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Corrections at the top: Eagle-eyed readers of Rob Weatherby’s religion column, Faith Lift, may have noticed a curious jump last week, like a CD suddenly skipping ahead. It turns out that in the process of copy editing “en” dashes to proper “em” dashes in the text (note to self: remind all writers to renew their friendship with Alt-0151 [Windows] and Option-Shift-dash [Mac]) we managed to drop the news about El Salvador that will not be news to Spanish speakers, namely that “El Salvador” literally means “The Saviour,” i.e., Jesus. A quick peek online also reveals that the country’s name was once slightly longer, at Provincia De Nuestro Señor Jesus Cristo, El Salvador Del Mundo, or the "Province of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the World." Try fitting all that on a one colón coin. Yes, the currency was known as the colón—named after Christopher Columbus, whose actual name was Cristóbal Colón— until 2001, when the US Dollar was adopted. Dios mío!...Hat tip to Señor Garrard: Reader and longtime resident Brian Garrard dropped off some interesting reading material at our office the other day, including a November 1967 edition of the Niagara Peninsula Weekly, a 16-page supplement that formed the second section of the Fonthill Herald, the weekly that was published from the late ‘50s to 1996. Curiously, there is no publisher information whatsoever. Garrard notes his surprise at the section’s widespread distribution, which, according to an ad on the last page, included not just the Herald, but papers in Dundas, Ancaster, Niagara Falls, Port Colborne, and Stoney Creek.

There’s also a great photo of two local fellows who were joint winners of the “Pelham Township Centennial Celebrations’ Beard Growing Contest,” Garnet Warden and Peter Tokar.

Oh, what the heck— [ em-dash] let’s see them...On the roads again: The speed bumps on Haist St. got their bright paint a little earlier than predicted (Don Rickers with the lowdown on p.7), and those maintenance-hole covers on Pelham St. are back in the news—not for their firmly non-gendered identity but for stealthily trying to bump-off an e-bike rider (p.14). Ah, the smell of lawsuits on a summer morning...Money pits: Take the time to read Regional Councillor Diana Huson's commentary this week (p.5) on how tax dollars may be diverted to commercial property owners who should be spending their own bloody money, not ours, on their buildings. Let Regional Council know how you feel, either way...The last suppers: Act fast—the Pelham Street Grille is shifting to breakfast and lunch only on Aug 21 (ad, p.13), meaning only two more Friday dinners to go!...

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POETRY Courage Courage comes in many shapes and sizes, In many colours, genders, races, creeds, Courage is a selfless act, sometimes of passion, Sometimes to help someone who seems in need.

Vaccination clinic moving

Niagara Health will officially close its mass vaccination clinic at the Seymour-Hannah arena on Aug. 15 and will open a new smaller clinic at St. Catharines Hospital on Aug. 17.

The new vaccination clinic, which will be located in the Mental Health Outpatient Clinic at the hospital, will open on Aug. 17 and will serve approximately 200 patients per day, according to a Niagara Health statement.

This clinic will operate from 8 AM to 4 PM, seven days a week, and will offer both walk-in and booked appointments.

In addition, the St. Catharines Hospital Covid-19 assessment centre will close Aug. 15 and will reopen at the Greater Niagara General Hospital on Aug. 16. The operating hours will be 8 AM to 4 PM, seven days a week.

As of Aug. 4, Niagara Health said it had administered 249,183 doses at the Seymour-Hannag clinic and 70.1 percent of eligible residents in Niagara had been fully vaccinated. Anyone needing a first or second dose is strongly encouraged to walk-in to the arena between 9:30 AM and 3:30 PM, any day, for the Pfizer vaccine before Aug. 15. Same day and future date bookings are also available through the provincial booking tool or by calling 1-833-943-3900.

Many who appear to be a wee bit timid, Pluck up their courage when it's needed most Amaze themselves by acts beyond their calling And for them this poem is written as a toast.

A toast to all who've shown amazing courage To fight this virus without doubt or fear.

To fight upon the stage that some call wisdom It comes from having courage all the year.

Not caring what some other folks are saying, Or what your friends or neighbours will not do, But doing what is best for you, and those you say you love By doing what your country asks of you.

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The Government of Canada is investing some $2.4 million in Niagara recreational infrastructure through the Community, Culture, and Recreation Stream of the Investing in Canada plan. The Government of Ontario is providing more than $2 million, while recipients—including Pelham— are investing some $1.6 million in their respective projects. In Pelham, fund-

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BALLOONING INTEREST Grade 6 student Jinja Shepherd explains her experiment on static electricity at the Glynn A. Green NATE SMELLE PHOTO Public School's annual science fair last Friday. See story, page 3.

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.

Another way the committee plans

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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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.

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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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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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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-

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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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“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.

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Lawyers for three former top executives of cannabis giant CannTrust Holdings, charged in June by the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) with over a dozen counts of fraud, insider trading, and making false or misleading statements, have been granted an adjournment until September 20 by Justice of the Peace Warren Ralph. The lawyers were provided the additional time to better prepare their defense.

CannTrust’s former chief executive, Peter Aceto, former vice-chairman, Mark Litwin, and former board chair and CannTrust co-founder, Eric Paul, were charged after a joint investigation by the OSC and Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

The charges relate to efforts to conceal the alleged illegal growing of cannabis at CannTrust’s Fenwick greenhouse operation in 2018 and 2019. During this time, say investigators, the three accused did not disclose to investors that almost half the growing space in Fenwick was not licensed by Health Canada. In addition, investigators alleged that in press releases and corporate disclosures the executives asserted that CannTrust was compliant with regulatory requirements, and included all cannabis production in the company’s financial statements, without acknowledging that half was grown without a license. Litwin and Aceto are said to have signed off on prospectuses used to raise capital in the United States, which falsely stated that CannTrust was fully licensed and compliant with regulatory requirements.

Litwin and Paul also allegedly traded shares of CannTrust with undisclosed information regarding the unlicensed growing.

The trial will take place at the Old City Hall Courthouse in Toronto. The case will be prosecuted in the Ontario Court of Justice due to its quasi-criminal nature, rather than before an OSC tribunal as a civil matter. This marks the first time the commission has gone after a public company over disclosure based on allegations of quasi-criminal wrongdoing.

