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THE KIcK OFF EDSS football players, including Cole Martin, got in one last practice Thursday afternoon prior to Friday’s season opener at home against St. Davids. Both the junior and senior teams were in play.
Status quo for the Elmira post office Canada Post nixes idea of retail postal outlet in new Shoppers Drug Mart location at Arthur and Church MARC MIQUEL HELSEN Despite the writing on the wall, Elmira’s post office will stay put. The Canada Post sign on the Shoppers Drug Mart store at the corner of Church and Arthur Streets in Elmira came down Thursday, as a second postal outlet will not be opened at the new drugstore, said a spokesperson for Canada Post. “There are no plans for any type of a retail outlet in Elm-
ira outside of the post office,” said Tom Creech. In June, the national bureau of Canada Post applied to open a second outlet in the relocated Shoppers Drug Mart at the corner of Arthur and Church streets. Canada Post and Shoppers Drug Mart have a longstanding working relationship, with numerous joint ventures across the country. When a Shoppers store is slated to open, Canada Post typically studies any potential partnership opportunities. The prospect of a new retail
outlet was cause for concern amongst Elmira postal workers worried that contracting the service to a private business would leave the Arthur Street office at risk of closing. The union argued that although such outlets often provide longer service, they cannot offer the quality attention customers receive at the official post office. As the new 14,000-square-foot Shoppers structure took shape in June, Elmira postal union representatives scrambled to put together a counter propos-
al to the franchise idea. Canada Post’s collective agreement with the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) states that the national office must give the former 90 days to suggest other options before it can go ahead with opening outlets in private businesses. The CUPW proposal argued that if providing longer hours was the issue, then there was no reason why the current outlet couldn’t extend its hours of service. The proposal calculated the projected cost of
increasing hours, factoring in wages, benefits, as well as the cost of dealing with any potential parking issues, and presented its conclusions in dollars and cents. “Our counterproposal that we put in was significantly less than what they would have to pay to put in that franchise,” said John Wastell, president of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (Local 560) in Kitchener, which represents the Elmira facility. See POST OFFICE page »02
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Essentially, it was more cost-effective to extend the hours of service at the current facility rather than open a second franchise outlet, Wastell argued. Though he has not heard official word regarding the status of the proposal, Wastell welcomed the news that Shoppers will not open a franchise operation. “I’ve got to give kudos to the citizens and our employees in Elmira because they do protect their own very well in a lot of different ways,� he said. “The service at that
particular retail outlet does a very good job; the service they do in the community is really good, the revenues are very good, they’re very productive, employees are good. It’s a great, great location.� For his part, Creech noted that Canada Post is also satisfied with the services rendered at the Elmira facility as it stands today. “The decision has been made, at least for the foreseeable future. We’re quite happy with the services that we’ve got in Elmira through the corporate outlet in the downtown core.�
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“In the hospitals at that time, people who had heart attacks were very bad news ... sort of a cardiac cripple.”
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HEART AND SOUL Bob Wotherspoon, left, as Mick Jagger and John Morello as Dean Martin help Dr. John Schaman, right, celebrate the 30th anniversary of his cardiac rehabilitation clinic, the Ontario Aerobics Centre. The “Rock PHOTO| JONI MILTENBURG with the Doc” bash included performances by Morello and Rolling Stones tribute group Hot Rocks.
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Dr. John Schaman celebrates 30 years of cardiac rehabilitation at his Ontario Aerobics Centre JONI MILTENBURG Dr. John Schaman had two reasons to celebrate at his anniversary bash Sept. 17. The first reason was obvious: 30 years of rehabilitating heart patients and treating athletes at his clinic on Hopewell Creek Road. But it was also the end of a three-month fight with the Ministry of Health, which was penalizing doctors who referred patients to him. In his three decades of operating the Ontario Aerobics Centre, Schaman has had plenty of experience with trying to get people to recognize his specialty. When he opened his doors in 1978, the field of cardiac rehabilitation was still so new that few people had heard of it. Schaman struggled to convince the Ministry of Health to compensate him for work that was outside the accepted specialties. Earlier this summer, Schaman lost the special status that allowed doctors to refer patients to him without penal-
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a rehabilitation program and gone on to run the Boston Marathon. This was revolutionary because the accepted wisdom in the 1970s was that heart patients would never live a normal life again. “In the hospitals at that time, people who had heart attacks were very bad news ... sort of a cardiac cripple,” he said. “So I go to this symposium and I see this amazing work being done where they take patients who’ve had half their hearts knocked out with a heart attack, and they run the Boston Marathon? I couldn’t believe this.” The man running the rehabilitation program was Dr. Terence Kavanagh. When he saw Schaman’s interest in his work, he invited Schaman to join his team as a clinical fellow. “I threw away a known commodity, going into residency in cardiology and becoming a straightforward cardiologist,” Schaman said. “I threw that all away and became his clinical fellow.” After learning all he could from his
ty. After three months of losing sleep, Schaman finally heard on Sept. 12 that the hearing had decided in his favour. “Three months of grief and heartache, but we’re back in action without having to worry about any doctor penalties and patients denied access to health care,” he said. Schaman first heard of cardiac rehabilitation while he was doing his medical internship at Scarborough Hospital. The hospital had a policy of sending interns to medical conferences in Toronto to learn about the topic and return and give a presentation. Knowing Schaman was planning to do his residency in cardiology, they asked him if he was interested in attending a conference on a new field called cardiac rehabilitation. The young doctor was intrigued and said yes. At the conference, he was astounded to learn about the Boston Seven, a group of Toronto men who had suffered heart attacks, completed
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Time to take stock of the financial system
Financial news out of the U.S. is enough to make me think about liquidating any holdings, building a bunker in the yard and filling it with as much gold as I can afford (not much, it turns out.) The meltdown of AIG, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch comes on the heels of a bailout of Freddy Mac (Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation) and Fanny Mae (Federal National Mortgage Association), holder of about $5 trillion in U.S. mortgages at a time when the housing market is in a freefall. These events, fallout from the subprime mortgage fiasco that began last year, have triggered a mild panic in the stock markets. The ripples have been felt around the world, causing a shakeup in other banking centres. While the federal election underway here has supposedly become all about the economy, there seems to be precious little talk about the ramifications of the financial industry woes – whither goes the U.S., so goes Canada. Our economy is intimately tied to what happens to the south. In the short term, gold prices are spiking, oil is all over the map and we can expect a credit crunch, with the resultant rise in interest rates even as the Bank of Canada tries to help fend off a recession. Time to panic? Maybe not, says University of Waterloo economics professor Jim Brox.
“For the average person, it isn’t a big deal. “However, if you’re about to retire, this could be a problem.” That’s because stock prices have taken a tumble, wiping out gains on many people’s investments. In the long run, the markets should come back, returning value to mutual funds and pension vehicles, but that’s not much consolation if you’re looking to cash out soon. Such worries are mitigated if your investment portfolio is well diversified, reducing exposure to the stock market fluctuations, he notes. Of course, there’s a caveat. So far, the damage has largely been contained to the financial world, with little spill over into the “real world,” where the average person continues to work and live. If the crisis spreads, all bets could be off. In that light, it’s no wonder some pundits have made comparisons to the big crash of 1929. Even Brox, who remains optimistic about the forecast, sees some parallels. “There was over-extended risk taking – too much credit, and the whole thing collapsed.” Unlike the events that set off the Great Depression, however, this crisis is occurring at a time of greater regulation. Rules put in place following the crash help mitigate some of the downside. And the Federal Reserve Bank and government are now prepared to step in where necessary, witness the takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the $85 billion loan to AIG. (There’s some irony in the fact that Fannie Mae was founded as a government agency in 1938 as part of the New
Deal, then-president Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s effort to get the U.S. out of the Depression.) In the wake of the current financial problems, we can expect to see some more regulations put in place to prevent a reoccurrence of recent collapses. “Some change is almost inevitable,” says Brox, but whether they’re superficial or meaningful will depend on the depth of the crisis and how quickly the market recovers. A quick turnaround, and we can expect mostly window dressing. There’s no denying, however, that what we’re seeing is largely the result of greed: insurers and other conservative – or typically conservative – lenders taking increasingly more risks to make increasingly larger returns. “Huge profits turned into big losses,” he says, suggesting more regulation is needed to prevent what should be conservative companies from taking too much risk. “With some of the investment houses, risk is what you expect when you want to make big returns, but with insurers and mortgage companies …” The key for the financial industry, not just in the U.S. but everywhere, is
to maintain confidence in the system, Brox explains. There is no money in the bank to cover all of our deposits, nothing but goodwill and our expectation backing the value of our cash – socalled fiat money. Without confidence in the system, panic sets in. We all attempt to withdraw our cash, the proverbial run on the banks – think about the panic scene from It’s a Wonderful Life. That scenario is extremely unlikely, but some return to fundamentals is in order to straighten out the mess and restore public confidence in the financial industry. That starts with the U.S. government getting its massive deficits and debt under control, he suggests. To do that, military spending will have to be curtailed, beginning with getting out of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No easy task, admittedly, but the upcoming U.S. elections will change the landscape, and we’re likely to weather the storm, albeit with some rough patches. “This is going to give everyone a wakeup call. “But we probably have seen the worst, and things are going to get better over the next few months and years.”
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» ON THE ELECTION TRAIL
Having been caught off guard by the federal election call, the NDP’s Kitchener-Conestoga riding association selected a candidate Monday night. Rod McNeil, a 48-year-old Kitchener native who runs his own small entertainment business, will carry the party’s banner.
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Chamber gets new CEO Joan Fisk was this week named the new president and chief executive officer of the Greater Kitchener Waterloo Chamber of Commerce. The former president of Tiger Brand Knitting Company, Fisk is a lifelong resident of Waterloo Region. Fisk currently serves on the board of Canada’s Technology Triangle (CTT), the Board of Governors of Wilfrid Laurier University, as a member of the Dean’s Advisory Council for the Laurier School of Business and Economics, and as a Director of the Gore Mutual Insurance Company. “Years of service on many public boards in our community, coupled with experience as an executive in industry makes Joan’s appointment an exciting opportunity for the chamber,”said chamber chair Ross Wells. “We believe she will relate to and communicate well with our members.”
