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Charlie makes his way homeLost for almost 15 weeks, dog reunited with Elmira owner
STEVE KANNON
Silent for more than seven years, the sound of a steam whistle announcing the arrival of a tour-ist train in St. Jacobs may be heard again this spring.
The Southern Ontario Locomotive Restoration Society wants to set up shop in the area, operat-ing a tourist train from Waterloo to St. Jacobs on market days, an organization representative told Woolwich councillors Tuesday night.
Formed in 1986 and currently based in St. Thomas, Ont., the group of train enthusiasts is looking for a new home, said Paul Tatham.
Aside from using the same tracks and the exist-ing station in Waterloo, the locomotive society has no connection to the tourist train that oper-ated from 1997 to 1999.
In response to a question from Coun. Ruby We-ber, Tatham said the organization would operate a smaller train of its own, avoiding many of the costs associated with the former Waterloo-St. Ja-cobs Railway Company. For instance, the WSJR bought the rail line and station from Canadian National and was responsible for all the mainte-nance costs; the infrastructure is now owned by the Region of Waterloo (tracks) and the City of Waterloo (station), which cover those costs.
“We hope to [operate] on a much smaller scale,” he said, noting the labour would come from vol-unteers linked to the locomotive society.
Instead of running daily, the group would run trains a few times on days when the farmers’ markets are open: Thursday, Saturday and Sun-day, and perhaps Tuesday if demand warrants. The service would operate from May to Decem-
St. Jacobs tourist train back on trackRailway enthusiasts look to move to Waterloo, resume train service to village
DESIREE FINHERT
An Elmira man’s best friend re-turned home Wednesday night after going astray for almost 15 weeks.
Jurgen Mannhardt’s unwaver-ing determination – and a little luck – led to the reunion with Charlie, a one-year-old, short-haired German Pointer-Labra-dor cross, who went missing in early January.
After an event-ful absence, Charlie was re-introduced to his owner, the other family dog, Duke, and his original home.
“Charlie, like a person in awe or stunned, just stood there and very slowly took in the scene. Then he freaked. I’ve never seen a dog so happy in my life – barking and jumping from one side of the room to the other,” Mannhardt said.
“Every time he passed me he’d jump up and lick my cheek,” he added.
Since Jan. 6, the day Charlie scooted out the front door with-
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PUPPY LOVE Elmira’s Jurgen Mannhardt was reunited Wednesday with Charlie, his beloved pet who had been missing for nearly 15 weeks.
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Pointing to problems with the former tourist train operation – includ-ing passengers cutting through people’s yards after disembarking
– Coun. Mark Bauman said he would prefer to see passengers ride from Waterloo to St. Jacobs, thus returning to the full-service sta-tion. That arrangement would also ease traffic and parking problems in the village.
Those issues, along with concerns about possible pollution from older equipment, were echoed by St. Jacobs res-
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ing with the community to make this a success,” replied Tatham, explain-ing the group would use it’s 1959 diesel-electric locomotive, not its vin-tage steam model, to haul two passenger cars and a caboose.
The locomotive society will host an open house Apr. 24 (3:30-7:30 p.m.) at the Waterloo station.
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Snyders return from NHL odysseyElmira couple visited 30 hockey cities in fundraising drive
“Overall, the support was there. The hockey community is a small world. It’s more like a family.”
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A seven-month fundraising tour of North America’s National Hockey League cities came to a close this week but money keeps rolling in. Graham and LuAnn Snyder parked their 37-foot RV at their Elmira home around 5:30 a.m. Apr. 16, concluding a whirlwind adventure to raise funds for the Dan Snyder Memorial Foun-dation (DSMF).
Dan Snyder, a player with the Atlanta Thrashers, died after the car he was riding in struck a wall in Atlanta on Sept. 29, 2003. He and teammate Dany Heatley, who had been driving the car, were ejected on impact. Snyder died in hospital Oct. 5.
His parent’s recent tour of all 30 NHL seasons saw them meet with each team and give public speeches about coping with the aftermath of the accident.
“The main thing that I was trying to say was we’re all in it together, in
the game of life – without getting too philosophical about it – and we need to look out for each other. It’s amazing when you do that how people respond. We found that right from the time of Dan’s death and it continues right to this day,” said Graham Snyder.
From Chicago to San Jose, from Van-couver to Houston the pair was warm-ly received by the hockey clubs across the continent.
In Edmonton the couple drove their RV through the loading dock and on to the ice of the Northlands Coliseum before a match.
They met with Dallas Stars centre Jeff Halpern, who played against Dan in Junior B hockey playoffs when Halpern was a Stratford Culliton and Dan was an Elmira Sugar King.
The trip also served as a fundraising effort for the construction of the Dan Snyder Memorial Arena as part of Woolwich Township’s multi-use rec-reational facility.
The planned $22 million facility will
encompass a six-lane swimming pool, warm water therapy pool, seniors’ centre, indoor walking track, meeting rooms, café, concessions and parking for 600 vehicles. An NHL-sized arena with bowl seating for 1,200 and a sec-ond ice pad are also in the plans.
The Snyders collected a number of direct financial contributions and will be announcing a rough estimate of the funds raised during their trip in the coming weeks as monies are still being received. They also received nu-merous items of memorabilia, includ-ing signed jerseys and hockey sticks, that are being auctioned off, with pro-ceeds going to the foundation. Some of the items are currently up for bids at AuctionJam.com.
“Just observing it online, the ones that really go the best are the star play-ers. The Sydney Crosby jersey right now is the top one. That one went for $1,200 or $1,300,” said Snyder.
Near the end of the auction the fam-ily plans to add a few more interest-
ing items to the mix.A couple of posters of Dan, featur-
ing the Rising Stars 37 logo and sig-natures from the NHL team captains, will appear on the auction block. Others will be sold as limited edition items at a later date.
Also, Wayne Gretzky donated a signed photo of him and Gordie Howe taken at a 1978 WHA all-star game.
One hundred per cent of the net pro-ceeds are earmarked for the DSMF arena fund.
The family is also anticipating fur-ther funding as the fourth annual memorial golf tournament gets un-derway July 9. The tournament has raised roughly $365,000 so far and is shooting for $500,000 over five years.
The Snyders expect this year’s tour-nament will be more popular after making personal contact with NHLers during their trip.
“Overall, the support was there. The hockey community is a small world. It’s more like a family,” he said.
BACK ON HOME ... TURF Graham and LuAnn Snyder returned to Elmira this week after travelling to all 30 NHL cities to raise awareness and funds for the Dan Snyder Memorial Foundation.
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As for my theory about media por-trayals of the good life, Reiss notes that television, movies and advertising can indeed take aim at our core values, but only in a superficial way. The material-ist lifestyles they advocate can appeal to some people, but not to everyone. Values are far from universal.
If you ask people about their values, about what’s important to them, you’ll get all kinds of answers, he says.
“For instance, an organized person is happy when things are organized. The unorganized person is happy with unorganized things. They look at each other like they’re crazy.”
Each of us has a tendency to think others share the same values, the same outlook on life. If a materialistic life-style appeals to you, you’ll want to work toward those goals. If you don’t, the ad-vertising message will miss the mark.
The same kind of thinking finds its way into the self-help field: somebody finds a way to make himself happy, then writes a book telling everybody else to do the same thing he did. But others don’t necessarily share the same values, he explains.
He also takes issue with advising peo-ple to change themselves or ways of thinking to conform to their situation.
“It makes more sense to marry some-
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A quick perusal of the extensive self-help section of the book store would sug-gest we’re an unhap-py bunch, or at least dissatisfied. That as-sessment is backed up by the plethora of Oprah- and Dr. Phil-
inspired television programming – the fact that I know who these people are (and find them annoying) despite hav-ing never watched the shows tells you this attitude is pervasive.
I have this idea that we’re malcon-tents because we have the time to be that way. Ironically, I also blame the media: we see people on TV and in the movies, and our lives just don’t stack up in comparison (unless of course you’re relating to the extras in some teen slasher flick).
In making these assertions, I am guilty of the same kind of dime-store psychology I take issue with. Accord-ing to Steven Reiss, I’m off the mark when it comes to diagnosing self-in-
dulgent unhappiness in society.Reiss has a much greater grasp on
such things: he’s a professor of psy-chology and psychiatry and director of the Nisonger Center at Ohio State University.
There are two kinds of happiness, he says. Feel-good happiness that comes from pleasure, and value-based hap-piness that comes from a sense of ac-complishment in our lives. For the most part, we concentrate on the for-mer and not enough on the latter.
“I don’t think you can get happy pur-suing happiness in the form of plea-sure. You have to have a sense that your life is meaningful and worthwhile, and to live your life in accordance with your basic values,” he maintains. “If you don’t live in accordance with your values, then even pleasure isn’t really satisfying.”
Some people value home life above all, while others pursue career. Some value involvement with their com-munities, while others value solitude. Each of us has his or her own idea of what’s important in life.
one who’s compatible with you and your values than to depend on endless counselling to keep your marriage go-ing. That probably can’t last.”
So, is he a fan of chicken soup? Not so much, apparently.
Nothing wrong with wanting to be happy or to improve your situation. Usually, however, the answer is not complicated: “If you’re unhappy now, the key is to get out of the situation.”
Of course, he notes, that’s not always easy, either. Simply walking away from your responsibilities – a marriage, fam-ily, a job that brings in money – won’t work. Many of us are in situations we can’t get out of at the drop of a hat.
“The most effective way to help some-body get happy is to live smart: live you values, avoid things that aren’t consistent with your values.”
The easiest way to accomplish that is to start early. We teach our kids many things, but rarely address how to make smart decisions about following a course that matches their values.
And if we’re clear about what we value in life, and we try to live in that environment, then all the external messages – TV, advertising, the Jone-ses next door – won’t matter. That’s the road to happiness.
“Go where you belong.”
Fran HeffernanSchool bus driver for 17 years
Which schools have you driven for?Always with Laidlaw, formerly Charter Ways, for Breslau PS, Grand River Collegiate, St. Mary’s and St. Boniface PS.
Getting into the business?“I wanted to be a stay-at-home mom. I wanted to be able to take my kids with me to work. I wanted to have summers off, March break off, Christmas break off.”
Other jobs?“I’m modelling Northern Reflections clothes at Stone Road Mall. I actually sell clothes there, I’m a sales associate. But she’s having a fash-
ion show tomorrow [Apr. 12] and all the sales associates are doing the clothes.”