The mandate of the OSC is to provide protection to investors from unfair, improper, or fraudulent practices, and to foster fair, efficient, and competitive capital markets.

The OSC’s enforcement team has pursued 50 quasi-criminal and criminal matters involving 73 accused to date.

None of the charged executives is currently employed by CannTrust. Aceto was terminated for cause by CannTrust’s board in July of 2019, Paul resigned in response to a demand from the company’s board at the same time, and Litwin resigned in March of of this year. Lawyers for the accused have told the

media that they intend to vigorously dispute the charges, asserting that their clients complied with their legal obligations, proclaiming their integrity and innocence.

Persons convicted of an Ontario Securities Act violation can be sentenced to up to five years in jail, issued a fine of up to $5 million dollars, or both.

With news of the charges, CannTrust’s stock price plummeted by almost half, with law firms preparing to file class-action lawsuits on behalf of shareholders who may have suffered financial losses due to the alleged malfeasance. CannTrust has laid off 20 percent of its workforce in an effort to restructure its operations. The company previously filed for bankruptcy protection.

Former Pelham resident Nick Lalonde, who worked at the CannTrust site on Balfour Street in Fenwick for almost two years, was the whistleblower who alerted the media and Health Canada of the alleged infractions, including cannabis being grown in unlicensed areas. Lalonde met with the RCMP to provide documents and videos which corroborated his account. He told Bloomberg News that he was saddened to learn that so many workers at CannTrust lost their employment, but otherwise doesn’t have too many regrets about exposing the issues at the company. “I lost my dream job…but it was the right thing to do,” he said.

StatsCan estimates Canada’s cannabis industry (which includes the illicit market) at $18.3 billion. Ontario-based Canopy, a giant in the Canadian cannabis industry, has seen its revenue markedly diminish, with its growth rate in 2020 less than one-fifth its sales growth from the previous year, and some experts see its stock as overvalued at the current share price.

Canadian cannabis firms have long planned on cashing in on the lucrative American market, but recent developments suggest that the potential bonanza is fading.

Investor enthusiasm for pot stocks was driven by anticipated U.S. legislation that would legalize commercial cannabis, but fewer than half of the 50 states have legalized cannabis for adult use. Pot is an intensely political issue south of the border, subject to partisanship and lobbying by anti-cannabis groups who continue to view the substance as a “gateway drug” to cocaine and narcotics. Canadian producers like CannTrust are seeing their sales topped by U.S.based rivals like Curaleaf Holdings of Massachusetts, while black market cannabis in the U.S. continues to eclipse by a significant margin the legal trade.

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(Actually, I would have reported the scamp to the authorities. In these enlightened times, “Is your refrigerator running?” obviously dredges up traumatic memories or something. When you factor in all the Name-Brand-Products-Which-Must-Not-BeNamed that have systemically occupied shelf space in such kitchen appliances, it’s enough to make you grab a bottle of aspirin! But the cotton…Aarrrghh!)

A recent power surge fried our coffee maker, shot several light bulbs, made our surge protectors suffer a noble death and conjured an ominous puff of smoke from the refrigerator compressor.

For weeks, the fridge made a valiant effort to carry on as usual, but it was not exactly The Little Engine That Could. (“I think I can, I think I can, I think I can, I think…the vegetable crisper has produced something new for Dr. Fauci to look into.”)

We were in denial for a

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Maybe it was my imagination, but the product labels seemed to say, not, “Best if used by August 15,” but “Best if used by people with outstanding 911 service.”

This was an old refrigerator, but not old enough to be one of those foolproof pastel-coloured models from the ‘70s. You know, the kind that made bacteria exclaim, “Oh #@$% no! I ain’t goin’ around that thing!”

Having heard my parents’ stories of “hard times” (and having experienced more than my own fair share of power outages and frozen pipes), I frequently pause to give thanks for electricity and modern plumbing.

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cheon meat and the perfect condiment…now I think I’ll stand here and find Waldo!”

After a delay because of Covid-related supply-chain woes, we now have a new refrigerator. It’s nothing fancy; we had no desire for high-tech Internet of Things features. On the other hand, it might be nice to have a sensor that detects feline saliva and bellows, “Be happy with your dry food, you little moochers!”

I was at work when the replacement fridge was delivered, so my wife (after sorting through refrigerator-door sticky notes, receipts and cute elementary-school drawings) had the unenviable task of cleaning up the Bermuda Triangle that existed beneath the old one.

Consumers could probably defray the cost of such big-ticket purchases by contracting with law enforcement. Instead of putting lawbreakers in jail and throwing away the key, we could put them under the refrigerator and throw away the key— if you can overcome the refrigerator magnets.

Letters Nominates next candidate for road safety paint Kudos for publishing that letter a few weeks back asking for some paint on the Haist Street speed bumps. They are now painted and much more visible.

If a letter to the editor results in some fresh paint on our streets, may I suggest the corner of Highway 20 and Pelham Street, right downtown?

I recently approached this intersection from the south, and noticed that the white lane markers and arrows (indicating where to go if turning or if going straight) have been almost completely worn away. Regular Fonthill drivers know where to point their cars, but out-of-town visitors might not even know there are two lanes to pick from. Repainting these markings would make that intersection safer.

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REGIONAL COUNCIL UPDATE Diana Huson, Regional Councillor for Pelham

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n our most recent Committee of the Whole meeting, Regional Council was tasked with evaluating a revised suite of development programs (i.e. financial incentives) available to developers and property owners to encourage strategic investments.

Nearly 20 years old, our current suite took a “shotgun” approach across Niagara, was misaligned with council priorities, did not adequately collect data for reporting on or measuring results, and at times was short-funded. Importantly, this meant that over time these funds, often in the millions of dollars, would to be added to the tax levy to recoup our financial commitments.

Currently regional incentives are the largest discretionary item in the budget, amounting to $14 million dollars (or 3.5 percent of the tax levy) in 2021. Next year that amount is expected to increase to $17 million. It was dated, un-targeted and expensive for taxpayers, hence a review was long overdue and a responsible next step in ensuring taxpayer accountability.

