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Elmira, Ontario, Canada | observerxtra.com | Volume 26 | Issue 39
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Tight race meant threeday delay before MP learned he’d retained riding Steve Kannon Observer Staff
Frannie’s on Victoria Street has a heated patio for Oktoberfest this year where restaurant goers can view a made-from-hay Onkle Hans out front.
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After a wet start, fall expected to be warmer and drier Justine Fraser Observer Staff
AUTUMN’S ARRIVAL COINCIDED WITH SOME cool, rainy weather, but we can probably expect a milder-than-normal fall, at least for the time being. The at-times-heavy rainfalls last week caused some small flooding events in the area – the low-level bridge in St. Jacobs was completely under water at times, for instance – and the wind took down some branches, but the
weather was largely low-key. “There has been some flooding in some areas roads, and one of the reasons for that is because the amount of rain that we got in August and into September was more than we normally would see,” explained David Phillips, senior climatologist for Environment Canada. “It’s not what you’d call a gully-washer. If you got that amount of rain in two hours, well, then there would have been a lot of more flooding in
basements. It was steady. It was hard at times. Rates were up, but it was over a 48-hour period. We often get more rain in September than any other month because of remnants of hurricanes or storms or what have you, but this was just one of the characters of storms that we’ll see more of in the future. Therefore, you have more water filling ditches and creeks and streams and overrunning culverts.” The fall is set to be a milder and drier season as residents
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begin to watch the leaves change, noted Phillips. “We see temperatures being warmer than normal, but not July warm. We’re not talking about return to the muscle shirt or tank top – it’s sweater weather. Typically, we start getting frost late-September to the middle of October in southern Ontario. We don’t normally see snow until Remembrance Day. Our models are saying that because of all of the heat that we → WEATHER 5
IT BECAME APPARENT SHORTLY AFTER the polls closed September 20 that Canada would have another Liberal-led minority government, but it wasn’t until three days later that Kitchener-Conestoga MP Tim Louis learned he’d be part of that caucus. A decision in the riding came down to mail-in ballots, as election-night returns had Louis and Conservative challenger Carlene Hawley separated by fewer than 200 votes. By September 23, Elections Canada reported the gap at 528 – the incumbent received 19,975 votes (39.2 per cent of the total), while Hawley’s total was 19,447 (38.2 per cent). Though tight, the margin of victory actually widened over the 365-vote difference in 2019 when Louis defeated long-time Conservative incumbent Harold Albrecht. In 2015, Albrecht had edged Louis by 251 votes. The closeness of each of his three elections had Louis joking about a “Landslide Louis” moniker. “I must have been called ‘Landslide Louis’ five times already today,” he said two days → ELECTION 5
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