FORD COMING TO PARIS Pages 2

Picture from left to right, Paul Vicano - Vice President of Vicano Developments, Mayor David Bailey - County of Brant, Peter Vicano - President of Vicano Construction, Marc Vicano - Project Manager of Vicano Construction and Michael Vicano - Project Manager of Vicano Construction. Photo County of Brant

Media Release County of Brant

The County of Brant is pleased to welcome the Ford Motor Company of Canada distribution centre to Paris, Ontario. The new state of the art parts distribution centre at the corner of Rest Acres Road and Highway 403, will be approximately 562,000 square feet. The facility will be one of two new parts distribution centres being constructed in Ontario replacing Ford’s 900,000 sq. ft. Bramalea facility in order to improve customer satisfaction and expedite parts delivery time to dealers. “The County of Brant continues to search out and secure opportunities to stabilize and grow our local economy. This includes attracting and supporting small, medium and large businesses such as Ford,” said Mayor David Bailey. “We want to be a place where people can live, work and play all in their own community and attracting employers such as Ford, continues the County in the right direction. ” As the County continues to grow, it is important to balance the industrial, commercial and residential growth to stabilize the tax base and provide jobs for residents. To do this, the County has adopted a progressive, forward thinking approach to working with businesses. This includes a holistic approach to maintain and create new infrastructure, continually evolving the County’s economic development program and policies to attract business and collaborating with regional partners and stakeholders to ensure a positive outcome. Vicano Developments Limited was successful in negotiating a long term lease agreement with Ford to construct and lease the new Ford distribution centre on a 30 acre parcel of industrial land it owns facing Highway 403. The Vicano proposal was on a competitive basis and successfully outperformed multiple submissions from other proponents in southwestern Ontario. It’s proximity to Highway 403, speed of delivering the building and strong labour pool were all positive factors in the successful proposal. “Working with the County of Brant on this project has been a wonderful experience. The County of Brant planning approval process is streamlined, responsive and takes a pragmatic approach to the development approval process. The County of Brant really understands what it takes to attract investment to the area. All County staff involved treated this project as if it were their own. They are professional, they helped facilitate creative solutions to issues that arose, and were just very pleasant to work with. We commend County Council and County Staff in supporting economic growth in the region with its businessfriendly approach,” said Paul Vicano, Executive Vice President, Vicano Developments Limited. Construction began in May of 2021 and structural steel erection has commenced on site. Completion of the new facility is slated for December 2022.

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OCTOBER 2021

Waterford Pumpkinfest – October 15 -17

Live Bands * Fireworks * Car Show * More! https://pumpkinfest.com

Local Artist Holly Ounapuu (Holly O) presents an Open House at her Studio and Gallery, Saturday and Sunday, October 16 & 17. Doors are open from 1 pm to 5 pm at 16 Charlotte St.

CC Alexander's Spooky Cedars is open now to Nov 1. Lights from 6 to 10. Curtis Ave South Paris. Look for the signs and the white ghost!

The Paris Curling Club invites new members to try the sport this Sunday, October 17 and again Saturday October 24, 1pm to 3:30 pm. Due to limit restrictions in the building, please register below. Please bring clean shoes and proof of vaccination. October 17 -

https://pariscurlingclub.com/eventPage.php/pcctry-curling-oct17 October 24 -

https://pariscurlingclub.com/eventPage.php/pcctry-curling-oct24

October Arts & Crafts Kit: Pumpkin Doodles. Monday October 11, 18, 25 from 9 am to 8 pm Create some amazing works of art with simple materials. Register at brantlibrary.ca/youtube. Free supplies available on first come first served basis to teens who register to participate. Trivia Night! Thursday October 14, 21, 28, November 4, 11, 18 from 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm. Test your knowledge. Sign up online https://brantlibrary.evanced.info/signup

Hallowe’en Karaoke SATURDAY October 30th TRY NOT TO SING YOUR MASK OFF! At the Grand Bayou 27 Dumfries Street, Paris.

All Canadian Events presents Great

Canadian Butter Tart Festival in Paris Saturday October 23 (10am to 4pm) and Sunday October 24 (11 am to 4 pm) at the Paris Agricultural Society, 139 Silver St, Paris. Admission $5 at the door, masks required.

NOVEMBER 2021

St. Paul's United Church Presents its

Season Bazaar /Craft Show on Sunday, November 6 from 9 am to 2 pm at 48 Broadway St E. Covid 19 protocols including vaccination passport (including id) and masks will be followed. Hand sanitizer will be provided.

Christmas in Paris November 5, 6 & 7. Friday 1 – 9 pm; Saturday 9:30 – 5pm; Sunday 11 am- 4 pm. All in one location at the Paris Agricultural Society (139 Silver St Paris). Admission is by donation only with proceeds to support the arts bursaries for high school students in Paris and the County of Brant. Presented by Kindred Spirits Artisans of Paris.

THEATRE BRINGS BACK LIVE ENTERTAINMENT

Left: Paris resident Matthew Willson will direct the October 20th play: ‘Gruesome Playground Injuries,’ written by Rajiv Joseph. Pic 2&3 Deanna Stevens and Connor McGrath rehearse for The Paris Performers’ Theatre’s upcoming production featuring 3 one-act plays.

