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Mapleton ahead of province in population increase, and other census categories

By Aryn Strickland

Trendy Trains - The Town of Minto Cultural Roundtable’s Trendy Trains public art project was launched on June 8 during the opening of the Minto Farmers’ Market at the Palmerston Railway Heritage Museum. Ten trains created by local artists have been located around the downtown area and residents and visitors can vote for their favourite online through the official Town of Minto Facebook #TrendyTrain photo album.

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MAPLETON - According to recent census-based statistics, this township is ahead of the province in population increase, household income and employment.

The non-profit organization, Wellington-Waterloo Community Futures Development Corporation (WWCF), came to council May 28 to discuss their services and provide an update on the township’s statistics.

From 2011 to 2016 Mapleton’s population increased by five per cent, according to the recent Statistics Canada 2016 Census. The provincial increase was 3%. “We are situated in kind of an awesome spot because we are so close to the GTA,�

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officer Jenna Morris told council.

WWCF is funded by the Federal Development Agency of Southern Ontario (FedDev) to provide economic development support to businesses and residents of rural areas in Wellington County and Waterloo.

According to Morris and WWCF general manager Rick Whittaker the WWCF advanced 25 loans in the 2018/2019 year and the average value of a loan was $96,652.

The organization relies on recent statistics of the different areas in its general operation, Morris explained. “We like to be informed about this stuff so we can focus on community economic development projects,� she said.

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Bee rescue specialist removes massive hive from home

By Patrick Raftis

Bee rescue - A massive hive of honeybees was recently removed from a Harriston home. LEFT: Sandra and Glyn Thompson donned protective suits for an up-close look at the process.

ABOVE: Bee rescue specialist Derek Rice checks out the hive.

RIGHT: Rice uses a speciallydesigned vacuum to corral the pollinators.

Photos by Patrick Raftis Their initial plan for dealing with the intruders was fairly simple. “We were hoping last year

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that when winter came they would go away,� said Sandra.

Glyn filled in the hole with foam in hope of pre-

venting the bees from returning. However this spring, the bees, which had wintered in the attic, dug their way

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That’s what Sandra and Glyn Thomson did when they discovered that honeybees had taken up residence en masse in a space created by a drop ceiling between their attic and kitchen. “We first noticed them last year when they started showing up in our window ‌ above the sink in the kitchen,â€? said Sandra. “Every so often we’d grab a glass, put them in a glass and put them back outside. So we did that for a couple of months and then our neighbour next door said, ‘Do you guys realize that you have bees on the side of your house?’â€?

The Thomsons checked outside to discover a large amount of bees on the wall of their home near the roofline. “A couple of hundred,� guessed Glyn, who said the neighbours told them they had seen bees covering patches of wall as large as three feet square.

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through the foam and made their presence known once again.

The couple went online

and found Derek Rice, a beekeeper whose Shelburnebased Royalty Bee Company specializes in bee rescue and extraction.

For Rice, who incorporates the rescued bees into his company’s apiaries, the work is pretty steady, partly due to a limited number of competitors. “There’s maybe 30 beekeepers that will attempt to do this and maybe four or five in southern Ontario that I know about,� he said.

After confirming the intruders were honeybees – if they were wasps or hornets they could have just sprayed them, noted Glyn Rice agreed to take on the job. “Because of dwindling population, you want to save the honeybees,� said Sandra.

Using imaging equipment, Rice determined the hive was about seven feet long, although he couldn’t be sure how wide or deep it was. “Judging by the activity on the outside of this one ‌ I’m thinking that there’s 50,000-plus bees in there and then when I open it I’m not going to be shocked if I find SEE THOUSANDS Âť 3

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Taekwondo tests - Maryborough Public School teacher Andrew Rogers has run a taekwondo club for interested students for the past school year. The final testing took place June 2 at Phoenix Performance Center in Mount Forest with Master Reeves. The students worked diligently on learning their foundation movements, kicks, blocks and patterns that are required for this belt testing level.

