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Pelham captures Italian Gold

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The Pelham Panthers U16 Boys soccer team travelled to Italy in late March for an Italian soccer excursion and to compete in the Agropoli International Soccer Tournament.

The Italian adventure began in Rome and the Vatican, where Panther players and their families were able to visit the Coliseum, the Forum Ruins, the Trevi Fountain, the Spanish Steps, St Peter’s Basilica, and other destinations before travelling south to Agropoli to com-

pete in the tournament.

As part of the excursion, the team was also able to visit several local towns, experience the local culture, and take in some history of the country.

Both players and parents were nervous heading into the opening game with Salerno, as no one knew what to expect from the competition.

After an anxious first half, the Panthers found themselves in a scoreless battle and ultimately fell 1-0 by virtue of a heartbreaking late penalty shot with only a few minutes remaining on the clock.

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Accursi recuses himself as wife's project debated Town Council held a public meeting last Monday night to discuss two proposed developments in Fonthill—one on the site of the current Pelham Arena, the other on a parcel of land on Port Robinson road owned by the wife of Councillor Gary Accursi.

The Pelham Arena land is not yet for sale, though last spring the Town engaged the Planning Partnership, an urban design firm from Toronto, to create development guidelines for the area.

An online survey was created for residents to provide their input directly, though all five of the options presented involved developing the site in some way.

At a council meeting in October, Director of Planning Barb Wiens acknowledged that many in attendance at a public meeting in September were upset by this limitation, but said, “The Terms of Reference for this plan were that there was a need to explore development alternatives—that’s

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The second outing had the Panthers face Roma in an important game for both teams. The Panthers came away with a 2-2 tie in an exciting back-andforth affair that saw Pelham tie the match with three minutes left to play.

In game three, Pelham squared off against Palermo in a must-win game for both teams. Pelham came ready to play and did not disappoint their fans with an impressive 3-1 victory.

The win put Pelham into the final game against Cilento Academy who came in undefeated and had

not surrendered a goal in the tournament. Another solid effort from the boys paid off with a 1-0 victory and the championship trophy.

Following the tournament, the team travelled south to San Giorgio Morgeto Calabria, where they played in a friendship exhibition game and participated in a Calcio a Cinque (5v5) tournament with the local team.

Players and parents alike say they will never forget the hospitality extended to them by the town of San Giorgio and its residents.

Blaine Palmer and Francesca Tricamo-Palmer, actors from Portland, Oregon, who are father and daughter, became part of the cast of the popular comedy series Portlandia, and wound up acting in the same scene. The Voice asked them to tell us how it happened.

Francesca: I started acting in theater when I was in third grade and doing improv in fourth or fifth grade. My ultimate goal is writing for television. For the last year I’ve performed improv regularly in Portland and now in Los Angeles take classes at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater (UCB) where some of my favorite comedians studied — Jason Mantzoukas, Lauren Lapkus and Jack McBrayer are some notable alums.

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Clarification at the top: We inadvertently sold Town staffer Kim Holland short a couple of weeks back in our story on Sunshine Listers in Pelham. These are public workers who earn more than $100,000 annually. We referred to Holland as Pelham’s Beautification Manager, which is only half the story. Her title is actually, “Manager, Facilities and Beautification.” For managing facilities and beautifying, she just squeaks onto the list at $101,504… Scam alert: We ran a classified ad in the last two issues from a woman purporting to seek a caregiver for her elderly mother-in-law. The ad turns out to be part of a scam. Nothing about the ad seemed out of the ordinary at first. It was only after readers contacted the paper, reporting the suspicious replies they received when responding to the ad, that the scammers revealed themselves. A classified with nearly identical phrasing has run in other Canadian and US papers in recent years. We appreciate those readers who took the time to alert us...Out of left field: What's up with a Column Six from Oregon? For a time I was "Uncle Dave" to the young Francesca, by virtue of my friendship with parents Blaine and Regina. Enjoy the dad and daughter tale...Plogging away: Larry Coté’s Commentary musing last week over local litterbugs was prescient— the Town is set to hold “Clean-Up Days” later this week…

History while it lasts: The Pelham Historical Society opened a new exhibit last week at Pelham Public Library’s Fonthill branch—a collection of commemorative china from the royal family. At Fenwick’s Maple Acre branch, this is the last week to see Bernice Alsop's outstanding wooden tool and implement collection. And finally, on Saturday, all are welcome to learn about the development of Wainfleet (see the ad, page 5)… Competing for attention: After you’ve cleaned up some litter and picked up some ‘fleeter facts, consider heading over to the Kinsmen Home and Garden show at Pelham Arena this weekend. Yes, as we go to press, most of our gardens are blanketed in a good half inch or so of slushy ice, but the sun will return someday. Strange De Gym, the Fonthill Fitness Club wit, remarked wearily over the weekend, “I hope summer falls on a weekend this year”… Take the plunge: Considering running for office? Learn all about it, for free. See the story, page 13. But act fast, the presentation is Thursday!

THE VOICE POLL Clearing snow from sidewalks Last week we asked who should be responsible for clearing snow from sidewalks—homeowners and businesses, or the Town. With 103 votes cast, the verdict was split but consistent: 53% of respondents thought that homeowners should clean their own sidewalks, and 56% thought that businesses should do so.

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BY VOICE STAFF In just nine days the gofundme page for the Humboldt Broncos, the Saskatchewan hockey team involved in a horrific April 7 bus crash that resulted in 16 deaths, has raised nearly $12 million dollars.

Nearly $1000 of it has come from the idea of one Pelham girl.

Taryn Petrovski, a 16-year-old E.L. Crossley Secondary School student, came up with the idea of making ribbons last week.

“She just came home and said she wanted to make these ribbons and sell them for a dollar or two, and give the money to the gofundme," said Kristine Halsted, Petrovski’s mother. “She went to the dollar store to get green and gold ribbon, and had some people over.

They made 180 in the first night.”

Petrovski spoke to the administration at E.L.

Taryn Petrovsky with friends Joey Natale, Val Belanger, Trent Glenney, who each helped make ribbons. SUPPLIED PHOTO “I saw that it was one of the largest gofundme pages in the world right now,” said Halsted. “Even the Queen spoke about it and made a donation.”

Halsted spoke of how inspiring it is that so much of the country—and world— has rallied around Humboldt.

“So many people have lost loved ones in a car accident—this sort of thing just magnifies that,” she said.

