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If you’re looking for insight into the current climate change debate, travel back — way back — to around 252 million years ago, when life on Earth nearly came to a screeching halt. Brock University researchers Uwe Brand and Nigel Blamey have recently shown that a huge release of methane into the Earth’s atmosphere near
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into their lives in Pelham to raise their family. In 2009, Taylor took on his present role of Executive Director at Youth Resources Niagara. In this role, Taylor says he gets up in the morning and heads into work—the David S. Horne youth home, on Hwy 20 in Fonthill— not knowing exactly what to expect of the day ahead. While admittedly this can be a challenge for him, he says it is also one of the things he enjoys most about his career helping youth. “It’s one of those jobs that’s very dynamic and always changing,” Taylor says. “It’s never the same thing twice so you don’t become subject to the boredom of a routine. I certainly enjoy working with kids. The vibrancy of that has kept me going and it will be 30 years this year.”
N 1965 I was a 13-yearold paperboy delivering The Welland Evening Tribune. I’d inherited the route from my older brother that spring. He’d had it for four years. When he was 17 and moving onto a real job he handed the route over to me. My parents said it would be a good experience. Teach me about money and responsibility. I accepted it begrudgingly. It was 40 households in the Welland city core. A prime route. After school I’d ride my bike to East Main Street to pick up my allotment. When the presses were down we had to wait, sometimes until after dark. The boys with corner pickups were worse off because they waited in the elements. Pressroom pickups were inside the shipping dock. Lighted, warm and dry. We were entrepreneurs. A weekly subscription to the Tribune was 55 cents; we kept 10. Every day we’d drop the paper on doorsteps and move on, except Thursdays, which was payday at the Atlas, the Tubes, Union Carbide
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For most his working life, Mike Taylor has been working to improve the lives of children and youth in the communities where he has lived. Though it has become his passion and his vocation, it was not the original career path he chose to follow. In fact, it was a chance encounter with an advertisement on a passing subway car he noticed while working as a sales representative for a company in Toronto in the early 1980s that changed his life’s direction. Taylor credits the flashy ad for the organization Operation Springboard as the first spark igniting his interest in working with youth. After volunteering with the group, he said his appreciation for helping others began to grow.
After 30 years in the field, Executive Director of youth program still energized “I started volunteering with them and then pretty soon after I found myself working in a halfway house in front of the jail in Toronto. It turned into a part-time job, then I was a full-time staff, and then next thing I knew I was a manager supervising programs for Operation Springboard all over Ontario.” Continuing his work with Operation Springboard, Taylor moved to Niagara in 1990. In 2002 he and his wife Nancie had their son Elijah and settled
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Back in circulation... Clearly we've gone a little Bonkers for Books this week with the re-opening of Fenwick's Maple Acre Library. Sure, there are some loose ends left to tie up, including properly finishing a promised portico on the original building, but overall the new facility is mighty impressive. (And should be, I can hear you say, for its $1 million price tag.) The staff are understandably giddy with delight, and we predict you will be too. Stop in for that free hot drink during February. Well-earned...Fonthill student and all-aroundgreat-kid Danielle Pine well deserves recognition for her Ontario Junior Citizen Award nomination. We'll be hearing more about this young woman, count on it. Welland's most wanted... Nick Saltarelli's Column Six piece this week is one for the ages. First we're taken back to our budding-criminal's 1965 nefarious doings, then returned to present day with a question. If you or
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A letter from the Town will go out this week to residents in the area of Cherry Ridge Park, says Mayor David Augustyn, concerning the District School Board of Niagara’s planned renovations. More space is needed for a soccer field, and Town Council agreed last June to work together with them, says Augustyn, on the project. The Mayor says that the letter will also be included on next week’s Council meeting agenda.