There were 16 students tested. They had to pass a conditioning test and break a board at the end of the testing. “It was incredible seeing the students develop perseverance, physical stamina, display drive and endurance. The students appreciate Mr. Rogers volunteering his time and talents as a black belt instructor for them to have this experience,” school officials note. The belt ceremony will take place soon and students will find out if they have earned their yellow belt.

ABOVE LEFT: Vaishnavi Bridgemohan gets set to hit a target. ABOVE: RIGHT. Lily Sprague about to crush a board with her foot. LEFT: Some of the participants.

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Owl assist - A family of displaced owls received some help from Harriston resident Shirley Litt and others recently. TOP: June Yang of the Owl Foundation checks a nesting box set up to host some baby owls on Litt’s property. ABOVE LEFT: Litt surveys a downed branch where an injured owl was found. RIGHT: One of several owls to be seen in the trees around Litt’s property on June 2.

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HARRISTON – Several local residents worked together to help a displaced family of owls here recently.

Raglan Street resident Shirley Litt explained town workers came to cut some branches off a tree slated to be taken down on the corner of her lot on May 31. Later that afternoon, another local resident Sean Weed came by to make plans to pick up the wood.

“Sean walked around the corner of the house and he said ‘Do you know you have two baby owls in your lilac tree?’”

Litt said she immediately suspected the birds had been disturbed by the tree cutting.

“So then Sean looked up at vines on back of house and said, ‘I think there’s three more owls up in this vine – on the side of my house,’” Litt recalls.

Further investigation revealed another baby owl in the knot of one of the downed branches.

Litt noted between the birds’ natural camouflage coloration and the fact the nocturnal birds wouldn’t have been active in the afternoon, Litt said it’s unlikely the town workers could have

spotted them.

“I don’t think they could have seen them,” she said.

As the last bird they found seemed disoriented, Litt decided to contact local veterinarian Terry Fisk, who suspected it may have had a concussion. Fisk took the injured bird, plus the two from the lilac tree back to his office for treatment and safekeeping and suggested Litt contact the Owl Foundation.

June Yang from the foundation arrived the next day and with Fisk’s help the young birds were re-nested in a bird house Yang had brought with her.

“The owl foundation said it’s better if we can get them nesting,” Litt noted.

Yang returned on June 2 to check on the birds, with plans to take the injured one back to the foundation’s sanctuary if it hadn’t recovered.

However, a check of the bird box revealed the owls had flown the coop and a scan of nearby trees revealed several owls among the branches.

After a search of the property revealed no sign of any injured birds, Litt said Yang determined they had all probably survived the disruption.

“It’s kind of a delightful story … it’s been exciting watching them,” said Litt.

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MPP Pettapiece celebrating “busy’ first year in power

By Patrick Raftis PERTH-WELLINGTON – “It’s been a busy year,” said Perth-Wellington MPP Randy Pettapiece, as the veteran parliamentarian, first elected in 2011, reflected on his first year on the government side of the provincial legislature.

“Our government hit the ground running one year ago,” Pettapiece stated in a June 7 press release.

“Looking back on our first year in government, I am pleased with the actions we have taken so far. The investments we have made in Perth-Wellington over the last year are astounding.”

The release indicates that since June 2018, the Progressive Conservative government has “invested over $60.3 million in PerthWellington,” including funding for transit, healthcare and housing.

In a telephone interview Pettapiece told the Advertiser he’s proudest of funding local transit solutions.

“Transportation is so important in a rural areas,” he said, pointing out the government is providing $3.4 million to create public transit networks in both Perth and Wellington County.

The Perth County Transit System will link Stratford, St. Marys, Mitchell, Sebringville, Monkton, Atwood, Milverton, Listowel and Millbank. In addition, the funding will help create a Stratford/Perth Regional Transportation Service

connecting communities to services in London and Kitchener.