“Especially in a small town like Fonthill.”

Crossley, which allowed her to sell the ribbons there.

“Within ten minutes, they all sold out,” said Halsted.

For three nights in a row, Petrovski and a rotating group of friends got together and made the ribbons, and soon requests were coming in from other schools.

“I had teachers from A.K. Wigg getting in touch with me and asking if they could get twenty or thirty for their entire class,” said Halsted.

Pelham Clean-Up Days, tree planting

BY VOICE STAFF The Town of Pelham is asking residents to help clean up their community.

Between April 19 and 21, Town Hall is promoting “Community Clean-up Days,” inviting students,

According to a Town news release, in 2017 some 420 people participated, dozens of garbage bags were filled, and 400 kg of garbage was collected. The hope is it exceed those numbers during

businesses, and the community at large to “keep their spaces clean and free of garbage.”

The Town assists those taking part by providing garbage bags, gloves, and safety vests for the duration of the clean-up.

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Public meeting tonight on school issues

BY VOICE STAFF As questions continue to mount regarding an email that Pelham Mayor Dave Augustyn quietly sent to a District School Board of Niagara trustee last summer, Augustyn has agreed to address the issue at a public meeting scheduled for this evening, Wednesday, Feb. 8, in Fenwick.

Nancy Beamer, speaking for “Names Matter,” a Pelham citizens group lobbying the DSBN to reverse its decision to rename a local public school, confirms that the meeting will be held at Fire Station #2, known locally as the Fenwick Fire Hall, starting at 7:00 PM. While the Mayor has agreed to ap-

Under pressure, Mayor to address email revelation, other E. W. Farr matters pear, says Beamer, DSBN officials associated with the school-naming process have either declined to attend or have not yet responded to the group’s invitation.

DSBN Chair, Dale Robinson, to whom Augustyn’s email was addressed last June, has declined to appear, says Beamer, asserting that she would be

“on holidays.” The Voice was unable to independently confirm Robinsion’s intentions. She did not respond to repeated requests for comment on E.W. Farr-related matters before presstime.

Beamer, whose group maintains an email list of some 580 residents, says that all members of the public are invited and encouraged to attend the meeting.

“We would especially welcome parents and children who are unhappy with the name change,” she says, referring to the contentious decision by the DSBN to consolidate two Pelham See MEETING back page

HEN I WAS young, my father and I would go for long drives along the rural routes of Pelham. We’d blast George Thurgood and roll down the windows because we loved the smell of the breeze, the sensation of crisp Niagara wind beating our cheeks and tangling our hair against our summer-kissed skin.

My father was not a sentimental man. He worked in factories and had a Gordon Lightfoot mustache and never shed tears over injuries.

Yet something about the Pelham landscape, the hilly backdrop to his childhood and the childhoods of our ancestors, drew him in. He’d stop by a farm or a gathering of woods and, surrendering his manly veneer, tell me a story about the town.

This place is precious. This is the earth that granted us life. Here is the place where we happened upon love or here is a site of devastation.

On one particular drive sometime in the late ‘90s we stopped at a tree with a plaque.

“This tree looks dead,” I said to my father.

“It sure is getting there, Julie.”

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A construction error was discovered following the opening of a traffic calming chicane on Haist Street north of Hwy 20 last Monday that prevented large vehicles from passing through.

One resident living in the neighbourhood said he contacted the Town after seeing a small schoolbus get stuck as it tried to get through the new traffic calming measure. Later that day while driving behind a cement truck, he said that he became concerned for the public’s safety when the truck had to turn around because it couldn’t get through.

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Repair measures underway last week to correct a construction error in the chicane. truck or an ambulance?” he said.

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Manager of Public Works Ryan Cook said that after discovering the issue with

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Petition-inspired changes coming to 2017 Summerfest

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Representatives from the Pelham Summerfest committee Candy Ashbee and Bill Gibson presented council with a final report on the 2016 Summerfest at the Council meeting on Monday, Nov. 21.

Prompted by a story in the Voice in August about a merchant petition to move Summerfest from Pelham Street, in September Town staff met with various stakeholders to hear their complaints, promising at the time that changes in the way Summerfest was mounted would be con-

sidered.

The main concerns identified during the community engagement process were security, parking, ensuring customer can access all businesses in town, and liability for damages. How to get all Pelham Street businesses to participate and finding ways to make it beneficial for them to set up a booth were also determined to be of high priority for the committee as they plan for next year’s event.

Gibson told Council that the committee is addressing these concerns in a variety of ways. To improve parking, they intend to create bet-

ter signage for out-of-town visitors to designated parking areas and shuttle services. To make participation in Summerfest more enticing to local businesses, they plan to implement a tiered-charge for booths. Under the new system, Pelham Street business owners will be charged the least, other local businesses will pay a slightly higher fee, and vendors from outside Pelham will pay the most. In response to more specific issues for individual businesses, they will also slightly alter the footprint of the event and make adjustments to security.

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to improve the 2017 Summerfest is by sponsoring and working with the organizers of the Thursday Night Bandshell Concert series to select the artist performing on the first night of Summefest. They also intend to make more use of the smartphone app they launched in 2016.

"We are really going to push it this year," Ashbee said.

“It really helps to get people to see what events there are so they can plan out where they are going.

We will be able to actually help the merchants and local businesses adSee CHANGES Page 5

FTER LUNCH ON Saturday, Mum and Dad had my afternoon cut out for me. Mum had more brass than anyone I knew, and it had to be cleaned. In addition there was the set of silver fish-knives and forks which were never used, but which had to be cleaned and put back in their velvetlined box.

Next was a walk to the newsagents to pay for the daily delivery of the Daily Mirror. As I said, Dad was a printer, but when he was 37 he had been rejected for a job, as being too old, by the printers of the Beano.

For that reason, my favourite comic was not allowed in the house, but while I was paying the papers, the newsagent let me have a 'shoofty' at the Beano. I'd explained my predicament and he understood completely.

Sundays were different again. Dad would play golf on summer mornings and billiards in winter. Then he'd stop for a 'refresher' at the local and would pick up the prawns, cockles, winkles or whelks we'd be having for tea later. Meanwhile, Mum was roasting the 'joint' and potatoes. I got to make the Yorkshire pud, and mint

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While shopping in Fonthill between Friday and Sunday, keep an eye out for Beavers, Cubs and Scouts in front of local stores with bushels of apples.

As part of the annual Apple Day campaign, Scouting youth of all ages will be trading apples for donations.