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On Friday, January 27, members of the Niagara Regional Police Service conducted R.I.D.E. checks within the city of Welland and St. Catharines. Police say they stopped some 400 vehicles throughout the night. Of those drivers stopped, eight were required to provide breath samples for suspected alcohol consumption. One driver provided a sample which registered a "Fail" on an approved screening device and was subsequently arrested for impaired driving. Two additional drivers were issued a 3-day drivers licence suspension. In addition to the alcohol-related charges and
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On Thursday January 26, the Niagara Regional Police Service's Opioid Investigations Unit, with the assistance of the Guns and Gangs Unit, concluded a fentanyl trafficking investigation in the city of Niagara Falls. As a result of the investigation, police say they charged Gaetano Mallia, 57, and Christopher Ridgeway, 32, with being in possession of a Schedule I substance (fentanyl) for the purpose of trafficking. Police seized currency, a debt list, cell phone, and fentanyl patches with a street value of $8,575. Police say that they would like to thank “concerned cit-
On Wednesday January 25, the Niagara Regional Police Service received information from another police service with regard to a vulnerable female who may have been transported to the Niagara Region, against her will, to work in the sex trade. Police say that members of the Special Investigative Services Morality Unit commenced a human trafficking investigation, with the primary goal to locate the female and check on her welfare. The Morality Unit conducted an undercover operation and made arrangements to meet with the female. At about 11:40 PM the female was located inside a motor vehicle, with two males, in the area of Fallsview Boulevard, Niagara Falls. During the investigation one of the males identified himself with a false name and date of birth. Police say that they were quickly able to determine the male's true identity and he was found to be in violation of a previous interim judicial release. See IN THE NEWS Page 14
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Mayor to Council: Email to DSBN was no apology BY VOICE STAFF Shortly after our January 25 issue hit the streets last week, Pelham Mayor David Augustyn sent an email to Pelham Town Council to address the revelation that he had sent what some observers considered an apologetic email to DSBN Trustee Dale Robinson, following Council’s June 2016 decision to support advocates who wished to retain the E. W. Farr school name. The Mayor's email to Council, a copy of which was provided to the Voice, is largely an explanation for what last week the Mayor maintained publicly, in an extended online explanation, needed no explanation. He also takes the Voice to task for its coverage of the issue, asserting that because he was being "attacked," his opinion should have been solicited to rebut the impression that his email
to the DSBN struck some as apologetic. In answer to a Voice request for follow-up comment, the Mayor continued to chide the paper early this week. “I wanted to inform Council about the true nature of my email to Ms. Robinson and provide them with a copy,” the Mayor wrote in an email on Monday. “Again, I found it necessary to share this with Council because of the misleading story you printed in your paper last week.” Following publication of the article, the Mayor first posted, then apparently removed, then re-posted online the full text of his email to DSBN Trustee Robinson. When informed of the Mayor's online explanation last week, the Voice linked to it from our website, and also posted the full text of the disputed email. In his Monday email to the Voice, the Mayor acknowledged that there was a moment last
I found it necessary to share this with Council because of the misleading story you printed in your paper last week autumn when the DSBN was having second thoughts about renaming the school. “I understand that DSBN Trustees did debate reconsidering the matter at their September meeting,” he wrote. In a letter to the editor in this week’s issue, E.W. Farr proponent Kevin Ker asserts
that in a September meeting with DSBN Superintendent Wes Hahn, Hahn told Ker that Mayor Augustyn “was not in support” of Town Council’s letter to the DSBN, a statement which confused Ker at the time, given Council’s unanimous vote to send it. Only in retrospect, writes Ker, after the Mayor’s email to Trustee Robinson came to light, did the Superintendent’s impression start to make sense. It remains an open question as to what extent the Mayor’s email to Robinson may or may not have played a role in the DSBN’s eventual decision not to revisit the E. W. Farr naming issue. At press time, the Mayor had not responded to repeated requests to clarify his personal stance on whether the E.W. Farr name should have been changed initially, or whether he now supports, or opposes, its restitution.
Methane an under-appreciated element in climate change analysis The onus is on scientists to persuade others who don't believe that, yes, climate change is happening, yes, we are the culprit, and yes, we can do something about it.
continued from Page 1 the end of the Permian geological period was responsible for what’s been described as the “greatest natural catastrophe that’s been experienced by life on Earth.” The findings are relevant today, as researchers around the world continue to explore contemporary climate change. While scientists focus largely on the role of carbon dioxide (CO2) in bringing about climate change, Brand says, “Every once in a while, someone mentions methane.” “There’s so much more CO2 than there is methane, but people forget that when you add the two together, that could become a big problem,” he says. “And that’s what we’ve seen in the end Permian. We need to look more at how methane impacts climate change.” Brand and Blamey led a team of researchers from Canada, Italy, Germany and the U.S. who collected fossilized samples of brachiopods, or shellfish, from that time period. Their paper was published last month in the journal Palaeoworld. Using a specialized machine that Blamey developed and used in earlier research, the team tapped into microscopic bubbles in the fossil samples and measured methane levels representing the atmosphere from the end of the Permian era. The team found levels as high as 245 parts per million volume (ppmv) of methane in the ancient atmosphere. Methane levels on Earth today measure around 1.77 ppmv. The scientists estimate the Earth’s temperature during the era they studied may have been
twice as hot as it is today, causing unimaginable havoc. “The end Permian is really the mother of all extinctions, yet the average person doesn’t seem to realize that was the big one,” says Blamey. “The event that gets the most attention is usually the end Cretaceous, where an asteroid struck the planet and wiped out the dinosaurs.” What triggered the near-extinction event was the eruption of flood basalts, coating a large stretch of land with lava and comprising the Siberian Traps in Siberia. Scientists estimate that a tremendous amount of greenhouse gasses, carbon dioxide in particular, caused a dramatic warming of the Earth’s atmosphere. As temperatures rose, the permafrost melted, resulting in a massive spike of methane that had been trapped in the frozen ground. As a result, about 90 percent of marine species, 70 perent of land vertebrate species, 30 percent of insect types and an undetermined number of plants on land and in water were wiped out, the recent research paper says. “It’s not just CO2 that’s going to be catastrophic; it has to go in combination with the methane,” Brand says. That combination must be more carefully studied in contemporary climate change discussions, he adds. Brand says life on Earth is “heading towards an extinction if we don’t do anything, because the proof is in the end Permian, where life almost came to an end.” The question that’s yet to be answered is how fast this is occurring, he says.