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Rae’s message energizes Liberal crowd High profile MP the big draw at opening of Da Silva’s campaign office STEVE KANNON Rallying the party faithful for “an election that wasn’t supposed to happen,” Liberal Bob Rae took aim at Stephen Harper at Monday night’s opening of Kitchener-Conestoga candidate Orlando Da Silva’s campaign office. As well as moving up the election date by a year, the Prime Minister also pulled the plug under false pretenses, Rae argued, noting the Conservative leader had pledged to a set date of Oct. 19, 2009 as the day Canadians would go to the polls. He also dismissed Harper’s rationale for breaking that promise – a dysfunctional Parliament – as a stretch, given the House hasn’t been sitting all summer. “This was a manufactured event, not a real event. This was Stephen Harper trying to steal an election,” Rae said. To great applause, the Liberal MP for Toronto Centre also poked fun at Harper’s “warm and fuzzy” campaign ads, calling the image make-
TEAmWORK Bob Rae (right) helped rally the troops Monday night at the official opening of the campaign office for Orlando Da Silva, who’s carrying the Liberal flag in the riding of Kitchener-Conestoga.
over something of a fairytale. “I’m always reminded of what I call the Little Red Riding Hood factor; whenever I look at Stephen Harper, the thought that comes to my mind more than any other is this one: ‘Grandma, what big teeth you have.’” On the leadership front, Rae said the Conservatives’ attempt to portray
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Harper as strong and decisive only underlines the controlling nature of the Prime Minister’s Office, whereby cabinet ministers and MPs have been muzzled. “He doesn’t really have a team – he has a oneman show. We have to show people that that’s a very unstable basis on which to build a government; we need to build a stronger sense of what
a Liberal team can do,” he told supporters at the Kitchener office. A Liberal government would put an end to the chill in Ottawa, a mood of fear that prevents even arms-length agencies from speaking freely, without censorship from the PMO. But Harper wasn’t the only target, as Rae took a swipe at Jack Layton and the NDP.
The former Ontario New Democrat premier drew more laughs when he acknowledged he knows a thing or two about the NDP, saying it’s a party happiest in opposition, biting at the heels of those in power. Offering advice to Da Silva and the other local candidates – also on hand were Kitchener Centre MP Karen Redman, colleague Andrew Telegdi of the Kitchener-Waterloo riding and Cambridge hopeful Gord Zeilstra – Rae said Liberals would have to counter the misleading messages spread by the Tories. “Politics is more like hockey than it is like ballet – you’ve got to be prepared to mix it up a bit. The Conservatives, on the airwaves and in a million different ways, are throwing lots of hot lead at us, so I think it’s time we started mixing it up a bit, taking a strong message to the people about the importance of this choice. I don’t believe for an instant this is a government that deserves a majority,” he said in an interview.
Eating locally a breeze in this region
Waterloo Region council this week approved a fee subsidy agreement with the childcare centre located in Breslau Public School. The region purchases subsidized spaces at 116 childcare programs.
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Authors of 100 Mile Diet find the area’s shelves are bountiful during stop at EDSS JONI MILTENBURG People in Waterloo Region have it good when it comes to local food, according to a pair of authors who are wellversed on the topic. Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon, authors of The 100 Mile Diet, spoke about their local eating experiment at Elmira District Secondary School Sept. 18. The
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book, which was the most recent One Book selection, documents their adventures eating only food produced within 100 miles of their downtown Vancouver apartment for a whole year. MacKinnon told the audience gathered in the school’s cafeteria that the idea stemmed from “a beautiful meal and an ugly statistic.” While staying in a remote cabin north of
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an abandoned orchard. “We realized it was the first time any of us could remember knowing where everything on our plate had come from,” MacKinnon said. The ugly statistic that kept rearing its head was 1,500 miles, the average distance food travels from farm to plate. A University of Waterloo study found the numbers are equally bad in Canada, where food
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» TESTING, TESTING
Boards see room for improvement in EQAO results Schools in Woolwich and Wellesley townships run the gamut when it comes to provincial scoring JONI MILTENBURG Both the Waterloo Region District School Board and the Waterloo Catholic District School Board have some areas to improve on, according to test results released Sept. 17 by the Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO). The EQAO tests evaluate Grade 9 students in mathematics and Grade 3 and 6 students in reading, writing and mathematics. The numbers show the percentage of students within each school and board who are above provinciallyset standards and compare them to the average for the province overall. Results for schools in Woolwich and Wellesley townships varied wildly, some well below the average and others greatly surpassing the standards. As in the past four years, the Catholic board came in above provincial averages in Grade 3 and 6 testing. In reading, 65 per cent
of the board’s students scored above the provincial standard; in writing, 69 per cent; and in math, 72 per cent. That compares to provincial averages of 61 per cent, 66 per cent and 68 per cent respectively. The numbers for the Grade 6 students were also higher than the provincial averages; 67 per cent compared to 66 per cent in reading, 68 versus 67 per cent in writing and 65 versus 61 per cent in math. On the Grade 9 math test, 80 per cent of students in the academic stream exceeded the provincial standard, compared to an average of 75 per cent across the province. However, only 30 per cent of students in the applied stream met provincial standards, below the provincial average of 34 per cent. “The applied (results are) lower than we expected,” said Bruce Rodriguez, superintendent of education for the Catholic board. “We do have some concerns for sure.”
Rodriguez said the board has plans to train Grade 9 and 10 teachers on different ways to teach and test students. For example, instead of being given a pencil and paper test, students could build or draw something that shows they understand the material. The Waterloo Region District School Board had mixed results on the EQAO tests. The board’s Grade 9 students in both academic and applied streams came in above the provincial averages on the math test. Eighty per cent of academic students scored above the provincial standard, compared to 75 per cent provincially; and 36 per cent of applied students did so, compared to 34 per cent provincially. However, the numbers for Grade 3 and 6 students were lower than the provincial averages in all three areas of reading, writing and math. The numbers for Grade 3 students were 58 per cent in reading,
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compared to 61 per cent provincially; 62 per cent in writing versus 66 per cent; and 64 per cent in math, versus 68 per cent. Among their Grade 6 counterparts, 63 per cent were above provincial standards in reading, compared to the provincial average of 66 per cent; 64 per cent in writing, versus 67 per cent, and 59 per cent versus 61 per cent in math. Education superintendent Mary Lou Mackie acknowledged that her board’s results were lower than she’d like to see, but said she’s encouraged by the long-term trend. “I would say we’re pleased with the five year look because we do see sustained improvement over time.” Mackie said the board looks to make changes and improvements in incremental steps. One area it has focused on is improving writing skills, by teaching “higher-order” thinking skills and examining what teaching methods are most effective for boys and girls. Both Mackie and Rodriguez emphasized that the EQAO results are just one way to evaluate schools. The superintendants pointed out that data are collected in the classrooms and schools as well, and what happens on a day-to-day basis is just as important as large-scale assessments. On the same day the results were released, the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario called for an end to stan-
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Breslau likely site of park-and-ride station as commuter service heads west; former hotel land in mix A Breslau stop is likely to be a key ingredient in long-awaited plans to extend GO Transit train services into Kitchener. Because of available land, perhaps the former Breslau hotel site, the village is being eyed for a park-and-ride station as GO looks to expand rail services from Georgetown to as far west as Baden in Wilmot Township. With plans just in the initial stages, it would probably be 2011 before rail service begins, said
Bruce Sevier, senior project officer for the transit authority. The first step is an environmental assessment. A series of public meetings, including one each in Guelph and Kitchener next week, is on tap to get the ball rolling. If the assessment goes well, GO would then begin planning in earnest for the expansion, he added. “If the EA is approved, then we can go into detailed design.� That includes mapping out locations for passenger stations and a layover facility for trains serving the route.
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Even at this stage, however, GO is looking at a Breslau stop, recognizing downtown Kitchener can’t provide the space for commuter parking. Plans to bring train service into Kitchener were welcomed by Waterloo Region Chair Ken Seiling, who has been advocating in favour of an extension for years. There have been regular meetings with GO Transit officials and the Ministry of Transportation. “We’ve been encouraging the province to move on the GO front,� he said in an interview, adding
“We kind of thought on the first day of spring all the vegetables just shoot out of the ground and they’re ready to eat.� Their diet was rather monotonous for the first few weeks; Smith said the lowest point was when MacKinnon made her a sandwich with two slices of turnip in place of bread. They also turned to her grandmother’s Second World War-era cookbook and learned old-fashioned preserving techniques. MacKinnon said they often hear from people who tell them it’s an interesting idea, but it’s too hard to do in their area. “I don’t think you guys
can get away with saying that,� he told the crowd. He and Smith stopped at the St. Jacobs farmers’ market on the way to Elmira, where they were impressed with the range of inexpensive local food, including Canadian-grown saffron. And eating local doesn’t have to be more expensive than shopping at the grocery store, Smith said, as long as you buy food when it’s in season and preserve it. After the year was up, the couple discovered they enjoyed the rich flavours so much they decided to keep eating local, although they’ve allowed a few exceptions: chocolate for Smith and beer for MacKinnon.