Most challenging part of driving a bus?The weather.“The children and I get along great. Because I drive [a small] bus we have a lot of com-munication. We have talks about American Idol, the hockey game. It is an extension of the classroom. Trying to put that into the kids’ heads sometimes – the talk that is brought out.”
Hobbies?Cross stitching pictures, working out at the gym, reading, tennis. “A lot of my house is decorated with cross stitch pictures. … Stress reliever.”
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The current municipal building boom is ex-pected to add more than $1,100 to the cost of a new home built in Wool-wich Township.
Higher-than-forecasted costs for a string of capi-tal projects – especially the multi-use recreation-al facility in Elmira and new fire station in Flora-dale – are behind amend-ments to the develop-ment charges bylaw.
The changes will see the township portion of charges levied on new homes rise to $4,443, a 34-per-cent hike from the current $3,327, consul-tant Andrew Gundra of C.N. Watson and Associ-
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Some local women re-grouped for their first outing of the year as the Whacky Women Work Party exerted some effort on local trails this week. A handful of ladies don-ning utility clothes and gardening tools took up maintenance duties on the Kissing Bridge Trail-way in West Montrose Apr. 18.
With the hiking sea-son up and running, the Grand Valley Trails As-sociation and the Wool-wich Trails Group are responsible for painting blazes, cleaning up litter and clearing the walking routes from Line 86 to the Wellington County boundary.
“This will be the spring ‘going through.’ If it’s warm enough we’ll re-fresh the blazes, repaint them, pick up any litter and with our long-han-dled lobbers lob back any branches that are going
Local women on the trail of ‘wackiness’
to hit us in the face. Then have pie and coffee after-ward,” said Joyce Cum-mings, GVT trail direc-tor. “Anyone who’s ever done any gardening can do trail maintenance.”
The club has been wel-
coming women looking to take part in outdoor work parties – and the lunches that follow – for almost three years. Par-ticipants have enjoyed outdoor potlucks, pic-nics in old cemeteries
and coffees at nearby ca-fés. Following Wednes-day’s trek, the squad tucked in at the Elmira Donut and Deli.
“This is quite a dis-covery for people from Kitchener-Waterloo. You would never really know from the name of it that it’s this wonderful little Mennonite place with all these great pies and wonderful sandwiches and things,” she said.
About six or seven women normally partic-ipate in the outings, but this year Cummings is even anticipating a spike in interest as the group’s work will appear on the GVTA hike schedule and on the website as well as part of Woolwich Town-ship’s Healthy Commu-nities Month. This is in addition to the regular placements in the GVTA newsletter.
Kicking off the season, women met at the cov-ered bridge in West Mon-trose to tackle a short leg of the trail.
The crew will revisit the trail next week to continue working meet-ing at the Letson Park parking lot at 1232 Rivers Edge Dr., in West Mon-trose at 9 a.m. Apr. 24.
In between the mainte-nance parties, regular hikes are scheduled for Apr. 21, 22 and 29.
A further Whacky Women maintenance day will take place at the Walter Bean Trail park-ing lot between Victoria Street and Shirley Drive in Kitchener May 5.
»WOOLWICH COUNCIL
Infrastructure charges on the riseCouncil embarks on plan to hike development charges by a third
ates said Tuesday night at a public meeting in council chambers.
Charges for non-resi-dential development will rise to $1.59 per square foot from $1.39, an in-crease of 14 per cent.
Development charges are levied to offset the municipality’s costs for expanding road, sewer and water, fire and rec-reation infrastructure to meet growing demand. The goal is to have devel-opers of new homes pay for the cost of providing services to the site and to the people that will live there.
Combined with fees lev-ied by Waterloo Region, which takes the lion’s share, and the school boards, the new Wool-
wich charge will bring to $12,469 the amount assessed for a detached residential home on full municipal services.
That moves the town-
ship up a couple of notches to sixth highest – ahead of the Township of Guelph-Eramosa and the City of Guelph – in a comparison of a dozen nearby municipalities carried out by Watson and Associates. The City of Waterloo is the highest at $18,222, while Wellesley Township is lowest at $9,567.
Councillors heard no public input at this week’s meeting, held un-der provincial rules gov-erning changes to the bylaw adopted in 2005. The next full review of the development charges will take place in 2009. If approved, fees amended in the bylaw will be sub-ject to annual increases linked to inflation.
City of Waterloo: $18,222Centre Wellington Twp: $17,128
City of Cambridge: $16,657City of Kitchener: $16,237
Wilmot Twp: $12,814WOOLWICH TWP: $12,469
City of Guelph: $12,087Guelph-Eramosa Twp: $11,911North Dumfries Twp: $10,644
City of Stratford: $9,830Mapleton Twp: $9,573Wellesley Twp: $9,567
Total development charges for a single-
family home
MARC MIQUEL HELSEN
Today’s infrastructure needs aren’t going to be met by promises of mon-ey tomorrow, say Welles-ley councillors looking for more immediate help from Ottawa.
Reacting Tuesday night to a letter from Kitchen-er-Conestoga MP Harold Albrecht, they criticized plans to spread out pay-ment of $4.5 million over the next seven years. The total itself will put only a dent in needed road, bridge and simi-lar infrastructure up-grades, many of which
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No good deed goes unpunished. Just ask Eric Schwindt.Having agreed to sell a portion
of his farm property to a neigh-bouring church, he saw Woolwich township officials clamp down on a paintball operation located on his land for the past 12 years.Meeting Tuesday night, coun-
cillors approved the rezoning to permit the transfer of one acre of land to Calvary Conservative Mennonite Church, located at 5064 Arthur St. N. The additional land will allow the church to ex-pand its parking area for another 70 cars.Investigating the site after the
church’s application, township staff discovered the paintball business, Shoot to Splatter. Deem-ing the use illegal, the township asked Schwindt to cease operat-ing. Schwindt, however, asked coun-
cillors to find an option that would allow him to continue to operate the part-time, seasonal business at the current location.
Construction of the Maryhill Heritage Park Community Cen-tre could get underway early next month, as Woolwich council awarded a $475,000 contract to Waterloo-based Greyhound Con-struction.In approving the tender Tuesday
night, councillors also voted in favour of spending an additional $28,000 to upgrade to a metal roof on the building, and a further $2,500 to provide electrical power to the existing sports field.The total cost of the new facility
is expected to hit $663,600. Com-munity fundraising has brought in more than $200,000 for the project.
Next step: construction
Meeting this week, Waterloo Re-gion council approved in principle changes to waste and recycling collection in the townships. Due to go into effect Mar. 2, 2009, the proposed changes are now un-der review. They include: weekly curbside garbage collection (ex-pand service to all Woolwich); weekly/bi-weekly blue box and cart recycling collection (expand service to all Woolwich); large item/white goods collection each month (new standard); bi-weekly yard waste collection in settle-ments (new service); option to collect green bins in settlements (new service).
Region eyes waste changes
EVERY BIT HELPS Gyvina Hagan-Ip uses a shovel just her size to do general maintenance on the trail.
ARMED AND READY Jane Prime lends a hand to fix up the Kissing Bridge Trailway in West Montrose Apr. 18.
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Hundreds of flyers were mailed and post-ed, vet clinics and local Humane Societies were contacted and time was
spent searching on foot. Exhausting every op-
tion, Mannhardt turned to the advice of a Water-loo “animal communica-tor” Beata Pillach.
“She let me know that he (Charlie) had seen a vet. She knew that, somehow. She actually
told me he was fixed and she told me the day it happened. And it turned out it was exactly the truth,” he said.
Together the two tried communicating with Charlie, but in the end Pillach suggested that more “missing” posters
be sent out through Vet-erinarian Purchasing Ltd. in St. Mary’s.
Some 1,100 flyers were sent to veterinarian clinics throughout the Region of Waterloo and the surrounding area Wednesday morning.
Hours later, the staff of
Wellington Veterinary Services in Elora was on the phone.
For the last three weeks, a Fergus family had been taking care of Charlie, raising him as their own pet and tak-ing him for regular vet checkups. This included having the dog neutered and getting the neces-sary shots.
“[They] gave up the dog very reluctantly,” he said. “They all cried when I left with the dog. They were that at-tached to him after three weeks.”
On top of paying the family the $150 reward, Mannhardt paid some $600 for the medical treatment Charlie had undergone.
In total the Elmira man figures he spent about $4,700 on adver-
tising, gasoline and lost wages trying to get his dog back.
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Breslau residents divid-ed over traffic-calming measures in the village found one point of agree-ment this week: no more speed bumps at the inter-section of Woolwich and Dolman streets. Town-ship councillors agreed, opting against reinstall-ing the devices following a trial period last fall.
However, that was as far as the cooperation went.
As with previous meet-ings to discuss traffic on the main route through Breslau, the large contin-gent at council chambers Tuesday night remained divided over what comes next. One side called for more changes, including
Great divide continues in BreslauCouncil, residents agree on speed bumps, but Woolwich Street traffic concerns linger
the closure of Woolwich Street at Menno Street, while the other worried about the effect on busi-nesses if more traffic is routed around the village.
Since the Fountain Street extension opened in 2004, the township and Waterloo Region have taken steps to encour-age through traffic to use the bypass. The number of vehicles using Wool-wich Street has been cut in half, with a marked decrease in truck traffic; heavy trucks are prohib-ited from cutting through the village – only local traffic is permitted.
Reacting to concerns raised by residents coun-cil opted to add a stop sign at Woolwich and Dolman streets, reduce the speed limit through the village
to 40 kilometres per hour and boost signage direct-ing through traffic to the bypass.
For residents such as Kim Reitzel, those mea-sures are proven inade-quate. She called for new signage to allow police to enforce the restrictions on truck traffic, the ad-dition of rumble strips and stop signs and, more contentiously, the clo-sure of Woolwich Street at Menno Street. The closure would, in effect, make the residential portion of the street a local road, encouraging through traffic to use the bypass.
Inaction is not an ac-ceptable option, she stressed.
“We’re not going to give up our right to a safe
community.”A petition presented by
resident Roger Shantz found 71 of 74 Woolwich Street homes in favour of these more stringent measures.
“You have to get rid of the excess traffic that is the problem in this town,” he said, noting the closure would elimi-nate Woolwich Street as a shortcut for drivers travelling between Hwy. 7 and Fountain Street in Cambridge.
Businesspeople, howev-er, worried that the local economy would suffer if even more drivers were forced out of the village, arguing enough has been done to reduce traffic.
