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Wind power continues to increase capacity

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But manufacturers such as Elmira’s Wind Simplicity see some turbulent times ahead for the industry WILL SLOAN A study released last month from the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) showed that global wind energy capacity grew 19 per cent in 2012, and that Canada remains the world’s ninth largest wind energy market. But for Sharolyn Vettese, the president and CEO of the Torontoand Elmira-based Wind Simplicity, the numbers can be deceiving.

“I think that was based on the goodwill that was set by the government commitment with the Green Energy Act in 2009,” said Vettese. “But since then, the government has backed down, or has taken a backseat commitment to renewable energy, and

Paul Kennedy the Reptile Man (top) paid a visit to the Elmira branch library during March Break to acquaint kids with the scalier side of the animal kingdom. Above left, Gabriel Hicknal, 7, checks out a scorpion. Above right, Brooke Paul, 8, sticks her tongue out at Marshmallow the python.

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nuclear has ratcheted up its power.”

She added, “Last year, we were very, very hard hit by the lack of commitment towards renewable energy, and we’re not the only ones.”

Wind Simplicity, located at 1 Union St. in Elmira, is best known for manufacturing the Windancer – a small wind turbine that can generate onsite energy for residential or commercial use. The organization is not nearly as governmentdependent as the major turbine manufacturers, but Vettese has still seen a downturn.

“We’re not directly affected by that, but it just casts a pall over the industry.”

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WIND: Despite changes since initial push of Green Energy Act, small producers still see a market FROM | COVER

The study from the GWEC showed a number of statistics seemingly in the wind industry’s favour: 69 per cent of Ontarians agree that “Ontario should be a leader in wind and solar energy production,” compared to 20 per cent who disagree. In Quebec, 79 per cent of respondents in an opinion poll from Le Devoir newspaper supported wind energy development.

Robert Hornung, president of the Canadian Wind

Energy Association, said, “Wind energy continues to enjoy strong majority support as a choice for new electricity.”

“Not only is that more cost-effective, it will create a whole new industry,” said Vettese. “We’ll be part of the third industrial wave, because wind creates manufacturing jobs … It’s also a more sustainable life cycle than nuclear and fossil fuel.”

Still, not everyone sees it that way, and the topic of wind energy has increas-

ingly become a political hot potato. Vettese believes a turning point in Canada came during the 2011 Ontario provincial election, when Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak said of wind turbine development, “I think it’s causing damage to communities and it’s awfully expensive.” While thenpremier Dalton McGuinty supported development, Vettese has seen government support become muted.

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“There is a lot of misunderstanding, a lot of ignorance, and there is a fear of change,” said Vettese. “The major players who have been in power so long, whether it’s oil or nuclear, manipulate all the levers because they have all the controls. It’s basically a fear factor that has been manipulated by

came on top of rumours that there may have been correlation between wind turbine noise and medical problems. A 2010 provincial health report did not find a link, but the controversy lingered in many minds.

The GWEC report indicates that there are 6,500 MW of wind energy currently in operation, with the means to provide power for close to two million homes. But while the statistic that Canada ranks

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For all the setbacks, Vettese hopes that businesses like hers, specializing in compact turbines for private use, will be wellpositioned for the future.

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Cerebral palsy no barrier to lending a helping hand 12-year-old Lucas Harrison happy to help with the younger kids at Elmira day camp WILL SLOAN When 12-year-old Park Manor PS student Lucas Harrison found that he was one year too old to attend the Woolwich Memorial Centre’s March Break camp, recreation programs manager David Ruetz suggested that he become a volunteer. Such an arrangement would not be uncommon, except for one key detail: Lucas has cerebral palsy. “[David] said, ‘There is no developmental delay, he can handle the responsibility,’” recalled Angela Harrison, Lucas’ mother. “He’s having a blast. With a disability, you’re limited on your choices as you grow up.”

“My mom wanted to get me involved,” said Lucas.

“She wanted to teach me to have independence.”

While Lucas’ case of cerebral palsy is considered relatively mild, Harrison said that the disability can be a considerable obstacle for a child of his age – both physically and spiritually.

“He begins noticing it the older he gets,” said Harrison. “Like, at the beginning of the year, when ev-

After becoming too old to join the Woolwich Memorial Centre’s March Break camp, Elmira student Lucas Harrison was encouraged to come onboard as a volunteer. He spent the week helping with the younger kids.

[WILL SLOAN / THE OBSERVER] eryone got lockers, Lucas – because of his motor skills – couldn’t get the combination open, or couldn’t get the key in the lock.”

She felt that taking on the responsibility of lead-

ference between you and others – he just wants to be like everybody else. …

This is something that I think is going to skyrocket his self-esteem and selfconfidence.”

ing Elmira’s tots would be a character-building experience for the adolescent.

“At that age – that very delicate age when puberty is setting in and you’re starting to notice the dif-

Such self-confidence must be earned, however, after completing the responsibilities of the job.

At the WMC this week, Harrison and his fellow volunteers led the kids

through such activities as swimming, crafts, baking, pajama day, and skating (“he’s able to spin around the ice on his wheelchair,” said Harrison). And, when dealing with kids of a certain age, he spent a great deal of time trying to get them to simmer down.

“Most of these kids are 5 or 6 … I tell the kids if they’re being really rough,” said Lucas. Does this happen a lot? “Oh yeah,” said Lucas. “Every 15 minutes.”

Such is the nature of marshalling the pint-sized, as anyone who has ever babysat siblings will tell you. Now that March Break has drawn to a close, would he do it again?

“Maybe,” replied Lucas.

Added Angela Harrison, “Lucas mentioned to me last night at the dinner table that this might be something that he would like to do when he grows up – working with kids.”

Putting a spotlight on safe practices during Ag Safety Week WILL SLOAN “Nobody plans an accident,” Mike Chambers told the audience at the Waterloo Community Health Centre’s annual Farm Safety Rally on Wednesday night in St. Jacobs. “I don’t believe there’s anybody who’d ever get up in the morning and say, ‘Today would be a great day to have an accident!’”

Nobody in the audience vocally doubted the notion, but several of them had suffered accidents on the job before. Chambers, who is the sales manager for Stoltz Sales and Ser-

vice in Elmira, delivered a presentation to farmers and farm-owners at the Woolwich Community Centre that emphasized a basic truism of misfortune: “Many, many times an accident happens because we are in a hurry.”

Chambers enumerated the many hypothetical situations. “We’re planting; it’s going to rain on our hay; chores are taking a little longer and you have to get to the next thing in a hurry.”

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“That’s a warning sign.

That’s telling you you’re likely not paying attention.

“Be very, very cautious,” he continued. “If you’re running the mower condition and you run very, very close to something, or you’re swerving: stop, and get out. Get off, and take a walk around.” While show-

Growing up on a farm, Mike Chambers learned the value of “safety first” when his younger brother suffered a tractor injury.

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Foodlink petition encourages restaurants to use local food WILL SLOAN If you’ve never stopped to ask which township’s chicken your morning omelet came from, you’re not alone. While Woolwich and Wellesley boast bustling farming industries, Foodlink, the St. Jacobs-based resource for regional food producers, has launched a petition to encourage local restaurants to buy and serve Waterloo Region food.

“There are many, many local restaurants that are already really passionate

about local food,” said Foodlink board member Jane Barkley. “Sometimes I think it’s a matter of understanding what we have available in our region. Not everybody is necessarily aware of the wealth of resources that we have here in Waterloo Region.”

“Restaurants: Show us your commitment to local food!” is the organization’s newly-launched petition on Change.org, encouraging area restaurants to seek out homegrown foods in farmers’ markets and grocery stores. The peti-

tion – which comes with the hashtag #giveuslocal – emphasizes that buying local would help the area’s economy and food system sustainability, and warns that signers will “vote with [their] dollars.”

Aside from supporting the local economy, Barkley stresses the potential health benefits.

“You get into talking about organics and nongenetically-modified foods, and it just opens up a conversation about other things that have health implications. We know more

about the food that we’re closer to than we do about food that is shipped to us from far away.”

But if the benefits of buying local are so seemingly obvious, then why do so many restaurants avoid that route?

“There can be any number of reasons,” said Barkley. “There are some obstacles that are processbased. They may have to go through a distributor, supplier or wholesaler, and that decision may be made by a head office.”

But more than anything,

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she has found that the biggest source of trepidation comes from the fear of higher costs.

“If we’re pushing restaurants to use local food, or there’s a perception – or a reality – that’s it’s more expensive, who’s going to assume that cost? Is it going to be the restaurants or the consumers, and will the consumers go to the restaurants if they have to assume the costs?”

For this reason, Foodlink hopes the petition will be a jumping-off point to discussions between res-

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ing an alarming slideshow of tractor collisions, Chambers introduced two catchphrases for the evening: “Look twice, save a life – it might be yours,” and “Safety first will make you last.”

Chambers, who grew up on a farm, was able to recount a story from his own childhood that showed he knows of what he speaks. With his two younger brothers, he used to drive a tractor to round up garbage.

“My younger brother climbed over the hood, stuck his leg between the bucket and the tin wall [of a house]. My youngest brother thought, ‘I’ll just

From the Polka Dot Door to the Bloomingdale Library, Canadian television veteran Cindy Cook led Woolwich kids through a rousing rendition of “B-I-N-G-O” on Tuesday. And yes, Polkaroo was in attendance for the March Break event.

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taurateurs, food producers, and their customers about how best to boost local products.

“It’s important to dispel the myths, but also tackle the reality, so that restaurants don’t feel that they’re being expected to shoulder all of the costs,” said Barkley. “There are definitely community liaisons who are there and willing to support the restaurants that use local food.

“It really is about the community working together and communicating.”

jump in the seat and start the tractor.’ And he did. As my brother was putting his leg down, the tractor came ahead and pushed my brother into the tin wall.

“He ended up with major surgery. … The one good thing that came out of the whole thing was that it wasn’t a cement wall, or he would have lost his life.”

The Farm Safety Rally was held as part of Canadian Agriculture Safety Week, an annual initiative launched by the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association to spread education and awareness about forward-thinking behaviour on the farm. Today (Saturday) marks the last day of the week, but as Chambers’ younger brother can attest, farm safety is not limited to a weekly border.

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Police union reaches new deal Police officers will receive pay increases of 2.7 per cent this year and 2.95 per cent in 2014 under a deal reached this week between the Waterloo Regional Police Services Board and the Waterloo Regional Police Association.

The agreement also includes a retroactive 2.7 per cent for 2012: the previous collective agreement had expired on December 31, 2011.

The three-year deal includes some increase to benefits.

Deal keeps Sunwing pilots in the skies The Canadian Auto Workers have reached a formal agreement with Sunwing Airlines, which offers seasonal flights from the Region of Waterloo International Airport.

CAW Local 7378 represents some 160 professional airline pilots at Sunwing whose previous collective agreement expired on November 30, 2012.

The agreement was reached with assistance from the Labour Program’s

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In honour of the 200th birthday of Scottish missionary and explorer David Livingstone, Castle Kilbride in Baden presents an exhibit featuring this distinguished Victorian hero.

Along with artifacts connected to Livingstone’s exploits, the display

highlights the connection with Listowel, where one of his brothers settled.

From humble beginnings to a national hero, Livingstone became one of Scotland’s most famous men. He spent 30 years in Africa as a missionary and explorer. He was the first European to cross Africa and to see Victoria Falls. He is celebrated as “Africa’s first freedom fighter.” Newspapers, magazines and books reported the heroic tales of Livingstone as he became a celebrity in the eyes of the public when he lost contact with the outside world. Hired by the New York Herald newspaper in

1869 to track down the missing Livingstone, Henry Morton Stanley found him near the shore of Lake Tanganyika on Nov. 10, 1871 where Stanley greeted him with the now famous words, "Dr Livingstone, I presume?"

March 19 marks Livinstone’s 200th birthday. More information can be found online at www.castlekilbride.ca.

Give your input on climate change How will Waterloo Region take real action on climate change? You can have your say during a series of

community forums, starting March 19 in Waterloo.

Information will be presented about the current direction of the climate action plan, including how an overall reduction target will be set for Waterloo Region, and the benefits and connections with energy and water use, economic development, local food, health, and quality of life.

Along with Tuesday’s event (1:30-4 p.m.) at Knox Church in Waterloo, there’s a forum the next day (4:30-7 p.m.) at Cambridge City Hall and March 21 (4:30-7 p.m.) at The Museum in Kitchener.

