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Back to the future: Voice on Vacation creativity continues to amaze. This week we have Gary Birch travelling back in time to the OK Corral, and evidently getting on great with Wyatt Earp and the gang...Gun play closer to home: Rather more serious was the mind-bogglingly bizarre incident last Thursday, in which one Niagara cop shot another on Roland Road. Breaking on Monday as we went to press was a story in the Toronto Star, quoting Phillip Parker, brother of the officer who was shot: "Nathan Parker is no innocent person. I can tell you … that if he got shot, it's because he made the other person fear for his life. He's a frightening person." As of press time, the officer who shot Parker remains free. Clearly there is much more to this story, details which we hope will emerge as the investigation unfolds. However, given the secrecy that seems so often to shroud police misconduct investigations, the odds aren’t in favour of complete transparency here, either, no matter the uniqueness of the incident…Down South: John Swart turns in yet another excellent Column Six this week, this time on his recent trip through Mississippi during the US midterm elections last month. With every sentence you'll find yourself increasingly thankful to be living on the right side of the border...Honeymoon time: It’s official. The Town of Pelham has new political leadership. Taking their oaths on Monday evening were all six new councillors, and Mayor Junkin. Last Saturday they were “oriented” by senior staff during a day-long, marathon session inside Town Hall, an event that family illness prevented me from attending, but which was witnessed in large part by our Jennifer Chornley. If there was an overriding theme, it seems, it was “As Council, here’s what you can’t do.” Time will tell on that one. An eventful few months are ahead, we suspect...Eating my hat, with a side of crow: Early this past spring, Marv Junkin and I had coffee one afternoon. I hadn’t seen him for awhile and was interested in how he was doing, now that he was finished with politics. Toward the end of the conversation he turned serious and said he had a question. If he ran for mayor, he asked, did I think that he could win Fonthill? If my jaw didn’t drop, it should have. After a few seconds I shook my head—regretfully, since I respected Marv—and answered no, I didn’t think so. The rural vote, definitely, but not Fonthill, which tends to imagine itself a cut above—home to $18 hamburgers and twee cocktails and craft beer. Marv nodded and said he appreciated my candor. Needless to say, I couldn’t have been more wrong. While it’s true that by percentage Marv did best in the rural and semi-rural wards, he still blew his opponents out of the proverbial water in Fonthill's Ward 3. Since election night, Marv has not missed an opportunity to inquire how well-done I would like my crow cooked, and whether my hat would be dessert. Well, Mr. Mayor, you’re in charge now. I leave that to you, and wish you and your council best of luck in the kitchen for all of us. Mmm. Crow.
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News media from across Niagara and the GTA descended on Pelham last Thursday after one NRPS officer shot another on Roland Road. By Friday afternoon, only a Global News crew remained as the Pelham Fire Department arrived to hose a small patch of bloodied snow from the pavement. The two officers' vehicles remained parked as they were when the incident occurred. VOICE PHOTOS
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N RARE OCCASIONS in the routines of our daily lives we sometimes hear a faint plea to take better care of our environment. According to proclamations by many environmentalists our report cards on taking care of the environment are nothing to write home about. Some even suggest that we are abject failures in caring for our Mother Earth and routinely abuse and regularly disregard the fragility of her life-giving beneficence. It is true that there has been a reduction in some of the pollution so routinely cast about for so many years in some sectors such as in heavy industry. These efforts are commendable but some pollution-watchers still insist there is a way to go before devastation will segue to rehabilitation. I contend that much of the current anti-pollution initiatives are wrong-headed. I say this because most of our current population of adults grew up during a time when there was a devil-may-care attitude towards the environment. Pollution was far from being a top of mind issue and we didn’t object
strongly enough even when the air was thick with smog, the rain drops thickened with acid and waterways were rife with contaminants. As a child I grew up downwind of some heavy Industry facilities and we residents routinely accepted days when the air was thick with smoke and laden with visible particulate. When we closed our windows due to the pollution we also closed our minds and lamely accepted the unacceptable. Since we adults have failed so miserably in taking proper care of the environment then the solution to pollution defaults to our children. It is time that the curricula at every level of the education system includes the subject of ecology alongside the likes of sociology, geometry and geography. Only then will the a proper mindset evolve where consideration for the environment will become second nature or, perhaps top of mind, as these younger more fertile minds take command of what we once thought to be our responsibility. There are some few who will poo-poo the idea that measures to clean up the
