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Pelham’s second annual Seniors Information and Active Living Fair took place last Tuesday at the community centre. Starting at 9 AM, visitors could stroll the lower lobby, where some two dozen vendors had set up tables with information about products and services. Program demonstrations were made for Nordic walking, Zumba, and pickleball. Introduced this year were healthy snacks to munch on as William Thomas, the syndicated humour columnist, gave a keynote address to some 250 rapt listeners, then afterward sold an impressive number of copies of his book, The Legend of Zippy Chippy, at $20 a pop. Recruiting members for their new joint effort with the Town—the 55+ Active Living Lounge, located on the centre's second floor—Pelham Senior Advisory Committee chair Sharon Cook, and vice chair Del Leney, were the first to take out official member-

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ship cards, assisted by Town staffer Shayla Metherall, who accepted their $36 annual joining fees. “One of our goals is getting people to come out and have a cup of tea, and have them come out and participate,” said Cook.

The committee is hoping all the leisure activities, like exercise classes, the walking track and pickle ball, will have a “spillover effect,” and result in more people dropping in after working out. With an expansive view to the north, the lounge is set up in the special functions area overlooking the atrium, an entrance from the walking track providing access, and is available from 7 AM to 4 PM daily for those 55 years and older. Furniture, access to Wi-Fi, and other amenities will be offered in the space designed to encourage social interaction.

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ELECTION TRACKING POLL: RESULTS

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That pre-holiday holiday: Yes, it’s the much anticipated National Newspaper Week, the perfect lead-in to Thanksgiving, as newspapers around North America give thanks that we’re still here. This coming Saturday is also International Carrier Appreciation Day, so if you should see one of our wee nippers out and about between now and then, feel free to give them a smile and a tip, should you be so inclined (“Buy low, sell high”)...Good news for Duncan patients? If you were worried about losing your doctor as of October 31, see the story on page 3. There may be hope yet...Like moths to a flame: The Town is holding a public input and information session related to the pernicious gypsy moth problem, Wednesday, October 23, at the community centre. However, questions for staff and council need to be submitted by next Wednesday, October 16 (ad, p. 3). Dogged gypsy moth opponent Frank Feeley lays out the history of the pest and its treatment (or lack of) by the municipality over the last several years (p. 6)...I’m in the wrong business: The young men of Landscape 95—named for the year they were born—are advertising unlimited snow removal (back page) for $2499 this coming season. That’s apparently a competitive price, and maybe one of these days I'll get fed-up with going out three times a day to keep up with the accumulation, and fork over the cash...But before then: We’ve driven through the Rockies a bunch of times, but never taken the train. That Rocky Mountaineer ad on page 13 makes it mighty tempting. If only we had some snow removal income to finance it. But act fast, as the special offer deadline is October 25...Speaking of paying the bills: We welcome new advertisers Fonthill Marketplace Dental (p. 12), near PharmChoice both in print and in reality; and Square Roots Construction (p. 15), which intriguingly offers to remove unwanted walls...Very much wanted: We’re adding a short fiction feature, which will be greatly helped by having some short fiction to feature. Everyone's a writer these days. Send us your short stories, up to 2000 words, for consideration: publisher@thevoiceofpelham.ca Compensation slight, but on the other hand tiny...Tanks for the warning: Ward 1 Councillor Marianne Stewart alerts us to news of a fuel thief cruising North Pelham. A constituent received a 250-gallon delivery of diesel in late September, only to go out a couple of days later to find the tank empty. $1000 of fuel gone like that...Down to the wire: The apparent popularity of Niagara West Liberal candidate, Ian Bingham, in usually blue Pelham, may come as a surprise. See the most recent poll results, this page. Please do bear in mind, though, that while last year’s Voice election polling eventually proved remarkably accurate, this time around Pelham is only a small slice of the Niagara West pie, so don’t give over-much weight to these results. That said, please do register your candidate preference in our last poll of the election, at www.thevoiceofpelham.ca/election2019...Turkey time: Best wishes for a happy Thanksgiving. There is much to be thankful for. ♦

