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Haist Street traffic-calming measure a little too effective

Part 2 of 2: Coronation to embarkation

BY VOICE STAFF 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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bourhood in the short-term.

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

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Petition-inspired changes coming to 2017 Summerfest

BY NATE SMELLE

The VOICE

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

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

sidered.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Chicane build error concerns residents

PUBLISHER’S CORNER

by Dave Burket

Ready for a swim?...The nominations in our Name the Lakes! contest came in fast and furious last week. Now's your chance to choose the winners. See the finalists on page 11. They are holey unique.

Senior wisdom...Our Survey of the Week asked you about the recently concluded by-election campaign.

Your answers are on page 3—along with a summary breakdown of how Pelham, and the entire riding, voted by polling station.

Short fuses on Short Hills...This past weekend the second of three planned indigenous deer hunts took place at Short Hills park, and the atmosphere was little improved. In response to the large volume of reader letters on our first hunt story, News Editor Nate Smelle and I planned two more follow-ups—one this week, and one in next week's issue. However, I think we may just call it a day. Each side has had its say. Unfortunately, particularly among some anti-hunt activists there is a nasty strain of unbending zealotry and absolutist with-us-oragainst-us dogmatism. We continue to welcome letters to the editor that responsibly discuss the issues raised.

About that 50-year thing...One claim being made about Short Hills, by the way, is that hunting has "never been allowed there in 50 years." This comes as a surprise to hunters (current and former) of the

paper's acquaintance, and not just because the park was only established in 1985. One fellow in particular—let's call him Jim— remembers hunting rabbit one winter day in the '80s.

He and a buddy were confronted by a passing group of cross-country skiers who insisted that they had no right to hunt in the park.

In fact, Jim had gotten just such permission from the Ministry of Natural Resources office, then located in the Timmsdale House on Hwy 20. He says that all uses of the park at that time were by permission only, including cross-country skiing. Moments later a park ranger checked Jim's papers and found them in order, and when told that there were non-permitted skiers ahead, said, "That's my next stop." Jim still uses the park regularly and reckons that horses and the deer themselves wreak more ecological havoc year-round than do six days of ATV use in a limited area. On an average hike through the park he says he'll see ten to twelve deer.

Too pricey for Pelham... can you be fired for earning too much? Marketing and Communications Officer Ana McKnight was terminated last week by the Town, apparently for no greater reason that she was being paid what the Town agreed to pay her. Neither the Mayor nor CAO responded to repeated Voice requests for comment.

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Novice Panthers 2-for-2

BY MARK IANNIZZI

Special to the VOICE

Recently the Kirkpatrick Stoneworks Novice Rep BB team took part in the Beaverloch Tournament in Thorold. They managed to win a tight game against the Petrolia Oilers 5-4 to start the tournament. The boys struggled in game two losing to Twin Centre 5 -4. Later that day, the team was highly motivated

by the return of defenseman Josh Dunn and put in a dominating performance, beating Belmont 5-1. The young panthers were able to carry that momentum into Sunday beating Thorold in the semi-final 7 - 1. The finals was a rematch against their first opponent of the tournament, the Petrolia Oilers. The Panthers controlled the game from the drop of the puck showing a lot of heart and playing great

team defense.

However, they had two goals called back in the first period and entered the second period tied 0 - 0. The Panthers were able to find the back of the net several times in the second and third finishing the championship game with a 5 - 0 victory. The entire coaching staff is proud of the boys and are looking forward to their next tournament in Fort Erie.

Scrooge a go at Crossley

BY NATE SMELLE

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After stumbling upon playwright Patrick Barlow’s version of Charles Dickens’ holiday classic, A Christmas

on vacation!

Carol, Jen Benson, head of the Dramatic Arts Department at E.L. Crossley realized she had found a gem of a play for her students.

Learning that the rights to the play were not available, Benson said she became disheartened but not defeated.

Deciding to make an appeal for the owner of the rights to make an exception she sat down at the computer and began to write. Luckily for her students and the community, in the end her pleading paid off.

“We had been preparing for the performance since the start of the school year, so everyone was very disap-

pointed when I told them we couldn’t do the play,” she said.

“When we found out that we had been granted permission to go ahead with the performance we were absolutely thrilled.”

Now that they are back on track, Benson says the cast of 11 performers have been working diligently to make their performance a gift to the community.

"It is a very powerful story and we have to be constantly reminded, especially at Christmas time, that it's really just about the people you are with and the gift you See SCROOGE Page 12

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promptly took action to make it safe for drivers and emergency vehicles.

“We took out a portion of the curb so that a fire truck could pass through it,” he said.

Cook said the new chicane was constructed in response to an official petition brought to Council in 2013 by residents living in the Haist Street area requesting that the Town look into their concerns regarding speeding in the area.

Organizing a committee which included two members of the neighbourhood, they conducted a traffic study which determined that there was indeed significant concern due to drivers speeding through the neighbourhood.

“We often have issues when we try to calm traffic,” Cook said.

“It’s more of a complicated problem than it seems. We’ve tried speed bumps on Haist Street and although they are effective in that one area they do cause problems for drivers, fire trucks and snowplows.”

In response, the Town reduced the width of the lanes on Haist by using pavement markings, created bicycle lanes, and also designated the area as a Community Safety Zone, that saw speeders paying double for fines and penalties.

As complaints continued to roll in, a second traffic study was held which identified that speeding was still a concern for residents in the neighbourhood. Evaluating potential traffic calming options in 2015, Town staff identified the chicane as their best option based on various criteria including effectiveness, maintenance, emergency access, costs, aesthetics, noise and other factors.

To monitor the impact a permanent chicane would have on speeding, a temporary chicane was installed in the fall of 2015 on Haist Street north of Hwy 20.

Showing a significant decrease in the percentage of vehicles that exceeded the speed limit with no access limitations for the public or emergency services, staff began designing a permanent chicane.

On March 31, a public open house allowed local residents an opportunity to view the design and ask questions about the chicane.

Based on resident feedback minor modifications were made to the design and construction began earlier this month.

As the repairs are being completed residents and motorists must cope with temporarily reduced passage on Haist Street.

Cook confirmed that section of Haist Street is now open and that repairs were expected to be complete on the chicane early this week.

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Protesters share views on deer hunt

BY NATE SMELLE

The VOICE

Tensions between those protesting the Haudenosaunee deer hunt and those defending it continued last weekend at Short Hills Provincial Park. With a seemingly equal level of passion fuelling defenders on both sides, there is no shortage of opinion on the issues surrounding the hunt.

Getting up before dawn to oppose the hunt, local resident Chris Fidler said she has many reasons why she feels the need to be there. For her it is not an indigenous issue or a treaty issue nor is it a racial issue, but a matter of not agreeing with hunting in the park.

“Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should do something,” said Fidler.

“I am not saying that they don’t have the right to be here, I am saying that I disagree with what they’re doing.”

As a member of the anti-hunt Facebook group Short Hills Wildlife Alliance, Fidler said that everyone in their group is there for their own reasons but they all agree that hunting in the park is a bad idea. One reason the SWA is opposed to the hunt is public safety. Citing a 2014 letter (which the Voice has not independently verified) from the Privacy and Records Management Unit of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry, stating that the maximum number of hunters allowed in the park for the hunt was set at 30, Fidler claims members of her group counted 67 hunters entering the park last Saturday morning.

