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Wellesley residents pan proposed condo project

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Work underway on Dollarama, new restaurants in Elmira Development at Foodland site will include a new building to house Harvey's/Swiss Chalet operation

ELENA MAYSTRUK The prospect of a small condominium development in their backyards had several Wellesley residents out to council chambers for a public meeting Tuesday night. They’re unhappy about plans floated for 2245 Gerber Rd. The two-storey, 16 unit development is proposed for a two-acre piece of land fronting Gerber Road, branching off to a private road ending in a cul-de-sac. The development area flanks the backyards of single-family homes to the west and north on Lawrence Street and Reiner Crescent.

Homeowners expressed concerns about the project’s proximity to their yards, and the possible effect on the value of their properties.

“I’m afraid we’re going to get even closer to our neighbours. I love my neighbours but I don’t need them that close,” said resident Jane Harten.

Coun. Herb Neher agreed with that assessment, commenting, “You could shake hands with your neighbour.”

He suggested larger setbacks.

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The "U" in front of EDSS is soon to become a lunchtime hotspot as finishing touches are put on its greening project. Students Joey Deitrich, Megan Kurtz, Alison McInte, Kayla Frey, Courney Gidge and Janelle MacLeod check out the progress. The site officially opens September 25.

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Servicing work underway this week at the Foodland site in Elmira is setting the stage for a new building to house at least two restaurants. In the existing building, the grocery store and new arrival Pet Valu will be joined by a Dollarama outlet.

On the part of the property closest to Arthur Street, underground services are now being installed to serve a new 6,900-square-foot building that’s expected to include a combination Harvey’s/ Swiss Chalet restaurant (3,000 sq. ft.) and a Pita Pit operation (1,200 sq. ft.).

The use of a third unit of about 2,500 sq. ft. has yet to be determined.

John Scarfone, Woolwich’s manager of planning, said this week the owner of the site, Sobeys Capital Inc., has all the

Work on the underground services is the first step in the construction project. necessary approvals to go ahead with the expansion.

“We’ve given them siteplan approval,” he said, noting the developer just needs to pick up a building permit to get started. “I’ve signed off on that.”

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DEVELOPMENT: Expansion now underway ment just prior to a scheduled Ontario Municipal Board hearing. Woolwich had turned down the company’s larger original plan and a later bid simply to install a Dollarama store in the long-vacant space beside the Foodland store.

That refusal provoked Sobeys’ appeal to the provincial tribunal.

Under the deal, in exchange for the dollar store, Sobeys will pay the township $40,000 towards a future commercial policy review, contribute $10,000 over two years to the Elmira BIA and not request any additional expansion at the site for three years.

The original proposal put forward by Sobeys called for the Foodland store to expand into the vacant portion of the existing building, increasing in size to 47,000 sq. ft. from the current 34,000. A 22,000-sq.-ft. addition was to be built on to the cur-

Underground services will connect a new 6,900-square-foot building. rent structure, some 9,000 sq. ft. for a retail outlet such as a dollar store and 13,000 sq. ft. for a mix of retail, services and offices, perhaps including a wine store. Two separate freestanding buildings were to be constructed on the west side of the current parking lot, closer to Arthur Street: a 6,900-sq.-ft. unit to house a restaurant with a drive-thru and one of

8,000 sq. ft.

Scarfone said the food store expansion is off the table, as the township sees no need for more grocery space at this point, unconvinced by the latest retail study presented by the developer.

While the agreement would allow for an addition to the existing building, that’s not part of the current plan, he added.

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THE OBSERVER | SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2013

This weekend finds Doors Open around the region ELENA MAYSTRUK The Eiffel Tower was considered an eyesore when it was built, now it’s an iconic landmark. Who’s to say the same thing won’t happen to the Centre in the Square or University of Waterloo Student Design Centre?

Today (Saturday), the public can take the trip around the Waterloo Region to check out some modern architecture as Doors Open Waterloo kicks off its 11th year.

The contemporary theme means to ignite an appreciation for the new and innovative. After all, says co-coordinator of the event Karl Kessler, these buildings will someday become heritage sites in their own right.

“We often don’t think of them as being part of our built heritage but these are our future heritage buildings. These are buildings that are, if they are built well, and if they are taken care of, going to be our landmarks. I’m hoping that people will find a new appreciation for these new buildings in a way that we have grown to appreciate heritage buildings.”

The fast-growing building initiatives in the region spurred this year’s idea to showcase the creative side of local, modern architecture that has sprung up over about a decade as well as early modern architecture from the 1950s and ’60s.

“If you’ve left the region 10 years ago and came back, there are so many new buildings that have cropped up, and we’ve never done a modern architecture theme [before].

We thought there were so many new, noteworthy

buildings we could highlight that we decided to make a theme out of it.”

There can be disillusionment with modern architecture, often receiving a bad rap for being boxy or conventional, Kessler agrees, but there’s nothing of that ilk in the sites featured at this year’s event.

“You’d be hard-pressed to call the ones that we have featured as boxy or uninteresting. You hear that hurled a lot at the condo developments in Toronto, for instance. We didn’t really feature any of those things. Most of the buildings have something interesting about their design and something interesting going on inside.

They have something remarkable about their design, they are interesting, and they are well thought out.”

The 42 sites featuring architecture built in the past 55 years will include the Mike & Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre, Waterloo Region Courthouse, Waterloo Regional Police Service North Division, the Clay and Glass Gallery and the Centre In The Square.

Many of the locations will feature extra events, lectures and concerts onsite.

Next year’s event and theme, Kessler added, will feature locations in Woolwich and Wellesley townships.

Doors Open Waterloo Region kicks off today, rain or shine. Most locations are open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., though several have shortened hours.

Further information, maps and guides can be found at www.regionofwaterloo.ca/doorsopen or by calling (519)747-5139.

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Evangelical Missionary Church of Canada project manager Marilyn McIlroy is in Haiti today (Saturday) delivering medical supplies and paying tribute to an Elmira colleague lost in the 2010 earthquake. [ELENA MAYSTRUK / THE OBSERVER]

EMCC trip to Haiti to include homage to Yvonne Martin hospitals have been built.”

Part of her trip will involve a memorial for her nursing colleague Yvonne Martin, who died in a Portau-Prince guesthouse during the earthquake, less than two hours after the EMCC group that included McIlroy arrived in the country.

Arriving in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic Saturday, McIlroy will be travelling to the Haitian community of Gens de Nantes where the EMCC group will deliver 24 health kits to mothers and babies during a graduation ceremony for the community’s newly trained birthing attendants. They are traditionally the first line of aid for a pregnant woman in Haiti.

“We partnered with Health Partners International, which is a group out of Quebec. They are involved with putting together health packs and reaching out doing other medical projects,” said EMCC director of global initiatives Lou Geense.

ELENA MAYSTRUK Bringing new supplies and preserving the memory of an Elmira resident and colleague, representatives of the Evangelical Missionary Church of Canada are back in Haiti this week, where the people are still trying to recover from a devastating 2010 earthquake.

Despite the disaster that worsened the systemic poverty in the country, Haiti is getting back on its feet, says EMCC project manager Marilyn McIlroy. The Elmira nurse is helping to deliver medical packages to expectant mothers and will congratulate recently graduated birthing attendants as part of the latest trip down south.

“It’s always a moving experience going back to that place, but it’s awesome to know that the country of Haiti is moving forward and moving past that difficult situation. Lots of new projects have been happening: new universities, new

These men and women have been attending to the region’s population of about 8,000 people for many years and have earned much respect and admiration in the community. Now they’ve had a chance to receive certification and formal training from a government-registered nurse in an effort to decrease infant mortality rates.

“It’s a country that has an oral tradition; it’s a country that passes information through stories. Even part of the learning is to sing songs to help the birthing assistants to remember good hygiene, the importance of nutrition, they learn by songs and rhythm rather than an overhead projector. It is part of the millennium goals that we are developing through the World Health Organization: looking at decreasing infant mortality around the globe by 2015,” McIlroy said.

The maternal health kits delivered at the ceremony by the EMCC visitors con-

tain enough vitamins, gloves and other medical supplies to accommodate 15 mothers and their babies. From there such supplies will continue to be delivered by Health Partners International with the hope that eventually the Haitian government will take over the program.

Next, the EMCC group pays special homage at Wall’s International Guest House in Port au Prince, where Martin was killed.

The owners will be receiving a plaque-mounted copy of a feature story about Martin written by the Observer in 2012 that will hang in the building. They are naming five rooms after the guests who died in the quake. The EMCC is also considering making a donation towards re-building the structure.

Geense added, “People like Yvonne continue to come forward to volunteer and to bring their expertise.”

“Yvonne’s memory lives on,” McIlroy said.

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Breslau Lions raising funds for community splash pad Upcoming fish fry the latest event taken on by the steadily growing club, which had come a long way in its first year WILL SLOAN An ambitious fundraising effort, which will get a boost at an upcoming fish fry even October 5, shows just how far the Breslau Lions Club has come in just over a year.

Now 25 members strong, the Lions Club offers many reasons to join, says Dennis Lougheed, membership chair for the group.

“We’re the largest service organization in the world.

We’re the youngest service organization in the world.

We’re the first service club in the world to go co-ed.

We’re the only service club in the world that has an advisory role in the United Nations. We’re the only service club allowed to operate in Mainland China…”

Since its founding in 1917, Lions Clubs International has indeed amassed more than 45,000 clubs in some 205 countries (even more, noted Lougheed, than participate in the UN). But for club member Erin Smith, the new Breslau branch offers some more practical rewards.

“If you want to volunteer,

you do what you can, when you can,” said Smith. “Nobody’s judging you for the amount of volunteering you do or how involved you get – it’s all what you want to do. As the mom of two small kids, that was appealing.”

The Breslau Lions have expanded greatly since its first embryonic meeting in March 2012, when five people convened at the Breslau Community Centre as a subcommittee of the St. Jacobs Lions branch. When the group hit 20 members on June 21, 2013, it qualified to become an official standalone branch. The October 5 fundraiser will give the group a chance to highlight one of their pet causes for the community.

The Lions are currently looking to raise $300,000 for a Breslau splash pad, partly funded by the community with an eye towards supplementing fundraising with grants.

“The idea basically came from hearing different people in the community talking about wanting something else,” said club president Craig Mason.

“People were mentioning a

Breslau Lions Erin Smith, Dennis Lougheed, Cheryl Sage and Craig Mason are among the 25 members that the new club has welcomed in its first year. splash pad, and I proposed it for the club, and everyone was unanimous and excited about it.”

The splash pad idea was key to rallying enthusiasm for the club itself, added Lougheed. “The moment that we announced that, suddenly there was this smattering of interest. ‘Oh, okay, splash pad, great idea. Lions are doing it?

Okay, I can help there.’”

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Indeed, the club’s other signature program, its dance for kids in Grades 5-8 (scheduled to return on December 20), is also a fundraising opportunity.

“When we start to make it to the point where we made a little money off the program, and the money grows, that money comes from kids. So let’s take that money and put it back into something for kids,” said

the Lions. As the numbers have grown, we’ll be at the point where these kids who are 9 or 10 or 12 start to find things that they would like to organize.”

The Breslau Lions’ fish fry will take place on October 5 at 5 p.m. at the Breslau Community Centre, 100 Andover Dr. More information on the Lions can be found at www.breslaulions.org.

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The splash pad, the fish fry, and the dances are part of the club’s family-oriented mandate, Lougheed added. Families are welcomed to get involved with the club.

“We’d like to see mom and dad out. If you’ve got kids, bring them to the meeting – you don’t have to hire a babysitter. You’ve got pre-teens? Bring them to

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THE OBSERVER | SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2013

Region approves logo for LRT In keeping with its decision to approve a controversial and unpopular transit plan, then an unpopular name, regional council this week chose an unpopular logo for the LRT scheme dubbed ION, dropping $75,000 in the process.

Hours cut at St. Clements Post Office

Tuesday and Thursday-Friday and 8:30 a.m.-6:15 p.m. on Wednesdays.

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The St. Clements Post Office, located at 3539 Lobsinger Line, will no longer operate on Saturdays. A review of customer traffic patterns showed a low number of Saturday patrons and the site will stop Saturday retail operations as of October 14.

The post office will continue to offer full services on weekdays. Hours will be 8:30 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. on Monday-

Wellesley ponders sale of small piece of surplus land Wellesley Township is considering selling a surplus piece of land to a Wellesley resident whose property abuts the plot. Dave Schwartzentruber hopes to acquire the 795-square-metre strip to aid

with the build of a permanent shop or shed on his land on William Hastings Line.

