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Community News Volume 46 Issue 24
Drayton, Ontario
1 Year GIC - 2.05% 3 Year GIC - 2.20% 5 Year GIC - 2.50% Daily Interest 1.55%
Friday, June 14, 2013
Working together - New playground equipment has been installed at parks in Drayton and Moorefield thanks to the efforts of the Drayton Kinsmen and Moorefield Optimists, in cooperation with the Township of Mapleton. Pictured in front of the new equipment at the Kinsmen Park in Drayton are some township employees, Kinsmen and Optimist members, Mapleton councillors and some patient, local children, whose play time was briefly interrupted by a photo-op on June 5. See additional coverage on page 6. photo by Patrick Raftis
Siemens conducts mock emergency rescue at local NextEra turbine site
Feeding the world from Moorefield by Patrick Raftis MOOREFIELD - A volunteer organization based in Moorefield is working to turn excess produce from Canadian fields into meals for those in need in Third World countries. Reapers of Hope is an arm of Christian Aid Ministries (CAM) of Waterloo, which was founded in 1984 as a non-profit charitable organization through which Amish and Mennonite churches and individuals could “minister to physical and spiritual needs around the world,” the CAM website states. CAM is based in Ohio and the Waterloo arm of the organization was headquartered in Wallenstein until opening operations at the former Rona building centre property in Moorefield. CAM purchased the building in 2012 and converted the Continued on page 6
Reaping hope - A volunteer dumps potatoes into a dicing machine in preparation for dehydration at the charitable Reapers of Hope food processing facility in Moorefield. photo by Patrick Raftis
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by Kris Svela MAPLETON - Conducting a rescue from the tight confines of a wind turbine can be a daunting task. Whether the rescue is from the top of the 80-metre high turbines or the four-metre wide base, space is a factor with which rescuers have to contend. That was evident in a mock emergency staged on June 6 by wind turbine supplier Siemens and NextEra Energy, which operates the 10-turbine Conestogo Wind Energy Centre in Mapleton Township near Arthur. Firefighters from Mapleton’s Drayton station acted as observers at the drill, in preparation for any emergency scenario that would involve extrication of an injured turbine employee by joint emergency services. Andy Durand, an environmental health and safety specialist with Siemens, said Continued on page 6
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Emergency rescue - NextEra wind turbine technician Alister Vanderzand secures a dummy, representing an injured worker, prior to extraction during a training exercise held last week at the Conestogo Wind Energy Centre in Mapleton. photo by Kris Svela
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