Adam Stirr of Niagara Farm Animal Save, a newly formed activist group “inspired by the Toronto pig/ cow/chicken save movement,” according to its website, said that he is opposed to the hunt because he believes it is unsafe for people and the environment. He sees was he describes as the hunt’s “destruction” of the park’s ecosystem as contrary to the rationale for protecting the area in the first place.

“This is supposed to be a safe space, a conservation area,” said Stirr.

“If you are killing things... what are you conserving?

That’s the whole reason the park was created — to preserve the flora and fauna of the area. If you look around, everything else has been developed.”

For him the issue is not about who is doing the hunting, it’s about the fact

that there is hunting at all in an area designed to conserve nature.

“That’s why we’re here, we have no hate for these guys,” Stirr said.

“My wife and I go to anti-pipeline marches and all kinds of demonstrations that are in line with what [First Nations people] are fighting for. It’s just we don’t agree with this slaughter that’s going on in here because these deer are tame. These aren’t wild deer. They are deer that are used to seeing people day in and day out.”

The terminology used to defend the hunt is a point of contention for many who oppose it.

“Even in the food industry they don’t call it harvesting, they call it slaughter,” said Fidler.

“Harvesting is for fruits and vegetables, and killing is for animals. For me it’s an attempt to water down and make it more palatable to the public. It sounds much nicer when you say harvest than when you say slaughter. It’s marketing.”

Niagara Action for Animals, founded in 1989 according to its website, and which promotes a “compassionate society that respects the innate worth of all animals,” is also opposed to the hunt. Catherine Ens, a director with NafA, said that they do not condone the hunting of animals for any reason.

She believes killing animals for sport, tradition, or culture is unnecessary, inhumane and unjustified.

“To support or passively tolerate the unnecessary slaughter and domination of innocent animals in the name of ‘tradition’ or ‘rights’ is dangerous and analogous to justifying other forms of cruelty that were historically accepted on the basis of our ‘way of life’ or ‘cultural traditions’,” said Ens. Acknowledging the sensitivity and complexity of the issue-at-hand, Ens said that NAfA wants to be clear in stating that their opposition to the deer hunt is not about human versus animal rights, legal versus illegal activities, or respecting versus rejecting treaties.

As animal rights activists, she said the issue is about the rights of the animals who reside in the Short Hills and their right to live peacefully within the limits of their ecosystem, free from exploitative human interference.

From Ens’s perspective, she believes that morality, not tradition, should be the standard for a person’s actions.

As a vegan, Jay Rideout personally chooses to support the Short Hills hunt and all treaty hunting rights of Indigenous peoples out of respect and obligation. As a white settler of British and French ancestry, he said his people are treaty people too.

“When we first came to this land, my ancestors signed treaties with indigenous nations in many places across Turtle Island,” Rideout said. (“Turtle Island” is a term for North America used by various indigenous groups starting in the 1970s.)

“We [settlers] have failed to uphold a single one of those treaties. Even though we claimed to be coming from a place of non-interference and peaceful co-existence, settlers on this land have perpetrated widespread genocide, residential school systems, the criminalization of indigenous ceremony and gathering, and created a reserve system that secluded Indigenous nations to lands a mere fraction of the size that their communities once populated.”

Rideout said people cannot ignore the ongoing history of colonization that persists in indigenous communities today through resource extraction, the lack of attention around missing and murdered indigenous women, the higher rates of suicide, sexual violence and the lack of resources. When it comes to food and food sovereignty, he said people need to remember that settler control of food sources still continues to contribute to colonization.

“It is also important to acknowledge that it was European settlers that brought factory farming to Turtle Island,” he said.

“And it was used as a justification for continued indigenous genocide and occupation of settlers. We needed more space for our growing industrial farms, so we violently took it. In Canada, 7.5 million acres of land is recognized reservation land while 50 million acres is used for animal grazing. And this doesn’t even include land used for animal housing, feeding or processing.

These numbers speak for themselves.”

Rideout said that attempting to restrict populations from eating their traditional foods and practicing traditional ceremony is in fact a method of colonization.

He believes that choosing to eat traditional foods that were common prior to settler contact is a matter of health as well as decolonization.

Firefighters help furry friends

BY NATE SMELLE

The VOICE

Animal Care manager at the Welland Humane Society Tammy Gaboury dropped by Pelham Fire Station No. 1 on Hwy 20 W. in Fonthill on Tuesday, Nov. 22, to help the Fonthill Volunteer Fire Association raise awareness of its toy and pet food drive. The 27th annual campaign invites the public to drop off toys and pet food for families and animal companions in need throughout the community.

This year Gaboury said the need for pet supplies and food for the animals at their shelter is greater than usual after they took in 100 dogs from First Nations communities

in Ontario’s far north.

“We transferred a lot of dogs from northern communities and a bunch of them who came to us were expecting or nursing so we’ve got a lot of puppies coming up for adoption soon,” she said.

“Some of them came from Grassy Narrows, which is north of Kenora and Big Trout Lake which is a fly-in community where they don’t have any spay or neuter programs available to them so we help to transfer them out.”

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Maple Acre Library nears finish Despite delays, opening still set for year's end

BY NATE SMELLE

The VOICE

Members of the Maple Acre Library committee, Town staff and the design team for the project toured the new facility on Tuesday, Nov. 22, to get a look at how construction is progressing.

With the opening of the new branch scheduled for the end of December, contractors have been working hard to get the building closed in, in order to begin finishing details. The schedule provided to Council this past June indicated that the building would have occupancy by Dec. 15, however due to delays caused by a high demand for specific materials the library will not be ready until Dec. 28.

“The window glazing was actually held by four weeks and we’ve crunched the schedule to make it two weeks,” explained manager of facilities and beautification Kim Holland.

“In theory it’s a very aggressive schedule but we’re very confident we can meet it unless something else happens.”

This week the crew will be working on installing the new door frames. As soon as this stage of the project is complete they plan to have all of the drywall and painting finished by Dec. 15.

The next step will be to affix all of the necessary hardware throughout the facility, which will then allow for the flooring to be installed.

The millwork — bookshelves, magazine racks and reception desks — will be the next task for the crew to tackle. This installation should be finished before Christmas to allow for the IT system and furniture to be set up between Dec. 26 and Dec. 28. If all goes as planned the new branch should be open to the public

by Dec. 28.

Designed by m/2 Group Inc. and Architecture 49 the new building will provide an additional 3,400 square feet of library space, which will in turn create opportunities for the community to access to enhanced services and

public space.

“Not many communities are investing in libraries so I am very proud that our community is investing in this library and maintaining its historic structure,” said

In theory it's a very aggressive schedule, but we're very confident we can meet it Mayor Dave Augustyn.

“Working together with Robert and Michael on maintaining the heritage that is here, that is so important to the community.

The building really brings together the old and the new with the heritage plus the new learning commons.”