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tain Street rather than Woolwich Street, said senior planner Jeremy Vink. The goal is to prevent more traffic from passing through Breslau’s core. Other details, including frequency of service, remain to be tackled when the EA process is completed, likely next spring, said Sevier. “We feel there’s a good potential. We’d like to start the service with four trains out of Kitchener.� Currently, there are four trains running from Georgetown. That number could be
there’s consideration of extending a line from Milton into Cambridge to serve the south end of the region. While no decisions have been made about the proposed Breslau site – now owned by the region – Seiling said he’s optimistic the process will move as quickly as regulations allow. “We’re looking at something two or three years down the road. There’s a clear indication we’ll see it in that timeframe.� If the former hotel site is in play, Woolwich Township will be pushing for access from Foun-
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Wellesley to push ahead with Siegner Bridge repairs areas of exposed reinforced steel. “Something needs to Reconstructing the be done, and sooner is Siegner Bridge on Debo- better than later,� pubrah Glaister Line is a top lic works director Will priority for Wellesley McLaughlin said in an Township, councillors interview. The decision to spend decided this week. To that end, $469,000 the provincial grant on received from the prov- the bridge came after ince’s Investing in On- some debate, as counciltario program will be lors discussed various put toward the repairs, priorities. Ultimately, it deemed the most press- was McLaughlin’s arguing of the municipality’s ments that swayed the decision. infrastructure projects. “I would suggest that, Built in 1946, the Siegner Bridge, located at the regardless of other road southwestern limits of projects that we’re going the municipality, sees ap- to do – and we’re going proximately 600 vehicles to do other road projects per day. While salt cor- – that bridge needs to be rosion has caused some paid attention to. “It has to be done; it is cosmetic damage to the bridge, the most press- in very bad shape.� Both Mayor Ross ing issue concerns the OMA-12951_Com_DOC_BW 6.81x9.qxd 9/12/08 PM Kelterborn, and 4:26 Coun. structure’s crumbling concrete handrails and Jim Olender under-
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scored the importance of expediting the bridge’s repairs. “We delay this for two years [and] it could be $500,000, it could be $600,000 to do the job. Right now it’s still catchable. The longer we delay it the more it’s going to cost us; the more we’re going to have to hit for grants, the more we’re going to have to hit the taxpayer,� Olender argued. The estimated cost of repairing the bridge in keeping with its historical look is approximately $400,000, McLaughlin said. To reduce the costs, council could decide to replace the current handrails with modern, galvanized rails if the historical feel is not a Page 1 concern. Though less expensive,
that latter alternative would likely prove unpopular with area residents, he added. Although repairs wouldn’t take place until July 2009 at the earliest – the Grand River Conservation Authority has regulations concerning fish spawning cycles – staff hopes to have price estimates before council for approval in the near future. The Siegner Bridge project will join a number of other road and infrastructure projects on the to-do list for the township in 2009. At Tuesday’s meeting, council also approved a tender for its Hawkesville Road reconstruction project. With a price tag of $2.2 million, the massive project will be covered by a provin-
cial Municipal Infrastructure Investment Initiative (MIII) grant awarded last spring. The work will include a complete overhaul of the storm sewer system and rebuilding of the road base in a number of areas that have experienced drainage issues. The project will cover Broadway Street from Herrgott to Geddes; Geddes from Ament Line to Broadway; Hawk Street; and Martha Street from the creek north to Broadway. Initial work on that project could begin as early as late September. Staff would like to get Geddes Street completed and lay base asphalt on from Ament Line to
Chappel Street before winter sets in. Geddes Street, and Martha and Broadway Streets would be on tap for next year. Surface asphalt would come in 2010. Though funding for the all of the township’s projects is always limited, McLaughlin conceded that much work is being done. “As a direct result of gas tax funding and this other funding that has come through, I would like to say that we’re progressing fairly well – as well as anyone could expect. “If you added another zero to everything we got, we’d be fine too,� he quipped.
Doc Rock: Clinic ahead of its time Âť Continued from page 03
Along with cardiac rehabilitation, the clinic also does sports medicine, treating all levels of athletes. Schaman travelled to Europe with the Canadian ski team a number of times and was the doctor for the Canadian Open tennis tournament for 13 years. He said people mistakenly assume that sports medicine is a glamorous field. In reality, he didn’t get paid for any of the work he did with the ski team or the Canadian Open. Schaman did get a gift from tennis star Bjorn Borg – the racket he used when he won
Wimbledon for the last time. It now hangs on a wall, framed, in the rehabilitation centre. Schaman said he tries to practice what he preaches to his patients and lead a healthy lifestyle. “For the last few months I’ve been under tremendous pressure with this Ministry of Health issue. ... Not exactly the way I want my patients to live but I really had no choice if I was going to save my clinic. It was something I had to do and it was very important to me that all patients come if they need us.�
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» LAW & ORDER
Turkeys pay the price of truck rollover
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3:16 PM | A hiker in the area of Floradale Road and Reid Woods Drive returned to find that his vehicle had a rear window smashed. Nothing appeared to have been taken, however. There are no suspects.
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September 12
8:06 AM | A man walking with his kids in the area of Northfield Drive and Sugar Forest Place, near West Montrose, found approximately $160 worth of cash strewn throughout the better part of a mile. He then turned the money into police, who are holding on to it pending further investigation. 12:00 PM | A resident of Snyder Avenue close to Church Street West in Elmira reported that their vehicle had one of its tires slashed. Police later learned that another vehicle in the area also had one of
A transport truck hauling some 2,400 turkeys early on the morning of Sept. 17 rolled over in the area of Line 86 and Floradale Road, west of Floradale. The driver, westbound on Line 86, lost control of the vehicle while in a curve in the roadway and took out 15 guardrails in the process. The truck was demolished but no human injuries were reported. Several animals, however, were killed in the incident. The road was closed until 6:20 a.m. The driver was charged with ‘careless driving.’ its tires slashed. There are no suspects. 1:45 PM | A collision occurred in Heidelberg. One vehicle had been travelling northbound when another vehicle exited a driveway causing a collision. There were no injuries, but both vehicles were towed from the scene. One driver was charged with ‘fail to yield from driveway.’ 5:23 PM | Another young child was fortunate enough to emerge virtually unscathed from a collision with a pickup truck in Linwood. Two children had been riding their bikes in the area of Lin Pine Lane when a resident, heading home in a pickup truck, drove by. One of he kids darted out of a driveway, ramming into the side of the truck. The nineyear-old boy suffered just minor injuries. There were no
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BUMPERED It looked a little messy, but damage was minor and no one was injured in a collision at Menno and Fountain streets near Breslau Sept. 15. charges. The vehicle incurred minor damage.
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September 13
8:41 AM | Police received a report of a theft in the area of Snyder Avenue South and Church Street West in Elmira. In this incident, a tire and rim were taken from the complainant’s pickup truck. The complainant had not noticed the theft, subsequently attempting to drive off while the vehicles was hoisted on a jack, causing further damage, pegged at $500. There are no suspects. 11:57 AM | A brown leather wallet was lost at the St. Jacobs Farmers’ Market. The wallet contained some ID,
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Porchlight Drive in Elmira. The complainant reported to police witnessing several intoxicated males in the area at the time. Police attended the scene and spoke to the suspects. No charges have yet been pressed, but the investigation continues. 10:15 AM | A flagpole was stolen from Benjamin’s Restaurant in St. Jacobs. Several flower boxes were also thrown off the bridge on King Street North.
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A real reason to call for Ritz’s head Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz undoubtedly left his brain in neutral with his tasteless remarks about those who died in the listeriosis outbreak, but is it a firing offence? Not really. His attempt at gallows humour was not appropriate in the venue, a conference call in the midst of a crisis that has so far claimed 17 lives. “This is like a death by a thousand cuts. Or should I say cold cuts,” Ritz joked in an Aug. 30 consultation with members of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, in which he also expressed worries about the political dangers of the crisis. Told during the conference call about a new death in Prince Edward Island, Ritz added: “Please tell me it’s Wayne Easter.” Easter, the Liberal MP for the P.E.I. riding of Malpeque, is his party’s agriculture critic. Admitting the comments were out of line, Ritz this week apologized publicly, and phoned Easter directly to do so personally. Still, both Easter and Liberal leader Stéphane Dion are calling for Ritz’s resignation. Failing that, they want PM Stephen Harper to remove Ritz from cabinet.
“The Prime Minster could have risen to a true test of leadership today by choosing to stand by the families who are still struggling through this crisis and have lost loved ones. Instead, he chose to stand by Mr. Ritz and make excuses for the inexcusable,” Easter said in a statement Thursday. Calling for a cabinet minister’s head is all in a day’s work for opposition politicians. Ritz was out of line with his comments, but we needn’t give in to the everpresent cloud of political correctness. That’s not to say Ritz shouldn’t be called on the carpet, perhaps even fired. Not for insensitive remarks, however, but for the government’s role in allowing the outbreak to get started in the first place. Experts have suggested cutbacks in the CFIA, and Conservative policies allowing for self-policing on the part of the meat industry, played a part in the listeria contamination at a Maple Leaf Foods plant going unnoticed. That sentiment was backed by a Canadian Medical Association Journal editorial. Signed by several doctors and journal editors, the statement found the Harper government’s decision to strip the powers of
» VERBATIM
meat inspectors at the CFIA, and implement more “lax” standards for meat sold in Canada led to the “worst epidemic of listeriosis in the world.” “Government policy errors helped bring about this epidemic,” the editorial states. “Yet surprisingly, the government has taken no remedial steps beyond issuing a food recall. Instead, officials praise the success of our infectious disease surveillance system – as if, with 16 dead, there were cause to celebrate – while food safety standards remain as low as ever.” Hardly a ringing endorsement for Ritz or the rest of the Harper government. It’s on this count – the cuts made for ideological purposes, with shades of the Walkerton tragedy – that the minister and his party must be taken to task. It’s because the outbreak occurred on his watch, and with government at least somewhat at fault, that Ritz should fall on his sword, not over some lame attempt at humour. Many of us have been guilty of the latter, but certainly not the former, which is the real inexcusable offence. In an election campaign about little or nothing, here’s an issue we can finally sink our teeth into.
» THE MONITOR
“This is the most reactionary government we’ve ever had. John A. MacDonald wouldn’t recognize it. Robert Borden wouldn’t recognize it. Lizzie Borden wouldn’t recognize it.”