With council direction, Region staff developed a new suite aligning programs with four core priorities that focused exclusively on: Affordable Housing, Employment, Brownfield Remediation, and Public Realm investment. It further aimed to address not only our current needs, but future needs as well (i.e., growth pressures), provide meaningful and measurable results,

Steady as she goes, but uptick seen in Region overall

but also improve our overall process with a sustainable and clear policy that provided greater accountability for use of tax dollars.

To simplify, the proposed policy offered not only improvements to how we do business across Niagara (more efficient business processes) but ensured development programs align with strategic priorities and objectives (more effective use of tax dollars on the things that are most important).

For businesses who previously benefitted from this policy, programming was designed to ensure projects would still qualify as long as projects aligned with a prioritized pillar. As an example, an abandoned building could qualify for funding if it was being renovated or repurposed to include an aspect of affordable housing.

The affordable housing component is particularly important. Niagara will need an additional 67,000 housing units to house a population of 610,000 people by 2041.

Rental prices have increased upward of 15 percent in just over the last year and housing prices have skyrocketed. Core housing need, or the number of households spending 30 percent or more of their before-tax income on housing costs, has been increasing over the last decade, and if you’re on the Niagara Regional Housing wait list, you can expect to wait up to 18 years! Addition-

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he Province of Ontario as of August 6 had 114 citizens in hospital with Covid and 110 in ICU, with 76 being on ventilators. Last Friday saw an uptick in daily new cases with over 300 being registered. In the ongoing saga of reaching out to the unvaccinated the province is outfitting two Metrolinx buses to make them mobile vaccination clinics.

The province now has 81.8 percent of the population with one dose and 72.7 percent fully vaccinated. Daily vaccination numbers remain fairly consistent with slightly over 60,000 residents being vaccinated daily. In Niagara our numbers are close to the provincial totals with 70.4 percent with one dose and 61 per-

cent fully vaccinated. Daily new cases range from 1-5 per day. Pelham’s positivity

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rate is 0.7% which puts us in the green category, whereas there are other areas of the region experiencing positivity numbers in the 2.8-2.8 range, which would be in the red zone classification that was used some months ago.

Activities at the community centre continue to operate successfully with day camps and ice rentals leading the way with high numbers of participants in each venue. onstruction on Sulphur Springs Drive continues to be held up by the NPCA. The latest obstruction was the request of “the last two stipulations to be addressed before the issuance of a permit.” The ridiculous part is that the contractor addressed these exact two stipulations when they were presented with them— three weeks ago. Round and round we go. If you saw this in a TV show you would say “that’s impossible, no agency can be that inept.”

The contractor has the e-mails to prove “only in Niagara.” ◆

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Letters continued Nuclear ban letter doesn't get enough respect Your disparaging report on the decision of the Town of Pelham to join the ICAN Cities Appeal shortchanged readers who queried what council voted for [After summer break, lengthy agenda results in four-hour marathon, Aug.4, p.3].

Unless you believe in Abracadabra causality, a plan is needed to complete any complex set of tasks. The Cities Appeal recognizes the Treaty to Prohibit Nuclear weapons (TPNW) as a helpful part of the process to rid the world of nuclear weapons. Ban treaties have already been used with desired effect, for example chemical

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continued from previous page ally, the lack of affordable housing perpetuates societal inequalities because it disproportionately impacts Indigenous people, visible minorities, newcomers, youth, women, sole-support parents, people living independently, and people with a disability. It’s unsustainable and the policy changes couldn’t change fast enough because we need immediate results.

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and biological weapons, land mines and cluster bombs. Robert Oppenheimer promoted the idea in 1945 when he saw the horror of what he created, but politics, secrecy and financial self-interest blocked his efforts.

Six minutes of council time was well spent in adding the small voice of the Town to the mounting numbers pressing for Canada to sign the Treaty. Another bigger Ontario city is soon to announce its support.

Dave Nicholson Fonthill

amended by the Mayor of Niagara Falls who, in addition to the revised suite of programs, wanted to keep the old suite of incentives (namely the SNIP program). As noted by another mayor, this program is partially being used for façade improvements, but, “the majority of the SNIP money in our CIP areas goes into improving derelict buildings, dangerous buildings, buildings that are useless, that can’t be used and turned into a productive building, particularly in the downtown area.

Those moneys are used to make these functional buildings….” The

Editor’s note: The pro-forma debate took six minutes and the measure was never in doubt of passing. Say what you may about certain council members, none of them has yet come out for nuclear war. But now that it arises, apart from India and Pakistan, and possibly a rogue North Korea, the odds of a nuclear bomb ever again being used by a nation state seem remarkably slim. Absent urgent action now, what’s guaranteed to end human life on Earth is global warming. That's an existential threat that we all need to prioritize. This, and the obstinately ill-informed anti-vaxx dimwits, who may well hasten our demise even sooner.

amendment passed.

I have to ask: whose responsibility is it to maintain a privately owned commercial building or keep it in safe condition? Apparently, it’s yours, the taxpayer, not the owner of the building! And the argument in favour of this was, in essence, “we aren’t doing enough to support small business if we don’t throw tax money at these projects.”

The reality is that the new programming was built to accommodate these properties as long as their funding request incorporates one of the pillars. This amendment

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Franklin D. Roosevelt once said that, “The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”

The policy will come up for final approval at our next council meeting. I’m hopeful the majority will come around to see the great opportunity before them, but with parochialism rearing its head once more on an important issue, I am skeptical. ◆

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Fresh safety markings for Haist speed bumps Thermoplastic paint hoped more durable

BY DON RICKERS Voice Correspondent The four speed humps on Haist Street, between Canboro Road and Welland Road, have a shiny new set of florescent yellow stripes, a message to passing motorists to reduce their speed in the highly-populated area and beware the bumps.

Jason Marr, Director of Public Works for the Town of Pelham, told the Voice that local residents had alerted his staff to the fact that the asphalt humps had lost their bright markings, and had become less conspicuous. He said that Region usually performs line painting for Pelham, but that the paint they use often begins to fade not long after application. Marr said that he subcontracted the current job to obtain an upgraded, thermo-plastic paint which has been proven to be more durable.