Robert Eland, the architect who designed the facility, was on site to answer questions about the design and describe it in greater detail. One of the challenges in designing the building was blending the modern aesthetic of the new building with that of the historic 500-sq.ft. building constructed in 1919.

“We’ve tried to keep it historic,” he said.

“That’s why we are keeping the threshold, keeping the door the trim and using the brick that we were able to salvage. We are going to use some of the portions of the brick that have been demolished to make the opening.”

While tearing out the interior of this section to begin its restoration, Eland said they discovered that the framing needed to be replaced. This will allow for the space to be better insulated, which he said will make it a warmer and more comfortable area for the public to enjoy. To add to the heritage feel of the room

they have also decided to keep the original windows.

On top of making efforts to maintain the cultural significance of the original building, Eland said they have also incorporated a number of environmentally friendly materials into the design which will make the building more efficient.

“We are trying to use as much natural light as possible by putting lots of windows in every room,” Eland said.

“We have used Glulam beams, low VOC paint and many of the materials like the carpet and tiles we are using are made of recycled content. Most of the framing is made of wood harvested from sustainable sources. All of the lighting is also on occupancy sensors so if no one is in the library it will shut off.”

On Friday, Nov. 25 and Saturday, Nov. 26 the Friends of the Maple Acre Library Branch hosted their annual fundraising event Christmas in the Country. Held at the Fenwick Fire Station, even Santa Claus and his elf made an appearance to support the new library Branch in town.

From home-baked goods, home-made jams and jellies, wreaths and porch pots to one-of-a-kind gifts and a little Christmas spirit, the event has continued to be a success for the past 26 years.

Proceeds from this year’s event will go towards new furnishings for the soon to be complete new Maple Acre Library Branch.

“The community once again, has been wonderful in their support of local artists and artisans, and the library,” said Maple Acre Library committee member Elizabeth Best.

“The Friends of the Maple Acre Library Branch are also grateful for the support of the local fire department who donated the Fenwick Fire Station No. 2 for our annual event. It is always a great event that supports and promotes shopping local and supporting the library.”

New borrowing policies and library services

BY KIRK WEAVER

CEO Pelham Library

Recently we updated our borrowing policies in a number of ways that we hope will better serve the community.

The most significant change is in the length of the borrowing period. All books (new and not so new), audiobooks, and e-readers are now available for a 21 day loan.

This will allow readers more time to get through the materials they have borrowed. The trade-off is that only one renewal will be permitted from the previous two.

We hope this will have the effect of improving access to our most popular materials to a greater number of pa-

trons.

In the New Year we will be introducing express collections of the latest most popular materials to coincide with the re-opening of the Maple Acre branch in Fenwick. Express books will be able to be borrowed for up to 14 days and express DVDs for up to one week with no renewals.

Patrons will not be able to place these items on hold.

They will be available on a first come, first served basis at Maple Acre.

This will give everyone the opportunity to come and check out the new facilities in Fenwick.

Soon we will also be launching a newly redesigned web site.

We have worked hard to design the website so that

it will be simple for you to navigate around and easy to find the content you are looking for.

Once launched, you will able to register and pay for all our programs through the website.

You will also be able to see when meeting space is available at both branches.

At the same time we will begin offering debit and credit payment options at both branches.

We hope that these new features will improve the experience of patrons using the Library.

As always we welcome your feedback on these new services as they are introduced to ensure that we continue to meet the needs and service expectations of this growing community.

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OPINION

The opinions expressed in submitted commentary and letters to the editor are those of the contributors and not necessarily those of the Voice of Pelham.

Oosterhoff's cost measured in dollars...and conscience

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and from Queen's Park, for tagging along on political junkets, and for maintaining a riding office. Plus he’ll receive 6-to-18 months’ salary in severance when he packs it all in. Impressive indeed.

He will, at 27, have received a million dollars in salary, plus a $180,000 cash payout

Ours is a dyed-in-thewool blue riding. Sam Oosterhoff should have every expectation of re-election in 2018. After, say, another six years at the public trough, whether he’s defeated or quits, he will, at 27, have received a million dollars in salary plus a $180,000 cash payout.

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COMMENTARY / OP-ED Nick Saltarelli

ONGRATULATIONS to Sam Oosterhoff MPP. His election was as splendidly choreographed as it was preordained.

The Niagara West-Glanbrook Bible Belt remains truly, madly, deeply conservative and Sam’s name is being bandied about by The Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, The National Post, the CTV and CBC. He’s commended himself to the public domain. Very well then.

Let us begin the prognostications.

Our riding’s 125,000 residents are now ostensibly represented by possibly the least worldly yet most resolute MPP since the Constitutional Act of 1791.

While his teenage contemporaries are still in school or earning $11.40 an hour at Sobey's and McDonald's, Sam Oosterhoff will be the youngest person on the Ontario Sunshine List. According to figures available online, he’ll draw a base salary of $116,500, plus fringe benefits, and an additional $11,650 will deposit annually into his pension plan, which he can and should match.

He’ll be fully reimbursed for expenses traveling to

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fund, and potentially another $175,000-plus in an RRSP. A situation many of us, let alone our local kids bagging groceries and flipping burgers, could but dream of.

Was his meteoric rise brilliantly Machiavellian? Or mere hubris, as Toronto Star journalist Martin Regg Cohn suggests.

Does Sam Oosterhoff believe himself capable of actually earning a salary and benefits package rivaling those of corporate executives and university deans?

Is young Sam a whiz kid who’ll deliver great things?

It’s either brilliance or a setup. Or a brilliant setup.

Two years hence we’ll tally the cost to keep our rookie MPP warming his back bench in contrast to what he’s returned to the constituency.

It will likely not be possible to identify a unique contribution in dollar terms. The value Sam Oosterhoff can bring is less tangible. It’ll be how well he has represented us. He says he intends to vote his conscience yet work on behalf of us all, not only the people who laboured to get him elected and who incidentally share his pious convictions.

Realistically estimated, Mr. Oosterhoff's potential value to the entire constit-

Fabulous Fenwick fun is free, plus Santa Slap my arse and call me Pammy…How exciting is this! The Lions’ Club of Fenwick, will be presenting again this year, for the young and old, the Fenwick Lions’ Fabulous Santa Claus Parade. Whee! Haw! This is what I’m thinking. I think Voice readers will want to know that on December 10 at 1:00 p.m., the bona fide Santa Claus will be flying down Canboro Road in his sleigh at warp speed. Okay…Okay…maybe not exactly warp speed, or breaking the sound barrier—more like being pulled in his sleigh by an old guy driving a farm tractor. What can I say. There are speed limits in Fenwick to be obeyed. But, what I do guarantee is that Santa will be waving, shouting at the top of his lungs, “Merry Christmas,” and when he laughs, you will see his belly shake like a bowl full of jelly.

So hold onto you toques, folks, for this is the plan that the parade-organizing elves have been working on for months.

Santa will be cheered into Fenwick by an adoring crowd of hundreds and hundreds of fun-loving Pelhamites. Are you visu-

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The health of Short Hills Park or any natural area requires a look at the complete ecosystem including both flora and fauna.