“Wellington County is proposing an innovative solution to meet the growing transit needs of our rural communities,” said Pettapiece. “These are the types of ideas our government wants to support.”

On Jan. 25, the province announced it would proceed with Community Transportation Grant Program funding of $449,500 to develop a demand-based ride-sharing system in Wellington County. The funds had originally been announced last spring by the previous Liberal government, however the county halted work on the project when the grant program was placed under review by the incoming Conservatives last fall.

“I’m looking forward to seeing them getting that up and running,” said Pettapiece.

Pettapiece told the Advertiser his greatest regret from the past session was that his private members bill The Rea and Walter Act was not passed. The bill would require signage indicating the presence of truss and lightweight construction to warn firefighters entering burning buildings they could collapse more quickly than other types of construction.

Pettapiece reintroduced the bill, which had failed to pass previously despite receiving a resolution of allparty support, at Queen’s

Park on Sept.

19. However it has so far failed to become law.

“But we’ll keep working at it,” he promised.

Pettapiece MPP RANDY also stated PETTAPIECE the government is taking “concrete steps” to address “hallway healthcare” and are investing over $2.3 million in local hospitals for upgrades, repairs and maintenance.”

“Securing more longterm care beds for PerthWellington and our rural communities is also a main focus of mine,” he said.

In May 2019, the government announced the addition of 41 new long-term care beds at three projects across the riding, the first time in over eight years the riding received new long-term care beds.

“Our healthcare system is under strain caused by a rapidly aging population,” said Pettapiece. “By investing in long-term care beds we freeup space in local hospitals and ensure families don’t have to travel long distances to see loved ones.”

The provincial government has also committed $2.3 million in funding for mental health and addictions services in Perth-Wellington, with funding going to seven different agencies.

“Our government is keeping our promise to make mental health and addictions

a priority,” said Pettapiece.

The government is also spending over $10 million to improve community housing in the riding, with the City of Stratford, and the Perth County and Stratford Housing Corporation receiving $3.9 million for the 2019-20 year and Wellington County set to receive $6.1 million.

“Our government believes Ontario families shouldn’t have to live in buildings with crumbling walls, leaking roofs and broken elevators,” Pettapiece stated in the release.

The past legislative session has also generated considerable controversy, most recently through a government plan to unilaterally end a 10-year contract with The Beer Store in order to allow beer sales in Ontario convenience stores. While the contract calls for substantial financial penalties, in legislation which received royal assent last week, the government waived compensation.

The move sparked opposition criticism and prompted objections from both the Canadian and US chambers of commerce.

“I’m learning a lot about these things,” said Pettapiece when asked for his take on voiding the contract. “I’m not a lawyer, but the previous government signed a 10 year-contract and constitutionally they’re not allowed to do that.”

Finance Minister Vic Fedeli has stated that previous legislatures are not allowed to bind future leg-

islatures beyond their mandates.

Pettappiece said the matter may well end up in court.

“We’ll see where this goes,” he said.

The MPP said some convenience store operators need the additional revenue beer sales would provide in order to survive.

“In my hometown of Monkton there’s only one store left and it’s a convenience store,” he pointed out. “If we can give them an opportunity generate some more revenue it’s going to help.”

While the government recently reversed some retroactive funding cuts to municipalities, councils across Ontario are bracing for cuts to the Ontario Municipal Partnership Fund and other cuts to grants they’ve been told to expect in next year’s provincial budget.

Pettapiece said massive provincial debt and deficit means spending reductions are necessary.

“You can’t just keep borrowing to keep these things going. And if we don’t do something, we’ll be losing a lot more than what these municipalities are worried about,” he told the Advertiser.

On June 6 the government ended the legislative session and set an Oct. 28 return date, extending usual summer break for MPPs, who usually return to Toronto after Labour Day. “We’ve passed more legislation than any government in recent history,” said

Pettapiece, noting the government passed 20 bills, met 38 election platform commitments and “fostered an economic environment that led to 170,000 new jobs.