“The thermo-plastic paint is thicker, and applied with heat,” said Marr, who commented that the speed humps unquestionably slow the traffic down on Haist Street.

“I haven't received any complaints from residents about the speed humps being in place, but I know that emergency services do not like them, because they negatively impact their response time.”

Pelham Mayor Marvin Junkin told the Voice that the contract was awarded to BP Pavement Markings, of Hamilton.

Cars pass over newly-painted speed bumps on Haist Street.

“They were available to do the job immediately, so staff told them to go ahead,” said Junkin.

“I am curious to see how long this paint lasts, because for some reason everything else we have tried has only lasted six months or so.

Hopefully this material will be like white on rice.”

Junkin said the job cost the Pelham taxpayers $3800.

Speed humps are a standard traffic-calming measure in many communities, and are most commonly used to enforce low speed limits. But they are not without

their detractors, who point to increased traffic noise as cars brake and accelerate, and vehicle damage if traversed at too great a speed, especially for low-slung vehicles. An American company called Radarsign advocates for traffic-calming control through the use of speed limit flashing signs that note the speed at which a car is approaching. They contend that the signs are silent and affordable, with a solar-power option making them a green solution.

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In a statement last week, the club said that although car shows are allowed under current Covid regulations, the safety protocols and restrictions that are in place and must be followed “have made it too daunting and restrictive to hold a fun and safe car show.”

Although the show has been cancelled, the draw for the club’s Classic Car Raffle prize, a 1968 Camaro, will go ahead as scheduled at 3 PM. This is the second year in a row that the car show has been cancelled due to the Covid pandemic. The Classic Car Raffle was postponed for one year due to the cancellation of all the events at which the club typically sells raffle tickets. Under these unusual circumstances, the Ontario Alcohol and Gaming Commission and the Town of Pelham granted the Lions permission to postpone the draw to

September 11 of this year.

“It's very disappointing to cancel this year’s Car Show,” said Ryan Van Lochem, Chairman of the Fenwick Lions Classic Car Committee. “It's a great way to end a car raffle with a park full of classic and vintage cars. We could have expected more than 300 cars and a thousand or more car enthusiasts that day.”

With Covid restrictions, selling raffle tickets went from in-person to online.

An advertising campaign was launched on January 1 with Facebook and car magazine ads as well as roadside signs.

“We couldn't have been more pleased with the response we received,” First Vice President and Social Media Chair Steve Schilstra said. “Orders have been coming in every day since and we should have all 10,000 tickets sold by Sept. 11 draw date.”

Proceeds of the car draw go to the sponsorship of a Dog Guide from the Lions Foundation of Canada Dog Guides Program. The club said that to raise and train each dog costs $25,000.

Tickets may still be purchased at fabulousfenwicklions.org. The draw will be carried live on Facebook at 3 PM, on September 11.

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BY DON RICKERS Voice Correspondent Three-year-old Emmett Gervason has had his life-altering ear surgery in the United States, and is on the road to recovery, said his mother.

Speaking to the Voice from Palo Alto, California, Amanda Gervason, a nurse with the Niagara Health System, said that her son Emmett had the operation on Thursday, July 29.

“The surgery took about

eight hours, like we expected. There were no unfortunate surprises, nothing the doctors worried about.

They basically said the operation went well, and that Emmett’s middle-ear bones were better than they expected. They are very optimistic for his hearing outcome.”

Emmett was born with pediatric microtia in his left ear, a congenital deformity in which the ear is small and misshapen. He also has atresia, a condition in which

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Bandshell concert series returns to Peace Park Shortened six-performance season to run through September 9

BY DON RICKERS Voice Correspondent Bandshell Thursday made its grand reappearance last week, with some 1000 in attendance to enjoy the music on a beautiful summer evening. Entertainment was provided by Cottage Brew, a Niagara-based group of young musicians with a focus on classic and Canadian rock.

Gayle Baltjes, the bandshell volunteer committee chair, welcomed the crowd, and paid tribute to the volunteers and Town staffers who had worked hard on short notice to pull the concert series together. She reminded those in attendance of the coronavirus-related safety protocols in place, which were also provided on a printed handout when visitors entered the seating area surrounding the bandshell.

Leah Letford, the Special Events and Festivals Programmer for the Town of Pelham, said that “visitors were very patient, as volunteers worked to space and seat everyone in compliance with Covid protocols. It was great to see the attendees lining up with their masks on, with their reservations and confirmations in hand.”

She said that spacing between attendees allowed for approximately 800 to take in the 7 PM performance, while hundreds more spilled onto the street in front of the post office and shopping plaza parking lot. Others listened from outside the fenced

area, enjoying food truck fare and potent potables.

Jim Louks and his wife made the drive from Dunnville, and said that they had been enjoying the bandshell concerts for many years. “We arrive early, and enjoy some supper before the show.”

Karen, an attendee from Welland, was another who had been a regular at the concert series over the years, and was busy messaging her friends “to find out where we can meet—it’s hard to find people in such a large crowd.”

Aaron, from Fonthill, was standing outside the fenced bandshell area with a can of cold ale, daughter Georgia perched on his shoulders.

“We listen from outside the concert enclosure—this is where the beer is!” he said with a laugh.

Pelham seniors Tony, Pamela, and Edna were seated on a bench, enjoying their beer and wine.

“This has been a weekly event for us in the past,” said Tony.

“We get something to eat from the food trucks, and enjoy a drink and the music. We are thrilled that the concerts have returned.”

It was an appreciative audience, according to Letford.

“If the clapping was any indication, the performance by Cottage Brew was very well received!” she said.

Eagles tribute band New Kid in Town are up next, this Thursday.

It was an ideal summer evening last Thursday as the Peace Park Bandshell concert series resumed after 14 months away.

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continued from Page 18 that are influencing travel trends. Many now consider travel a personal investment, prioritizing regeneration and enriched cultural awareness gained through their experiences highly.

AT ticks a lot of these boxes.