Bill Southern of Uni-corn Truck Wash, who heads an organization
of Breslau businesses, said conditions have al-ready improved. He also pointed out concerns about traffic and safety have only emerged in recent years, noting Woolwich Street carried all the traffic before the bypass was open. There was more traffic, no stop signs, no speed bumps and no restrictions on trucks, but also no com-plaints.
“What did we do to deserve all this punish-ment?” asked Dale Scho-field, arguing against more traffic-calming measures.
While dealing with only the speed bump issue this week, councillors asked staff to look at additional measures to address on-going concerns.
MARC MIQUEL HELSEN
After two years of un-successful attempts to sell the Fellowship Hall in Wellesley, its owners breathed a sigh of re-lief this week when the latest bid went through. The new owners will convert the building into a daycare centre.
The deal means the building, which in its long history has served
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Woolwich’s most recog-nizable landmark – the covered bridge in West Montrose – is finally on the road to becoming recognized locally as a historically significant site.
A University of Water-loo group looking to in-clude the structure on a national registry found a surprised, albeit agree-able audience at a coun-cil meeting Tuesday night. Although it’s been standing for more than 125 years and is recog-nized as a historic site by Ontario’s Archeological & Historic Sites Board, the “Kissing Bridge” has never received a local designation.
Prompted by the univer-sity group, councillors quickly agreed to get the ball rolling on a bylaw recognizing the bridge’s historic significance. That, in turn, would al-low the UW-based Heri-tage Resources Centre (HRC) to nominate the structure for inclusion on the Canadian Regis-ter of Historic Places.
Kendra Green, a mem-ber of a five-student team working on the “historic places initiative,” said her group would help the township prepare the bylaw needed to get the process started.
Robert Shipley, a profes-sor in the UW school of planning who’s oversee-ing the project, said the lack of a local designa-tion caught a few people off guard.
“It’s surprising because it’s the most iconic struc-ture in the region – not just in the township. It’s a provincially signifi-cant site,” he said in a later interview.
The project, support-ed by the Ministry of Culture, is looking to nominate hundreds of heritage sites in com-
are pressing matters right now, noted Mayor Ross Kelterborn.
“All these things are ex-tended over to 2014. That doesn’t do Wellesley Township any good in 2007,” he told council.
“I think what we see here is a bunch of flow-ers that haven’t come to bloom,” added Coun. Jim Olender.
Albrecht’s letter rein-forces the notion that Wellesley’s needs are being ignored by upper tier governments, said
Money: Infrastructure needs seen as pressing
Historic moment for Kissing Bridge
Kelterborn.“We didn’t get hardly
anything for 2007 and that’s what I’m interest-ed in,” he said after the meeting. Without fed-eral or provincial fund-ing, Kelterborn foresees little alternatives to fall-ing behind on projects or increasing municipal taxes. Rather than offer-ing vague amounts of money over extended pe-riods of time, the federal government should offer monies on an annual ba-sis and according to the merits of each munic-
ipality’s most pressing issues, he said.
In his letter, Albrecht un-derscored three funding programs for the town-ship. Under the gas tax transfer program, extend-ed until 2014, Wellesley will receive $121,000 this year, $152,000 in 2008 and $304,000 every year there-after.
The GST rebate pro-gram, whereby the federal government refunds the full amount of GST paid by municipalities, will be extended to 2014. For Wellesley, that equates to
an $880,000 investment.Albrecht also referenced
the infant ‘Building Canada’ fund as another future source of money. Wellesley could see an ad-ditional $130,000 in 2007-2008, which increases to $350,000 per year by 2013-2014 (or over $1.9 million total by 2014).
The total funds outlined in Albrecht’s letter could account for a windfall of $4.5 million in a period of seven years – a mea-ger amount considering the township’s infra-structural needs, said
Kelterborn. “If you take $121,000
this year, what does that go to for just the projects we were talking [about doing] in COMRIF (Can-ada Ontario Municipal Rural Infrastructure Fund) that we didn’t get the money for? It’s not relevant to the projects that we should be able to do in a municipality.”
That said, the mayor noted that township staff and council will continue to lobby the provincial and federal governments for money.
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Wellesley hall to become daycare centreAfter two years, church group finally seals the deal on a sale
as a council chambers, school room and com-munity hall, will find a new life providing a ser-vice to the public, a boon in an area short on day-care spaces.
“I think our group is very happy that it’s gone for a community use; we didn’t want it unused, we didn’t want that to happen. But I really think we see daycare use as one of the best possi-ble uses for it,” said Jim
Leis, speaking on behalf of Maple View/Crosshill Mennonite Church, the group who sold the prop-erty.
If all goes as planned, the new daycare centre will be providing servic-es for some 50 children by September.
The 1129 Henry St. prop-erty garnered limited in-terest for the two years that it was up for sale. A number of similar proposals to convert the
building into a daycare facility came to naught as the bidders either lost interest or failed to secure funding for their envisioned projects. The church group’s most serious offers typically came from private bid-ders interested in turn-ing the hall into a private dwelling, but successive applications for rezon-ing were turned down by the township.
Councillors meeting
in early April again de-ferred a vote on a zone change application de-spite having previously committed to make a decision by the original bidder’s Apr. 2 deadline. The township preferred the site to retain its cur-rent zoning, and subse-quently allowed time for an eleventh-hour suitor – looking to turn the hall into a daycare centre – to get a plan in place be-
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munities in the Grand River watershed. In the first four-month term, the target was 100 sites; 130 were eventually in-cluded. In the next term, the goal is 140.
Normally, the sites the HRC nominates to the
yond the original dead-line.
While Crosshill Men-nonite Church had origi-nally pushed for a zone change, noting that most offers for the property envisaged a residential
national list already have local designation, a requirement for inclu-sion in the registry. With the covered bridge, the groups “went outside the project’s mandate” to move the process along in Woolwich.
Built in 1881, the 198-
purpose, it asked coun-cil not to rule out any options. Eventually, the daycare group received funding for its bid, al-lowing the transaction to proceed.
“It’s always been a very prominent build-
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April 112:30 PM Police responded to a call at Elmira District Secondary School, where they subsequent-ly dealt with a student under the Youth Criminal Justice Act in con-nection with drug and weapons offences. A small penknife and some drug paraphernalia were seized and sent for destruction.3:08 PM There were no serious injuries as a result of a collision involving two cars at Adam and King streets in St. Jacobs. A Lis-towel man making a left turn off Adam Street onto King Street veered into the path of a south-
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1:35 AM A 19-year-old Glen Allan man faces nine criminal charges and a day in court after he was tracked by a canine unit and arrested in connection with excessive speeding on Arthur Street south near Elmira. On Apr. 13 at approximately 1:35 a.m., Colin Anthony was driving northbound on Arthur Street South at 130 km/h in an 80 km/h zone. As he entered Elmira, Anthony pulled over for police, but as they approached his vehicle, he rammed his way through one cruiser in an attempt to flee the scene. A police pursuit ensued as Anthony fled southbound along Arthur Street. The pursuit continued through Conestogo, Bloomingdale and into Bridgeport where police deployed a stop stick device and flattened the front tire of the suspect’s vehicle. The vehicle continued through Bridgeport into Waterloo where Anthony eventually lost con-trol and struck a median. The driver then fled his car on foot. He was eventually located by a canine unit and later arrested. Among his nine charges are ‘impaired operation of a motor vehicle,’ ‘dan-gerous driving,’ ‘fail to remain,’ ‘flight from police’ and several breach of probation charges.
bound vehicle, being driven by a Waterloo woman. The colli-sion left both vehicles severely damaged. The Waterloo woman was transported to Grand River Hospital, but later released with non-life-threatening injuries. The Listowel man was charged with ‘improper left turn.’ 3:33 PM A man from Fergus was driving along Line 86, near Kath-erine Street when a deer sudden-ly darted into the path of his car, was struck and killed. The driver was not injured, but his vehicle was moderately damaged. There were no charges.
5:13 PM There are no suspects in connection with a vehicle theft from a business in the 1700 area of Listowel Road, south of Elmira. A dark green 1998 GMC pickup truck was stolen from the on-farm business and bears the marker FT22 54.7:05 PM A deer was killed as a result of a collision at Line 86 and Northfield Drive, near West Montrose. 7:41 PM A Waterloo resident was charged with ‘fail to report’ after a collision that occurred on Apr. 6. While the driver of the vehicle alleges that she originally thought damage to car to be un-der $1,000 it was later assessed to be in excess of $6,500. It is not know whether alcohol played a factor in the collision, which saw the car strike a hydro pole. The investigation continues.
April 127:16 AM Police were called to the roundabout in St. Jacobs af-ter a Hamilton man, northbound on Arthur Street, accidentally pressed the accelerator rather than the brake pedal, and ended up rocketing onto the median portion of the roundabout. His vehicle caught fire but the fire department responded in time to put it out and rescue the man. It later appeared that the driver had been suffering from a mental disability; he was subsequently arrested under the Mental Health Act and taken to the Grand River Hospital psychiatric ward. He was subsequently charged with ‘careless driving.’
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April 1410:48 AM Police, along with emergency and fire crews, at-tended to a single-vehicle colli-sion on Kressler Road near Wa-terloo. A 16-year-old G2 driver from Waterloo had been travel-ing southbound on Kressler Road near Waterloo and suddenly slid across the northbound lanes and up a hill, coming to rest in a farm-er’s field. The passenger and the driver were taken to Grand Riv-er Hospital by ambulance with serious but not life-threatening injuries. Both had been wearing their seat belts. The vehicle was totaled. Excessive speeds and inexperience are believed to be the causes of the collision. The investigation continues.8:19 AM A resident of First Street East in Elmira contacted police to
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April 153:14 AM As a result of a traffic stop along Arthur Street South in Elmira, an area man was charged
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April 1610:37 PM Police were called to the core of St. Jacobs, in the 1300 area of King Street North, as a re-sult of a call concerning two sus-picious males trying car doors in the parking lot of a restaurant. The two men, wearing hoodies and riding bicycles at the time, disappeared before police ar-rived on the scene. There are no suspects.
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Shooting across a cultural divide
“We’re not going to give up our right to a safe community.” America is home to 220 million guns, almost a third of the world’s total, and more than one for every adult.
Coalition for Gun ControlBreslau resident Kim Reitzel presses for Woolwich Street solutions
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Not unexpectedly, amid all the anguish that followed this week’s shooting rampage in Virginia, those on both sides of the gun control debate weighed into the fray.