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Don’t push the luck of the Irish too far this St. Patrick’s Day weekend The Waterloo Regional Police Service is reminding the community to stay safe this St. Patrick’s Day weekend. Police advise that community members drink responsibly and not drive under the influence. They ask motorists to exercise extra caution around pedestrians and that pedestrians take precautions as well and cross at designated locations.

Additionally, police will be live-tweeting from various St. Patrick’s Day locations.

The tweets will include safety tips, crowd management information, enforcement efforts and community contact. Community members can access the tweets by following @WRP-

SToday on Twitter and by checking #StPatsWR. Through the weekend police will be patrolling Waterloo Region on foot, by bicycle, on horseback and in cars while concentrating on keeping the peace in entertainment areas and University campuses.

Officers from the traffic branch will be assisting R.I.D.E. programs and a broader police response this weekend.

In 2012, from March 17-18, Waterloo Regional Police laid 250 open liquor charges, 22 charges for under-age drinking and two public intoxication charges (statistics do not include charges laid by university police or bylaw enforcement officers).

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9:21 AM | A young man riding a snowmobile hit a fence while traveling on a trail about 100 yards off of Floradale Road in Woolwich Township. The impact ejected him from the snowmobile,

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Romance fraud on the increase One of the fastest growing and most devastating fraud schemes in Canada is perpetrated through romance scams, according to members of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Anti-Rackets Branch.

At around 11 a.m. on March 14, police, fire and EMS crews were at the scene of a collision on St. Charles St. W. near Shantz Station Road outside of Maryhill. The driver of a lime-green Volkswagen beetle ended up crashing into a ditch on the side of the road. There was moderate damage to the vehicle.

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the potential victim who is seeking a relationship.

According to the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre, in 2012 there were 1,460 complaints from Canada of romance fraud. Of those, 1,047 victims were identified and their combined financial losses exceeded $14.8 million – more than any other identified financial loss due to fraud.

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Funny how a casino is starting to look good now WELL, THAT WAS QUICK. With Woolwich having said yes to the prospect of hosting an OLG casino, it didn’t take long for Kitchener, Waterloo and even Cambridge to indicate that they’re now interested in the idea.

Kitchener and Waterloo had both been making disparaging comments. Cambridge had in fact voted to reject the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation’s overtures. The reason for the change of heart? The money, obviously.

Having opened the door, Woolwich gave the cities, each of which shares a border with the township, an excuse to go after the pot of gold: if it’s going to be right next door, why not just have it here?

The other municipalities in the gaming zone – except for Centre Wellington, which already hosts a slots facility at Grand River Raceway – originally sounded much like the opponents heard at public meetings in Woolwich in that they cited a list of negatives that were more hyperbole than reality. In the end, the opposition’s only argument involves morality. Woolwich having cleared the way, the other municipal councils have now seemingly sidestepped that flak from some in their communities.

The morality issue and the resultant fuss really have no place in the local debate: that argument should be made at the provincial level, where there’s a case to be made to reduce the government’s addiction to the easy money that comes with gambling.

Gambling is big business in the province. OLG runs a variety of lotteries, charity and aboriginal casinos, commercial casinos, and slot machines at horse-racing tracks. According to OLG figures, the Crown corporation generated $3.7 billion in economic activity in 2011.

About half that amount goes to health care programs, the operation of hospitals and the like.

Other good works, such as the numerous community donations through the Ontario Trillium Foundation, which doles out about $110 million a year, are linked to gambling profits mostly to make us feel better about government-run gaming.

Gambling is still a controversial issue despite the fact many of us indulge in some form of it, even something as innocuous as buying a raffle ticket.

If the region’s cities do enter the fray via the public consultations the OLG has requested, they can look to Woolwich for a display of how not to do things. Oh, there were a series of meetings over a few months, which was admirable, but the process was stained by the ill-conceived and poorly executed “surveys” conducted by the township. Both the online questionnaire and the mail-out postcard scheme were poorly executed by staff, for which no one has been censured despite the waste of money and the result of clouding the process.

Council did a poor job of explaining how the surveys fit into its decision – the input certainly wasn’t anything resembling a referendum. Nor did anyone note that the bungled exercise resulted in a situation where people (read opponents) could vote multiple times, a system ripe for abuse by an organized group with strong opinions in a situation that left most residents apathetic.

Kitchener, Waterloo and Cambridge may want to go through the door opened by Woolwich, but you can bet they have no interest in following the township’s lead when it comes to the consultation process.

Now that there's a taker, the goodies offered up by the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation suddenly look much more appealing, it seems.

WORLD VIEW / GWYNNE DYER

When troops go, nothing will have changed WORLD AFFAIRS “Yesterday’s bombings (in Afghanistan) in the name of the Taliban were aimed at serving the foreigners and supporting the presence of the foreigners in Afghanistan and keeping them in Afghanistan by intimidating us,” said Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai on Sunday.

What on Earth could he have meant by that?

The “foreigners” he is talking about are the troops from the United States and various NATO countries in Europe that have been in Afghanistan for the past dozen years. They will almost all be gone by the end of next year. Can Karzai seriously think that the Taliban bombs in Kabul and Khost last Saturday, which killed 19 people, were meant to get the Americans, British, Germans et. al. to keep their soldiers in Afghanistan longer?

If he were the leader of al-Qaeda, you can imagine him saying that. It was always al-Qaeda’s goal to

get Western military forces entangled in military occupations in the Muslim world, in the belief that that would nurture popular hostility both to the West and to the local leaders who collaborated with it.

But Karzai IS a collaborator, parachuted into Afghanistan after the American invasion in 2001.

He may have won the first presidential election in 2005 legitimately, but by the second election in 2009 he was so unpopular that he was only re-elected thanks to massive voterigging, tacitly condoned by the United States. And when the Americans leave, he had better leave with them.

So what is all this nonsense about the Taliban bombs being an attempt to persuade the “foreigners” that they have to stay, and to “intimidate” Karzai and his cronies into letting them stay? It can best be explained as a manifestation of the “Najibullah syndrome.”

Najibullah was the Communist leader who ruled Afghanistan during the latter stages of the Soviet occupation and immedi-

ately after the Russians left. When the Taliban finally took Kabul in 1996, he was tortured, castrated, dragged through the streets behind a truck, and then hanged from a traffic light.

It can be safely assumed that Karzai and his cronies, when they contemplate the forthcoming American departure, are acutely aware of this precedent.

This leads to various flailing attempts by members of the regime to distance themselves from the American occupation forces who originally boosted them into power. Karzai has been increasingly vocal in criticizing the NATO forces in Afghanistan, as if he had nothing to do with their presence in the country, and didn’t owe his presidency to them.

Let’s deconstruct that remarkable statement of Karzai’s. The message is that he is an Afghan patriot who is trying to make the “foreigners” go home, whereas the Taliban are trying to keep the Americans and their NATO allies in the country to further their own nefarious purposes.

It makes no sense whatsoever, but what else can he

say? That the Taliban are winning, the Americans are getting out, and he is doomed?

He’s not really doomed.

Since the constitution does not allow him to run for the presidency again, he can easily leave the country for “health reasons” or whatever before the foreign troops depart. He must have salted away enough money abroad to live quite well in exile, as have almost all the other members of the regime. So why does he act as though he might have a future in post-occupation Afghanistan?

The Najibullah precedent is instructive here, too. The former collaborator with the Soviet occupiers stubbornly believed that the Taliban would understand that his motives had been pure, and after all he was a Pashtun like them. He refused to leave Kabul before the Taliban took over, even though numerous friends implored him to. Karzai apparently suffers from the same delusions, and may eventually suffer the same fate.

This is not to say that DYER | 8

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THEIR VIEW / QUESTION OF THE WEEK

What do you enjoy about the coming of spring?

»»Heather Trakalo

»»Tanya Martin

»»David Brown

»»Tanya Rempel

»»Bill McKee

I'm looking forward to gardening.

Warm weather and flowers.

Getting out on my bicycle.

Flowers coming out.

Warmer weather. It’s too cold!

"Shame on you, Woolwich council, for voting yes to the proposed casino." Terry Seiling | page 8 HIS VIEW / STEVE KANNON

Immigration poll results should come as no surprise to those paying attention EDITOR'S NOTES Immigration. The very mention of the subject can be inflammatory, as a longstanding government policy continues to be handled with kid gloves, the result of political correctness. For the most part, it’s only discussed in the context of providing more workers (except for the foreign workers brought in at lower wages, a discussion the Harper government wants swept under the rug).

A poll published this week by the National Post shows, however, that a discussion of immigration and a reduction in the numbers of those admitted to this country are overdue.

The survey of 1,766 Canadians found 70 per cent, including 58 per cent of those born in another country, were in favour of limiting immigration. Among those whose parents were not born in Canada, 66 per cent were in support of limiting the number of qualified immigrants over admitting all prospective qualified new-

comers, the paper reported.

Support for immigration limits was steady across the provinces and across party lines, with a range of between 64 per cent and 77 per cent among all regions and political affiliations, the Forum Research poll showed.

The survey was published shortly after the Canadian government released its preliminary 2012 immigration figures, showing the country admitted 257,515 immigrants last year, up from 248,751 in 2011.

Can we discuss immigration without sinking into accusations of racism and xenophobia? Probably not.

Does that mean we shouldn’t have that discussion? Certainly not.

While Canada has done a better job of integrating newcomers into its population than have countries in Western Europe, many of the problems could easily surface here. Now’s the time to nip it in the bud.

That probably means drastically curtailing, or even halting, this country’s unsustainably high levels of immigration.

Canada currently admits 250,000 immigrants a year,

HOW TO REACH US

the majority of Canadians increasingly worried about immigration’s negative impact on the country while continuing to pander to immigrant votes, a mainstay with all political parties.

(The idea being that immigrants are grateful to the government that brought them into the country.)

At the heart of the changes is the realization that the majority of immigrants don’t meet the already-weak economic rationale for immigrants in the first place: the need for skilled workers who already speak one of our two official languages.

In fact, only 17 per cent of immigrants fit that bill.

Another 26 per cent are the immediate family members – spouses and children – of those immigrants, although they, too, are lumped into the economic class, which officially makes up about 60 per cent of immigrants.

That class also includes “business” immigrants, the kind that come here to open businesses, typically small ones that pay poorly rather the occasional splashy ones governments like to trot out for public consumption.

The numbers are obviously padded to hide the fact that more than fourfifths of immigrants – including the 13 per cent who come as refugees – don’t contribute to the economy, but in fact draw far more social services than they provide in tax revenue.

Immigration has long been detached from Canada’s economic needs, argues the Ottawa-based Centre for Immigration Policy Reform.

In 2010, for instance, the government allowed in 280,000 immigrants, the largest number in 57 years, despite a recession, growing unemployment, increasing demand for social services and a record-high deficit.

The organization says immigration numbers should be cut dramatically.

Drawing on British studies about its immigrant problems, the number here should be somewhere around 70,000, centered on skilled, ready-for-theworkplace immigrants and their immediate families.

An immediate drop in numbers should be the first step, the rational response to current economic condi-

tions. Perhaps even a freeze is in order, providing time for exiting immigrants to integrate into our society, both economically and culturally.

Changes are needed on both fronts.

Economically, where immigrants once assumed a comparable standard of living after about 10 years in the country, that trend stopped almost three decades ago. Today, immigrants now earn considerably less – as little as half of native-born Canadians – with little prospect of improvement. That in turn leads to some of the societal problems increasingly associated with immigration.

Record numbers streaming in add to overall GDP and taxation levels, but that does not translate into greater prosperity for all.

Just the opposite, as quality of life takes a hit, particularly in larger cities.

There are plenty of reasons to discuss immigration policy and the attendant and equally-flawed multiculturalism programs. We just have to get past the politically correct nonsense and be adults about for the sake of the country.

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the highest per capita level in the world. Government officials, however, can provide no good reason for doing so.

The failures of the current system are obvious.

Economically, new immigrants cost us far more than they add to the economy – about $16 billion a year.

Yet we continue to hear that unsustainably high immigration levels are needed to offset an aging population or to counter declining birthrates or to provide skilled workers or to provide people to do work Canadians don’t want to do … and the list goes on.

Few of the economic arguments stand up to scrutiny.