Freedom may be represented by the Second Amendment to some, but for most of us who have been restricted by Covid, simply being outside in the silence of true wilderness is liberating. Recent travel booking analysis shows that many of those eager to travel sooner rather than later are frequently choosing to stay away from traditional crowded attractions located in busy cities which often require the use of public transit to visit.

Cycling, trekking, hiking, rafting, skiing and other soft-adventure activities which emphasize small groups and rural or natural outdoor settings are seen as a Covid-safe.

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smaller local accommodations on self-directed tours often provides intimate cultural exchanges seldom enjoyed in tourist hotspots or all-inclusive Caribbean resorts.

Brian Young, of Canadian small-tour operator G Adventures, says, “Having their freedom to travel taken away has driven a shift in people’s mentality to take on those more challenging trips, which they may have put off in recent years.

With average trip durations for 2021 sitting at around two weeks, travelers are looking to have longer vacations, where they can get under the skin of a destination and have more local experiences.”

Zina Bencheikh, of Intrepid Travel (Australia), echoes Young’s thoughts.

“People want to get active on holiday and keep up the walking or cycling they enjoyed during lockdown. Many are also ready to tackle that challenge they’ve always dreamed of – Everest Base Camp trek was the second top-selling

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Environmentally and culturally sustainable travel has been a slow-growth segment of the industry for decades.

The pandemic, increasing global incidents of forest fire and severe flooding, and biodiversity concerns have driven home the negative impact we humans are having on our planet with an urgency that is causing many to finally embrace sustainable travel. Adventure travel’s mostly low-impact footprint and frequent cultural immersion also aligns with “conscious travel,” the latest trend, by helping people to connect with and gain a better understanding of the world community.

The pandemic is altering when during the year we are prepared to travel, too, which has tour operators and countries like Greece, where tourism is 18 to 20 percent of GDP, scrambling. Many potential tourists are skeptical of braving high-season summer crowds to view the Parthenon while Greece is

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A cold day in Athens or the Greek islands will be warmer than anywhere in Canada in February

still wrestling with Covid, but for those adventurers willing to visit in the winter, crowds are minimal and the spectacular Parthenon is spectacularly enhanced with green grass and wildflowers never seen during hot and arid summers.

Some shops will be closed, and services reduced, but a cold day in Athens or the Greek Islands will be warmer than anywhere in Canada in February, and locals that hide from the summer tourist throngs will have emerged to enrich your cultural experience.

Coincidently, and difficult to believe for a destination so reliant on archeology, sun and sand, during the height of the pandemic in 2020, Greece unveiled its first country-wide bicycle tourism strategy.

Regardless the type of travel, there is agreement that last-minute booking will continue to grow because of Covid. One internet travel booking site has seen the relative share of trips booked and departures taken within the same week double compared to last year.

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This strategy generally avoids the potential of receiving travel credits for cancelled trips.

Flights and tours that have some sort of departure date flexibility incorporated into their terms are also recovering faster than traditional bookings. Having such an option is recommended by many travel retailers, and is now seen as essential to most considering booking a trip.

International travel will still be a confounding hodgepodge for many this winter, but if you just have to go, consider soft-adventure.

The experts position it as one of the safest and most rewarding ways to travel in these times, and AT is recovering more quickly than most segments, so options will be plentiful.

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"We could be the garlic capital of Canada"

BY DON RICKERS Voice Correspondent Jerry Winnicki is a farmer, not a doctor, but he is happy to dispense free health advice—at least when it comes to the nutritional and medicinal power of the humble garlic.

It was the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates, often called the father of Western medicine, who coined the phrase, “Let food be thy medicine, and medicine be thy food.” Hippocrates prescribed garlic to treat a variety of medical conditions, and modern science has lent credence to some of these beneficial health effects.

Winnicki, whose main job is Agronomy Manager at Clark Agri Service, in Wellandport, has 50 acres of cash crops such as corn, soybeans, and pumpkins on his Sumbler Road property, along with half an acre of garlic, which he has been harvesting for three years.

He displayed for the Voice a flatbed wagon in his driveway, pictured at right, loaded with almost a thousand pounds of his garlic crop. He prefers to sell retail, given that he makes more profit than by selling to a wholesaler.

“You need good drainage to grow garlic, and we have that in Pelham,” said Winnicki. “We have all this land in Niagara that was growing sweet and sour cherries, and since a lot of the fruit trees are being pulled out, garlic would be a great alternative. You don't have to have a big farm—an acre or two is enough to make a living on it.”

Winnicki said that Gilroy, California, a small city near San Jose, calls itself the “garlic capital of the

world,” and that “Pelham could be the garlic capital Canada, not just Ontario.”

A plant in the allium family, garlic is closely related to onions, shallots, and leeks. Nutritious but with few calories, it grows in many parts of the world, and is a popular ingredient in cooking due to its distinctive taste. It contains sulphur compounds, which are believed to provide health benefits such as reducing blood pressure and cholesterol levels which protect against heart attacks and strokes; combating sickness like the flu and common cold, by boosting the immune system; and delivering antioxidants that may prevent dementia

and Alzheimer’s.

Not unlike a human pregnancy carried to full term, garlic requires nine months to grow, with harvest season running from late June to early September. Imported garlic from the U.S., Argentina, and Mexico is often sold by Canadian grocers, due to the contracts that the head offices of chain stores sign with foreign producers, said Winnicki. In 2020, imports of fresh garlic amounted to some 24,000 metric tons in Canada. British Columbia and Southern Ontario produce most of Canada’s domestic garlic, with the sandy soils of Haldimand, Norfolk, Brant, and Niagara well-suited to the crop.

“The local franchise grocery store owners often have their hands tied by the contracts,” said Winnicki. “I think most grocery stores sell foreign garlic for five or six dollars a pound. I charge a premium for mine, since the bulbs are generally much bigger and have a more intense flavour.”

The internet is awash with generally unsubstantiated information about Chinese garlic being bleached to make it look white, grown in human sewage as fertilizer, and fumigated with chemicals and pesticides not allowed in Canada.

“China produces over 80 percent of the garlic crop in the world,” said Winnicki, “and they flood the

market with low-cost product.”