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“Based on our end Permian calculations, the CO2 emissions then were four times what we currently have, but that does not mean we should just continue emitting CO2.” Brand realizes that alarmist language could discourage people from taking action if they think the Earth is doomed, and could further polarize people into camps that accept or deny climate change. “The onus is on scientists to persuade others who don’t believe that, yes, climate change is happening, yes, we are the culprit, and yes, we can do something about it. We can fix the problem.” What happened so long ago may motivate people into taking action, Blamey says. “If you look at the end Permian, we have an idea of how much CO2 there was,” he says. “If CO2 got that high today, and that’s what happened back then, we could end up with another possible catastrophic event. It’s a warning.”
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COMMENTARY / OP-ED Larry Coté Titans of Ego
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T IS GENERALLY ACCEPTED that effective leadership requires those who assume such positions to have a healthy ego. If that axiom be true then both Canada and the United States are in really good hands — or might we say heads. A healthy ego is not per se a bad thing, whether that be the assessment of the neighbour next door, a manager in business, an academic, or the head of a political party. However, it is also generally expected that the quotient of ego is a somewhere midway between an over inflated one and one that is underwhelmed by self-doubt. Among the attributes ascribed to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a healthy self-image is not the least of those from his wellstocked quiver. It appears that Justin learned well from his father, Pierre, who raised the art of projecting self-confidence to the level of a near-science. The senior Trudeau’s instantly famous response to a reporter’s 1970 challenge over the War Measures Act, “Just watch me,” was not merely a statement but a clear indicator of his self-assuredness. Some in the news media have labeled the young Justin as having the deportment of a rock star. His penchant for regularly posing for selfies serves to enhance that depiction. His wife, Sophie, has also achieved much admiration in her own right and adds considerably to Justin’s image. Together, they project a confident grace and ease with their respective and mutual roles. The polls indicate that a majority of Canadians are equally at ease and comfortable with that proposition. To the south of our border there is a new
leader with an ego pundits claim is bigger than — well what comparative adequately depicts– bigger than The Great Wall? President Donald John Trump, among many attributes, demonstrates an ego that exceeds any heretofore measure of self-confidence. Unquestionably, this elephantine ego has served him well in his drive to accumulate astounding wealth. Throughout his campaign for the presidency he spared no superlative in unabashedly describing his self-proclaimed supremacy in a wide range of endeavors. Yet he enters the Office of the President with the lowest approval rating of any winner in recent memory. The role of Melania Trump, the President’s wife, remains somewhat of a mystery. The new First Lady is a statuesque beauty that some fear may become an object rather than an asset to the presidency. One of her first forays for the Trump campaign was a colossal disaster. Unfathomably, major parts of her speech were plagiarized from a speech delivered by Michele Obama. For certain she will have a difficult task measuring up to the legacy of the immediately previous First Lady. Juxtaposed with Prime Minister Trudeau, the media, some pollsters and much of the electorate do not yet appear supportive nor comfortable with President Trump’s leadership. Notably, he lost the popular vote yet due to the vagaries of the US electoral system he won the presidency. So now we get to observe with some frivolity these two titans of self confidence. Who will earn and maintain the higher degree of acclaim in the minds of their respective constituents? Stay tuned.
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Open letter to Mayor David Augustyn Mr. Mayor, you and Council were elected to represent the public and to consider the well-being and interests of the municipality. You were elected by your constituents to represent THEIR views when dealing with issues that come before Council. Yet you chose to undermine the decision made by Council requesting that the DSBN reconsider the name change of E.W. Farr Memorial School.