Worse still are the impacts to our culture and social cohesion. That topic, however, is a political hot potato, rife with accusations of racism, which stifles debate.

To its credit, the Harper government has made some reforms. It wants to reduce the number of family-class immigrants slightly, focusing on those in the economic class.

Cracking down on illegals is also part of its plan. Its stance attempts to mollify

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THIS WEEK IN HISTORY

The data is in and it paints a pretty bleak picture: food bank usage up, children going to school hungry, continuing loss of farmers and fishers and the resulting rural and coastal devastation, indigenous communities unable to access their traditional foods and suffering from a significantly higher incidence of diet-related diseases. There are no easy fixes, which is why the federal government must take the lead and put food in the budget.

"So-called white-collar crime is generally treated less severely than other forms of illegal activity, which is another way of saying there are different rules for 'important people' than the rest of us. If you have high enough status you can usually buy your way out of crime. One law for the rulers and another for the rest of us -wasn't that supposed to have ended with feudalism?"

Neighbours of a proposed new subdivision in Conestogo took their case to the Ontario Municipal Board after rejecting Woolwich council's decision to approve the 65-unit project.

»»Food Secure Canada

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»»From the Mar. 17, 2001 edition of the Observer

Foreign Policy

DYER: Invasion another reason

NATIONAL VIEW

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the Taliban will overrun all of Afghanistan after the NATO forces leave. They will undoubtedly gain control of the Pashtun-majority south and east, and they will probably take Kabul.

They didn’t gain control of the Tajik, Hazara and Uzbek minority regions in the north of the country last time, and they may not do so after this bunch of foreigners leave either.

The likeliest postoccupation outcome in Afghanistan, therefore, is a reversion to the situation that prevailed there before 2001. Karzai will either leave or be tortured and killed, as will most of his senior collaborators.

Pakistan will be the dominant influence in Talibancontrolled parts of the country, and the minorities will have to fend for them-

YOUR VIEW / LETTER

Council should be ashamed of decision To the Editor, Shame on you, Woolwich council, for voting yes to the proposed casino.

After hearing “no” from the majority of respondents, even with the biased questionnaire you sent, you still acted contrary to the results. You also heard from

selves.

If this is the final outcome, what have the “foreigners” been doing in the country for the past 12 years? Several thousand of their soldiers have been killed, hundreds of billions of dollars have been spent, and things will be about the same after they leave as they were before they arrived – apart from the al-Qaeda terrorist training camps, which were dealt with before the end of 2001.

For the NATO alliance, which has been searching for a new role ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Afghan operation at least helped to justify its enormous budget. For the United States, it never made sense from any point of view. And for Afghanistan, it was merely the continuation of a disaster now more than 30 years old.

professionals who have studied the effects of casinos and still acted against logic.

The last municipal election was a vote for change.

Apparently the same thing will need to happen when the next election takes place. Hopefully the newly elected council will be able to correct the wrong that has been done.

Kudos to Mark Bauman for his stand on this issue.

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SPORTS CYCLING / ON TOUR

BOXING / ON THE RISE

Brothers golden at provincials Elmira’s Tevin and Terrell Piper now getting ready for world championships in Kansas City ELENA MAYSTRUK

Continuing to establish themselves as athletes in the boxing world, Tevin and Terrell Piper of Elmira know a thing or two about the sport and its challenges. Both are accomplished boxers in their respective weight classes, and their latest stint at the 2013 Ontario Provincial Boxing Championships was no exception.

At the competition held in Toronto this year from February 28 to March 3, Terrell swung for gold in the 52-kilogram Junior C category. His brother Tevin didn’t get a chance to box but was awarded gold in the 46-kilogram Junior C category by walkover, as there was no one in his weight class to fight this year. The win does give him a chance to fight in the national competition this fall.

Their father LeVar Piper is a former boxer himself and helped to train both boys for the competition, going through an hour-anda-half of training every day at the Waterloo Regional Boxing Academy in Kitchener.

“I thought they did very well. For Tevin it’s a little bit disappointing because he trained very hard and it’s becoming really hard to get him a match, so it’s a little disappointing for him to get [the gold] that way but at nationals he’ll definitely have a few bouts,” Piper said.

Tevin has a perfect record, LeVar Piper said, and has not lost a game yet. At last summer’s Kansas City championships, Tevin took home his first 95-pound weight class title after a hard fight against Julian McDonald from Fenton, Missouri. At the Canadian nationals this year he and Terrell will be facing the top fighters from every province.

“Terrell is just coming into his own right now. He’s

had a really good year so far, I think they both did very well,” Piper said.

With months to go before their next few fights, both Tevin and Terrell are confident about future prospects, they say.

Terrel came close in his weight class, but lost in the semi-finals against the U.S. junior national boxing champion after a split decision.

So what was the most challenging part of the recent competition? Making the weight class made for a rather nervous day before the fight for Terrell.

“The day before I had to weigh in I was 0.5 kg over and I had to do a light workout before and I couldn’t eat until the next morning after I weighed in. We always make weight but it’s really hard to diet and we can see all of our family eating junk food,” he joked.

The boys’ next competition will be the Ringside World Championships in Kansas City this summer.

Tevin and Terrell Piper continue to see success in boxing as they get ready for future competitions. Recently both competed in the Ontario Provincial Boxing Championships that wrapped up Mar. 3 in Toronto. [ELENA MAYSTRUK / THE OBSERVER]

In the saddle and seeing the sights Woolwich cycling committee arranging for group of riders to bike township routes ELENA MAYSTRUK Taunted by the coming and going of spring weather, there are many cyclists who cannot wait until the sun shines more consistently and the roads are nice and clear.

Among them is avid cycling enthusiast and Woolwich Township cycling committee member Deb Gemmell, who’s in the process of organizing a cycling tour she hopes will both boost tourism to the township and promote this most eco-friendly and healthy of activities.

“It’s just ideal for cycling.

You get some rolling hills and some flat levels and if you want to challenge yourself there are a few good hills in the area,” she said of local roadways.

Gemmell will be bringing 60 to 75 retiring, retired and senior cyclists from the Haliburton area to participate in the cycling tour that will include the picturesque and historical sights Woolwich has to offer. As a member of both the Woolwich cycling committee and the Haliburton Real Easy Riders, she saw the event as an opportunity to offer fellow cyclists some new adventures while promoting local tourism.

“Because I do sit on the cycling committee with the township I’m certainly aware that we are trying to promote people coming to Waterloo Region and certainly Elmira and our area.

“We want to make people aware of what great cycling we have and then, as part of that, we make people aware of all of the other things there are to see and do once you come to the area for cycling,” she said CYCLING | 11

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THE SCORE | MINOR SPORT RESULTS WOOLWICH WILDCATS

Tyke: SELECT Mar. 4 vs. Burlington Woolwich: 1 Burlington: 3 Goals: Dustin Good Mar. 7 vs. Milton Woolwich: 2 Milton: 2 Goals: Sam Hacock Joey Martin Assists: Ethan Bickerton Jordan Chang Dustin Good

Novice: LL# 2 Mar. 6 vs. LL# 3 LL2: 2

LL3: 2 Goals: Thomas Hill-Ring, Ryan Brubacher Assists: Adrian Kocan

Novice: LL #3 Mar. 6 vs. LL #2 LL3: 2

LL2: 2 Goals: Corbin Schmidt, Coleton Benham Assists: Coleton Benham, David Taylor Ethan Murr, Ben Moyer

Atom: LL# 2 Mar. 8 vs. Beverly Woolwich: 2 Beverly: 0 Goals: Jonathon Dingelstad x2 Assists: Cole Brubacher, Ryan Williams, Cameron MacLaclan Shutout: James Berti

Bantam: MINOR A Feb. 28 vs. Dundas Woolwich: 4 Dundas: 3 Goals: Mitchell Newson, Owen Read, Jonah Boehm, Sheldon Metzger Assists: Jonah Boehm, Mitch Waters, Connor Martin

Bantam: AE Mar. 6 vs. Dundas Woolwich: 1 Dundas: 4 Goals: Luke Charter Assists: Danyal Rennie, Daniel Gallant Mar. 8 vs. Centre Wellington Woolwich: 4 Center Wellington: 0 Goals: Danyal Rennie, Mathew Uhrig, Connor Runstedler, Nathan Schwarz Assists: Luke Charter, Brett Henry, Nathan Schwarz, Danyal Rennie, Daniel Gallant Shutout: Connor Duench Mar. 11 vs. Erin-Hillsburgh Woolwich: 10

Erin-Hillsburgh: 0 Goals: Daniel Gallant x2, Connor Runstedler x2, Gareth Rowland, Liam Dickson, Luke DeCorte, Benton Weber, Mathew Uhrig x2 Assists: Benton Weber, Connor Runstedler x4, Liam Dickson x4, Blake Doerbecker, Mathew Uhrig, Luke DeCorte, Danyal Rennie Shutout: Dylan Creelman

Bantam: LL# 1 Mar. 3 vs. Plattsville Woolwich: 1 Plattsville: 1

TWIN CENTRE NOVICE REP SQUAD TAKES GOLD AT LISTOWEL TOURNEY

Goals: Mason Buehler Assists: Joe Hanley

Mar. 9 vs. Embro Woolwich: 5

Embro: 3 Goals: Luke Decorte x2, Nathan Horst, Mason Buehler, Mike Devries Assists: Nathan Horst, Max Bender, Ryan Diemert Mar. 10 vs. New Hamburg Woolwich: 6 New Hamburg: 4 Goals: Luke Decorte x4, Mason Buehler, Ryan Diemert Assists: Mason Buehler x3, Luke Decorte, Jeff Talbot

WOOLWICH WILD

Novice: LL #2 Mar. 2 vs. Grand River Woolwich: 2 Grand River: 1 Goals: Alison, Payton

Bantam: BB Mar. 6 vs. Ayr Woolwich: 2 Ayr: 0 Goals: Brooke Mulder, Cassandra Tuffnail Assists: Sydney Meunier, Erika Morrison Shutout: Corinne Roesink

Mar. 9 vs. Ayr Woolwich: 4 Ayr: 0 Goals: Marlee Kernick, Cassandra Tuffnail, Rachel Weber x2 Assists: Brooke Mulder, Jen McDonald Shutout: Megan Harron

The Twin Centre Novice Rep team were champions of the Gord Hymers Tournament last weekend in Listowel. Back row: trainer Bill Doerbecker, coach Todd Bender, assistant coach Larry Bisch, assistant coach Trevor Martin. Middle row: Connor Doerbecker, Cole Martin, Christian Economides, Colsyn Martin, Barrett Wilson, Blake Wolf. Front row: Cory Martin, Tyler Bender, Curtis Bisch, Ryan Forwell, Ryerson Solomon, Seth Bailey.

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U12 RINGETTE SQUAD SWEEPS THROUGH NIAGARA FALLS TOURNAMENT

Midget: B Mar. 5 vs. Milverton Woolwich: 1 Milverton: 1 Goals: Gillian Olsthoorn Mar. 6 vs. Waterloo Woolwich: 0 Waterloo: 0 Shutout: Lauren Lesage

Mar. 7 vs. Milverton Woolwich: 2 Milverton: 2 Goals: Gillian Olsthoorn, Jennifer Norris Assists: Rebecca Luis, Cora Kieswetter, Lindsay Bauman, Gillian Olsthoorn

Bantam: LL#7109 Mar. 2 vs. Kitchener Woolwich: 6 Kitchener: 0 Goals: Briana Kuchma x2, Rosemarie Hartman x2, Karli Keen x1, Amanda Fleischman x1 Assists: Briana Kuchma x1, Riley Bauman x3, Abby Ziegler x1, Alyssa Winfield-Ward x1 Shutout: Lindsay Glofcheskie

TWIN CENTRE STARS

Atom: LL# 1 Mar. 7 vs. Woolwich Twin Centre: 5

Woolwich: 3 Goals: Ben Bauer x2, Jack Wolf, Connall Gillett, Dawson Stevenson

The Woolwich Storm U12 team went undefeated last weekend in the Niagara Falls Tournament. They won 8-1 over Dorchester, 7-1 over Oshawa, 9-0 over Guelph, and beat Dorchester in the finals 6-4. Back row: coach Carole Schwartz, assistant Coach Tim Murr, trainer Amy McDougall, assistant coach Ryan Beisel. Middle row: Erica Buehler, Ava Henderson, Abby Murr, Rosie Martin, Madison Waters, Hilary Bauman, Alice Wang, Brianna Jacobi, Madelyn Camm, McKenzie Beisel. Front: Kayla McDougall. Absent: manager Barry Bauman.