Winnicki advised local folks to consider planting garlic bulbs in their flower beds, in order to provide their own source of fresh garlic.

“It’s the easiest thing to grow, and no pesticides are involved, since the bugs don't go after garlic,” he said. “You don't have to spray it with chemicals to ward off disease—you just grow garlic like you would tulips or daffodils.”

That said, garlic requires far less water than the average flower bed, and too much moisture is highly detrimental.

Garlic is a valuable crop, said Winnicki.

“There are a lot of guys like me cultivating half an acre, and really, the momentum is just starting,” he said. “There's no odour when it's growing, so it's not like cannabis.

Garlic has a bit of a smell when it is being stored, but it’s not obnoxious.”

Winnicki said that he gave a presentation to the Pelham Garden Club three months ago, and was surprised that almost half of those in attendance indicated that they were growing garlic in their gardens for personal use.

As for the halitosis that often accompanies garlic ingestion, modern science suggests three ways to beat the bad breath. Eating raw apples works, as it acts as a natural deodorant to the sulphides in garlic. The acid in lemon juice neutralizes alliinase, an enzyme produced by crushed garlic. And Green tea is high in antioxidants called polyphenols, which like the enzymes in apples, mask garlic’s odour-causing chemicals.

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Maintenance hole covers on Pelham Street a peril E-bike rider taken to hospital following twist and tumble

BY DON RICKERS Voice Correspondent A Welland man is in hospital with a knee injury after having crashed his ebike on Pelham Street in Fonthill last Thursday afternoon, victim of a protruding maintenance hole cover. The roadway has been under construction for well over a year, with an anticipated completion date in the next few weeks, according to Director of Public Works Jason Marr.

Jody Fraser, 47, was riding his ebike north on Pelham Street just north of Highway 20 a little after 12 noon, when the accident occurred.

“I was only doing about

30 km/hour when I came to the construction zone,” he said. “I slowed down, and when I saw a sign that said ‘construction zone ends’, I sped up a bit. Then my tire got caught by the manhole cover, and I braked hard.

My bike went over, and crushed my right knee.”

He said he had surgery Thursday evening, and will require additional surgery and physiotherapy thereafter, during a recovery that will take at least six weeks.

“I had been off work collecting CERB, and had just started a new job at Chuck’s Roadhouse, in Welland,” said Fraser, despondent at

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the setback. “I think the Town should have been more responsible, by putting up more pylons and barriers around those manhole covers.”

Connie Lynn lives on Pelham Street near the site of the accident, and came out of her house to assist Fraser

after his spill.

“I think that his bike’s handle grip and foot rest took a lot of the impact, but

his arms and his knees were banged up and scratched,” she said. Fraser was wearing shorts at the time.

Uwe Brand also lives on Pelham Street, and was critical of the construction situation.

“The precautions in place are not good enough,” he said. “The Town should have proper markings, to ensure the road is safe. I've seen cars hit the exposed maintenance hole covers— you can hear the ‘bang.’

They likely have undercarriage damage.”

Former Pelham Mayor Ron Leavens lives just down the street from the construction as well.

“I came out and saw the bike lying on the road.

There will be more accidents that happen there. I left several messages at the Town office, but no one was answering.”

Leavens said he finally got in touch with Councillor John Wink, who agreed to follow up.

“These manholes are raised an inch or two above the pavement level,” said Leavens. “The construction has been going on for a year and a half. [Yet] the Town did the section of roadwork from Port Robinson Road to College Street in three months.”

Leavens was aware that the construction was delayed by winter weather.

“That's fair enough. They had to wait until spring.

But this is not spring. We are almost at the end of summer. And somebody is going to get killed here, because people don't know the situation. Cars come bombing down here, and we have heard them bottom out when they hit the exposed covers.”

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thetics, other than an artificial eardrum. The procedure should not only restore Emmett’s hearing, but cosmetically re-sculpt his ear to a normal shape. Doctors attached an external ear mould to Emmett’s head, with a dressing that needs to be changed as swelling subsides.

“At the four-week mark, they will reassess everything. If the healing goes well, then there's a chance we get to go home a little early,” said Amanda.

“The first day was rough, as Emmett’s head bandage was uncomfortable for him,” she said.

“Doctors removed his bandages, and now the grafts and external ear mould are exposed. It's going to take some getting used to.

Emmy is not a fan of the mould, as it is stitched to his head, and

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is itchy. The after-care has been challenging as we have to keep him from running, jumping, and sleeping on that side of his head.

We are excited to be ‘over the hump,’ but the surgeon said the after-care is the hardest part.”

Gervason said that Emmett is in good spirits, despite being denied the normal physical play time that children relish.

Surgeons Dr. Youssef Tahiri and Dr. Joseph Roberson of the CEI Medical Group in Palo Alto, performed the operation. Gervason said that Roberson is an internationally renowned specialist in otology, neurotology, and skull base Surgery, and attracts patients from around the world.

“The doctors texted us throughout the whole surgery, to let us know how things were going, which made the whole process so much less stressful,” said Amanda. “We are so happy with the medical team—they are

Emmett sleeps, post operation. SUPPLIED world-class.”

Amanda and her husband, Aaron Gervason, left their daughter, Alora, who is just shy of two years old, with family in Niagara while the flew to California with Emmett.

“She's been doing okay,” said

Amanda. “It was a bit of an adjustment for her initially, with her parents and brother gone, but she has the familiarity of my grandparents, because they watch her a lot. So that was comforting for her. And then they show her pictures of us every day.”

Although Toronto’s Sick Kids Hospital is capable of performing the necessary corrective surgery, Emmett does not qualify for the operation until he turns 10, and his parents were unwilling to see him struggle developmentally and emotionally in the interim.

The Gervason’s total costs for the surgery, plus post-operative costs, will likely exceed a quarter million dollars. Friends organized a GoFundMe account in an effort to cover expenses, which currently totals some $227,000 [full disclosure: the Voice is a contributor]. Contributions are still welcomed at https://ca.gofundme. com/f/an-ear-for-emmy

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I believe that without precisely worded bylaws, Bill 108 will be a Pandora’s Box for growth everywhere no matter how properties are zoned. Soaring prices will be the result of single-dwelling properties bought and then sold as two-home properties, making Pelham housing unaffordable for our children.