The yearly fundraising drive is an important way for young Scouts to connect with the communities they are serving, says Leah Marie of Scouts Canada.

“The Apple Day campaign holds a great tradition of being able to have youth interacting within the communities they live in,” she says. “All of the Apple Day donations stay directly within the group that re-

The goal is to have these youth develop into confident and well-rounded individuals

ceives them, enabling youth to have experiences that build character, challenge them, and allow them to try new things. The goal is to have these youth develop into confident and wellrounded individuals, better prepared for success. Apple Day helps to achieve that.”

“Any money raised during Apple Day goes towards improving the Scouting program by providing more outdoor adventures for youth, camping equipment, canoes and paddles, training and many other endeavours that the youth want to experience,” says Marie.

Scouts Canada has some 100,000 members across Canada, and carries out programs for boys, girls

walk/trail is slated to be built between the south side of the road from Timmsdale Crescent to the high school.

Because of the large volume of motor vehicle traffic travelling at high speeds through this area, and because of the necessity for students to tread this path on a daily basis, many residents would like to see the sidewalk go in sooner than later.

After delivering to Council a petition containing

Many residents would like to see the sidewalk go in sooner than later the names of 450 students calling for a safer walk to school, Simpson handed the

podium over to Loewen and Williams to plead their case.

Loewen told Council that because there are a lot of students who have work placements and coop placements during the school year, this is the only route for many of them to travel.

As one of the students facing this predicament, Williams said she has had no other option but to walk along the dangerous highway.

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and youth ages 5-25. This year the 3rd Fonthill Group, which includes Beavers to Ventures (youth ages 5- 25) will be hitting the streets to drum-up support.

Over the weekend, Scouts will be set up in Fonthill outside Sobeys, Tim Hortons, Target Gas station, Fonthill Shopping Plaza and the Pioneer Gas station at the corner of Hwys 20 and 24.

Town Council approves sidewalk to serve E. L. Crossley

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Joining their principal, Karen Simpson, at the Sept.

19 Council meeting as part of a delegation from EL Crossley Secondary School, students Abby Loewen and Neenah Williams presented Council with a list of reasons that they should immediately approve the construction of the new sidewalk proposed along Hwy. 20. The asphalt side-

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SUPPLIED PHOTO A longtime Canadian tradition, Apple Day began in 1932 in Saint John, New Brunswick, when Scouts handed out 21,000 apples as a way to say thank you to the community. In return for their generosity, many people offered them donations. From then on Scouts have reached out through Apple Day to raise funds for their programs.

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BY VOICE STAFF The District School Board of Niagara is requesting that the Town of Pelham cede a portion of Cherry Ridge Park for use as a soccer field to serve the students of the new Wellington Heights Public School, formerly the E. W. Farr Memorial Public School, in Fenwick.

Currently under renovation and expansion, the new school will combine students and staff from the previous school and Pelham Centre, where classes are being held while construction continues.

Two letters, containing virtually identical text but signed by different authorities, were sent last week to nearby residents of the park, as well as to parents of Pelham Centre students.

“The DSBN is currently building onto Wellington Heights Public School on Alsop Drive,” states the letter. “The size of the school's addition means the existing small soccer field will be eliminated.

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In addition to being charged, these individuals are also bound by a Ministry of Transportation 90Day Administrative Driver’s License Suspension and are prohibited from operating a motor vehicle on a roadway. The public is encouraged to contact the Niagara Regional Police Service Traffic Safety Hotline or Crime Stoppers to report those who are driving in contravention of the suspension.

The following individuals have been charged criminally with impaired driving by alcohol or drugs, driving with a blood alcohol concentration above 80 mgs of alcohol in 100 ml of blood, or refusing to provide a breath / blood sample.

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“I start work at 2:30 PM and school lets out at 2:15 PM so I can’t take any other route,” Williams explained.

“I have had friends, family, teachers and other community members reach out to me in the past about how this is unsafe and how there should be another alternative for us.”

Looking ahead to winter, when she will need to walk this path three or four times See SIDEWALK Page 2

HERE IS NO BETTER time to cycle than Fall. It matters not whether you’re new to the sport, a seasoned recreational cyclist, racer, touring rider or mountain biker; we all have reason to look forward to autumn.

Summer’s heat has faded, and the streams of sweat that ran from soggy helmets into our eyes are now just slight perspiration. Fitness is peaking from lots of saddle time, making those tough climbs of Spring a breeze in Autumn.

It’s hard to beat the feeling of beginning a crisp, cool Fall ride with a slight shiver, knowing your efforts will soon warm you perfectly.

The hues of Autumn are outstanding.

A Pelham route as simple as following our southern boundary is one that would make most Toronto cyclists jealous, especially when our forests and fields are ablaze with colour.

Begin from Harold Black Park, and zig-zag south along Effingham Rd toward the Welland River.

If you’re new to cycling, it’s important to know south is the direction away from any hills.

If you avoid the morning and evening weekday rush hours caused by those travelling through Pelham between Wainfleet See AUTUMN Page 3

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Reinvention of a retired racehorse Tanya Blankenburg shepherds Myck through his new life

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OR M A N Y A NIM A LS there is an ending cliche: cats move on to the next of their nine lives, dogs relocate to a farm in the country, and horses take a trip to the glue factory.

Horses, especially, can head in that direction when their working careers are over. Retired racehorses are frequently passed over for secondary careers after their time on the track has passed.

“They are often overlooked because they can have a reputation for being high-strung and difficult to work with,” said Tanya Blankenburg, whose horse Myck raced for six years and now has a second career as a show horse.

“Many horses struggle to find a second career when their time at the racetrack is over. Without a place to go many end up at auctions, which is the last stop before the slaughterhouse.”

Blankenburg, who grew up in Fonthill and has ridden horses since she was nine, speaks of the retired racers as if they were laidoff factory workers, and when you see her with Myck you start to believe her.

On a recent rainy day, Blankenburg was attending to Myck at Grandview Stables on Highway 20, the farm at which he boards and which will be one of the hosts for the new Heart of Niagara horse show series. The stable was damp and cool inside, and the fresh hay in Myck’s stall wasn’t quite strong enough to entirely mask the odour of manure.

Blankenburg, who works for the Niagara Parks Commission, was waiting for her horse to stop eating.

“He’ll probably ignore us, because he likes his food so much,” she said, stroking his mahogany neck.