That some people are calling for further restrictions on gun ownership is under-standable. Cho Sueng-Hui, the 23-year-old responsible for murdering 32 students and teachers at Virginia Tech before killing himself, easily acquired handguns, despite a history of mental illness.
On the other side of the argument, gun advocates are arguing for greater access to guns, saying armed students could have gunned down Cho before he got as far as he did. Current rules outlawing weapons on university campuses should be lifted, they say. In Virginia, some 132,000 people have permits to carry concealed weapons.
The latter arguments are commonplace in the U.S., where second amendment – the right to keep and bear arms – issues abound. In Canada, the notion seems ridic-ulous: having more guns at hand increases the risk. It would be far more likely for someone to see red, snap and use a readily available gun than it would be for someone to be faced with a murderer on a shooting spree.
According to the Canadian Coalition for
Gun Control, the U.S. gun death rates are far higher than other industrialized coun-tries, and among the highest recorded in the world. Statistics from 2005 indicate the U.S. had 10,100 gun homicides compared to 222 in Canada.
While Canada and the U.S. have compa-rable rates of homicides without guns (1.79 per 100,000 versus 1.35), the American fire-arm homicide rate is five times Canada’s (3.8 versus. 0.69); the U.S. handgun homi-cide rate is seven times Canada’s (2.83 ver-sus 0.39).
The U.S. also has 5.8 times the rates per 100,000 of robberies committed with fire-arms even though rates of robberies with-out guns are comparable.
Those kind of statistics depict a major dif-ference between our cultures.
Not, of course, that we’re immune from tragedies such as what happened in Vir-ginia. Just last fall, one student died and 19 were wounded in a seemingly random shooting at Montreal’s Dawson College. That city was also the scene of the 1989 killings of 14 women at the École Polytech-nique. Other examples abound.
Still, we operate under a different mind-set than do those in the States. As Gwynne Dyer notes in his column this week, politi-
cians must be pro-gun, or at least not come out in favour of gun control. That kind of thinking would not fly here: even the gun registry debate was more about waste and graft than about the guns themselves.
Health care, on the other hand, is tightly woven into our national identity. Politi-cians of all stripes here vie to be health-care saviours, each pledging to do more than the other.
It’s a different story in the U.S., where the health-care-for-all mentality we trea-sure here is eyed with suspicion by many. Opponents – typically those with much to gain from the status quo – have succeeded in painting universal health care as a tax-and-spend fantasy of the liberals. They have successfully linked any such pro-gram to the dreaded socialist boogeyman, threatening increased costs and a lack of choice.
It’s far easier to get a gun than it is for many to get medical care. The irony that criminal use of guns leads to extra de-mand for treatment is not lost on critics here. And that, more than anything else, il-lustrates the divide between our countries. Most of us want to keep those differences in place, believing they make us a better place to live.
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»DR. FOTH | ALLAN FOTHERINGHAM
To be taken seriously, Canada needs to cut the cord
»HARD TALK | RAFE MAIR
Open letter to Carole James, possibly still BC NDP leader
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Society must continue the search for political integrity
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We have, as we know, this tremulous polit-ical situation in this immature nation, a minority govern-ment that doesn’t know whether to risk an election in hopes of a majority. And three Opposi-
tion parties that bluff, but don’t dare to go that route either.
We have a suggestion. Either the Grits or the Tories could sweep the nation if they would announce tomorrow their major platform: let Canada grow up and junk the monarchy.
There’s a simple reason why the rest of the world doesn’t take Canada very seriously at the United Nations or oth-er world bodies. Who else, on its cur-rency, has the face of a foreigner? Who lives far away across a large ocean?
Would France allow that? Germany? Italy? Spain? Of course not.
Not to mention the Excited States of America, which regards our frozen wastes as a rather immature little land, since they fought a war against an English king to establish a fact they
were not a colony – which our curren-cy establishes that we still are.
The nonsense was established once again, embarrassingly, at the very im-pressive Vimy Ridge ceremonies when Her Majesty was introduced as “the Queen of Canada.” Stephen Harper was reduced to being a choir boy.
The ridiculous nature of our stature is emphasized further in recent days by the soap opera of the Royals, across the large pond. First, the insane coro-ner’s inquest – 10 years late – into the death of the tragic Princess Di.
This scribbler, for his sins, covered both her wedding and her funeral in London and she didn’t even deserve this.
Ten years? All driven by the twisted Egyptian tycoon Mohammed al-Fayed – who owns Harrods, London’s most plush store – and claims she was preg-nant by his son and Buckingham Pal-ace arranged her death in that drunk-en Paris car chase. And Prince Philip will have to appear in court.
Do we have to be involved in this non-sense? Because the Fleet Street tab-loids make all their profits from the soap opera of Buck House?
Not to mention the new world sensa-tion that Prince William, caught drunk with his hand around a delicate part of a maiden in a pub, has announced that his four-year squeeze with school-mate Kate is over, apparently because – Fleet Street is never wrong – her mum chewed gum in the presence of the lady who is on our currency.
The queen, who is not amused, is a nice person. The scribbler has met her twice and two things emerge. She is much smaller than one would imag-ine – sister Princess Margaret was four-foot-eleven – and even television cannot transmit that famous English peaches-and-cream complexion.
She is just 80 this spring – the Queen Mum died at 101 – and she would natu-rally like to give up the job of opening hospitals and accepting bouquets. But she doesn’t dare. Thanks to her selfish uncle, who fled the throne to marry the American divorcee Wallis Simp-son and spent his life at Paris cocktail parties.
The only way the silly English class system can survive is that those at the top must stick with the job until the end – not fob off to an easier life. Where
you don’t have to open hospitals.She knows that. Do we want Charles –
the next King of Canada! – the chinless wonder who is so daft that he couldn’t fathom that his servants would listen to his phone calls (and then sell them to Fleet Street) telling his mistress Ca-milla that he wanted to be her tampon?
Do we want Prince Harry, caught once again by the London photogs stum-bling into the gutter after a yet-anoth-er pub night out? And now Prince Wil-liam, future King of Canada, dumping a nice girl because he prefers the lads in his regiment who have introduced him to the gargle?
It’s about time this country grew up. And realized that our “equals” in the world chambers will not take us seri-ously until we shed off the shackles of being a colony – as India and many in Africa have done – of 10 Downing Street.
Next year is Quebec City’s 400th birth-day party and there has been outrage over the suggestion that Good Queen Bess be invited. She has not set foot in the province since 1964, when she was roundly booed.
There is no way that she will appear.
Dear Carole, I’m going to be bru-
tally frank with you. The NDP is in bad shape and perfectly positioned for a sub-stantial thumping in 2009 – and that is mostly your fault either because you
don’t understand the system and the B.C. voter or you do understand and don’t want to play the game.
Why do I care? Because, under our multi-flawed sys-
tem, the Opposition ought always to be a government-in-waiting.
Let’s first dispose of the notion that the legislature ought to behave like a town meeting where everybody polite-ly hears the debates then quietly votes. Perhaps in your reveries you see an ex-tension of the Youth Parliament where earnest speakers declaim their views with one hand gesticulating with the other behind their back, never raising their voices nor allowing anger to rear its ugly head.
The legislature does not work that way and until the system changes, it never will.
It isn’t a debating chamber because, with a majority government, the deci-sion has already been made by cabi-net. It is a place where the Opposition does have a chance to question the gov-ernment, and even though the answer is always “no,” properly done, the op-position can shine a little bit of light into that darkened chamber called the cabinet room.
Let’s talk real politics and especially those of your party.
Have you considered, Carole, that the NDP has only won one election, name-ly that of 1996?
In 1972, the tired old government of tired old W.A.C. Bennett simply im-ploded. In 1991, a fencepost with hair could have beaten the already beaten Socreds and the real story of that elec-tion was that the middle-of-the-roaders went Liberal, not NDP. In 1983 – and note this for later, Carole – Bob Skelly made a deal with Bill Bennett that the legislature would become acceptable to visiting school children. I remem-ber at the time having a drink with Bud Smith, a “pol” if God ever created one, and he was nearly overcome with glee that the NDP opposition was go-ing to be nice to the Socreds. The only
election the NDP won in a real contest was in 1996 under Glen Clark.
Let’s take this another step. With the exception of Clark, the NDP has nev-er had what the public perceived as a strong leader.
Dave Barrett, was a clever person-ality boy who, in the three real elec-tions he fought – 1975, 1979 and 1983 – got second prize being beaten each time by Bill Bennett who was a strong leader. (Bennett used to say that he didn’t know which Marx he was fight-ing, Karl or Groucho.) Mike Harcourt, a thoroughly decent man, was, in spite of his experience, unable to take the heat over a scandal in which he had played no part. Dan Miller was a stop-gap premier and Dosanjh was any-thing but politically tough.
What would a tough NDP leader be doing at this stage, two years from an election? He or she would find a theme and hammer it home at every possibil-ity. Harken back to the Barrett regime and what Bill Bennett did as opposi-tion leader. The Socred theme was that the NDP, in Bennett Sr.’s phrase, couldn’t manage a peanut stand. Bill Bennett focused on that and played a neat trick.
The NDP had brought in a very sen-sible 135-hour limit for all the budget “estimates” debate. Cleverly and de-liberately running out the 135 hours as the Minister of Finance’s estimates came so, the Speaker passed the re-maining estimates without debate. It was a phony, contrived issue but Ben-nett stormed the hustings crying “not a dime without debate!” It worked, oh how it worked. Especially after the NDP cut off Bennett’s legislative sti-pend because he wasn’t in the legis-lature, thus making the multimillion-aire Bennett into a saintly martyr in sackcloth.
The image stuck that the NDP was shoveling money off the back of a truck, and the rest is history.
Was this a fair tactic? Of course not, for we’re talking politics in a two-par-ty system with the “first past the post” voting system that rewards tough lead-ership over policy every time.
Here’s what you must do, Carole. This is not a school board we’re dealing with here but politics big time, which in our province is a blood sport. You really have to toughen up and not leave the fighting to Adrian Dix and one or
To the Editor,The Observer’s editorial of Apr. 14 is
certainly eye-catching. Yet, navel-gaz-ing can be a worthwhile pastime, if it’s done correctly. The only navel that one has a right to view is on one’s own tummy, in the privacy of a bedroom or a bathroom.