White tailed deer will eat up to 4 kg (dry weight) of green plant material each day and if their population is not controlled with a management plan, they can quickly over-browse their habitat. Deer prefer succu-

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lent shoots but change their diet with the food source available. Basically they will eat almost any plant including poison ivy.

Over-browsing leads to the introduction of invasive species and will affect other animals and plants who rely on a healthy balanced ecosystem.

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TOO HIGH continued from Page 4 At present there are simply too many deer using Short Hills Park and their numbers must be controlled. In addition to their treaty rights, the hunt by

the Haudenosaunee Confederacy is an effective managment tool for controlling the deer population.

Those who oppose the Short Hills Hunt should read some of the Ministry of Natural Resources literature on deer management and not rely just on emotions.

If deer were not so pleasing to the human eye this hunt wouldn’t be a problem.

I care about all of the plants and animals in the park. Maybe those that oppose the Short Hills deer hunt should as well.

John Csikos Fonthill

What about privileged Cadillac Escalade drivers?

I read your recent article concerning the deer hunt in Short Hills Park [No simple answers in Short Hills deer hunt, Nov. 23] and couldn't help but notice the inaccuracies. It was an extremely disappointing article.

I attend the protest. I grew up eating meat. I have native friends in Thunder Bay where I was raised in a hunting culture. I understand the issue.

The park is being damaged by the traffic of huge trucks. There are fines post-

ed by the parks for such destruction. We are not saying "don't hunt.” We're saying, please, not in this the smallest provincial park in Ontario. Peoples’ homes surround this park. There has been an incident where hunters went on to private property and killed a deer.

Arrows found stuck in trees.

So property lines are being crossed.

When we hold up a truck for 5 minutes on their way out of the park, we are hoping the hunters will take a

few minutes to think of the "other side.” Hunt but not here.

When pro-hunters call us "white privileged" they should be aware that these trucks are new enormous rigs and expensive vehicles, brand new Cadillac Escalades. There are only two or three regular vehicles. This group of hunters are not poor nor are they without privilege.

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Ministry caters to killers The argument that hunters are needed to replace predators now missing from the Niagara region, used to rationalize turning Short Hills into a private game preserve complete with tame deer and infrastructure provided by tax payers who get to see resulting declines in property values while being kept out of their own park, is bogus.

Yes, following the retreat of glaciers there has been a steady decline in larger predatory species of mammal as they were wiped out in the region by succeeding arrivals of humans. Sabretooths, dire wolves, shortfaced bears were exterminated first, along with such large prey species as the giant beaver, eastern elk, and giant ground sloth. Europeans joined the slaughter when they arrived and, with their enhanced weaponry,

eliminated local populations of cougars and wolves, which are both deer predators.

But they also eliminated most of the forest cover that the deer depended upon for survival. Yes, there has been an increase in available nutriment for deer in the form of orchards and croplands – the so-called “agricultural subsidy” – but deer can’t survive with only vineyards, orchards and farm fields, they also require woodland cover, now reduced to a patchwork of woodlots, such as Short Hills Provincial Park. But the hunting range of pumas varies from dozens to hundreds of square kilometers while for human hunters in blinds it is a few dozen square meters.

There are more human hunters wanting to kill deer in the Niagara region than there are cougars world-

wide, and there is no reason to assume that the one to two thousand deer they kill each year, augmented by losses to cars, coyotes, large dogs, fence entanglements and other human-caused mortalities is somehow less than the prehistoric norm.

The fact that the deer are not emaciated, and that Short Hills Provincial Park is not denuded of vegetation deer can access proves that accusations of “overpopulation” of deer are nonsensical.

There is overpopulation, but of humans, undergoing massive growth worldwide, and increasingly in need of sanctuaries, no less than the deer, where we all can live in security from the lethal attentions of the most deadly species the planet has ever known, our own. Deer need cover and most of the See KILLERS Page 6

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Can't we share the park for six days a year?

I want to preface by saying that when I was 21 or so, I became a strict vegan. That said, I have noticed that many people seem to talk about indigenous peoples and culture in rather essentialized and singular ways.

I understand why white folks do this; this is how we have been taught (in our families, schools and through broader social norms and institutions) to perceive indigenous peoples and culture. I am wondering, though, the extent to which folks have considered how we settlers came to occupy this land? That is, by dispossessing indigenous peoples of their lands and (physically and culturally) destroying their cultures and ways of life. This has been happening for hundreds of years, and continues until this day.

A number of people have referred to notions of what is ‘good’, ‘kind’, and ‘respectful’ behavior when criticizing the traditional hunt. However, it is important to consider that settler worldviews about these behaviors have been central to colonialisms’ ‘civilizing’ project. Specifically, settlers have continuously assumed that our views are universal: they represent what everyone believes, or at least should believe.

Such paternalism is ex-

Thank-you for the balanced view on the Short Hills hunt in your recent article by Nate Smelle.

There is a significant opportunity in Niagara for settlers to engage in reconciliation and it is the annual Haundenosaunee hunt at Short Hills Provincial Park.

The Nanfan Treaty of 1701 between the Haundenosaunee and the British Crown provides hunting rights in a vast area including where we live. These rights were included in the Canadian Constitution.

actly what drove the establishment of residential schools and land reserve systems (which violently removed indigenous peoples from their traditional land and cultures and forced

White settlers continue to force particular ideas, feelings, and behaviors onto indigenous peoples them onto small parcels of land while demanding that they ‘live like white people’).

We as white settlers continue to force particular ideas, feelings, and behaviors onto indigenous peoples, while both depriving them of their traditional ways of knowing and homogenizing their identities (within which there is great spiritual and cultural diversity, which I don’t have the depth of knowledge or understanding to speak about).

Take, as one of countless examples, the government’s

long-standing intervention into indigenous food systems in the north. The Nutrition North Program has been used to materially and culturally destroy indigenous ways of life, while manufacturing food insecurity in these same communities.

Additionally, I empathize with arguments that, “it is 2016, in light of climate change and environmental destruction we cannot afford to be meat eaters anymore.”

However, I think this argument ignores crucial political and practical issues.

First, it does not acknowledge the role of the industrial food and agriculture system in the environmental crisis.

As you are all likely aware, our food system is not ecologically sustainable.

Much of this is due to the ways that farming systems have been forced to expand, mechanize, and specialize their production.

While farming systems were traditionally quite diverse, the productivity and capitalization demands of industrialization have promoted rationalized cropping patterns.

Farmers are now both growing fewer varieties of crops (e.g. farmers that used See OBJECTION Page 14

I'm proud to be part of a community — the Anglican Church of Canada — that takes the Truth and Reconciliation Commission seriously, and is intentionally working to be the best allies that we can be.

Participating in the blanket exercise is a wonderful educational tool; to do so locally, against the backdrop of the deer harvest, allows an opportunity to visibly live out our commitment to respecting and upholding

treaty rights.

For me, this is part of a journey towards reconciliation.

The Rev L. M. Piotrowicz St Catharines

Indigenous people care about the environment too I would like to thank the Voice for producing a fair and accurate portrayal of the Haudenosaunee harvest taking place at the Short Hills. As a vegetarian for many years and an animal rights advocate, I understand that folks are concerned for animal welfare.