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Letters Elves hanging up their hats draws reaction The story that drew the most online comment last week was that of volunteers Gayle Baltjes-Bazinet, Paul Ryan, and their gang who helped hang Christmas decorations along Pelham streets for some 15 years, and how this year will be their last. All comments via Facebook. You guys are an awesome team! My Mum and I always comment on how nice these look and what a TON of work it must be, Thank you! If only I had more time. Sue Ward-Belchior I love this town and the community spirit! Jamie Miller
Congrats to Paul, Gayle, and all their elves for a job well done! Merry Christmas! Shirley Ann Welstead So sad that they won't be doing it next year...it always makes our town have that little bit special look to it. Thank you to Paul and Gayle for doing it all these years. I appreciated it every year and every time I saw a bough tied to a pole or bench I always smiled. Hopefully someone else can take over this wonderful tradition and keep it alive. Chris Goulden See ELVES next page
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For the last seven weeks I have had a bundle of 30 ads wrapped in a plastic bag,  courtesy of “Big Media,� thrown into my driveway, and every time for the last seven weeks I have phoned the Big Media company distributing this unwanted bundle. Every time, a polite lady— although always a different one—takes my request, which is: Don’t deliver your paper and junk mail to my address. And every time I am assured that this will not happen again—until seven days later there appears another bundle in the driveway! I asked for the name and phone number of the district representative—no success. “Privacy laws.� When I insisted to get some kind of phone number with some person who is in charge of delivery, I was given a number which connected me to India. I repeated my request to the guy in India,
The Christmas spirit is alive and well but not in all of Pelham. Last Thursday evening around 5:30, my neighbour, his wife and their dog were down at the ball/dog park on Cream Street, North Pelham. Apparently he had locked his keys in the car along with his cellphone and his wife had left her cellphone at home. My neighbour asked another gentleman, who was just leaving the park with his dog, whether he could drive him home to get his
With the ongoing Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority board selection process in the air, according to Chair Sandy Annunziata, I was wondering as a taxpayer if the outgoing chair could possibly give the public a ballpark figure of what it is going to cost for the legal advice supplied by the Toronto lawyer Paul DeMelo before he leaves. Being that the NPCA is so open and transparent now, especially after the release of the Auditor General's report last September, I don't
I repeated my request to the guy in India and he hung up. I am sure there are many Pelham residents who don’t want to be the victim of these advertising companies, who cut down hundreds and thousands of trees for total trivial purposes. Yes, they use quite often recycled paper, but the process of de-inking is also anything else but pollution-free. I would like to start a discussion and find out if there are other residents who feel that they are forced to be unwilling pollution participants. Erdwin Hueniken Fenwick
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An experiment in sound Jim Casson on the inspiration behind another in his Dark Orchard series BY SAMUEL PICCOLO
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One day, a couple of years ago, while trying to decide whether to produce a third album of his Dark Orchard experimental music, Jim Casson invited his great uncle Cecil Haist to the recording studio in the basement of his home. Casson knew that Haist, who was his grandfather’s brother and the last of his generation of the family, had some stories to tell. In particular, Casson wanted to know about the death of Haist’s first wife, Del. “I knew that he had married young, and that his wife had died shortly afterwards,” said Casson, who is a professional drummer. “I asked him if he would tell me the whole story.” Haist did. “Once I had heard him describe what happened, it really affected me,” said Casson. “I put it to a piece of sombre music I had been messing around with. When I listened to it, I had tears streaming down my face. I called my wife down to listen, and she was crying too. I looked at her and said, ‘I guess I have something to say. I guess I have to do another Dark Orchard album.” That song, called “Cecil & Del,” is the fourth track on Casson’s record, “Tres.” He released a video for it late last spring. As Casson slaps a syncopated beat in the background of ambient tones, Haist recounts the story of his wife’s death, and faded black and white photos of them fill the screen. There’s Del reclining on a lawn. “I met her, and we went out for a Sunday drive,” says Haist. “I was awful shy and bashful in those days. When I was sitting the back with her, I was having an awful time making conversation.” There they are together, blurry on a beach. There’s Del sticking her tongue out with a camera in hand.