[SUBMITTED] Assists: Jaden Palermo x2, Noah Bailey, Stirling Grubb, Connall Gillett, Jack Wolf

Mar. 9 vs. Woolwich Twin Centre: 3

Woolwich: 3 Goals: Jaden Palermo x2, Reid Henderson Assists: Jack Wolf x3, Isaiah Siewert, Reid Henderson

WOOLWICH RINGETTE

U10 Jan. 10 vs. Kitchener Woolwich: 5 Kitchener: 3 Goals: Maddy Camm x2, Alice Wang x2, Brianna Jacobi Assists: Alice Wang, Rosie Martin, Erica Buehler, Mackenzie Biesel, Maddy Camm

U12: PETITE Mar. 1 vs. Dorchester Woolwich: 8 Dorchester: 1 Goals: Maddy Camm x2, Alice Wang, Madison Waters, Abby Murr, Rosie Martin, Ashley Brubacher, Ava Henderson Assists: Abby Murr x2, Madison Waters, Brianna Jacobi x2, Rosie Martin, Mackenzie Biesel, Ashley Brubacher

Mar. 2 vs. Oshawa Woolwich: 7 Oshawa: 1 Goals: Ava Henderson x4, Mackenzie Biesel, Maddy Camm x2 Assists: Maddy Camm x2, Rosie Martin, Brianna Jacobi, Ava Henderson, Erica Buehler x2, Alice Wang

Mar. 2 vs. Guelph Woolwich: 9 Guelph: 0 Goals: Erica Buehler, Alice Wang, Madison Waters x3, Brianna Jacobi, Maddy Camm, Abby Murr, Mackenzie Biesel Assists: Alice Wang, Madison Waters, Maddy Camm, Mackenzie Biesel Shutout: Kayla mcdougall

Mar. 3 vs. Dorchester Woolwich: 6 Dorchester: 4 Goals: Alice Wang x2, Madison Waters x3, Brianna Jacobi Assists: Abby Murr, Ava Henderson, Madison Waterrs, MacKenzie Biesel x2, Brianna Jacobi, Erica Buehler x2

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NOT SO GREAT OUTDOORSMAN / STEVE GALEA

It’s heartening to see so many people honouring the big holidays OPEN COUNTRY As we all know, the 17th of March is a special day for many of us. It’s when we take a little break from our stressful lives, cut loose and celebrate something very traditional and special – that’s right, on that day, we celebrate the fact that there are less than 40 days till turkey season.

As a hunter, I can’t tell you how this huge celebration warms my heart.

Many people I know who do not ever hunt turkey go to local pubs and get in on the action. They have a drink or three to celebrate the upcoming season and they even wear green (the earliest of spring camouflage patterns) as a sign of respect for the wary eyesight of the wild turkey.

Other than that, I’ve never paid much attention to this holiday or even participated in it. I tried once, but I walked into the bar and all the beer had gone bad – it was green, in fact. Still, the heartwarming thing was that all the people

celebrating the onset of the season did not seem to mind one bit. That’s how supportive they are.

I haven’t done much more research than this, other than to say that it seems that the Irish initiated the celebration, which is odd, since, as far as I know, they have no wild turkey over there.

Still, they do have a fine sporting tradition.

Some of the most revered fly tyers and anglers in the world are from that country, so I suppose it shouldn’t surprise anyone that they would be supportive of this, too. Espe-

cially since the general opener of trout is two days later.

Still, I think it’s good of them to find the time to visit a pub and raise a glass over this.

As if that’s not enough of a tie-in to the big holidays, March 12 was International Nap Day. Which is great because, as far as I’m concerned, no one celebrates naps more than turkey hunters. Basically, turkey hunting is composed of 90 per cent napping and 10 per cent finding a tree to nap against.

We only shoot turkeys because they come close

and wake us up with their infernal gobbling. If you think roosters are bad, try sleeping when a big old tom turkey starts booming and gobbling 10 yards away.

It’s not very nice. I mean, we turkey hunters get up very early, drive to our spots, exhaust ourselves walking out into the woods or fields in the middle of the night, sit with our backs to a tree and make ourselves comfortable. Then we wait for the warming rays of the sun and music of the songbirds to lull us into the kind of nap you could

never get at home so long as there is a honey-do list hanging from the fridge.

Then a turkey comes along and ruins all that.

Well, this year I am more ready than ever.

I have been practicing turkey hunting on the couch every afternoon about 2 p.m. for the last three months. I practice for an hour or so each day, and I’m getting so good at it that I have a hard time believing that any gobbler stands a chance of waking me up this time. But if he does, I’ve got a shotgun and shells that patterns well out to 40 yards ...

Elmira doctors claim first win at K-W bonspiel ELENA MAYSTRUK If you ask three Elmira doctors how they won this year’s invitational curling tournament, they’d tell you that they’ve been a stone’s throw away from the trophy for years.

“Our particular team, we’ve come in second for about three or four years in a row so we were due to win it, just a matter of time and this is our year,” joked Dr. Scott Morlock of the Elmira Medical Centre this week.

The four-man team from Elmira is part of the annual Dr. Jim Stevens Invitational Bonspiel organized by and the Kitchener-Waterloo Academy of Medicine. This year with one team member out of the running, it was up to doctors Scott Morlock, Frank

Onuska and John Craig to sweep in the first place trophy for the first time in the Elmira team’s history.

Despite claiming bragging rights and the impressive trophy, the tournament is more about fun than showcasing the players’ prowess, said Onuska.

Organized by a retired surgeon Dr. Jim Stevens, the tournament has drawn area doctors to hit the ice for more than 30 years of friendly competitions, with some participants more experienced in the art of curling than others.

Morlock is a veteran curler at the Westmount Curling Club in Waterloo, while Onuska and Craig play loyally once a year at the tournament. This year the team name will be added to the trophy that saw six teams compete.

Doctors Scott Morlock, John Craig and Frank Onuska hold up the trophy they earned at the Dr. Jim Stevens Invitational Bonspiel.

[ELENA MAYSTRUK / THE OBSERVER]

CYCLING: Participants will be making plenty

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of the event.

Cyclists will be in Woolwich Township for three days, staying at the Marriott Hotel in St. Jacobs June 11-13. Each day they will choose from a number of routes planned out by Gemmell. Cyclists will travel through Elmira and the surrounding countryside with visits to locations like the West Montrose covered bridge and various parks.

How does Gemmel plan to help encourage tourism in the area with her event?

She says, as a spinoff to cycling, people have to eat and they love to shop.

“They like to stop at bakeries and ice cream shops, so they will be going in to the local convenience

stores along the routes.

They kind of bring their money and spend their money too.”

Cycling has long been a popular activity and a draw for people of all ages, making it the perfect way to show off local sites to willing tourists. The sport, Gemmell said, is attracting the older crowd because of its health benefits as well.

“There’s more talk about more routes and lanes and signage to encourage more people to use their bikes.

It’s that much healthier for you if you just have to pop down to the corner store.

People are looking for ways to maintain their health.”

On the first day, cyclists leave from the Woolwich Memorial Centre, after

which riders can choose a 31-kilometre short route or ride out to the Floradale dam and on to Conestogo Lake. Wednesday’s ride will also include Elmira, with participants cycling from the hotel in St. Jacobs to town, heading towards the trails near Wallenstein followed by lunch in Elmira.

From there some riders can choose to travel to Elora then to the West Montrose covered bridge.

Gemmel is even attempting to book a local historian to tell the group about local history and the sights they will encounter over the three-day event.

“We are trying to set it up so they get to see all of these unique sights within our region.”

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Bringing their pet project here Couple returns to their roots as they launch Pet Valu franchise at Foodland location in Elmira WILL SLOAN He married into the pet industry, she married into Elmira, and last week, Melanie and Steve Robbins brought both of these traits together with the opening of Woolwich’s first Pet Valu franchise. With the arrival of spring, and with walkies no longer a bonechilling ordeal for Elmira’s pet owners, the new store offers yet another shopping destination for the town’s four-legged residents to stroll to.

“We have holistic pet food, in a range of prices,” said Melanie Robbins.

“We’ve got treats; we carry raw food, grooming supplies, litter, dog dishes …”

“And dog food that’s made in Elmira,” interjected Steve Robbins.

(There are currently three local brands on the store’s shelves).

Opening the doors of the new pet supply store, located next to Foodland at Arthur Street and South Field Drive, is proving to be something of a homecoming for Melanie Robbins, a lifelong animal enthusiast and industry veteran.

“I’ve been in the industry for 19 years,” she said.

“In 1997, I had a pet store in Burlington. I married into Elmira, and since then have grown a family and worked within the industry. Now, I have an opportunity to do it all over again.”

For Steve Robbins, this marks his maiden voyage into the pet industry. Has

Unsafe conditions kill farmers every four days FIELD NOTES

A 19-year veteran of the pet care industry, Melanie Robbins is bringing her husband Steve into the business with the debut of their new pet supply store. it been a whirlwind process, figuring out which chew-toy belongs to which dog? “Absolutely,” he said.

“Sometimes it gets a little overwhelming, but with Melanie and her background, she helps.”

The pair first became aware of Pet Valu’s plans to launch in the area in September, when it was announced to arrive on either a franchise or

may wonder: do our pets require another venue for their bone-and-leash needs? “I think that shopping here is convenient,” said Melanie Robbins. I’m hoping to stop residents from having to travel outside of Elmira to get a variety of brands that maybe they can’t get here in town.”

“And hopefully the knowledge,” added Steve

corporate-controlled basis.

Even though Pet Valu is a heavy brand, they found it relatively easy to come onboard, following an interview and a submission of a business plan. “If you have everything they’re looking for, there are always opportunities,” she said.

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So maybe when Mark Wales, president of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture, announced at the launch of farm safety week Monday at the University of Guelph that every four days, unsafe conditions kill a Canadian farmer trying to grow our food, no one should have been shocked.

But they were. Last year, 89 Canadian farmers – about one ever four days – unexpectedly drew their last breath doing what they love best, producing food.

It wasn’t death from old age. Sure, the farm population is aging. But these farmers died in mishaps that in many cases could have been avoided.

The Canadian Agricultural Safety Association, chaired by Dean Anderson of Guelph, regional director for western Ontario with Workplace Safety and Prevention Services, urges farmers to create their own farm health and safety plans. In fact, Get With The Plan is the theme of this year’s farm safety week.

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Beyond avoiding the emotional and physical pain that accompanies injuries on the farm, there’s financial motivation to be safe too – farms with health and safety plans are 25 per cent more profitable than those without them.

One reason is that farm injuries take so little time to have a devastating effect on a farm’s performance. Research shows that when the main farm operator is injured, permanent financial damage can mount in just

nine days.

And there’s another economic reason to practice safe farming. Canada is an exporting nation, and importers are increasingly demanding that their suppliers be socially responsible.

That includes safety compliance for workers. It’s a real issue for a country such as Canada that employs so many immigrant workers. Are they well trained in safety matters? Are they well looked after by their employers?

In some cases, farm safety

is a matter of nuts and bolts.

“If more producers made sure all their tractors had roll-over protection systems and wore seatbelts, it would go a long way toward making farm work safer,” says Marcel Hacault, the executive director of the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association. Indeed, 70 per cent of fatalities are machine-related, with the top three most common sources of injury being rollovers, as well as runovers and entanglements.

But farm safety and

health efforts don’t always have to be elaborate. At a workshop in Guelph that accompanied safety week kick-off, dairy and cash crop farmer Jamie Beaumont of JPC Farms Inc. near Mitchell noted how he hires rock pickers (as do many farmers in our area) to help clear the fields. For them, safety includes making sure they have sunscreen and lots of water. In his milking parlour, back-to-back milking shifts are avoided, to stave of repetitive activity injuries.

Beaumont says it can be

tough to see potentially dangerous situations on your own farm. He advocates having an independent safety audit take place.

“Our family has farmed since 1857 and I know we can get a little complacent, having done some things the same way for a long time,” he says. “Having someone with a separate set of eyes audit your farm for safety can be revealing,” he says.