The land purchase would help Schwartzentruber to gain access to the back of his property and create a lane beside the house without cutting down three trees.

Schwartzentruber was the only interested buyer to come forward during Tuesday’s council meeting, which also served as a deadline for expressions of interest.

Wellesley council is considering the request, with a purchase price to be determined by a professional appraiser prior to sale.

Commercial development freed up Changes to a cross-border agreement that sees Kitchener provide water and wastewater services to Breslau cleared the way for this week’s removal of holding provisions on some commercial properties in the village.

Most of the land involved is held by Thomasfield Homes, commercial parcels adjacent to the Hopewell Heights subdivision.

Meeting Tuesday night, Woolwich

council agreed to lift the holding provisions on the properties.

The servicing agreement reached last spring lifts restrictions on allocating commercial, industrial and institutional hookups that were contained in the original deal a decade ago, director of engineering and planning Dan Kennaley told councillors.

The servicing deal also added another 240 units to stock of available wastewater hookups in the village, expanding on a 2003 agreement in which Woolwich gets 25 per cent of the wastewater capacity of the Victoria Street North pumping station in Kitchener.

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Regional police team set off on fundraising bike trek to Ottawa A team of 12 Waterloo Regional Police Service members are in the final stages of preparing for an endurance-testing bicycle tour that starts in Waterloo Region and finishes four days later in the nation’s capital. The Ride of Your Life Tour is a 680-kilometre journey with the shared goals of raising funds for the Grand River Regional Cancer Centre, while drawing attention and building community awareness for the Canadian Police and Peace Officers Memorial.

The cyclists begin their

trek on September 25 at 8:15 a.m. in front of Grand River Hospital’s Regional Cancer Centre, arriving in Ottawa on September 28.

The team will then make its way onto Parliament Hill by 2 p.m., where riders will be greeted by family and friends who have made the trip to support the Tour and the Memorial Service on Parliament Hill Sunday.

For more information, make an online pledge or to support a specific rider, visit www.rideofyourlifetour.ca

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driven by a 23-year-old Linwood man. There was minimal damage to the vehicle and no injuries. No charges were laid.

8:19 AM | A collision occurred at the intersection of Arthur Street and Sawmill Road in Woolwich Township, where a 39-year-old Kitchener man, driving a black Dodge RAM, slowed for traffic on Sawmill Road and was struck from behind by a 2003 freight truck

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A two-vehicle collision at the roundabout in St. Jacobs September 16 resulted in minor injuries, and charges for one. Two pickup trucks were southbound on Arthur Street near Sawmill Road at about 8:30 a.m. when the lead vehicle slowed for traffic and was struck from behind. The driver of the second pickup was charged with ‘following too closely.’ The driver of the lead vehicle received minor injuries and took himself to hospital as a precaution.

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his vehicle and rolled into a ditch.

There were minor injuries to a passenger in the vehicle.

SEPTEMBER 10

9:33 PM | A man swerved for an animal while driving in the 2200 block of Three Bridges Road in Woolwich Township, lost control of

injuries and minor damage to the car. No charges were pressed.

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1:32 PM | A truck backed into a vehicle parked on private property on Riverside Drive West in Elmira. The vehicles sustained

minor damage, but no charges were laid.

10:23 PM | ‘Careless driving’ charges were laid after a car struck a hydro pole and telephone utility box while northbound on Middlebrook Road in Woolwich Township.

The driver overcorrected on a turn

and lost control of the vehicle, causing it to leave the roadway.

There were no injuries.

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11:21 AM | A female driver struck a fence in a private lot on Memorial Avenue in Elmira while attempting to park. There were no

4:26 PM | A cyclist was transported to hospital with minor injuries after colliding with a car at the intersection of Herrgott Road and Ament Line in Wellesley Township. The 15-year-old Wellesley Township boy was northbound on Herrgott Road, riding along the right shoulder’s edge, when he made an abrupt left turn into the path of a passing 2005 Pontiac Sunfire and was thrown up onto the windshield. The driver was not injured. The intersection was closed for the police investigation for four hours. Both the bicycle and the car were damaged beyond repair but no charges will be laid. Two eyewitnesses remained at the scene to assist police with their investigation.

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10:09 AM | Police are looking for two unknown suspects who may have a connection to a breakin at a shed at the Bloomingdale Community Centre where a number of tools were stolen.

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“Is there any thought given to putting smaller homes in these lots so that you have a little more distance?” he asked.

At this point, the applicant, Blaze Properties, is seeking designation for the land and the proposed roadway, not the units that would be built, project planner Caroline Baker of

GSP Group told councillors.

“We are not seeking approval for the actual homes,” she said in her delegation.

The rear yards would range from 13.7 to 8.4 metres, she added, noting the public’s concerns about deck construction would be taken into account.

Residents are also concerned condo-dwellers will not take care of their properties, creating an eyesore,

especially if condo fees do not cover the necessary maintenance.

“There was a change approximately five years ago in the province where you can now do something called the vacant land condominium, which is different than a traditional condominium – the individual owners not only own their house, but they own the dirt on their front, side and

rear yard and are responsible for their maintenance.

It will perform as a freehold house like the rest of the neighbourhood,” Baker explained in response.

Still, many residents maintained a concern for the value of their homes.

“I’m just wondering if you studied the impact of the value of the existing singlefamily homes that are there.

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behind them it will, in my opinion, reduce the value of the existing homes,” said resident John Merant.

The other issue presented by township planner Sarah Peck was the area’s proximity to Galick Packaging Equipment Ltd., located just east of the property. The township would require the applicant to submit a buffer plan and will want a visual

and noise barrier built to separate the residential and industrial properties.

A drainage easement also located on the east edge of the property would be donated to the township upon approval and would be fenced off from residents.

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THE OBSERVER | SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2013

Fall may see weather back on even keel After the mixed-bag that was summer, and the large swings of September, climatologist predicts a nice autumn WILL SLOAN “I often think my job is almost like the psychiatrist for Canadians,” said David Phillips, senior climatologist at Environment Canada. “I hold their hand and encourage them and say, ‘It could be worse!’”

In a country where the national pastime is complaining about the weather, a climatologist was bound to hear plenty of moaning about the conditions this summer. But as this month has seen temperatures rise to as high as 35 degrees on September 10, and plummet close to the freezing point on many nights, Canadians may justly wonder heading into fall: what is going on?

“In September, the

weather is very fickle, very fitful – it seems to be all over the place,” Phillips noted. “We get heated up to above 30, and then we get down to frost in some places of Ontario. … Typically around this time of the year, the highs should be around 21, and the lows should be around 10.”

The shift from tank-tops to down jackets has certainly been abrupt, but Phillips says that we should be celebrating, not complaining.

For September and October, Environment Canada is anticipating normal or slightly warmer-thannormal temperatures, with possibly less-than-normal levels of precipitation. Fall officially begins tomorrow (September 22) at 2:45 p.m.,

and Phillips is anticipating a comfortable season.

“For a lot of people, it’s the best season of all – it’s comfortable, the landscape never looks so beautiful, there’s the harvest, and just a lot of good things going for it,” he said.

“The potential is there for a great fall season. The trees aren’t stressed out at all – they loved this summer.

There’s a lot of greenery out there, good foliage, no leaves have fallen off yet … and if you get warmer and drier-than-normal [conditions], then we’ll all be in awe of nature’s Technicolor splendor.”

This optimistic forecast comes after a summer that officially brought warmerthen-normal conditions

– although brisk daytime temperatures cut short many beach vacations. Sun worshippers may complain, but Phillips believes summer conditions were close to ideal.

“I sometimes think summer got a bum rap,” he said.

“We got the memorable rainfall in Toronto, but not elsewhere. Precipitation was plentiful, but we had problems last year when we didn’t have enough, and the landscape in Ontario has never looked more beautiful.”

Summer was also easy on Mother Nature – there were few smog days, tornadoes were relatively small, and compared to 2012’s drought, the steady precipitation made for a good agricul-

tural season. “People are wrong when they think that crops like it when it’s really hot,” Phillips noted. “They don’t. They begin to shut down.”

He continued, “Agriculture, I think, has done well this year. Farmers never boast about it – they’re never sure until they get to the silos – but my sense is that it’s better than last year when there were moisture issues.”

The summer weather has also set the stage for a good harvest season. “The crop is already matured, and for people who suffer allergies, maybe that touch of frost could kill some of the hay-fever-type plants,” said Phillips. “There may be a touch of frost to worry

people, but that won’t affect the quality.”

Ontarians may be upset they weren’t able to bust out the beachwear as often as 2012, but as the season changes, the unofficial psychiatrist of Canada says we have plenty to be grateful for.

“One of the treasures and resources we have in Ontario is our weather,” said Phillips. “People wouldn’t think that, but I really think the weather is something that we talk about for good reason, but it’s also something that gives us a lot of prosperity.

“We just seem to have a balance of weather – not too much, not too little. It’s almost right in the middle, and that’s good.”

Local schools show mixed results in provincial testing The province’s Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO) EQAO assessments of reading, writing and mathematics, for primary and junior divisions showed a provincial trend of increasing literacy while math marks decreased. Results from 2012-2013 were released this week for individual elementary schools, with mixed results.

Grade 3 2012-2013 results:

Grade 6 2012-2013 results:

Reading

Writing

Mathematics

Breslau P.S.

48 % (down 6 %)

62 % (up 3 %)

53 % (down 13 %)

Conestogo P.S.

76% (up 4%)

68% (down 20%)

Floradale P.S.

44% (down 11%)

61% (down 10%)

Riverside P.S.

56% (down 16%)

John Mahood P.S. St. Jacobs P.S.

Reading

Writing

Mathematics

Breslau P.S.

69% (down 12%)

57% (down 16%)

50% (down 8%)

70% (down 18%)

Conestogo P.S.

66% (down 15%)

72% (down 11%)

66 % (down 1%)

67% (up 9%)

Floradale P.S.

77% (up 4%)

77% (down 10%)

65% (up 2%)

53% (down 28%)

62% (down 16%)

Park Manor P.S.

93% (up 10%)

87% (up 5%)

74% (up 6%)

77% (up 24%)

80% (up 30%)

59% (down 3%)

St. Jacobs P.S.

89% (up 5%)

92% (up 14%)

84% (up 18%)

68% (down 21%)

81% (down 5%)

81% (down 8%)

Linwood P.S.

60% (up 9%)

76% (up 19%)

33% (down 5%)

Linwood P.S.

51% (down 16%)

80% (down 2%)

58% (down 18%)

Wellesley P.S.

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81% (up 9%)

62% (down 4%)

Wellesley P.S.

64% (no change)

62% (up 2%)

61% (down 1%)

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90% (up 1%)

69% (down 20%)

St. Clements C.S.

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75% (no change)

75% (down 8%)

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60% (down 3%)

64% (up 17%)

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74% (down 18%)

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76% (up 2%)

57% (down 1%)

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Humour spawns quick action on Maryhill drainage problem WILL SLOAN

Faulty construction on a drainage ditch led to Maryhill’s Tony Schulde christening a makeshift lake in his backyard.

“You can’t fight city hall?” Sure you can – with snark.

When a new drainage ditch from the Maryhill Isley North watermain replacement project led to a stream of dirty, standing water in his backyard, resident Tony Schulde found the best way to catch the township’s eye was with a sense of humour.

For several days, a handmade sign in Schulde’s backyard christened his unwanted lake “West Nile Crossing,” complete with skull and cross bones. “It looks like a sewer pit, and

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Wellesley looks to expand cemetery ELENA MAYSTRUK Expecting to run out of space in a decade, the committee responsible for a cemetery in Hawkesville wants Wellesley council to move now to help solidify an expansion plan.

“At some point in time we will need to do something to service the community. In 10 years we may be out of space, which seems like a long time but it’s our fiduciary responsibility to present appropriate and responsible planning forward,” said John Haupert of the Hawkesville Cemetery Committee in a delegation to township council September 18.

The committee has its eye on a piece of vacant land adjacent to their cur-

rent grounds but the owner is not ready to sell. Looking for “the path of least resistance,” Haupert wants the township to enter into a right of first refusal agreement with the landowner.

“The guy doesn’t want to sell it now. He’s in his late 60s, he’s in no mood to entertain winding down but in 10 years that may change. And he’s admitted that he would, in the future, consider selling it to someone.”

The agreement would compel the landowner to come to the township first when and if he is ready to sell the property. Additionally, if a buyer approaches him with a good offer he would have to notify the township before selling the land to a third party.

