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Vol.20 No.38
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Wednesday, November 23, 2016
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No simple answers in Short Hills deer hunt Supporters and opponents of event greet hunters The VOICE
Over the next few weekends, Short Hills Provincial Park will be closed as Haudenosaunee harvesters exercise their treaty rights during their annual deer hunt. Beginning just before sunrise on Saturday, Nov. 19, hunters entered their traditional hunting grounds in the park where many of them stayed until after sunrise. Gathered at the gates of the Pelham Road access point were supporters of the Haudenosaunee harvesters as well as a small group of animal rights activists protesting the hunt. There were also a handful of police officers from the Niagara Regional Police and the Ontario Provincial Police on site along with park wardens keeping watch over the two groups. Standing in solidarity with the harvesters was Vice President of the Fort Erie Native Friendship Centre, Bruce Smith. While sharing teachings on the Two Row Wampum during a beading workshop sponsored by Educators for Justice, he explained the significance of the wisdom it provides. “The reason I hold this specific Wampum belt in such high regards is that it’s one of the first treaties developed between the First peoples and the newcomers,” Smith says.
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Column Six Growing up British
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nities will unite once more as the Crossley team faces off against Team Welland in the Emily Rose Memorial Hockey Game. Organized by friends of the Brettell family, along with E.L. Crossley and the South Niagara Rowing Club, the game will take
INCE MY BIRTH coincided exactly with the outbreak of World War II in September of 1939, my mum must have felt that childbirth was synonymous with calamity; I was Mum's 'war effort'. Home was a semi-detached two-storey house in Melrose Gardens, a cul-desac of thirty-two identical semis in Edgware, Middlesex. Dad was a printer by trade, and during the war years Mum worked at de Havilland's aircraft factory. My earliest recollections of those years was alternately being hoisted on Dad's shoulders to "watch the fireworks" (bombing) over London from our front door, or being hurriedly shoved into the pillow-lined steel cage Dad had rigged under the living-room table. Sometimes we joined the other families in the street-shelter 'til the 'all clear' sounded. Every child received a bottle of cod liver oil and another of orange juice (the former definitely to be taken before the latter). Powdered milk and eggs were the only kind we knew and I thought delicious. Dad managed to get me an apple on the black market for 2/6d. and I'm sure he paid more for a banana, which I didn't know had to be 'unzipped' and bit right into the bitter tasting yellow peel. But the least memorable delicacy of the war years was whale blubber, which went into the frying pan ten times bigger than it came out, and tasted like nothing meant for human consumption. As time passed and the war showed no signs of letting up, we kids were evacuated out of harms' way. I remember waiting with
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Protestors briefly stop hunters from leaving Short Hills Provincial Park after the hunt. “It was the First Peoples’ attempt to teach the responsibilities of being one with [mother earth]. It’s about living in peace, having friendship and having respect, so when you see the canoe flowing alongside the ship — those are the two pur-
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ple lines — they don’t interfere with each other, they travel down that path of life together and they show respect for each other.” See DEER HUNT Page 9
Homeschooled uni freshman becomes youngest MPP in history
19-year-old PC candidate Sam Oosterhoff became the youngest MPP in Ontario’s history by winning last week’s Niagara West-Glanbrook by-election. Replacing former leader of the Progressive Conservative party, Tim Hudak, the first-year Brock student initially defeated seasoned politicians Rick Dykstra and Tony Quirk to earn the PC nomination. In the by-election on Thursday, Nov. 17, Oosterhoff received 17,651 votes, giving him 54 percent of all votes cast. The New Democratic Party’s candidate Mike Thomas came in second, collecting 8,123 votes (24.85 per cent), followed by Liberal candidate Vicky Ringuette, with 4,997 votes (15.29 per cent). Green Party candidate Donna Cridland earned 892 votes (2.73 per cent). Voter
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turnout was 32%. Throughout the campaign all candidates identified the
God bless you all, God bless Ontario, and God bless Canada rising cost of hydro in Ontario as the main issue on voters’ minds. Improving the quality of local health care was also high on the list of priorities for voters in the riding. Now tasked with making good on his promises to reduce hydro rates, See OOSTERHOFF Page 10
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Hockey fundraiser memorializes Emily Teen's sudden passing in August inspired community to action BY NATE SMELLE
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Time and again, residents of Fonthill and Welland have come together to protect, love and support one an-
other in their hour of need. To honour the life, legacy, passion, and memory of E.L. Crossley student Emily Rose Brettell, who passed away unexpectedly on August 12, these two commu-