The financial sector meltdown has central banks partnering with the U.S. Federal Reserve to create bailout funds for struggling institutions. Canada: $10 billion; European Central Bank: $110B; Bank of Japan: $60B; Bank of England: $40B; Swiss National Bank: $27B.
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The Observer | Saturday, September 20, 2008
» HARD TALK | RAFE MAIR
Federal politics have little to do with democracy Readers will know of Mair’s Axiom II*, namely, “You don’t have to be a 10 in politics, you can be a three if everyone else is a two.” Here, and I suggest you write this down, is Mair’s Axiom III. “The closer a politician’s throat is to your hands, the nearer you are to democracy.” Federal politicians are rather like absentee landlords who show the flag occasionally to the cloth-capped peasantry, and when that disagreeable exercise is behind them, head back to the huddled musk-ox barn on Parliament Hill, where the food and drink are plentiful and good, subsidized by the peasants, and the worst you face is an unkind question from someone you don’t give a damn about anyway. Provincial elections are more interesting because the politicians are closer to home – though the news media hardly holds them to account like they used to. But the rubber really hits the road with local politics. And the smaller the population, the better the fun. I was once an alderman (that’s what they were called then and the women on my council didn’t seem to mind) in Kamloops, and it was a hairy experience I can tell you. The meetings were public and the access unlimited. Issues didn’t go away until something was done. There was no place to hide. That was democracy. Wendy and I live in the small village of Lions Bay where citizens just by mak-
ing a nuisance of themselves can get their own way. Every morning we take Chauncey, our chocolate Labrador, down to the ocean for a swim. The parking lot has about 10 stalls and four signs telling people not to park without a permit, two signs telling divers not to expose their underwear when getting into wetsuits and two signs telling people that their dogs must be on a leash. In fact, one could miss the parking lot for the signs. While this is the only place in Lions Bay that these particular signs can be seen, other signs of similar annoyance abound throughout the rest of our village. One lady set out to count our signs, sure that we’d get into the Guinness Book of Records for signs in a village. But, matched against her life expectancy, the job was too much for her so she quit. Chauncey is not the only dog that swims at what we affectionately call Bow Wow Beach and all of us delight in removing our dogs’ leashes in front of the house whose occupant inspired the signs. And I’ve been waiting for the right moment to disrobe in the parking lot whilst donning my wetsuit. Trouble is, I don’t own a wetsuit and I doubt that wetsuit stores have sizes for my particular shape and avoirdupois. In any event, village democracy reacts to complaints by passing laws and putting in place signs that we non-complainants delight in flouting. It’s all rather fun, actually. I think at the local level there is sort of a general understanding. People who bitch all the time get to do so as often as they wish and it’s understood that once they have worn the council out, a rule will be passed; it’s also understood that not only will everyone else ignore
the rule but will hail the house with the complainant in it with an upraised fist, one finger showing. There is, I’m distressed to report, a great problem with local democracy: the job of running things isn’t worth the paltry sums paid. The irony is that the further the politician is from the voter, and the less accountable he is, the more money he makes. The comforts of subsidized food, drink, lodging and a handsome paycheque await the politician who puts himself beyond the voter’s reach – until election time. Which brings us to Gary Lunn, Minister of Natural Resources and MP for Saanich-Gulf Islands. Lunn, clearly not the sharpest pencil in the prime minister’s box, takes an industry tour of one of the Premier Gordon Campbell’s river projects and gets so overwhelmed by industrial smarm that he nearly swoons with enthusiasm for this disastrous policy. It evidently doesn’t dawn on him these projects are environmentally devastating because, I mean wow, the corporate flack that took him on that nice helicopter ride would have said something if there were any downsides, wouldn’t he? I mean, aren’t we dealing with environmentally conscious, truth-telling public relations chaps who always ignore the greed of their masters, and tell the complete unvarnished truth? When it comes to federal MPs paying attention to folks back home, a prime exception to the rule is John Cummins, MP for Delta-Richmond East. He is a Conservative, formerly Reform. (I vote Green, incidentally.) Cummins has consistently acted in what he felt were the
best interests of his constituency. On one occasion, he felt that a bill should be debated, so flouted the orders of Prime Minister Harper to give leave to have the bill passed forthwith. He lost his shadow cabinet post. Cummins was on the Commons Fisheries Committee and criticized amendments to the Fisheries Act by the minister and was promptly yanked off the committee by Harper. Cummins, though the most knowledgeable MP in the House on the West Coast fishery, is not the Fisheries minister and won’t be the minister of anything because he refuses to subvert his constituents’ feelings to the wishes of the prime minister. I’ve been involved in the shocking environmental desecration proposed, and being undertaken, by both senior governments in Cummins’ riding and John Cummins has been there fighting alongside his citizens, while the Liberal MLA for the area, Val Roddick, who usually won’t shut up, runs and hides. So do the ministers. There is, after all this, a moral to this story. If we had a system where the Member of Parliament had the powers in fact that he has on paper, we would see a lot more John Cummins. As long as we have the same old, “first past the post election system” (if “system” it can be called), we will have more lickspittles like Lunn and Roddick and fewer John Cummins. It really isn’t any more complicated than that. *Mair’s Axiom I is “You make a very serious mistake assuming that people in charge know what the hell they’re doing.”
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Attacking Pakistan is Bush’s last hurrah The good news is that U.S. President George W. Bush is not going to invade Iran before he leaves office. The bad news is that he is attacking Pakistan instead. For years the White House has issued urgent warnings about the threat from Iran at every opportunity, accompanied by the threat that “all options are on the table” if Iran didn’t stop its alleged nuclear weapons program. Since we knew how Bush acted in the case of Iraq’s alleged nuclear weapons program, there was good reason to worry that he might actually carry out his threat. Late last year the U.S. intelligence services deliberately undercut his case for war against Iran by releasing a joint assessment that concluded that Tehran had stopped its nuclear weapons program in 2004. That killed Bush’s hopes of getting the American public to back an attack on Iran, and even the prospect of getting Russia to go along with sanctions against the Iranians pretty well died after the imbroglio in Georgia in August. So the White House has gone entirely silent on Iran: no more warnings, no more threats. But about two months ago, according to information that was leaked just last week, Bush authorized U.S. military attacks against suspected
supporters of the Taliban and al-Qaeda on Pakistani soil – without the permission of the Pakistani government. Pakistan is a U.S. ally, even though the great majority of Pakistanis wish that it wasn’t. There are few unbreakable rules in international affairs, but not attacking your ally is definitely one of them. Except if you are American, in which case it’s okay, or so the White House appears to believe. The latest incident, just after midnight on Monday morning, began when seven U.S. helicopter gunships and two troop-carrying Chinook helicopters landed near the Pakistani border in the Aghan province of Pakhtia. U.S. troops got out and tried to cross the border into Pakistan, presumably in search of some “terrorist” target. According to local officials, Pakistani paramilitary troops manning a checkpoint fired into the air to warn off the Americans while local tribesmen took up defensive positions. On this occasion, the U.S. soldiers stopped. With nobody around to stop them, however, another American ground force attacked a target in Pakistan’s South Waziristan province on Sept. 4 and, according to local witnesses, killed about 20 people including women and children. The local witnesses may be exaggerating, but the fact that American troops carried out an act of war on Pakistan’s territory without informing Islamabad, let alone getting its
permission, is not disputed. And there have been other recent American attacks, involving missiles fired from the air at suspected terrorist targets, in which innocent Pakistani civilians have unquestionably been killed. Pakistan’s economy is tottering, its new democracy is shaky, and it has not done a very impressive job of keeping the Taliban supporters in the provinces bordering Afghanistan under control. (On the other hand, the United States has not done a very convincing job of beating the Taliban in Afghanistan, either.) But Pakistan is still a major regional power: it has twice as many people as Iran, and it definitely has nuclear weapons. Using U.S. troops in Pakistan without permission is simply begging for trouble. Last week the Pakistani army chief, General Ashfaq Kayani, warned that “the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country will be defended at all cost. No external force is allowed to conduct operations inside Pakistan.” The White House may be hoping that the newly elected president, Asif Ali Zardari, will be pliable enough to let such things happen, but even if he were, the Pakistani army simply would not allow it. The new Bush policy is stupid and futile: how can using U.S. troops on Pakistani soil do anything but drive more local people into the arms of the militants and turn the Pakistani government into America’s enemy? But
it is of a piece with the larger “Bush doctrine” which decrees that the best way to deal with terrorism is to attack the countries where the terrorists live with military force. The senior officers who now command the U.S. armed forces should know that this is not just wrong but hugely counterproductive. They were all taught in staff college that the best way to counter terrorism is by police work, intelligence gathering, and defensive security measures. Using military force just plays into the terrorists’ hands. Indeed, it’s the reaction that the terrorists are usually hoping for. As part of their military education, American generals have even read the various memoirs, manuals and manifestos in which the leading practitioners of “urban guerilla warfare” and international terrorism laid down their strategies –and they almost always wanted to get the other side’s army involved in the fight against them. Senior U.S. officers know that, and yet with a few brave exceptions who resigned, they have swallowed their professional pride and gone along with the Bush administration’s unthinking belligerence. There is one consolation. President Bush will be gone from office in four more months, so he probably doesn’t have enough time left to turn Pakistan into a full-fledged enemy of the United States.
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To the Editor, Next week, Woolwich council will be addressing a temporary-use permit application to allow a small, 12-yearold paintball business to continue in operation. Township and regional staff are attempting to portray this business as negatively impacting “prime agricultural land” – even though it is located in an abandoned gravel pit and cedar bush, and neighbours support the application. As a farmer, I promote the preservation of our farmland, but recognize that not all land is suited for agriculture. I also note that all levels of government are promoting farmers to diversify
and make their farms more sustainable in challenging times. Isn’t this an example of the small business and diversification we are trying to promote? Anyone can quote official plans and policy statements, but at the end of the day, it’s council we elect and empower to judge the merits of local issues. The planning process should promote compatible uses, not stifle new ideas. We are spending millions to build and promote recreational facilities in the area – I hope we don’t close this one because of bureaucracy.
