbours such as Wellington, Brant, Perth, Huron and Oxford counties. It even has a suggested name: the Great Lakes Festival Region. Given the geography of the proposed region,
ener-Conestoga candidate Teresa Huegle. Ignatieff carefully avoided predicting an upcoming election, but suggested that Canadians deserve the opportunity to vote for another party after witnessing the Conservative party in action. “We believe that if you’re running the larg-
there’s an opportunity for WRTMC to take the lead here, said Cudahy. David Brenneman, Woolwich’s chief administrative officer, said the industry is working hard to implement its own vision within the provincial policy, rather than waiting for Queen’s Park to impose a structure for what it calls destination marketing and management organizations (DMMO). Those regional organizations would act as links be-
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Local residents invited to take a peek behind closed doors Martin’s Family Fruit Farm in Heidelberg a first-time participant as Doors Open Waterloo Region gets ready to go next Saturday for tours as part of the Doors Open Waterloo Region event, featuring several locations across the area. This is the first year that Martin’s has participated in Doors Open and vice-president Steve Martin said the event comes at a perfect time, when people are really starting to think about where their food comes from. “It gives people an opportunity to see what is happening in their community. I think sometimes people have the idea that this type of food production happens far away in another place. This day is a chance to show the local community that there are some food businesses right here in this area.” Since 1820, the Martin family has been providing fresh, locally-grown food to Waterloo Region and now sends shipments to local Zehrs, No Frills, Food Basics and Foodland grocery stores,
KATIE EDMONDS As apple season kicks into high gear, many people will be baking pies or simply packing them in lunch bags. While enjoying an apple may be as simple as picking up a bag at the supermarket, an event next weekend offers the chance to dig a little deeper into how that apple you’re enjoying ended up on a store shelf. If you have ever bought apples from St. Jacobs farmers’ market or a local grocery store, chances are you have bitten into something fresh from Martin’s Family Fruit Farm. Next Saturday (Sept. 19), Martin’s will be opening up its doors to the public. The community will be able to take a peek inside and see what happens to their food before it reaches their tables. The apple packing plant will be open
cornering the market on fresh fruit in the region. Known mainly for its apples, Martins is actually one of the largest fresh fruit production centers in this part of Ontario, and supplies local grocers and farmers markets with shipments of strawberries, peaches, field tomatoes, sweet peppers and onions, to name a few. People can also see dozens of other interesting and off-limits buildings including historic homes and churches around their neighborhood as Doors Open Waterloo Region will invite the public, free of charge, into 36 typically closed-off buildings. Many of the sites, including Martin’s, demonstrate the theme of this year’s festival, Uniquely Waterloo Region, including 1842 Bed and Breakfast, a converted carriage factory, the oldest Waterloo County structure in existence,
the Waterloo County Gaol, and the University of Waterloo’s new School of Pharmacy on King Street in Kitchener. Ultimately, the businesses included reflect the Waterloo area’s Mennonite settler heritage, show the transition from a manufacturing centre to a learning-based economy. Martin said the event is a great way to gain an understanding of the community that you might not get just by passing by. “Lots of people in the area have been to our place, but this will be a bit different because they can really tour behind the scenes, which isn’t normally possible.” Last year’s festival saw more than 8,400 visitors walk through the community’s open doors. The event runs Sept. 19, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information, check out www.region.waterloo. on.ca/doorsopen.
Martin: Parkinson’s walk on this weekend » From page 03
ning to add more shelving space in the living room to bring them out of storage. The disease also hasn’t prevented him from travelling with Pauline, who drove a school bus for many years and now drives a tour bus. Allen has travelled with her as far afield as Myrtle Beach, Minnesota and the Smoky Mountains. “He had a lot of dreams that he didn’t get to do,” Pauline said, “but we’ve kept pretty busy and he could go with some of [the trips] so he hasn’t just sat around.”
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warranted and less public support than is its due. That needs to change,” reads the report. Currently, tourism contributes some $22 billion per year to the provincial economy. It employs some 200,000 people directly, and is the number one employer of young people. The report identifies marketing as an integral part of boosting tourism. To that end, the province proposes to standardize destination
marketing fees (DMF) – see, for instance, the three per cent levies on hotel rooms in places like Toronto and Ottawa – across the tourism regions. While noting the financial contributions of such fees, Cudahy warned of potential problems with this fee coming on top of a proposes harmonized sales tax (HST), which will see taxes on goods and services previously exempted from provincial
sales taxes. “We propose that, in each new tourism region that adopts a DMF, all tourism accommodations be required to levy the fee. The DMF proceeds would become an annual source of support for regional destination marketing and management organizations,” says the Sorbara report. “Dollars would flow directly to the industry, not to any level of government. Such models are now common
across the continent. We estimate that, when fully implemented, this initiative could result in almost $100 million in much-needed annual marketing support for tourism regions.” Recognizing that the provincial plan “adds another layer” of bureaucracy, Brenneman noted there is an opportunity for WRTMC to take advantage of the opportunity, turning the process into a positive for the local tourism industry.
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Three men are facing drug charges after a routine police stop in Elmira Sept. 3. In the early morning hours, officers stopped a Ford Explorer on Queen Street. The driver failed a sobriety test and was arrested for ‘impaired driving.’ As a result of further investigation, the three occupants of the vehicle were also arrested for suspected illegal drug activity. The driver, Timothy Hicknell, 26, was charged with ‘trafficking cocaine’ and ‘possession for the purpose,’ and held for a bail hearing. A 22-year-old Woolwich Township man and a male youth, also from Woolwich, have also been charged with ‘trafficking cocaine’ and ‘possession for the purpose.’ The older man will appear in court in November. The vehicle was seized and will be held by police until the disposition if the case. The investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Elmira detachment of the Waterloo Regional Police at 519-570-3000, ext. 3320 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS. ous fire hazard.
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4:42 AM | A cube van struck a deer north on Katherine Street, north of Line 86. The vehicle was rendered inoperable, but there were no major injuries reported and no charges laid. 3:03 PM | A resident of Thunder Bay struck a parked car
while driving in a parking lot on Wyatt Street in Elmira. No charges were laid and there were no injuries reported.
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8:01 AM | Police recovered a stolen vehicle at a Church Street location, in the area of Floradale Road. Witnesses saw passengers get out of the black minivan and into anoth-
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10:24 AM | A local driver was charged with ‘careless driving’ after causing a twovehicle collision on Northfield Drive near Line 86. There were no significant injuries reported. 1:09 PM | Two vehicles collided in the centre of Heidelberg at Kressler Road and Lobsinger Line, after one driver made an illegal left turn. Both vehicles were towed from the scene, but only minor injuries were reported. One driver was charged with ‘careless driving.’ 11:17 PM | An Elmira resident called police to report that he had found a marijuana grow operation in his home. Police responded to the home on First Street and located 28 suspected marijuana plants growing in the attic of the home. The homeowner’s 17-year-old son was subsequently arrested and held for bail on charges of ‘cultivation’ and ‘breach of probation.’ Lighting, fans, heaters, electrical power bars, a timer, and various other items were seized in addition to the plants. The operation was powered by a single extension cord and posed a seri-
TP BANDITS Residents of South Parkwood Boulevard and First Street in Elmira arose Sept. 1 to find suspects unknown had decorated the area with toilet paper. er vehicle before leaving the scene. There are no suspects at this time. 7:20 PM | A Kitchener woman driving a Toyota Sienna van struck a deer at Northfield Drive and Line 86. Nobody was injured and there were no charges.
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7:51 PM | Some 17 bags of cattle manure were stolen from the TSC store in St. Jacobs. A witness noticed a green Chevy/ GMC pickup truck backed up against the store with one person piling the soil into the back.
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September 9
7:42 AM | A two-car collision occurred early in the morning at the roundabout at Sawmill Road and Arthur Street. A Nissan Sentra and a Hyundai Tuscan were in involved. There were no major injuries, but one of the cars had to be towed from the scene. No charges were laid.