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A fundamental concept in the early treaties is sharing, a concept much more aligned to indigenous worldviews than that of the colonizers.

Can we not share the park for six days a year with a people for whom the land represents so much more than a recreational sanctuary — for whom the deer are the lead animal providing food, clothing, musical instruments and ceremonial regalia for spiritual practice?

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rights to indigenous peoples which has continued throughout our violent colonial history, including the right to practice their traditions and culture, food sovereignty and the respect for treaty rights. Indigenous teachings are deeply concerned with environmental conservation and it is undeniable that the hunt is being carried out with the utmost respect for the animals and our earth. During these weekends, I will grieve for and honour the lives of the

deer, but I will also recognize my responsibility as a settler ally to defend the rights of indigenous peoples. We invite all members of the community to take place in the cross-cultural events happening over the course of the harvest at the entrance to the Short Hills. If we wish to move towards 'Truth and Reconciliation', it must involve all of us peacefully working together.

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continued from Page 5 cover is dangerous to them, heavily hunted and lacking relatively safety from powerful weaponry once provided by Short Hills.

But now even it is deadly,

ESCALADES continued from Page 5 To end this letter without mentioning the violence we are seeing from the pro-hunters would be a mistake. I, personally, experienced their bullying techniques. We are not there to fight with anyone.

We have an excellent rapport with the police officers.

We recognize their position.

We are simply trying to stop what is nothing more than a "canned hunt.” There is no respect for the deer, no peace, no living in friendship.

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Thanks for article Just a note of thanks for the excellent, informative article in the November 23rd edition regarding the Short Hills Harvest.

So much appreciated.

Gail Stup St. Catharines

Continue informing on the issues I congratulate you on your reportage of the Short Hills Deer Hunt.

Nate Smelle has covered this story in a way that informs everyone of the issues involved and has allowed readers to hear clearly from the people di-

rectly involved what is at stake here. Please continue this kind of coverage of area news as we need more reporting like this.

S. Saleh Waziruddin St. Catharines

Looking forward to more British Last week’s article Growing Up British was delightful.

For me, Heather’s story shines a light on living with grace and good hu-

mour during difficult times.

Looking forward to part two.

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Glad that Trump beat Clinton I am rather surprised at the number of people in Pelham who believe everything they read or hear.

I see D. Rugzys accused Donald Trump of being a racist, elitest, narcissist and sexist among others [Letters, “So Tired of Politicians,” Nov. 23].

Sounds like D. was listening too much to the media party and to Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

He is none of the above.

No he is not perfect but at least he is not accusing D. of being ignorant of the facts.

He employs black people, women, and others not according to their skin colour but according to whether they can do the job.

Very interesting that eyewitness accounts say Hillary is two-faced.

She claims she is all for blacks, women, and of course Muslims and Latinos.

But people who worked for the Clintons say she used the N- word to describe blacks all the time in the privacy of her home.

As one of her first cases, she was caught on video laughing at the fact that she got a rapist off scot-free.

One of these people, a travel cook for several years with the Clintons, saw Mrs. Clinton in the hall one morning and said, “Good Morning Mrs. Clinton.” Her answer was F-off.”

Her foundation accepted large sums of money from Saudi Arabia, a place where women are not allowed to drive. And she is for women?

I have read two-plus books and heard many eyewitness accounts that support the fact that all she wanted was power and really could not care less about respecting blacks, women who were victims of rape (we won’t mention Bill’s ways) and people who worked for her. She was all about her.

An elitist might be described as someone who thinks they are above the general population.

What Hillary did by by being careless about classified documents would have put her in jail if she were in the military. So why is she not in jail?

I heard the story of a seaman who simply forgot to

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destroy the codes of the day and was at the time still serving his jail sentence, but not Hillary.

I had occasion to visit some of the refugee camps in Turkey this past March.

Donald Trump is a big-mouth because he has never weighed every word like a politician We were distributing food, treats, necessities of life and in one camp each time we visited, they would bring out a very thin pita bread freshly baked.

After taking a shortcut around behind the plastic greenhouses where they were camping, I saw where the pita was coming from as two ladies had assembled four stones, a piece of metal and had a fire under the metal upon which to bake the pita.

They distributed it wrapped around the hand or arm to us because they did not want to just receive but to give back.

I would sooner have someone who is giving of what little they have which speaks of their character than a professional politician who talks the talk but does not walk the walk.

Give me a refugee in Turkey any day rather than Hillary Clinton.

Donald Trump is a bigmouth because he has never been a politician who weighs every word and says exactly what would get him elected, usually, but speaks from the heart as to the problem that he sees and most of America also saw.

It was time to vote for someone who has actually built and accomplished things in his life instead of just talking smoothly.

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Sam Oosterhoff won the riding, but he didn’t win Voice readers who took our post-election survey.

Among 132 responses, the results reveal that an overwhelming majority of respondents —85%—do not share Oosterhoff’s social conservative values, and that this same majority split their vote among Oosterhoff’s opponents.

How do these results stack up against the actual vote count? Let’s have a look.

Elections Ontario has released what it calls “unofficial” results by individual polling station (barring unforseen challenges, they are likely to be certified as official in due course).

Sam Oosterhoff went down to defeat at only two of Pelham’s 29 polling stations—he lost to the NDP’s Mike Thomas at Royal Canadian Legion station 169, and was beaten by both the NDP and Liberal candidates at Woodlands of Sunset station 715.

Not only that, at Woodlands he received zero votes, the only polling place in the entire riding where this occurred.

Thomas went on to tie Oosterhoff at two other stations—Royal Canadian Legion station 166, and Fenwick Fire Station #2, polling station 172.

In Pelham, Thomas was the preferred second choice to Oosterhoff, coming second 55% of the time, while Liberal Vicky Ringuette came second at 31% of the time.

Across the rest of the riding’s approximately 200 polling stations, Oosterhoff was beaten by at only 36 of them—34 in Hamilton, 2 in Grimsby, 1 in Lincoln.

Nothing 31% Warning to Libs 15%

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Libertarian 8%

Cost of hydro 23%

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hydro. 15% said that they wanted to send a warning to the Liberal government.

And 8% cited the “erosion of public morals” as guiding their decision.

Asked, “With Oosterhoff’s victory, what’s most likely to happen now,” 8% said that Ontario’s sex-ed curriculum will be rolledback or changed; 8% said that less attention will be paid to Niagara’s needs; while 84% said that there will be no meaningful change in the status quo.

Finally, when asked how the election had left respondents feeling, 15% said they felt better about the democratic process; 23% said they felt the same about the democratic process; while 61% said that they were now more cynical about the democratic process.

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Gender: 46% male, 54% female.

Self-described social conservative: 85% no, 15% yes.

In answer to the question, “Which party do you usually vote for,” 38% said Liberals, 31% NDP, 23% PCs, 8% other.

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In answer to, “Which party do you usually vote for,” 38% said Liberals, 31% NDP, 23% PC, 8% other.

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Each year just before Christmas, the Pelham Clergy Fellowship works in cooperation with the Pedlar and Lampman Funeral Homes to offer the community a Service of Hope for the recently bereaved.