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Water just the latest issue in which public told we’re bad To the Editor, Everybody knows bottled water tastes better than tap water. Municipalities are forcing people to drink tap water or sugar drinks. So we know it’s not a health issue. It’s a money issue. It’s about the fact that it costs them money due to disposal or recycling costs. Since it’s not within municipalities’ authority to tax or force deposits on these containers, they do the next best thing, ban them. Now they’re studying how to tax us, for being so insensitive as to eat fast food. It starts with the notion that packaging is a dirty by-product of consumerism. Consumerism is what’s destroying the environment. All that’s bad comes from consumerism. Shopping feels good. How dare we feel good when so much is wrong with the world? This notion is burned into our collective psyches. It’s been patiently placed there by the same people who have us convinced that polar
bears are endangered. Yet polar bears are most certainly thriving. There are clean incinerators in use all over the world. They have virtually no toxic output. Certainly much less than the toxins created when refuse is dumped in landfills. They can be run on natural gas and are relatively inexpensive to operate. Why aren’t incinerators used? Check with the polar bear people. A better solution on garbage would force them to create another demon. You can’t put a ‘sin tax’ on anything until you’ve convinced everyone it’s a sin. Now all three levels of government know of our collective garbage guilt. They’re now free to tax and ban anything they deem “not environmentally friendly.” Who would be so foolish as to complain about protecting the environment? We’re being convinced we are bad. We tax bad things. That’s just policy.
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Today, he and dutiful wife Hillary champion the Democratic cause, gaining star status at the recent convention. Bill earns millions drawing herds to hear him wax eloquent on the state of the planet. So why pick on Edwards, who is only one of the horde of notables who’ve sinned? When politicians, televangelists, stars and starlets, not to mention the common Joe, all made public fools of themselves? Perhaps it’s time to call a spade a spade and elevate John Edwards to the status of the straw that broke the camel’s back.
The grim truth is that it’s not him or the naughty others we should blame, but ourselves. He admitted after cheating that he had begun to think of himself as superhuman, better than the masses of normal people and above censure. Possessed of an innate need to worship – and with God relegated to the shelf, where he gathers dust in many minds – we bow down to human idols like Sarah Palin, who singlehandedly has made a rock star of John McCain, and the host of sports and movie celebrities whom we make rich
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by filling the collection plate. What we’ve turned a blind eye to is that these are simply, only, merely people like us, susceptible to temptation and weakness. We do them a disservice by idolizing them. The problem with worshipping people like us is that we assume they will act in an exemplary fashion. We model our behaviour after them, dress as they do, drive the cars they like, and live the high life. When they fall, we consciously or subconsciously continue to worship, cutting them some slack and forgiving. If it’s okay for gods to act like that, it’s okay for us, we think. Shame on the Clintons, Swaggarts and Edwards for modelling bad behaviour.
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New venture gets her out on her own Karolina’s Nail Studio joins Basics, Beauty and Beyond in offering health and beauty services in Elmira Basics, Beauty and Beyond – Elmira’s one-stop shop for all things health and beauty – recently added another shop to its Arthur Street location. Karolina’s Nail Studio, already open for business, is the latest venture to take residence in the building. Joining two other businesses, Karolina’s offers customers gel nails and pedicures, regular pedicures, manicures and waxing. After years of working as a nail specialist, Karolina Hoyt decided that the timing was right for her to branch out on her own. “Seven-year itch? I don’t know. Seven is a lucky number, maybe,” said Hoyt, with a chuckle, as she explained her decision to establish her own studio after seven years of working for others. Though she enjoyed the work she was doing elsewhere, Hoyt always thought about moving out to start her own business. So when she heard about Rachel Bauman’s Basics, Beauty and Beyond concept, she made her move, leasing space at the converted old
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Agricultural college dean unveils ambitious plan Rob Gordon has a legion 20,000 strong, and he’s enlisting every one of them to work overtime for Ontario agriculture. Gordon is the new Ontario Agricultural College dean, arriving this past summer from the Nova Scotia Agricultural College where he was dean of research, and held a Canada Research Chair in agricultural resource management. His inaugural public presentation took place Wednesday night, where he rolled out an ambitious, multifaceted plan that relies heavily on the vast and storied network of Aggie alumni. Gordon, a Guelph alumnus himself, knows his fellow graduates are among the most influential leaders in Ontario agriculture. He knows they’re just waiting to be asked to be involved in something meaningful, something that will benefit current Aggie students, as well as their alma mater and their sector. Enlisting their assistance makes a lot of sense. Gordon needs strong support from what he calls the college’s “institutional ambassadors.” Here’s why. The role of Ontario Agricultural College dean is huge. Whoever holds the position is seen as not
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students, and other partners such as commodity groups, to drive his agenda. In the teaching arena, Gordon wants to establish domestic and international programs that reflect new market realities in agriculture such as bio-resources, and underline the vast employment opportunities in the sector. In part, this means appealing to non-traditional students, such as those from cities who normally don’t look to an agricultural college for a career, despite its applicability to many of their urban interests, especially the environment (which is also particularly dear to Gordon). He wants to emphasize problem-based learning, an effective approach for showing students approaches for dealing with real-life situations. On the research frontier, he told the meeting attendees he favours a capacity-building approach over projectbased research. That’s a perfect fit with long-term research capabilities the University of Guelph enjoys as a
result of the enhanced partnership agreement with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs. It helps the institution build the intellectual- and human-resource capacity needed to anticipate problems and solve them, rather than take a flavour-of-the-month, unfocussed approach to research. Gordon spoke highly of supporting and developing value chains, proof he understand the sector must work together as a closely-knit unit to realize maximum benefits. He also noted among the new partners for the college are the 440-plus municipal governments in Ontario that face unprecedented challenges as they grow and grapple with issues such as land use and the environment, major interests of the college. I like Gordon’s commitment to communications. Expect to hear a lot more from the Ontario Agricultural College, and about the way its activities are making life better for people here and abroad.
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EASY PICKINGS Sugar Kings forward Aaron Smith battles for possession of the puck with Owen Sound’s Robbie Moe Sunday afternoon at the Elmira Arena. The Kings downed the Greys 7-2. It was a great day for Brent Freeman (left), who picked up four assists.
Kings take two in weekend play Elmira back on familiar turf atop Mid-Western Junior B standings; yet to be defeated in regulation MARC MIQUEL HELSEN The Elmira Sugar Kings were back to their winning ways last weekend, blowing both the Guelph Dominators and the Owen Sound Greys out of the water. Opening the weekend Sept. 12 in Guelph, the Kings were the dominant force, winning 4-1. Buoyed by that triumph the Kings returned home
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The score tied at two, the Kings showed no signs of slowing down and at 9:50, again on the power play, Trent Brown, from Therrien made it 3-2 for Elmira. Josh Ranalli (Fisher, Zippel) and Jarred Parent (Ryan Ouellet, Nic MacEachern) joined in on the party and added one more each at 14:54 and 18:12 respectively. The second period buzzers sounded and the Kings were ahead by
three, 5-2. In the third period the homeboys added insult to injury, as Ouellet potted a short-handed tally off a Freeman pass at 4:04 of the third frame. Playmaker Freeman then helped Tyler Kuntz nab one at 16:58 of the third. Now with a comfortable 7-2 lead, the Elmira machine got to work, closing up any empty spaces, and See KINGS »17
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» THE NOT-SO-GREAT OUTDOORSMAN | STEVE GALEA
If you don’t mind, I’d rather run A very recent hunt in South Dakota taught me a thing or two about what I’d do if I ever came back as a rooster pheasant. Needless to say, I don’t plan on coming back as a rooster or as anything else for that matter, but it is nice to have the bases covered just in case. With that in mind, here are a few key things you need to consider if you wake up one day and find yourself faced with this problem. The very first thing I’d advise is never fly. Though it seems like the right thing to do, breaking cover and silhouetting yourself against a blue sky simply makes you stand out and draw unwanted attention, especially
if you cackle as you rise. You’d think they might have figured this out by now. A much safer way is to walk briskly, jog, or even run away from the guns in a quiet and orderly manner toward the emergency exit. It is actually considered unsporting to shoot a bird on the ground. It’s simply not done in South Dakota or in most other places. Because of this, if I were a rooster, I would make a point of taking cover in a burrow and sitting it out for the duration of the hunt. Heck, it wouldn’t hurt to make friends with the local skunk and pay him a visit too. This would certainly distract the dogs and hunters when they finally got too close. If I absolutely had to fly, however, I would gather a group of young and fast roosters and then tell them that we should all take off on the count of three. Then, I would leap skyward
at the count of five, hopefully after all the guns have emptied their magazines on the keeners and the smoke has cleared. I know it’s not nice, but no one said survival of the fittest ever was. Also, in most jurisdictions, including South Dakota, hens are not legal game. So, I’d simply hang out with the girls and flush whenever they did, making sure to stay right in the middle of the flock, behind the women and children, so to speak. Sure, it’s cowardly, but you can bet I’d be eating corn the next day. Strangely enough, these are some of the strategies that the smarter roosters used on us to escape being roasted that evening. We did manage to fill our limits each day, however. The state is absolutely loaded with ring-necks and the hunting is nothing short of world-class. In fact, the
pheasants outnumber the residents probably by about ten to one or more and the folks there are proud of that fact. This and Mount Rushmore are the major tourism draws to the area but the Great Plains are a sight to behold in and of themselves. One thing is for sure; it’s not easy being a pheasant in a place like South Dakota. People from all over the world visit just to take a shot or two at you as you flush. Then you have to outrun hunting dogs and dodge shot. And let’s not forget that coyotes, badgers, hawks, and owls want a piece of you too. And winters in that almost treeless region are not exactly easy either. Sometimes you almost felt sorry for the birds. But every time I did, I thought, life could be so much worse. At least they’re not cow elephants during the rut …
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gradually wearing down its desperate opponent. “I thought for the most part we played well; I was pleased with our work ethic. Even though we’re far from a complete puzzle right now, we’re putting the pieces together slowly but surely,” said coach Geoff Haddaway after the game. “The good thing about defensive play is it is largely based on hard work. If the kids are willing to work hard, then they’ll make some mistakes but because they’re working hard they can make up for a lot of those mistakes.” That defensive effort came in handy for the Kings in the third period as they boarded the frequent flyer program to the penalty box. Despite their many penalties, the Kings were able to neutralize the Owen Sound offense in all of its power play attempts. “It’s pride, your defensive play,” said Haddaway, of his team’s allaround defensive effort on Sunday afternoon. “Penalty killing: those are guys’ chance to shine and maybe the guys you don’t see in the game sheet but guys who like to cause havoc, by their strong aggressive forecheck and [who] take pride in making sure pucks don’t get to our net.” The Kings also did well on their power play unit, going 3 for 9 on the night. After four games of play the Kings are atop the Mid-Western Junior B pack with a record of 3-01: it’s a good first start.