By Casandra Turnbull A sure sign that life is returning one step closer to normal: theatre is back, and some residents are busy preparing for the first production in nearly 18 months. The Paris Performers’ Theatre is rehearsing and fine-tuning its skillset for a series of one-act plays being presented at the Rope Factory in Brantford. “After 18 months away, it was amazing to get back into rehearsal and rekindle relationships with our theatre family,” said Terri Graham, producer of the upcoming production. “A lot of us were a little timid at first, afraid of being shut down again, but with numbers going down and vaccines going up, the confidence came back quickly for all of us,” she confessed. The last in-person production for the group was in February 2020 when they performed ‘Reefer Madness’ by Joel Landry, directed by Nikole Beda. They were gearing up to co-host the Western Ontario Drama League Festival with Cambridge Community Players in March 2020 when Covid started. Diving right back into the action, they landed on the one-act play concept for several reasons, mainly because it aligns well with Covid-19 protocols. Fewer props and costumes, fewer sets, fewer actors in each production, allowing rehearsals to be smaller and safer. “Covid also set the Paris Performers’ Theatre (PPT) back financially like every other theatre group, so this is a great way to get some smaller shows in and earn some income for PPT,” Graham enthusiastically pointed out. Behind the scenes, Graham, along with Martin Smith, Michael Bedford, Matthew Willson, and a small group of actors/actresses from Brantford and Hamilton area, are eager to entertain. So, what can the audience expect from these performances? Graham outlined a brief synopsis for each show. The Other Person, written and directed by Michael Bedford, is an absurdist/surrealist-style comedy about two people searching for love in a darkening world that seeks to objectify them, explained Bedford. Much and Too Much, written and directed by Martin Smith, is the story of a couple who visit the same Italian restaurant over the years –celebrating milestones and challenges. Gruesome Playground Injuries is written by Rajiv Joseph and directed by Matthew Willson. This story focuses on two young people in a series of events that go back and forth to explain the intricacies of their relationship over the span of 30 years. It’s a story of one-sided love and friendship and how it changes over time.

“This year we are so thankful for finally being able to get back to the stage that we love and bringing quality, professional entertainment to you, our patrons,” said Graham. “We are thankful for all the amazing volunteers and community supporters. ” Rather than hosting the upcoming performance at its home at the Paris Fairgrounds, the show will go on at the Rope Factory in Brantford. “Our regular space at the fairgrounds was not available for the timeframe we wanted,” said Graham. The group also planned to perform at the Sanderson Centre, but a last-minute change left them scrambling for a new location. “Jamie Stephens, owner of the Rope Factory Event Hall, heard of our dilemma and offered to help us out. The space itself is perfect for the show and has great acoustics and was literally made for events like this. ” The one-night performance takes place on Wednesday, October 20th . The doors open at 6:30 pm and the show starts at 7 pm. Tickets are $13.15 each and can be purchased online only at

http://www.eventbrite.ca/e/parisperformers-theatre-presents-anight-of-one-act-plays-tickets172911542077 in advance only, not at the door. Covid rules apply, proof of vaccine required at the door.

NEWS TYPESET BY HAND OVER 70 YEARS AGO Cont…

Paris Past

By

Chris Whelan

Last week I wrote about how the owners of the Paris Star newspaper had to place every letter upside-down and backwards to form a line of type, known as typesetting. Today I will continue the story from the interview with Mr. & Mrs. Pickell owners of the Paris Star from 1944 to 1970. As recorded by a Paris Library Staff Volunteer.

Mr. Pickell: “We got the Linotype about 1954 which was marvelous for us – a whole new world. There was still the business of putting the type in forms, locking it up and putting on the press and running it ourselves. We ran three presses.

For photographs we used to take the pictures and then send the negatives in to have engravings made. Well, engravings got to be very expensive and it took two or three days to get them back

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The Old Star Office downtown Paris, photo: Paris Museum and Historical Society Left: John P. Pickell, Owner and Editor of The Paris Star, 1944-1970, D.A. Smith Photograph Collection, 1999.1248.01, Paris Museum and Historical Society

from the engraving company. Then we bought our own engraving machine and we had that up until we switched over to offset printing.

It’s an entirely different process. Instead of setting the type on a Linotype you set it with a type writer and you set punched out lines of paper. Then you feed that into a computer and it comes out in strips of paper in the dark. Then you feed that through a machine that has chemicals it then comes out in long strips of news printed in column width and then you run that through a waxer and stick it on a paper. You have a headliner which makes a bigger type for the ads but you can make up the whole page – once you have the thing set-up, you can put a paper together. All weekly newspapers are doing this now.

None of the weeklies are printed in the old shops anymore. Now they go to community presses and you go as far as the negatives –you take pictures of each page and make a negative and then we go to Kitchener to Garnerway Press and they make plates from the negatives and put it on a big community press and they’ll run off 2500 copies in less than an hour and they come out folded!

We used to have to fold the papers by hand and it would take us until 4am the next morning ”.

BULLS AND BIKES INVADE THE PARIS FAIRGROUNDS

By Casandra Turnbull

Bulls and Bikes brought its thrill show to Paris last weekend for a good ole’ fashioned rodeo.

The grandstands were nearly packed as residents took the opportunity to attend another outdoor event hosted at the Paris Fairgrounds, presented by the greatrodeo.com, in support of Help a Child Smile and Camp Maple Leaf.

The show featured two exhilarating sports: bull riding and motocross, and they did not disappoint. The countrystyle action-packed afternoon started with bronc riding, dazzled fans with extreme motocross stunts, skillful barrel (and jr. barrel) racing, and rounded out the day with talented cowboys riding 2,000-pound bulls. Between performances, children and adults alike were amused by the shenanigans of the bullfighting rodeo clown!

Aside from heart stopping excitement, the purpose of the event is to raise funds for two children’s charities: Camp Maple Leaf and Help a Child Smile. Brant County Mayor David Bailey, as well as two young cancer survivors, addressed the crowd during intermission. After presenting a Cowboy’s Prayer by Clem McSpadden, rodeo goers stood for a moment of silence during Oh Canada

Stunt riders Christian Martinez, Spencer Holmes and Steel Cutter mesmerized the crowd at the Paris Fairgrounds on October 10 with a thrilling performance of sky-high jumps and tricks.