SERVING THE MAPLETON COMMUNITY
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COMMUNITY NEWS VOLUME 50 ISSUE 43
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Consultant engaged to assist with CAO hiring By Patrick Raftis
Fun fundraiser - Maryborough Public School students celebrated the success of the school’s Terry Fox run with an outdoor assembly on Oct. 13. ABOVE: Teacher Susanne Thomson let the top fundraisers duct tape her to a wall. RIGHT: Jakob Klaassen, top fundraiser for the Terry Fox Run, made human sundaes out of teachers Jennifer Merret, Brenda West and Sarah Nickel. The school raised $2,195 for the Terry Fox Foundation. Photos by Caroline Sealey
School celebrates successful Terry Fox Run Student, Terry’s Team member Jakob Klassen tops local fundraising effort by Caroline Sealey MOOREFIELD - A visit to the Palmerston Hospital by a Moorefield family resulted in a medical diagnosis the family was not expecting. In an email to the Community News, Erica Klaassen explained that in December 2016 her four-yearold son Jakob was taken to the hospital with what the family thought was a flu bug or possibly appendicitis. An ultrasound revealed a mass on Jakob’s kidney and Jakob and Erica were immediately transported by ambulance to London. At London’s Victoria Hospital tests confirmed the mass on Jakob’s kidney was a tumour. A fever from an unknown source forced Jakob to be quarantined in hospital for five days awaiting surgery to remove the tumour. During the surgery the kidney was also removed as the tumour had ruptured slightly, was bleeding into the kidney and had spread into an artery. Doctors confirmed the mass was a stage 3 Wilms’ tumour. An adjustment to Jakob’s radiation treatments to a more aggressive regimen was made to accommodate the diagnosis. Wilms’ tumour, also known as nephroblastoma, is a rare kidney cancer in children aged three to four. It usually occurs in one kidney, but can be found in both at the same time.
Beating cancer - Jakob Klaassen with his mother Erica Klassen shows off his Terry’s Team T-shirt. The Moorefield youth underwent treatment for Wilms’ tumour and was declared cancer free on June 27. Photo by Caroline Sealey Advancements in the diagnosis and treatment of Wilms’ tumour have improved the outlook for children with the disease. No cause has been discovered. Beginning on Dec. 29, Jakob underwent 12 consecutive days of radiation treatments at Victoria Hospital. With each treatment Jakob was sedated. Over a 28-week period, 15 chemotherapy treatments consisting of three different drugs were administered.
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Jakob’s last chemotherapy treatment occurred on June 27 and Jakob was declared cancer free. As a cancer survivor, Jakob received a special “Terry’s Team member” shirt to wear at this year’s Terry Fox Run. A student at Maryborough Public School in Moorefield, Jakob raised $630 for the Terry Fox Foundation, the highest amount raised by a student or family at the school.
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Teacher Jodi Adams offered to let the child or family with the highest amount of money raised pick the color of her hair dye. As the winner, Jakob picked “hot lava red” for Adams. During the Terry Fox assembly held on Oct. 13 at the school, Adams revealed her new hair colour. A total of $2,195 was raised by students and staff at the school during the Terry Fox Run. Teachers from various classes offered to wear their clothes backwards, let their students decorate their hair and one Toronto Maple Leaf fan sported a Montreal Canadiens onesie for the day. Students in teacher Karen Shantz’s Grade 3/4 class had their teacher put her arm in a bucket of “cow patty.” Two other teachers were pied in the face and three teachers became human sundaes with toppings including whipped cream, sprinkles and different flavours of syrup along with a bright red cherry on top. Duct taped to the portable was the designated spot for another teacher. The assembly ended with principal Shelley Grose kissing a calf. Jakob will have followup appointments including a scan every three months to ensure he remains cancer free. The appointments will become less frequent as time passes, but he will continue to have heart and kidney monitoring for the remainder of his life.
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MAPLETON - The township will engage the firm of Ward and Uptigrove as consultants to assist with hiring a new CAO. Mapleton Mayor Neil Driscoll told the Community News that council made the decision to hire the firm during an in-camera session at a special meeting on Oct. 17. The township announced the resignation of CAO/clerk Brad McRoberts on Oct. 13. Citing family considerations, McRoberts is leaving to take a job as CAO of the Town of South Bruce Peninsula, where he formerly worked as manager of public works. Driscoll said Ward and Uptigrove’s bid for the job was the lowest of three submitted. “They’ve been doing quite a few municipalities lately and their bid was a lot less
than the others,” he stated. Although Driscoll declined to disclose the bid amounts, he indicated that information may be released at the Oct. 24 council meeting. “We did that in closed so I’m not sure if I can disclose them,” he stated in an Oct. 23 telephone interview. Driscoll said one of things he liked about the company’s proposal is that all members of Mapleton council will be involved in the process. “I’m looking forward to having all of council involved ... I think it’s a big enough decision they need to be involved right from the start and then we have five different opinions,” he said. Driscoll noted Ward and Uptigrove will also assist in procuring an interim CAO as the process is not expected to be completed prior to McRoberts leaving on Nov. 20.
Tree planting project planned as living legacy to Paul Day By Patrick Raftis MAPLETON – Trees for Mapleton and the municipality will join forces on a planting project in memory of local tree planting proponent. Trees for Mapleton committee chair Bruce Whale led a delegation at the Oct. 10 meeting to ask for council’s participation in the project to honour the late Paul Day, “who spent countless hours leading Trees for Peel and later Trees for Mapleton.” In a letter to council, Whale said Day, who passed away in October of 2016, worked hard “convincing residents that trees were not only important to help mitigate climate change, but also to increase crop yields” when planted in wind rows. “He also did some crucial fundraising with the Grand River Agricultural Society,” the letter notes. Working with the Grand River Conservation Authority and Wellington County’s Green Legacy pro-
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gram, Day helped secure trees and funding and over 350,000 trees have been planted in the municipality since 2001. “To recPAUL DAY ognize Day’s vision and leadership,” the committee is planning to create a living legacy in the form of a tree planting project at the site of the municipal soccer fields and river trail. Whale said the goal would be to plant one tree for every resident of Mapleton. “It would be some way of recognizing Paul’s effort and a contribution by the whole municipality,” he stated. The committee requested the municipality’s help to spread word about the project, to facilitate the planting and maintenance of the site and design, and to install and fund a commemorative plaque. SEE TREE PLANTING » 3
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