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OLLOW POLITICIANS for a living for as many years as I have, and you’ll realize that they’re all playing the same games, telling the same lies, manipulating the same polls, crying the same crocodile tears, all in an effort to fool us into thinking they’re in it for us, when too many of them are in it for themselves. No matter which party you love or loathe, they’re all guilty of playing politics with your money. We are reactionary, emotional, instinctual animals operating under the false belief that because we walk upright and know how to work a remote control, it somehow elevates us to the height of wisdom and intellect. And yet, we all fall for basic marketing manipulations every day. It’s the reason we buy all of the food, clothing and trappings of modernity that we think will fulfill us. It’s all sales, and politicians are just elite-level salespeople. They’re hedging their bets, shoveling promise after promise, just hoping that one of their pretend commitments resonates enough with you so that you will

believe that they’ve got your best interests at heart. Which brings me to social media. You know it’s gotten pretty bad when the vitriol and rhetoric being passed around by regular folks online makes the politicians look like rank amateurs. The BS people say to each other on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and in the comments sections of news sites is the reason I killed all of my social media feeds some time ago. The next time you’re tempted to go on a political rant, or engage in an online argument, consider the following points. You’re never going to change somebody’s mind about anything by calling

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them stupid. If everybody who talks a big game online actually went out and voted, the high turnout would be unprecedented. The people we associate with on social media generally share our perspectives, so most of the time, you’re preaching to the choir. You’re not convincing anybody of anything except that you both share the same bias. There are a lot of damaged people out there and some of them, for one reason or another, get pleasure from pissing off as many people as they can. They might not even disagree with your point of view, but they’ll happily fight with you in the CBC Comments Section,

usually under a fake name. On the other side of the previous point, just because somebody agrees with you online, doesn’t mean you’re right. Wisdom comes from realizing that you don’t know everything, and humbly admitting that you could be wrong, as we all are, a lot more often than we think. Sharing news story after news story on social media, without thinking about where it came from, just means you’re working without getting paid, failing to ask if the story you’re sharing is even from a legitimate news source. You’re now a volunteer propaganda distributor and they’re making money off of you. If the most interaction you have with somebody

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OPINION Support locals

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I recently hired a local landscaping company to do some work on my property. I was impressed by the level of service and professionalism provided. The owners spoke of growing up in Fonthill and how they had deep personal connections to our town. The pleasant experience reminded me of the value of hiring small businesses. Not only does local investment increase our community’s overall economic health, but, these business owners know who we are and can quickly respond to the changing needs of our neighborhoods. It all contributes to a strong sense of place. Jess Stephenson Fonthill

I want to challenge, perhaps not the best word, the letter-writer who last week said that our "Pelham teens show no respect for environment." I'm assuming, as a driver for a local bus company, that you are an adult, as am I, and I want to say that our kids learn by example. We live in a community where we are provided the opportunity to recycle a large amount of our daily products, compost more than just household waste to save the landfill, and yet many households don't put out grey, blue or green compost containers on collection day. Only recently moving from a community where only part of these options were available, I'm shocked at those of you who don't exercise the option to recycle. Step up, people! We as adults need to make an effort to provide a better future for our kids and grandkids, and present a better example in hope that they will follow in our footsteps—steps needed to help and enhance our existing environment. Sue Bailey Fonthill

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continued from previous page We compare our own best traits to the worst traits in others, convinced we’re better. We pretend to be virtuous and empathetic online, but race to beat somebody to a parking spot at the mall. We say things to people online that we would never say in real life to another’s face because then you would have to look them in the eye and see the damage you’ve done. Most people end up voting against somebody they dislike, rather than for somebody they like, the lesser of evils. You leave the ballot box with a heavy sigh, thinking, “Well, I did my duty,” but you don’t feel that good about it. I’m not going to try to fan the flames of democra-

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is in progress. What’s worse is that people are sharing false information and fake news stories and they don’t even seem to care that they’re being duped, because the fantasy they share supports what they want to believe. But we’ll call out a politician for even the tiniest of lies or indiscretions. Pot, meet kettle. You are free to champion one candidate while reviling another. But it is im-