In Biblical terms, Luke records Jesus saying: “Look not above, around, or be-low. The Kingdom is within you.” This inner understanding and responsibil-ity is an energy known as integrity – being true to oneself, family, commu-nity, country, indeed being true to all
life on Earth, as well as being true to the life within.
Every person has integrity, if only they can find it. However, navel-gazing is certainly not a proper media activity. Yet, our decision makers must justify themselves, as the editorial suggests.
In Breaking the Mind Barrier, visual artist Todd Slier advises how to use perspective when he writes: “Don’t bite my finger! Look where I’m pointing.”
On the next page of the Observer, Dr. Foth looks for integrity as he reviews White House candidates. Perhaps we should pay attention to Barak Obama, because his underlying energy is love of country and its people.
Most impressively, Obama has writ-ten an all-encompassing book, The Au-
dacity of Hope, Thoughts On Reclaim-ing The American Dream. He covers all issues that have been navel-gazed in re-cent decades, such as Iraq, Iran, Sept. 11, 2001. He also gives a straightfor-ward account of his own background in government, family and education. In the Observer’s words, he justifies himself.
On the morning that 9/11 was happen-ing, the first televised comment said, “This puts a sword through the heart of world trade.” This was not terrorism; it was a giant protest against the exploi-tation of natural resources for profit, meddling in other countries’ affairs, resulting in killing instead of living.
Barak Obama understands all this, and is not afraid to record it in his
book. He speaks for himself. A book is there for all to read, with copyright keeping it unchangeable. Can people still read? Or have they become so hur-ried and misled by big business that words have no more meaning?
I remember being teased at school, until I realized that if I did not react, they would quit teasing. Unfortun-ately, many political leaders have not learned this basic self-control, and so, encouraged by exciting reactions, ter-rorism seems to be growing.
In truth, by focusing on terror and fear, we are feeding this war monster. If we would stay home, keep ourselves under control with a balanced econo-my, using no more than we need, ter-
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»OBSERVER Q&A
“Well, the speed bumps have already been decided: “no” last night at the meet-ing. No, we don’t want the speed bumps and I’m not sure what other measures they’re considering.”
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Should the township use speed bumps on Woolwich St. to calm traffic?
“No, we had speed bumps here before and they kept disappearing. Now we have [police] sitting over here entrapping people. It keeps costing more and it’s a waste of money.”
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“That got fired out yester-day: there will never be speed bumps again. The only thing is they kept the option open of checking it to more signage and all this other foolishness.”
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»THE VIEW FROM HERE | SCOTT ARNOLD
LOOKING TO RAISE MONEY FOR ITS BUILDING SPREE, WOOLWICH DECIDES TO GET SERIOUS ABOUT COLLECTING DEVELOPMENT CHARGES.
» From page 11
Mair: Public feels utterly diconnectedtwo others. Then – and this is critical – you must find a theme and stick to it. The old themes of poverty, disease and oth-er social problems are of number-one importance for a good government – except I’m not talking about government but how to get elected. Obvi-ously you can’t legislate for the public weal if you don’t win.
Let me tell you what that theme is: democ-racy. In 25 years of lis-tening to the public this is the real number-one issue. Don’t be fooled by polls or what your mem-bers tell you: the public is not yet prepared to tell you what’s wrong if only because the term “democracy deficit” hasn’t hit the pollsters’ list of questions. You’ll not hear the “democracy deficit” bandied about in the pool hall or the pub
but take my word for it, the public feels utterly disconnected from their political masters. They know that there’s some-thing very wrong when a system confers absolute power on one person.
The public sees the Iron Curtain-like pro-cess where decisions are taken first and the pub-lic consulted last; this is precisely what people are ticked off about.
My suggested theme might not be the right one (though I firmly think it is). But I can tell you as sure as God made little green apples you’ll never beat the Liberals with passionate pleas for the poor. Perhaps in a better world that would be good enough, but not in the world where Brit-ish Columbians vote.
Get your act together Ms. James, or you will join the ranks of failed New Dem-ocratic Party leaders.
rorism would lose its value as a bogeyman. And there would still be enough mature trees on earth to absorb much of our carbon dioxide.
Why don’t we give more thought to our trade with trees, instead of with China? Trees need our
Letter: Look to trees as an example
carbon dioxide, we need their oxygen. Fair and square. No money in-volved, only integrity, and trees don’t navel-gaze, nor do they cheat. And, one must agree, they do justify themselves.
A tree for president?Margaret M. Snyder
West Montrose
» From page 11
Remember, so we can heal from the inside out
To the Editor,Prime Minister Ste-
phen Harper represent-ed Canada at the annual Canadian Holocaust Remembrance Day Cer-emony on Apr. 15 in Ot-tawa. In reference to the six million Jewish men, women and children who were murdered in the Holocaust, Harper said, “the genocide was so premeditated and grotesque in design, so monstrous and barbaric in scale and so systemat-ic and efficient in execu-tion that it stands alone in the annals of human evil.”
He also said, “we do un-derstand the evil that at-tempted extermination of the Jewish people was a crime against all of humanity … but we know that it must never happen again.”
I read this story with interest having recently
(last November) taken a day while in Jerusalem to walk through the new Holocaust Museum. Here I experienced the horror of the Holocaust. Hence, I find it so easy to concur with Harper. I also know we try to avoid remem-bering such horrors be-cause it can be painful. Yet, remember we must, so that we, all of us, can heal from the inside out. Only then will we have a better chance of pur-suing justice worldwide from a position of integ-rity.
I also believe we, as Ca-nadians – and I encour-age our Prime Minister as well to do so – need to be inclusive in our remembering such atrocities. I emphasize the need to remember another atrocity. While visiting the Holocaust museum in Jerusalem, I looked beyond the hills to a place called Deir Yassin, one of approxi-mately 400 Arab villages depopulated in 1948 by
Jews and converted into Jewish settlements with new Hebrew names.
Specifically at Deir Yas-sin on Apr. 9, 1948, a mas-sacre in which 100-130 men, women and chil-dren were killed in cold blood by Jewish people took place. Ten years ago my wife and I were told about the truck load of parentless children who were then trans-ported from Deir Yassin to the Damascus Gate at the Old City. There they were found by religious sisters who hurriedly created a place of shelter for them and which then became an orphanage.
On Apr. 9, the 49th an-niversary of “Remem-bering Deir Yassin” took place during the holy weeks for both Jews and Christians. The Arab village of Deir Yassin was singled out more than any other village because what happened there signaled the flight of Palestinians to find safety and thereby led
to their land being taken and the people displaced. In 1996, a man, who has since died, told my wife and I what it was like for him as a 12-year-old to be forced out of his Arab village. Indelible in his memory were getting lost from his family, the casualties of old people dying and pregnant women miscarrying as they fled over the hills to Ramallah. All this hap-pened while Jews moved in and took over his fam-ily home.
Most of us know the Palestinian people have limited finances, schol-arship and lack interna-tional support to enable the world to better un-derstand the atrocities they experienced. While their experience was on a smaller scale compared to the Jewish Holocaust, for them their massa-cres represents a mini-holocaust of significant proportion.
Fortunately, there are now noted Jewish schol-
ars and historians like Ilan Pappe of Haifa, and Alfred Lilienthal of the U.S. who are helping all of us know this his-tory and understand the atrocities carried out by the Jewish people.
We do need to know this happened only a few years after the Holocaust and the Jewish people where still enraged with the injustice done to them. It may be a classic example how the victim becomes the victimizer. Nevertheless, this is a chapter of Israeli his-tory that impacted the Palestinians with grave consequences.
American Jewish his-torian, Alfred Lilienthal was 39 when he wrote the book What Price Isra-el? in 1953. At the age of 89 he has written What Price Israel? – 50th An-niversary Edition, 2003. He believes that both Jewish and Arab people were betrayed by Zionist interests, which had as their intent to provide
homeland and refuge for Jews in need of safety in the land where their an-cestors lived in ancient times.
However, he notes this definition only sounds good until we realize that almost a million Palestinians who had al-ready been living there had to be displaced and made homeless in the process.
In “Remembering Deir Yassin” we would do well to look at how Zionism may have clouded this history and contributed to an ongoing lack of peace present in Israel and Palestine today.
I believe it is important that we bring this his-tory of the massacres and displacement of Palestinian Arabs by the Jews out of the closet. It, like the Holocaust, is painful history that needs to be remembered and mourned. Hopefully our remembering will facilitate a wholesome
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»INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS | GWYNNE DYER
Welcome to gun country
» From page 12
You can imagine lots of countries where a candidate for the presidency might lie about owning a gun so as not to alien-ate the voters, but only in the United States would he lie and say he does own
a gun when he doesn’t. That was Re-publican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s sin earlier this year – and he compounded it by claiming that he was a lifelong hunter. Diligent report-ers checked and found that Romney had never taken out a hunting license anywhere. (Where were they when President Bush claimed that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruc-tion?)
The notion that the voters might pun-ish a candidate for not owning a gun would seem simply bizarre in most ju-risdictions, but it is a serious political reality in the United States. That’s why hardly anybody in the U.S. is using the latest mass slaughter by some enraged loser (33 dead at Virginia Tech) to ar-gue for more gun control. There’s not even pressure to renew the federal law banning the sale of assault rifles, which was recently allowed to lapse.
Gun control is a dead issue in the United States, and it isn’t coming back. There is a sound political reason for this, and there is also a rational ex-planation for it (which isn’t the same thing).
The political reason was simplicity itself: the Democratic Party realized
that it wasn’t going to win back a ma-jority in either house of Congress if it didn’t stop talking about gun con-trol. The party’s leaders looked at the political map after the 2004 election, a sea of Republican red with a narrow strip of Democratic blue on either coast, and realized that their problem was more than just George W. Bush’s fatal charm. They weren’t winning in “heartland” states because they were seen as trying to take Americans’ guns away.
There are other issues even in Mon-tana, of course, but enough people care passionately about their guns in Montana that it’s hard to get elected there if you are seen as anti-gun. So now the Democratic Party’s national platform commits it to uphold the Sec-ond Amendment – the right to keep and bear arms – and in the 2006 elec-tion it won both the Senate seat that was being contested in Montana and the governorship of the state, for de-cades a Republican stronghold.
The campaign manifesto of the new Democratic senator from Montana, Jon Tester, claimed that he would “stand up to anyone – Republican or Democratic – who tries to take away Montanans’ gun rights.”