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St. Kitts coxie mines Olympic gold Kristen Kit guides eight to first

BY BERNIE PUCHALSKI bpsportsniagara.com Less than 48 hours after winning a gold medal in the women’s eight at the Tokyo Summer Olympics, Kristen Kit was greeted by her parents, Jerry and Janice, at Pearson International Airport in Toronto.

“It was so funny because I have four or five bags, so I’m not sure they saw me behind my bags when I first got into the airport,” the 32-year-old St. Catharines native said. “It was really emotional, especially coming home, and I haven’t seen them in over a year. It was nice to see them and have a gold medal to bring home.”

Kit’s parents have been a big part of the rowing journey for the St. Catharines Rowing Club and University British Columbia athlete.

“They drove me to the rowing club at 4 or 4:30 in the morning and they have been with me every step of the way.”

All of her work and that parental support culminated in a wild celebration when Kit and her teammates crossed the finish line first in Tokyo.

“You’ve probably seen the video that I was celebrating quite a bit. I had quite a few people ask me about that moment and it was really raw emotion and it was quite a passionate moment,” said Kit, who coxed a Canadian four to a bronze medal at the 2016 Paralympics and the women’s eight to silver medals at the 2017 and 2018 world championships.

“We have had so much come at us the last 18 months and not just the pandemic. Our boat has had crazy injuries and I had a pretty serious concussion in May of last year. I still have the concussion symptoms going on that I have had to manage over the last year. It was really challenging.”

But in the end, completely worthwhile.

“With so much going on in our boat, crossing that finish line that celebration that everyone saw was a celebration of the last 18 months, the last five years, the last 19 years,” Kit said. “As you know, I had to work really hard because the women’s coxing seat in Canada was very hard to get and I did it.”

Also going through Kit’s head at the finish line was the pride she felt in her teammates—Susanne Grainger, Kasia Gruchalla-Wesierski, Madison Mailey, Sydney Payne, Andrea Proske, Lisa Roman, Christine Roper, and Avalon Wasteneys.

“Every time I made a call, they responded with their legs but also their

Kristen Kit, left, with coach Michelle Darvill. SUPPLIED hearts and it was that patient boat persistence that I was celebrating with the women.”

Kit and the crew were confident despite finishing second to New Zealand in their heat and second to the Romanians in the repechage.

“We were leading coming into the last 500 and we got rowed through in both races. We had a little bit of fire in us because we were mad. We don’t want to get rowed through and we are not a crew that gets rowed through. There was quite a bit of feistiness but we were confident.”

That confidence was fueled by the crew’s speed in training, its training partners [the Canadian men’s four] and all the people supporting it.

“The nine of us were on that start line but there was probably over 100 people supporting us directly that got us to that start line,” Kit said. “It didn’t really feel like we were on the start line alone—our training group, our coaches and the 1992 group [women’s eight] that won the gold medal in Barcelona.”

Many of the 1992 crew reached out to the Tokyo crew in the year leading up to the Olympics, as did Marnie McBean, Canada’s chef de mission in Tokyo and a member of the 1992 eight.

“Kathleen Heddle passed away earlier this year and she was the driving force of that group. Someone said to me the other day that that she was The Franchise,” Kit said. “Stories about her were shared the evening before our final and I knew when those stories were shared with us that we were going to win.”

No one was more important to Canada’s

eight than head coach Michelle Darvill, a three-time world lightweight champion and a member of the 1992 training group.

“She had such a fantastic and positive influence on the group. She got us to focus on ourselves whether we were introverts or extroverts and whether we like colour or don’t like colour,” Kit said.

“She encouraged us to be our own diverse selves and we were really good athletes because of that.”

Kit and her crewmates are hoping their victory will resonate for years to come.

“We talked about it as a group of continuing the legacy of the 1992 group and of the 2008 men [Olympic eight champs] and we are really hoping that this will have a strong impact on Canadian rowing and not just women’s rowing,” she said. “We are hoping that we will inspire rowers across Canada and even athletes across Canada because we are not a normal eight. We are not a normal group of athletes.”

It’s a group that defies description.

“We are all a bunch of athletes who have weird stories, we have a bunch of transfer athletes and we have athletes like myself where it has been a long time coming to this moment. The main thing we have talked about is why not you and why not us? We hope to help Canadian rowing and inspire the next generation.”

The excitement of winning gold has yet to begin for Kit. “I am still kind of in shock. I woke up [Friday] morning and I thought to myself ‘I think something happened yesterday.

I think we won a medal.’ That we are Olympic champions still hasn’t set in.”

After the medal presentation and media sessions, Kit and her crew spent a lot of time sharing their victory with their supporters back home.

“It was really important that we do that because a lot of our friends and family are at home and normally we would be with them celebrating,” Kit said. “We couldn’t do that but it was really amazing that the CBC and RBC both had attaches in Tokyo and they were able to get people in the country to help us connect with our friends and family back home. It was amazing and they did a fantastic job of helping us connect and share our stories.”

When that was over, the team kicked back and relaxed.

“We partied a bit, for sure,” Kit said with a laugh. “I think I got about two hours of sleep and then we started the trip home.”

She will be in St. Catharines for two days and then she will head back to the national training centre in Victoria, B.C. “I am going to get a cheeseburger with my parents because as a coxie I have to weigh in. Then there are no other real plans.”

With the next Summer Olympics only three years away, Kit hasn’t made up her mind yet on what her future holds.

“We talked about it as a group and I think it really depends on what Rowing Canada does with the coaches.”

They all want Darvill back.

“It is hard to find a coach like that and a lot of us are hoping there’s a chance that she will consider continuing. The coaching situation will have a big impact on whether a lot of us continue.”

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THE BALANCED LIFE

by John Swart

Adventure Travel set to boom, Covid or no

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hen I started this adventure (July 13, 2021), France and Portugal were listed as travel restricted (yellow) by the U.S. State Department, meaning travel with caution. Spain was listed as green, travel without restrictions. France was fairly wide open. Little mask-wearing on the street or at tables in outdoor eateries, but masks were required when entering stores or indoor restaurants. Spain was different.