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Online, you try to justify your letter to Dale Robinson [DSBN to change renaming policy, January 25], but, Mr. Augustyn, if your letter was supportive of Council's decision why did you not send a copy of that letter to all Councillors? Why did we all find out about this letter only when the good citizens of Fenwick paid for a Freedom of Information request? You have betrayed the residents of this town by not supporting the hundreds and hundreds of people who do not want E.W. Farr Memorial to be removed from the school name. We can only guess at how many other “back room” letters have been sent out regarding other Council decisions and what impact those letters may be having on the direction of affairs in this town.
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Mr. Augustyn, in my opinion, you need to resign. You have shown that you fail to represent the views of your constituents and that you believe that your views outweigh those voted on by Town Council. Last time I looked, we live in a democracy not a dictatorship. L. Brown Pelham
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Mayor's email sends mixed messages at best I offer a point of clarification with respect to last week’s article regarding the actions of Mayor Augustyn connected to our ongoing efforts to have the District School Board of Niagara restore the name, E.W. Farr Memorial Public School [DSBN to change renaming policy, January 25]. We know from the discovered email presented in that article that the Mayor’s contact had been with Pelham/Thorold trustee Dale Robinson, and that she in turn forwarded the Mayor’s email message to DSBN Su-
perintendent Wes Hahn. On September 1 2016, myself, Craig Stirtzinger, and Jina Ker had a meeting at the DSBN offices with Superintendent Hahn (Chair of the Naming Committee), and his secretary, to discuss numerous items with respect to the name change for E. W. Farr Memorial Public School. At this meeting we brought up the official letter from the Town of Pelham dated June 21 2016, and its request for the DSBN to reconsider its name selection. To quote Mr. Hahn’s response, “The Mayor was
not in support of sending the letter.” This was an odd statement, and we corrected the Superintendent by reminding him of governance policy: Once Town Council has voted on an item then all of Council must support it after it has passed. In hindsight, could it be that Superintendent Hahn at the DSBN got the idea that the Mayor was not supportive of Council’s decision to send the DSBN its letter, based on the language and tone that the Mayor used in his email to Trustee Dale
On coal, trust facts, not lobbyists Recently the right-wing Fraser Institute released a report, authored by a wellknown climate change denier, arguing against reducing greenhouse gas emissions. According to the report authors, closing Ontario’s coal plants had a negligible effect on emissions in our province. Given the source, this conclusion should come as no surprise. But if you have ever seen black smoke rising out of coal smoke stacks, you may be inclined to be skeptical. And your suspicion would be justified. The overwhelming consensus among health and climate experts is that putting an end to coal was good for our health, and for our environment. Organizations as varied as the Ontario Medical Association, the Asthma Society of Canada, the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario, the
Registered Nurses Association of Ontario, Ontario Lung Association, International Institute for Sustainable Development, Ontario Public Health Association, Ontario Clean Air Alliance, the David Suzuki Foundation, and many more have endorsed this conclusion. Here are the facts. From 2005 to 2015, greenhouse gas emissions in the electricity sector have fallen by 80 per cent. Emissions of harmful particulate matter — nitrogen oxides and sulphur oxides — have fallen by 86 per cent and 94 per cent respectively. And the results on our everyday lives are just as striking. In 2005, Ontario had 53 smog days. These are days where we had to warn our citizens to be careful about just going outside to breathe. In 2015, the number of smog days was zero. From an average of one smog day a week, to zero.
Once Town Council has voted on an item, then all of Council must support it Robinson? This email came to light only through a Freedom of Information request. This entire school renaming has become a very murky situation. There is widespread and growing town support for rescinding the new name. As more and more information from
Kudos to Alyssa Girotti Studies today show that premature deaths and hospitalizations from poor air quality have dropped dramatically, reflecting the impact of our cleaner air. These are not abstract statistics. They are about
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Even after three decades, Mike Taylor enjoys the challenges of the job continued from Page 1 Youth Resources Niagara facilitates two residential programs out of their Fonthill location — the David S. Horne program and the Wagner Home program. The David S. Horne program serves male youth who have been charged or convicted of criminal offences under the Youth Criminal Justice Act. The Wagner Home program serves male youth who have been placed in residential care by Family and Children Services (FACS) in Niagara. Overseeing both programs, Taylor says he is privileged to have the chance to get to know the young men who reside there. “They are a great bunch of kids and we run the place like a home,” Taylor says. “We make it a home-like environment where there is a structure that they don’t typically have in their own circumstances.” Taylor says the programs are part of two innovative pilot projects taking place in the province. The difference between these two projects is that the Fonthill programs focus on education and the pilot project underway in Oshawa focuses on employment. Previously, he says the court system would determine where the youth would serve out their sentence and when they were ready to leave. The new program allows for a more customized approach, he says.