Although farm safety week occurs just once a year, initiatives are continually

underway across Canada, which is a world leader in farm safety. In Ontario, the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association partners with provincial farm safety associations and organizations such as Farm Credit Canada and Workplace Safety and Prevention Services to support and deliver programs.

These efforts are having a positive impact. Farm injuries and fatalities have dropped over the years. But improving farm safety and health is a job that will never be finished.

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anie – in product knowledge. If there’s a problem with the animal, she can usually decipher what will help with it.”

One of the tips they hope to spread to Elmira residents is the value of raw feeding. “I think there’s not a lot of knowledge in this area for raw feeding,” said Melanie Robbins. “There isn’t anywhere around here other than St. Jacobs to get raw food.

“Any animal can eat raw.

It brings them back to their primitive behaviour … I think [people] think the pet will get sick because it’s raw, however they don’t.

They’re well equipped to deal with it. It’s humans who get sick from not handling raw meat properly.”

This week’s opening represents the soft-launch portion of Pet Valu’s entry

into the community. On April 13, the Robbins plan a grand opening that will include complementary nail clippings from Elmira’s ShamPoochies and St. Jacobs’ Dog Spaw, as well as demonstrations from product manufacturers.

That’s all well and good, but it’s time for some real talk: what is their favourite animal? And none of this “I-can’t-pick-just-one” business, either.

“I think my favourite are probably cats,” said Melanie Robbins.

Okay. And which ones do you hate. Surely rats, right?

“No! I love rats!” she protested. “No, we love our rats. They’re cute. Make great pets.”

You heard it here first, rat partisans. Your parents, spouses, and/or roommates may recoil in disgust, but Melanie and Steve Robbins never will.

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He’s got something funny to say And Wendell Ferguson is more than happy to put it into song, as Wellesley audience will find out tonight WILL SLOAN If the voice of his generation – Weird Al Yankovic – taught us anything, it’s that humour and music are not mutually exclusive. And it was that kind of epiphany that struck guitar player Wendell Ferguson in 1999, when he first began incorporating comedy in his compositions.

“I was always a funny guy, and I always wrote funny songs, mostly to make my friends laugh,” said Ferguson. “A friend of mine said, ‘You should record those songs,’ and I said, ‘Well, why not?’”

Wendell Ferguson has been a country musician for most of his life, and has the CV to back it up. He has recorded with the likes of Gordon Lightfoot and Murray McLauchlan; he was Juno-nominated in 1995 for his “Coda the West” group; and he won the Canadian Country Music Association’s Guitar Player of the Year award seven times (so many times, in fact, that he is now ineligible).

But the Wendell Ferguson who will be performing tonight (Saturday) at the Wellesley Community Centre is not the Wendell Ferguson you’ll hear on Lightfoot’s A Painter Passes

For their show at the Wellesley Community Centre Saturday, singer-songwriters Katherine Wheatley and Wendell Ferguson will be both silly and sweet. [SUBMITTED] stuff – so that led to me ing one. “I did my first Through. With albums like recording and getting some record, and of course, it Cranky Christmas, Wendell accolades. Now I’m six or was completely ignored by Ferguson Live: The $#!T seven products deep, and the country community,” Hits the Fans, and Menage I’m working on a couple of he recalled. “Because who a Moi (the cover features other albums now.” wants a gap-toothed, greya drawing of Ferguson in As he has accumuhaired fat-boy who can’t bed with two guitars) to lated more albums, and sing that well singing stuhis credit, there is nothing performed everywhere pid songs when you’ve got moody about his brand of from Brampton to Paris, Shania? That made sense, I country.

Ferguson has discovered understood that.”

Ferguson found that for that “mainstream respectHe continued, “But wona lighthearted song stylist, derfully, the CBC embraced ability” is a concept past its the road to mainstream sell-by date. it – they like that kind of respectability is a daunt-

“The world’s big enough now that niche markets can sustain you,” said Ferguson. “Somebody said the other day, ‘It used to be 100 artists were selling a million albums each; now, a million artists are selling 100 albums each.’

“I told my father, ‘Only one in a thousand people like me, but that guy goes apes--t.’ That means with a population of 25 million, I could have potentially 250,000 apes--t people.”

Ferguson seldom finds his creative well running dry – he can pump out songs “made to order” – but treasures whenever he finds a song with a lasting impact, like his well-known pastiche “Why Does Every Christmas Song Have So Many Chords?”

“The gold ones, the ones that stay with people the longest, are the true ones,” said Ferguson. “When there’s really humour in what you’re writing, people say, ‘I never thought of that, you’ve said it exactly, that’s so true.’ I hear that all the time, because if it affects me that way, I feel it will affect other people that way.”

Saturday’s performance will offer country fans a well-balanced musical diet.

As part of their travelling

show together, Ferguson will be performing with Toronto-based singer/songwriter Katherine Wheatley.

Ferguson began performing with her as backup in 1997, and in the years since have found their contrastingly silly-and-serious styles to be complementary.

“I only go as deep as the funnybone,” said Ferguson.

“I have real feelings, but I don’t expose them. She goes right to the heart in her songs. She’s got them crying, and I’ve got them laughing, and it adds up to a great night of entertainment.”

Ferguson and Wheatley will perform tonight (Saturday) at the Wellesley Community Centre at 8 p.m.

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REAL ESTATE LISTINGS

Our Team will meet your Needs and fulfill your Dreams $500.00 DONATION will be made with every home bought or sold by Paul, Alli or Bill in Woolwich.

$349,950

$389,000 POOL AND HOT TUB!

Elmira - Welcoming home with pool and hot tub. This

Fantastic home is complete with 3 +1 bedrooms, living room and family room there is room for your family to grow. Many updates including kitchen and Brazilian cherry hardwood on main floor. Convenient double gate access to fenced backyard with 10ftx10ft shed, and pool house with hydro. The single garage is a great Man cave! MLS 1315013 Call Alli or Paul direct.

$299,000

SPACIOUS FINISHED ATTIC

Elmira - Century home boasting original woodwork and hardwood throughout, 9ft ceilings, and pocket doors. spacious main bath and bedrooms with bonus room off master. Fully finished attic with skylights and gas fireplace. Within walking distance to all amenities. Detached workshop. MLS 1241191 Call Alli or Paul direct.

PERFECT FOR YOUNG FAMILY!

Elmira - Don't miss this modern home featuring warm, neutral décor throughout and rich ceramic tile. Bright living room, open to dinette with slider to spacious fenced yard. Finished basement could be used for rec room or very large bedroom just off the fabulous 4 piece bathroom complete with corner tub. Appliances included. MLS 1312112 Call Alli or Paul direct

Paul Martin SALES REPRESENTATIVE

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$495,900 VERDONE MODEL HOME!

Elmira - Attractive upgrades and finishing touches

Alli Bauman SALES REPRESENTATIVE

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519-577-6248

throughout this 4-bedroom home. Convenience at its best with main floor laundry/mudroom, walk-in pantry and completely finished basement with gas fireplace. 9ft ceilings throughout main floor. Bright eat-in kitchen with granite countertops, cupboards to the ceiling and island. Large livingroom with wood floors, gas fireplace and French door walk-out to yard. MLS 1312001 Call Alli or Paul direct.

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Bill Norris

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JULIE HECKENDORN

TRACEY WILLIAMS

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Res: 519.669.8629

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BRAD MARTIN MVA Residential

Broker

Sales Rep.

TASTEFULLY DECORATED 3 bdrm.

$261,900

townhouse (only attached at the oversized garage Main floor washroom. Spacious master bdrm. w/dble. closet. Walkout from D.A. to deck and fenced yard with shed.

Central air. Shows well! MLS REDUCED

$309,900

150’ DEEP LOT quiet street close to all schools & amenities. 3 bdrm. bungalow with a fenced lot. Newer fridge and stove included. Rec. room with gas fireplace, games room & 2 pc. washroom in lower level. Lots of storage space. Furnace and central air installed in 2006. Shingles in 2012. Softener (2007). Concrete patio. MLS

SOLD

LINED STREET close to downtown. Over 2200 sq.ft. Lovely older home w/family room addition w/gas stove. Woodburning fireplace in L.R./D.R. FOUR bedrms & 4 bathrooms.

Numerous updates – furnace, windows, shingles, & electrical. Two storey BARN/GARAGE 30’ x 20’. MLS TREE

$379,900

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100

“Helping you is what we do”

SINCE 1913

Elmira@royallepage.ca | www.royallepage.ca/elmira

YEARS

Elmira Real Estate Services Independently Owned & Operated, Brokerage

Bert Martin

We support Woolwich Community Services through

BROKER

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

90 Earl Martin Dr., Unit 1, Elmira N3B 3L4

DIRECT: 519-572-2669

519-669-3192

OFFICE: 519-669-5426

3 Arthur St. S. Elmira

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Bonnie Brubacher *Shanna Rozema Jason Shantz Broker of Record

NEW PRICE! 4 BEDROOM HOME! $339,900 | ST. CLEMENTS

Much larger than appears, lovely family home, plenty of updates but still offers natural trim and pocket doors, spacious eat –in kitchen addition with garden door to patio and 220’ private yard, separate dining rm., bright front living room, den & main floor laundry, 3 bathrooms including a master whirlpool ensuite, walkout off the master to a private upper deck! Large unspoiled basement offers a high ceiling perfect for a future rec.room. MLS

Broker

Broker

Monique Roes Sales Representative

NEW LISTING

NEW PRICE! CONESTOGO BUNGALOW $379,000

Beautiful park like setting, almost ½ acre with pond, bridge, gardens and large patio.

This 1+ bedroom home offers a unique layout, bonus room/bedroom above the garage, sliders to 3 season sunroom off the dining room, lover level boasts an in-law set up with walkout and rec room and extra bedroom. MLS

ELMIRA INDUSTRIAL PARK

Office space, professional office building offering 2550 sq ft of executive offices, boardroom, reception and more. Call for details, April May possession. EXCL

FREE Market Evaluation

EXECUTIVE BUNGALOW LOFT $559,000 | ELMIRA One of a kind

design offers Brazilian Cherry hardwood floors, lovely maple kitchen with stainless appliances, breakfast bar/island open to the large dining area, walkout to tiered deck, fenced yard and large shed/shop, main floor master has ensuite and private walkout, upper level loft boasts an eye catching window seat, 4 piece bathroom, walk-in closet and large living area. MLS

BEAUTIFUL & SPACIOUS

(1561 s/f) 2 storey semi offering an open concept layout, kitchen has dishwasher and breakfast bar, bright dinette with slider to deck, patio, garden shed and fenced yard backing to creek. Great main floor living room with gas fireplace and california shutters. All bedrooms offer walk-in closets, master bedroom has ensuite and two walk-in closets. New front porch railing.

NEW MLS. $269,900 Call Bert to view.

LOG HOME!

Beautiful, private 15 acre property with trout pond, pitch & putt golf course, reforested area with a 3,250 s/f open concept home featuring a double floor to ceiling fieldstone fireplace, 3 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, walkout basement, large deck and loft overlooking the Grand River. MLS. $899,900 Call Bert to view.

ELMIRA BACKSPLIT!

ELMIRA – ½ ACRE $649,900

3000+ sq ft Uniquely designed home offering generous sized rooms throughout. Gleaming natural hardwood and ceramic flooring. Cultured stone fireplaces. Separate studio/media room. Family room overlooks the private mature yard with deck and patio and countryside. Double tandem style garage with rear access. MLS

ELMIRA AREA. $859,000

Centrally located to Tri-Cities. The 45’ x44’- 3 bay shop complete w/hoist is ideal for the hobbyist or a hobby farm.

The spacious 4 bedroom family home finished from top to bottom offers many additional features. Separate walk up to the double garage, open concept kitchen with infloor heat and walk out to wrap around porch. MLS

ELMIRA INDUSTRIAL 2.07 ACRES $2,400,000

21,250 sq ft. 2003 construction with many updated energy efficient features. 7500 sq ft of professional offices plus an additional 3750 sq ft in the basement for training/staff area.

Open warehouse offers 13,750 sq ft , 18’ ceiling height, w/2 divisible bays, loading docks and drive-in docks. Zoning is M-6. Also for lease option. MLS

Thinking of Selling? Please call us for your free market evaluation.

We have 50+ years of combined service in this community. Talk to us

Great family home on quiet street features large kitchen with loads of cabinets, family room with gas fireplace, living room with new hardwood, dining room w/walkout to deck, patio and in-ground pool. Three bedrooms, two bathrooms, double garage and concrete double driveway.