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With Town meeting on the topic set for Wednesday, Oct. 23, a recap of the history of Pelham and the gypsy moth This is a summary of a 20page white paper outlining how the Town of Pelham has dealt with the gypsy moth problem since 1990. None of this data is fabricated. It is taken from official Town records and correspondence from letters and emails between the Town and its residents. The Town received copies of this report on September 5, 2019. The Town does not have an envious record in dealing with its residents in this matter. Records show a history of deflecting, obfuscating, stonewalling, procrastinating, mismanaging, and outright misinforming and/ or not responding to citizens emails over the years regarding this file. For example: 1. Based on Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) surveys conducted in 1989, MNR advised the Town that gypsy moth infestation had reached severe proportions in the Hillcrest Park and surrounding area, and needed to be sprayed in 1990, which the town did and stated it would continue to spray for several years. They did nothing for the next 18 years. Things got progressively worse for the residents abutting the park. 2. In 2008, the Town finally decided to spray Hillcrest Park and invited the 31 property owners abutting the park to have 30 feet of their

back yards sprayed at the same time. Trees Unlimited quoted the Town $670 to spray the 5.6 acre Hillcrest Park, and the property owners were quoted $14,730 to spray a total of 1.1 acres comprising 30 feet of their back yards. The Town scheduled a meeting at the old Town Hall to discuss the residents’ concerns but the Town didn’t show up. They sent Trees Unlimited instead. If the area was sprayed as one unit which it was, the residents’ total charge should have been a total of $72.16, according to Trees Unlimited’s Price Schedule. However it decided to spin the group away from Hillcrest Park and recognize the entire group as 31 separate properties and charge each of them $475 for spraying their 30 feet strip of land. The Town finally negotiated a charge of $157.50 per resident, which totalled approximately $5000 for 1.1 acres, compared the quote the Town received from Trees Unlimited to spray their 5.6 acres for $670. However, this charge was quietly withdrawn when it was challenged, because the Town had contravened its own policy requiring the residents sign a release form and no resident had. 3. It was difficult for the group joining together to oppose this invoice because the CAO refused to release their addresses to one of

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continued from Page 1 Boeing 767s to offset the cost of charter flights. Each of the 30 Major League baseball stadiums hosts 81 regular season games and draws an average of 2.6 million fans. That’s a lot of plastic beer cups. And a lot of cars—literally. Dodger fans, for example, drove 960,000 miles to fill the stadium parking lot with 16,000 vehicles, while Jets and Giants fans drove 1,428,000 miles and parked in 23,800 spots. One gallon of gasoline emits almost 20 pounds of carbon. Each NFL stadium draws some 542,000 fans over the course of a regular season. In 2012, the Super Bowl used 15,000 megawatt hours of electricity, enough to power 1400 average homes in the US for a year. Imagine all the stadium and arena events year- round, the energy required to power the lights, heating and A/C, water consumption for toilets, and the incalculable tonnage of trash and food waste. In Toronto, more than 26 tonnes of garbage were left on the streets after 100,000 fans finished celebrating the Raptors NBA title, and it took 46 people nine hours to clean it all up. It was all properly recycled. Said no one. Across the Atlantic, some 26 million spectators travel to attend large-scale sporting events, generating 210,000 tons of carbon emissions. The Tour de France attracts between 12 and 15 million spectators over a three-week period, and includes a bizarre tradition where a train of corporate, open-backed vehicles, several kilometers long, shower millions of plastic freebies onto spectators while they wait for the cyclists to appear.

the residents, stating that it was against privacy regulations (which it wasn’t). The height of stonewalling. The individual subsequently went door-to-door asking if the residents if they had received notice from the Town. 4. A resolution was put forth by Councillor Sharon Cook, back in 2007, “to work expeditiously to initiate the required spraying program.” We are still waiting. 5. The gypsy moths were back en masse in 2015, 2016 and 2017, and were devastating to the area. The Town had received numerous complaints and photographs from citizens, even three warnings in 2017 originated from Zimmer Air that the Town had better reserve a date for 2018 spraying, as it was predicted to be a bad year and their dates were getting filled up. Once again the Town ignored all these warnings. 6. In 2018, the Town sprayed Hillcrest Park, but because the Town had waited till the last minute to have private properties sprayed, Zimmer Air could not get regulatory approval to accommodate them. 2019 was much of the same : 7. On March 7, the Mayor said, “Yes, there is money for spraying this dastardly pest.” 8. On April 26, the Town, with great fanfare, announced that it would “conduct an aerial spray program