“The innovative part is that now kids come in on probation and we are able to tailor and figure out what their case management needs are and what their structures are going to be,” explains Taylor. “Now their resources are dictated first and foremost by their willingness to continue and stay, because it’s a voluntary program, and more importantly guided by when they are ready to move on to the next best step available to them.” Currently, 50 percent of the youth who are participating in the pilot project in Fonthill are from Niagara, however the program is open to youth from as far away as Brantford. Taylor says the youth who are accepted into the residence need to display a willingness to be there and participate in the educational component of the program. “We are really heavy on the idea that we want this to be completely driven by the decision of the kids,” he says. “We don’t want this to be a coerced discussion with the probation officer who says they must stay here. We want to stay away from the old detention-based mentality. They need to know that it is entirely their decision to be here.” There are 16 placements between the two homes. The young men at the Wagner Home are integrated into the local school system, while the youth at the David
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Mike Taylor, in the meeting room of the David S. Horne Home, Fonthill. who live in the community. The success of their programs is dependent upon the youth’s desire to participate, says Taylor. The interactions between the staff and the youth serve to make their programs even more effective for the residents themselves, and for future participants. It is empowering for the youth, he says, when they realize they are helping others by engaging with staff and participating in the program. “It satisfies us to see that we are helping kids,” says Taylor. “It’s rewarding to us when we see these young men ac-
complishing milestones. It doesn’t matter about the arguments you may have with them if they come in late for curfew, or other things like that you expect with teenagers, when you look at the broader perspective and see what they are accomplishing it makes you feel good about the work you do.” Taylor’s work with youth extends beyond his professional life. He is an active member of the Church of the Holy Trinity and he is involved with the Niagara Region’s Homelessness committee. As a Rotarian, he is also
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Don't let rural Canada be Trumped Over the decades since the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and later, NAFTA, was signed, Canadian agriculture has undergone a significant shift. There was once a multitude of diverse local and regional economic drivers, but now we have a “one size fits all” export-driven, low-priced commodity production model. Farm capital needs have sky-rocketed as illustrated by the massive $90 billion farm debt. Off-farm investors control more and more of Canada’s farmland. Production — per farm, per acre and per worker — continues to go up. And that production became increasingly export and transport dependent as NAFTA-driven deregulation accelerated consolidation and transnational ownership of handling and processing facilities. Farmer numbers are ominously declining, yet governments, and most farm commodity groups and agri-business corporations remain euphoric over each signed trade agreement and growing exports. What is missing in this picture is a few very sobering facts. The once mighty farmer cooperative handlers and processors have been dismantled and absorbed into a handful of transnational corporations. 80% of Vancouver’s terminal capacity used to be owned and op-
erated by prairie Pools. Now the private trade owns it all. With the Canadian Wheat Board gone there is no real economic participation by farmers beyond the farm gate, nor any referee to discipline the railroads. Prairie farmers, who once ran the majority of Canada’s grain industry, no longer have a direct connection to the customers and end-users that pay the real market value for their product. Apart from supply management sectors and a brief spike after 2009, overall inflation-adjusted net farm income is dismal. Farm communities across Canada are suffering from chronic economic decline. This was camouflaged by off-farm manufacturing jobs in Central Canada and resource sector jobs in Western Canada, but those jobs are no longer easy to get. The decline of Canada’s rural economy is not often discussed, but four decades of loss — of elevators, rail service, machinery dealerships, manufacturing, processing, input suppliers, essential community services and retailing outlets — has steadily diminished the quality of rural life. President Trump vilifies Mexico for the loss of US jobs, but fails to mention the American companies that flocked to the Mexican maquiladoras to take advantage of low labour and environ-
Library still needs some work I have to agree with Marianne Stewart [Maple Acre Library not read for prime time, Letters, Jan. 25] — the Fenwick Library was not ready to open. It is not a warm inviting place and the interior leaves a lot to be desired. I realize things are in their early stages of setting up but the selection of books leaves a lot to be wished for. Hopefully more books will be brought in to fill them empty shelves! The staff are friendly and helpful. Marilyn Bowslaugh Pelham
mental standards. NAFTA allowed the US to flood Mexico with its heavily subsidized corn, pork, chicken, beef and dairy, destroying the livelihoods of millions of Mexican farmers. President Trump will likely find reasons to reject Canadian product coming across the border, so it is very important that Prime Minister Trudeau is prepared for the worst and applies the utmost diplomacy in dealing with the Trump administration. It is important to understand that NAFTA was never the golden egg its promoters pretended it to be, and neither are the other free trade agreements signed since. NAFTA has caused a lot of damage to the Canadian rural economy and President Trump is likely going to add more trouble. The last thing rural Canada needs is more give-aways to the US in an attempt to persuade the Americans not to back out of the deal. It is time for our Prime Minister to stop trading away the livelihoods of Canadian farmers and to start repairing the damage these deals have done so our domestic and international markets can function in a way that will make farming profitable again. Jan Slomp President National Farmers Union