The new Democratic governor of Montana, Brian Schweizer, says that he has “more guns than I need but not as many as I want. … I guess I kind of believe in gun control: you control your gun, and I’ll control mine.”
It’s a whole new image for Democrats, and it won them control of both hous-es of Congress in 2006. (Yes, the war
helped, too, but by itself it wouldn’t have been enough.)
The Democrats were not going to lose the coastal states (where the ef-fete intellectuals and most of the old urban working class live) even if they did drop gun control. They were not going to win in the heartland (where the born-agains and the Marlboro Men live) if they didn’t drop gun control. So they dropped it, and now no large par-ty supports it. That’s the politics of it, and you can’t argue with that.
There is another, quite rational rea-son why gun control doesn’t get much traction in American politics any more: it’s simply too late. This is a so-ciety that owns approximately equal numbers of wristwatches and guns: around a quarter-billion of each. There’s no going back – and if practi-cally everybody else has guns, maybe you should have one, too.
As various commentators will be pointing out soon, if just one of those 33 murdered students had been carry-ing a concealed handgun maybe the killer would have been stopped sooner. It’s perfectly legal to carry concealed weapons with a permit in Virginia, but not on college campuses. This loophole must be closed. At least, that is the way the argument is usually put in Ameri-ca, although the reality is not one gun per citizen over the age of 12, but some citizens with a great many guns and most citizens with none at all.
More fundamentally, the gun control argument may be missing the cultural point. Most Swiss and Israeli house-holds with a male between the ages of
18 and 45 also contain a fully automatic weapon, because the national military mobilization model in those countries requires reservists to keep their weap-ons at home. Yet the Swiss and Israelis don’t murder one another at a higher rate than people in countries like Brit-ain or Turkey, where there is relatively strict gun control.
“Guns don’t kill people; people kill people” is the best-known slogan of the National Rifle Association, the most effective pro-gun lobbying orga-nization in the United States. But it’s really a cultural thing: the British have bad teeth, the French smell of garlic, Americans tend to have more bullet-holes in them than other people. The slogan should actually go: “Guns don’t kill Americans; Americans kill Americans.”
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I further hope that there will be an opportunity for Stephen Harper to remind all of us that the evil carried out against the Palestinian Arabs was also a crime against all of humanity and the world is significantly poorer because of it.
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“We exceed all Ontario build-ing codes in energy efficiency. It’s utmost in people’s minds today … energy efficiency is very key in our industry,” said Bax, alluding to soaring gas and hydro costs in recent years.
Based in Shelburne, Mont-gomery Homes has been build-ing new houses in Orangeville and the surrounding areas since 1997. Prior to this, Bax was the project manager for his brother’s company, Bax Vintage Homes and was part of a team that included sales, service, trades and workers. Bax has worked in new home construc-tion since the age of 15.
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“Quality of life is huge … there’s nice big lots; you’re out in the country; it’s a very safe community and there are a lot of local attractions,” said Bax.
“And value, that same house in Kitchener-Waterloo which is half an hour away would be another $200,000.”
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The Glenavalon homes also feature a number of interior décor and aesthetic standards including, imported ceramic tile flooring in the kitchen and bathroom areas, nine-foot-high ceilings, classique series doors with colonial trim, mod-ern wire shelving in closets and pantries, solid oak pickets and railings in natural finish,
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a few days of barbequing in a parka, but it’s worth it.
I’m not the only one salivating. Meat processors’ eyes light up when bar-beque season arrives, and sales rise. In fact, meat purchases have been moving upwards for many years, even through Canada’s mad cow scare. This trend is part of a global movement which is projected to see meat produc-tion double by 2020.
The federal government, through Canada’s Food Guide, tells us meat is part of a balanced diet. The guide gives us some pretty precise guidelines for consumption.
But traditionally, Ottawa hasn’t told farmers what to do with the waste from animal processing facilities, such as slaughterhouses. Or, what to do with dead livestock. It’s not a pretty side of agriculture, but increasingly, waste is something all members of society have to deal with. And as meat
consumption increases, so does waste.Once, when a farmer had an animal
die, or processed onsite, the remains were either buried or carted off for free by a rendering plant. But the free deal ended as regulations tightened, and markets for rendered products de-creased. So did the casual approach to burying a carcass.
This summer the Canadian Food In-spection Agency is expected to come out with more stringent waste-disposal regulations for what’s called specified risk materials (mainly, parts of the central nervous system). The agency’s concerned about waste from proces-sors and farmers, and among its goals are to get a better handle on as many sources as possible of mad cow-caus-ing agents called prions, which are as-sociated with specific risk materials.
It’s not known exactly how these reg-ulations will unfold. But research is underway to try to help farmers pre-pare.
One such initiative is the brainchild of University of Guelph graduate Rob Michitsch, now a PhD student in biological engineering at Dalhousie University, in cooperation with the Nova Scotia Agricultural College. He’s working with something called bio-piles, which sounds like what they are: compost piles of biological entities,
such as livestock carcasses.On three test plots near the college,
he’s trying to gauge how disease-caus-ing organisms, called pathogens, from composting carcasses move into the soil and, potentially, drinking water sources. And actually, he’s found they don’t. He’s been at it since 2004, and he says he’s found the composting pro-cess removes almost all the pathogens. Over 18- to 24 months, he says biopil-ing will reduce waste volume by 75 per cent. That’s an astonishing figure and holds a lot of hope for on-farm ap-proaches to dealing with waste.
Here’s what he did. In three five-foot deep cells, each 10-feet wide and 15-feet long and affixed with a foot of sawdust on the bottom, he poured the equiva-lent of four 45-gallon drums of animal waste, the real McCoy from a nearby lamb processing plant. On top of that, he put another foot of sawdust. The bottom of the cell had a cement floor with a drain, so he could collect what-ever seeped through. Then, he let it ferment.
And ferment it did. He turned the brew after six months, so the biologi-cal action of the bacteria kept the tem-peratures in the compost high enough to break down tissue, and even bone.
Because this compost is made from animal remains, it can’t be used on
land where animals would graze, or where a food crop was going to be grown for humans. But Nova Scotia has a huge Christmas tree production industry. How about there? Or as a cap for abandoned landfills? Or on strictly forested land? Despite urban sprawl, in Canada, there’s lot of forested land.
Enthusiasm is growing for Mich-itsch’s approach. Earlier this year he was the sole recipient of a scholar-ship from the Canadian Meat Science Association to present his research to a group of his peers at a scientific conference in Vancouver. His research was embraced by the association and the Canadian Meat Council, and be-came an active part of conversation at the three-day event, which was attend-ed mainly by meat-product marketers.
The key is whether the process will be affordable for farmers, and if Ot-tawa will give them the green light to attempt this on their own land. Michitsch thinks they might, on a case-by-case basis. That will create a lot more bureaucracy and paperwork. But those two words are synonymous with modern farming, and public pro-tection. In the end, consumers will have to help farmers shoulder the extra costs. That’s the price for sus-tainability, and the luxury of meat consumption.
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In the world of sports, a loss in the playoffs can instantly overshadow a whole lot of success in the regular season. Such was the case with the Elmira Sugar Kings, who were downed by the Cam-bridge Winter Hawks in an unexpected 4-0 sweep earlier this month.
In the 2006-2007 sea-son, Elmira fans were spoiled, treated to one victory after another. The fi rst two rounds of the Mid-Western Junior Hockey League playoffs offered some hurdles, but nothing the Kings couldn’t handle. The go-ing got tough as the top
Kings hope to roll strong performance into next season
teams – which had jock-eyed for control all season – met in the fi nals.
“It just wasn’t going to be our week,” said general manager Keith Stewart of the four-game defeat. “It left a bad taste in my mouth. I think we were a much better club than that and I think we were pretty consistent all year.”
Dogged by lingering inju-ries, penalty woes, inconsis-tent offi ciating, and a linger-ing fl u, the Kings were not their regular selves during the playoffs, said Stewart.
“It was a good regular season. With the team we had, our goal was to win a championship –if you don’t achieve that goal, I don’t think you can call it a complete success,” added
coach John East.Before dropping the fi nal
contest against the Hawks 8-1, the Kings were out-scored 6-3, 6-5, and 4-1.
Disappointed by that out-come, the organization tried to accentuate the positive.
“We had good moments throughout the year; we had the top three scorers in the league, which was a big accomplishment. We were breaking in some young defenceman who got steadily better as the year went on. From that stand-point, those were all good accomplishments, which you need to have good sea-sons. Ultimately, we were there to win and we didn’t succeed at that,” he noted.
Some of the Kings’ wor-thy accomplishments this
season include tying the Sutherland Cup champion Winter Hawks for fi rst place during the regular run (the Hawks edged over the Kings on the strength of a 3-2-1 season record); earning fi ve spots on the league’s top 20 scorers’ list (Brent Freeman, Dane Dobbie, Tyler Brenner, Erik Vos, and John Lun-ney), the latter three clinch-ing the top three spots: Vos (29 goals and 54 assists, 83 points), Brenner (41-35, 76), and Lunney (26-47, 73); pro-ducing the most goals in the entire league (262 – seven more than Cambridge, 93 more than third-place Lis-towel); posting the league’s third best goals-against av-erage of 3.40; and earning coach of the year honours for East.
Overall, it was a solid year for a young team.
“We brought in 12 new kids and that really should be called a rebuilding sea-son, so for John East and Darren Wideman to get them to gel together to play as a unit, I thought was a pretty good accomplish-ment,” said Stewart, not-ing that the team’s young blood is an omen of better things to come.
“It’s only going to help us in the long run. Some of those kids are pretty young, and to be in a cham-pionship series in their fi rst year, it’s going to be some valuable knowledge and information that they can learn from,” said Stew-art.
The Kings club will un-
dergo some major changes this summer, led by East’s decision to step down. Af-ter four years at the team’s helm, the award-winning skipper has opted to spend more time with his young, Hamilton-area family.
Brenner, the team’s cap-tain, is moving on to the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York State and veterans Marc Deschamps, Dobbie, Rob Stewart, Kyle Knechtel, and Joe Amlinger are grad-uating out of the system. As it stands now, 16 players will likely rejoin the squad next year. Such a prospect is certainly a double-edged sword: rebuilding a solid team equal to, if not bet-ter than, this year’s squad will be no easy feat. But it
promises to be exciting. Already the coaching
staff is scouting around for new acquisitions (a solid netminder tandem is top priority) and the team’s next generation of leaders – Lunney, Brock Zinken, Dan Rhame, Trent Brown and Paul Bezzo – is getting ready to step up.