Across the Channel in England, soccer is huge. The Premier League drew 14.5 million spectators last year (Germany’s Bundesliga drew even more). And with 92 teams in the English League itself, and over 1100 clubs in county leagues, the spectator accumulation is massive. Nearly 70% travel to the games by car. All this goes on all year, every year. And we haven’t considered the hundreds of professional golf and tennis tournaments across the globe. Then there’s women’s sports, NCAA and minor league sports, World Cups in hockey, soccer, rugby, cricket and…so it goes on. What about the Olympics? Two of them every four years. Summer and Winter. Some 8.3 million tickets were sold at the record-breaking 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. Since then, tens of millions of people have flown to Australia, Russia, China, South Korea, Japan, France and Britain to compete or attend. But before we declare a moratorium on sports as a non-essential aspect of human existence, think for a moment about the tens of millions of jobs that manage the moving parts. Where to begin? How about considering a competitive alternative to sport that will help to reverse the damage. A friend in England, Jim McCue, has come up with an ingenious proposal for harnessing the all-consuming competitive energy that drives this behemoth of national and international sports into a comprehensive strategy for reducing, rather than increasing, our carbon footprint. I’m trying not to think about our Prime Minister planting two billion trees in ten years and funding the project with revenue from an oil pipeline he bought but hasn’t yet built. My friend’s proposal ac-

The entire community benefits from having living trees with a healthy canopy, which is in keeping with the Town's stated priority of "protecting our environmental assets"

in an effort to control the gypsy moth infestation.” In a lack of transparency, they forgot to mention that some 294 residents would be picking up the tab. 9. On May 21, the Town issued a report stating that the cost of spraying the private urban properties covering 108.5 acres within the urban spray areas in Fonthill was $76,658, and the cost was to be shared equally among the 294 residents, regardless of lot size. 10. In researching close to 100 urban properties from Town property tax records it was discovered that the average urban lot in Fonthill was just under .25 acres. The Town did not use residents’ actual data to determine the residents lot sizes but based them on spray site mapping software. This indicated the average lot size was increased by 150% to .37 acres per lot. Much of this increase was

tually makes sense. What about staging a Green Olympics, he asks. Not a regular Olympics being more environmentally responsible. An actual Green Olympics. Here’s what he says. The message of doom has generally been understood, but where's the message of hope? When will the public have a chance to see the thousands of initiatives that are going on around the world, from a plastic-substitute made from air pollution, to germinating crops in desert conditions, and recycling coffee beans? Nothing creates mass involvement and brings the world together the way sport does. Professionally arranged to maximize media interest, sport captures the public imagination and often dominates public conversation—particularly with tales of triumph against the odds. Its stars are household names, the budgets are vast, and the worldwide prestige sees nations vying to stage events and investing billions in facilities, technology and razzmatazz. All it is, really, is bread and circuses, but boy do they know how to do it. The Olympics and the World Cup are now two of the most important events on the global calendar. And the environmental movement desperately needs some of that excitement and glamour. Many green ideas and devices are wonderfully ingenious and inspiring, but they are short of publicity. We hugely sponsor some essentially unproductive activities for mass consumption, when we should be using some of those resources to nudge the public’s perception of what is exciting. So let Britain announce the first Green Olympics, to be held in 2022 (time is pressing) in Birmingham or Manchester — using existing facilities and infrastructure—

actually municipal property, which included the 18 feet road allowance between the edge of one’s private property and the edge of the paved street. Also, where residents on both sides of streets were sprayed, the entire area of paved street was also included in charges invoiced to the residents. 11. Spray site F-02 shows 20.3 acres being sprayed, but no residents were assigned to it. Does this mean that this $14,350 charge is being absorbed by the 294 residents? 12. Why does Lookout Village, with 150 condo owners, pay one fee of $260, when their acreage (7 acres) is 35 times larger than the 1/5 acre lots most the 294 residents have, and they pay $260 each. 13. Why did the municipalities of Toronto, Mississauga, Oakville. Hamilton, Dundas, Ancaster and Flamborough pay $350 per acre this year, and we paid $625.25 per acre,

there will be no building of everything anew— and invite every nation to show off its best green innovations, science and engineering. Like the Great Exhibition in 1851, or the Festival of Britain in 1951, the Green Olympics would be a spectacle to celebrate achievement and anticipate many aspects of the global future. (Canadians might take issue here. Why not have it in Canada? Because this isn’t about us. It’s about everyone. So maybe we could start by sending our best teams.) There would be an element of competition, with medals in various technological and social categories. But as well as trading, like sport, on national pride and loyalties, it would bring imaginative people together and inspire collaboration. Denmark has the lowest CO2 emissions, the Germans are best at recycling, and China is developing huge floating solar power projects. But with so much activity around the world, from multinational research labs to tiny startup companies, no one knows the whole scope of the field. So participants would be learning as much as the visitors and viewers. Government would be one of the sponsors, but so would big corporations showing their green credentials, and industry, charities, philanthropic trusts and universities all have natural stakes. Among other things, the Green Olympics would be a huge media event, with much of Hollywood wanting to seen to support it. The star of the opening ceremony would of course be Greta Thunberg. Broadcasters and newspapers could be enticed by the participation of the Royal Family, with their keen interest in green issues. Danny Boyle, PR firms and events organizers, would queue up to volunteer for the organizing committee. Perhaps the Russians