“He’s so well-behaved. He’s not neurotic at all. I think that because he’s seen it all—flashing lights and screaming people, nothing bothers him.”

Myck is 14 now, six years out of his racing career, during which he competed 49 times.

“His last few races were in Fort Erie,” said Blankenburg. “His trainer said that he just didn’t want to go fast anymore, so it was time for him to move on. But they cared about him and wanted him to go to a good home.”

When young, Myck was gelded, leaving him unable to breed in his retirement. For a while he was “ponying” at races—being the horse ridden by the attendant who leads racehorses to the starting gates. Blankenburg called this position something like a tugboat.

But just as Myck was through with ponying, Blankenburg’s previous horse died and she was looking for a new one.

“I was a little worried when I first rode him—if I brought him [close to a gallop] would he come back down?” said Blankenburg.

“But he was good.”

After a shoulder injury several years ago, Blankenburg no longer jumps with Myck, but her 11-yearold daughter Stephanie does, and Blankenburg competes with Myck in other capacities.

“He just won his second yearend championship in a row winning the English Pleasure division central zone,” said Blankenburg.

“This is for competitors from all of Ontario, Quebec, and the Atlantic provinces, and from Michigan through the central US to Texas.

The importance of this program to showcase the versatility of thoroughbreds.”

Myck has competed several times at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair, which occurs each fall at Exhibition Place in Toronto.

At the Royal this year, Myck won for Hunter/Jumper under saddle, beating out 16 other horses.

Blankenburg pointed to Myck’s coat and said that he was shedding for springtime.

“His hair is actually longer than it was,” she said. “He got a full body clipping before the Royal,

Top, Blankenburg with the retired Myck. Above, back in Myck's racing days. VOICE AND SUPPLIED PHOTOS and some manscaping done. His tail is long now, but he has extensions put in for shows. And his mane was braided too. I learned how to do that when I was really young, and I still do it. It takes a lot of time to get him ready.”

Blankenburg did point out that Myck wears a collar that’s supposed to stop him from “cribbing.”

“Cribbing is like the horse equivalent of smoking,” she said,

explaining that it’s an inhalation of air that sparks the release of endorphins. Horses bite on solid objects with their front teeth— like part of a stable—when they crib, and the damage done to the stable is part of why cribbing is considered a vice.

Though horses are no longer supposed to be slaughtered in the United States, Blankenburg said that the industry is alive in Canada, with most of the meat going to Quebec and France.

“With racehorses it can be dangerous. They often are given medications for aches and pains, just like an athlete will take an aspirin, and people aren’t supposed to eat them after this,” said Blankenburg. “It can be really bad for you.”

Though she acknowledged that competition horses are given performance enhancing drugs in some cases, she said that strict regulation does mean that it’s rare.

“The fines are very severe,” said Blankenburg. “It does happen, and people will give their horses steroids [n racing] or tranquilizers [in other competitions] to calm them down. But not that often.”

Elsewhere in the barn, young

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riding students groomed a pony that stood passively in the centre of the walkway between stalls.

Through a tall doorway at the end of the walkway could be seen horses of all sizes prancing past at various paces. Blankenburg went to get Myck a piece of a carrot.

“I’m here quite a bit. I’ve got a busy job, and this is a nice thing to unwind to,” she said, holding the carrot in her hand in her hand to be disappeared.

There is a barn manager of the stable, and numerous students and other employees always around.

Blankenburg patted Myck’s head.

“He’s well looked after,” she said. “He has nicer stuff than I do.”

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COMMENTARY / OP-ED Larry Coté On being a friend

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HE TITLE TO THIS piece is paraphrased from the lyrics of Andrew Gold’s song Thank you for being a friend. I was reminded of those lyrics after a recent gathering with friends.

One dictionary defines a friend as a person whom one knows and with whom has a bond of mutual affection, typically exclusive of sexual or family relations.

Friends and friendships are among the highest of life’s pleasures and essential for the health and well-being for most of earth’s social inhabitants.

In spite of that esteemed value, one can sometimes unconsciously take friendships for granted.

Yet those bonds are not broken and easily renewed on the next meeting or contact. The connection between friends exceeds the passage of time.

The spectrum of friends one encounters is a continuum. There are some few individuals with whom one has built an especially close relationship. These are often referred to as intimate friends or ‘bosom buddies.’ Writer Elbert Hub-

bard describes this type best when he wrote “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”

At another point on the spectrum of friendship are groups that one shares commonalities with and within.

Usually, these groups are relatively small in number as there are limits to the depths of intimacies one can abide at any one time. Beyond that limited number, the relationship becomes more of an acquaintanceship and defined anywhere from close to distant in nature.

The premises of friendship are based on the number and qualities of the commonalities shared.

Some of those attributes are a commitment to be happy with one and other, non-judgmental relations, unconditional respect and allowing each other to be themselves. An anonymous writer once wrote “When it hurts to look back and you’re afraid to look ahead, you can look beside you and your best friend will be there.”

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Our good fortune continues with a few groups of friends that have endured many years through numerous occasions of joy and some few tragedies.

With these good folks, we have dined, traveled, cruised, cottaged, visited, nursed and just plain socialized. It matters not that we don’t see each other frequently as the bonds within these groups surpass time.

It should be apparent to most that to enjoy a healthier and better quality of life, it is prudent to nurture one’s friendships with fervor. Another anonymous savant provides these words of sage advice, “Don’t wait for people to be friendly, show them how.”

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Letters No medical centre, but plenty of lemonade I am now unable to make comments on the Mayor’s Facebook page, a page I thought was for the public to touch base with him. Apparently, not so.

The Mayor didn't like my comments on his blog a couple of years back, when he wrote he made lemonade out of the "lemon,” referencing the Rice Road property where the new community centre nears completion.

It seemed to me, in his blog, that the Mayor was bragging he turned around the Rice Road situation. If you live in Pelham, the Rice Road property has been a burden on the taxpayers for over 10 years. The property was approved and bought by a former town council. The Mayor was not

on council during that time. In his blog, the Mayor was very very careful to write, and very specific when he wrote it, the property was bought by a "former council." Smart move, Dave— "former council,” “former council." Did we all get that?

Do I need to type it again? Okay...moving on.

Sweetening the Mayor’s yellow elixir—and I might caution my readers here, we need to be careful the yellow elixir is not pee in disguise—the Mayor made the developers involved in Rice Road promise they would build a medical facility on the property.