“I’ve been in Toronto this session more than I’ve ever been,” he stated, citing an extra session in July to deal with a college teachers strike and an interruption of the winter break to “deal with some things.”

The government reconvened in December, just over a week after rising for their winter break, to table a bill to stop threatened job action by about 6,000 workers at Ontario Power Generation.

Noting he has additional responsibilities this year as parliamentary assistant to Minister of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs Ernie Hardeman, Pettapiece said he could use the additional riding time.

“The minister’s given me a lot of responsibilities and I appreciate that,” said Pettapiece. “However, I am looking forward to spending more time in the riding this summer and meeting with constituents, businesses and community groups.”

Message for farmers During the interview Pettapiece added a message of concern for area farmers struggling to work the land through an extremely wet spring.

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Thousands of bees removed safely from home in Harriston » FROM PAGE 1

80,000,” said Rice on June 2, when he arrived to extract the bees.

“They’ve been a couple of years in there,” Glyn estimated. “We only really noticed them last year.”

Rice uses a special vacuum of his own design, which allows him to control the suction level and avoid injuring the bees.

“One hundred percent of everything that’s in the hive relocates with the bees,” he said. “My survival rate with my bee vacuum is over 99 per cent. It’s really, really good.”

“I can control the flow just enough so it’s sucking up the bees and they go right into a hive,” he added, explaining

the vacuum deposits the bees in a bee box, similar to the frames used in apiaries.

The rescued bees are immediately set up in a quarantine apiary and transferred over a period of about six to eight weeks onto normal bee frames.

“As far as jobs go this is a trickier one,” said Rice, who originally planned to go through the attic floor boards to access the hive.

However once he got into the job, he discovered he couldn’t reach the bees through the attic access point and would have to go the more disruptive route of removing bricks from the outside of the Thompson’s home to reach the hive. He

postponed the work until June 7.

Although that meant the Thompsons had to live with the pollinators a little longer, Rice said they were in no serious danger unless they proved to be anaphylactic.

“Bees generally won’t swarm you,” he explained.

“We have this idea of Africanized honey bees and their instinct is to swarm you ... whereas our honey bees are a less aggressive strain.”

He added, “The Africanized honey bees don’t winter here properly, so if they do come in they generally get cut out in the winter.”

Also he noted, “Wasp and hornets, they can sting you multiple times. A honey bee,

it only wants to sting you if it really feels its protecting the hive to do so. And if it stings you, that’s the end of their life – they lose their life to sting you.”

That said, Rice conceded he gets stung several times during most extractions

despite wearing a protective suit and screen mask.

Rice began work on June 7 around noon and finished about midnight, having rescued what he estimated were about 60,000 to 65,000 bees.

The hive turned out to be about 6.5 feet long, 10-inches

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“It was an incredibly long day and one of the most challenging relocations I have ever done,” said Rice afterward. “The bees have been relocated to my apiary and are already settling in well.”

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Trendy Trains - The Town of Minto Cultural Roundtable’s Trendy Trains 2019 public art project was launched on June 8 during the opening of the Minto Farmers’ Market at the Palmerston Railway Heritage Museum. Ten trains, like the ones above, created by local artists have been located around the downtown area and visitors can vote online through the official Town of Minto Facebook #TrendyTrain photo album for their favorite.

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Census shows Mapleton a leader in some areas » FROM PAGE 1

Age and education - 27.6% of Mapleton’s population is aged 15 years and younger, while the average in the WWCF total coverage area is 19%; - 10% of the population is

over the age 65; and - 49.7% of the population in Mapleton has less than a high school graduate certificate.

Employment Morris told council that Mapleton has a high percent-

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You do what you can When pondering today’s serious environmental issues, it sometimes seems like the problems are so overwhelming there’s little that can be done as an individual to make an impact.