While the new season is still months away the message for next year’s re-turnees is clear.
“My motto this last cou-ple of years has been ‘get ‘er done.’ I think my motto for next year is going to be ‘unfi nished business.’ Hopefully, the boys will take that home with them over the summer and come back ready to play,” said Stewart.
2006-2007 ELMIRA SUGAR KINGS Back row: Rod Beer (goaltender coach), Bob Cummings (player development), Rob Gmeindl (equipment), Bill Ferrier (equipment), John Craig (scout), Jeff Seddon (president), Gary Schaefer (trainer). Second row: Ryan Amyot, Erik Vos, Chad Hepburn, Dan Rhame, Scott Lepold, Paul Bezzo, Joe Vanni, Matthew Stern, Ryan Zehr, Cal Myerscough, Jeff Zippel, trent Brown, Brent Freeman, Rob Stewart. First row: Kyle Knechtel, Brendan Lynch, Brock Zinken (A), John East (head coach), Tyler Brenner (C), Keith Stewart (general manager), John Lunney (A), Darren Wideman (assistant coach), Dane Dobbie (A), Marc Deschamps, Joe Amlinger. Seated in front: Jesse Marche (stick boy), Logan White (stick boy). Absent: Terry Knechtel (conditioning coach), Larry Farr (scout). Honoured Member: Jim McLeod (equipment manager).
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After four years behind the Sugar Kings’ bench, the coach is calling it quits. John East resigned from his position fol-lowing the playoffs, saying he wants to spend more time with his family.
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It was a bittersweet move for a coach who has received many accolades from the team and the league.
“It was an easy decision be-cause of what I had to do. But it was a hard decision because I love to coach, and I have been involved in hockey my whole life and it’s what I’ve known
and what I’ve done – I’m going to miss it,” he said.
“It was one of the hardest decisions to explain why I was doing it,” said East, noting that the time-consuming du-ties of a coach were too taxing on his young Hamilton-area family.
“It might have been differ-
ent if I lived in the same town; maybe we would have been able to work around it.”
The Kings this week an-nounced the hiring of Geoff Haddaway of the Kitchener Dutchmen as head coach, and Dean De Silva as an assistant.
East leaves the team on a good note and with many fond
memories. “The organization has been
great to me. I love being part of the Kings organization. They’re second to none in the league and in the prov-ince. They treat their play-ers great and they treat their coaches great. They’re just a
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MARC MIQUEL HELSEN
Veteran skip Norm Green of St. Clements returned from Toronto last week with top hon-ours as he and his team-mates represented the K-W area at the Ontario Championship for Blind Curlers.
Facing some 12 adver-saries from across the province, Green and his teammates relished the tournament’s heavy competition.
“It always feels better when you win, though,” Green quipped. “Espe-cially when you’ve got to make a shot that counts at the end.”
Green’s team was formed by Jim Stevens and Ralph Fritz from Waterloo, Carrie Speers and Len Cooper from Kitchener, and coach Wendy Simpson from Paradise Lake.
On the road to the final showdown with Kings-ton, the K-W contin-gent defeated last year’s
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champs, Ottawa, 7-5 and silver medalists Toronto 8-5. Although an 8-2 final score against Kingston would indicate an easy victory, Green noted that the game was up for grabs right to the bitter end.
“The last one was [close], too, until we got the big end; we got four-in-one in,” said Green, noting that competitions are getting tighter all the time.
“The games were good because the first two games we came down to the last shot,” said Green.
In its match against Toronto, Green’s squad was in a close race until a flashpoint moment cre-ated a significant rift be-tween the two teams.
“Their skip missed the guard and left too much room for my rock to get through, and I made my shot,” said Green, who took out Toronto’s shot rock and counted three in the last end to make it
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DESIREE FINHERT
An already brief high school soccer season was truncated this week as wet fields kept players on the sidelines.
While the EDSS senior boys’ soccer squad got off to an early start with a pre-season tourney ear-lier this month, the girls’ varsity team had its first two matches called off Tuesday and Thursday.
The Lady Lancers were due to battle Glenview Park SS and Waterloo-Oxford DSS and may or may not get on the field for two matches this coming week.
The boys’ tussles with Kitchener Collegiate on the road and Eastwood Collegiate at home were also struck from the schedule.
With an eight-week season before the teams compete at the Water-loo County Secondary School Athletic Associa-tion championships at the end of May, organiz-ers are uncertain wheth-er the matches will be rescheduled.
Wet pitches delay EDSS soccer program
Coaches are mindful that the top two teams out of the region’s eight triple-A and the eight quad-A teams will ad-vance to the regional championships, but not knowing the competi-tions’ strengths and weaknesses one week into regular play has left them guessing about the rest of the season.
“We really want to get going. We’re really keen to get out there and play some soccer, but there’s nothing we can do about the fields,” said Doug Thomas. “The fields aren’t ready to be played on: basically they’re too wet. You play on them when they’re in that condition [then] you lose them later in the year because they’re so torn up.”
Still, hopes for the sea-son are high.
Senior players Holly Ogram, Toni Di Bene-detto and sisters Nyssa and Wren Laing return to the 19-member crew, bringing with them ex-perience from hockey, ringette and ski clubs – a
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»THE NOT-SO-GREAT OUTDOORSMAN | STEVE GALEA
Until you’ve hunted turkeys, you don’t know fowl play
Notice of Public MeetingProposed Regional Official Policy Plan (ROPP) Amendment
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Date: Tuesday, May 15, 2007Time: 11:00 a.m.Place: Regional Council Chambers
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Bill 51 (The Planning and Conservation Land Statute Law Amendment Act), provides new authority for prescribed upper-tier municipalities, such as the Region of Waterloo to establish Community Improvement Plans (CIPs) relating to the provision of infrastructure, transit oriented development within planned or existing transit corridors, and affordable housing. It also provides the opportunity for upper-tier municipalities, such as Waterloo Region, to participate in CIPs created by local municipalities. Through CIPs, municipalities can: focus public attention on local priorities and municipal initiatives; target areas in transition or in need of repair, rehabilitation and redevelopment; facilitate and encourage community change in a coordinated manner; and stimulate private sector investment through municipal incentive-based programs.
The legislative changes outlined in Bill 51 require that specific policies regarding the use of CIPs for grants and loans be incorporated in official plans. Accordingly a proposed Regional Official Policies Plan (ROPP) amendment would introduce such policies into the ROPP enabling the Region to provide grants or loans through participation in local municipal CIPs as Regional Council deems appropriate. The proposed amendment would also provide for the possibility that grants, loans and other forms of financial incentives could be provided through the creation of one or more Regional Community Improvement Plan.
A public meeting as it relates to the proposed ROPP amendment is held pursuant to Sections 17 and 22 of the Planning Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. P.13 as amended, for the purpose of providing information and receiving comments from the public. No decision will be made on the proposed amendment to the ROPP at this meeting. If you wish to be notified on the adoption or refusal of the proposed amendment, you may sign a register available at the meeting or make a written request to the Regional Clerk, Region of Waterloo, 150 Frederick Street, 2nd Floor, Kitchener, ON N2G 4J3.
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Somewhere along the line you have probably heard that a weasel is a cruel and vicious animal. Those who own chickens will tell you that these ro-dents seem to enjoy causing pain and
suffering for its own sake. Well, let me assure you that they’ve got nothing on a wild turkey.
Just thinking about the cruelty of a wild turkey can make my eyes bug out and my hair stand up on end. Have a look at the photo accompanying this column – as you can see, just prior to the photo, I was thinking about the cruelty of wild turkeys. It’s that bad.
Here’s a prime example of just how malevolent they can be.
The other day a friend of mine was cutting wood in his back forty down the road from here. He stopped cutting to sharpen his chainsaw when, sud-denly, a hen turkey walked up to with-in 20 yards of him, stood broadside for
a few minutes, and slowly meandered off. I know what you’re thinking, but my friend did nothing to provoke this vicious attack.
Now to most people, that probably doesn’t seem very cruel. But consider that this guy does not hunt turkeys and I have been telling him for the last several years how cagey and hard wild turkeys are to hunt. I have even advised him that he’ll probably never see one within gun range unless he re-mains silent, camouflage up, and stays still. Well, he was humming to himself, wearing a red shirt, and moving like a clog dancer.
Just like that, this turkey has made all my claims seem horribly exagger-ated. That’s the kind of horrible cru-elty I’m referring to.
I have other equally horrific exam-ples but I don’t want to cause anyone reading this to have nightmares – oth-er than my editors of course.
Isn’t that enough cruelty though? Now every time I talk to my friend about how difficult wild turkey hunt-ing is he just shoots me a dirty look,
the very same kind he gives me when I tell fishing stories. The only thing that will cure this agonizing pain is if he takes up wild turkey hunting, which will all but assure that he’ll never see one like that again.
Throughout this great province there are thousands of turkey hunters just like me suffering from the cruelties of these birds – this is why we take so much joy in shooting them.
I know at least three people who have had encounters similar to my neigh-bour’s this spring alone. Each one of them will snicker at me every time we meet in town, especially, during turkey season, after learning that I have yet to get a bird.
You might find this hard to believe, but I do not harbour any deep-seated feelings of resentment towards wild
turkeys. Nor do I do a happy dance each time I’ve tagged a gobbler. Despite what it looks like, I am just stretching my legs and arms vigorously to the beat of Copacabana. This is complete-ly understandable to anyone who has ever spent the last 12 mornings sitting with his back against a cold damp tree waiting for a stupid bird.
I might do things differently this tur-key season. Instead of sitting on the cold damp ground, camouflaged and waiting silently, I might rent a tuba and a Santa Claus suit and march through the fields playing Ump-pa-pah music. I figure I’ll have turkey clamouring to visit. And just when my knees clap the cymbals together, I’ll draw my shotgun out of my little red wagon. And then we’ll see who the dumb cluck really is.
an 8-5 game. Against Ottawa, the
team stole two rocks in the last end, making for a 7-5 game. The K-W outfit posted a perfect re-cord in the bonspiel that drew clubs from across the province.
In February 2008, Green and his teammates will represent Ontario at the White Cane Nationals in Ottawa. The tournament is meant to coincide with White Cane Week, an an-
Curling: Nail-biter ends in winnual initiative to empha-size the ability of blind and visually impaired Canadians. The Nation-al Blind Curling Cham-pionship in Ottawa is just one of the week’s planned events. Green hopes that that tourna-ment, as all the others, will help blind curling find a place in the 2010 Paralympics.