Event fosters small-town community feeling Residents of Elmira’s Hampton Street prepare for the eighth annual neighbourhood block party KATIE EDMONDS Elmira is known as a friendly place, but the area around Hampton Street will be a little extra sociable today (Saturday) as residents gather for the annual Hampton Street Block Party. This will be the eighth year that the
community has gotten together for good food and good conversation. Typically drawing anywhere between 40 and 100 people, the block party at 32 Hampton St. welcomes all people in the area, young or old, to come out and meet their neighbours. “The trouble with
neighbourhoods now is that you may know your neighbours on either side of your house, or maybe a couple houses down but other than that, who do you know? We think the kids need to know more people than just their parents,” explained organizer Randy Smith.
The event kicks off at about 5 p.m. and includes a BBQ, a 50/50 draw – proceeds from which are donated to the Woolwich Counselling Centre – and movies for the kids in the evening. Smith said they also ask people to bring some non-perishable food items that they later do-
nate to a food bank. Noting the community has a noticeably different feel from the Toronto-area home where he grew up, Smith said he he hopes the event will continue to reflect Elmira’s small-town charm
in the years to come. “This is our neighbourhood. Neighbourhood Watch is not nearly as important as it is to actually know your neighbours, wave to them on the street and develop friendships.”
Home Hardware celebrates 130 years KATIE EDMONDS Dating back to 1879, the Elmira Home Hardware store has seen a few economic downturns prior to the current recession, but managed to weather them all in order to celebrate its 130th anniversary beginning next week. Started by the Weichel family in 1879, the store has seen several owners in the ensuing years. Originally located at 9 Arthur St. S. where the Busy Bee Quilts store stands today, the business was called M Weichel and Sons and sold a wide range of products, from cloth to kerosene, cookware to candy. The current Church Street location
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rent proprietor, took over ownership five years ago. Since her start at the store, McBay has made sure the operation is continually engaged within the community. It’s one of the major sponsors of the Elmira Sugar Kings, as well as supporting other minor sports teams in the area
and the Waterloo Women’s Crisis Services. The staff of Home Hardware also visits Big Brothers Big Sisters sponsored Camp McGovern every spring to refurbish and tune up their bicycles. To mark its 130 years, the hardware store will be offering up specials Sept. 16-26, including free balloons for the kids and prize draws. On Thursday at 10 a.m., a plaque presentation will be made by a representative from the head office. On Sept. 19, McBay will be serving up a free BBQ between 11a.m and 2 p.m., with food donated by local grocery stores. “We are still going strong after 130 years of business” said McBay, “and we have at least another 130 yet to go.”
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The changes proposed for the tourism industry, as outlined for Woolwich council this week, are counterproductive at best. While the study led by former provincial finance minister Greg Sorbara – Discovering Ontario: A report on the future of tourism – goes into great detail about ways to boost tourism, the public would be forgiven for seizing on those elements that smack of bloated bureaucracy and tax increases. With what it calls destination marketing and management organizations, the province is looking to create regional agencies to oversee tourism, dividing Ontario into perhaps 11 regions. The rationale is that tourism could be a much larger economic force if given more priority. Today, the sector provides $22 billion annually, ranking it seventh among Ontario’s export industries. The report argues that a stronger tourism industry could be a major part of the new economy, setting a goal of doubling receipts by 2020. Overseas visitors are to be a major target, as each spends an average of about $1,200 while in the province. Tourism also generates employment, providing direct jobs for some 200,000 people. The industry is composed largely of small and medium-sized businesses, the founda-
tion of the economy. To fund the proposed new layer of bureaucracy and to allow for more marketing, the report recommends the widespread use of destination marketing fees – essentially taxes on hotel accommodations. Such charges are already commonplace in larger centers; the changes proposed would make them uniform across entire regions, bringing in an estimated $100 million to allow the industry to promote itself. Coming on the heels of plans to harmonize the GST and provincial sales tax – on tap for next July – destination fees would compound what will be a major increase in the cost of many services that now go untaxed by the province. Few people inside the tourism industry have reason to celebrate. The rest of us see only a larger tax grab. It’s hard to see how any of these initiatives will benefit tourism in Waterloo Region, which already faces an uphill battle given its geographic and aesthetic shortcomings. As it stands, Woolwich Township is one of the few draws in the region. Home to farmers’ markets, St. Jacobs, the Kissing Bridge and some interesting countryside dotted with Mennonite homesteads and roadside produce stands, the north end of the region
» VERBATIM “Quite simply, Stephen Harper is unfit to govern. Surely the only prime minister in Canadian history who has actually expressed contempt for his own country, Harper has demonstrated a disregard for the rule of law that should, in a rational world, disqualify him from leading any government.” Columnist Murray Dobbin offers up a take on the next federal election
is prime turf. Outside of the rural areas, there are few reasons for visitors to come here. Much of the landscape, both natural and manmade, is a serious stumbling block in drawing tourists, whose numbers have been declining for years. Geographically, there is no significant waterfront, no major stands of forest, no mountains or other such wonders of nature. Of course, there is nothing to be done about that, but it is a reality that must be recognized. As for the environment we’ve created here, think functional at best, bleak for the most part. Think of the major reasons tourists cite for choosing destinations – wilderness and eco-tourism (BC, South America, Africa), architecture and history (Europe), entertainment and culture (any major city) – and Waterloo Region by and large does not fit the bill. For short-hop trips, quaint and quirky cuts it for places such as St. Jacobs and Niagara-on-the-Lake, but not so for most of the region. The provincial plan for tourism will do nothing to change that reality. It does, however, have the ability to increase costs, just another strike against the region.
» THE MONITOR Two-thirds of all American income gains from 2002 to 2007 flowed to the top 1% of U.S. households, the group’s largest share of income since 1928. During the period, the average inflation-adjusted income of the top 1% of households soared by 62% compared to a gain of just 4% for the bottom 90% of households. U.S. Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
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» HARD TALK | RAFE MAIR
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Free speech under attack in the wake of 9-11 Having marked another anniversary of the 9-11 tragedy, it’s no coincidence free speech is under attack all over the world, including, sadly, the birthplaces and repositories of the notion, Britain and America. If we were important enough to be noticed, Canada could be added to the list as well. Before I go further, while I was shut down by the mainstream media, gradually but permanently (much including the national press), I make these remarks without any personal bitterness. I had about 25 years of uncontested free speech mostly at CKNW when it was owned by the WIC Corporation, which, from top to bottom, defended broadcasters no matter how inconvenient their free speech might be. Very few people have been so lucky. When the new bean counter in
charge fired large numbers of loyal, decent men and women, and I commented, in Wilde’s words, that CKNW now knew “the cost of everything and the value of nothing,” I knew that I would soon be toast. I didn’t but should have seen the shabby way they went about it. I think the issue of restriction of free speech can be divided into three areas that often slop into one another. First there is that which incites violence. I know of no one who would argue that “kill the Jews,” “let’s go burn a synagogue” or “destroy a Sikh temple” qualifies as free speech. Troubling, of course, are those who use free speech tendentiously by cloaking themselves in words of liberty while any reasonable inference to be drawn from what they say or write cries out for violence. The sort of speech that, like the old saying, urges “for God’s sake don’t throw him in the duck pond.” This area demands much more space than I have today but even here I would err on
the side of free speech if only because the late Doug Collins, James Keegstra and Ernst Zundel couldn’t have survived without the publicity given them by the media due to the well-meaning howls of anguish from groups such as the Canadian Jewish Congress. Second, there is criticism of authority. In the United States, under the rule of the Solomon vs New York Times case, damages will not lie against a critic unless the words were wrong, harmful and malicious. This rule doesn’t apply in the U.K. and Canada, meaning that people in power do very well indeed in defamation suits. Thirdly there is the insult, an almost a dead art because of political correctness spawned by an unrestricted zeal to curtail that which might encourage violence. Here we find ourselves being censured by the “proper” sort of people – in Denny Boyd’s wonderful phrase “higher purpose persons” – and censored by a media that is afraid to offend.