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COAL continued from Page 5 our families and friends. Last fall I had the opportunity to meet a young boy named Matthew, who lives with severe asthma. Three years ago, Matthew couldn’t go outside to play because the air quality posed too serious a risk. Since the elimination of the coal plants, these fears have become a thing of the past. Our province should be proud of what we’ve done for Matthew, and hundreds of thousands more like him. It’s our collective effort, and our collective commitment to action, which has made this dramatic change in quality of life available to us all. Glenn Thibeault Ontario Minister of Energy
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IBRARY SERVICES RETURNED to downtown Fenwick with the reopening of the Maple Acre library on Tuesday, Jan. 24. The renovation of the old library and the construction of the new facility began in June 2016. With a budget of $1 million, expectations for the library from the community have been high. Already it is living up to its potential, said Chief Executive Officer of Pelham Public library, Kirk Weaver. “The staff are very happy with it and the patrons love it,” he said. “So far the feedback we have received has been overwhelmingly positive.” Enthusiastic about the new space,
Weaver said the library now brings an expanded range of opportunities to library users. Some than sevenand-a-half times larger than the size of the original Maple Acre branch, the new space features four computers and wi-fi service throughout the entire building. Even the new lounge chairs contain chargers, he said, so patrons can connect their laptops, cellphones and other electronic devices to the library system. There is also a self-check-out station to make services more convenient for borrowers. One of the most exciting aspects of the new library for Weaver is the flexibility of the new space. “Almost all the new furnishings
are on wheels, so we can move things around if we need to, or even if we just want to change up how it looks,” he said. “Many of the bookshelves are on wheels as well, so this allows for all kinds of different activities to take place.” Adjacent to the accessible entrance near the main parking lot at the rear of the building is a public meeting room that can be rented out to community groups and individuals for public functions after regular hours. The Smart-TV affixed to the wall allows people using the space to connect their devices, expanding See RENOVATED Page 14
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THAT NEW BUILDING SMELL Just a few days into its new reincarnation, the Maple Acre library branch is pulling in the patrons. Top right, Development Coordinator Melanie Taylor-Ridgeway and Library CEO Kirk Weaver are happy campers as they show visitors around the joint. Center, Ken Robertson's metal maple branch sculpture, each leaf representing a donation. Far left, comfortable reading chairs include power stations. Above, Athen Stirtzinger, 2, gets ready to launch while his brother Keenan, 3, checks out the magnetic table. Mom Mercedes loves the kids' space.
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Via Washington, D.C. march participation, local women resist Trump's "yuge" step backward
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day, the Zanuttos said the gathering could not have been more peaceful. Jade said it was truly amazing to be a part of such a massive movement of people working towards the same goal. The experience showed her how people with the similar views can come together to use their voice to bring about the change they want to see in the world. “It was very interesting to see all of the different movements that came together for this protest,” Jade said. “We obviously all had a lot in common but there were all sorts of people looking at the same issue from different angles.” In the first 24-hours of his presidency, Janet said there was already plenty of evidence of the new direction Trump was taking the planet. For example, he eliminated all information on the White House website pertaining to civil rights, LGBT rights and Climate Change. Trump has also banned American scientists from sharing their research with the American public and with journalists. “We had a taste of this with Harper when he muzzled our scientists,” said Janet. Jade believes Trump’s brazen disregard for the common good is going to create repercussions that will be felt throughout the
U.S., Canada and around the world. The youth need to start getting involved in shaping the world they want to live in for the future, she said, because ultimately it is the reality her generation is going to inherit. “We are going to be the next ones running the country and the world, so anything that happens now we are going to have to stop it now or fix it in the future,” Jade said. “He is approving pipelines that are going to pollute everyone’s water and he is taking away health care for millions of Americans.” The Zanuttos are concerned with how the Government of Canada is going to react to what they see as Trump’s huge step backwards. Jade said so far she is disappointed with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s lacklustre performance when it comes to honouring treaties and protecting Indigenous rights. “The Prime Minister needs to do the things he promised he would do when he was trying to get elected,” said Jade. “When he was elected, he was telling us he was going to do all of these great things, and now that he actually is our Prime Minister he hasn’t really done much.”