As a member of this association of ministers, Rev. Dr. Garry van Bruchem of the Fonthill United Church has seen how helpful the service can be to people having difficulty coping with the loss of a loved one.

“In most cases grief can be a very lonely experience,” says van Bruchem.

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Christmas without a loved one and it can be an incredibly painful time to be alone. By grieving together we can help one another find a light in the darkness.

You need to express your grief to get through it.”

Open to all members of the community, the interfaith gathering is intended to bring the community together.

While some say that religion is divisive van Bruchem believes it has a far greater power to unite us.

“Sometimes people say that religion is a force that divides us but it really brings us together,” he said.

“There is so much more common ground between religions than there is walls. Our Service of Hope is an oppor-

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Furry folks find friendly firefighters continued from Page 3 greatly appreciated.

“Having treats for the dogs is very important since it helps us to teach them to sit,” she said.

“When our dog walkers come in it’s a great time for them to learn certain commands which makes the animals more appealing to potential adopters.”

This year’s campaign runs from Saturday, Dec. 3 to Sunday,

Dec. 11. Pet food and supplies and unwrapped toys for children up to the age 18 can be dropped off at various locations throughout the community.

Collection boxes can be found at the Pelham Town Hall, the Fonthill Library, the Meridian Credit Unions, CIBC, TD Bank and the RBC banks in Fonthill and Fenwick. Donations can also be dropped off directly to the Station 1 Fire Hall at 177 Hwy 20 in Uptown Fonthill and the Pelham Cares office at 191 Hwy 20 in East Fonthill.

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On behalf of the Pelham Seniors’ Advisory Committee (PSAC) Gail Hilyer presented Town Council with the committee’s 2017 Strategic Plan at the Nov. 21 Council meeting. Before presenting the plan Hilyer stressed the importance of considering the needs of seniors when discussing the creation of affordable housSee PSAC Page 12

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You did not disappoint!

Very quickly a theme developed, making it clear that many readers are of a similar mind when it comes to local holes.

Thankfully, only a few entries were unsuitable for print. These are not included in the final list, despite their imaginative and colourful usage of the language.

Now it’s your turn to vote. Surprisingly, there were similarities, but no duplicates. So whichever name garners the highest vote total for each pond is the winner. At stake is a Dynamic Virtual Viewer Virtual Reality Headset, for best new name for the Gateway Pond, and a free Classified ad in the Voice ($10 value) for the best new name for the South Pond.

Vote by ranking your top three names in order of preference for each pond and email your choices to: namethelakes@thevoiceofpelham. ca by this Sunday night, Dec. 4, 12 midnight.

Winners will be announced in next week’s paper.

The nominations are: Sunrise Lake Lake Sunset Morningside Duck Pond Sunrise Basin The Fountains of Fonthill The Fabulist Fantasy Frogpond Prevaricators Puddle Bayou of Broken Dreams Lake of Lies Liars Lagoon Drink of Drowned Dreams The Twin Eh-Holes The Pelham Eh-Holes Eh-Hole Major Eh-Hole Minor FontHole A-Hole-ofa Lake Lake WatchaMiTaxesRise Lake Moneypit Budgetbuster Swamp Grandchildren’s Burden Vanity Falls Ego Creek Red Ink Rapids

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Benson encourages people to reserve their seats before they are gone.

"The cool thing about theatre, is that it brings the community together," Benson said.

"I think in these times of separation and isolation because everybody has entertainment in their living room, it’s great to get people out to experience the energy of theatre. It's the same way you would experience the energy of a hockey game live."

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PSAC continued from Page 10 ing in the community. Most importantly she said that affordable housing needs to be accessible to seniors.

“If you are going to build up two stories and you want seniors to be able to rent that facility you are going to have to provide some mobility device,” Hilyer said.

PSAC’s strategic plan identified the five main goals of the committee. The first is to be an advocacy group working to improve the lives of seniors in Pelham. Second is to increase and enhance the communication of seniors programs and services. Third is to provide access to better transportation and transit for se-

niors. The fourth goal is to research areas where information is lacking on seniors in Pelham and share this information with the community. Their last objective is to create a link and bridge the gap between seniors and other groups throughout the community.

“Keeping in mind that the people who were 60 in 2011 are now in the 65 range there are a lot of things we don't know,” Hilyer said.

“We don't know how many seniors have moved to Pelham since 2011. We don't know how many have left town because they didn't have access to affordable and accessible housing. We also don't know how many have died. We don't have a lot of data to use for plan-

ning.”

Hilyer said the committee would also like to see “community hubs” for seniors created in places such as the new Pelham Community Centre. The creation of such public spaces would also help PSAC achieve a new goal they have set for themselves in 2017 — having Pelham designated as an age-friendly community by the World Health Organization.

“That is our 150th anniversary challenge,” she said.

“The work is in process and it will again come [to council]. It's an important designation as we listen to all of the things that are going on. Pelham deserves to be designated an age-friendly community.”

Councillor Peter Papp agreed.

Working closely with PSAC he said he is always inspired by the work of the committee.

Recognizing that there is not enough data on seniors living in Pelham, he believes that acquiring such information is essential to the committee’s work moving forward.

“What we want to do is build on what we have been doing as far as with the design guidelines and the whole concept of what the community is,” he said.

“Keeping in mind that this research is going to be critical in determining both the physical improvements, and for that matter the social improvements needed

throughout the area.”

Papp is proud of the fact that Pelham has come to be known as one of the leading municipalities in Niagara working to improve the quality of life for seniors.

For instance, in June of 2017 PSAC along with the Niagara Age-Friendly Implementation Committee plan to host a regional event.

“The event in June is going to be phenomenal,” said Papp.

“It's going to involve Welland, Thorold and us leading the pack. The plan is to put on as part of the 150th an event that will enhance the whole direction towards what we've been doing in aging in place and what all the communities are doing.”

PSAC requested that

Council provide the committee with $9,100 in funding in 2017.

Hilyer said these funds will be used to gather demographics information, apply for an Age-Friendly Community designation by the World Health Organization, and to partner with the Niagara Age-Friendly Implementation Committee to host the regional event in June. Council is considering their request and plans to make a decision when putting together the Town’s budget for 2017.

To find out more about what PSAC is working on or to get involved, visit their Conversation Cafe held at Sobeys in Fonthill every second Wednesday of the month at 9:30AM.

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Agro-ecologists and sustainable food production advocates argue (with much data) that the most ecologically sustainable and healthy farming systems integrate animals into the system in particular ways. Of course, this looks very different from concentrated animal

COMMENTARY continued from Page 4 uency is at best unknowable. Potentially zero. Possibly even a negative value.

Our value for him, on the other hand, is certain and vast. Through our taxes we will contribute directly to his personal wealth and possibly, through tithes from his six-figure salary, indirectly to his church.

There’s a significant evangelical Christian

COLUMN SIX continued from Page 1 sauce from the mint growing by the kitchen door, and to the tunes of Billy Cotton's Band and Family Favourites, we'd put it under our belts.