Far too often that fear of offending isn’t so much because the average Canadian is afraid to go outside the bounds of political correctness as it is media’s kowtowing to politicians (about which, more in a moment). The insult, once an art form, was perfected, of course, by Churchill. Speaking in the Commons one day, he looked at prime minister Ramsay Macdonald and said, “I was as a child, one day taken to P. T. Barnum’s celebrated circus, (and) the exhibit on the programme which I most desired to see was the one described as ‘The Boneless Wonder.’ My parents judged that that spectacle would be too revolting and demoralizing for my youthful eyes, and I have waited 50 years to see the boneless wonder sitting on the Treasury Bench.” He also said of Macdonald that he had, more than any other man, the gift of “compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought.” One night at dinner he was seated See MAIR »10
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War on drugs is American’s longest, and it continues on It’s too early to say that there is a general revolt against the “war on drugs” that the United States has been waging for the past 39 years, but something significant is happening. European countries have been quietly defecting from the war for years, decriminalizing personal consumption of some or all of the banned drugs in order to minimize harm to their own people, but it’s different when countries like Argentina and Mexico do it. Latin American countries are much more in the firing line. The United States can hurt them a lot if it is angered by their actions, and it has a long history of doing just that. But from Argentina to Mexico, they are fed up to the back teeth with the violent and dogmatic U.S. policy on drugs, and they are starting to do something about it. In mid-August, the Mexican government declared that it will no longer be a punishable offence to possess up to half a gram of cocaine (about four lines), five grams of marijuana (around four joints), 50 mg of heroin or 40 mg of methamphetamine. At the end of August, Argentina’s supreme court did something even bolder: it ruled that, under the Argentine constitution, “Each adult is free to make lifestyle decisions without the intervention of the state,” and dismissed a case against youths who had been arrested for possessing a few joints. In an ideal world, this ruling would have a powerful resonance in the United States, whose constitution also restricts the right of the federal government to meddle in citizens’ private affairs. It took a constitutional amendment to enable the U.S. Congress to prohibit alcohol in 1919 (and another amendment to end alcohol Prohibi-
tion in 1933), so who gave Congress the right to criminalize other recreational drugs nationwide by the Controlled Substances Act of 1970? Nobody – and the U.S. Supreme Court has yet to rule on the issue. A million Americans a year go to jail for “crimes” that hurt nobody but themselves. A vast criminal empire has grown up to service the American demand for drugs. Over the decades hundreds of thousands of people have been killed in the turf wars between the gangs, the police-dealer shootouts, and the daily thousands of muggings and burglaries committed by addicts trying to raise money to pay the hugely inflated prices that prohibition makes possible. Most users of illegal drugs are not addicts, let alone dangerous criminals. Legalisation and regulation, on the pattern of alcohol and tobacco, would avoid thousands of violent deaths each month and millions of needlessly ruined lives each year, although psychoactive drug use would still take its toll from the vulnerable and the unlucky, just as alcohol and tobacco do. But there is little chance that American voters will choose to end this longest of all American wars any time soon, even though its casualties far exceed those on any other American war since 1945. The “War on Drugs” will not end in the United States until a very different generation comes to power. Elsewhere, however, it is coming to an end much sooner, and one can imagine a time when the job of the history books will be to explain how this berserk aberration ever came about. A large part of the explanation will then focus on the man who started the war, Richard Nixon – so let us get ahead of the mob and focus on him now. We can do that because of the famous Nixon tapes that recorded almost every word of his presidency. It turns out that he started the war on drugs because he believed that they were a
Jewish plot. We know this because researcher Doug McVay from Common Sense on Drug Policy, a Washington-based NGO, went through the last batch of tapes when they became available in 2002 and found Nixon speaking to his aides as follows: “You know, it’s a funny thing, every one of the bastards that are out for legalizing marijuana is Jewish. What the Christ is the matter with the Jews, Bob? What is the matter with them? I suppose it is because most of them are psychiatrists.” Nixon had much more to say about this, but one should not conclude that he was a single-minded anti-Semite. He was an equal-opportunity paranoid who believed that homosexuals, Communists and Catholics were also plotting to undermine America by pushing drugs at it. “Do you know what happened to the Romans? The last six Roman emperors were fags. ....You know what happened
to the popes? It’s all right that popes were laying the nuns, that’s been going on for years, centuries. But when the popes, when the Catholic Church went to hell in, I don’t know, three or four centuries ago, it was homosexual ... “Dope? Do you think the Russians allow dope? Hell no. ... You see, homosexuality, dope, uh, immorality in general: These are the enemies of strong societies. That’s why the Communists and the left-wingers are pushing it. They’re trying to destroy us.” The reason for this 39-year war, in other words, is that president Richard Nixon believed that he was facing a “Jew-homo-doper-Commie-shrinklefty-pope” conspiracy, as Washington Post writer Gene Weingarten put it in a gloriously deadpan article in 2002. But that is just plain wrong. As subsequent developments have shown, it is actually a Jew-homo-doper-Commie-shrink-lefty-pope-LATINO conspiracy.
» LETTER TO THE EDITOR Train not the ideal choice for limited funds To the Editor, I could not believe what I read: the Conservative government has given a local group $500,000 for a tourist train. We presently have a $50 billion deficit and this government sees fit to give half a million dollars of my hard-earned tax money for a tourist train. I expect fiscal prudence during
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next to the formidable Labour MP Bessie Braddock with whom he was having a heated exchange. Exasperated, she said, “Mr. Churchill, you are drunk.” “And you, madam, are ugly,” Churchill replied. “But I shall be sober tomorrow.” He once said of Clement Attlee that he was a “modest little man with a great deal to be modest about.” Though he denied saying it, it’s a hell of a good insult, which is Churchillian to the core. John Montagu, Earl of Sandwich, once said to the great beacon of free speech, John Wilkes, “Egad sir, I do not know whether you will die on the gallows or of the pox.” Wilkes replied, “That will depend, my Lord, on whether I embrace your principles or your mistress.” You get the point. The last half-decent insult (and it was no more than that) was the irrepressible John Crosbie saying to that monstrous pain in the ass Sheila Copps, “Pass the tequila, Sheila, lay down and love me again.” All Hell broke loose, Crosbie was forced to apologize and Copps ran her grievances into a book. So where is this all going, you might ask. Our liberties, especially since 9-11, are being systematically eroded by a government bent on protecting us by banishing nail clippers and a small tube of crazy glue from airplanes. (Yes that happened to me, making me wonder if I was seen as someone running through the cabin brandishing a one-inch nail file while shouting “death to the infidels,” then crazy-gluing the pilot to his chair.) But the bigger threat by far is the media. Ownership of many radio stations and all TV networks by the same people who own newspaper chains means that newspapers, for the first time in this country, must be nice to the government or risk losing licenses to telecast, or not hav-
ing them granted or renewed. This means that virtually all media outlets in Canada pull their punches when dealing with government. Thus freedom of the press is circumscribed by rules that don’t need to be stated but which result in criticism of the government being blunted by the practical need for government largesse. I once was asked to contribute an article for the Ryerson School of Journalism so I wrote it on “free speech.” I closed by warning students that when they graduated and went into the media they would selfcensor or be censored. I was advised that the article was “unsuitable” and was asked to do a different one. If you wonder how an article on free speech can be unsuitable, marvel as well at how much money outfits like CanWest pour into journalism schools. And then ask yourself: how is it that perhaps the number-one journalism school in the country censors an article on free speech? We have wound up with an anally retentive country that gets only censored news and, to make matters infinitely worse, censors itself for fear of being seen as politically incorrect. We are a nation of pussyfooters and, sad to say, we may like it that way. Where we once had people like Marjorie Nichols, Allan Fotheringham, Jack Webster and Pat Burns, Ed Murphy, Jack Wasserman, a full time Jim Hume and Allan Garr on the provincial scene and, dare I say it, Rafe Mair, truly holding politicians’ feet to the fire, we now have “on the one hand, on the other hand” radio and a print media that is but a shadow of its former self. Canada has “free speech” provided that it falls within the boundaries of what the establishment considers reasonable dissent. In that world, there is little room for courageous journalism and we should all understand that.
» OBSERVER Q&A Which feature of the new Memorial Centre are you most looking forward to?