MLS. $359,900. Call Bert to view.

Your referrals are appreciated!

WITH A REAL INVESTMENT YOUR WILL SEE A REAL RETURN

KIDS OUT FOR MARCH BREAK FIND PLENTY ON TAP AT THE WOOLWICH MEMORIAL CENTRE

Duncan, 5, and Bailey, 3 (left) keep their balance on the ice, while the kids at March Break Daycamp enjoy a rousing game of dodgeball on Thursday morning at the Woolwich Memorial Centre. With school out, the WMC was a hotbed of activities to keep the kids occupied.

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OBSERVER FAMILY ALBUM BIRTH NOTICE

Reid Scott Weber

Scott and Dayna Weber are thrilled to announce the arrival of their son, Reid Scott on January 15th, weighing 6lbs 11oz. Proud grandparents are Ron and Sue Walton and Mark and Marilyn Weber of Elmira. Also proud are all his aunts, uncles and cousins.

BIRTHDAY

Happy 13th Oldman!

Mom, Dad & Gage

IN MEMORIAM

IN MEMORIAM

Hackett, Patricia

Fairhall, Calvin Jr. March 2, 2013 at 40 years of age.

Beloved son of Calvin and Janet.

Brother of Sam and Kim. Uncle of 3, great uncle of 2. Cremation has taken place.

OBITUARY Scheerer, Gertrude In loving memory of my dear wife who passed away 15 years ago on March 12, 1998. “And so, my dear Patricia, has left my present sight, And passed into a better Place, of Majesty and Light” Ron

OBITUARY Edward TRECIOKAS TRECIOKAS, Edward Ed passed away on Saturday, March 9, 2013 at Grand River Hospital after a brief illness, surrounded by family. Devoted husband of Yvette and adoring, extraordinary father of Nicole. Treasured son of Danute Treciokas and predeceased by his father Juozas, cherished brother of Arvyd Treciokas, sister-in-law Michelle and niece Krissy Treciokas and Aaron Champlin. Loving son-in-law to Milan and Mila Rybensky, brother-in-law of Marcel Rybensky and Caroline Campbell. Ed leaves wonderful memories of many happy times with family and friends. Ed enjoyed travelling, photography and coaching his daughter in basketball. Ed’s family received relatives and friends on Tuesday, March 12, 2013 from 2-4 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. at the Henry Walser Funeral Home, 507 Frederick St., Kitchener, 519-749-8467. A Funeral Liturgy took place in the funeral home chapel on Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at 11 a.m.

Yvette, Nicole and the family would like to thank the incredible team at Grand River Hospital ICU and as expressions of sympathy donations to the Grand River Hospital Foundation-ICU would be appreciated (cards available at the funeral home). Visit www.henrywalser.com for Ed’s memorial.

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Peacefully passed away on Saturday, March 9, 2013 at St. Mary’s Hospital. Gertrude (Schedler) Scheerer in her 97th year, of Elmira formerly of RR 1, West Montrose. Beloved wife of the late Harry S. Scheerer (1991).

Dear mother of Bob and Bernice of RR 1, West Montrose, Jeanette Almas of Hagersville, Donald, Donna and Kryn (Dutch) Noot all of Winterbourne, Raymond and Judith of RR 1, West Montrose, Bruce and Beverley of Winterbourne. Gertrude is lovingly remembered by her grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren. Sister of Wallace and Marion Schedler of Waterloo, and Doreen Geil of Kitchener. Predeceased by her parents Frederick and Alvina Schedler, sisters Nelda, Delores, Rita Nadrofsky and Marcella Gray, son-in-law John Almas, and her grandchild Christina. The family received their relatives and friends at the Dreisinger Funeral Home, Elmira on Wednesday, March 13, 2013 from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. where a funeral service was held in the funeral home chapel on Thursday, March 14, 2013 at 11 a.m. with The Rev. J. D. Kellough officiating. Interment in the West Montrose Cemetery. In her memory, donations to the West Montrose United Church would be appreciated as expressions of sympathy.

STAG & DOE

OBITUARY

Stag & Doe for

Tully, Wallace

Scott Shantz & Nikki DeSousa

Saturday, March 23, Lion’s Hall, 8:00PM. Join us for games, buffet, prize tables and FUN.

Passed away on Wednesday, March 6, 2013 in his 90th year.

Beloved husband of 65 years to Kay. Local relatives are Joanne and Ted Passmore, Luke, Jess and Evan Passmore, and Adam, Melissa, Brooklyn and Grace Passmore. Wally was the Fire Chief of Tillsonburg for 27 years, a W.W. II Veteran with the Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa, and a member of the Canadian Legion and Masonic Lodge for over 50 years. Wally was led by the Fire Trucks of Tillsonburg to his final resting place.

OBITUARY

OBITUARY

ADAM, GLEN 1957-2013

Teahen, F.J. “Ted”

Passed away with family at his side, at K-W Health Centre of Grand River Hospital on Thursday, March 7, 2013 at the age of 55.

Beloved husband of Debbie Reed; loved father of Shane and wife Katrina, Jason (Michelle), Mark (Ashlee), and Trevor (Leslie); grandpa of Spencer and Evaleena, Austin, Dakota, Alexis and Emma, Hunter, Zach and Lola, Jazzmin and Ally; step-father of Harold (Rachel) Asmussen, Heather (Tyson) Asmussen, and Jay Asmussen. Dear brother of Gary Adam and wife Marie, Debbie Lamarche and husband Peter, Penny Crawford and husband Tom, and Cheryl Young and husband Mike.

Predeceased by his parents, Kenneth and Valera (Seiling) Adam and grandson Jaxson Adam.

Glen was a longtime, highly respected and valued Project Manager with Pioneer Craftsmen and a partner in West Montrose Family Camp.

Relatives and friends were invited to share memories of Glen with his family at the Erb & Good Family Funeral Home, 171 King St. S., Waterloo on Monday, March 11 from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. A memorial service was held in the Funeral Home Chapel on Tuesday, March 12, 2013 at 1:30 p.m. A reception will immediately follow the service in the funeral home’s Fireside Reception Room.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Children’s Wish Foundation or Grand River Hospital, ICU by contacting the funeral home at www. erbgood.com or 519-745-8445.

A special thank you is extended to the doctors, nurses and staff of the ICU at Grand River Hospital.

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Peacefully passed away surrounded by his loving family on Saturday, March 9, 2013 at K.W. Health Centre of Grand River Hospital. Ted in his 90th year, of Elmira, was the beloved husband of the late Mary (Woznuk) Teahen (2001). Dear father of David and Holly of Elmira, and Kelley of Toronto. Also lovingly remembered by his grandchildren Jonathan Teahen (Alexandra) and Shannon Nash (Kyle). Ted was blessed to see his great-grandson Henry. Loving brother to Blanche Teahen of Windsor. Ted was a Second World War RCAF veteran and Legion supporter, and an active member of St. Teresa’s Parish in Elmira where he served as lector, extraordinary minister, and 3rd Degree Knight of Columbus. He was heavily involved in serving his community over the years in the Elmira Lions Club, Horticultural Society, Canadian Cancer Society, Canadian Food for Children and Christmas Goodwill.

He was a founding member and builder of the Elmira Golf Club, participated in the Elmira Curling Club and enjoyed socializing at several “coffee clubs” in Elmira. Ted was elected to the Board of Trustees for the Waterloo County Separate School Board and also served for many years as the chair of the Committee of Adjustment for Woolwich Township. The family received their relatives and friends at the Dreisinger Funeral Home, Elmira on Tuesday, March 12th from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Funeral mass was celebrated at St. Teresa of Avila R.C. Church, Elmira on Wednesday, March 13th at 11 a.m. with Father David Lewis officiating followed by interment in Elmira Union Cemetery. In Ted’s memory, donations to Canadian Food for Children or Canadian Cancer Society would be appreciated as expressions of sympathy.

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DEATH NOTICES

DEATH NOTICES

BROOMFIELD, ROSE M. | Passed away peacefully at Saint Luke’s Place on Saturday, March 9, 2013, in her 100th year. Local relatives are her daughter Barbara (Joe) Nowak of Wellesley

HORST, FERN WILMA (NEE DETTWILER) | Died peacefully with family around her, March 8, 2013, at the age of 87. Fern grew up in Elmira and Floradale.

CRESSMAN, MERVIN | Peacefully passed away, surrounded by the love of his family, on Wednesday, March 6, 2013 at Pinehaven Nursing Home, Waterloo. Beloved husband of Diane (Douglas) Cressman of RR 2 West Montrose for almost 41 years.

LICHTI, MELVIN A. | Quietly, in his sleep, at Knollcrest Lodge in Milverton, on Monday, March 11, 2013, Melvin in his 93rd year.

FEAVER, DAVID CARYL | 83, of Chester, Nova Scotia, died March 4, 2013, in South Shore Regional Hospital. Born in St. John’s, Newfoundland. Local relatives are his son Mike (Sara) of Elmira.

HALL, JOHN T. L. | Peacefully passed away after a brief illness, on Sunday, March 10, 2013 at St. Mary’s Hospital. John Hall, age 87 years, of Kitchener, formerly of Winterbourne.

HERRFORT, ESTHER | Passed away peacefully at Listowel Memorial Hospital on Monday, March 11, 2013. Esther was born 73 years ago. Local relatives are her daughters Patty Bisch (Larry) of Wellesley and Tracey Quinn (Dwayne) of Elmira.

RUNSTEDLER, ANDREW DAVID | Peacefully at Heritage House, St. Jacobs on Saturday, March 9, 2013, at the age of 84.

SMUCK, LYLA EILEEN | Passed away at her home at Heritage House St. Jacobs on Friday, March 8, 2013, in her 93rd year.

STRICKER, HILDA MAY (NEE WITTER) | Peacefully, surrounded by the love of her family at Southlake Residential Care Village in Newmarket, Ontario on Tuesday, March 12, 2013 in her 105th year. Hilda grew up in Linwood.

WELLS, E. JOHN | Went home to be with his Lord on Thursday, March 7, 2013, at the age of 72.

Local relatives are his son Bruce (Sharon) Wells of Breslau.

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Notice of Public Information Centre NOTICE OF COMPLETION PROPOSED REGION OF WATERLOO

St. Jacobs – Elmira Wastewater Treatment Master Plan SIGN BY-LAW The Regional Municipalitycentre of Waterloo (Region) has The Region of Waterloo will be holding a public information to introduce a draft Wastewater Treatment Master Plan for the Regional By-law respecting signs completed on Regionala roads.

The proposed Sign By-law addresses all types of unofficial signs on Regional roads including election accessory communities of St. Jacobs andsigns, Elmirabusiness in the Township signs, farm accessory signs, mailbox accessory signs, open house and poster signs.in of Woolwich (Township).

The signs wastewater systems The proposed Sign By-law establishes cial signs including: both requirements communities for areunoffi operated as a 2-tier system with • • • • •

Location and placement;the Township responsible for wastewater collection, Region responsible for wastewater treatment Size, shape, constructionand andthe content; Impacts to the function and of the road;management. biosolids Number of signs and timing of placement; and Sign removal.

The St. Jacobs – Elmira Wastewater Treatment Mas-

ter Plan to reviewed wastewater treatment servicing for Staff are also proposing an amendment the Region’s Tourism and Essential Services these two communities, as well as the community Signing Policy to allow tourism signage on Regional roads for agri-toursim activities. of

Heidelberg, and recommends servicing requirements to When: Tuesday, June 17, 2008, drop in 4:00 - 8:00 p.m. meet growth in St. Jacobs and Elmira forHeadquarters the next 30 years.

Place: Regional Administration (lobby) 150 Frederick Street, Kitchener

The study was conducted in accordance with the requirements for Master Plans under the This publicClass information centre is being held (EA) for the purpose Engineers of providing information and Municipal Environmental Assessment (Municipal Association, June receiving comments from the public.