“We’re a long way away from where we want to be, defensively, but with the work ethic being fairly strong we’re able to have some success right now,” said the coach. From what he’s seen so far, team captain Pat Shantz is optimistic about this season’s prospects. “I think we’re going to be really good this year; a little bit faster, I think; about the same size. We’ve got a lot of younger guys with some good talent and some key vets coming back that still aren’t that old,” he noted. A strong work ethic and a good vibe throughout the locker room should
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team’s effort at the tourney as it did battle with teams that were, on paper if not on the ice, superior to the Junior D squad. Though his team has a lot of work to do in coming days, Lobsinger said he’s pleased to know that he has two stalwart goalies on which to rely: Zehr and Kent Stoltz. Lobsinger is confident that the tandem will provide a solid foundation for a winning team. “I think our goaltending is going to be solid all year; I think we’re going to have a great one-two punch in net,” said the coach, noting that a significantly larger, more physical squad will likely help the boys in front of the mesh.
The coach also predicts a more prolific offense, despite the fact that speed will likely remain the same as last season. That said, with seven rookies on the roster – plus a 16-year-old Wellesley skater who will practice with the team and play with the Twin Centre Midgets – the Jacks will have to work hard and fast to steady the shaky legs of inexperience. “A lot of learning these guys have to do – fast.” Young rookies who were physically “big” at the Midget level will have to adapt to the more competitive Junior Development league. When checking opponents, young players who in Midget could rely on their “big reach,” will have to learn to move their feet and their bodies quickly. “All these guys were probably the better players on their teams coming up through minor hockey. Now, all of a sudden, they’re the little fish in the big pond, so, they’re going to have to work a little bit harder to stay in the games on a regular basis.” The bottom line will be to instill amongst the ranks an ethic of hard work. “We’re going to be like a bunch of construction workers: we’re going to be putting on our hard hats, our work boots, bringing our lunch boxes, and we’re going to work, work, work until that final buzzer blows every game – it’s ‘go hard or
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Each year the Regional Municipality of Waterloo advertises for applications from the public and appoints citizens to various Boards, Commissions, Committees and other special purpose bodies required for a particular year(s) or Council term of office. These appointments give citizens of this Region, from a variety of backgrounds, an opportunity to volunteer and participate as a member of a Board, Commission, Committee or other Special Purpose Body. a) COMMUNITY SAFETY & CRIME PREVENTION COUNCIL The Council currently has two vacancies: one for a citizen position and one for the business sector. The Community Safety & Crime Prevention Council (CS&CPC) is a partnership of multiple community organizations and Regional services that seek to prevent crime, victimization and fear of crime through social development efforts, coordination of local action and public education in the Region of Waterloo. 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The committee provides input regarding cycling facility construction, cycling policies and strategies, and increases public awareness and understanding of cycling issues. h) REGIONAL GROWTH MANAGEMENT STRATEGY / RAPID TRANSIT PUBLIC ADVISORY COMMITTEE (RGMS/RT) Five persons required for up to a four-year term ending December 31, 2012; two representatives with skills and demonstrated expertise in the area of development and the environment are required, as well as three representatives from the community-at-large. Three persons required for a oneyear term ending December 31, 2009, representing students at Conestoga College, the University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University respectively. The role of the RGMS/RT Public Advisory Committee is to advise the Region on issues related to the implementation of the Regional Growth Management Strategy, the Regional Transportation Master Plan and the Rapid Transit Initiative. With the initiation of Phase 2 of the Rapid Transit Environmental Assessment (involving the evaluation and selection of technologies, station and route locations), Committee members will provide advice on issues related to the assessment of various alternatives, public consultation and land use planning initiatives. i) SPECIALIZED TRANSIT SERVICES ADVISORY COMMITTEE Five persons required for a two-year term ending December 31, 2010. The Specialized Transit Services Advisory Committee will advise and provide assistance relating to the development of Special Transit Services policies and service that best meet the needs of the community. Persons interested in serving on the aforementioned Committees must file an application with the Regional Clerk prior to 4:30 p.m. on Friday, October 10, 2008. Application forms and Terms of Reference may be obtained from the office of the Regional Clerk or by calling 519-575-4450 or by emailing nstevie@region.waterloo.on.ca. Advertised vacancies on a particular Committee may be filled by incumbents whose terms have expired and therefore the number of actual vacancies may differ from the number of advertised vacancies. Kris Fletcher Director, Council & Administrative Services / Regional Clerk 150 Frederick Street, 2nd Floor Kitchener, Ontario N2G 4J3 Personal information is collected under the authority of the Municipal Act and will be used to determine suitability for appointment. Questions regarding the collection of personal information should be referred to Stevie Natolochny at 519575-4450, Office of the Regional Clerk.
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PAUSE TO REFLECT Sugar King captain Pat Shantz and Holly Lesperance, a friend of Randy Wilkin, led the team in holding a moment of silence in memory of the longtime volunteer at a pregame tribute at the Elmira Arena Sept. 14. Wilkin, 55, a driver with Cherrey Bus Lines, died in July after his bus collided with a truck north of Fort McMurray, Alberta.
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» PEDAL POWER OFF THE BEATEN PATH West Montrose’s Lisa Hutson earned herself a clean slate, winning all seven races in the Ontario Cup Mountain Bike Race Series this season. Her most recent triumph was at the Ontario championships in Midland Sept. 7.
Local rider claims Ontario mountain biking title West Montrose rider goes seven-for-seven in strong season on the competitive racing circuit MARC MIQUEL HELSEN Winning each of the seven mountain bike races she’s entered over the last six months, Lisa Hutson has had a stellar season. The most prestigious of those wins, however, came when she earned top honours in her division, racing against 30 other women at the provincial championships at Mountainview, in Midland Sept. 7. “It was awesome. But the most important one was winning the provincials, though it’s nice to win the others too,” said Hutson of her clean sweep. The win earlier this month came after a lot of hard work preparing both physically and mentally for the season- ending race. As she cycled around a track replete with logs, rocks and trees, Hutson had to be ever-conscious
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get going again, providing nothing’s broken,” she quipped. An amateur mountain biker for some 15 years, Hutson takes her favourite pastime very seriously. During the off-season, which lasts roughly from September until April, Hutson practices even harder to get in shape for when competition resumes; that usually means more than three hours of exercise six days a week. Though she will be training on the road at least until the snow and ice cover the streets, Hutson will be doing the bulk of her off-season training at home on a rim-drive trainer and in the gym pumping weights and running. “The bulk of your fitness base is built in the winter, and that’s what’s going to carry you through the summer,” she explained.
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Includes 100 amp service; newer central air; house is situatof only 61,387 kms. heat, hydro, satellite and ed on a large corner lot with gorgeous landscaping $19,900. Voisin Chrysler, all appliances, $650/ and large side yard. Many updates including newer 519-669-2831. per month. Call Willis windows, updated kitchen cupboards; etc. »»2001 Oldsmobile In- 519-638-2699. trigue GL. 3.5L V6 auto, »»Three Bedroom Semi Note: a ready to move in well maintained property fully loaded including sun- in Elmira. Newly renowith many quality features situated in a desirable roof, alum. road wheels, vated, finished recroom, area of Elmira. View by appointment 519-669-8024. white/gray int. 166,900 backs onto park. $1095 + kms. $3595. “You Certify utilities. Available Sept. 1. Terms: To be sold at 12:00 noon subject to a reaYou Save”. 519-664-0341. sonable reserve bid with $15,000 down payment on »»2006 Dodge Ram 1500 »»Two Bedroom Apart- day of auction and the balance in 60 days. 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No listeria issue with local Meals on Wheels dishes Agency does not use supplier cited in recall JONI MILTENBURG Clients of Meals on Wheels in Woolwich and Wellesley townships don’t have to worry about the listeria bacteria that contaminated meals recalled in Ontario, New Brunswick and B.C. Veronica MacDonald, executive director of Community Care Concepts, which runs the Meals on Wheels program, said their frozen meals are supplied by a different company than the one affected by the listeria recall. “It’s not in any of our frozen meals, people do not have to worry. If they have frozen meals from us, they can go ahead and eat them.” On Sept. 13, food sup-
plier Apetito recalled a batch of frozen meals, after the Canadian Food Inspection Agency found low levels of Listeria monocytogenes in its Private Recipes brand creamed salmon. Eating contaminated foods can lead to listeriosis, a potentially deadly illness that is most dangerous for newborns, the elderly and people with weakened immune systems. MacDonald said she received a number of emails last weekend from worried family members of Meals on Wheels clients. She informed them there is no cause for concern. Frozen meals delivered to Woolwich and Wellesley clients are supplied by Entrée Plus
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Foods. Meals on Wheels has 101 clients in Woolwich, and another 26 in Wellesley. MacDonald said the majority of meals they deliver are hot meals; frozen meals are used mainly on the weekends or when the client can’t be at home during the delivery time. In the first five months of 2008, the agency’s volunteers delivered 2,669 hot meals in Woolwich and only 300 frozen meals. In Wellesley, Meals on Wheels served 694 hot meals and no frozen meals. MacDonald said they get more orders for frozen meals in winter, when they advise their clients to stock up in case bad weather prevents deliveries.