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• a yellowish-brown haze at the silage surface or near the feed room floor; and/or • dead flies, cats or rodents on the feed room floor, or dead birds in the silo. If you see any of these signs, immediately clear the area of people and livestock, and start the forage blower to force toxic fumes out of the silo. Silo gas can cause almost instantaneous death. The victim may not even have time to recognize respiratory symptoms such as the burning sensation in the nose, throat and chest. The following advice on how to deal with silo gas comes from the Farm Safety Association:
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dried food, water, a can opener, a first-aid kit, one sleeping bag or two blankets per person, and water purification tablets or chlorine bleach. Alternative Methods Determine ways to access feed stored in granaries or silos (e.g. a tractor PTO). Identify hay and silage delivery methods. Identify reliable sources of potable water (e.g. fire department, generator to run your water pump, farm ponds).
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A smooth transition follows Dreisinger’s sale PHOTO | JONI MILTENBURG
Elmira funeral home changes hands with John Dreisinger’s retirement, but new owner a familiar face CHANGING OF THE GUARD Monty Steenson is the new owner of Dreisinger Funeral Home. He and his wife Karen have moved into the house attached to the business.
JONI MILTENBURG After four generations and more than 100 years in the Dreisinger family, the Dreisinger Funeral Home has changed hands, but the name will stay the same. Monty Steenson bought the business from John Dreisinger on Aug. 1, but it will remain the Dreisinger Funeral Home. “It’s been Dreisinger Funeral Home for over 100 years and four generations of service, so there’s no real good reason to change the name,” Steenson said. Dreisinger’s has a long history in Elmira, going
back to 1905 when Christian Dreisinger bought it from a Mr. Ruppel. In those days, the business was located at 7 Arthur St. N., the longtime home of what became Dreisinger’s Furniture before the building was sold and torn down to make way for Shoppers Drug Mart now on the corner lot. The Royal Bank was located at the same address; when it moved across the street to its current location, Chris Dreisinger bought the building. Chris’ son George took over the business, and later his son David and daughter Hazel were partners in the family
A PART OF ELMIRA’S HISTORY Dreisinger’s was originally located at the corner of Church and Arthur Streets, where the Shoppers Drug Mart is now. Previously the building was also home the Royal Bank, and later to Dreisinger Furniture. enterprise. In 1978, John Dreisinger became the fourth generation of the family to own the funer-
al home. John Dreisinger is retired now, although he is still licenced and helps
out at the funeral home when needed. The business is still connected to the Dreisinger family through funeral director Grace Maher, who is Hazel’s daughter. Although there is a new face at the helm, it’s not a completely unfamiliar one: Steenson has provided support to Dreisinger’s over the past three and a half years. Steenson has roots in the area, as his grandmother Nellie was a primary teacher who spent most of her career in Elmira. Monty grew up on his grandmother’s farm in Mornington Township, west of Linwood.
Steenson has been a funeral director for 30 years. He had relatives who worked in funeral services, and when he was in high school, he looked into it as a career option. After completing his apprenticeship with RatzBechtel Funeral Home in Kitchener, Steenson worked for that company for eight years at their Hamilton and Niagara Falls locations. He then joined the staff of Coutts Funeral home in Cambridge, which he managed for 16 years. “I’ve really never looked back,” he said. “I’ve had an excellent career and See DREISINGER »16
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Society wants more from farming than food The term “multifunctionality,” as it applies to farming, slips off Europeans’ tongues with ease. Multifunctional farms are seen as having roles other than food production, such as environmental sustainability and agri-tourism. They’re part of the European culture. For decades, governments there have paid farmers to be multifunctional, to put resources into matters that go beyond production agriculture. That’s what people want. Canadian farmers argue they too are multifunctional; it’s just that they don’t use that term. For example, in Ontario, something called the Environmental Farm Plan has been active since 1993, helping farmers identify and improve areas that are lacking (such as livestock fencing to improve river and stream quality). The federal and provincial governments support the plan. Other initiatives exist too, to promote the likes of agri-tourism. They’re not as aggressive as those in Europe, some of which pay small farmers to stay that way because tourists find it quaint and spend money visiting rural areas. But they’re there. Prof. Rene Van Acker at the University of Guelph thinks Canada should take a more multifunctional approach to agriculture. In a publication called The International Journal of Agri-
cultural Sustainability, Van Acker, the former chair of plant agriculture at Guelph and first associate dean of external relations for the Ontario Agricultural College, argues that agricultural sustainability depends on a shift to multifunctionality here, from what he describes as a narrower industrial model. In that model, the overriding goals have been production and higher yields. And Van Acker says that as farms have increased in size, farmers have actually pared down their crop diversity. You’d think that maybe more acres meant more kinds of crops (and therefore more variety for consumers), but it’s not so. Farmers had to adopt simpler farming systems, because volume is easier to manage with fewer crop varieties. And volume is how they’ve tried battling lower crop prices. But less diverse farming systems have greater production problems, says Van Acker. Limited diversification makes easier pickings for disease, predators, drought and the effects of bad weather. Against this backdrop, society’s expectations of agriculture are soaring. People are increasingly looking to farms for clean water delivery, bioenergy, high-quality niche products, health and wellness, land stewardship, food security and food sovereignty. Society wants – demands, in fact – more than crops and livestock. It always has; it’s just never been so vocal or strident
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can’t feed the starving world. Some say developed nations have to torque up production. Others say underdeveloped nations need help to produce more of their own food. And still others say the misery will go on until the population growth in chronic droughtstricken countries is under control. Agricultural researchers at Guelph and elsewhere are trying to make sense of all this. They’re looking at the whole, at how technology and diversity can be married up to help farmers sustainably produce enough food to meet the needs of people everywhere, and at the same time meet society’s growing needs. The challenge is massive, and multifunctionality may be one way to approach it.
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this is a wonderful opportunity in my career to look after Dreisinger’s.” Monty will be joined by his wife Karen, who has 15 years experience as a church administrator. The Steensons have moved into the house attached to the funeral home, which has been empty for 16 years. “I think we’re going to enjoy living here,” Karen said. “Everybody’s been really friendly here, everybody’s been very welcoming.”
Because Steenson has helped out at Dreisinger’s for several years, the transition to the new ownership has been a smooth one. Aside from the ownership change, Steenson said there will be few other changes at Dreisinger’s. The rest of the staff will stay the same, and the funeral home will continue to provide the same services. “I think that people are comforted by that, the continuity of the people they’re dealing with.”
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Wellesley fishing derby reels ‘em in More than 250 hopefuls turn out at the Albert Erb Conservation Area for popular Labour Day event
KATIE EDMONDS This Labour Day was celebrated in Wellesley with the sixth annual fishing derby at the Albert Erb Conservation Area at the Wellesley Pond. The derby drew more than 250 people vying for some 120 prizes donated by local companies. With gifts and cash prizes being handed out for the largest fish, the smallest fish and the coveted tagged fish, participants brought fish of all shapes and sizes to be measured, some weighing only .01lbs. Bob Reid of the Wellesley Lions Club was in charge of weighing the fish as they were presented and noted that participants were changing up their strategy this year, using different lures and fishing in different spots on the pond. “People really get creative with their fishing here. Some use worms and lures, but some people really go all out. One group even came with hot dog wieners – raw, of course.” The event’s organizer, Peter van der Maas of the Wellesley Lions Club, said the event was a great way to raise money for the community and also have some fun with neighbours from Wellesley and the surrounding areas. “All the money we raise here goes to financing youth projects – we are hoping to have a portable skate park and a battle of the bands competition.” Even the weather cooperated, as the sun was shining throughout the derby, with the good conditions remaining for the Soap Box Derby later in the afternoon.
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» THE NOT-SO-GREAT OUTDOORSMAN | STEVE GALEA
Hunting trip reveals the bear truth about ethics Last week, I shot a small bear. I had an opportunity to take a bigger one but passed it up. Normally, I’m not the type to do this. In this case, however, it was appropriate. That’s because a pair of tiny twin cubs came out to the bait with their mother. Though taking any one of those bears would have been completely legal, it didn’t seem right, especially after one of them walked right inside a five-gallon bait bucket and licked it
clean. Even so, mamma was a very big bear and, I won’t lie, I was tempted to pull the trigger. The thing that stopped me was that I was also aware that if I killed her, there was a good chance that those cubs wouldn’t have survived due to wolves, other bears or perhaps the inability to forage on their own. So I put my rifle down and watched that bear family feed and frolic by the bait for 30 minutes. It was actually beautiful. The protectiveness of the sow and the mischievous playfulness of the cubs made me feel that I had chosen correctly. So I watched them from my side of the swamp.