A copy of the draft By-law is available for review 2000, as amended in 2007 and 2011). The Master Plan has been prepared followingin the Clerk’s ce,the Region of Waterloo, 2nd floor, 150 Frederick Street, Kitchener or on the Phases 1 andOffi 2 of Municipal Class EA. Region’s website at:

www.region.waterloo.on.ca - tab Newsroom, tab Public and Notices Based on the study findings and input from regulatory agencies, stakeholders the public, the preferred alternative includes: If you have questions concerning the By-law, please contact Nancy Button, Manager, Transportation Engineering at Elmira Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) bnancy@region.waterloo.on.ca

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• Continue to reduce Infiltration and Inflow (I/I) and to implement water efficiency

If you require accessible services to participate in this meeting, please contact the above measures noted•person by June 2008.to address current capacity limitations Optimize Tuesday, or upgrade the10, WWTP All comments and information received from individuals, stakeholder groups and agencies regarding this project are being collected to assist the Region of Waterloo in making a decision. Under the Municipal Heidelberg WWTP Act, personal information such as name, address, telephone number, and property location that may be • Continue to operate existing included in a submission becomes part offacility the public record. Questions regarding the collection of this • Review alternatives atthe theperson time indicated that the above. existing works need to be replaced information should be referred to

Nancy Button St. Jacobs Transportation WWTP Manager, Engineering • Continue to reduce I/I and to implement water efficiency measures Region of Waterloo • Decommission the7th St. Jacobs 150 Frederick Street, Floor WWTP and transfer flows to the Waterloo WWTP Kitchener, ON N2G 4J3 after 2024.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC INFORMATION SESSION REGARDING Ontario Municipal Board File PL110476 – Proposed Hunsberger Gravel Pit 1081 Hunsberger Road, 128 Katherine Street and south side of Hunsberger Road (see Location Map) (Official Plan Amendment Application 1/2011 and Zone Change Application 8/2009) In accordance with direction from the Ontario Municipal Board the Township of Woolwich will be holding a Public Information Session as follows:

Tuesday, April 9, 2013 7:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers of the Township Administration Building 24 Church Street West, Elmira

The purpose of the public information session is to inform the public of additional information submitted by the applicant and to provide an opportunity for the public to comment on this additional information.

This information is available on the Township’s website at www.woolwich.ca/en/newsevents/hunderdevelopments. asp or following the links on the Township webpage to: News and Events – Ongoing Planning Items – Gravel Pit Applications – Hunder Developments.

The public is invited to attend the above-noted meeting and to make submissions to Council concerning the applicant’s additional information and the proposed gravel pit. Submissions should be forwarded to the attention of the Clerk, Council and Information Services, by Thursday, April 4, 2013, to the address noted at the top of this page.

For further details please contact Dan Kennaley, Director, Engineering and Planning Services at 519-669-6028 or by email at dkennaley@woolwich.ca .

The St. Jacobs – Elmira Wastewater Treatment Master Plan is available for review on the Region’s web site at www.regionofwaterloo.ca. The Master Plan is also available for viewing at the following locations for a 30 day period between March 12, 2013 and April 11, 2013: Township of Woolwich Region of Waterloo Clerk’s Office Clerk’s Office 24 Church Street West 150 Frederick Street, 2nd Floor Elmira, ON N3B 2Z6 Kitchener, ON N2G 4J3 Phone: 519-669-1647 Phone: 519-575-4420 Please provide written comments on the Master Plan to Mr. Jorge Cavalcante, Region of Waterloo by April 11, 2013 to the address provided below.

If you have any questions or comments or wish to obtain more information on the study, please contact either of the following project team members: Mr. Jorge Cavalcante, P.Eng. Manager, Engineering & Planning Water Services, Region of Waterloo 150 Frederick Street, 7th Floor Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, N2G 4J3 Phone: 519-575-4412 Fax: 519-575-4452 E-mail:JCavalcante@regionofwaterloo.ca

Mr. Stephen Nutt, M. Eng., P. Eng. Consultant Project Manager XCG Consultants Ltd. 820 Trillium Drive Kitchener, Ontario N2R 1K4 Phone: 519-741-5774 Fax: 519-741-5627 Email: stephen@xcg.com

All comments and information received from individuals, stakeholder groups and agencies regarding this study are being collected to assist the Region of Waterloo in making a decision. Under the Municipal Act, personal information such as name, address, telephone number, and property location that may be included in a submission becomes part of the public record. Questions regarding the collection of this information should be forwarded to the Regional staff member indicated above.

This notice was first issued on March 12, 2013.

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NOTICE OF COMPLETE APPLICATION AND PUBLIC MEETING Tuesday April 9, 2013. 7:00 p.m.

Township Council Chambers 24 Church Street West, Elmira Official Plan Amendment Application 1/2013 Zone Change Application 3/2013, Draft Plan of Subdivision 30T-13701 Empire Communities (Riverland) Ltd. - and Zone Change Application 2/2013, Panayiotis and Eleni Xeni Take Notice that in accordance with the Planning Act, R.S.O., 1990, as amended, the Township of Woolwich has received complete applications for the above noted Official Plan amendment and Zone Change applications for proposed Official Plan and Zoning By-law Amendments as detailed below. Please be advised that Notice of a Complete Application does not indicate whether the municipality is in support of, or in opposition to the proposals. That determination will be made at a later date.

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Subdivision (Application 30T-13701) The proposed Official Plan and Zoning amendments will facilitate a residential development totaling 531 units, generating an estimated population of 1,636 people and an estimated employment population of 76 employees. This would result in a gross density of approximately 58 people/jobs per hectare. The proposed draft plan would develop in three phases and consists of: • single detached housing on a range of lots sizes (minimum 8, 10 and 11 metre frontages) – 405 units, • street townhouses on a minimum 5.5 metre of frontage – 126 units, • two neighbourhood parks on Blocks 61 (Street A) and 62 (Shallow Creek Road extension) and one vista park on Block 63 (Street A) – approximately 1.3 hectares in total area, • a elementary school site on Block 71 (Shallow Creek Road extension) – approximately 2 hectares, • a stormwater management area on Block 60 (Street A) – approximately 1.3 hectares, and • open space areas on Blocks 64 to 70 – approximately 1.5 hectares.

The additional 11 hectare portion of land, owned by Empire is identified as Phase 4 (Future) and is not part of this draft plan application.

Panayiotis and Eleni Xeni The Township has received a Zone Change application from 2123201 Ontario Inc. on behalf of Panayiotis and Eleni Xeni for the property located at 50 Horseshoe Crescent, Breslau and described as GCT Part Lot 108 and 114, Plan 58R2105 Part 1 (see Map 2). The property is designated Residential and Ancillary The Township of Woolwich will hold a Public Meeting, under Sections 17, 34 and 51 of the Planning Act, to consider Land use Area in the Township Official Plan and is zoned Settlement the following Official Plan Amendment, Zone Change and Draft Plan of Subdivision applications. No decisions will Residential (R-1). The 0.4 hectare property contains a single family be made at this meeting; its purpose is to provide additional information to the public and agencies and to receive dwelling. comments and information from them.

The purpose of the application is to rezone the property from SettleEmpire Communities (Riverland) Ltd. ment Residential (R-1) to Residential One-Unit Medium Density (RProperty Description 2A) in order to facilitate the future severance of the property into a Empire’s property in Breslau consists of a total landholding of total of six residential lots on full municipal services. approximately 42 hectares and described as Part of Lots 114 and 115 German Company Tract (former Township of Waterloo) Please Note: APPEALS: and Part of Lots 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86 and Part of Erb Street Draft Plan of Subdivision (closed by By-law) in Registered Plan 588, Township of WoolIf a person or public body that files an appeal of a decision of the Regional Municipality of Waterloo in respect of the wich (see Map 1). proposed plan of subdivision does not make oral submissions at the public meeting, if one is held, or make written submissions to the Regional Municipality of Waterloo before the proposed plan of subdivision is approved or refused, The above-noted applications concern an approximate 31 the Ontario Municipal Board may dismiss the appeal. hectare vacant portion of Empire’s property located between Woolwich Street South and the Grand River, immediately west Individuals are requested to submit a written outline of any oral submissions made at the Public Meeting to the Townof their existing Area 1 development. All of this portion is within ship Clerk. the Breslau Settlement Area and designated in the Township’s Official Plan as ‘Urban Area’/’Residential and Ancillary Use’/’Light Industrial and Limited Commercial Policy Area’/’Forwell Policy Area’. The said lands are zoned Agriculture Notification: If you wish to be notified of the decision of the Regional Municipality of Waterloo in respect of this proposed (A) and Extractive (E) with Site Specific Provisions (Section 26.1.306) and had previously contained a gravel extrac- plan of subdivision you must make a written request to the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Attn: Sylvia Rafalskition operation.

Misch, Planning, Housing and Community Services, 150 Frederick Street, 8th Floor, Kitchener, Ontario N2G 4J3 Empire’s remaining 11 hectare portion of the land, situated at the southwest corner of the site, is located outside of Zoning Amendment the Breslau Settlement Area, designated Rural Land Use and is zoned Agricultural (A) and Extractive (E) with Site If a person or public body that files a notice of appeal of a decision of the Council of the Township of Woolwich in respect Specific Provisions (Section 26.1.306). These additional lands, are not part of the above-noted applications. of the proposed zoning by-law does not make oral submissions at a public meeting or make written submissions to the Council of the Township of Woolwich before the by-law is passed: Official Plan (Application 1/2013) a) the person or public body is not entitled to appeal the decision of the Township of Woolwich to the Ontario Municipal Empire is proposing the following amendments to the Woolwich Official Plan: Board; and • To delete a policy which caps the total residential growth in the Breslau Settlement Area to 1,250 units (Policy b) the person or public body may not be added as a party to the hearing of an appeal before the Ontario Municipal 7.16.1); Board unless, in the opinion of the Board, there are reasonable grounds to do so.

• To delete the ‘Forwell Policy Area’ that restricts development on the lands prior to 2016 (Policy 7.16.11.1); • To increase the maximum gross residential density from 12 units per gross residential hect Official Plan Amendment are to a minimum of 55 persons and jobs per gross residential hectare, and to increase the If a person or public body that files a notice of appeal of a decision of the Township of Woolwich in respect of the promaximum net residential density on any site from 45 units per hectare to approximately 120 units per hectare; posed official plan amendment does not make oral submissions at a public meeting or make written submissions to • To amend the Breslau Settlement Map by re-designating a portion of the subject 31 hectare lands at the south- the Township of Woolwich before the proposed official plan amendment is adopted, the Ontario Municipal Board may east corner from ‘Light Industrial and Commercial Policy Area’ to ‘Residential and Ancillary Use’; dismiss all or part of the appeal.

• To amend the Breslau Settlement Map by re-designating the remaining portion of the subject 31 hectare lands from ‘Urban Area’ to ‘Residential and Ancillary Use’ and where applicable, ‘Restricted Land Use and/or ‘Open NOTIFICATION: If you wish to be notified of the adoption of the proposed official plan amendment, or of the refusal of a request to amend the official plan, additional Township public meetings or Township staff reports regarding these Space Area’, to provide more specific land use designations; and applications you must make a written request to Engineering and Planning Services at the Township of Woolwich at • To delete the ‘Light Industrial and Commercial Policy Area’ (Policy 7.16.11.3). the address shown at the top of this page.

Zoning (Application 3/2013) Empire is proposing an amendment to the Township Zoning By-law to rezone the lands from Agriculture (A) and If you cannot attend the meeting, you can express your concerns/comments about the proposed change in writing to the Township of Woolwich. Any comments received on or before April 2, 2013 (Note that this date is before the public Extractive (E) with Site Specific Provisions (Section 26.1.306) to the following various zoning categories: • Residential – Mixed High Density with Design Guidelines (R-5A), which would permit a range of housing types, meeting) will be included in a report prepared by Engineering and Planning Services and presented at the Public Meetsuch as single detached, semi-detached, dwelling conversion, lodging room/boarding house and duplex dwellings ing. Any comments received after the Public Meeting, but prior to Council making a decision on the applications, will also be considered. on smaller sized lots – approximately 14.9 hectares; • Residential – Mixed Medium Density with Design Guidelines (R-4A) which would permit a range of housing types, such as single detached, semi-detached, dwelling conversion, lodging room/boarding house and duplex The personal information accompanying your submission is being collected under the authority of the Planning Act and may form part of the public record which may be released to the public. Questions about this collection should be dwellings on medium sized lots – approximately 5.1 hectares; • Residential – Multiple with Design Guidelines (R-7A) which would permit a range of multiple housing types, directed to the Records and Freedom of Information Officer at 519-669-6005 or 519-664-2613 ext. 6005. such as street front townhouses, apartments and a group multiple housing development – approximately 3.7 MORE INFORMATION: The public may view planning documents and background material relating to this application hectares; at the Township of Woolwich, Engineering and Planning Services Department between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Mon• Open Space (O-1) for the development of neighbourhood parks – approximately 1.3 hectares; • Open Space (O-2) for stormwater management ponds, trails and the recognition of environmental core features day through Friday, or on the Township website at www.woolwich.ca.

