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of Pelham and Central Niagara OCTOBER 20 2021
Vol.25 No.42
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Forging a friendship BY SHIRLEY LAZARETH Special to the Voice
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Deer hunt protesters Chris and Linda hold signs outside Short Hills Provincial Park last week as the annual Indigenous deer hunt got underway.
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Protesters greet start of annual Short Hills deer hunt BY DON RICKERS Contributing News Editor Perhaps some activists in the animal protection community are searching for common ground in their dispute with Indigenous hunters invoking treaty rights. But that ground won’t be found in Short Hills Provincial Park. Ontario has recognized the rights of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy (Six Nations) to conduct an annual white-tailed deer harvest in the park
since 2013. The province’s Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks attempts to balance the interests of the different users of the park and local community with the treaty rights of the Haudenosaunee, but animal rights activists are adamantly opposed to the activity, and muster a couple of dozen protesters most hunt days to picket at the Pelham Road entry point. Robin Zavitz and her husband, Craig, who have lived on Roland
Road in Pelham for 18 years, have a rural property that abuts Short Hills. As founding members of the Short Hills Wildlife Alliance, they were at the Pelham Road gate of the park shortly after 4 AM last Wednesday on the opening day of the hunt. Zavitz counted 29 vehicles ushered in by the OPP and Niagara Regional Police officers stationed at the park entrance, and estimated that about 70 Indigenous hunters were on site. “The Ministry doesn’t do a hunter
count, nor do the police staffing the entrance gate,” said Zavitz. “Apparently, it is now up to the Aboriginal hunters to keep track of that, along with the number of deer taken. The Ministry has just a skeleton crew of officers on duty during the hunt to enforce the Short Hills Harvest Protocol of 2021.” Zavitz says she has documented evidence of breaches of the hunt See HUNT Page 11
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ritannica defines "Friendship" as a state of enduring affection, esteem, intimacy and trust. In all cultures friendships are important relationships throughout a person's life span. My own personal friendship with a true, loyal, forever friend began with Rachel, and has lasted more than 63 years, beginning in the fall of 1958. My husband, my little boy, and I had just moved to a newly developed suburb, north of the Pen Centre in St. Catharines. I, a young mother already, was expecting our second child in a few weeks. I was deliriously happy. As fate would have it, I met my first unforgettable neighbour, a young, attractive woman with a darling three-month-old baby boy. Though she and I were direct opposites in looks and personalities—she, poised and calm, me, talkative and always in flight—we hit it off. I was over the moon. I had found a new friend! We have been good friends ever since and have weathered good and bad times together. We "girls" have become even closer as the years go by. But this story is not about my friendship. It is about a most unique, unusual, ongoing friendship brought on, in part by a rabbit, a fuzzy, furSee COLUMN SIX Page 6