Most weekday evenings would find my mum, dad and I sitting around the fire, Dad intermittently reading the paper and dozing off, Mum sewing or knitting, and me doing my homework. Mum

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farming systems. The point here is that sustainable food systems don’t necessarily negate eating meat.

What if folks spent more time fighting for structural shifts in the food system and food production to allow for more locally specific, sustainable and agro-ecological forms of farming?

This might look different in different areas and bioregions.

And again, indigenous folks might have different views about what the solutions are, which we need to hear and be open to. After all, this is their land, we need to consider how we may give it back, or at minimum, share it differently

than we are right now.

Moreover, I nave noticed people argue that they are more “compassionate” because they “do not want to kill living things”. I would ask you to question that thought.

Specifically about how deeply privileged it is to be able to think and say this without ever worrying about becoming food insecure as a result.

For a number of social, political, economic and racial reasons, we can say this without ever going hungry.

Indigenous and settler food systems have (in diverse ways!) long relied on all sorts of living things.

Many indigenous folks are

food secure because of their continued reliance on living things despite all the ways that the colonial government has destroyed indigenous food systems. This was done, for instance, by banning nearly all forms of indigenous food getting and trading while also prohibiting indigenous peoples from practicing colonial forms of farming or even accessing land.

We have not only forced a colonial food system onto indigenous peoples, but we have also forced them to now access their food from the ecologically unsustainable food production system that we settlers have built and benefited from.

Then, white people criticize any attempts by indigenous peoples to maintain their traditional food systems.

Settlers are putting all of this effort into condemning such attempts, as opposed to fighting against an industrial food system that is harming indigenous folks everyday: a system that has been built by us settlers. Deeply sad and ironic I would say.

I think we need to be very clear about who actually controls our land and food system in Canada. It turns out that around 95% of Canadian farmland is owned and managed by white settlers. Hence, white settlers are controlling a vast

amount of natural lands and spaces in this country.

Meanwhile, farmers today are also deeply economically oppressed by the growing concentration of agri-business alongside the political-economic promotion of export-oriented industrial food production.

Hopefully, we can open a dialogue and have a conversation about how we can all come together and fight against the real forces of political, cultural, and ecological destruction. Indeed, many of the indigenous folks that you are protesting are fighting against these same forces of destruction.

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constituency in Niagara West-Glanbrook. They, as everyone, have a legitimate right to representation.

These are good and righteous, God-fearing people, who perceive a clear and present threat to what they sincerely and devoutly believe, including but not exclusively that their children must be exposed to sex only in a manner consistent with their church’s interpretation of the Holy Bible. That's okay as far as it

goes—which is to the edge of their property lines and not a centimetre farther.

However, if their aim is not to considerately opt themselves out of society’s permissions, but instead to install their injunctions as the new laws of the land, applied to all of us, not okay.

Despite our federal MP's cynical endorsement of Oosterhoff during the campaign, the principals of the provincial PC party can’t be pleased.

Their president and chief

strategist have been outsmarted by social conservatives with an agenda — in the riding formally held by the party leader, no less.

It messes up their plans.

Worse, it casts them in a poor light, because Sam Oosterhoff and the 17% of the riding’s electorate who voted him in last week aren't buying into the direction the PCs seek to lead the Province of Ontario in the post-Liberal era. They perceive themselves used by a small sectarian group

installing one of their own into the elected body of learned lawmakers who set the boundaries of Ontario society. Our society. Our boundaries. Our laws. Not Mosaic Law or Sharia Law or any other Bronze/Iron Age law, but modern, secular, provincial law.

Two weeks back a thoughtful letter to the Voice urged us to elect a visionary rather than a missionary.

Post-election, Mr. Oosterhoff’s first words were not so much a victo-

ry speech as a benediction.

He thrice petitioned God: to bless us all, to bless Ontario, and to bless Canada.

Okay, Mr. Oosterhoff. But remember ours is a secular democracy that recognizes and accepts freedom of religion and also freedom from it, and the clear separation of church and state is the ultimate expression of that.

Can you do the job you were elected to?

We can only hope.

Make us proud, Sam. We'll be watching.

and I would get blotchy red mottled marks that resembled the moon's craters on our legs from sitting too close to the fire. Our big arc-shaped Marconi wireless brought the outside world into our living-room, and we sat glued as Dick Barton performed his daring deeds with the aid of his cohorts Jock and Snowy. 'The Archers' - and everyday story of countryfolk' was another 'mustn't miss'. But the best was 'Journey into Space' which, for effect, we'd listen to with the lights off. Dad added his own effects. He could make me jump out of my skin by suddenly whispering "whassat?" during this program. And as we sat rooted to the spot, nothing ever tasted so good as toast done on a fork held before the coals of the fire, with lashings of butter.

Speaking of butter; it was possible during rationing to get an extra butter ration if a member of the family was declared a vegetarian.

I was our family's appointee. Mum and I would take three buses to Harrow and back, every week, to get my supplemental ration of nuts and peanut butter at the 'nut shop'. Though I was our token vegetarian, I still ate meat at home, but school lunches were something else. The concoctions Mum devised were admirable, considering what she had to work with. Egg sandwiches, tomato sandwiches, lettuce sandwiches, lettuce and tomato sandwiches; all finally ran their limit, so she tried pickled herring sandwiches and when all else failed, there were sugar sandwiches and the ensuing cavities.

Dad was a frugal Scot, and

controlled the purse-strings.

Certain house rules prevailed, unless there was company,

ever leave a room without turning a light off. Often as not, if we had company for tea, Mum would whisper 'F.H.B' to Dad and me. This meant there wasn't enough to go around so 'family hold back'.

Tap dancing classes were par for the course for almost every little girl growing up in the ‘40s, and as one of Beryl Jewell's 'little gems', I tapped and sang my way through such timeless classics as 'Ashby de la Zouche Castle Abbey', 'Hey Little Hen', 'Slow Boat to China' and "Mairsy doats and dozy doats', all decked out in tulle and sequins lovingly sewn by Mum in the sure knowledge that her pride and joy would one day be strutting her stuff at the Windmill (we-never-close) Theatre, if not the Palladium.

Summer holidays were

usually spent in Combe Martin, which was an unspoiled hamlet near Ilfracombe in north Devon. If Mrs. Darch's B & B was fully booked, we stayed at The Dolphin Inn, opposite the harbour. On a fine day, we would climb to the top of the hills 'Little Hangman' and 'Big Hangman' overlooking the harbour, or while Mum sunned herself in a deckchair, Dad and I went rock-climbing or fishing in a rock-pool with a limpet on a bent pin and a length of cotton. We never caught anything, but I did drive a few sea-anemones crazy. If it rained, and when didn't it, there was a skittle alley and a little cinema that showed Charlie Chaplin and Laurel & Hardy films.

By the time I was nine, Mum realized that her

I failed the eleven-plus exam better than anyone else in the history of the school and only then were they lifted. For example, the electric lights were not turned on until you could barely make out the presence of another person across the room, and heaven forbid you should

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COLUMN SIX continued from Page 14 daughter's potential was not being tapped at Roe Green School, so she sent me to Henrietta Barnett Junior School, a girl's school in Hampstead where I quickly crossed swords with drill teacher, Miss Wells. Compared to Miss Wells, a Marine Drill Sergeant would be like Mary Poppins. She seemed to derive the unmost pleasure making us perform torturous contortions on the various 'apparatus'.