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Between you and me, I felt a little superior. After all, a lesser hunter might have taken that sow which, I’m guessing, tipped the scale at around 250 pounds. And, of course, that would have been perfectly legal. But, like most hunters I never want to take too much and so I chose to let that bear walk, knowing there would be others. There was a point, however, when they decided that they had fed and played enough. I was so attuned with them that I sensed our time was over too. Soon, I figured, they would fade back into the woods across from me from whence they first appeared. Instead, however, that big sow lifted her massive skull, caught my scent and marched, nay half jogged, directly into the swamp towards me. This, by the way, coincided with the end of legal shooting time, which meant I was obligated to unload and case my rifle. So, as a particularly dense patch of darkness overtook the woods, I did just that. It’s funny how suddenly, when surrounded by darkness, an unloaded rifle, and numerous bears, you start questioning decisions like this. And the idiot who drafted that law. I mean when you are sitting there in the spruce woods as night is rapidly
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JONI MILTENBURG The Elmira Sugar Kings finally have Matt Smith. The Kings tried to acquire the 19-year-old goaltender midway through last season, but a proposed trade deal fell through at the last minute. Now the former Kitchener Dutchman will be starting in the Kings’ net. The Sugar Kings announced their lineup this week and the players got their first look inside the new dressing room, where their names are mounted above the equipment stalls. After a year of struggling with inconsistent goaltending, the Kings are pinning their hopes on seasoned keepers with Junior experience. Smith played for the Dutchies for the past two years, first as a starter and then as backup to Jordan Bowes. Smith will be starting in today (Saturday’s) season opener in Guelph, but he’ll have to work to keep the No. 1 spot. “He’ll be pushed for
sure by Brendan Gorecki,” said head coach Geoff Haddaway. Gorecki, 17, also has Junior B experience, having played for the Guelph Dominators (now the Hurricanes) last season. “Both these guys have a good reputation in the league. They’re good teammates and they’re good goalies,” Haddaway said. “We think that our goaltending is really going to be a big part of our team this year. We think that’s where we can have some success.” On the blueline, fans will see some familiar faces, as veteran defencemen Jeff Zippel, Jon Jutzi, Jake Jeffries and Shane Smith have returned from last season. To that mix, the coaching staff has added 17-year-old Ryan Johnston, who played minor hockey with the Sudbury Nickel Capitals. Haddaway and general manager Keith Stewart have had their eyes on the smooth-skating blueliner since last fall,
and they expect him to contribute offensively as well as defensively. The Kings have also added Kody Ellis, who played with the Waterloo Midgets last year. “He comes with a really good, strong work ethic, he’s very physically fit and he’s a young guy who’s really eager to learn. He should fit in nicely and learn from the veteran defencemen we have back,” Haddaway said. The forward lines will be a mix of veterans and rookies. Half a dozen players have returned from last year: Michael Therrien, Tyler Kuntz, Jarred Parrent, Paul Thompson, Zac Salomon and Andrew Smith, who joined the team shortly before the end of the regular season. Returning to the Kings after a year away is Riley Sonnenburg, who played Major Junior A with the Ottawa 67s last season. Another player with Junior experience is Tyson LeBlanc of the now-defunct Owen Sound Greys. Rounding out the for-
ward ranks are a handful of rookies from local minor hockey organizations: Spencer MacCormack, who played with Huron-Perth last year; Brad Kraus from Cambridge; Shane MacDonald, a graduate of the Guelph Midget program; Brennon Pearce, who played Brantford minor Midget last year; Andrew Schacht from Waterloo; and local recruit Lukas Baleshta, who was called up to play a number of games with the Kings last season. “I think with youth comes a lot of enthusiasm,” Haddaway said. “That’s something we hope we can capitalize on. These guys have worked really hard over the past couple of years to get to Junior hockey and now they’re being given that opportunity, so hopefully they can make the most of it.” The Kings will face their first test against Guelph tonight (Saturday) and then take on the Waterloo Siskins in Sunday’s home-opener. Game time is 2 p.m.
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Conestogo-Winterbourne Optimists move tourney to WMC JONI MILTENBURG Like the best guests, the Conestogo-Winterbourne Optimists are joining the party and bringing a gift. The club is moving its annual charity hockey tournament to the new Woolwich Memorial Centre and handing the facility a $50,000 donation. John Petrosino, chair of the event, said it made sense for the group to move to an arena in
their own township. “We’ve run it at RIM Park for the last eight years, but now that we’ve got the new facility, we decided to move the venue.” Ten years ago, the Optimists were asked to donate funds to RIM Park. Instead of just handing over a cheque, they suggested a charity hockey tournament. The Conestoga-Winterbourne club brought on board the Optimist Club of Waterloo North, and
between them, the clubs have raised more than $400,000 over the past eight years. Aside from the donation to RIM Park, the money has gone to youth-related programs and organizations such as Family and Children’s Services, Young Athletics Track Club and National Service Dogs. Petrosino said the Waterloo North Optimists were amenable to the location change. “We were in their backyard for eight years,
helping them with RIM. … Hopefully it’ll last many more years.” This year’s tournament takes place Nov. 28, and both ice pads in the new facility will be in use. The tournament is a one-day, one-game playoff format. The winning team gets a roast beef dinner, while the losing team gets hot dogs. The two teams who raise the most money and the top 10 individual fundraisers are treated to a Buffalo Sabres hock-
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Pat Doyle named captain of Applejacks JONI MILTENBURG The Wellesley Applejacks have selected veteran player Pat Doyle to wear the captain’s “C” this season, with Chris Armstrong, Chris Givlin and Ben Jeffries helping out as assistants. Coach Kevin Fitzpatrick said he started talking to his captains in the spring about his expectations and philosophy. Doyle was a natural choice after watching how he interacted with the younger players at training camp, putting them at ease and making them feel comfortable. “Kids come to camp, they’re nervous. As a coach, you want to be able to give them a fair evaluation, and you can’t really do that if they’re nervous. “From a leadership standpoint, he’s embraced what we asked for.” Doyle, a graduate of the Waterloo minor hockey system, has played for the Jacks for the past four years and been assistant captain for two. “I came in as a 17-yearold and there’s been [some] good leaders that taught me a bunch of things.” Doyle said he takes a bit from each of those leaders – Richard Shan-
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DERBY DAY Kirsten Fisher shows off her trophy for placing third with a time of 26.13 seconds in the 8- to 10-yearold category at the Wellesley Soap Box Derby, held in the village on Labour Day.
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Eclectic is the order of the day The mixed bag that is L’Accordéoniste and musical accompaniments to silent films start theatre season Naples and the tango dens of Argentina. L’Accordéoniste is further enhanced by the adBilled as eclectic, there’s more dition of K-W Symphony muthan a little truth in the ad- sicians Julie Baumgartel on vertising for The Registry violin and percussionist Carol Theatre’s “One Night Only” Bauman who, together with series, which kicks off Friday L’Accordéoniste, form the New Berlin Ensemble. night with L’Accordéoniste. If you can’t make the Sept. 11 Take a much-travelled mezzosoprano, a celebrated pianist show – it is short notice, after and a young accordion player, all – the theatre presents someadd music from a variety of thing completely different, if periods and styles, throw in no less eclectic, on Sept. 17: a mixture of languages, and Nosferatu & Man With a Camyou definitely have something era, a screening of the silent film classics with live music worthy of the label eclectic. L’Accordeoniste is a blend of accompaniment. Twilight may be getting all sensual instrumental sounds melded to the distinct mezzo- the vampire buzz today, but soprano voice, from German Nosferatu got that ball rolling and French cabaret repertoire decades ago. The 1922 German classic will to Neapolitan songs and the be screened by the VOC Latin Tango. Silent Film It’s a collaboration of Harmonic, mezzo-soprano Kimwho will berly Barber (Paris perform Opera, Englive musical lish Nationaccompaal Opera, niment, as New York well as to the City Opera), 1929 Soviet pianist Peter masterpiece Tiefenbach Man with a (Isabel BayrakMovie Camdarian, Mary era. Lou Fallis, CBC The VOC Silent Film Harhost) and accormonic, under the direction of dionist Mary-Lou Vetere (currently f i n i s h - Ted Harms, is a group dediing a groundbreaking book on cated to performing original late 19th century opera, From soundtracks to silent movies. The group is inspired by the Verdi to Verismo). At the intimate Registry The- way most silent movies were atre, L’Accordéoniste trans- originally presented, by takports you to the smoky caba- ing themes and using them as rets of Berlin, the dance halls the basis for improvisation. M&T Business Card Ad:Layout 1 04/03/09 10:22 AM Page 1 “My mother used to get silent of Paris, the sunny shores of
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THE MIX IS IN Together, Kimberly Barber, Mary-Lou Vetere and Peter Tiefenbach form L’Accordéoniste, which kicks off The Registry Theatre’s “One Night Only” series Friday evening.