up from $350 last year? And we all use the same applicator. 14. The acceptable threshold for severely infested areas is recognized as 2500-plus egg masses per hectare. All of the above municipalities use it and it is a prevalent standard throughout the USA. Why, when our bylaw states the Town will spray areas designated as severely infested, is our standard considerably lower— 1500-plus egg masses per year. 15. In contravention to the Town bylaw, the Town also spayed areas it designated as medium infested (500-1500 egg masses per hectare). The may be sufficient cause to invalidate the billing process. Many of these concerns and other were emailed to the Town back on May 21 and to date I have heard no reply. The entire community benefits from having living trees with a healthy canopy, which is in keeping with the Town’s stated priority of “protecting our environmental assets.” In future, large-scale spraying would only cost $11 per property owner, rather than saddle the 294 residents with footing the bill. If you want a full copy of the White Paper email me at feeleyfj@gmail.com or go to http://bit.ly/gypsymothpdf Frank Feeley Fonthill

could coordinate the social media coverage? We can light a torch not only for the next Green Olympics, to be staged by another nation, but also to change the way the world feels about that challenge. With the right global involvement, perhaps the seemingly impossible can be done after all. Why wouldn’t this work, I ask myself. It isn’t by any means the wackiest proposal ever advanced in response to climate change. Remember the Leap Manifesto? My nephew, Gordon, a chemical engineer working on fossil fuel alternatives at the University of Virginia, has a great idea for zero emissions Green Olympic torch. Every movement needs an icon, so how about this one? “Use a liquid hydrocarbon fuel— for example, methanol—produced from water, carbon dioxide captured from the atmosphere or industrial waste streams, and solar-generated electricity—essentially artificial photosynthesis. These processes produce enough fuel to power a torch, and draw attention to a technology that will eventually replace fossil fuels. The faster we can get there, the better.” As for “getting there,” no one but the competitors would need to travel to the Olympic site. Spectators would watch the events from the comfort of their living rooms, as many do the current Games, no fewer than 3.6 billion for Rio de Janeiro in 2016. Even the Eurovision Song Contest, the biggest onenight show on the planet, drew 182 million viewers in 40 countries. Okay, the Green Olympics won’t give us another Abba, Blue, Celine Dion or Nana Mouskouri, but it could give us the lives of our children and grandchildren. Planet earth to Emission Control. Who’s on board? ♦

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through a tax break, because the tax breaks generally aren’t large enough.” He also touts the NDP’s national pharmacare plan as a major way to offset expenses—especially for Niagara’s large seniors population. “We don’t have enough longterm care facilities in Niagara,” Rahman said. “[But] pharmacare is a large chunk of that, because as you get older your health issues pile up. If you don’t have benefits, you could be looking at bills in the tens of thousands of dollars. And [seniors] need support with that.” Rahman ran for the NDP in Niagara West in the 2015 federal election, finishing third. Living in the riding has brought to his attention another issue centered around the costs of succession with family farms. “One of the things that’s popped

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production, “and if required, funding.” He compared the emergence of complaints about cannabis to the pushback against wind turbines in West Lincoln. “As with any industry, there’s going to be things that you’re going to discover … and odour seems to be one of them,” he said. On a personal level, as a Canadian of South Asian descent, Rahman was offended by the revelation that Justin Trudeau donned racially demeaning “brownface” and “blackface” in his earlier adult years— and believes the Prime Minister should have resigned over it. See RAHMAN Page 15

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up is transfer of properties between different generations with a family farm,” he said. “Whoever the successor is has generally been stuck with a large tax bill. And that’s something they may not have cash at hand for. We’d like to make things easier for farms, particularly in succession planning, to ensure they can pass the farm from one generation to the next without being saddled with more debt.” Rahman, like Green Party candidate Terry Teather, also points to the effects of climate change on farming. “Most people see the environment as an abstract topic,” Rahman said. But if farmers can’t get a stretch of needed weather, “You’re looking at an industry in jeopardy. Farmers can lose all their crops and profitability in one bad day. These are the things that are the real cost of climate change in Niagara. We need to be able to act … both to prevent it, or to limit its impact and mitigate the damages.” He said the federal government needs to work closer with municipalities in updating infrastructure that is increasingly unable to handle

