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Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Pelham Cares’ summer need Gym renamed BY SARAH MURRELL VOICE Staff
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E.L. Crossley Alumni returned to the school over the long weekend to meet old friends, reminisce and, on Saturday, honour the school’s first Physical Education Department Head. In a ceremony Saturday afternoon the school’s gymnasium was renamed the Lorne Ward Gymnasium. Marty Edwards, a former student and athlete of Ward’s and current phys ed teacher at Crossley, offered a talk from the persepective of the young, impressionable young man he once was to the man who, occasionally, walks in Ward’s shoes. Edwards remembered Ward as a coach and teacher who had high expectations of his students, who inspired them to excellence and encouraged them to do their best.
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PELHAM Cares president Jane Gilmour accepts a $1,000 donation from Fenwick Lions president Fred Disher. Sarah Murrell/Voice Photo
BY SARAH MURRELL VOICE Staff A $1,000 donation from the Fenwick Lions Club came at the perfect time for Pelham Cares, where the shelves are starting to get a little bare. President Jane Gilmour said this is the time of year when the local food bank traditionally has fewer food items in stock, noting the organization is actually running out of several items. The donation, she said, will likely be used to fill the shelves back up and purchase items they are running low on.
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“We’re out of a lot of things or low on a lot of things,” said Gilmour, including canned meat, such as flaked ham or turkey; canned beef stew; canned salmon; and coffee. She also noted that even though kids will be out of school soon, the organization continues to need pudding cups, juice boxes and other snack items for kids. Gilmour also pointed out the organization is striving to provide healthier options to its clients and is therefore requesting juice donations be 100 per cent juices. A food drive at the Fonthill
Sobeys store, held by local Royal LePage brokers, is set for the second week of June, said Gilmour, and should also help fill the shelves. The $1,000 donation from the Fenwick Lions Club is part of the club’s commitment to community organizations, said Lion Fred Disher, explaining the members consider all requests from the community and decide where their funds will go. The Lions’ annual spring carnival is coming up May 23 to 25, one of the ways in which the club raises funds to donate back to the community.
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Water feature tour BY SARAH MURRELL VOICE Staff From a Japanese tea house to a 30 foot waterfall, there are some spectacular water features hidden in gardens throughout Pelham. One of those gardens belongs to Greg Woods, whose Fonthill property features an orientalinspired garden, with two waterfalls, a pond, a pool and hot tub. Woods, a local realtor, said the idea to feature properties like his on a tour came when his pond was featured in Ponds magazine. “I thought what a cool idea,” said Woods of holding a water feature tour. “No one had done it, there are always garden tours.”
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The challenge, he said, was to find other local properties with water features for the tour. That was done by word of mouth or calling up old clients who Woods knew had water features on their properties. The tour features nine Pelham properties all with ponds, waterfalls, pools or hot tubs, or like his own property, a combination of the four types of features. “There are some really cool properties on the tour,” he said. Woods’ garden is 11 years old and features a Japanese tea house his father-in-law built. A water fall flows from the tea house into a fish pond below. The pond is See TOUR/page 6