“Climate change” has become “climate emergency” as some organizations and publications look for ways to emphasize the severity of the problem facing humanity.

It’s easy to wonder, “What can I do.”

The answer, in part, can be found in the pages of the Community News this week – you do what you can, at every opportunity.

On page one of this issue we have the story of Harriston residents Sandy and Glyn Thompson, whose reaction to finding a hive containing tens of thousands of honey bees in their house was not to reach for the Raid.

“Because of dwindling population, you want to save the honeybees,” said Sandra, even though that meant going through the outer brick wall of their home for a potentially expensive solution to their pollinator problem.

Shirley Litt, another Harriston resident, made the extra effort to ensure a family of owls displaced when their treetop home was downed were safely re-nested. She contacted first local veterinarian Terry Fisk, then the Owl Foundation for help, with the happy result that the birds, including one baby owl injured in the tree-cutting process are believed to have all survived the experience.

Little things perhaps, but the Thompsons put the environment ahead of their pocketbook and, in a world where diminishing biodiversity is a serious concern, it’s important those little birds weren’t left to fend for themselves.

Major efforts on behalf of the environment will be required on global and governmental scale if we hope to mitigate the worst damage to come. But we all still need to do our part, whenever the opportunity arises.

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age of working age residents at 62.1%, just below the province at 67.4%.

Mapleton also has a lower percentage of unemployment and low income families than the province: - 2.6% of the township’s population is unemployed; - 25.9% of Mapleton’s population is self-employed compared to 18% in the rest of the coverage area; and - 12.8% Mapleton’s population is low income families.

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“You’re talking to a guy who’s been caught in farm machinery twice and I’m very fortunate to be able to talk to you and walk around, and I got off lucky, but we don’t want to see anybody hurt out there so just be careful,” he continued.

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Morris acknowledged that Mapleton’s high proportion of farmers and Mennonites influenced the statistics.

Whittaker told council that overall the populations of the Wellington-Waterloo area are doing well financially.

“Our Waterloo Wellington area is in a nice bubble and things are going very well here,” he said.

“If you go north and to the west, the population is older and the household income is less and the businesses are having a hard time staying in business there so that is kind of the trend. We are sitting in a very nice area and we are very lucky to be in this area,” said Whittaker.

While the WWCF has helped some local businesses the organization does not typically loan money to farms.

Instead, the WWCF can offer business advice, especially when it comes to succession planning.

“We don’t help with the financial side of any farms because our lending limits are lower, but we do provide a lot of business advice so that we can try to get a structure that works for the transition of a farm to a son or daughter,” he said.

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By Bonnie Whitehead CLIFFORD - Merriment was the order of the day on June 8 as the village of Clifford celebrated on the anniversary of the downtown revitalization project of 2018.

The Town of Minto and the Clifford Downtown Revitalization Committee hosted the event with sponsorship from the Clifford & District Horticultural Society, the Clifford Rotary Club, Triton Engineering, Moorefield Excavating, and support from a bevy of volunteers.

Runners finished their 8am fun run and headed to Gramma Jo’s for the breakfast buffet or went to the Clifford Scale Trail to see the remote control cars put through their paces.

Members of the Horticultural Society were handing out free tomato plants and the Lions displaying of their club’s initiatives. The ladies from the Royal Bank gave away popcorn and Northern Flora had plants for sale.

Merchants enticed browsers to enter their shops with their sidewalk sales and BBQ Bite was serving specialty smoked meats and fresh cut fries.

Bouncy castles were set up with face painted children scrambling to kick off their shoes. Vendors sold home-crafted items. Tenyear-old Garrett Schouten set out a table of his Chuckles balloon creations and fun

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Minto Mental Health set out colourful chalk to decorate the sidewalk. A collection of classic and classy cars was set up at Demerling’s

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By Willard Metzger Executive Director Citizens for Public Justice

Young adults protest Christian apathy One of the early assignments I was given in my new role with Citizens for Public Justice (CPJ) was to interview applicants for our intern program. Hearing these undergraduate students express their passion was a gift.