films from the library and play them for my birthdays; I always thought there was something missing – music,” said Harms, who plays the bass. As he developed his musical improv skills, Harms explained, accompanying silent films seemed like an ideal fit. Previous VOC performances have met good local response. Last fall, they played to cult Canadian director Guy Maddin’s modern silent feature Cowards Bend the Knee at the Registry, Guelph’s SharpCuts Festival and Toronto’s NOW Lounge. “The VOC Silent Film Har-
monic presented one of the most dynamic and creative events I have had the privilege to offer at The Registry Theatre,” said director of programming Lawrence McNaught of Cowards Bend the Knee. Nosferatu is the classic vampire movie. A German real estate agent travels to Transylvania to help Count Dracula arrange the purchase of a new house. The Count is a vampire needing blood to survive – the real estate agent, his fiancée and the entire town of Bremen is put in peril. Man with a Movie Camera is an actor-less
documentary, an artistic interpretation of a ‘day in the life’ of Odessa, one of Ukraine’s major cities. The film is famous for its creative and inventive camera and editing techniques. Tickets for L’Accordéoniste, which launches the sixth season of The Registry Theatre’s “One Night Only” series, are $25, available at Centre In The Square box office by calling 519-578-1570 or online at www. centre-square.com. Tickets for Nosferatu & Man With a Camera are $15, or $10 with a donation to the food bank, and are available only at the door.
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Township of woolwich Notice of Public Open House No. 1 Breslau Servicing Study
The Corporation of the Township of Woolwich has initiated a Servicing Study to identify and propose alternative servicing strategies for water, wastewater, and general stormwater needs for the existing community of Breslau (Study Area). The study will identify existing servicing constraints/ deficiencies, and evaluate alternative solutions. The result of this study will be a comprehensive plan for Breslau that identifies the preferred strategy for water, wastewater, and general stormwater servicing. The plan will also identify the individual projects required to implement the servicing strategy, the costs involved and the proposed funding. To date, the following activities have been completed: background data collection and review; assessment of existing servicing; development of preliminary servicing strategies; initial costing; and consultation with Township staff. An integral component of this study will be public consultation. A Public Open House will be held on September 16, 2009, from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM, at the Breslau Mennonite Church located at 226 Woolwich Street South in Breslau. The purpose of the Public Open House is to present the objectives and interim findings of the project. Display Boards
will be available for viewing at the Public Open House, and staff from the Township of Woolwich and Stantec Consulting Ltd. will be on hand to answer questions regarding the project. The preferred strategy will take into consideration any comments received at this Public Open House, and will be reflected in the Draft Final Report to be presented in October at a second Public Open House. At that time, a survey will be issued to receive public feedback on the final recommendation. Interested parties will then have the opportunity to express any objections, concerns, or criticisms, as related to the recommended strategy. If no objections or criticisms are expressed by the end of the review period, the project may proceed to implementation as presented. Mr. Randy Miller, C.Tech. Township Project Manager Township of Woolwich 24 Church Street West, P.O. Box 158 Elmira, Ontario, N3B 2Z6 Phone: (519) 664-2613 ext. 6030 Fax: (519) 669-4669 Email: rmiller@woolwich.ca
Ms. Barbara Robinson, M.A.Sc., P.Eng. Project Manager Stantec Consulting Ltd. 49 Frederick Street Kitchener, Ontario, N2H 6M7 Phone: (519) 585-7379 Fax: (519) 579-8806 Email: barbara.robinson@stantec.com
Township of woolwich REcREATion fAll pRoGRAMs ADULT FITNESS - MONDAYS, TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS (11 WEEKS) 7:00 – 8:00 PM AT PARK MANOR SCHOOL YOGA CLASSES – MONDAYS (11 WEEKS) 7:00 – 8:15 PM AT WOOLWICH MEMORIAL CENTRE PILATES CLASSES– TUESDAYS (11 WEEKS) 7:00 – 8:00 PM AT PARK MANOR SCHOOL BALLROOM DANCING – TUESDAYS (11 WEEKS) 8:30 – 9:30 PM AT PARK MANOR SCHOOL BADMINTON – MONDAY OR THURSDAY (13 WEEKS) 8:15 – 10:15 PM AT PARK MANOR SCHOOL
VOLLEYBALL – TUESDAYS (13 WEEKS) 8:15 – 10:15 PM AT ELMIRA DISTRICT SCHOOL LINE DANCING – THURSDAYS (11 WEEKS) 5:00 – 6:00 PM AT ST. JAMES LUTHERAN CHURCH HALL ALL PROGRAMS START WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 21, 2009 REGISTER AT THE WOOLWICH MEMORIAL CENTRE BETWEEN 6:30 AM AND 10:00 PM OR CALL 669-1647 OR 664-2613 ext. 7001 OR 7025 OR EMAIL customerservice@woolwich.ca FOR MORE DETAILS. REGISTER BEFORE SEPTEMBER 16TH AND RECEIVE A $10.00 DISCOUNT. The Township reserves the right to cancel classes if insufficient registration.
noisE By-lAw ExEMpTions Council of the Township of Woolwich has granted exemptions to Noise By-law 19-2002 Section 3(1) for the following events: • 28 Katherine St. S, Winterbourne: Rock 'n Roast to be held on Saturday, September 19, 2009 from 2:00pm -6:00pm. Permission to use amplified music for the duration of the Rock 'n Roast event. • Riverside Park, behind 28 Albert St, St. Jacobs : Foodlink Waterloo Region Taste Local! Taste Fresh! to be held Saturday, September 20, 2009 from 2:00pm - 5:00pm. Permission to use amplified music for the duration of the event. If you have any questions please contact Megan Standring at mstandring@woolwich.ca
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HOME HUNTERS Paul Martin SALES REPRESENTATIVE
DIRECT....519-503-9533 HOME ....519-669-3074 OFFICE ...519-888-7110
NEW LISTING | $294,900
WOW! 12.9 ACRES. 2800 sq. ft. bungalow, 4 bedrooms, main floor master bdrm, main floor laundry, patio/deck, hot tub, walkout basement, detached workshop, backs on to greenbelt, waterfront property. MLS.
BUY OR LEASE
$639,000
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Support your local schools. Buy or list your home with Paul.
$369,000
ELMIRA Why buy a Resale Home when you can build your dream home on this 50’ lot. Hardwood & ceramic throughout main floor, maple kitchen cabinets, 4 bedrooms, master has walkin closet and ensuite.
$374,000
ELMIRA Why buy a Resale Home when you can build your dream home on this 50’ lot. Hardwood & ceramic throughout main floor, maple kitchen cabinets, 4 bedrooms, master has walkin closet and ensuite.
WOW 1800 sq. ft. of fantastic living space includes loft with master bedroom, ensuite and family room. Main flr consists of 2 more bedrooms, hardwood and ceramics throughout. Backs onto green space.
$349,000
ELMIRA Retirement at its best, Let Huron Homes build this beautiful bungalow for you. It features 2 bedrms on main floor and if you like 2 more in the basement, along with a large rec. rm. Dble garage. Backs on to green belt.