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“I think we’re probably going the right way in terms of being proactive on that. It sounds like you are looking down to the future, which comes up pretty quick,” said Coun. Jim Olender.

The public cemetery located on 17 Chapel St. primarily serves Hawkesville Mennonite Church and Wallenstein Bible Chapel.

The land the committee hopes to purchase in the future measures about three-quarters of an acre and is separated from the cemetery by a roadway. It could potentially extend the cemetery’s services by another decade.

The request received unanimous support from council, which will now seek legal advice and input from the public.

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“They were talking to the Grand River Conservation people – they won’t let them go so far down, because there’s a creek back here,” said Schulde. “But he said yesterday they’re going to have to go down to the creek, because there’s too much standing water.”

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Woolwich needs to get its budget priorities in order THERE’S BEEN NO MENTION of returning an expected windfall from Woolwich’s ownership stake in Waterloo North Hydro back to the residents, the very people constantly hit by increased taxes courtesy of the township and higher rates courtesy of the electrical utility.

A similar discussion last year saw Todd Cowan raise the possibility of a refund, though no one else on council saw fit to suggest the option. And, as taxpayers well know, nothing came of that idea. This time around, the mayor was quick off the mark in suggesting the money – an as-yet-unknown amount from the sale of the former headquarters on Northfield Drive – be funneled into projects such as a proposed skateboard park in Elmira.

A wait-and-see approach seems to be the consensus, however, with most of council fine with simply putting the cash into a reserve account until the township can make longerterm plans during the upcoming 2014 budget deliberations.

One thing is certain, though: council must resist the temptation to simply splurge, to go on a spending spree with what amounts to found money. And, clearly, tax relief should be high on the list.

It’s unlikely that a rebate such as the one Cowan mused about last year will happen, but lowering the tax hit on residents should always be top of mind at every level of government, particularly among elected officials.

We’re making less money even before we pay our taxes.

Afterwards, we’re even more behind. Despite contributing ever-more to government coffers, we’re getting less in return – for tax-weary Canadians, that’s the real kicker. Simply put, we’re not seeing the benefits of having more money lifted from our wallets.

There’s a lesson in there for politicians who often fail to see the compounding effects of year-over-year tax increases that typically outstrip both inflation and real growth in the economy.

Instead of an administration exercising responsible handling of the public’s money, citizens have seen a steady stream of bureaucratic bloat.

It’s telling when council discusses the budget, there’s always talk of tax hikes or service cuts. What we need to see are the easy cuts with no impact on residents that can provide plenty of extra revenue that can be applied to the township’s infrastructure deficit. Reduced spending on the operating side will allow the municipality to focus on the priorities, hard services essential to the community, while stripping away the swelling bureaucracy and runaway salaries that steal away money from the productive part of the local economy.

Given the prevailing attitude, it’s not surprising that recent discussions about the hydro windfall haven’t included the infrastructure deficit that is trotted out when convenient, such as tacking on additional property taxes to build up reserve funds.

While overplayed, the need for infrastructure spending is indeed real. With another budget period on the horizon – and given past disappointments – now would be a good time to search for actual savings, starting with elimination of some staff positions. Factoring in the cost of salaries, benefits and pension liabilities, a couple of middling jobs would go a long way towards reallocating funds and reducing the tax burden. And those savings would be enjoyed year over year. The same would be true of wage freezes and rollbacks, though, as we’ve noted, such talk remains beyond the pale.

Given the long list of "coming soons" that have appeared along the commercial strip in the south end of Elmira, many are adopting a wait-and-see attitude about the location.

WORLD VIEW / GWYNNE DYER

Coalitions may change, but Germans like that status quo WORLD AFFAIRS It’s not a question of whether “Mutti” (Mom) will still be in power after the German election this Sunday (September 22).

Of course she will: Chancellor Angela Merkel, the “mother of the nation,” will soon overtake former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher to become the longest-ruling female leader in modern European history. The question is what kind of government she will lead.

It’s a big question, because Germany is the economic powerhouse of the European Union. The fate of the troubled euro currency will be decided in Berlin, as will the associated project for a closer political union. Germany has only 80 million of the EU’s 400 million citizens, but Merkel is indisputably its main decision-maker.

However, she cannot make those decisions alone. Coalitions are inevitable in German politics.

Neither the main con-

servative party, Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (permanently allied to its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union), nor the biggest left-wing party, the Social Democrats, ever wins enough seats to rule alone.

And Merkel may have to form a different coalition after this election, because its current partner, the centre-right Free Democratic Party, is going down.

The business-friendly Free Democrats were always the most comfortable coalition partner for both the Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats, so they have been in government for all but 19 of the past 64 years. However, they were always a junior partner, obliged to accept and defend the right- or left-wing policies of the bigger coalition member, and over the years they have gradually lost their own distinctive identity.

In last week’s local elections in Bavaria, the second-largest German state, the Free Democrats got only three per cent of the vote, well short of the five per cent threshold they must pass to win any seats

in the state assembly. The same threshold applies in federal elections on Sunday, which means they will probably not make it back into the Bundestag (the federal parliament) either.

So if they are unavailable as a coalition partner, who else is there?

There are the Greens, who once looked well on their way to replacing the Free Democrats as the third-largest party. Last year, in the aftermath of the disaster at Fukushima, their anti-nuclear power policy seemed justified to many Germans, and they were polling up to 30 per cent of the vote. But Merkel promptly declared that her own party would close down all of Germany’s nuclear reactors, stealing the Greens’ main issue, and their support began to plummet.

So what did the Greens do to win the voters back?

They declared that there should be a “vegetarian only” meal day once a week in office canteens and schools nationwide.

“How dare the Greens tell us what to eat!” blared the tabloid paper Bild the next day. Germans are meat-

lovers – sausages are the national dish – and the furore over “Veggie Day” refused to die down.

Last week, for the first time in years, popular support for the Greens fell below 10 per cent. They’ll still make it back into the Bundestag, but not with enough seats to make their preferred option of a Social Democrat-Green coalition viable.

A Christian DemocratGreen coalition is also imaginable, though it would not be the preference of either party. However, Merkel’s party may not even win enough seats to make that possible. Her personal popularity remains undented, but her party is bleeding support to the new “Alternative fuer Deutschland” party (AfD – Alternative for Germany).

The AfD only launched last February, but its proposal to kill the euro and resurrect Germany’s beloved former currency, the Deutschmark, or at least to kick the weaker economies of southern Europe out of the euro, got instant traction. “It can’t be a taboo DYER | 10

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THEIR VIEW / QUESTION OF THE WEEK

The start of fall is September 22. What do you like about the autumn months?

»»Rachel Bettke

»»Hannah Bettke

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»»Laken Shantz-Wollis

Going to school and seeing all of my friends.

I like the colours on the trees.

The colour of the leaves; everything smells better in the fall. It’s not too hot, it’s not too cold.

The leaves fall off the trees and you can jump I love the leaves and the temperature, the in them. holidays coming.

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"The pressure on Chemtura to clean up the gravel pits has come only from volunteer citizens’ groups ..." Susan Bryant | page 10 HIS VIEW / STEVE KANNON

There's mounting pressure to put a better label on food, local and otherwise EDITOR'S NOTES At this time of year, a trip to the market – including the quickly-back-upand-running St. Jacobs Farmers’ Market – will provide you with an abundance of produce, much of it local. Stop by the farm gate, and you can be surer still the fruits and vegetables were grown close to home.

Increasingly, that proximity is of interest to consumers. We’re concerned about where our food comes from, and the environmental impact of shipping it in from long distances. We want to support local farmers. And we’re worried about just how healthy the stuff is, especially processed food.

That’s increasingly the case as food industry companies tap overseas sources for cheaper inputs. As with many of the goods we buy, often that means China.

The quality and treatment of the foodstuffs immediately becomes suspect, and

federal laws aren’t overly helpful in protecting consumer interests, let alone our safety.

According to the Canadian Federation of Agriculture, the connection to China isn’t always obvious to the average consumer.

Much of what we buy is sold as “Product of Canada,” but is processed in China or contains ingredients from China.

Under Canadian law, the ingredients can come from anywhere in the world and still get a “Product of Canada” label. That’s because “Product of Canada” only means that at least 51 per cent of manufacturing costs were incurred in Canada. Apple juice concentrate from China, for instance, can be mixed here, packaged and declared Canadian made, and you and I are none the wiser.

In such cases, the product flies in the face of a growing desire to buy food as locally as possible. The practice also hides from consumers information that might lead them to choose another product because of safety concerns about goods from suspect

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tends to environmental pollutants and the use of chemicals deemed unsafe here. Farmed fish, for instance, has been found to contain malachite green, used to prevent infections in crowded ponds. Canada has banned that practice, and seafood so treated can’t be sold here, yet there have been cases where such products have slipped by the CFIA. In fact, the CFIA, as with consumer agencies monitoring for such things as lead in toys, relies on the manufacturers and importers to follow the rules: there just aren’t enough inspectors to cover all of the goods shipped to Canada.

More than 400 million kilograms of food from China made its way to this country. The trend is upwards, as many companies opt for cheaper, even as Canadians say they’re concerned with quality and with buying local food from local farmers.

Food labelling is a highly politicized topic. Even farmers have conflicting positions. Livestock producers, for instance, oppose U.S. country of origin labelling, which they see as a protectionist measure.

They would prefer greater integration of the North American livestock industry. On the other hand, organizations such as the Canadian Federation of Agriculture want more explicit labeling of processed goods so that consumers know whether or not the food they’re buying was actually grown in this country.

Beyond origins, there’s a wider battle over labeling as it pertains to health impacts: amounts of salt, fats and food additives, among a host of other concerns.

Then there’s the debate over labeling products containing genetically modified foodstuffs.

Current labeling is inad-

equate and often ambiguous – how many people are snowed by the absurdly low serving sizes used to measure calories or sodium levels?

Ultimately, however, it’s we as consumers who are to blame for the situation – we’re voting with our dollars, and we’re getting what we pay for. Salt, sugar, fat and grease are cheap to produce and add flavour to foods of even the lowest quality.

The solution involves watching what we eat. With fresh food, supermarkets usually indicate the country of origin. With prepared and mixed foods, the situation rapidly gets cloudy.

The key there is to pressure government to force proper labelling requirements on the industry: only full disclosure of ingredients and their origins will allow consumers to make the right choice when it comes to protecting their health.

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parts of the globe. And when it comes to Chinese food products, we have every reason to be cautious, as food safety standards there are not consistent and enforcement spotty at best.

That undoubtedly contributed to this summer’s launch of the Food Labelling Modernization Initiative. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is consulting with consumer, industry and other stakeholders to come up with ways to better respond to our changing expectations related to food labelling.

The process will look at food labelling regulations, policies and guidelines such as best before dates, lists of ingredients, common names, and nonhealth and safety related claims such as “local” or “natural.”

This is especially critical where imported food is concerned. Consumers are at risk both in China and in countries where Chinese food products end up, including Canada.

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THIS WEEK IN HISTORY

Airfares are expected to grow by 3.6 per cent in 2013, but airlines' pricing power is fading because Canadians are tightening their household budgets. Airline traffic is growing at a slower pace than in 2012. In particular, Canadians made fewer leisure trips overseas at the beginning of the year, part of a reduction in overall consumer spending.

“I just boil over when I hear these gun lobbyists calmly insisting the only answer is more guns, when that just clearly makes the situation even worse. I despair for America right now. The gun debate is so entrenched on either side, I fear nothing will ever get done.”

In a case of "use it or lose it," Woolwich councillors voted September 17 to maintain a tax exemption on one-third of their township incomes. Changes to the provincial Municipal Act forced councils to actively support the exemption or automatically lose the option.

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any more (to say) that it’s an option for Germany to return to the Deutschmark,” declared Roland Klaus, the AfD’s leader, and the party began its rapid rise in the polls.

It’s still not clear whether the AfD will win enough votes to clear the five per cent threshold and enter the Bundestag, but it’s getting likelier by the day.

As a populist, nationalist, anti-immigrant party its support comes mainly from the right, that is, from people who used to vote for the Christian Democrats, but its euro policy is so toxic politically that it is not a candidate for a coalition with either major party.

The arithmetic for forming a new coalition is therefore getting harder and harder to do. Neither of the

YOUR VIEW / LETTER

Another duct-tape fix to Chemtura contamination To The Editor, The good news is that Chemtura is now removing some of the most toxic contamination on its Elmira site. The bad news is that their plan is to scrape off only the top layer (about a foot) in one spot and leave the rest. This good news/ bad news theme – one of the duct-tape solutions – is typical of the history of the Chemtura remediation since 1989. But this instance is especially discouraging, for several reasons.