“We got married in ’49, in June. In October she got an attack of appendicitis. I drove her to St. Catharines hospital, they took her right in and said, ‘We’ll see you in half an hour.’ So I went out and got a bite to eat. Then I went back to the hospital. The girl at the reception said, ‘We’ve been looking for you.’ I can remember this just as if it had happened yesterday. They came down and they said, ‘We’re sorry, but we lost your wife.’ We’d been married for four months.’” Last February, when Casson started mixing the album, he thought he’d like to have Haist over to listen to the completed song. “But he died that morning,” said Casson. “He never got to hear it.” Not all of the new music is so heavy. “It’s unmarketable,” he said. “The goal is to try and create something different. A new thing. Something that’s good for your soul, even if it doesn’t sell.” Some of the songs emerged first as titled. Casson realized that the names of one of the greatest songwriting duos of all-time, The Beatles’ Lennon and McCartney, were strikingly familiar to “Lenin and McCarthy,” the Soviet bolshevik revolutionary and the rabidly anti-communist American senator. “It’s spoken word and ambient sound. Those guys are just yakking away in the background at the same time,” said Casson. Another song, “Bloor and Bathurst,” is a Christmas story. “It’s a prose piece that I wrote about going to buy a Christmas tree with my daughter when she was one and we were living in Toronto.” Other songs on the album use words from people he has met while touring. Casson typically plays two or three drumming gigs a week in southern Ontario,
but has traveled across the country and in other parts of the world. “Donegal” is a song about the Troubles in Ireland. “I didn’t realize how bad things were until I was much older. That song is someone explaining to me what it was like to grow up during that time in Ireland.” Songs from the previous two Dark Orchard albums were picked up and played on CBC’s The Signal, a now-discontinued evening show of often ethereal music. “It was big on college radio stations too,” said Casson. “Not that this means much, monetarily speaking. But that’s not why you do it.” Not only is Dark Orchard a chance for him to play around with types of lyrics, Casson also makes use of obscure instruments. “There’s a thing called a ‘vocoder.’ It’s used primarily by vocalists and keyboards—it’s hooked
up so the keyboard harmonizes to the pitch of the vocals. It was big in the ‘80s, in songs like ‘Video Killed the Radio Star.’” Casson hooked up the program on his computer to his drum kit, something he says he’s never heard done before. “Each drum I hit, I got a different sound out of the program. So I improvised a silly drum solo, and took Charlie Chaplin’s speech from ‘The Great Dictator’ and played it over top.” The end result, Casson said, is not only unmarketable, but also unperformable. “It’s not meant to be performed live. I did a show at the Niagara Jazz Festival, and one other where it was just me, and a trumpet player, with the videos projected behind us.” But Casson, who is kept busy by his own gigging, farming the cherries on his land, his role in
organizing the Fonthill Bandshell series, and in recording music for other artists, doesn’t mind. “I put the videos up online at darkorchard.ca, and I sell CDs at the Bandshell concerts,” he said. Even the cover of the album is reflective of Casson’s intentions with the project. On the cover of the second record, he used a forklift to bring a piano up into the cherry orchard behind his house. This time, he dressed up with a drum on his head and sat in a red leather armchair with an assemblage of oddities around him. “That painting is one of the first that my mom did. The lamp, the fan, the TV—all weird things,” said Casson. “The point was to have stuff that is out of place.” Casson will perform live—and an entirely different genre of music— this Friday at Peter Piper's Pub, in Fonthill. "Jimmy's Juke Joint Blues" starts at 9 PM.
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First seasonal Saturday sees Santa in
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The Fabulous Fenwick Lions Club hosted their Fifth Annual Christmas Tree Lighting last Saturday, December 1. Even though the weather was a bit rainy and damp, close to 150 onlookers were in attendance. Resident Dave Horton provided ambient Christmas music, while members of the Lions kept attendees warm with free hot chocolate, hot dogs, and mini fire pit. Santa met with kids, who told him what they wanted for Christmas. To kick off the Christmas season and spirit, Mayor Marvin Junkin accepted the honour of lighting the tree. Lions president Ken Suthons said the tree lighting was a great way to bring together Fenwick residents.
Clockwise from lower left: Dave Horton playing some Christmas music; Kristyn and Dean Perpstra give Santa their Christmas lists; Santa, Mayor Marvin Junkin, and residents of Fenwick celebrate the lighting of the tree; Charlotte Dominey sits in front of the nativity scene; and Scarlett Kun and Allison Phillips enjoy some hot chocolate. JENNIFER CHORNLEY PHOTOS
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n Fenwick, elves helping Pelham Cares
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Some 300 volunteers of all ages were a driving force in collecting and organizing items during the Pelham Cares Annual Food Drive last weekend. Service groups, students, and members of Pelham and area communities participated. Nearly 150 volunteers in Fonthill and 75 volunteers in Fenwick went door-to-door collecting food and personal care items for those in need. An additional 80 volunteers packed a local garden centre to sort food and load trucks. Client Services Coordinator Lori Grande extended a thank you to all the volunteers and community partners, saying that the Food Drive couldn’t have been accomplished without them.