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Kinsmen gear-up for 23rd Annual Homeshow This year's event to feature jet-powered dragster

BY VOICE STAFF The Fonthill and District Kinsmen are bringing a jet engine to this year’s Home and Garden Show at the Pelham Arena.

“We wanted to something a little bit different,” said Kinsmen member Ryan McKay. “These jet dragsters are like a regular dragster that you see—very narrow, with small front tires, but with a big jet engine at the back.”

The cars can go upwards of 350 kilometres per hour, according to McKay, though this speed won’t be on display in Pelham.

“It’s going to be inside the show, and the driver will be there for a meetand-greet,” he said. “He’ll be there to sign ‘hero cards’ and to take pictures.”

The presence of such a ferocious vehicle may seem incongruous with general do-it-yourself and home-improvement aura of the show, but Ryan did say that there are always vendors of all sorts.

“We’re still marketing it as a home and garden show, with landscaping supplies,

garage doors, generators, windows and doors, that sort of thing,” said McKay. “But we’ll also have several financial institutions.

There are a few subtractions this year, and a few new additions, with our mainstays returning.”

This year’s show will be the last that the Kinsmen hold in the current Pelham Arena. McKay is confident that next year’s iteration will take place in the new community centre.

“We’re looking forward to the new centre. The increase in size will help our vendors and be more user-friendly,” said McKay. The Fonthill and District Kinsmen was founded in 1951, and since then have been raising funds in the community to give right back to it.

“With the help of our sponsors this year, Enviro-Niagara Heating and Air-Conditioning, and Mountainview Homes, we’ll raise about sixty or seventy percent of our yearly budget,” said McKay. The other 30 or 40 per-

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negative comments making reference to the “former council” was a slap up the head for the two “former councillors”/current councillors Peter Papp and John Durley? Very hurtful, I’d think. And not very nice comments for these two councillors when there is a municipal election coming up. Mmm. The mean boy is coming out.

In conclusion to this rant-a-tant-tant, the Mayor’s narrative making lemonade out of a lemon has got me thinking. What has really changed for the fiasco we Pelhamians call the Rice Road property? The Rice Road property is still a debt haunting the Pelhamian taxpayers, and Pelham still has a Mayor, like the one 12 years ago, who is making political promises for the development of the Rice Road property.

Hey, if the Mayor is mixing up libations, I want one that doesn't cost so much to swallow, and swallow, and

continued from previous page When I read this statement on his blog, I sighed in relief, a big sigh of relief. Then, I remembered, I don’t have any faith in political promises. Didn’t the “former mayor” have silent investors who were promising to develop the Rice Road Property too?

So, being the Pam I am, I wrote on the Mayor’s Facebook page. I told the Mayor that he was a brave man to talk about the Rice Road property because it doesn't matter how sweet the lemonade, the Rice Road property, even after all these years, is still leaving a sour taste in Pelhamian mouths.

I couldn’t help reminding the Mayor that he still has councillors on the current council who were on the “former council,” the council that dragged the Town into this mess in the first place a decade ago.

Don't you think that his

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cent comes from a craft show put on in the fall, and other smaller events throughout the year.

“We do a road toll in September in the Shopper Drug Mart plaza. But all the money we collect there goes to cystic fibrosis research,” explained McKay. “A lot of our other funds go to Pelham Cares, but we’ll also be making a donation to the Welland/ Pelham Special Olympics, Wellspring Cancer Centre, and the Niagara Safety Village.”

McKay said that the Kinsmen love to be a part of the community, and called Pelham a great place to raise a family.

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Combining with Marv Twelve hours after Regional meeting, Marv Junkin hit the fields

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LITTLE OVER 12 HOURS after being applauded in Niagara Regional Council chambers in mid-November—and receiving a forced apology from Mayor Dave Augustyn—the resigned Pelham Town Councillor Marvin Junkin was standing in a muddy field in North Pelham, pulling dirt from the teeth of his soy combine. Junkin’s farm, where he once had dairy cows and now farms cash crops, is in North Pelham too, but on this day he was a few kilometers away, working someone else’s field.

“These are not good combining conditions,” he said as he pulled clumps of mud and soy stalk from the jagged metal.

Junkin, who would undergo a knee replacement a week later, limped back around the cutter bar to the ladder on the side of the machine, and climbed the six or so feet up to the cabin, bits of dirt falling off his boots and smearing on the rungs.

Junkin settled in the driver’s seat and wiped his hands on a rag that was white and relatively clean, a curious choice considering that his coat was old and torn and generously splattered with mud. He adjusted his toque to sit above his ears, pulled a two-litre bottle of Coca-Cola from beside the chair, took a drink, and then started the harvester moving again.

As it lurched forward, Junkin kept one hand on the wheel and the other a lever that moved the cutter up and down.

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“It’s this mud,” he said. “If I didn’t have four-wheel drive, I wouldn’t even be able to move. I have to make sure that the blade doesn’t pick up too much dirt, or else I’ll have to get out and unclog it again.”

The field, which looked from a distance to be relatively smooth, was full of small undulations.

When Junkin descended one of them, he could lower the blade closer to the ground, and cut more of the soy plants, but when the ground sloped up again he raised the cutter sharply to keep it from biting into the earth. When he hit one of these inclines, the RPMs on the engine dropped and a blaring alarm sounded inside of the cabin.

Junkin was on the lookout out for rocks, too.

“There’s a trap on this combine that keeps them out, but it doesn’t always work,” he said. “Worse are the pieces of wood. The rocks are the right shape to fit in the trap, but the wood isn’t, so it goes all in the machine and really messes things up.”

Junkin saw a piece of fence post amid the soy.

“He’s taken out a lot of the fences, which is fine, but in the spring when the planting machines are out here, they drag the wood out into the field. And then it’s here when it’s combining time.”

The harvester kept plodding forward.

On a good day, when the ground is dry and a field is relatively clear of rocks and wood, Junkin can cover ten acres in an hour. “Today, I’ll only be able to do five,” he said.

Most farmers like to have soy harvested by the end of October, but Junkin had been busy and now he was running out of time. The first heavy snowfall will crush the tops of the beans and compact them down, making it difficult to combine them at all.

Junkin turned his head to look in the back of the combine, where the grain tank was nearly overflowing.

“It’s time to go unload this,” he said, steering the harvester onto a path that led out of the field and off around a line of trees. “Too bad that the bin can’t be closer to the field, so I wouldn’t have to spend so much time driving around. But a big truck has to come pick up that bin, and when the ground’s soft it wouldn’t even be able to come back here.”