First, the contaminants in this gravel pit area of the site (called GP-1 and GP-2) are dioxins and DDT, which are among the most toxic substances known. Exposure to even miniscule amounts of dioxins can create birth defects and cancers, as well as other serious health effects, and they get passed up the food chain. Dioxin is the ingre-

main parties has changed its standing much – Christian Democrats around 40 per cent, Social Democrats around 25 per cent – but the turbulence among the smaller parties has been so great that neither of the major parties is likely to be able to form a coalition without the other.

Which brings us back to the “broad” coalition of Christian Democrats and Social Democrats that neither major party wants, but both can tolerate if they must. Indeed, that was the coalition that Angela Merkel led in her first term as chancellor in 2005-09.

And poll after poll confirms that it is the coalition most voters would prefer to see – precisely because it would be unable to change very much. The Germans are happy enough right where they are. dient in Agent Orange, produced in the Elmira facility for the Vietnam War, linked to the continuing legacy of birth defects in Vietnam.

The level of dioxins in the gravel pits is off the charts, with some samples over 1,000 times higher than the low-risk level. Chemtura has the highest concentrations found anywhere in the Great Lakes basin.

Dioxins and DDT break down ever so slowly, so what’s left in the ground at Chemtura will stay there. Unless, of course, there’s a big flood in the Canagagigue Creek. The gravel pit deposit is near the creek, and some of it in the floodplain. Serious, unprecedented flooding – the kind we hear about every day now across North America and elsewhere – would carry the dioxins and DDT into the creek and downstream into the Grand River, a source of water for us and for many communities. That’s the problem with leaving so much contamination in place.

Given this risk, it’s difficult to make sense of Chemtura’s

decision not to dig a few feet deeper to remove more. They are already bringing in the equipment and expertise to remove the top layer. It wouldn’t cost three times as much to remove three times the amount. And unlike other hotspots of contamination on their property, this one is easy pickings. There are no buildings on or near the pits.

What a lost opportunity for the company to do the right thing.

The second discouraging aspect is the inaction of every level of government to urge the company to dig deeper. The feds have always avoided involvement with the Elmira problem.

The provincial Ministry of the Environment declares it has authority to order onsite remediation unless the contamination is going off the site – though the MOE’s own sampling reports show high levels of dioxins and DDT from the company in the creek downstream.

The Region of Waterloo, the Grand River Conserva-

tion Authority, and the Township of Woolwich all share various responsibilities for protecting and delivering good quality water to the community. Yet no government has used its clout, either collectively or individually, to nudge Chemtura to get rid of this hotspot once and for all.

The pressure on Chemtura to clean up the gravel pits has come only from volunteer citizens’ groups – from the former CPAC (Chemtura Public Advisory Committee), the current CPAC, and the APT Chemtura Committee. We targeted this hotspot in 2002, when the company’s Human Health Risk Assessment for Canagagigue Creek identified it.

Of course we’re happy to see some of the contamination go after 11 years of effort.

But why haven’t our governments stepped up? Their influence could have tipped the scales to further reduce this serious threat to our water.

SUSAN BRYANT, ELMIRA

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SPORTS HOCKEY / JUNIOR B

Kings split pair in season’s second weekend of play After dropping a game despite late surge in Listowel, team returns home to edge out Kitchener Dutchmen 2-1 ELENA MAYSTRUK That first loss was bound to happen sometime. For the Elmira Sugar Kings, that day came on Friday the 13th, when they dropped a 4-3 decision to the Listowel Cyclones after winning the first two games of the season.

The setback was shortlived, however, as the team bounced back two days later to end the weekend on a winning note, handing the Kitchener Dutchmen a 2-1 loss. The win put the team’s record at 3-1 thus far in the young season.

The weekend’s play was part of the learning curve, suggested head coach Jeff Flanagan.

“We won our first two games against some competitive teams. I think we were a little lucky to score as many goals as we did, and it kind of put us into the situation going into Listowel on Friday night – I think we were feeling pretty good about ourselves,” he said, noting a certain cockiness. “I don’t know of any team that wins every game in the season, so that loss is going to come at some point. It was probably a good time for our guys to get a bit of a reality check and notice that we may be doing well, but we’ve got a

heck of a lot to work on.”

Flanagan admits the Kings were unprepared for the onslaught in the first half of Friday’s game against the Cyclones, who scored early and often in the first period en route to a 3-0 lead.

Things started to pick up in the second period, with Cass Frey getting Elmira on the board at 0:56 (assisted by Zac Coulter and Rob Kohli). Listowel’s Scott Pawson scored at 3:40, but the Kings were able to reduce Listowel’s lead to 4-2 just before the buzzer, scoring off the stick of David Savery (Adam Brubacher) at 19:45.

The visitors managed a final goal at 11:45 courtesy of Brett Parsons (Brodie Whitehead, Craig Johnson), and ended the game with a 4-3 loss despite outshooting Listowel 44-38 overall.

The strong ending, however, was a precursor of the return to winning form on Sunday, Flanagan suggested.

“As we got to about halfway, our guys started really picking up the pace and battling harder. There just wasn’t enough time for us to bring it even. All in all, we learned some lessons KINGS | 13

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Sugar King Adam Campagnolo skates with the puck during the September 15 home game against Kitchener. The Kings defeated the Dutchmen 2-1.

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Recently, I acquired an air rifle. In the old days, we called them pellet guns and we had lots of fun with them intermittently.

I say intermittently because our parents had a lot of fun with them, too.

Don’t get me wrong; they rarely shot them. But they did use them to keep us in line. And, that’s where the fun part came in for them.

You see, if we acted up, the first privilege to be rescinded was the use of the pellet gun. This was followed by the bow, the bike, television and, if you did something truly awful, the most severe punishment a boy could be given – playing house with your sister.

Fortunately, the threat of losing your pellet gun privileges was typically more than enough to keep us from getting caught at whatever transgression was in progress – which was all our parents really wanted.

It’s funny, we don’t look at pellet guns the same way these days.

In fact, a lot of people worry about an unsupervised kid with a pellet gun.

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Jacks win opener on the road in New Hamburg Wellesley finds new rivalry in making move to the Midwestern Junior C Hockey League ELENA MAYSTRUK Moving up to Junior C for the first time, the Wellesley Applejacks opened the season with a win over the defending league champions, beating New Hamburg 6-3 on September 13.

It was a good test as the team plays its first five games on the road, allow-

ing the coaching staff to see where players still need some work coming off of the preseason.

Having joined the Midwestern Junior C Hockey League, the Jacks can expect some challenges above and beyond the usual start to the season, said general manager Kevin Fitzpatrick, who was impressed with a number of

new and returning players after last week’s game.

“Overall it was really encouraging. Josh Heer played very well and Felix Lantaigne, he had a great game. Devon Wagner and Reid Denstedt had outstanding games. All of the new players did really well.

There were times where New Hamburg dominated and times that we dominat-

ed. It’s going to be a good rivalry,” he said.

The New Hamburg Firebirds were a force to be reckoned with, Fitzpatrick noted.

The home team needed just 2:19 to open the scoring, but Wellesley replied with a pair in fairly quick succession in the middle of the first period. The first came off the stick of

Mackenzie Shantz, assisted

by Taylor Doering and Lantaigne, with the second potted by Lantaigne (Justin Lebold). The Jacks went back to the room with a 2-1 lead, having outshot the Firebirds 8-7.

The Jacks were quick off the mark in the second frame, as Wagner (Denstedt) potted a goal at 1:33.

New Hamburg would score

next at 5:05, but Wellesley restored a two-point lead courtesy of Doering (Lantaigne, Wagner) at 7:07.

Shots for the period were 12-12.

Going into the final frame, the Firebirds revved up their game after Wellesley’s Brett MacDonald managed a goal at 4:11.

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Joining Brampton Beast the latest change for Wellesley man me tremendously.”

Good is back in Canada after his first professional season with the Pensacola Flyers in Florida. It was Wellesley, however, where he first found his love of the game, playing for the Twin Centre Stars before transitioning to the Waterloo AAA Wolves.

“I don’t know if I discovered my talent, but I discovered my love for hockey pretty early on, probably around eight-years-old,” he said. “I think my love for it just allowed me to become better and better at it, because I just kept practicing.

“Training for hockey, I practice five days a week, and then I’m working out the sixth and seventh days as well. … I’d probably say I’m in the gym at least two hours, and I try to do all sorts of things, like mental visualization, I do practicing shooting at home, and I try to get on the ice at least once a day.”

After stints with the Jacks and the Cullitons, he played at Wilfrid Laurier University, rising to the level of alternate captain in his final year. All this has given him the experience to launch his own

WILL SLOAN Wellesley resident Mitchell Good may only be 24, but in the world of hockey, he’s already something close to an elder statesman. As he joins the Central Hockey League’s new Brampton Beast franchise, the former Wellesley Applejack finds his early experiences playing Junior D, and then Junior B with the Stratford Cullitons, reverberate today.

“I learned a lot of things,” said Good of his teenage years. “I learned how to make myself a better player and separate myself from the peers around me to allow me to move on, basically by increasing my work ethic and love for the game.”

He also learned how to deal with opposition both on and off the ice.

“Dealing with adversity is a big thing in any sport. I think a lot of kids either fall apart or quit the sport they love because they deal with some adversity and don’t know how to respond to it. I was able to encounter it early on in my career, and being able to cope with that and move forward has helped

Mitchell Good played for the Wellesley Applejacks before playing professionally in Florida. He starts playing with the Central Hockey League in October. [WILL SLOAN / THE OBSERVER]

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New Hamburg peppered Wellesley goalie Josh Heer with 16 shots to the Jacks’ five, managing to score at 12:49. With under a minute to go, Wellesley’s Wagner got another goal to seal the 6-3 win.

“The last 10 minutes, New Hamburg really took it to us. They threw every-

thing at Josh. He’s a very good goalie and he saved our butts, especially in the last half of the third period,” Fitzpatrick said.

Despite the victory, Fitzpatrick thinks from a conditioning standpoint his team “hit the wall” in the last 10 minutes of the game as they battled last year’s champions.

“We’ve got work to do.”

The Jacks played their second game on the road against Norwich, then follow that with matches against North Dumfries, Burford and Woodstock.

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sideline training business, Hockey Skills and Development, which he runs out of his home in Wellesley.

“Being able to teach kids the basics has helped my understanding of the basics,” he said. “If I try to teach what I’m learning to someone else, it absorbs a lot more into your brain, and you get a better understanding of it.

“For me, to break down the skills that I used to think were second-nature has helped me get a better outlook on what I’m actually doing, and how I can improve.”

Good begins his season with the Brampton Beast on October 18, but he says moving up to a new level of hockey doesn’t intimidate him.

“You just need to have confidence in your skill ability,” he said. “The decisionmaking at a higher level may be faster, but the fundamentals of the game don’t really change.

“If you can transfer your confidence from the lowerlevel to the higher level, playing and practicing with better players, I’ve always been able to raise my level of gameplay.”

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The St. Clements Hawks men’s soccer team defeated Stratford City 1-0 in the Men’s Premier Championship Cup game. Ben Frey recorded the shutout in net, Mike Brown scored the game winning goal by lobbing the opposing goalkeeper, and Cole Morrell-Martin made a goal line headed clearance to preserve the win. Back row: Brent Goetz, Jason Weber, Cole Morrell-Martin, Cory Martin, Derek Goetz, Blaine Cressman, Simon Raimbault, Kurtis Versteeg, Jeff Cressman, Nick Di Benedetto, Quinn Silbermann. Front row: Neil Thomas, Jeremie Raimbault, Mike Brown, Josh Bursey, Ben Frey, Brendan Coady, Mike Leger, Eric Black.

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GALEA: Air rifles aren’t toys, but they certainly can be a lot of fun ... if you’re not a pink flamingo FROM | 11

completely unnecessary.

You should never worry about an unsupervised kid with a pellet gun – everything around an unsupervised kid with a pellet gun, yes. The kid himself, no.

You should worry about pink flamingos and garden gnomes in particular.

I’m not proud of it, but when we were kids my brother and I were solely

responsible for the extirpation of every pink flamingo in the neighbourhood.

This annoyed my father, who basically owned every pink flamingo in the neighbourhood.

On the other hand, we also put those pellet guns to good use protecting dad’s apple, pear, peach and cherry trees from marauding squirrels and garden gnomes, which is why he

bought us those pellet guns in the first place.