$359,000
BRESLAU 2100 sq. ft. almost brand new beauty! Open concept mnflr, large kitch. (upgraded cabinets), extra large patio dr, 3 large bdrms, loft area on second flr, master ensuite boasts large windows, whirlpool tub and walkin closet.
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Royal City Realty, Brokerage Independently Owned and Operated
Open House Sat. Sept. 12 noon to 2 Living in the country has never been easier. This 1512 sq. ft. home with a full detached shop is minutes away from K-W, Elora & Guelph, 1km north of Alma. Updates have been completed for you. To view this proper$429,900 ty please call Debbie Kurt. th
victor@victorelgawly.com www.victorelgawly.com Independently Owned and Operated
FANTASTIC UPGRADES 50’ lot frontage, 2350 sq. ft. built by Virina Homes, 4 bdrms, 3 baths, 2 storey home. Main flr formal dining rm, 2nd flr laundry. M/bdrm with luxurious 5 pc ensuite. Natural stone tiles (Travertine) & maple hrdwd flrs, stairs & railing. Gourmet Maple kitchen family rm with corner gas fireplace. Modern lighting throughout. Asphalt driveway. TARION Warranty. MLS.
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Warren McNeil - Sales Representative
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Call to view by Appointment
Victor Elgawly Jim Reitzel Sales Representative Broker of Record
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RECREATIONAL LOT! 6.5 acres on the Conestogo River. Excellent camping and/or seasonal property ideal. Services (gas, telephone, hydro) available at road side Line 86. MLS.
CURIOUS ABOUT YOUR HOME’S VALUE IN THIS CURRENT MARKET?
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45’ and 50’ lots available in Elmira. Several plans available in bungalow or 2 storey models, or will build to suit.
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DON’T MISS THIS HOME. Basement consists of large finished recrm. (roughin for bar) 2pc. bath & storage rm. Main flr. offers hardwd. throughout (ceramic in foyer) open concept, 2nd flr. family rm, ensuite. Fenced backyard w/ recently built pergola and stone patio.
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What’s your Home worth? Call Paul for your Free Market Evaluation Debbie Kurt
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Solid Gold Realty (II) Ltd., Brokerage Independently Owned and Operated ADDRESS: 180 Weber St. S., Waterloo
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Melanie McNeil - Sales Representative MODEL HOME for sale! Priced well below replacement! Gorgeous 3 bedroom, 2 bath bungalow featuring c/air, c vac, gas fireplace, luxury ensuite, m/f laundry, sep. dining room, stunning kitchen w/pantry, hardwood & tile floors, Partly finished basement. Unbelievable value 30 mins to K-W. A must see. MLS.
MOVE RIGHT IN Enjoy this fully updated & lovingly maintained bungalow with private oasis in the backyard. Everything has been updated; mechanicals, flooring, windows & doors, kitchen, basement with rec room, fireplace, b/r and 3 pc. bath. The fully fenced back yard features a spacious deck, above ground pool with pool house and pool fence and patio. Triple conc. drive, shedw/hydro. Shows very well.
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00 9,9 7 $3
51 RIDGEVIEW DR. DRAYTON
Large Lots only 30 minutes from Waterloo, Only 4 lots left! Model Home available for sale, 10 plans to choose from, Quality standard features include: 9’ ceilings on main floor, 200 amp service, Fruit Cellar, Ceramics, Ensuite & Main or Upper Laundry
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Rarely found oversized backsplit with double garage & big backyard. Features 3+1 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, super spacious kitchen with island open to huge family room. Lower level finished with recroom, bedroom & bath. Lots of space for a growing family. Much bigger inside than it appears. A must see!
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BONNIE BRUBACHER Broker of Record
SHANNA ROZEMA Broker.
DARREN ROMKEY Sales Rep.
LAURIE LANGDON Sales Rep.
519-669-3192
90 Earl Martin Dr., Unit 1, Elmira N3B 3L4
DALE KELLER Sales Rep.
MONIQUE BRUBACHER Sales Rep.
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3689 Manser Rd. Linwood Sunday 2 - 4 BRAD MARTIN Broker of Record
JULIE HECKENDORN Broker Res: 519-669-1068 Res: 519-669-8629 MVA Residential
ALLI NORRIS Sales Rep. Cell: 519-577-6248
BiRDLAND BEAuTY Custom kitchen w/corian. Ceramic flr. Main flr fam rm. Gas f/p in LR. Updated bthrms. Updated windows throughout. 5 appliances incl! Wooded lot. NEW MLS $339,900.
BILL NORRIS Sales Rep. Cell: 519-588-1348
TRACEY WILLIAMS Sales Rep. Cell: 519-505-0627
NEW BuNgALOW Quality built! Great rm. w/hardwood and gas f/p. Covered porch off dinette. 3 bdrms, 2 bathrooms. Lots of cupboards. Mn floor laundry. NEW MLS. $395,000.
$325,500 - Unique property, two semidetached residences under one ownership. Live in one, rent out the other. lot size approx 175’ x 165’. Separate driveways, hydro and heating. Two car garage plus larger single detached garage. Brick home is immaculate with a fully finished basement. A rare opportunity. $325,500.
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$314,900 | This unique home has been designed for the large or growing family and features 4 bedrooms, hardwood and ceramic floors, heated pool, 2 gas fireplaces and a large fenced back yard. NEW MLS
2.98 acres on Cedar Springs Rd. treed, wooded lot on gravel road 5 min. north of Elmira, build your dream home here! $199,500
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HOT NEw LIsTINg $256,000 ALMA | Great starter home or anyone wanting a shop; this bright home sits on a large treed lot and has had many recent renovations completed including roof, windows, floors and deck to name a few; A MUST SEE!! NEW MLS. PARADIgM (ELMIRA) HOMEs MODELHOMEAT42ROBERTAsTREET OPEN HOUsE sAT AND sUN 2-4PM $336,000 | Under construction 4 Bedroom 2 Storey. 2 Bedroom Bungalow Model for sale with upgrades and appliances $332, 500. Close to amenitites, and downtown. Come and see the quality features and standards offered. MLS DEsIRABLE RURAL sETTINg $329,000 DRAYTON | 5 Year, Cape Cod Styled home, 100 x 150' lot, oversized double garage with walk down to basement, mainfloor laundry/mudroom, over 1900 sq ft. Scenic location. MLS
QUIET COUNTRY LOCATION $334,900 DRAYTON | Beautifully appointed and tastefully decorated home. Both levels finished offering an abundance of living space, deck, hot tub and oversized workshop/ garage. MLS
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LEON MARTIN
Solid Gold Realty (II) Ltd., Brokerage | Independently Owned and Operated
.5 acre don’t miss this chance to enjoy sunrises and sunsets. Within 40 minutes of KW, or Guelph. High speed internet is available with fibre optic. Starting at $63,000 MLS COUNTRY LOTS
3 bedroom country bungalow with high speed internet available open concept. Master ensuite, main floor laundry, large 2 car garage, new not built. Hobby shop allowed. $311,900 MLS ADDRESS: 4-B
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4-LEvEL BAckSPLiT Hardwood & ceramics. 3 bdrms, 2 bths. newer carpets in bdrms & recrm. Garden shed. Most windows replaced. Large lot - great neighborhood! NEW MLS. $226,900.
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gREAT fAMiLY HOME 4 level backsplit offers a huge kitchen w/ open concept to family room w/ stone fireplace & lge. windows. Office & den in lower level. 2 baths. Dble. Garage, concrete driveway NEW MLS. $349,000.
BAckiNg TO fARMLAND custom built bungalow, better than new! Hardwood/ceramics. Open concept. W/o to partially covered patio. 3rd bdrm & bthrm finished in basement. Insulated garage w/220 hydro.MLS $389,000.
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Gayle Draper, Sales Representative
2 bth home on oversized lot (144ft deep). Open concept LR/DR/Kitchen. 5 appliancesincluded!Walktodowntown and rec centre. MLS $278,500.
Modern Thinking - Traditional Values! Tel: 519-500-6004 Email: gdraperteam@rogers.com
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PARk-LikE gROuNDS. 11 acres, mixed bush, pond! Lovely updated bungalow w/ great room. Min’s from Elmira/K-W & Guelph. MLS $595,000.