Mask-wearing by many if not most on the street. In stores and restaurants indoors strict mask wearing until you were eating. Portugal is even more so. Mask-wearing by many on

the street. Mask-wearing at all times indoors. Social distancing in restaurants, indoors and outdoors, with tables going unused to maintain distance.

When checking into hotels, they require your vaccination card or an on-the-spot test.

Portugal is the most stringent.

That is an excerpt from the boots-on-the-ground email report I received August 5 from friend Mike McCabe, of Florida, upon completion of his Paris to Lisbon bicycle ride last week. Valuable as his direct experience was to any travel plans his friends might make, he was unaware of what was happening at home in the Unit-

ed States.

On July 20, the State Department changed France to “Level 3 orange - Reconsider travel,” warning against Covid, terrorism and civil unrest due to Covid related public demonstrations; on July 29, Portugal was classified as “Level 4 red – Do not travel” because of Covid; and on July 30, Spain also changed to “Level 4 red – Do Not Travel” due to Covid and terrorism.

All three countries saw their ratings change in the short time it took McCabe to pedal from Paris to Lisbon.

What can we expect this fall as we’re deciding how best to scratch our adventure travel (AT) itch, knowing that information more than 72 hours old, especially relating to international regulations, may be irrelevant?

And will the changing relationship be-

Els Swart in Provence, but well off the beaten tourist path.

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grow by 55 percent in the period to 2025, regardless of Covid. Cycling, which encompasses health, wellness and adventure travel, will represent $79 billion USD of the total.

This is a staggering sales increase in comparison to the United States Travel Organization’s projection that, in total, all segments of in-

tween adventure travel and traditional tourism increase our travel options?

The Global Wellness Institute reported that in 2019, health and wellness travel, a category which ranges from pampered spa trips to rigorous athletic adventure activities, generated $639 billion USD in sales worldwide.

The segment is expected to

ternational leisure travel will increase by just three percent during the same period.

Increased interest in personal wellbeing, both mental and physical, improved fitness habits, and healthier lifestyles are all responses to the impacts of Covid See BALANCED LIFE Page 15

V oice HOROSCOPE ARIES – Mar 21/Apr 20 Try to dig a little deeper and not take things at face value this week, Aries. Some surprising elements that you may not initially recognize are just waiting to be discovered.

TAURUS – Apr 21/May 21 It’s good to have a rich fantasy life to envision plans for the future, Taurus. Some of these ideas may come to fruition this week as you dig down deep into your creative side.

GEMINI – May 22/Jun 21 Avoid jumping to the conclusion that a romantic partner is looking to move on, Gemini.

There may be another underlying factor at play that will soon come to light.

CANCER – Jun 22/Jul 22 Some major news is the catalyst that ignites the flame for your motivation to change, Cancer. You may find you’re interested in volunteerism or another worthy project.

LEO – Jul 23/Aug 23 Enjoy time spent connecting with some new people this week, Leo. It is a fine time to branch out of your typical social circles and embrace new friendships with confidence.

VIRGO – Aug 24/Sept 22 You gravitate toward people who prefer to see life through rose-colored glasses this week, Virgo. Enjoy this optimistic outlook and make the most of it.

LIBRA – Sept 23/Oct 23 An intense phone call may put you on edge for a little while, Libra. But once you get to the heart of the matter and think things through, you can work it out.

SCORPIO – Oct 24/Nov 22 Scorpio, your desire to socialize will be stronger than ever, so get out there and make a new friend or two. You will enjoy sharing ideas with others and trying some new things.

SAGITTARIUS – Nov 23/Dec 21 Appreciate all of the good things you have going in your life now, Sagittarius. Pay homage to those who have lent a hand or offered support that went above and beyond.

CAPRICORN – Dec 22/Jan 20 You may be on the brink of making a major move Capricorn. Try not to focus too much on all of the small details; look at the bigger picture.

AQUARIUS – Jan 21/Feb 18 A short trip out of town might be necessary to clear your head, Aquarius. Schedule some time to get away so you can rest, relax and recharge free of distraction.

PISCES – Feb 19/Mar 20 Take some time alone this week to reorder your priorities, Pisces. You may have made commitments that no longer are vital.

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FAITH LIFT

by Pastor Rob Weatherby

Made in Heaven

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ou might think this is another article about marriage. As someone once said, “Marriages are made in heaven… but then so are thunder and lightning!” Actually, this is the title of an interesting book

by Ray Comfort and Jeffrey Seto. The subtitle explains the book’s intent further —“Man’s Indiscriminate Stealing of God’s Amazing Design.” The main point then is to show how many of our human inventions have been inspired by the study of the ingenious designs found in nature.

Ten examples

Here are ten of the 32 examples in the book. The study of…  shark scales helped design suits for speed swimmers  spider webs helped design bulletproof vests  lotus leaves helped design water-resistant fabrics  squids helped design jet-propelled engines  shrimp eyes helped design entertainment technology  butterflies helped design counterfeit-proof currency  the human eye helped design a better camera lens  the human brain helped design faster computer chips  bird feathers helped design anti-lasers and  mosquitos helped design painless needles (I always wondered why God created mosquitos).

Anyhow, I think you get the idea. With the advance in microscope technology, scientists have been able to study in greater detail the incredible design in human, animal and plant life as well as minerals.

Two explanations

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fascinating

begs the question, “How did this design get there?” There are two possible answers.

One is that it all evolved by chance over a long period of time. The other is that it was created by intent by a very intelligent designer. I think the latter explanation is best.

The Bible begins with this statement: “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” (Genesis 1:1) Halfway through the Bible we read, “I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.” (Psalm 139:14) And at the end of

the Bible we read, “Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created.” (Revelation 4:11)

Final word

One of the book’s authors, Jeffrey Seto, is an aerospace engineer with a focus on experimental research and design. He provided the technical part of each example which quickly went over my head. I got this book for my son, who is also trained as an engineer.

I thought he would enjoy the See FAITH LIFT Page 15

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