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Kinettes offer-up some sweet pampering BY VOICE STAFF For the third year in a row the Fonthill and District Kinettes Club is hosting its Pamper Me Sweet Valentine’s Day fundraiser. This year’s event will feature 36 vendors selling jewelry, candles, tea, essential oils, cosmetics and other handmade items. There will also be spa services available throughout the day. Some of the services include manicures, pedicures, Indian head massage, waxing and reflexology. The Kinettes’ Vice-President Betty Twomey said she has been working alongside Pamper Me Sweet committee co-chair Lola Bronn to make the event an even greater success in 2017. The community has been incredibly supportive as have her fellow club members. “The event was originally Lola’s idea and we were all on board with the idea right away,” said Twomey. “We have 15 members and most of them will be there to help out. We couldn’t run it with just the two of us so the support of the club and the whole community is very important.” Designed as an opportunity for women to treat themselves, or be treated by their significant other to a day at the spa, the early Valentine’s Day event is also a chance for community members to support the work of the Kinettes, said Twomey.
“There are so many great charities and causes in this community that need help so we try to support those who need our help the most,” she said.
There are so many great charities and causes in this community that need help “It’s not just about raising money, it’s also about raising awareness. This year we also want to use the event as an opportunity to raise awareness of the effects of drinking and driving.” Admission to the event is $2, or a non-perishable food item for the Hope Centre. Twomey said the funds raised from the event will also go to help sustain Club initiatives throughout the community. The Kinettes have been reaching out to local businesses for gifts and items for their penny sale as well. Proceeds generated from the penny sale this year See PAMPER ME Page 12
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PAMPER ME continued from Page 11 will go to help with medical costs for Faith Flagg — the E.L. Crossley student who was severely injured in a hit and run incident on Canboro Road in the Spring of 2015. The event will be held at Fonthill United Church at 42 Churchill Street in Fonthill on Saturday, Feb. 11 from 10AM until 4PM. Guests can make an appointment with the Kinettes for their 10- or 15-minute spa treatment at the event at a cost of $10. This year’s Pamper Me Sweet will also
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Places of Worship and Events Bethany Christian Reformed Church 1040 Balfour St., Fenwick
Glad Tidings Church of God 1 Pancake Lane, Fonthill Holy Trinity Anglican Church 1557 Pelham Street, Fonthill
Concordia Lutheran Church 105 Welland Rd., Fonthill Fenwick Church of Christ 765 Welland Rd., Fenwick
Kirk on the Hill Presbyterian Church 1344 Haist St., Fonthill
Fenwick United Church 1050 Church St., Fenwick
Pelham Community Church 461 Canboro Rd., Fenwick
First Presbyterian Church 602 Metler Rd., Fenwick
Pelham Evangelical Friends Church 940 Haist St., Fonthill
Fonthill Baptist Church 1414 Pelham St., Fonthill
Ridgeville Bible Chapel 418 Canboro Rd., Ridgeville
Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses 1369 Rice Rd., Fonthill
St. Alexander’s Roman Catholic Church 50 Pelham Town Sq., Fonthill
Fonthill United Church 42 Church Hill, Fonthill
St. Ann’s Roman Catholic Church 834 Canboro Rd., Fenwick
Kirk Weaver gestures toward the kids' area. An accordian-style partition, stored in the cabinet at left, can be used to divide the space into two separate areas. BOB LOBLAW PHOTO
LIBRARY continued from previous page Merging the old with the new, the original Maple Acre library space has been transformed into a quiet study area. This 500square-foot section of the library provides guests with individual and group study tables and seating that allow them to charge their electronic devices. Acknowledging concerns expressed by a letter to the editor in last week’s edition of the Voice, Kirk Weaver said it will take time to work out some of the quirks. “If there are concerns we will make a note of them and follow up with the contractor,” he said. “We may notice some things that might need to change in our operations and others that should have been done by the contractor. I’m sure that if necessary the Town will work with the contractor to fulfill their obligations.” Helping to preserve the heritage of the library, the original stained-glass windows add an abundance of natural light to the study area. One of the original bookcases was also refin-
ished and donated to the library by the Robertson family. The Pelham Historical Society also plans to fill a display case with artifacts highlighting local history. The library has made space for the Historical Society to keep records, artifacts and books that were previously in storage at the Fonthill branch. Weaver said this section is accessible for the most part to the public for reference during operating hours, however some of the artifacts and documents can only be accessed upon appointment. Community members wishing to view the entire collection are advised to make an appointment with Mary Lamb of the Pelham Historical Society,