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ENSURING A FUN DAY Woolwich Mayor Bill Strauss joined RWAM president Carole Yari, and chief operating officer Dan Galloway at the Elmira company’s 20th anniversary celebration Thursday afternoon. The festivities included music performed by Ben Kempel (guitar) and bassist Matthew Lima of the band Moebius. PHOTOS | MARC MIQUEL HELSEN
Dozens of heritage sites in Waterloo Region are throwing open their doors today (Saturday) and letting the public in to places they don’t normally see. This is the sixth year of Doors Open Waterloo Region, and 41 sites are open for public viewing, including churches, factories, hotels and historic homes. The theme of this year’s event is Old Buildings, New Ideas. Half the buildings on the tour celebrate community involvement in saving the buildings from demolition, restoring and refurbishing them, or adapting them to new purposes. Doors Open organizer Karl Kessler said adapting old buildings to new uses is necessary to save them from decay and demolition. It’s something that has improved in North America in the past few decades. “I think there’s more interest than there was 30, 40 years ago in preserving older buildings and finding new uses for them. Maybe we’re catching up with that idea that our architectural heritage is worth preserving.” There are four sites in Woolwich Township, clustered in Maryhill. The Edward Halter home, St. Boniface School and St. Boniface Roman Catholic church are open again this year. New to the tour is the Maryhill Inn, formerly known as the St. Boniface Hotel. Built in 1850, the hotel was a stagecoach stop on the road between Guelph and Waterloo for 70 years. The
building was constructed using post and beam techniques, and includes a door handcrafted in Maryhill in the 1830s. In Wellesley, St. John Evangelical Lutheran church, St. Clement Roman Catholic church and the YMCA outdoor centre will be open to the public. Kessler said the two churches are “at different ends of the spectrum.” St. Clement Roman Catholic church looks like a plain brick building from the outside, but the interior is lavishly decorated with murals, stained glass and ornate woodwork. On the other hand, St. John Evangelical Lutheran church is a tiny fieldstone building that has been designated a heritage site. Churches are always popular stops on the tour, Kessler noted. “If you’re not a churchgoer or you go somewhere else, you won’t really get a chance to get in there. So there’s a lot of curiosity about these beautiful old churches people go by.” The Doors Open event sees between 2,000 and 3,000 visitors every year, logging more than 7,000 site visits. Organizers also get hundreds of feedback forms with suggestions of places people would like to see. “I think people wonder about the buildings they go past every day.” Sites are open to the public from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and admission is free. Maps are available at local libraries, museums and tourism offices and at www.region.waterloo.on.ca/ doorsopen.
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ALLI NORRIS Sales Rep. Cell: 519-577-6248
BILL NORRIS Sales Rep. Cell: 519-588-1348
TRACEY WILLIAMS Sales Rep. Cell: 519-505-0627
OPEN HOUSES
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206 First Street W., Elmira Sun. Sept 21 2-4 pm
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BACKS TO GREEN SPACE. Spacious 3 bdrm home (could add 2) with tranquil backyard (fenced). Remodelled kitchen open to DA and LR w/laminate floors. 2 updated bathrooms. Rec rm w/ gas stove. c/a & furnace (2005). MLS Reduced $264,900
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NEW HOME (to be built) by quality builder. 1521 sq.ft. Open concept main flr., including kitchen, dinette and great rm. w/cathedral ceiling 2-pce powder rm. 3 spacious bedrooms, incl. huge master with double closets. MLS $269, 900.
OPEN HOUSE - ELMIRA
Sunday, September 21, 2:00-4:00PM
$239,900 | 20 First St. E., Elmira
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Come one come all to view this well maintained bungalow on quiet crescent near schools. Many updates: new carpet in rec. room (07) furnace, central air, gas fireplace, roof all in (05), patio & water softener (06), dishwasher (07).Main floor is carpet free with hardwood and laminate, side entrance from driveway, detached 14' x 22' garage w/opener, large private yard, plenty of parking in driveway. MLS.
$269,000 | 26 Tanager St., Elmira
ONE SEAT AT A TIME.
BETTER THAN NEW!! Only 3 years old, Master ensuite and walkin closet. Ceramic and hardwood on the main floor. Eat-in kitchen w/ walkout to a huge deck and fenced yard. Combination L.R/D.R. with gas F.P. Finished rec room and play room. C/Air. New MLS $294,900.
A portion of my commision from the sale of every home is donated to the new Dan Snyder Arena.
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INDUSTRIAL LOT - .49 Acre Lot - Dimension: 107' x 196'. Zoned M1-Dry Industrial. Located on Floradale Road (west end of Elmira). MLS $87,900
SALES REP*
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bdrm home w/eat-in kit, and sep. dining room, laminate flrs on main level. Huge 18’x27’ tiered deck at rear w/walkout from TV room. Fully furnished basement. House has good street appeal. This is not a drive by. MLS CALL MILDRED FREY** TO VIEW. 24 CENTRE STREET, ELMIRA - $374,900 Beautiful remodelled century home. Fireplaces, c/ air, kitchen updated, french & pocket doors. Gorgeous private lot. Studio in garage. 2 gas fireplaces, 1 wood heat stove. New fm/rm add. w/ patio doors. Lots of wood and wide baseboards. Liv/rm has pine. Porcelin tile w/mosaic border in dinrm. Cedar deck at rear. Air tight cook stove in diningroom heats home as back up. MLS CALL MILDRED FREY** TO VIEW.
Paul Samis & David Samis Sales Representatives
Brokerage
Helping to support the Community,
GREAT LOCATION! Affordable starter home offers hardwood flrs. on the main level. Gas fireplace. Main flr. laundry. W/O from L.R. to deck Newer windows, shingles and shed. NEW MLS $179,900.
OPEN HOUSE - ELMIRA
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NEW HOME. 2164 sq.ft. Ready to move into! Upper family room AND living room. Open concept main floor. 3 baths (ensuite) Walkin closet. Walkout from large kitchen. Main flr. laundry. Dble. garage. Wow! - a walkout basement. Quality constructed. MLS $355,000.
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CHARACTER GALORE - 4 bdrm, 2 bath home. Gorgeous kitchen renovation w/ granite countertops & skylight. Main flr laundry. Updated bathrm. W/u attic, Newer windows. Updated wiring. Hardwood on main flr. Gas fireplace Renovated garage. MLS $274, 900.
Lisa D. Edwards
13 ASPEN CRESCENT , ELMIRA $239,900 - 3+1
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519-745-7000 | Direct: 519-502-0547 Lovely 50 Acre Building or Farm Site - $425,000
50 acre building site, 38 acres workable, high fertility,easy to rent, main tile drain, 12 acres bush/reforestation.
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4.77 acre lot in estate residential area. Driveway in. Recently trees are planted. 30 minute drive to K-W and Guelph. This property allows you to have some horses and chickens.
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OPEN HOUSE | SUN SEPT. 21 2-4PM
11 DUKE STREET, ELMIRA
FAMIlY AlBUM AnnIVERsARY
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HAPPY 40TH ANNIVERSARY
HAPPY 60TH ANNIVERSARY
GRACE & HARRY SCHNEIDER $209,000
VISIT VIRTUAL TOUR AT WWW.PEGGYMCINTOSH.CA
STOP RENTING! STOP LIVING WITH MOM! Detached in Elmira for under 210! Century home with finished attic loft, plus 3 beds, 2 baths. Great hardwoods, wood trim, mostly newer windows up. Sep din rm, famrm & livrm! Newer deck over looks quiet yard. A great opportunity! SEE FOR YOURSELF, CALL FOR AN APPOINTMENT TO VIEW NOW OR COME BY THE OPEN HOUSE!
Peggy McIntosh Sales Representative OFFICE & PAGER:
519-578-7300
WOLLE REALTY,
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Claude & Lynne Martin
2008
“Once in a while in what seems like an ordinary life, two people fall in love. Sometimes life grants them a fairytale to live happily everafter in good times and sad times, in sickness and in health”. God bless you both as you enter the diamond years. Your commitment to each other shows us the way. Congratulations Mom & Dad from your children, John and Judy Schneider, Don & Jayne Brubacher, Tim & Jan Schneider, Kathy & Leu Bauman, and all your grandchildren. We love you! Diamonds are forever!