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Short Hills again to host First Nation deer harvest BY VOICE STAFF

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R ECEI V ED A NICE little email from a reader this week reminiscing about his time on golf course maintenance, mowing the greens—the serenity of it, and some his run-ins with wildlife. This email, and spotting a big racked deer while walking the dog, brought back a lot of memories of my own. I started out on the maintenance side of the golf business, working summers for my father at St. Catharines Golf Club all through high school. By the second year of university I needed a change of scenery, and had some friends living in Banff. So off I went to work at Banff Springs. If you have never been in the mountains it is just plain mesmerizing. I went out by train and the Rockies seem to come into view in Saskatchewan. It looks like you are an hour or two away and yet they just keep staying off in the distance. A working day later and you just about get to their edge. The courses in that climate don’t get to open before May, and for the first 40 days I worked it rained or snowed for at least part of each one. I stayed away from the bars and had some money to spend on rain gear, so it wasn’t too

bad. The kids who tried to get through it with denim weren’t so enthusiastic about things. The less appealing part about course maintenance (for me anyway) is the monotony. You tend to be given the same

It's like last call in the bars when all the bull elk realize they don't yet have a procreation partner

jobs and do them over and over. I got lucky out there as my experience provided me with knowledge of jobs I didn’t know I had, and led to me being offered to tackle a variety of tasks. The thing about working in a setting like Banff is that it’s hard not to be in a constant state of wonder. Bears meandering through the property. Foxes and coyotes were regular visitors. I had a bobcat follow my route one evening, just trotting along and peering at me from the

edge of the woods. Lots of deer and, of course, the elk. They are everywhere and are virtually indifferent to humans (unless you cork one in the head with a golf ball; they tend to notice that). The players for the most part love hitting balls amongst them and unless a bear shows up they tend to be the highlight of a tourist’s round. There is a downside to having them roam freely. Their urine, which they are prone to let fly whenever the mood strikes them, contains an acid which burns unsightly circles wherever it is dispensed. Annoying, but in those surroundings seems a small price to pay. Then rutting season arrives. What’s rutting season? It’s like last call in the bars when all the bull elk realize they don’t yet have a procreation partner. The bulls bellow and bluster and stomp their feet (just like their human counterparts) and look for a stage on which to settle the score. Low and behold, on most golf courses the greens are the high points. Imagine two beasts, weighing well over 1000 pounds combined, with antlers four feet across, bashing heads and trying to get leverage See MAINTENANCE next page

The new semester at E.L. Crossley has just begun and it looks to be quite an exciting year. There are new students and staff at the school this semester. There is also a great new program called MSIP to help students with self-study and academic support. MSIP stands for Multi Subject Instructional Period, and it runs every Wednesday. Students meet in similar grade groupings with a teacher for one hour, during which they can complete assigned work for classes, review, consolidate, or work ahead. They are also able to exercise a travel privilege to get focused academic support, or complete a test or lab. School Principal Janice Sargeant is very excited about the new program. “Last year, student facilitators held a student voice forum and identified the MSIP program as something they would like to have at E. L. Crossley. Our teachers jumped into the planning and we are thrilled to offer MSIP this year. One of the major benefits of MSIP is that it supports our students as they balance their course work with their extra-curricular activities and busy lives. It helps builds time management and organization skills as well as decision making skills. I am pleased we were able to respond to our students and offer MSIP this year.” Crossley has some new staff this year, meaning freshmen are not alone in being new to the school, even the Vice Principal is new to E. L. Crossley. Tyler Graham started the “DiG iT” program at Westlane Secondary School, and he was also the Vice Principal at A. N. Myer before coming to Crossley this year. Said Graham, “I think that Crossley is a great community school...everyone is very nice and friendly.” Last year was a great year for athletics. It's kind of hard to pick just one standout moment with the sheer number of awards received last year, so the current year's new teams will have a lot to live up to, with such sports as girls basketball, boys volleyball,