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COLUMN SIX continued from Page 1 and Welland Iron and Brass. On Thursdays we’d knock on the door with the customer’s punch card in hand and say, “Collect!” Most times they’d hand over 55 cents and I’d punch a hole in their card and one in mine. Simple way to keep track. Once in awhile they’d pay 60 cents and say, “Keep the change!” A good tip. Two nickels’d buy a comic book. A dime tip was exceptional. I had one big tipper on State Street who’d sometimes hand over three quarters and say, “Go buy yourself a drumstick at Albanese’s” at the corner on Plymouth Road. Mr. Albanese was a
tightwad. He’d cut the ends off those three-cent licorice cigars, roll them in red sprinkles then sell them three for a penny. Some subscribers didn’t like to pay. We all had a few. We would show up at their door on Thursdays and they'd say, “Catch you next week, kid.” Sometimes they’d give me a quarter and call it an "advance.” It could go on for weeks, and sometimes I got stiffed for good. Each week I’d remit $18— 45 cents for each subscriber. Most weeks I collected more. On a bad week I was shy, so I had to make it up out of my own pocket. Mostly it worked out, but not always. Two of my customers quietly moved away, debt unpaid. Not unique to the city
core. Happened all over. We paperboys talked amongst ourselves about it. Mostly we’d leave a note tucked into the paper as a reminder of amount due but it didn’t always result in getting paid. One lady—a single-mom—lived with her son, a year my junior, in a rundown apartment on a dead-end street by the canal, west of King, north of Lincoln. It was Albert or State or Regent. I don’t remember. She never tipped and always ran a tab. And usually grumpy—cigarette dangling from the side of her mouth, head tilted to one side and one eye squinting the smoke away. In August, after she’d run up a seven-week tab, she disappeared from the door and reappeared with a handful of coins. She claimed I’d forgotten to punch her card one of those weeks way back. She paid for six. I felt ripped off. It was a warm Thursday afternoon mid-October, real Indian summer. The single mom hadn’t paid up since that August rip-off and I’d already left two reminders. I knocked on her screen door to no answer. I knocked again, harder. After awhile I stiffened my spine, opened the door and walked brazenly into the kitchen, stopped and listened. Not a sound. I looked in the direction she’d gone to retrieve cash those months before and spied a jar on top of the fridge. I took it down and found inside a $5 bill and four quarters. Almost exactly what
I didn't know how to make it right without admitting guilt or exposing myself to capture she owed. I took the money, replaced the jar, dropped the paper on the stoop and said, “We’re even, lady. Have a nice life.” I was pretty satisfied with myself. I solicited a new customer on King St. and stopped delivering to the single mom. But the next Monday I was called into the foreman’s office at the warehouse and got chewed out for missing her deliveries. I protested that she was a bum customer. Hadn’t paid me in months. Your problem, not mine, he snarled. And it wasn’t the paperboy’s business to decide who did or didn’t get the Tribune. There were boys waiting in line for a plum route like mine. I resumed deliveries under a cloud. On Thursday, when I went to collect, if I told her that she didn’t have to pay, she’d figure out I was the one who stole the six dollars and call the police. So I said, “Collect!” She disappeared and I could hear the lid coming off the jar. She yelled a long curse at her son who
protested innocence and I made no effort to intervene. I realised those six dollars in the jar had been earmarked to pay her debt to me. The next week she paid what she didn’t actually owe, minus the two days I’d missed. She eyed me suspiciously. She suspected my guilt but could not be sure. I’d stolen from a poor single-mother and allowed an innocent to take the blame. It was the most despicable thing I’ve ever done. I didn’t know how to make it right without admitting guilt or exposing myself to capture. I was a cowardly thief. For a time I resolved to re-enter that kitchen and sneak the money back into the jar, but when the time came I froze. Couldn’t risk it. Send it in the mail? She’d recognise my handwriting on the envelope. Sneak out at night and leave it in the mailbox? Parents might notice, or I might get caught, and I could never be sure that somebody else wouldn’t find and keep the money. I was in huge trouble if anybody ever found out what I’d done. I rationalized—she wasn’t a nice lady anyway; she’d cheated me out of five weeks’ profit; she’d brought it on herself. I pushed it to the back of my mind. To the dismay of my older brother who’d built it up, I gave up the route in late November, with only a few weeks to go till the really fat tips you get at Christmas. Most people would dole out one or two dollars. Maybe
even $5! Twelve years passed and this foulest of deeds festered like a boil in my mind. I was now married with a child of my own, living and working 500 miles away. While visiting my parents in Welland I returned to the street with a $50 bill in my wallet, determined to ease my conscience and right a wrong. But the house was no longer there. There was an empty lot on a dead-end street. Whoever you are, and you’d be into your 80s by now, know that I have carried with me what I did to you these 50-plus years ago. $6 in October 1965 compounded with interest to present day equals $300. If you or your son read this, and can fill in the details that I have left off, contact the Voice. I have a cheque for you. And a request for forgiveness.
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