In any case, this modern air rifle I have in my possession is light years ahead of the crude spring loaded guns we had as kids. They are highly sophisticated, incredibly accurate and powerful enough to dispatch small game.

They’re not toys by any means – although, to be fair, neither were the ones we

had as kids.

There are multiple advantages to owning an air rifle like the one I have. First, they allow you to shoot a lot, whether in backyard ranges, the garage or in places not conducive to louder rifles.

Do enough of this and you’ll become a better shooter of any rifle you own, and at a fraction of the cost, too.

Air rifles are also great tools for dealing with pests that show up around the house, if you live in the countryside as I do. And, within their limits, they are great hunting tools for small game.

But the best part to me is that they are a whole lot of fun to shoot. These new air rifles are more refined, to be sure, but, deep down, they are essentially the same

ones that many of us grew up with. And every time I shoot this one, I get this feeling of nostalgia that makes me smile and takes me back to the good old days of my youth when every boy had a pellet or BB gun and a lot of country to roam.

There’s only one thing missing, I suppose. But I’ll fix that this weekend, when I go buy a few pink flamingos.

Sugar King Cass Frey gets the puck past Kitchener’s Kyle Elis; the Kings celebrate their 2-1 victory; and Adam Campagnolo keeps his eyes on the game. Goaltender Hayden Neuman recorded the win Sunday night.

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from it and it helped us play better Sunday.”

That said, Kitchener proved to be tough competition at the Dan Snyder Arena, with both goalies impressing their coaches.

Hayden Neuman stopped a total of 29 shots on net, while the Kings managed to deliver at total of 39 on Kitchener netminder Marc Williams, burying two of them in the third period.

Every member of the squad stepped up their play to match the opposition in speed and skill, the coach said.

“We had a lot of production and input from every guy on our roster. Everybody contributed and that was the difference for us, which is something we didn’t have going for us on Friday night.”

First on the board was Whitehead, scoring at 5:01 into the third period, assisted by Coulter. Elmira

scored again courtesy of Felix Lantaigne (Whitehead, Pat McKelvie) at 13:57. With two and a half minutes left in the game, the Dutchmen pulled their goalie and potted a single goal at 18:31. The Kings managed to hold the late push for the 2-1 win in their fourth regular season game.

A solid start to the season, but the team has yet to play with a full roster.

Centre Brad Kobryn hasn’t played in the regular sea-

son due to an injury, while returning player Justin Cooke is still healing from a broken leg sustained last January. Coaching staff hope he will return in the next few weeks. Mitch Wright also sat out two games after a fighting suspension.

On the road in Brampton Friday night, the Kings return to Elmira Sunday night to face the Stratford Cullitons. Game time is 7 p.m. at the Dan Snyder Arena.

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High school field hockey season gets going with SJK tournament EDSS girls, many playing for the first time, learn quickly in fast-paced environment ELENA MAYSTRUK The experience and lessons learned were far more important than the score sheet, says the coach of the EDSS girls’ field hockey team, which got immersed in the sport last weekend during a tournament hosted by St. John’s Kilmarnock School in Breslau.

“It was a really good thing. We didn’t do as well, but we gave these girls a ton of opportunities to play and get lots of game-time, so everybody improved over the course of the day,” said Laurie Murray.

As is usual for this annual tournament, the rookies tried their hand at the game, some for the first time.

“We didn’t have our whole team there, so we had a lot of rookie girls. We had 14 girls out of our 22, and the majority of them were firstyear players. Now, we didn’t score and we tied the game and lost the rest, but it was a great learning opportunity for these young girls to understand the game and figure out positioning.

That’ll help later on.”

One of three coaches

for the team, Murray is helping the young recruits shape up to meet the demands of a competitive league, but the process will take time as the girls continue to learn the intricacies of field hockey. Most years, at least one team from the league makes it to the middle round of the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations tournament (OFSAA), against higher-seeded teams. Last year EDSS came in 11 out of 16 OFSAA teams.

After losing the first regular season game 3-0 against Bluevale Collegiate September 12, Elmira managed to tie a game with Huron Heights during the tournament. The squad lost again, however, in several matches that followed that day.

But, a loss on the field is a gain in the long run, Murray said.

“This tournament is awesome because kids haven’t played field hockey all year.

The older girls end up having to work and stuff so I usually end up bringing ... the younger ones to give them experience. It’s a great way for the girls to learn the game without a lot of pressure because our league is pretty intense.”

Having parents

EDSS field hockey rookies warmed up to the game during a start-of-the-season weekend tournament September 14-15 at SJK. The Lancers tied one game and lost the rest, but gained some much-needed experience.

[ELENA MAYSTRUK / THE OBSERVER] and supporters come out to an early tournament is always a plus, she added, as it gives both new players and their families a feel for the rules of the game.

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Provincial money supports growth at Breslau pork producer Conestoga Meat Packers to add 100 jobs, boost capacity with assistance of $1.5-million from Southwestern Ontario Development Fund WILL SLOAN Almost exactly 12 years after local pork farmers voted to vertically integrate and purchase Conestoga Meat Packers, the Breslau company is entering its largest expansion yet, with an eye toward bringing Canadian food overseas.

On Tuesday, the provincial government’s Southwestern Ontario Development Fund announced a $1.5 million grant for the company, adding 100 new jobs and increasing the plant’s capacity by one third. It’s part of a $14-million project to install new cooler space and refrigeration equipment, and increase the company’s sales reach both domestically and abroad.

“As Ontario’s economy continues to go global, I’m proud to say that companies like Conestoga Meat Packers really are leading that change,” said Eric Hoskins, minister of economic development, trade, and employment, at the plant September 17.

Conestoga Meat Packers has come a long way since September 2001, when local farmers purchased a then-small pork

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processing plant with 35 employees. Since then, the company has experienced three major expansions, added hundreds of jobs, and gone from 1,500 to 15,000 hogs processed per week. Arnold Drung, president of the company, told those in attendance that this fourth expansion would be the company’s largest yet.

“The competition is intense, with major pork exporting countries including the U.S., Brazil, and member countries of the European Union,” said Drung. “As a company, we must continually do things better in order to compete in this environment.

“It was a daring step they took 12 years ago in purchasing the plant,” he continued. “A number of previous ventures like this had failed, but the combination of their commitment to the business, coupled with a dedicated team here at Conestoga, has made this operation a success.”

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Attack video renews call for farming advocates

A renewed call is being issued for modern-era farming advocates to stand up and be heard, following a new attack by a popular U.S.-based Mexican restaurant chain.

The company, Chipotle (with five outlets in or near Toronto), teamed up with Academy Award-winning Moonbot Studios to create a sappy but sophisticated animated video that takes an opportunistic, meanspirited shot at commercial-scale agriculture.

The video, which has drawn more than six million views in the past couple of weeks, is heavy on generating pathos for farm animals. Among other things, it shows animated livestock getting pumped full of drugs, one of the greatest myths about farming that the agriculture just can’t shake.

The approach reflects the disdain company founder Steve Ells, a chef, has for modern farming in America.

On his company’s website, he says what he’s learned about the way most of the food in the U.S. is produced and processed

Eric Hoskins, Ontario’s minister of economic development, trade and employment, praised Conestoga Meat Packers for its contribution to the local economy while announcing a $1.5-million grant Tuesday.

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is “pretty grim. Pigs are raised in stark confinement, produce is grown on vast factory farms with little or no regard for the

environment, and dairy cows are confined and injected with hormones that can make them ill in an effort to increase their milk production.”

Farmers have heard all this before and try countering it with “No we don’t!” rebuttals that resonate with some people, but not with those who think they

have little control over what they eat and how it’s produced.

Ells says he’s learned that there is a better way to produce food. He says he’s also met ranchers and farmers dedicated to raising livestock and growing produce using “responsible, respectful and sustainable techniques.”

In other words, he’s met modern farmers, the very kind he’s trying to crucify.

Modern farmers operate farms, not factories. They subscribe to environmental farm plans so they don’t cause undue pollution.

They take sick animals out of production when they’re being treated.

Sure, they can always do better. Livestock specialists and animal welfare researchers at the University of Guelph and elsewhere are constantly working towards improving the lives of food animals.

But the further reality is that feeding billions of people is a job that does not lend itself to Norman Rockwell paintings.

Attack campaigns such as this seem to emerge every few years. Back in 2006, you may recall The Meatrix (a play on The Matrix), which sent the farm sector spinning. Animation has matured even in these few short years – the Meatrix wasn’t nearly as visually sophisticated as this new offering from Chipotle, which has renewed calls for farmer advocacy to counter it.

One of the calls is from Alberta farmer Shaun Haney, who runs a website called RealAgriculture.

He’s peeved at what he considers to be unfair accusations by Chipotle, whom he claims has a market capitalization of U.S.$13 billion. And he wants others to join in, despite farm-

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But Haney doesn’t buy it.

“In reality it is the farmer, producer, grower or whatever title you give them, [who needs] to step up and start getting more involved. Don’t roll your eyes, start getting involved.

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with a particularly strong presence in the European Union and Asia. (The company participated in the Ontario Business Mission to China in January).

The 100 new jobs (which join 425 existing jobs) will double the plant’s processing capacity.

“Throughout the plant, it gives us the ability to add a second shift,” said Drung after the announcement. “It’s going to be duplication of a lot of the jobs on the day shift; they will now be done on the second shift as well.”

He added, “We’re looking to do more volume, significantly more than what we currently are, adding about another 30 per cent over time. It just allows us to go out into more markets than we’re currently in.”

Kitchener Centre MPP John Milloy was also on hand at Tuesday’s announcement, and praised the company’s contribution to the local economy.

“In Queen’s Park, when I talk about Waterloo Region, I don’t simply talk about high-tech. Hightech’s a big part of it, but I talk about food processing, which is a huge part of our economy.”

Drung noted that government assistance has been key to Conestoga Meat Packers’ expansion over the past 12 years.

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er facility,” he said. “And three years ago, the province provided a portion of funding to increase processing capabilities for export markets, an investment that generated 30 jobs.”

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The Conestoga Meat Packers announcement marked Hoskins’ second recent visit to Woolwich for the fund; he announced a $1.3-million pledge to Elmira Pet Products on September 6.

“We look for companies that are in a position to expand, and as a criteria, they need to create new jobs,” said Hoskins after the announcement. “But it’s not just about new jobs, it’s also about retention of existing jobs.

He added, “The great thing about this fund is it works from the ground up. Local communities, local businesses that are strong and looking to expand … We’re supporting local businesses and economies, townships and municipalities, and it’s making a huge difference.”

Kitchener Centre MPP John Milloy and Conestoga Meat Packers president Arnold Drung joined Hoskins to discuss the company’s plans for expansion.

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An alternative route to country’s roots Songwriting couple aim for the soul with their band The Rizdales, performing Sunday in Maryhill WILL SLOAN Musicians who specialize in traditional country music sometimes talk like they’re the last of a dying breed. But Tom Dunphy, whose band The Rizdales performs tomorrow at the Maryhill Commercial Tavern, discovered the form resonating through contemporary music.

“When I was a teenager, I got into punk rock and that sort of thing, and there was emotion in that music that I really liked and could relate to,” recalls Dunphy from his home in London, Ontario.

When Elvis Costello, one of his teenaged favourites, released a country record, Dunphy began to see the parallels between country and punk. “It’s something about the lyrics, something about the song structures, the instruments that are used – particularly in old country music – that cut right through to the soul.”

Is it the purity and simplicity? “There’s a lot of that, but there’s also a lot of clever wordplay,” says Dunphy. “The great country songwriters – guys like Harlan Howard, Buck Owens, Hank Cochran – they’re not throwaway songs. I think a lot of people think that about country music – they’ll hear, ‘I lost my dog, my truck,’ all this stuff – and there isn’t a country

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Which is not to say that he and Tara Dunphy – his wife and creative partner – are not attracted to those evergreen themes of love and loss.

“It’s kind of like the blues that way. That particular material, I feel, is something we all can relate to, because we all go through the same type of things. Everybody finds themselves in a relationship or out of a relationship, and a good country song can do wonders for helping someone get over that.”

He continues, “My wife and I, Tara, we co-write all the songs, and we’re very happily married … but you would never know it from the songs that we write.”

A pause. “The songwriting process between the two of us, I’m surprised it hasn’t ended in divorce.”

Dunphy first met Tara when he was performing as part of another Londonbased country band, the Juke Joint Johnnies. After that band’s dissolution, they married and formed the Rizdales, both in 2004.

Ten years and five albums later, Dunphy says they’re still discovering that perfect country song.