After several minutes, he pulled next to a long, wide metal shipping container covered by a roll-top. An ATV came speeding down the adjacent street, and a man in coveralls got off, climbed up on the bin, and unrolled the top. Junkin pressed another control inside the cabin. A spout extended from the top of the combine and stretched over the bin. He released a switch, and a great flow of soy beans started up.

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Arena, apartment building proposal discussed by Council continued from Page 1 what Council had asked be done.”

Last Monday, in front of some 25 residents, Town planner Shannon Larocque presented to council the “preferred plan” for the site, created by the Planning Partnership. The plan for the site, which is about 8.5 acres, will see 4.8 of those acres— where the arena and parking lot are currently—developed with 13 single-detached dwellings, and 28 townhouses. The other 3.49 acres, currently occupied by soccer fields and paddle tennis courts, will remain as open space.

The plan also includes retaining a wooded area at the back of the site, with a trail running alongside it.

“The existing zoning is Public, and the proposed zoning change is to Residential 2,” said Larocque.

Residents Jodi and Winston Krah provided written comment to the Town noting their continued objections to the development of the land.

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The Krahs suggested that the area be made into a cultural facility—a large park, with a garden, a jogging track, or a fish pond, or the presence of a farmers’ market.

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Helen Bates, whose home backs on to the Pelham Arena site, speaks to Council. similar objections to the development, though most limited their concerns to specific aspects of the plan.

Helen Bates, who lives on Welland Road and with property backing on to the site, asked about the proposed trail, questioning why it was to be located as planned.

Wiens said that the plan tried to connect the intended trail to the Steve Bauer Trail as closely as possible, and that the NPCA had wanted the walkway located as far away from a nearby water channel.

At the mention of water, Bates asked if there would be drainage.

“The water’s up to my knees already,” she said.

“Drainage will definitely be a consideration,” said Wiens.

“It’ll have to be,” said Bates, who also requested that a fence be put up between her property and the proposed trail.

“You’ll hear from me lat-

er,” she said, before returning to her seat.

Rosemary Dougan, who lives on Haist Street and whose property backs on to the current tennis and basketball courts, asked about drainage as well and was assured that it would be looked at as the planning process moves ahead.

Dougan also made mention of the basketball and tennis courts behind her. “[They get] used, and I know because the balls are bouncing at 12:30 in the morning,” she said. “In the preferred plan, that’s all gone now? Your basketball and tennis areas are non-existent.”

When it was council’s turn to provide input, Councillor Gary Accursi pointed Dougan towards a top corner of the plan, to the west of the soccer fields, which he said has been earmarked for a multi-use court or a splashpad.

Accursi said that most of the other issues raised by residents had to do with “engineering aspects” of the plan, and said that the plan is not at that stage yet.

“When this property gets

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developed, the developer will go through strenuous studies for drainage and the management of stormwater,” said Accursi. “Down the road, this will be taking place, and staff will ensure that all adjoining properties will be looked after.”

After discussion of the Pelham Arena site ended, the Port Robinson Road property owned by Accursi’s wife came up for discussion. Accursi declared a conflict of interest and left the room. Almost all of the residents left too.

Town Planner Curtis Thompson presented the proposed zoning change for the Accursi property.

“It’s currently vacant and zoned agricultural,” said Thompson, explaining that the proposed development needs the zoning on the property to be changed.

Thompson said that the land is within a settlement area, and that the greenbelt plan is not in effect.

“It’s been designated East Fonthill medium density residential in the secondary plan,” said Thompson.

William Heikoop, of Upper Canada Consultants, speaking on behalf of Accursi,

outlined the plan for the site.

The proposed development is for a three-story, 12-unit apartment building, with each apartment coming in at about 1200 square feet. The plan has 13 parking spaces for the site, and one handicapped accessible spot.

Councillor Jim Lane asked about the 13 parking spots, saying that this figure seemed low for a building with 12 units. Barb Wiens said that the requirement for such a building works out to one and half spaces per unit.

“Then there’s not enough here,” said Lane.

“This would require the matter to be addressed in the zoning by-law,” said Wiens.

Heikoop explained that the plan was to draw up lease agreements with future tenants that include an acknowledgement of the limited parking, as well as a method of arranging for the use of any visitor parking.

He said also that other empty space on the site had not been put towards parking because of the need to use it for snow storage.

Only four people remained in the public gallery for this discussion, and just one spoke. The man, speaking on behalf of his friend who owns land adjacent to Accursi’s, asked about the laneway behind the building that will provide access to driveway.

“Is that accessible road guaranteed? Or will it stop there and people will have to back out,” asked the man.

Wiens said that there is nothing definite at this point, though if land farther along it develops, then the road would be extended.

“If it was extended all the way over, I don’t think [we’d] object at all,” said the man, saying that his friend could end up also developing an apartment building on his land.

“It’s good to see Fonthill building up to two stories and three stories,” said the man. “Maybe in ten years it’ll get up to four stories.”

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Trees for trout Saplings offered to Twelve Mile Creek landowners

BY VOICE STAFF The Niagara Chapter of Trout Unlimited Canada, an organization that aims to restore fish populations, will be giving away trees to property owners along Twelve Mile Creek at the Fonthill Sobeys this Sunday, April 22, from noon until three o’clock.

“Basically, there are two reasons why we’re doing this,” said Brian Green, director of Trout Unlimited’s Niagara Chapter. “We want to restore Twelve Mile Creek, and planting in the riparian zone— area on the banks of both sides— helps to do that.”

The roots of vegetation grow into the ground and help to secure the soil, preventing erosion.

“But our ulterior motive is that we want to reach out to landowners, and make contact with them,” said Green, explaining that Trout Unlimited wants to build a lasting relationship with those who live along the waterway.

The Twelve Mile Creek Watershed covers a substantial area in Pelham and Thorold, spanning as far east as the canal and as far west as Balfour Street in Fenwick.

The creek’s two main branches both begin in Pelham, and it is here that Trout Unlimited is focussing its efforts.

Last summer, Trout Unlimited partnered with a variety of groups to try and find brook trout in the part of Twelve Mile Creek that runs through Short Hills Provincial Park.

“Brook trout are sort of the canary in the coal mine,” said Green.

“Brooks need cold clear, undisturbed water with minimal sediment, so if they’re there it’s a good sign.”