EngAgEMEnT
Love Your Kids, Jerry, Lori, Hayden, Nicolas and Ella Jason, Jenn and Samantha
BIRTHDAY
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Sales Representative
519-846-0660
RCR Realty, Brokerage
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OPEN HOUSE
Saturday, Sept. 20th, 1-2:30 7384 Wellington Rd. 11, just outside of Drayton. 3 bedroom log home, traditionally designed featuring dormers and a large welcoming front porch, large rear deck, partially fenced back yard. 1 1/2 acres of manicured yard with ornamental ponds, horseshoe pits, mature trees and a creek meadering through property. Hardwood floors, oak cupboards, oversized new sliders off kitchen to deck. Beautifully decorated, sauna, fieldstone fireplace. Newer windows and 35 yr shingle roof, storage shed, and security system. MLS
$3
Happy 45th Birthday
Your local Mapleton Country Realtor
LEON MARTIN
Rick and Joy Frey are happy to announce the marriage of their daughter
for as little as
Monica Beth to Tim Jay son of Chris and Margaret Jay of Peterborough on Saturday, October 18th 2008. The wedding will take place at Wallenstein Bible Chapel @ 1:00PM
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Solid Gold Realty (II) Ltd., Brokerage | Independently Owned and Operated
MILVERTON BIG TWO STORY HOUSE on a double corner lot. 4 bedroom, dining room, kitchen, 2 baths, mostly repainted. .39 acre $154,900 MLS
LOTS FOR SALE Country Lots with high speed internet access, 40 to 45 minutes from K/W or Guelph. They are located in the small hamlet of Carthage. Individual well and septic. Great opportunity to build your own house or get us to customize a home for you. For more information please call Leon Excl. HERE IS YOUR CHANCE to build your own estate on 36 acres of land, will make a great horse or hobby farm, only 35 min to Waterloo. Creek runs through property, surrounded by trees. Building permits available. MLS
200 ACRE FARM With municipal drain running through property. There are barns for sheep, and hay storage. 150 acres cleared. ADDRESS: 4-B
Arthur St. S., ELMIRA UÊEMAIL: leonmartin@remax.net DIRECT: 519-503-2753 UÊOFFICE: 519-669-5426
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Âť First Drayton Singspiration and Fellowship. Guest singers, musicians at Centennial Park, north of the main intersection, 2-4:30 p.m. Bring a lawnchair. For more information, call Ruth 519-669-3699. Âť Woolwich Trails Group Hike at 2 p.m. Grand Valley Trail from Third Line, Pilkington Township to Middlebrook Road. Trail rating: natural path on varying topography, suitable for intermediate hikers. Call Paul Miller at 519-664-3643 to confirm meeting times and locations. Âť In Concert “Simplesongâ€? – Waterloo North Presbyterian Church. A concert for all ages, especially families. Features the writing, singing and playing of Deanna Chapman and the singing of her six children. Starts at 7 p.m.; 685 Highpoint Ave., Waterloo. Free-will offering, wheelchair accessible. 519-888-7870. sEPTEMBER 22
 Breathe Well, Be well Clinic – Woolwich Community Health Centre; 1-5 p.m. Call to book your appointment, 519-664-3794; 10 Parkside Dr., St. Jacobs. sEPTEMBER 24
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Âť Foundation Christian School’s “Pastor Dayâ€? – Foundation welcomes all pastors to tour the school, meet the students and staff and generally “get acquaintedâ€? with the area’s newest Christian school. Please call for more information, 519-664-0110 or check out our website www.onarock.ca; 28 Katherine St. S., Winterbourne. sEPTEMBER 26
 Tom Howell’s Fish Fry – St. Teresa of Avila Church. Two sittings, 5 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Adults $14, children (aged five to 12) $6 and children under 5 years are free. Advance tickets available until Sept. 24. Tickets can be purchased at the church office 519-669-3387; 19 Flamingo Dr., Elmira.  H.U.G.S. Program – Woolwich Community Health Centre. Topic: Separation anxiety: how can we help our children cope?; 9:15-11:45 a.m. For parents and their children (zero to five years); 10 Parkside Dr., St. Jacobs, 519-664-3794. sEPTEMBER 28
 Hungryman’s breakfast with Kids Help Phone Line $5. All you can eat, 8:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. The Royal Canadian Legion, 11 First St. E., Elmira. sEPTEMBER 30
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 St. Mary’s, Linwood and St. Joseph’s, Macton annual family BBQ. Dinner starts at 6 p.m. at the Linwood Recreation Centre. For tickets, call 519-6982712.
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Business
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25 Industrial Drive, Elmira, ON N3B 3K3
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 Fundraising Dinner – Floradale Mennonite Church. Eduard Klassen with the Paraguayan folk harp, in concert at the FIDA fundraising dinner for Haiti. Tickets are $20. Please call 519-886-9520 to reserve.
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 Buying Your First Computer – Region of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier Student Connections; 6:30-8:30 p.m. No experience required. Includes demonstration and workbook; $4 and pre-registration is required. Linwood Branch Library, 5279 Ament Line, Linwood, 519-698-2700. OCTOBER 3
 Fish Fry Dinner – Floradale Mennonite Church; 4:30-7:30 p.m. Tickets $14/ adults, $7/children ten and under. Alternate chicken dinner available. Call the church office at 519-669-2861 to purchase your tickets. Takeouts available; 22 Florapine Rd., Floradale. Proceeds to the Canadian Food Grains Bank and the church building fund. Submit calendar listings to info@observerxtra.com
– Peacefully, at Groves Memorial Hospital, Fergus, surrounded by the love of her family, on Saturday, September 13, 2008, in her 70th year. Local relatives are his brothers Allan (Helena) Hoffman of Elmira and Paul (Evelyn) Hoffman of Heidelberg and sister Reta (Stewart) Malloy of Elmira.
HUEHN, Addison
Raymond
– Peacefully, with his family by his side, at St. Mary’s Hospital, Kitchener, on Friday, September 12, 2008. Ray of Heidelberg in his 73rd year.
PFEIFFER, Evaline
– With saddened hearts, we announce the passing of our wife, mother and Oma on Tuesday, September 9, 2008, at her home, at the age of 74. Local relatives are daughter Peggy Egilo and her husband David of Heidelberg.
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New to the Community? Do you have a new Baby? It’s time to call your Welcome Wagon Hostess. Elmira & Surrounding Area If you’re not long distance to Elmira, you are welcome to a visit.
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OCTOBER 2
 Health Education Session – Woolwich Community Health Centre. Harmful and helpful foods (Raza Shah, naturopath), 10:15-11:15 a.m.; 10 Parkside Dr., St. Jacobs, 519-664-3794.
MARTIN, Erma
– Passed away peacefully, on Monday, September 15, 2008, at Heritage House in St. Jacobs, at the age of 82.
• Same Day Service Disability
OCTOBER 1
SANYO CANADIAN
BROWN, Donald Gibson
Email: allen_morrison@cooperators.ca www.cooperators.ca
 Healthy Living with Diabetes – Community Health Centre. A discussionoriented program for diabetics, friends and family to increase their knowledge of diabetes and become more involved in their health care; 10 Parkside Dr., St. Jacobs, 519-664-3794.  Wellesley Township Caregiver Group – Wellesley Township Community Health Centre.Topic : activities of daily living (transfers, bedmaking, bathing, etc.). If you are caring for someone in your home, this interactive education and support group may be of value to you. From 2-3:30 p.m. at the health centre in Wellesley. Call Lorraine, 519-664-3794, ext. 229 or WTCHC 519-656-9025 for more information.
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Wise customers read the fine print: *, ◊, ◊◊, † These limited time offers apply to retail deliveries for personal use only on selected new 2008/2009 models from participating retailers. All offers exclude freight ($1350 for Grand Caravan and Ram 1500), licence, insurance, registration, any retailer administration fees, other applicable fees, up to $75 PPSA and applicable taxes. Retailer order/ trade may be necessary. Retailers may sell for less. Offer subject to change without notice. See participating retailer for specific details and conditions. * We’ll Pay Your Way is a limited time offer and applies to retail purchases/leases on approved credit of new 2008 Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge models (excluding Sprinter and Challenger) and new 2009 Dodge Caliber, Jeep Compass and Jeep Patriot models. Eligible finance customers will receive a cheque for up to 3 months payments at a maximum of $500/month. Eligible lease customers will have their first lease payment paid (to a maximum of $375) and will receive a cheque for up to 3 remaining payments up to a maximum of $375/month. The maximum reimbursement for lease/finance payments (including bi-weekly payments) is $1,500.00. Alternatively, customers can elect to receive a bonus cash rebate in the amount of $1,250.00. All amounts include taxes. Effective September 3rd to September 30th, 2008. Offer is subject to change without notice. See participating retailers for complete details. ◊ Purchase prices include alternative We’ll Pay Your Way rebate, may not be combined with subvented lease or purchase financing rates and apply only to 2008 Dodge Grand Caravan SE – Stow ‘n Go (24G+GTS) and Ram 1500 Quad Cab SXT (26B+AHC+DSA) models. ◊◊ 6.25% purchase financing for 84 months available through Royal Bank of Canada to qualified customers on approved credit. Four vehicles qualify for 6.25% purchase APR: 2008 Dodge Ram, Ram Heavy Duty, Grand Caravan and Chrysler Town & Country. 2008 Dodge Grand Caravan SE – Stow ‘n Go (24G+GTS) and Ram 1500 Quad Cab SXT (26B+AHC+DSA) models equals 182 bi-weekly payments at $135/$166 based on cash purchase price of $19,988/$24,588 after application of maximum Consumer Cash Discount including alternative We’ll Pay Your Way Rebate. Total obligations: $24,570/$30,212. Excludes freight ($1350), licence, insurance, registration, any retailer administration fees, other applicable fees, up to $75 PPSA and applicable taxes. Cost of borrowing: $4,582/$5,624. 6.99% Scotia Bank purchase financing for up to 60 months also available. Plus, ask about our rate subvention allowance program. † Consumer Cash includes alternative We’ll Pay Your Way rebate. See participating retailers for complete details. ‡ Based on U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) scoring system for 2008 model year Dodge Grand Caravan and Ram 1500 Quad Cab. ∆ 43 mpg (Highway)/ 29 mpg (City) applies to 2008 Dodge Avenger and Chrysler Sebring sedans equipped with 2.4L DOHC Dual VVT 4-cylinder engine with 4-speed automatic transmission. Based on 2008 Fuel Consumption Guide ratings published by Natural Resources Canada. Transport Canada test methods used. Your actual fuel consumption may vary. ™ SIRIUS and the dog logo are trademarks of SIRIUS Satellite Radio Inc. ® Jeep is a registered trademark of Chrysler LLC.
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• 3.3L Flex Fuel V6 engine • Automatic transmission • Air conditioning • Electronic Stability Program (ESP™) with all-speed traction control • AM/FM/CD/MP3 stereo with 4 speakers • Front and side-curtain air bags • Remote keyless entry • Power heated mirrors • Full Stow ‘n Go Seating and Storage • Removable centre floor console • YES Essentials™ seat fabric • 4-wheel disc brakes with ABS • Bucket seats • Tire pressure warning lamp • Roof rack