“I think we have a better idea of what sounds we’re trying to produce. I think if anything, the music has

Tom and Tara Dunphy have been performing traditional country music together for 10 years. Their band The Rizdales will hit the Commercial Tavern for a Sunday matinee.

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been simplified since the very beginning. Maybe we were trying too hard then, but we’ve sort of settled into our sound.”

Is it hard listening to the first few albums? “Oh yeah, it’s horrible,” he laughs. “It’s just one of those things.

Everyone says their latest record is their best, but we feel that our most recent record…” – that would be How the Marriage Ended, available on iTunes – “…is our best. But a lot of people who have been following us over the years seem to find something that they like in all of them, which we appreciate. So we still play all the songs from those records.”

The band’s progression continues, then, although Dunphy doesn’t know quite where it’s going. “These things have just been naturally evolving for us, so we’re going to take it as it comes,” he says. “We have a lot of great experiences, and hopefully we’ll start writing a new record to be released in the next year or so. Once you put the pen to paper and get a guitar and strum a chord, it just takes on a life of its own. So we’re going to let it take us where it needs to.”

The Rizdales will perform at the Commercial Tavern (1303 Maryhill Rd.) Sunday (September 22), 3-6 p.m.

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Maytag dryer and LG front load washer $500 obo. Call 519-504-2698.

AUCTIONS AUCTION SALE OF Household effects, antiques, antique snowmobiles, and miscellaneous items, to be held at 441 Albert St. (near Philip), in Waterloo (parking on site), for Fred Pfisterer, on Saturday, September 21st @ 10:00 a.m. Gerber Auctions Ltd. 519-699-4451.

SAT. SEPT 21 at 9:30 - Clearing auction sale of Harley Davidson Motorcycle; forklift; concrete forming; concrete tools and equipment; trailer; and miscellaneous items to be held at 2236 Victoria St. (Highway #7) in Kitchener (near Breslau) for P. Dansma. Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 519-656-3555. www.Jantziauctions.com WED. SEPT 25 at 10:00 AM - Clearing auction sale of household effects; furniture; antiques; tools; collectables; and miscellaneous items to be held at the St. Jacob’s Community Centre in St. Jacob’s for a Waterloo area estate with additions. Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 519-656-3555. www.Jantziauctions.com FRI. SEPT 27 at 4:30 PM -Auction sale of approx 300 toys including farm; precision; air plane collection; cars; banks; and other collectables to be held at the St. Jacob’s Community Centre in St. Jacob’s for an area collector with additions. Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 519-656-3555. www.Jantziauctions.com AUCTION SALE OF Farmall 200, 4 wheeler, household effects, antiques and miscellaneous items, to be held at 1510 Line 33 Perth East Twp. 2 miles southwest of New Hamburg or 4 miles northeast of Tavistock, (off Perth Oxford Rd.) for Dan & Audrey Wagler, on Saturday, September 28th @ 10:00 a.m. Gerber Auctions Ltd. 519-699-4451.

AUCTIONS AUCTION SALE OF Quilts, comforters, and crafts, to be held on Queen’s Bush Rd. in Wellesley, for the Apple Butter & Cheese Festival (in case if rain this will be held in the Wellesley Community Centre), on Saturday, September 28th @ 12:00 p.m.

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SAT. SEPT 28 at 3:00 PMProperty auction of a 3 bedroom 2 storey house situated in a desirable area of Kitchener to be held at 441 Franklin St. north in Kitchener for Donald Kaufman. Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 519-656-3555. www.jantziauctions.com SAT. SEPT. 28 at 9:30 AM Clearing auction sale of 3 bedroom redbrick home; household effects’ furniture; tools; and miscellaneous items to be held at 78 Pinehurst Cres in Kitchener off McGarry Dr for the estate of the late Leonard Hinschberger. Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 519-656-3555. www.Jantziauctions.com

AUCTIONS AUCTION SALE OF MF 135 tractor, Cub Cadet 25hp mower, household effects, antiques and miscellaneous items, to be held at 64 Hill field Dr. (Highway 7&8, north on Walker Rd.) in New Hamburg, for Lyle Roth, on Saturday, October 5th @ 10:00 a.m. Gerber Auctions Ltd. 519-699-4451.

1005 PROPERTY AUCTION Of Custom built brick home to be held at 396 Lexington Rd. (between Bridge St West & University, minutes from RIM Park), in Waterloo, for Doug and Christina Lehmann, on Saturday, October 5th @ 4:00 p.m. Gerber Auctions Ltd. 519-699-4451.

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The Regional Municipality of Waterloo is considering amendments to the Procedural By-law Regional By-law respecting signs on Regional roads. The proposed Sign By-law addresses 00-031, as amended. The nature of the amendments are related to housekeeping matters. all types of unofficial signs on Regional roads including election signs, business accessory signs, farm accessory signs, mailbox accessory signs, open house signs and poster signs.

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REAL ESTATE LISTINGS

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Waterloo - Crisp kitchen featuring island & breakfast bar, walk-out to relaxing deck overlooking in-ground heated kidney shaped pool w/stamped concrete patio. Vaulted ceiling in family room w/gas fireplace. Master bedroom w/double walk-in closets & sunk-in ensuite complete w/whirlpool tub and separate shower. 3 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms & Main floor laundry.

Finished rec room w/separate entrance. Close to schools, Conestoga Mall & expressway. MLS 1325108 Call Paul or Alli direct.

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$454,900

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$439,900 EDGE OF TOWN

Linwood - Located beside farmland at the Edge of Linwood this 2400sqft home is the great spot for you and your family. The large kitchen overlooks the sunken in living room with gas fireplace. Walk out to large deck overlooking yard and green space. Convenient Side and garage entrance to mudroom/main floor laundry. The Separate dining room is overlooking sunken living room. A great entertaining spot for dinner parties or family gatherings. The sprawling basement is equipped with large hobby room and Huge 24ft x 22ft workshop with access to garage. MLS 1334761 Call Alli or Paul Direct.

NEW LISTING

$324,900 JUST MOVE IN AND ENJOY!!

LOCATED IN THE HEART OF DRAYTON

INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY!

Drayton - This well maintained home is equipped with separate garage and/or workshop. Spacious eat in kitchen with sliders to deck featuring a hot tub over looking back yard. Convenient main floor laundry and Mudroom off kitchen. Zoned C1. MLS 1337694. Call Alli or Paul Direct.

Kitchener -Triplex with all 3 units currently rented. Two three bedroom units and one 2 bedroom unit. Very well maintained and top 2 units have been updated. Excellent location, Close to mall, all amenities and expressway.MLS 1337719. Call Alli or Paul direct.

$389,000

COUNTRY LIVING AT ITS BEST!

Harriston - This beautiful open concept cathedral ceiling bungalow is ideal for family to visit & boasts a partially wooded lot nestled in a small community only 2 min from Harriston. Main floor master bedrm is complete with ensuite. The basement is equipped with a finished recroom, & additional bedrm and bathrm are framed & waiting to be finished to your taste. Come and see this BEAUTY! MLS 1334961 Call Paul or Alli direct.

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Drayton - Outstanding family Bungalow with 3+1 bdrms. Don't wait to see this sizable bungalow on mature lot backing onto green space, open concept kit & family rm which features wkout to 11 x 24 partially covered deck. Your out of town family & friends will enjoy this Basement equipped w/kitchenette, lg bedrm, full bath, finished recrm & exercise rm. This area allows guests their own home away from home. New roof & floors in 2008, all main fl windows except laundry replaced in 2010. MLS 1334266 Call Alli or Paul Direct.

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

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Elmira - Searching for that perfect family home in a great neighbourhood? This is it! Situated on a large beautifully landscaped pie shaped lot with mature trees. Complete with living room, very large family room addition and recroom. This spacious home has room for you to grow. Updates include: Newer flooring throughout main floor, New roof 2009, All windows in original house have been replaced. MLS 1337564. Call Alli or Paul direct.

Elmira - Fabulous 3 bedroom home backing on to green space. This bright house features large foyer, open eat in kitchen with island and breakfast bar. Dinette walk-out to 21x11ft deck overlooking fenced yard with shed and playground. Large bathroom with corner whirlpool tub, glass shower and linen closet. Huge 2 car garage with additional room for storage and Side garage door entrance to finished basement. Excellent family home! MLS 1337838. Call Alli or Paul direct.

$309,900

$699,000

Elmira - Don’t miss this beautiful bungalow townhouse. Complete with partly finished basement and large country style kitchen this open concept home is spacious and elegant. Attractive master suite Featuring walk-in closet and 3 pc. ensuite bath. Second bedroom in basement.

Bright open living room area or use as an at home office. 1 1/2 car garage with door to back yard. MLS 1334841 Call Alli or Paul direct.

Elmira - This Unique Elmira home is fully restored and updated. Gardens featuring: Court yard, peaceful sitting areas, waterfall and pond, walkways of stone and brick, stunning landscaping throughout. Expect the unexpected in this beautiful century home. Kitchen with island and the conservatory bring a modern touch to the old world charm of the fabulous home. MLS 1334983 Call Alli or Paul direct.

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REAL ESTATE LISTINGS

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17 Church St. W., Elmira • 519.669.1544 (Business)

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NEW COUNTRY LISTING $469,000. Park-like setting on 3.24 acres with evergreen and hardwood

trees, walking trails, a cleared area for a garden, expansive lawns, fish pond, and outbuildings. This raised bungalow features bright and spacious rooms, 3+2 bedrooms, finished basement, attached double garage, large bright cheery eat-in kitchen, walk out to deck. All this just a few minutes from Drayton/Moorefield. Don’t delay. MLS. Call Dale.

519-669-3192

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Bonnie Brubacher Broker of Record / Owner

OPEN HOUSE | 150 Brookmead St., Elmira Saturday 12-2pm & Wednesday 5-7pm

Monique Roes

Sales Representative / Owner

“Helping you is what we do”

Shanna Rozema Jason Shantz Broker / Owner

Broker

OPEN HOUSE | 38 Knapp Rd., Elmira Saturday 12-2pm & Wednesday 5-7pm

OPEN HOUSE | 63 Second St., Elmira Saturday, September 21st 12-2pm

1 ACRE COUNTRY! $319,000. 3 + 1 bedroom sidesplit on a park-like treed setting a few minutes from Drayton on a paved road. This is a desired location. Roof was done in 2010. MLS. Call Dale.

BEAUTIFULLY UPDATED BUNGALOW $339,000. Just move in and enjoy! Spacious main PARADIGM BUILT SIDESPLIT! $374,900. ELMIRA Immediate possession avail!

MUST SEE! $444,900. Drayton. Stunning custom bungalow with numerous features;

vaulted and boxed ceilings, 3 gas fireplaces, arches and pillars, speakers wired for most rooms, gourmet kitchen with granite countertops, hardwoods and ceramics, amazing ensuite, large fenced lot. Call Dale. MLS 1331348

4 stainless steel appl included. Maple kitchen, hardwood & ceramic, lower level family rm w/gas f/p & walk-up to yard. MLS

PARADIGM BUILT BUNGALOW! $346,000. ELMIRA Immediate possession avail!

4 stainless steel appl included. Custom cherry kitchen (antique stain), hardwood, ceramic flrs, gas f/p, master ensuite. MLS

floor with hardwood and ceramic floors, large front bay window, modern kitchen with skylight, 3 bdrms on the main floor, finished basement offers a newer recreation room plus a den and plenty of storage space. Enjoy privacy on the flagstone patio or in the spacious yard bordered by hedging. Room for a detached garage. MLS

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with walkways, deck, gazebo. patio. larger trees, and a relaxing front porch for those warm summer evenings. Hanover custom kitchen cabinets on both levels. 2 gas fireplaces. Walkdown from oversized garage. Exceptional value!

Call Dale. MLS 1327519

OWNER RETIRING | GREAT OPPORTUNITY | BRUSSELS $424,900. 19 acre parcel backing onto Maitland river with beautiful

building site, 500 apple tree orchard with 4000 sq ft store front and cold storage, cider press, implement shed, dry storage building big enough to hold up to 25 cars/vehicles for extra income. Good solid brick house. Lots of potential. 13 acres cultivated. Market gardening? Call Dale. MLS 1327067

QUALITY INVESTMENT | MILVERTON $525,000. This purpose built 8 plex boasts a $37,000 net profit. Do the math. Most of the baths have been redone, some kitchens and windows have been replaced. Has a good rental history. Appliances and coin laundry included. Separate hydro meters installed 6 years ago. Roof 2 yrs old. Worth a look. Call Dale. MLS 1321715

FAMILY RETREAT | BRUCE PENINSULA $1,250,000. 2000 Ft waterfront on quiet Gilles Lake about 1 hr north of

FIRST TIME OFFERED!!!