Wearing their team colours for Jersey Day, from left, Tess Burgess, Marin Green, and Abigail Thibodeau. GAVIN MIDDLETON PHOTO tennis, cross country, golf, swimming and football available to play for the next month. The Crossley marching band returned to the streets of southern Ontario and they enjoyed their first performances at the Wainfleet Fall Fair parade, and at the Grape and Wine parade in St. Catharines last month. The band has many new band members, and upcoming performances starting in November, including the prestigious Toronto Santa Claus parade. Teacher Janine Barber and the band will have a busy and exciting fall/winter season. The week of Sept. 23 to Sept. 27 was Crossley’s first spirit week. The week gave us Pajama Day, Rowan’s Law Day (to help promote concussion awareness), Jersey Day, and Colour Wars Day, when each grade wore a different colour. The two main highlights of the week were the glow dance on Thursday night and the Grade 9 retreat at Burgoyne Woods on Friday. With all the athletics, arts, and activities available, there are plenty of opportunities to become involved no matter what your interest! Nigel Casson is a Grade 12 student at E. L. Crossley Secondary School.

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Crossley teacher to face hearing Allegations include sexual abuse, misconduct at previous school BY JOHN CHICK

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An E. L. Crossley teacher is awaiting a provincial disciplinary hearing over allegations made by a female student and four colleagues

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while he was working at a different school. According to an Ontario College of Teachers (OCT) notice of hearing dated June 12, Bradley Ziegler is alleged to have, among other things, abused a student or

I never expected in a million years was that Justin Trudeau—after all his virtue signaling—would have this history of blackface and brownface. I don’t think many Canadians understand how racist it really is. The history of [minstrelsy] is the history of depriving people of colour from the stage, and then representing them in derogatory ways. And for somebody who claims to be as progressive as he is, it talks not to his privilege, but ignorance. Straight out.”

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Niagara (DSBN) since 1998, Ziegler is currently listed as a technology teacher at Crossley. Requests for comment from the DSBN and from Crossley Principal Janice Sargeant went unacknowledged. Gabrielle Barkany, a senior communications officer at the OCT, said last week that no hearing date

Rahman believes other politicians would have been forced to resign over the same revelations. “What I find is his true privilege is him being able to get away with it,” Rahman said. “There are real racists who are running [for office], and if Justin Trudeau gets away with an apology, somebody else could say, ‘You know what, if you can accept Justin Trudeau’s apology, you can accept mine.’” On the topic of increasing

political divisiveness —possibly driven by events in the United States — Rahman pleads for unity and understanding. “We’ve seen this rise of populism that’s also sometimes taken racist elements,” he said. “And it’s started to unravel the threads of what binds us together. One of the reasons I wanted to step forward as a candidate is to say, ‘We can do better.’ We don’t have to pit members of different communities against each other.”

time, being in wonderland takes a lot of the sting of work away. The quiet of being out on the course before the players. Trying to place the pieces of turf back together like a 3D jigsaw puzzle. No matter how daunting the task, every time you look up you see something in the mountains you didn’t notice before. I like teaching. I get to meet and converse with interesting people from a wide variety of backgrounds and places on a daily basis. The weather in south-

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One of Pelham’s more prominent natives — and arguably the Voice’s most famous alumnus — has a new book out. Adam Shoalts’ tome, “Beyond the Trees: A Journey Alone Across Canada’s Arctic” is available now, and his promotional tour includes a stop at the community centre this Thursday. It’s a popular homecoming the renowned naturalist and former Voice columnists has become used to. “I've done about five previous talks at the Pelham Library going back more than a decade now,” Shoalts said. “I think after the fourth talk, the library decided they needed to move to a bigger venue, as the audiences were growing bigger and bigger. So last time I spoke in Pelham the library moved it to the Legion, and now it’s at the new community centre.” The stopover will include a free author talk, a slideshow/video presentation of Shoalts’ journeys, and a book signing. Shoalts, 33, says his evolution from Voice nature columnist from 2007-12 to best-selling author — and being called one of this country’s greatest living explorers, by Canadian Geographic, and “Canada’s Indiana Jones,” by the Toronto Star — just sort of happened. “I started doing expeditions on a bigger and bigger scale, first

with my childhood friends, and then increasingly solo, as the expeditions turned from weeks to months. Along the way, my journeys seemed to spark more and more interest, and somehow, before I knew it, it was no longer the Voice covering me, but the Star, CBC, the Guardian, the BBC and CNN.” His love of the outdoors began in Fenwick at a young age, when the forested area out his back door became a captivating playground, where his imagination roamed free, and a desire to further explore Canada’s vast open spaces took root. “Those woods were my classroom,” he said. “That’s where I learned the skills I still use now. My friends and I had many adventures in those woods.” How the woodlands of Pelham prepare a man to come face-toface with an 800-pound muskox, light-years from the nearest populated settlement is unknown, but it’s an experience Shoalts recalls in the new book from his expedition along the Mackenzie River in the Northwest Territories, and was excerpted in last week’s Voice. “I’d found them to be mostly gentle giants that left me alone as I camped and paddled along,” he writes in Beyond the Trees. “But