Top, Linnea Perco a Grade 4 student at St. Alexander School, and Andie Molnar a Grade 4 student at Glynn A. Green School, sort through a box of food donations. Centre left, preparing items for transport to Pelham Cares. Centre right, Grade 10 E. L. Crossley students Melanie Leblanc and Caitlyn Kudreikis organize their baskets before dropping items off in their designated areas. Lower left, with the help of a young friend, Susan and Richard Sparrow organize the canned beans. Lower right, students Max Koeler, Paul Town, and Nora Morris hard at work earning their community service hours. JENNIFER CHORNLEY PHOTOS
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Local dancer lands leading role in The Nutcracker Pelham's Brooklyn Stukel one of two Canadians playing Clara in US production BY VOICE STAFF
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Local ballet dancer Brooklyn Stukel is showcasing her talents as Clara in this year’s Greater Niagara Ballet Company’s (GNBC) annual Nutcracker ballet. “I was really happy and excited as I didn’t think I was going to get it,” said the 11-year-old. Stukel was one of four performers who auditioned for the role in September. This year, she shares the role with fellow dancer Kadence McLean of Niagara Falls. Not only will Stukel be performing as Clara, but also as a sister and a mouse in two other performances. Her dance company is a member of the GNBC, one of Western New York’s oldest ballet companies. It is a non-profit organization devoted to promoting ballet and providing Western New York and Niagara area audiences and dance students with opportunities to experience classical ballet at its highest level. There are some 80 performers of various ages from Western New York and the Niagara Region per-
forming in the production. This is the second year Stukel has performed in the annual Christmas-themed ballet. Last year, she performed in the classic Christmas story as a mouse, jester and a cousin in the first act. She did a father-daughter dance also. As Clara in this year’s performance, Stukel said one of her favourite moments is a descriptive mime scene. She says because there are no verbal parts she has to describe through mime the battle scene between the soldiers, gingerbread men, Mouse King and the mice for the audience. There are other roles in the performance that she has discovered and will be aspiring to achieve including the Waltz of the Flowers and the Sugar Plum Fairy, which is a lead role performed by a professional dancer. Stukel was inspired to audition for the role by GNBC Artistic Director Beverley Feder. Productions such as The Nutcracker aren’t new to Stukel as she was a hunter
in Peter and the Wolf and performs in numerous ballet competitions throughout the year. Stukel not only performs competitive ballet, but also jazz, tap, hip-hop, acro, contemporary and lyrical. She says her favourite form of dance is ballet, which she has been performing since she was two years old, followed by jazz. Practicing for her role as Clara, Stukel travels to Niagara Falls, New York every Saturday and Sunday, learning the role step-by-step. She says she was “really excited” the first time she was able to practice with the nutcracker doll. She enjoys the movement and techniques of ballet and is persistent on refining her form. Over the course of her dedication to dance, Stukel says she has “done well.” Stukel’s mother, Karen, says, “Her room keeps filing up with trophies and medals.” She says she wants to carry on with her dance and is looking for a local high
Brooklyn Stukel. school that offers it in the curriculum and possibly carry though in post-secondary education. Not only does Stukel perform, but also assists, helping instruct younger dancers, something she has done for the past five years. She says this helps her maintain proper ballet form and technique, which her mother noted “has significantly improved her skills, especially over the past year.” “Even though Brooklyn still has a little while to figure out what she wants to do [with her dancing], it’s nice that she has been given these opportunities through the dance school,” said Kar-
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en. “She has brought up her ballet many levels by perseverance and taking the exams. I am very proud of her for wanting to learn and succeed.” Stukel has always looked up to her dance teachers. “If the teacher doesn’t believe in the student, [the student] can’t go anywhere,” said Karen. “Thankfully, the teachers put so much effort into their students, which has helped Brooklyn aspire and to believe she can be more.” The theatre where Stukel will be performing can accommodate an audience of some 300. She admits she is shy, but once on stage, is