– approximately 2.8 hectares; and Questions or written submissions may be directed to: Township of Woolwich • Institutional (P) for the development of an elementary school site – approximately 2 hectares.

Engineering and Planning Services Department Box 158, 24 Church Street West In addition, the zoning change application is proposing a number of modifications to the regulations in the R-4A, Elmira, Ontario N3B 2Z6 Telephone: 519-669-1647 / 519-664-2613 R-5A and R-7A zoning categories concerning minimum lot requirements (area/width/frontage), setbacks and minimum ground floor area of a dwelling.

Dated at the Township of Woolwich this 16th day of March, 2013.

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PIONEERS / TACKLING ISSUES HEAD-ON

Remembering the remarkable life of Elsie Cressman Author Nancy Silcox has much to say about Mennonite woman who pioneered widwifery practice ELENA MAYSTRUK A local hero and pioneer of modern midwifery, Elsie Cressman led what author Nancy Silcox aptly calls a “trailblazing life,” in her biographical book about a remarkably unconventional Old Order Mennonite from Wilmot Township who delivered thousands of babies during her lifetime.

A motor scooter-riding, gun-toting, nurse-adventurer in Africa and a pioneer for midwifery in Ontario, Cressman’s story was one that needed to be told in detail by Silcox, a writer and journalist, who met Cressman during an interview near the end of her life.

“When I arrived at this apartment and knocked I heard this voice ‘come in, I can’t get up.’ I opened the door and walked into Elsie Cressman’s life. Little could I have guessed at that point how deep into her life I would walk over the next couple of years,” Silcox said at a presentation for the Waterloo Historical Society March 9.

Born to a local conservative Mennonite bishop and his wife, an American Amish woman from Missouri, Cressman was the middle child of three and showed signs of a nurturing personality and an independent spirit early on.

By the time Cressman became a midwife and headed the effort to orga-

nize a midwifery clinic in St. Jacobs, she was in her fifties with a slew of adventures behind her.

Cressman spent her teen years as a boarder at the Ontario Bible College in Fort Erie, where she settled on pursuing a nursing career. After graduating she enrolled in the nursing program at St. Mary’s Hospital in Kitchener and quickly found her calling in the maternity ward where she honed many of her strong beliefs about the birthing process.

Cressman told Silcox, in one of their many interviews over the span of a year, how doctors would use ether or chloroform on women in labour, a practice she began to disapprove of, arguing that it dulled the experience of childbirth and took control away from the expectant mothers.

She took this belief with her during her work, first as a nurse at a Mennonite hospital in Colorado, then as a nurse at a Kansas City children’s home.

After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in science from Goshen Mennonite College in the 1940s, she set her sights on Africa.

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Some fresh thinking helps when making sandwiches RECIPE NOTES Need a quick bite to eat? Sandwiches always seem to be the choice for lunch. Our catering menu includes many tasty sammies reworked for a more modern twist, and our little shop has been enjoying the buzz of a lunchtime crowd. Fresh, local and flavourful are the beginnings to any great lunch: soups are made in house, no prefab, boil-in-a-bag or frozen products.

My mother used to always say to me, “Dierre, you never just make a sandwich!” I will confess that the kids are faithful to PB & J, but Ron and I enjoy the late Saturday afternoon lunch. Beginning with great bread, then running down the street to the Elmira Meat Market for some shaved ham and over to Kitchen Cuttings for Pine River cheese.

We recently got back from a beautiful family vacation, but what we missed was the local flavour of the region. The restaurants and stores were highly commercialized and all the menus seemed the same. Worse still was the lack of personality. It reminded me of all the chains located in

Nancy Silcox holds a copy of her book after speaking in front of the Waterloo Historical Society in St. Jacobs on March 9.

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COMMUNITY EVENTS CALENDAR MARCH 16 SIX-TIME CANADIAN COUNTRY MUSIC Association guitarist of the year, Wendell Ferguson, and acclaimed recording artist Katherine Wheatley will be performing at the Wellesley Community Centre, 1000 Maple St. Silent auction, light snacks available.

Concert profits go to community betterment. Tickets $15, available at Pym’s Village Market and by calling Peter at 519-656-3474. Sponsored by Wellesley and District Lions Club.

DIABETES BREAKFAST HOSTED BY Woolwich Community Lions Club; 9-11 a.m. at Elmira Lions Hall, 40 South St. W., Elmira. Enjoy your free diabetesfriendly breakfast while you learn all about Diabetes!

There will be information sessions and opportunity to ask questions of various health professionals. Free optional screening for diabetes on site. Donation to Canadian Diabetes Association gratefully accepted.

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Join us at the Elmira Branch Library for a small business workshop. This popular workshop is run

by Roy Weber of the Small Business Centre. It’s a great event to attend if you are thinking of starting your own business. The event will take place at the library located at 65 Arthur St. S. in Elmira. For more information call the Elmira Branch Library at 519-6695477 or elmlib@regionofwaterloo.ca.

ELECTRONIC BINGO, 7 P.M., St. Clements Community Centre, sponsored by Paradise & District Lions Club.

For more information contact president Joe Brick 519-699-4022.

GO 4 GOLD AT WCS Youth Centre. Participate in daily activities in March to win sticker points that can add up to awesome prizes and maybe you’ll be our Athlete of the Week. Today’s activity is a hockey shootout. For more information, contact Catherine or Anna at 519-669-3539.

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SENIORS LUNCH CLUB AT noon (doors open at 11:30 a.m.). Woolwich Memorial Centre, 24 Snyder Ave. S., Elmira (community room). Cost $6. Join us for a noon day light lunch and fellowship. Call Community Care Concepts at 519-664-1900 for more information.

SENIORS LUNCH CLUB AT noon (doors open at 11:30 a.m.). Wellesley Community Centre, 1000 Maple Leaf St., Wellesley. Cost $6. Join us for a noonday light lunch and fellowship. Call Community Care Concepts at 519-664-1900 or toll free: 1-855-664-1900 for more information.

ZUMBA GOLD FOR +55. Starting March 28 at 4:15-5 p.m. at the Woolwich Seniors Centre. Members $2.50; non-members $5. For more information call 519-6695044.

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WCS YOUTH CENTRE HAS a Twister Tournament for Go 4 Gold. Karyn will also be here at 7 p.m., so come and say hi. For more information, contact Catherine or Anna at 519-669-3539.

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ELMIRA LIONS CLUB WEEKLY 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 519-500-1434.

WCS YOUTH CENTRE HAS a new theme for 2013: respect. At 7:30 p.m., join us for junior round table, we will be talking all about respect. For more information, contact Catherine or Anna at (519) 6693539.

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MARCH 22 H.U.G. S. PROGRAM – 9:15-11:15 a.m. Meet with other parents to discuss parenting and child health issues.

Topic: How to get your child to realize that their actions have consequences. Introducing the 1, 2, 3 Magic program. No registration required. Childcare provided. Held at Woolwich Community Health Centre, 10 Parkside Dr., St. Jacobs. Call Heidi at 519664-3794, ext. 237 for more information.

WCS YOUTH CENTRE IS hitting the movies tonight.

Bring in your permission form and you too can go to the theatre. We are leaving the YC at 6:45 p.m. and headed to Galaxy, don’t forget your money ($8-$14).

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

First introduced in 1958, plastic cards have proven to be right on the money

Q. From a Montana

reader: “My wife and I were both born on February 22, though in different years. How often does this sort of thing happen?�

A. Assuming all birthdays are equally likely and that people do not choose mates based on birthdays, the probability is simply 1 in 365 (ignoring leap-years). That comes to a mere 0.27%. Actually, births are more likely in certain months, so the

Q. Wave your “plastic�

in the right direction and you just put your latest purchase on your credit card, like millions of other consumers. How many millions?

A. By one estimate, 1,500 million, or 1.5 billion credit cards are in use in the U.S. alone, says SusanFreinkel in “Plastic: A Toxic Love Story.� It was 1958 when American Express (AmEx) introduced the first plastic credit card, with money taking on a new kind of

plasticity. Touted as better withstanding day-to-day use, these cards soon “were so commonplace the very word ‘plastic’ became synonymous with money.� And it’s not only the credit card. “Four out of five Americans own debit cards, and one in six has a prepaid card to buy gas, make phone calls, or use for general purposes,�

Freinkel adds.

Most of these are made of PVC (polyvinyl chloride) and have been since the AmEx debut, because PVC “is easily processed, offers the right blend of rigidity and flexibility, and is durable enough to last the standard three-to-five-year term of a credit card.�

bodily fluids that keep us functioning smoothly also contribute some colourful words to our

chole (bile), suggesting a pensive, depressed state.

And something highly original relates to “seminal,� from Latin semen (seed). “Salivating� for more?

Credit our body’s saliva, from Latin salivare (to salivate, or “to show great relish in anticipation of something desirable�) and then pay a visit to Garg’s online “A Word a Day.� If you’re a wordaholic, you’re not likely to be disappointed.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS Bill is a journalist, Rich holds a doctorate in physics. Together the brothers bring you “Strange But True.� Send your questions to strangetrue@compuserve.com.

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A. Lymph gives us “lymphatic,� from Latin lympha (water), says Anu Garg on his “A Word a Day� web site. It was once believed that too much lymphatic fluid resulted in sluggishness, hence, its meaning of lacking energy.

Similarly, “melancholy� comes from the notion that an excess of black bile led to a gloomy state, from Greek melan- (black) and

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language. Blood, probably the best-known of them, gives us “sangfroid,� from French for cold blood. Thus the term means calmness, especially under stress.

Can you name some other fluids and the words derived from them?

According to a New York Times calculation, a stack of all the credit cards in use in the U.S. would reach more than 70 miles into space, or nearly the height of 13 Mount Everests. “Yet the ordinary erosion that might whittle down a mountain would scarcely dent that polymer peak, Freinkel says. “Even a single PVC card would persist for decades, if not centuries, and each year we toss away more than 75 million (75,000,000) of them.�

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amount of sound 34. Accustom 36. ___ noir 37. Massenet’s “Le ___�

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probability of a husbandwife match is a bit greater than this simple estimate.

But whatever the odds, “happy birthday birthday� to you both!

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CRESSMAN: Returning from Africa, she

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launched the midwifery clinic in St. Jacobs

patients at a time. She got herself a gun and a motorized scooter to traverse the muddy roads – more than a little unusual considering her conservative upbringing – and began delivering babies along the way. When Tanzanian locals started to take over the clinic she headed for England to train as a midwife.

“Nothing made me happier than seeing young mothers happy,” Cressman said to Silcox in a past interview.

Cressman then made her way home and started the St. Jacobs midwifery clinic with local supporters in tow.

The practice of midwifery was not recognized as a health profession until the Midwifery Act in 1994, by which time Cressman, now in her fifties, had spent most of her career stoically rebelling against the

established conventions.

That included the common practice of hospital births that saw doctors in full control and left mothers, in Cressman’s view, without a say in the matter.

“She was a driving force,” Silcox said.

“But I don’t want people to think that she was driven to have a career. That wasn’t it. She was driven by the belief that she needed to help women deliver babies the way they wanted to deliver them,” Silcox said in an interview.

Always wanting but never having children of her own, she delivered thousands of babies all over the world. Her life was not without heartbreaking hardships, either. In the 1990s, shortly after retirement, Cressman was sued due to problems experienced by a child she had delivered 13 years before.

Many of her admirers

and colleagues see her as a battering-ram for the establishment of midwifery in Ontario, her name still on many lips of the staff at the local midwifery clinic.

She was recently inducted into the Waterloo County Hall of Fame and named woman of the year by the Zonta Club of KitchenerWaterloo.

In her 80s Cressman returned to the leprosarium she had overseen years before as the subject of a documentary (Return to Africa: The Story of Elsie Cressman.) She didn’t live to see her biography, Elsie Cressman: A Trailblazing Life, get published, having passed away in September 2012, just weeks before the book came out.

“This is a woman who bucked conventionality and went against the mainstream. She was formidable,” Silcox said.

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