The survey last summer did not find brook trout in the park, and Green estimated that the fish can live in just one percent of the upper part of of Twelve Mile Creek.

“They’re threatened by a whole whack of things, and especially development,” said Green.

“When you pave over land, the water can no longer be absorbed into it. They build a big pond to hold all the water, and to prevent flooding, but the problem is that the water becomes warm sitting out there,” he said.

There are other several factors that negatively impact the water quality of the creek. The ribbons of water that work their way into the creek often travel along farm fields, where there is little shade to keep the water cool.

The lack of vegetation alongside the streams means that the banks are easily eroded, resulting in a shallower stream bed. The shallower the water is, the more surface area is exposed to the sun.

Inside Short Hills—and outside—the deer population tramples and eats much of the vegetation alongside the creek, further contributing to erosion.

Green said also that Trout Unlimited has met with Town Direc-

A Trout Unlimited team along Twelve Mile Creek last August. tor of Public Works Andrea Clemencio and public works manager Ryan Cook to discuss efforts to restore the creek.

“We were delighted by their willingness to listen, because some of the Town’s practices are a major part of the problem,” said Green. “It’s done out of ignorance—it’s not malicious.”

Green said that a trough that the Town has along Metler Road collects run-off from the street and then deposits it into the creek.

Green said that Trout Unlimited also mentioned the cutting of saplings that occurred alongside Sulphur Spring Drive last summer, with the Town admitting, he says, that this cutting was a mistake.

“There are better ways to do things,” said Green, alluding to the typical method of shoring up banks with steel cages. “Dogwood

roots, when mature, have more tensile strength than steel. So the cages are good for twenty years— less than that on Sulphur Spring— but what about a longer solution, or a permanent one?”

Trout Unlimited offers a six-part series on stream restoration, and Green said that Cook expressed his intent to take the course.

“It was great to have Ryan and Andrea take notice of the sensitivity of the water,” said Green.

“Andrea said that the Town is putting together works policy, and though there’s environmental things scattered through it, this is a chance to embed something solid.”

Trout Unlimited is undertaking measures of its own to restore Twelve Mile Creek in addition to providing landowners with trees to plant.

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“All the agencies—the NPCA, the MNR, the MNRF—agree with it, but sometimes it takes a year just to get the permits to do things,” said Green.

Trout Unlimited is looking to install “wing deflectors” in parts of the creek.

Kyle Swanson, who co-led the effort to survey brook trout in Short Hills last summer, said that these devices—also called lunkers or live crib walls—“will help with erosion, diverting flow and actually dig out the bottom of the stream using the energy of the water, causing it to narrow, and deepen.”

Trout Unlimited tries to ensure that it plants native species of trees and shrubs alongside the creek, but also ones that are unpalatable to deer.

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COMBINING continued from Page 6 lid half-open, a crowbar sticking out of one end. Junkin rummaged around and pulled out a wrench, which he used to unscrew a gear in the machine’s guts above him.

He lay the gear nearby and, seeing that the something he had broken was a small pin, reached again into the box in search of a replacement. He tried fitting several small cylinders of steel in to the gap, which was about two inches long and a quarter inch wide. Each time that a cylinder didn’t fit, he dropped it back in the box and tried another, until he had found one sufficiently snug.

Junkin banged it in with a hammer, and then tapped the gear back into place. He produced the wrench again and pulled on the nut until

TREES continued from previous page “We might find areas to put gravel spawning beds for brook trout,” said Green.

“We know that they used to be there,” he said.

“People tell us that their grandfathers used to catch a brook trout for breakfast every day.”

On a survey day last August, nearly 50 different fish were caught in Short Hills,

The Voice of Pelham, April 18 2018 it was tight. Within five minutes, he had returned all of the tools to the box, lowered the open flap, and clambered back into the cab.

“Now, let’s see if that’ll work,” he said, hitting the button again.

It did.

Once the last of the combine’s four-ton tank had been emptied into the nearly full 20-ton bin, Junkin waved to the coveralled farm hand and drove back to the field where he had been before.

He passed by many acres that he had already harvested, acres that were lightly littered with the stalks and refuse that the machine spits out the back.

“It’s interesting to think,” said Junkin, “that a combine generally wastes about three percent of its intake out the back. Everything that we produce in Ontario, that’s what combines in the US piss out

including a 35-centimetre brown trout and a freshwater eel several feet long. But there wasn’t a single brook trout in the bunch.

“The eel was a surprise, because they’re desperately endangered,” said Green.

“If we can prove that they’re here, there’ll be government agencies tripping over themselves to protect the area.”

On Sunday at Sobeys, Trout Unlimited will have 150 tree and shrub saplings

the back. That’s how big that country is. All of that grain along the 401—from Windsor to Cornwall— is what the US wastes.”

Though Junkin was combining this field as a custom job, and still grows hay and cash crops at his farm, at 64 he is mostly retired. Several years ago, he sold his cows and the 35 dairy tags that he had, the last of the dairy farmers in Pelham.

“I didn’t want to be one of those guys who died in the barn,” he said.

“Some people want to do that, and that’s fine, but I did not want that to be me.”

None of his four children were interested in taking over the business.

“They all worked on the farm growing up, and they all liked it,” he said. “But when you’re a dairy farmer, when it’s five o’clock—it doesn't matter if you're on the

on hand for landowners to choose from.

“It would be great if we could have 150 come out, but we’re going to be flexible too. If someone doesn't live right on the creek, but adjacent to it, that’s fine.”

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beach, at a party, or at a bar—it’s time to milk the cows. So I don’t blame them for wanting to do something else.”

He launched into a detailed explanation about dairy farming, about the months when cows can be milked, and when they must again calve in order to keep producing.

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“Everyone wants to live forever, and they want to find a reason why they’re not,” he said.

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CLEAN-UP continued from Page 2 this year’s event.

After the clean-up on Saturday, April 21, participants are invited to Centennial Park for a complimentary BBQ hosted by the Fabulous Fenwick Lions.

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COLUMN SIX continued from Page 1 neighbors looking for information about her missing sister, and knocks on my door. I am scary at first, but I turn out to be nice. Reese Witherspoon encountered me when she hiked through Oregon in Wild. Somewhere, abandoned on the cutting room floor, is the scene in my camp store where she picks up a package. Initially Reese thinks I’m scary, but I turn out to be nice.