DRAYTON 2-STOREY - backing to parkland! 3bdrms. Eat-in kitchen w/island & w/o. Gas fireplace. Finished bsmt w/gas fp. C/A & vac. Shows well! MLS. $284,900.
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Trinity United Church ELMIRA
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Minister: Rev. Dave Jagger Sunday Worship: 10:55am
Visit our website on: www.wondercafe.ca 21 Arthur St., North • Church Office 519-669-5560 “Our mission is to love, learn and live by Christ’s teachings”
SUNDAYS, 8:30 & 11:00AM WEDNESDAYS, 7:00PM (with Childrens’ Programs) IMPACT YOUTH (GR 7-12): Fridays, 7:30pm TWENTY20 (GRADS & TWENTIES): Visit www.kcf.org/twenty20 for details
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Sunday Sept. 13, 10:30am Missionaries Bill & Bev Pharand from Guinea, West Africa Free Lunch to follow - all are welcome REACH WITH LOVE. TEACH THE TRUTH. SEND IN POWER. 290 Arthur St. South, Elmira • 519-669-3973 www.ElmiraAssembly.com (Across from Tim Horton’s)
“Fully engaged” in my Church Sundays @ 10:30am John Mahood PS
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Bloomingdale Mennonite Church Sundays - 9:45 am Family Worship Service 11:00 am Sunday School for all ages
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St. Teresa Catholic Church
No God, No Hope; Know God, Know Hope! Celebrate Eucharist with us Mass times are:
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» STRANGE BUT TRUE | BILL & RICH SONES
Some plants show going green isn’t for the best causes wild hallucinations, perhaps underlying the deranged behavior leading to the Salem witch trials; monkshood, with a toxin so powerful Nazi scientists used it in poison bullets. Even simple corn, when grossly overeaten, can cause the ghastly symptoms of pellagra, a syndrome that may have inspired European myths of vampirism in Bram Stoker’s Dracula: pale skin that erupted in blisters when exposed to the sun, sleepless nights brought on by dementia and a morbid appearance just before death. “Yet without question,” concludes Stewart, “the world’s most wicked plant is tobacco (nicotiana tabacum), responsible for the deaths of 90 million people worldwide.” Q. When is laughter NOT the “best medicine,” far from it, in fact? Gelotophobes know this one all too well. A. “Gelotophobia,” from the Greek “gelos” for laughter, means the fear of being laughed at and describes people hypersensitive to others’ negative moods, says Constance Holden
in Science magazine. They mistrust smiling faces and are unable to discriminate between friendly and hostile laughter, i.e., between teasing and ridicule. This was no laughing matter in the recent school shootings in Germany where the perpetrators reportedly had a horror of being mocked. About 10% of the population has some degree of gelotophobia, note researchers Ilona Papousek and Willibald Ruch in the journal Personality and Individual Differences. In tests covering 74 countries, Scandinavians ranked among the least gelotophobic; the highest scores in Europe were from the United Kingdom, suggesting, Ruch says, that “maybe a well-developed sense of humor does not help where mockery and ridicule are cultivated too.” Q. Love might be “blind,” but wouldn’t even blind lovers prefer pairing up with attractive partners? A. Some do, as discussed by University of Birmingham professor John Hull, who himself went blind,
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Q. Plants can nourish and heal, but what are a few of Mother Nature’s truly “Wicked Plants,” such as the weed that killed Abraham Lincoln’s mother? A. Cows that eat white snakeroot produce the poison milk that likely undid Nancy Hanks Lincoln, leaving behind nine-year-old Abraham, says Amy Stewart in her book of the above title. Milk sickness was so common that Milk Sick Ridge and Milk Sick Cove are still attached to Southern locales where the disease was rampant. Stewart points also to a tree that sheds poison daggers, a glistening red seed that stops the heart, a shrub that causes paralysis and a vine that can strangle -- “you don’t want to meet these in a dark alley.” Other historical wickednesses include the poison hemlock that killed the Greek philosopher Socrates; ergot, a fungus that grows on rye and
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 Wallenstein Bible Chapel (4522 Herrgott Rd.) grand opening of addition; 2:30 p.m. ribbon cutting and dedication, 3:30-6:30 p.m. facility opening for all to view, hayrides, face painting, candy scramble, bouncy castle, 4:30 p.m. corn roast dinner, 7 p.m. celebratory service, 8:15p.m. campfire and singing. Everyone welcome.  Pancake Breakfast at the Alma Community Hall from 8-11 a.m.; $4/adult; $2/ child. All proceeds to the Alma Community Recreation Association (ACRA) playground fund.For more information, contact Doug at 519-846-0764.  Fundraising BBQ presented by St. Clements Recreation Board. Bake sale and coffee 8-11 a.m., BBQ 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. at St. Clements arena. For more information call Deb Harte at 519-699-4732 or Trevor Hehn at 519-699-5792.  S.S. #3 Peel School Reunion. 1 p.m. - ?? held at the farm of Carl & Carolyn Israel, 7874 4th Line, Mapleton Township (former Peel Township) just west of the old #3 school house which is now a house. Bring lawn chairs, school mementos, food for potluck supper and your own cold drinks. Coffee, water and tea provided; 4:30 p.m. potluck supper. Free-will offering to help defray costs (any amount above expenses will be given to local charity). Come rain or shine!
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 A special musical service featuring Hank and Janet Sonnenberg is scheduled for St. Peter’s Lutheran Church, 1046 Gordon Hain Street, Linwood – 10:30 a.m. Lunch to follow.  Sidney Osmera Retrospective Art Show – Landscapes ,portraits, still life in oil and watercolours painted from 1965 to 2002 by Sidney Osmera. Come and meet the artist who through his art will share with you his wide experience of life and the world. All welcome. The exhibit will be on display until the end of 2009. Upper level (wheelchair accessible) The Shops At Riverworks, 1440 King St. N. St. Jacobs. SEPTEMBER 14
 Conestogo Diamond Squares Square Dancing Club, Monday nights at St. James Lutheran Church. St. Jacobs. Mainstream teach 7-8 p.m.; Mainstream/Plus alternate tips 8-10 p.m. Visitors welcome. 519-664-2827.
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 Lunch at Gale Presbyterian Church from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. Menu: meatloaf, mashed potatoes, salad, roll, dessert, beverage; $9 per person. Everyone welcome, wheelchair accessible, takeouts available.  West Montrose Cultural Heritage Landscape (CHL) Presentation, 7 p.m. in the West Montrose Covered Bridge. Should this popular tourist area be protected as a CHL? Does an application for a gravel pit near the bridge threaten CHL? Dr. Robert Shipley of the University of Waterloo’s Heritage Resources Centre presents findings and recommendations for a multi year study. Presented by BridgeKeepers. E-mail info@bridgekeepers.ca.
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 Wellesley NEH Fall Fair at the Wellesley Arena & Community Centre. Official opening 7 p.m., Elvis impersonator, fair ambassador competition. Sept. 16 – baby show, parade, children’s entertainment, pet show, K-W Kennel club exhibition and more. Best-anywhere fireworks at dusk.
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 Woolwich Caregiver Group will meet at the Health Centre in St. Jacobs from 10-11:15 a.m. Discussion will be on ‘Adapting to Changes in our Loved One.â€? For more information call Lorraine at 519-664-3794.  Health Education Session 10:15-11:15 a.m. Topic H1N1 Influenza – Protecting yourself and others this flu season. Everyone welcome. No charge. Woolwich Community Health Centre 519-664-3794. SEPTEMBER 18
 Spaghetti Dinner with Salad $6. Royal Canadian Legion, 11 First St. E., Elmira, downstairs at 6 p.m.  Bid Euchre Card Party to be held at 7:30 pm. At St. Teresa of Avila Church Hall, 19 Flamingo Dr., Elmira. Doors open at 6:45 p.m. Admission $5. Door prizes, 50/50 draw and lunch provided. Everyone welcome. Sponsored by the Knights of Columbus. Submit calendar listings to info@observerxtra.com
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