Adam Shoalts rows his boat toward points north. here along the Mackenzie, the more hospitable climate allowed the muskox to grow much larger. The big bull that had stirred me from my sleep was the largest I’d ever seen.” Fortunately, Shoalts’ “banger” was enough to frighten off the great beast, who retreated by “smashing and crashing through the fallen spruces as if they were mere matchsticks.” While most folks might lament the cold, still loneliness of Canada’s north — perhaps instead opting for alcoholic beverages on a beach or exploring some foreign city as an adventure—Shoalts says he feels right at home in what can best be described as God’s country. “Just soaking in the majesty of a truly wild place, hundreds of miles from any other person, where the wolves still roam free and the tundra seems to go on forever, where the lakes appear

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bottomless and the forest as old as the hills...that to me, the land itself, is the most special thing.” The latest book is Shoalts’ third, and his second about his Canada’s north. The first, 2016’s “Alone Against the North,” elicited praise from some high places. “Adam Shoalts, 21st century explorer, calmly describes the things he has endured that would drive most people to despair, or even madness,” Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield wrote. “Rare insight into the heart and mind of an explorer, and the insatiable hunger for the unknown that both inspires and drives one to the edge … a firsthand look into the heart of a truly brave man.” The accolades are pretty cool, but Shoalts says he’s just doing what he loves. “Nature and the outdoors has always held such fascination for me,” he said. “Eastern cougars, wolves that look you in the eye,

lakes with no names, wild rivers with falls that roar like thunder, a land where sun still shines at midnight, wolverines that roam free, how could anyone not find that alluring?” His middle book, “A History of Canada in 10 Maps,” focused on the history of the country using maps accounting for First Nations, the Vikings, and the War of 1812. Asked if he’s interested in writing another book about the last, combining Niagara’s own important place Canadian history and its unique ecosystem, Shoalts said maybe. “I think history is very important,” he said. “But the new book is pretty much straight adventure, although I do sprinkle some northern history and lore. There’s tales of lost ruins, legends, vanished explorers, and that sort of thing. I don’t want to give it all away though, people will have to buy the book. Niagara is one of the most fascinating places in all of Canada. I’m thinking of maybe writing another history book in the future. But at this point, I’m focused on more wilderness journeys.” That said, Shoalts believes conservation remains an important issue on the peninsula. “I think it’s important in part to preserve rural communities and forests. Without them I don’t think I would ever have been launched on this career path,” said Shoalts, who now lives in Norfolk County. “I like to think my heart is still in Pelham.” Shoalts reads from Beyond the Trees, this Thursday, Oct. 10, starting at 7 PM, at the community centre. Tickets are $10, through the Pelham Library.

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HIS M INISER IES we’ve ran the last couple of weeks could have been called “Pre-Marital Counselling 101.” I hope it’s been helpful as well to married couples of all ages. We began with the four basic personality types (remember the four “P’s”?) and noted the strengths and weaknesses of each. Our takeaway was to affirm your spouse’s strength and be patient with their weakness. Then we looked at the five “love languages” identified by Dr. Gary Chapman. Knowing the love language of your partner helps you express your love to them in a way they understand and appreciate. Today’s column is the last of a trilogy of practical advice that I have gleaned over the years from prominent marriage counselors and relationship experts. Dr. Willard Harley wrote the book His Needs, Her Needs in 1987. It has sold over four million copies and has been translated into 22 languages. It has helped many couples avoid marital pitfalls and strengthen their commitment to each other. He begins with a simple financial analogy. When your bank account receives a lot of deposits it becomes healthy. On the other hand, when you make repeated withdrawals it quickly sinks into the red and becomes unhealthy (hopefully a few politicians are reading this). A marriage works the same way. We’ll begin with the negative and end with the positive.

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Dr. Harley has a name for the withdrawals from your marriage’s love bank— love-busters. There are six main ones: Selfish demands (“I

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