Francesca: During Season 4 of Portlandia I did a brief stint as an intern before moving to New York to go to college, and through that I met the casting director, Simon. When Season 8 rolled around last year, in June I was brought in to read for a large role. I had a great time improvising with Simon and felt genuinely pleased with my performance. Later I learned that I was one of the top choices for the role, but it ended up becoming a guest star cameo — a very flattering way to lose a part! I knew that there like-

ly wouldn’t be another role for me — in the world of Portlandia I mostly fit into roles that Carrie Brownstein plays.

Blaine: And I fit into roles Fred Armisen often plays. But at the beginning of August I get an email from my agent with a casting call for the show.

I’ll be reading for the role of a newspaper editor, conveniently named, “Editor.”

I know from past experience that Portlandia auditions usually involve some improv outside the scripted lines, so I research terms that newspaper editors and copywriters use. Soon I can make very meaningful-sounding remarks about “having the article in rough, but planning to place it front page above the fold with a banner, artwork and the nut-graf in a pullout.”

Francesca: About two months after my audition, Simon hired me to do some administrative work in the casting office.

While helping my dad run his lines I see that there is a reporter in the scene named “Francesca,” described as being in her 20s. “Obvious-

ly,” I tell my dad, “they’ve written this role for me.” I pointed this out to Simon and the casting associate, Rachel. Both respond with something along the lines of, “Right! Ha, ha — yeah, no.”

Blaine: The day before my audition I get a message from the casting director. I steel myself to read what will surely be a rejection. Instead, it’s character notes: “It should be played straight drama, no humor … think “Spotlight.”

I can now imagine myself as the editor — a grizzled, hard-edged Michael Keaton type, but better looking.

Francesca: And more talented, of course.

Blaine: It goes without saying. I remember Michael Keaton’s character chewing gum in Spotlight, so I spend the rest of the day sitting at a desk chewing gum with a world-weary expression.

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Warring devils in my head debate what my response should be before he adds, “Unless it’s a character thing.” I keep the gum. He reads the lines of the other character in the scene and after one take, he says he likes my reading. We improvise the scene but there is absolutely no opportunity for interjecting any jargon.

Francesca: We create our own opportunities, Dad. Blaine: Four long days later my agent emails to tell me they’ve cast me as the editor! I celebrate (and prepare) by running out and buying an enormous pack of gum.

Francesca: A week or two after that, I’m in the casting office doing some spreadsheeting when I get a text from my agent, “They want to you for Portlandia!” I was shocked!

I got up and walked to the office next door to find Simon and Rachel. “Um, did you just cast me?” They both laughed and said yes.

Simon told me he wanted to keep it a secret and Rachel said she’d almost told me when she found out the night before but managed to keep quiet about it. I asked what the role was and they told me it was, in fact, the Francesca role. Of course, it had not actually been writ-

www.thevoiceofpelham.ca ten for me, but as I did fit the description they submitted me along with several others, using the tape from my earlier audition and the director picked me! Later the director would praise Simon for having never let on that he and I knew each other or that I had ever worked for him.

Now I need to tell my dad that not only was I also cast, but that we would be in a scene together. I text him.

F: So should we carpool to set next week?

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Blaine: Ever since Francesca started taking acting classes I’ve hoped we might one day be able to act in the same production. And now, it’s happening, not in a local theater production but on a celebrated prime time television show!

Francesca: The day before I shoot I get a phone call asking me to bring some “business clothes,” which is not what my wardrobe mainly consists of. I pull together the most professional looking options I can find — lots of leftovers from my time working at Banana Republic.

Naturally, we do carpool to the location, at the Moda Center, the arena where our NBA team plays. We spend 10 minutes trying to figure out where we’re supposed to park and from there how to find “basecamp” — the headquarters for the day’s shoot. After taking some questionable staircases and walking through the parking structure, we finally come to an open area with a collection of trailers and canopies. As we arrive, another performer drives right in and parks next to basecamp. Suddenly this looks very logical.

I head into wardrobe first. I show them my business clothes options which they’re clearly unimpressed with. They have me try on some things that they’ve pulled and eventually I end up in a full-on suit. I believe this is the second time I’ve ever worn a suit — the first being my training week at Banana Republic. Then I’m sent to hair and makeup — the part I was really looking forward to. I take mental notes of what colors the makeup artist chooses for me and the techniques the hair stylist uses.

Blaine: I go to makeup and hair and am surprised they don’t cut my asymmetrical, Andy Warhol-ish hairstyle. I’ve barely arrived at wardrobe when word comes through that they’re ahead of schedule and need me on the set right away. I barely have time to put gum in my pocket before heading to the set.

Francesca: We’re shooting in the basement. There’s an office section near the basketball court that looks passably like a newspaper newsroom.

We head into the room and I stand on a piece of tape on the ground while they light everything and figure out camera angles. Suddenly I realize that we’re about to start. I’m not in the beginning of the scene — I run in later — but having never been explicitly told to go back out through the door I remain frozen, convincing myself that for this angle I will just wait in the room. This anxious thought process occupied the four seconds I had before someone said, “Wait, Francesca, you’re supposed to be in the hall.”

The director tells me to run in place or jump up and down before I run into the room so I look properly energized — a nice gift from him, because it gives me a way to physically express my nerves that doesn’t make See COLUMN SIX Page 16

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PINESOLD GOLD The Pinesold Pelham Atom AE Panthers won Gold recently at the 12th Annual AE Tournament in Lincoln. The boys dominated their division, winning all four games in this season-ending tournament. Pictured: Jay LeVasseur, Mike Halsted, Mark Iannizzi, Chad free, Jeff Eller, Michael Motola, Jack Brownlee, Austin Wilson, Maverick Halsted, Jack LeVasseur, Kian Oelofse, Jacob Iannizzi, Graham Latham, Darwin Mayes, Jonah Shapland, Cadwyn Secord, Boh Hunchak, Shane Free, Griffin Eller, Cory Fraraccio.

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GOLDEN GUYS The Pelham Panthers Major Atom boys basketball won in overtime against the KW Vipers to capture Gold at the Ontario Basketball Ontario Cup on Sunday, April 8. Front, from left: Adam Ponting, Lucca Zanuttini, Andrew Benko, Michael Martel, Nicholas Capretta, Matthew Kleinsmith. Back, from left: Andreas Gmoser (Coach), Noah Gmoser, Luca Burattini, Alex Bray, Micheal Ventresca, Andy Nawrocki, Anthony DiGioia, Frank Capretta (Coach). SUPPLIED PHOTO

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