BUNGALOW SEMI $349,900. ELMIRA Under construction Spacious

open concept 2 bedroom plan. Hardwood & gorgeous custom kitchen. Perfect for the empty nesters. Walkout Basement finishing is additional.

CALL FOR FURTHER DETAILS! EXCL.

$429,900. ELMIRA This 2 storey offers some nice updates including the large kitchen/dining area, hardwood and ceramic flooring, 2 pc bathroom, main floor living room and family room, walkout to patio and mature yard, upper level offers 3 bdrms and 4 piece bathroom, finished basement with recreation room & storage space. AMAZING TREE LINED STREET CLOSE TO SCHOOLS & PARKS. MLS

Exceptionally appointed, 1286 SQ.FT– 2046 SQ.FT (most with lofts), offering fully finished basements, 2+ bdrms, 3+ bathrooms, double car garage & deck on all units, gorgeous custom kitchens, hardwood, ceramic plus many other features. CALL FOR DETAILS. EXCLUSIVE

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Wiarton. Set on 25 acres of bush, this property boasts 2 cottages and 2 bunkies, SAND BEACH, panoramic views out 3 sides, amazing sunsets, quality fishing, star filled night skies, campfire outings. This property has only been owned by 2 families since 1917. Make your own memories. Call Dale. MLS 1327059

BROKERAGE

R.W. THUR REAL ESTATE LTD.

45 Arthur St. S., Elmira Office:

Updated, well-kept bungalow on scenic lot backing on mature wooded park land in St. Clements. 1500 sqft home on a large approx 100x172 ft lot. 3+ Bedrooms, 2 Baths, granite countertops, fully finished spacious basement family room.

519-669-2772 www.thurrealestate.com

nice size yard with mature trees, and oversized garden shed. MLS

Price $269,900 ADDRESS: 3 Arthur

St. S., ELMIRA

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$419,900

HAWKESVILLLE BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY – Operate your own business & live in the spacious, well maintained, 3 bdrm. dwelling. Presently a catering business (seats 54) but this property has endless opportunities! 1400 sq.ft. of commercial space. Single garage + lots of pkg. A unique opportunity. MLS.

OPEN HOUSE | Sunday, September 22nd | 1–3pm

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SMALL TOWN LIVING in the Village of Hawkesville. Backs to a wooded area.

Lovely hdwd. floors. Spacious dining room PLUS eat-in kitchen. Main floor den.

Fireplace in living room. W/O from fam. rm. to elevated deck. 2 bathrms. Gas furnace (2011). Lots of living space. Walkout basement. Immediate Possession! MLS.

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$294,900

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3 bdrom condo, end unit w/lg windows overlooking park, 3 bdroms w/master-ensuite and triple closet.Great kitchen & in suite laundry. Well maintained bldg with under ground parking, library, sauna, exercise rm, storage, party rm w/kitch Close to all amenities.

Call Mildred Frey to view.

Broker of Record, MVA Residential Res: 519.669.1068

IMMEDIATE POSSESSION! – Central location – close to schools, downtown & WMC. Spacious LR/DR. Eat-in kitchen. Main flr. washroom. 3 good sized bdrms. Walkup attic. Newer furnace.

Metal roof. Lots of potential in unfin. bsmt. Single garage. MLS REDUCED TO $294,900.

1019 Church St., St. Clements | 519-699-5324 $510,000 Exquisite home on a beautifully manicured 1.9 Acre lot.

Enjoy gorgeous sunsets from glassed in sun room. Hot water Heated floors in Kitchen, dining and laundry room.

Open concept home with lots of character, arched doorways, cathedral ceilings and main living area fireplace.

Recently updated Kitchen and main living area. Great 2 bedroom updated home, new windows, floors, roof, inside trim, doors and kitchen cupboards. MLS

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THE OBSERVER | SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2013

ELMIRA BLOOD DONOR CLINIC

Sophia: Blood Transfusion Sunday 6:30am

Give Blood ... to save lives.

The Next Elmira Clinic:

Thursday, September 26th 2013

from 2:30pm - 8:00pm at Lion's Hall, Elmira • Fabrics • Men's Wear • Ladies Coats • China • Glass Ware www.woolwichrentals.ca 100 Union St. • 519-669-0524

Mon. Closed · Tues.-Fri. 8-6 · Sat. 8-5

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2192 Floradale Rd. ~ Floradale, On.

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HANEY, HANEY & KENDALL FLORADALE FEED MILL LIMITED FLORADALE FEED MILL LIMITED Finest in feeds and service for over 50 years!

Serving you for over 100 Years 1145 Printery Rd., St. Jacobs | TEL: 519.664.2263

STORE HOURS: OPEN 24 HOURS, 7 DAYS A WEEK 315 Arthur St. S., Elmira • 519-669-5403

Mon. to Sat. 6 am - 5:30 pm • Closed Sunday

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FAMILY ALBUM ANNIVERSARY

ANNIVERSARY

STAG & DOE

John and Madelyne Imrie

Congratulations Mom and Dad

Stag & Doe

Scott Hanley & Keshia Collins

Congratulations as you celebrate your 60th Wedding Anniversary, September 26th, 2013.

We rejoice with you and acknowledge God’s richest blessings on your life together.

Love your family.

Ernie and Marie Fretz along with their family invite you to share with them in the celebration of their 50th Wedding Anniversary.

Sunday September 29th at St. Jacobs Mennonite Church 1310 King St. N., St. Jacobs ON. Open House from 2 - 4:00 p.m.

No gifts please, your presence is your gift to us

Where: Elmira Lions Hall 40 South St. W., Elmira When: October 5th 2013 – 8pm Come out and join the fun, there will be Door Prizes, Raffle, DJ and Late Lunch provided.

ANNIVERSARY

BIRTHDAY

BIRTHDAY

Congratulations on your 40th Wedding Anniversary,

Happy 13th Birthday Emily

Happy Birthday Dan!

Ken and Janice Woods

Life’s full of adventures For the bald man with dentures, Motorbike tires are spinning.

From the sidelines I shout, You’ll put your eye out!

The hair on my head is thinning.

Then your tibia broke, A clot, but no stroke, You’re beginning to start a new stage.

A wise word from your wife, To prolong your life It’s time to start acting your age!

It’s Nifty being 50!

September 14, 1973. Your love for each other is an inspiration.

Wishing you many more happy, healthy years together.

Love, Your Children and Grandchildren

DEATH NOTICES BEARINGER, ABNER W. |

HARDY, GLADYS | For-

Peacefully at his home, RR 1, Elmira on Thursday, September 12, 2013 at the age of 83 years.

merly of Breslau and Kitchener. Passed away on May 12, 2013, in Glace Bay, NS, at the age of 86.

BRENNER, CLARE J. |

HOOVER,

Passed away in Stratford General Hospital on Monday, September 16, 2013. He was born at Linwood on August 3, 1920 HAMM, DOROTHY LESTER

| Passed away peacefully at Leisureworld in Elmira on Sunday, September 15, 2013, at the age of 93.

From Mom and Dad

Lots of Love Shannon, Leah, James, Betty, Ron, Colleen, Bev and Families.

CLEANING UP AFTER FARMERS’ MARKET FIRE

NORMAN | Passed away peacefully on Saturday, September 14, 2013, at his home in RR3, Wallenstein, at the age of 91 years.

WEBSTER, BRUCE | Passed

away peacefully, after a struggle with cancer, at Hospice Wellington in Guelph on Friday, September 13, 2013, at the age of 62 years, of Elmira.

REMEMBER LOVED ONES IN THE OBSERVER

Kieswetter Demolition workers were in St. Jacobs this week to dismantle what remained of the fire-stricken St. Jacobs Farmers’ Market. Representatives from owner Mercedes Corp. hope to announce a temporary replacement structure in the coming weeks.

[WILL SLOAN / THE OBSERVER]

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LIVING HERE CHEF’S TABLE/ RYAN TERRY, FLOW CATERING

TRADITIONS / NO PLACE LIKE HOME

Mom! Where’s the meatloaf?

Bringing the music home Folk trio to play live show in the first of a series of house concerts to be hosted by Alma couple ELENA MAYSTRUK Chris and Gord Grose will be taking in a live concert tonight, but they won’t have to leave their Alma home. And they can expect an extended encore from the band ... right through until breakfast, in fact.

Thanks to an initiative called Home Routes, the couple is opening their home to folk singers from across Canada in a series of house concerts that will run until April 14.

“We actually went to a Home Routes concert out in Pinter Creek, Alberta.

We’ve been to a couple out there, that’s where our son lives, and just fell in love with the concept. I decided to give Gord something special for Christmas last year: We were giving gifts of time and I thought I would look into hosting a house concert,” Chris Grose said this week.

Unlike poodle skirts and saddle shoes, house concerts are one 1950s North American practice that failed to fade, and today acoustic performers far exceed the more conventional concert venues available to them, said Tim Osmond, artistic director at Home Routes. The nonprofit organization sends artists on performance circuits all over Canada to play in people’s homes, just like the Groses will open their doors to their friends and neighbours.

“The reality for most musicians is that there really aren’t a lot of venues, especially for acoustic artists, and that’s why we started

Home Routes,” he said.

Under the program, music fans like the Groses provide their home as a venue, put the artist up for the night, and feed them dinner and breakfast.

With so many people coming to the house, are the couple ready to act the obliging hosts they set out to be?

“It means opening you home and not only having it ready for visitors that evening but being ready for the overnighters as well.

It’s that bed-and-breakfast atmosphere,” Grose said.

Home Routes sends artists on 14 routes from the Yukon to Nova Scotia. The Ontario route, dubbed the Estelle Klein circuit after the former director of the Mariposa Folk Festival, will see six artists tour for two weeks each between September and April. Artists start their concerts in St. Thomas then on to Guelph, Alma, Georgetown, Mississauga, Tottenham, and Newmarket, followed by Penetanguishene, Georgian Bay, Mount Albert, Halliburton, and finish in Ottawa and Quebec.

“We give them a circuit so the shows are consistent and they develop an audience of their own over time. What we are trying to do is give people a series and build their audience from the ground up.”

While acoustic musicians gross an average of $12,000 per year from regular performances, the two-week run normally provides the travellers with repeated exposure and about $5,000 for the two weeks they spend on the circuit per-

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Chris and Gord Grose will be hosting a number of acoustic musicians who will put on concerts at their Alma home, a stop on an Ontario-wide circuit. The first concert is today (Saturday).

[ELENA MAYSTRUK / THE OBSERVER] forming 13 shows, Osmond song. You’re physically upNext up on October 20 is explained. All of the proclose to the musicians but Jaxon Haldane, followed ceeds from the $20 concert you also get very close to

by Bill Bourne in Novemadmission fees go directly the music itself. ber, Meaghan Blanchard in to the artists.

Six groups of travelling February, Charlie A’Court “It’s more intimate in artists will perform in in March and Laura Cora house concert. What I Alma starting today with tese in April. found is really special is 100 Mile House, a folk-trio Tickets cost $20 per perthat all of the music that is out of Edmonton. The trio, son at each performance. played and sung has been consisting of Peter Stone For future concert and written by the artists, and and Denise MacKay and ticket information contact so not only have they writScott Zubot, is an awardGord and Chris Grose at ten the song, but they tell winning group with three 519-846-0282 or chris@ the story that goes with the albums in circulation. huskyfarm.ca.

Fall is in the air, and that means savoury smells coming from the kitchen too. We are getting into the season where we not only tend to gather for feasts with our friends and families, we are also settling into our routines again after a fun-filled summer.

Whatever the reason, I think we are all craving those tasty home-cooked meals again.

This week we are breaking out the timeless classic, meatloaf. It’s one of those low-cost, go-to recipes that you can serve any day of the week, and even with company. What we love about meatloaf is that you can freeze it pre-baked or unbaked – you can make a large batch and freeze some for a quick mid-week meal. The best sides are, of course, mashed potatoes, green vegetables and maybe even some gravy if you have the means to do so.

As a bonus we have also included a fun spin on the traditional meatloaf by infusing some of our favourite Asian flavours. This recipe can be served with wasabi-infused mashed potatoes, some steamed bok choy and a nice green salad. In the end, we just took the original recipe and added a few twists and turns along the way, so we encourage you to do the same and possibly come

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Questions: boardgamers@rogers.com. Children under 16 are welcome to attend and participate if accompanied by a parent who is participating.

