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BY SARAH MURRELL VOICE Staff
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It may have snowed less than a week ago, but the hot, hazy days of summer are on the minds of the Summerfest Committee. Looking to build on last year’s success, increase attendance by 5,000 to 10,000 people, and expand the four-day event, the Summerfest Committee is beginning work on promoting the event. The committee, through the town, recently issued a request for proposal (RFP) for the promotion of the event. CAO Darren Ottaway explains the town is simply a broker for the committee, issuing the RFP to ensure all procurement for services follows the town’s regulations. Ottaway added the budget for the promotions tender, $3,000 to $5,000 for the consultant included in an overall promotion budget of $15,000, comes from the committee - not the town coffers. See SUMMERFEST/page 5
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Getting creative BY SARAH MURRELL VOICE Staff How might council make better and quicker decisions? How might the town continually improve customer service? How might the town devise a method for council, the public and staff to identify golden eggs? These are questions a group of staff and councillors worked over five days to answer, using the Simplex Creative Problem Solving process. The exercise was a training session in the highest level of the Simplex, or How Might We,
creative problem solving process but was also a way to deal with three key areas within the corporation, better serving the community. To hear the outcome of the process and approve an action plan that would see the How Might We process utilized in all aspects of town business, council approved the scheduling of a special meeting. Praising the work and noting it will place Pelham as the most innovative community in the province, councillors not only agreed to the meeting, but asked it be given enough time to thoroughly review the information.
PELHAM Panthers’ Josh Glen fights off three Dragons in game one of the OMHA finals on Sunday. James Whitaker/Voice Photo
Peewee A/Es in OMHA finals BY SARAH MURRELL VOICE Staff If a Panther were to battle a Dragon, who’d come out victorious? It’s a question the Shoppers Drug Mart Pelham Peewee AE Panthers will be answering this week as they battle the Dorchester Dragons for the top hockey title in the province. The Panthers defeated Niagara-on-the-Lake, Lincoln, Acton, Collingwood and finally Port Hope to reach the finals in the Ontario Minor Hockey Association (OMHA) playoffs. Head coach Brent Mergl said the team started the season off slow, and at that point he wasn’t
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convinced they’d end up in the final series. Winning a Caledoia tournament, which Mergl says he entered the team in because he thought it would be a good way to gauge where they were in comparison to other teams, was the turning point. Mergl explained the tournament is where the kids bought in to the idea that hard work and practice would result in a winning season. “You look at where we started. We had a lot of new players, a lot of kids who had to learn the system,” said Joe Glen, who runs the teams defence. “It was a total growth year.” “Each month, each week we were improving,” he said. “We
were getting better and better.” Glen noted the team did set goals at the beginning of the season, and being in the championship finals was one of them. Glen also pointed out the team doesn’t have a “superstar” but works as a team for the goals they set. “We win as a team. We lose as a team,” he said. Mergl added the players are committed to the team concept and were willing to change positions to ensure the team was as strong as possible, with the talent in the right places. On their way to the finals the team faced Collingwood in the See PANTHERS/page 11
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