As if to add insult to injury for my long-suffering mother, I failed the eleven-plus exam better than anyone else in the history of the school, but without missing a beat, Mum promptly enrolled me in boarding school, far away from anyone who knew me, in the sleepy little town of Petersfield, Hampshire. For the first time, teachers started to make sense. Our geography teacher, Miss Humphries, with thick brown stockings, brogues and tweed, with plaited hair that was wound like snail-shells around each ear, managed to get it into my head that Hobart is the capital of Tasmania, while we all developed kinks in our necks from reading her writing on the board, which went from top left and dropped dramatically, like a stock market graph, to finish at bottom right.

Mr. Marks, our English teacher, made an indelible impression on me. If he caught you looking indolent, he got your attention by shooting his propelling pencil at your head, with deadly aim. Miraculously, at the age of thirteen, mostly to the credit of Mr. Marks, I found myself top of the class, but not at all to my mum's surprise.

I'll never forget the day television came to our house.

Mum had picked out a tall console model with a circular screen, and it arrived just in time for the Queen's Coronation in 1953. Most of Dad's 15 siblings and Mum's 11 converged on our little house, with their respective spouses and offspring in tow. Mum borrowed every available chair from the neighbours, and still we had to watch the Queen get crowned in shifts. From the living room where the telly took pride of place, first shift moved to the kitchen, where Mum and her sisters had prepared a moveable feast, and move it we did! With plates held aloft, the next stop was the front parlour where the third shift were still waiting their turn, and we'd fill them in on what they were missing while we devoured Cornish pasties, pickled onions and Scotch eggs.

Television hours were very short and the set was never left on willy-nilly.

The news with MacDonald Hobley and documentaries with Richard Dimbleby or Malcolm Muggeridge were family fare. Dad made the selection of what we would watch, and Mum and I never questioned it. Actually, the most frivolous viewing in those days was the odd 'Interlude' interspersed between Dad's programmes, when the BBC would regale our senses with bullrushes blowing in a breeze in the marshes, or a slowly rotating windmill in a cornfield, set to the gentle orchestrations of a string quartet.

About the liveliest show was "What's My Line?" with the late, great Eamonn Andrews as host.

One gentleman who stumped the panelists comes to mind. His life's vocation? A Saggar-Maker's Bottom Knocker! [Ed. Note: That would be someone who knocks the bottom from a saggar, a type of container

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vertise using it more this year as well."

Gibson asserted that the economic impact of the event on the Town grew substantially in 2016. While in 2015 the event brought in a claimed $1,416,000, this year’s Summerfest generated a claimed $2,089,000.

For the second year in a row the event was named as one of the top 100 festivals in Ontario by the Ministry of Tourism.

The 33,674 who attended Summerfest in 2016 spent an average of $62 per person (up from $56 per person in 2015), asserted Gibson,

used in firing pottery.] er locked) and yelled "It’s The ‘50s was the time to me Mum", a total stranger be a teenager. I had gradyelled back, "Wrong mum, uated from tap-dancing to love!" ice-skating My first at Wembjob after ley arena. school was I fancied directly myself as a responSonja Henie sible for or at least my being Y v o n n e in CanaSugden as da now. I I whirled worked as around the a secreice to the tary to the strains of Manager Perez Praof Wembdo's "Cherley Stadiry Pink um, and at and Apple lunchtime Blossom in the areWhite.” na cafeteW h i l e ria, I'd sit the girls and talk to watched, the Canathe boys dian hockgot to show ey playoff as they ers who'd raced at The Chicago Tribune, November been imtop speed 10, 1958. ported to to Lonnie play for Donegan's the Wem'Jump down, turn around, bley Lions. Players like Curly pick a bale of cotton', then Leachman, Claire Smith and the girls tried to keep up coach Sonny Rost enthralled the pace to 'Sweet Georgia me with their Canadian acBrown', the record the arena cents and stories of their kept on hand for appearanchometowns in Canada. It es by the Harlem Globetrotwas more than this Britters. Those were the days! ish lass with the wanderMum used to say if I wore lust could stand, and three my skating skirt any shorter weeks after my eighteenth I'd be wearing it for a collar. birthday, I kissed Mum and But it wouldn't be right to Dad goodbye and took to the say I grew up British without skies. mentioning our pea-souper I arrived in Canada at 6 fogs. You didn't worry about a.m. at Montreal Airport walking the streets alone in October 1958. The 14— no-one could find you! hour flight (the first reguFrom Burnt Oak Station, if lar transatlantic jet service the buses had stopped run- started that month, but not ning in the fog, I'd have to on my budget!) and a refucount the number of curbs elling stop in Gander, NewI stepped up and down to foundland, was initiation keep count of the streets I'd enough — now I was mescrossed 'til I got to mine. merized by the immensity One time I had miscounted, of everything, the buildings, and so similar were the adjathe highways, the big cars, to cent cul-de-sacs, that when say nothing of riding on the I opened the front door (nev“wrong side” of the road.

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We had a number of service clubs that supported us

clubs in the community who make it possible.

“We had a number of service clubs that supported us — the Fonthill Lions and

Taking refuge at a YMCA while I got my bearings, everyone I met was so kind and helpful. I found a secretarial job right away with Trans Canada Airways (later Air Canada) and moved into a one-bedroom apartment.

I wrote home how thrilled I was — I could actually buy new shoes with my first paycheque and not have to save up for three months, after which the shoes were out of style!

On a bitterly cold November night, my new home caught fire and all the residents were evicted. While I sat outside contemplating another move back to the ‘Y’, I was amazed to see my new boss, Mr. Maguire, hurrying towards me… he heard of the fire on the radio and came to see that I was okay!

In minutes I was meeting his wife and family and being welcomed into their home.

I couldn’t believe my good luck. Sadly, the fire caused a tragic loss of life, and news

the Lionette Clubs, the Rotary Club, the Fonthill and District Kinsmen Club and the Kinettes Club,” Gibson said.

“They contributed 161 volunteer hours on Saturday alone.”

The budget for last year’s event consisted of $35,425 in corporate and community sponsorships, $116,164 of in-kind volunteer hours, services and supplies, and a $15,000 donation from the Town. Following their Committee’s presentation, Council approved the committee’s request to replenish their donation of $15,000 to organize and host the event again in 2017.

of it had even reached England and my parents were frantic, but I was in good hands.

Eventually, I married the young man next door and we moved to the suburbs, where we raised our three children. Mum and Dad came from England for holidays, and our children took turns spending their summer holidays there.

In 1972, a job transfer for my husband gave us the opportunity to move to Ontario, and we made Fonthill home. In the blink of an eye, it seemed, our children grew and branched out, each raising a family of their own. I now have six grandchildren, one of whom I’m proud to say is a Mountie with the RCMP, and he, in turn, has blessed me with two beautiful great-grandchildren.

For this British lass, life has been everything I could have hoped for, and so much more.

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