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SCORING AGAINST HUNGER The Pelham Panther Bantam BB team, along with coach Marc Gaudet and parent volunteers, pitched in to help collect donations on Saturday for the Pelham Cares Food Drive. SHARON DEKORTE PHOTO ADOPT-A-FAMILY Students at St. Alexander Catholic School participated in their annual holiday fundraising campaign for the school’s Adopt-a-Family program. Each year, students support for three to five families by making and selling Christmas cards. This year's effort raised $3,000. Giant Tiger donated $500 in gift cards. With the funds, parent volunteers purchased gift items according to the needs of the family. St. Alexander has participated in the program for the past 10 years. Back row, Karen Woernert, Catholic School Council Chair, Giant Tiger Store Manager Joe Palmerino, and St. Alexander School Principal Anne Marie Crocco. Front row, Grade 4 students Teigen Watt and Ryan McWilliams accept the $500 gift card donation on behalf of the school. VOICE PHOTO
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continued from Page 1 pi election night. He's seriously concerned." This ride seemed like a good idea two months ago, even a bit daring, as it would take us into the backwaters of Mississippi during the American mid-term election. Drive to Nashville, then ride the Natchez Trace 800 kilometres south through Tennessee,
Alabama, and Mississippi, to the Mississippi River at Natchez. Just to make the tour worthwhile, we'd ride 500 kilometres back north along the river through the Delta, before returning to Nashville. We'd escape Niagara during a dull, grey November, ride through the mountains of Tennessee and the hills of Alabama and northern Mississippi, headed for the warm flatlands of the Delta. Would the three days riding
along the Mississippi River confirm liberal media-inspired opinions of the state, exposing a mix of history and poverty simmering like fried fast-food? Or would we meet generous everyday Americans of all colours, who talk with an accent that's really hard to understand? Turned out the whole trip just pissed me off, witnessing how special interests have sucked life and opportunity from so many
American people for profit, and how those people don't stand a chance. Never before have I ridden along such beautiful roads, among trees blazing with spectacular fall colours, past streams trickling over rocks and tiny waterfalls, and gotten angrier with each pedal stroke. Canada, and Canadians, are far from perfect. We've got our Leamingtons and Oshawas suffering from plant closures, our Aborigi-
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continued from Page 12 Our ride, as is this piece, was full of stereotypes and clichés. We were cycling rock stars—partly because we were dressed in neon and spandex, self-supported on flashy bicycles with very little luggage, in a land of pickup trucks and jeans; partly because for most folks we met, we might as well have been Martians as Canadians; but most likely because we were tourists and had money to spend. Everyone we met was courteous, interested in our journey, and helpful with tips and stories. Drivers generally shared the road, and, contrary to Niall's warning, all but a few of the hundreds of insanely barking dogs we encountered were chained. Yet each encounter was fatiguing, and left me wanting to ask: Don't you see where you’re headed? I felt like I was watching a wellto-do best friend getting hooked on opioids or cocaine. I would be concerned and try to help, but ultimately would be powerless to intervene. Growing up in Niagara Falls, going to "the States" was always second nature. You could
drink there at 18 when it was 21 in Ontario, Club Lakewood in Youngstown was better than the Cove in Long Beach, and they gave trophies back to eighth place at the motorcycle races. As our family grew, and Toronto traffic increased, all our vacations were taken in United States, and we skied Holiday Valley or KB rather than Collingwood. There was no more staunch defender of the Americans than I. Not of their government, businesses or military aggression, but of the average folks that we interacted with on a very regular basis. The Natchez Trace is a historic two-lane road within a linear National Park 200 metres wide and 700 kilometres long. It has no commercial signs, no commercial traffic, and no commercial or residential buildings of any kind. The speed limit is just 50 miles per hour, and bicycles can legally take the whole lane to dawdle along. It is primarily forested on both sides, and one rides in a bubble that totally shields its users from the reality beyond. We rode off the Trace to nearby Bywy, a community of a dozen dwellings and a one-stop emporium of gas station-snack bar-meat shop-grocery-appliance repair shop. There was no real food to
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continued from Page 14 You've seen the movie a dozen times, and I've stopped in these sad places on my bicycle travels more often than I can remember. But that was before I read Dark Money by Jane Mayer, the chronicle of how rightwing billionaires and superpacs have influenced American politicians, universities and the media. Or The Hillbilly Elegy, The Smear, Educated, and the Merchants of Debt, and understood how life for so many people in the U.S., especially in the South, isn't a movie, and how much the odds are stacked against them. Each stop or town played to a different page of the American Dream. Caution is needed here, because a short
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