ST. MARYS, LINWOOD AND St. Josephs, Macton Beef and Pork Dinner, Linwood Recreation Complex. Doors open at 5 p.m. Dinner at 6 p.m. Door prizes. Adults $14 in advance, $15 at door. Kids 5-12 $7; under 5 free For tickets contact Gloria Kittle at 519-698-2577 or Bonnie Denstedt at 519-698-2222.

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STRESS REDUCTION & PREVENTION of Depression & Anxiety based on Mindfulness, Tuesdays, Oct. 8 to Nov. 26, 6:30-9 p.m. at Woolwich Community Health Centre. Open to all residents of Woolwich and Wellesley townships. No fee. Contact Joy by Sept. 24 at 519-664-3534, ext. 230.

OCTOBER 3 CAREGIVER SUPPORT – 1ST Thursday of the month (September to June) 10-11 a.m. at Woolwich Community Health Centre, 10 Parkside Dr., St. Jacobs. An informal group of care givers who are acquainted with the struggles you experience.

Come and talk or just listen while enjoying a cup of tea. For more information, call Lorraine at 59-6643794, ext. 229.

ME? BREASTFEED? – 6:30-8:30 p.m. at Woolwich Community Health Centre, 10 Parkside Dr., St. Jacobs. Find out about breastfeeding, how it can fit your lifestyle and how to be successful. Led

by Breastfeeding Buddies who are expert trained mothers. For information: Michelle Buckner at 519 772-1016 or email to mbuckner@kdchc.org.

THE LIONS CLUB OF Elmira Bingo – 7 p.m. at Elmira Lions Hall, 40 South St., Elmira. All proceeds go to support the many projects of the Lions Club of Elmira. For more information call 519-572-2669.

DRAYTON UNITED CHURCH TURKEY Supper from 5-7 p.m., P.M.D. Community Centre, Drayton.

Tickets at the door. Adults $15; children 5-12 yrs $5; Preschoolers free.

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OCTOBER 5 BRESLAU LIONS CLUB WILL host its second annual fundraising Family Fish Fry serving a delicious perch dinner with all the fixings. Dinner runs from 5-6:30 p.m., adults $20; children 6-12 are $12; kids under 6 eat free. Reservations are strongly encouraged.

Contact Dennis Lougheed at 519-213-1397 or visit the Breslau Community Centre to obtain tickets.

OCTOBER 9 SENIORS COMMUNITY DINING AT noon (doors open at 11:30 a.m.). Calvary United Church, 48 Hawkesville Rd., St. Jacobs. Cost: $11. Community Care Concepts invites you to join us for a hot noonday meal, fellowship and entertainment. Call 519-664-1900 by Oct. 7 to sign up.

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THE LIONS CLUB OF Elmira Bingo – 7 p.m. at Elmira Lions Hall, 40 South St., Elmira. All proceeds go to support the many projects of the Lions Club of Elmira. For more information call 519-572-2669.

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STRANGE BUT TRUE / BILL & RICH SONES PH.D.

Cheetahs are fast, but perhaps not as fast as we thought they were WEIRD NOTES

Q. If cheetahs donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t

really run that fast after all (based on recent research), where does everybody get the wrong impression?

A. Ask people and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll

cite the figure of 60 miles per hour (mph), or 97 kilometers per hour (kph), but these measurements were made with imprecise speedometers and on animals raised in captivity, unaccustomed to hunting, as reported by Alan Wilson of the Royal Veterinary College at the University of London, in â&#x20AC;&#x153;New Scientistâ&#x20AC;? magazine. Â

For better data, Wilson designed solar-powered collars with GPS trackers and other tools and fitted them on five wild cheetahs. The top speed recorded was 58 mph (93 kph), but usual speeds were more like 34 mph (54 kph).

What makes cheetahs such good hunters is their ability to change their speed by 9 mph (14 kph) in a single stride. This requires about four times the muscle power used by Usain Bolt for his 100-meter world record.

Cheetahsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; added success comes from their maneuverability: The animals they prey on are agile as well, so â&#x20AC;&#x153;the final moments of a hunt are played out with an intricate to-and-fro of footwork, rather than a flat-out race.â&#x20AC;?

Q. When is being online a truly LOVE-ly idea?

A. When it facilitates

would-be romancers falling in love. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Once considered â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;creepyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; by many, online dating has become mainstream with the rise of dating websites such as Match and OKCupid,â&#x20AC;? says â&#x20AC;&#x153;Scienceâ&#x20AC;? magazine. A new survey of 200,000 Americans suggests that â&#x20AC;&#x153;spouses who met online have marriages at least as stable and satisfying as those who met in the real world -- possibly more so.â&#x20AC;?

Psychologist John Cacioppo of the University of Chicago and an advisor to eHarmony, a huge online dating site, asked the company to analyze the responses of the 20,000 (out of 200,000)

who participated in the survey. About a third of the respondents reported meeting their spouse online; of that number, about half met through online dating, the rest through online venues such as chat rooms, games or other virtual worlds. These people were asked to assess their degree of happiness and their understanding of their spouseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s feelings. Online marriages, it turned out, were durable. In fact, as reported by the team in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;people who met online were slightly less likely to divorce and scored higher on marital satisfaction.â&#x20AC;? Cupidâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s arrows get on target online!

Q. What is â&#x20AC;&#x153;viscosityâ&#x20AC;?

and whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a simple way to see this physical property at play at a backyard picnic?

A. Viscosity is a mea-

sure of how easily or with difficulty a fluid can flow. For example, cold molasses has high viscosity and flows sluggishly, whereas water has low viscosity and flows freely, explains Jearl Walker in â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Flying Circus of Physics.â&#x20AC;? Ketchup (catsup) is a fluid whose viscosity depends on how it is made to flow. If itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s left undisturbed for a while, it has a high viscosity making it difficult to pour from a bottle with a narrow opening.

However, if it is shaken or stirred for a few seconds, its viscosity notice-

ably drops as portions of the fluid slide over other portions, probably untangling some of the interlocking long-chain molecules.

At a picnic, you might notice this effect when trying to pour ketchup on your hamburger, only to discover that someone else had just shaken the container -- and now you end up with more ketchup than hamburger on the plate. Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hope itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only a few swear words that go flying and not something a whole lot more substantial.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS Bill is a journalist, Rich holds a doctorate in physics. Together the brothers bring you â&#x20AC;&#x153;Strange But True.â&#x20AC;? Send your questions to strangetrue@compuserve.com.

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within engine (2wrds) 49. Declines 50. 4840 square yards 51. Maltreater 52. Death on the Nile cause, perhaps 54. Spanish sherry 56. Type of larvae 61. 17th letter of Greek alphabet 64. Orange plantation 65. Skin cracked 68. Took five 69. Bills, e.g.

72. Petrol unit 73. Violin bow accessory 74. Downward slope 76. Argus-eyed 77. Bare 78. Little ones 79. Seals (anagram) 80. ___ fly 81. Dwarf buffalo DOWN 1. By the way 2. Protective sheath

3. Cut of meat of young sheep 4. Money in the bank, say 5. Balaamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mount 6. Irish taphouse 7. When repeated, like some shows 8. Morsel leftover 9. Virgin Mary in mourning 10. Ring bearer, maybe 11. Spiciness 12. Self-interest 13. Cancel 14. Put in order 15. Declare 20. Cow chow 24. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Majorâ&#x20AC;? animal 26. Arrogant people 28. Renaissance fiddle 31. Loft 32. Sisterly 34. Priestly garb 35. â&#x20AC;&#x153;___ rang?â&#x20AC;?

37. Easily do well 38. Head, slangily 40. Anal irrigation 41. Flightless flock

42. Soaking up 43. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Comprende?â&#x20AC;?

44. â&#x20AC;&#x153;To ___ is human ...â&#x20AC;?

46. Type of odd-toed ungulate 47. Stern 48. Native Australian 52. Metal colouring to give silver look 53. Didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t dillydally 55. Flower family type 56. Capture 57. Anatomical ring 58. Armour plates to protect upper thighs 59. Aggregate 60. Middle schools 62. To this writing 63. City in West Texas 66. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mâroufâ&#x20AC;? baritone 67. Pocket bread (Brit sp) 70. Zits 71. Disreputal woman 74. dichlorodiphenytrichloroethane 75. Certain intersection

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CHEF’S TABLE: New take on an old standby

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Beat eggs in large bowl, add sour cream, bread crumbs, onion, carrot, cheese, parsley, salt, pepper and beef, mixing well; pack into 9x5” loaf pan; Combine ketchup and mustard, spread over loaf; Bake in 375-degree oven for 45 minutes to an hour.

Let stand 5-10 minutes, then remove from pan; Serve hot or cold – make 8 hot slices or 12 cold slices.

Basic meatloaf recipe, better than mom’s recipe.

A food processor comes in handy as everything can be chopped in it.

Asian Style Meatloaf 2 eggs, beaten lightly with a fork 1/4 cup coconut milk 1 tsp soy sauce 1/4 cup panko bread crumbs 1 medium sized onion, chopped 1/4 cup shredded carrots 1/4 cup shredded purple cabbage 1 tbsp minced ginger 1 tbsp minced garlic 1 tbsp chopped cilantro 1/4 tsp pepper 1 tsp salt 1-1/2 lbs ground beef

1/4 cup hoisin sauce 1 tbsp brown sugar

Beat eggs in large bowl, add all ingredients except for hoisin sauce and brown sugar, mixing well; pack into 9x5” loaf pan; Spread hoisin over loaf, sprinkling brown sugar on top; Bake in 375-degree oven for 45 minutes to an hour.

Let stand 5-10 minutes, then remove from pan.

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Economical 1.4L 16V engine, 6 speed auto, power sunroof, hands-free communication, sport bucket seats, sport suspension, aluminum wheels, keyless entry, a/c, fog lamps, power windows/locks and more. Finished in blue, 22,994km Previous Rental $16,995 D#11975

2.7L Auto Trany, Keyless Entry, Power Windows/ Locks/Mirrors, A/C, Cruise/Tilt, ABS Brakes, 17 Aluminum Rims, Rear 60/40 folding seats. Front and Side Air Bags, Finished in Silver, 45,256km’s, $11,995 D#11906

2nd and 3rd row stow-n-go seating, climate group front and rear air, power driver seat, 3.3L V6, power windows/locks/mirrors, cruise control and much more. Bright silver, 59,517km. Previous Rental $16,995 D#11976

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2011 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited - Sahara

3.8LV6,auto trans.,Navigation with 6.5 inch touchscreen media center,uconnect with bluetooth,freedom hardtop and softtop,keyless entry ,auto-start,18" aluminum wheels,air cond.,power windows/locks/mirrors,and more. Finished in black. 74,900 km., $26,995. D#11942

@ 5.99% 84mths

2012 Town & Country

3.6L Auto Tranny, Navigation, Two Screen DVD System, Rear Backup Camera, Uconnect Hands Free, Dual Power Doors and Liftgate, Rear Air and Heat. Power Rear Windows, Sirius, Power Seats, And More. 31,098km, Black or Silver, Rental $28,900 D#11720

2012 Ram 1500 Crew 4x4 Sport

5.7L Auto Trany, Leather Heated and Cooled Bucket Seats, Chrome Side Steps, 20' Chrome Rims, U Connect with Voice Command, Remote Start, Heated Steering Wheel, Dual Temp Control, Anti Spin Diff, Sport Premium Group, And Much More. $34,995, 54,125km D#11828

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@ 5.99% 48mths

84mths @5.99%

2012 Durango Crew Plus

3.6L Auto. Trany. Leather Heated Seats Front and Rear, Navigation with Touch Screen Radio, Remote Start, Rear DVD Entertainment System, Power Lift Gate, Power Sunroof, Auto Headlamps, Uconnect Hands Free, Rear Backup Camera, Push Button Start and much more.

Previous Rental. White 42,234km $35,995 D#11684

2007 Ram 2500 4x4 SLT Diesel

Quad Cab, 6.7L Diesel auto Trany, Power Driver Seat, Trailer Tow Mirrors, Fog Lamps, Power Windows/Locks/Mirrors, Keyless Entry, Tilt/AC, Cruise Control, CD, And Much More. Red and Silver, 81,080km $33,995 D#11829

CALL ONE OF OUR PROFESSIONAL SALES REPS TODAY: RAY FREDERICK, COLIN KROPF, JEFF JOHNSON. All sale prices exclude H.S.T, and License Fee. Fixed rates, based on bi-weekly payments O.A.C. Finance rates are only good for date of publication.

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