I heard much more than young adult optimism eager to conquer the world. I heard a depth of conviction that left me filled with gratitude and hope.

It is inspiring to meet

young adults eager for responsibility: a shared corporate responsibility for the well-being of others with a vibrant creation to sustain us all. Individual advancement seemed secondary to a yearning for the advancement of a healthy and just society where all can flourish.

As a faith-based organization, CPJ attracts individuals anchored in faith traditions.

For these young adults, their devotion to God is expressed in a love for God and others.

As a former pastoral leader, I feel proud of these young leaders. I hope they are products of our faith communities. But I wonder if they are reactions to our theology of

egotism; a theology that defines individual wealth as a product of God’s blessing.

Such a shallow understanding of God’s passionate love for all creation seems incompatible with the depth of yearning expressed by these young adults.

Discounting the value of baby boomer faith expression is not new. Many have witnessed the rising selfish focus of faith and concluded: “If that is Christianity, I don’t want it”.

But there seems to be a deeper discernment being expressed. It is an understanding that the values expressed by Jesus are not always being adequately reflected by the church. Young adults are concluding that what they have been seeing is, in fact, not Christianity – and they don’t want it.

Yet it is not an idle rejection of faith I am seeing.

Rather, it is an active reconstructing of faith – a faith that views a struggle for a

healthy and just society as natural action for those who are rooted in faith.

These are young adults that view lobbying and protesting as a civic and religious responsibility. They are not protesting because they are angry.

Rather, they are protesting because they love God and others, so much so that they are unwilling to accept policies and societal structures that dismiss the most vulnerable.

Unfortunately, CPJ could only offer one single internship. But I am grateful to know that there are hundreds of others who applied and will be actively seeking places to express their passion for justice.

I pray that God would lead these young leaders to places where their voice of protest would be amplified.

And I pray that love for God and all creation would increase so that others would join their faithful protest.

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Party in the Park set for June 22 in Palmerston PALMERSTON – Organizers are gearing up for the 6th annual Party in the Park, to be held on June 22 at Palmerston Lions Heritage Park.

The 2019 event will feature musical acts Lulu’s Roadhouse Band, Month of Sundays and Derek and Maggie Moore.

The party is an age of majority event. Advance tickets are $20 and available at Home Hardware in

Palmerston and Harriston or online at www.norgantheatre.com. Tickets will be $25 at the gate. Gates open at 7pm for the party which begins at 7:30pm.

At the June 3 Minto council meeting councillor Ron Elliott reported that the Handcar Races planned for earlier on June 22 have been cancelled due to lack of competitors.

Elliott said the event may be revived in the future as

a family participation event, rather than a competition.

Pride in the Park on July 13 The Palmerston Lion’s Heritage Park will also be the site of the first annual Minto Pride in the Park event on July 13.

Coordinated by the Town of Minto Cultural Roundtale, “This family friendly event is a celebration of diversity and inclusion in our rural communities,” organizers state.

Between 2pm and 5pm the event will feature a free barbecue, face-painting, and a variety of community run tables with crafts, educational/learning activities, and more, including library-run stories and button-making sessions..

“Decorate yourself, your bike or your pet and join us for a Pride March through the park departing from the pavilion at 5:00 pm and lead by our special Minto Pride Ambassadors,” organizers urge.

Touch a Truck takes place June 15 Minto Fire’s annual Touch a Truck event will be held on June 15, from 10am to 2pm at the Harriston Minto Community Complex.

Youngsters can climb aboard a variety of heavy equipment, honk horns, flash lights, explore and learn about fire, farm and equipment safety at the event which has raised thousands of dollars for a variety of causes since its inception.

Minto Fire has announced this will be the last year for the event, which was first held in 2013.

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