“It’s looking really good.”
Now that the winter season is wrapped up,
Green can turn to his other favourite sport: lawn bowling. A sea-soned lawn bowler and curler since the early 1990s, Green has amassed more than 20 medals from provincial, national and interna-tional lawn bowling tournaments. His lat-est acquisitions were a 12th consecutive pro-vincial gold in Oshawa and a silver at the world tournament in Glasgow, Scotland last summer.
boon for the team. “It’s an advantage be-
cause they know how to work as a team. They’re athletes and the sea-sons don’t overlap,” said their coach.
This year’s triple-A squad will also support two goalies.
“Sometimes you have trouble getting [even one], in which case you
Soccer: Awaiting the real dealput someone in who isn’t really a goalie.”
Other members make up a fairly balanced team, although their skills have only been viewed in practice.
So far, no one has yet emerged as an excep-tional kicker, runner or checker. Instead, the individuals are gelling into a solid unit.
As with most high
school sports, Thomas said any athlete could develop their skills be-yond coaches’ expecta-tions.
However, without hav-ing seen the unit perform in a game situation, field coaches Dave Williams and Jen Amos-Harrison can’t compare them to the competition.
The teams are due to be back on the field Apr. 24
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pleasure to work for the past six or seven years that I have been involved with them,” said East, a recipient of this year’s Mid-Western Junior Hockey League Coach of the Year Award.
East joined the Kings in 2000 as an assistant coach, helping Elmira win the Sutherland Cup. In his second year with the club, the Kings won the Cherrey Cup, taking the Sutherland Cup fi nal to game seven against Sarnia.
East then spent a year as coach of the Cam-bridge Winter Hawks be-fore returning to Elmira as the head coach, a po-sition he held for four years.
“Obviously, it’s a pretty big loss. John did a great job there with the kids and I know the kids re-ally liked him,” said general manager Keith Stewart. “I don’t know how he did it the last four or fi ve years driv-ing from work, four or fi ve times a week, plus he works full time, so I give him all the credit in the world.
“We’re going to miss him for sure. He’s a good guy. He put a lot of time into the game and he was a student of the game, al-ways trying new stuff.”
A hockey player through and through, East was always quick to
adapt to the changes in the game, said Stewart.
Perhaps East’s greatest feat, however, was get-ting a squad of highly talented players to play as a team rather than in-dividuals. As important for his technical know-how as for his skills in subtle psychology, East fi lled a number of roles, balancing positions as well as egos and person-alities. The team’s chem-istry on the ice was a certain sign of that, said the GM.
With hockey in his blood, East isn’t ruling out a coaching position in the future.
“Who knows, we’ll wait and see. I’m not going to close my doors on it all, but again, my fam-ily comes fi rst. If there was something that pre-sented itself that’s close by, maybe as an assistant role, I would have to look at it. But right now I’m going to enjoy being a father and a husband,” he said.
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TC season wraps upHONOURED Hundreds of kids, parents and staff members assembled to pay homage to this year’s top players at the Twin Centre Minor Hockey Association annual awards banquet at the Linwood Community Centre Apr. 14. Players from some 20 teams were bestowed with either Most Im-proved or Most Dedicated player awards with 39 kids taking home hard-ware. Winners included: Initiation 1: Ben Bauer MIP, Barton Scherrer MDP; Tyke 1: Matthew Temniuk MIP, Cole Bender MDP; Tyke 2: Jeremy Erb MIP, Mithcell Eshaugh MDP; Novice LL1: Kolton Schwartz MIP, Jessical McLach-lan MDP; Novice LL2: Aaron Crawford MIP, Dereck Wagner MDP; Novice Rep: Dustin Beam MIP, Brendan Schneider MDP; Atom LL1: Isaac Mac-Donald MIP, Dominic Schweitzer MDP; Atom LL2: Brenyn Cisecki MIP, Sam Churchill MDP; Atom AE: Dylan Finney MIP, Jesse Bender, Jacob Stevenson MDP; Atom Rep: Spencer Brick MIP, Brett Lebold MDP; Peewee LL: Shayne Barker MIP, Jake Gloin MDP; Peewee AE: Justin Finner MIP, Andrew Moser MDP; Peewee Rep: Sam Jantzi MIP, Cole Wagner MDP; Bantam LL1: Con-nor Stewart MIP, Justin Scheerer MDP; Bantam LL2: Stephen Knischewsky MIP, Chad Hammer MDP; Bantam Rep: Jake Steenson MIP, Derek Lebold MDP; Midget LL2: Elliot Stewart MIP, Troy McGarrity MDP; Midget AE: Jor-dan Jantzi MIP, Joe Bender MDP; Midget Rep: Chris Ruch MIP, Joe Bast MDP. The Twin Centre Hericanes year-end banquet is Apr. 25 in Linwood.
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WOOLWICH MINOR HOCKEYANNUAL MEETING
All parents and members are welcome & ENCOURAGED to attend. Various executive positions are open for the 2007/2008 Season. Please consider volunteering. Mark your calendars and plan to attend.
MONDAY APRIL 30, 2007 - 7:00 PMat the ST. JACOB'S COMMUNITY CENTRE
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Golfers will take a chance on the weather as they hit the links in Ariss this month in an effort to raise funds for two non-profi t organizations in Guelph.
Ariss Valley Golf and Country Club will open its doors to the general public for the Buck A Hole fundraiser where-by novice and champion golfers alike can tee off for $1 per hole Apr. 28.
With a 27-hole facil-ity, the club is looking to raise about $8,000 for the Guelph Food Bank and Guelph Women in Cri-sis – double the amount raised for Hopewell Home and Wellington Family Care Centre last year.
“They’re two organiza-tions in Guelph which we feel are extremely important in the com-munity. In particular, Women in Crisis,” said special events manager Phil Brace. “My aunt
has worked there for a number of years. I have assisted her in the past with other events and fundraising. It’s close to my heart, that one in particular. We’re happy to share some of the funds with them.”
Located on Line 86, northeast of West Mon-trose, the club offers courses with variable diffi culties – Pines, Wil-lows and Lakes – for golf-ers of all skill levels.
Although this is only the second offi cial year the club has been run-ning the Buck A Hole event, it’s not a totally new concept.
“On and off we’ve been doing something simi-lar for 14 years. It was a free golf day. A few years ago somebody said ‘why don’t you charge some-thing? The people will come out anyway.’ We thought we’d charge a dollar a hole and give the money away,” general manager Jim Maraschi-ello explained.
Fore the fun of itAriss course to open season with charity fundraiser
“It’s a great ways to kick off spring and get people involved in out-door activities. It looks like it’d going to be a spectacular day.”
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WAREHOUSEMature individuals required for the day shift at our Linwood Warehouse. Duties include bagging, loading trucks, customer service, cleaning etc. Fork lift experience is an asset, but not a necessity as training is available. To start ASAP.
2 FULL TIME TRUCK DRIVERS1 AZ Driver | 1 DZ DriverApproximately 50 hours / week. Must be physically fit — some heavy lifting involved. Must have a good driving record and the ability to work well without constant supervision.Competitive wages and benefit package.
Please apply by resumé to:Jones Feed Mills Ltd.
1024 Alfred Street Linwood, ON, N0B 2A0 or email Jeff at: [email protected]
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EXPERIENCED SMALL ENGINE
TECHNIC IANWe are looking for a skilled, trained professional technician for small engine and farm equipment repairs and maintenance. Must have knowledge of all small engines, lawn & garden, and farm equipment. Some computer skills required, must be able to work independently and have good customer relations & organizational skills. Management experience an asset but will train.
REPAIR ANDMACHINERYSALES & SERVICE
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Assembly Worker NeededBauman Manufacturing Ltd is a manufacturing facility producing a number of product lines for over 30 years. Our product lines serve the agri-cultural, greenhouse & snow removal industries.
We are looking for a mechanically inclined per-son to do chain assembly work. Welding and fabricating experience would be an asset.
We offer competitive wages, benefit package, and a great work environment.
If you are a self-motivated team player please submit your resumé to:
Bauman Manufacturing Ltd3 Industrial DriveElmira, ON N3B 2S1Fax: 519-669-2431
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Energized and personable, you enjoy dealing with the public and you prideyourself on being able to motivate others to higher levels of performance.As a manager, your primary responsibility will be to provide all aspects ofstore management, including training and supervision of staff, ensuringadherence to company policies and procedures, and driving performancethrough increased sales. Previous experience in a retail or food servicesenvironment would be an asset but we are willing to train thoseindividuals with a desire to succeed.
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Canoe, Tents, Golf Clubs, Gas Scooter & Pocket Bike, Chainsaws, DeWalts, etc.
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Bristow’s Inn requires part time housekeeper who is mature, person-able, bondable, reliable, and hardworking. Experi-ence required, references preferred. Duties include general cleaning, laundry and housekeeping for 7 room inn, approximately 20-25 hours per week. Supplies provided. Con-tact 519-669-1604.
Home Safety Detec-tives to educate, inspect and install security and fire warning systems in homes. Customer service/sales experience helpful. Will train. Please send resume to: [email protected]
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Energetic, Team ori-ented people are wel-come to apply for a posi-tion at our growing store. Currently the positions available are: Part Time Students; Office Adminis-trator and Cashier/Service Desk Coordinator. If inter-ested in any listed posi-tions, please fax resume to Elmira Home Hardware, Attn: Wayne Koebel at 519-669-3981.
Help Wanted for grad-ing eggs at OK Egg Farm. Call 519-669-4880.
House Framer required full time, year round work, 519-669-1154.
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Secretary. St. Pauls Lutheran Church, Elmira is accepting applications for the position of secri-tary. The position is part time with flexible hours (10 - 12 hours per week) is available April 23, 2007. Resumes may be sent to [email protected] or 27 Mill street Elmira, N3B 2K3. For more info call 519-669-2593.
WORK WANTED
Reliable man looking to cut, trim and maintain your lawn for the season. 519-669-5354.
FOR SALE
Antique 3/4 size bed. Solid wood nearly new. Custom made mattress, 519-664-2116.
Doors, 5 interior ma-hogany w/knobs and hing-es, 32x78 & 30x78 $10 each; Double laundry tub $15, 519-638-5471.
FREE Matress Cover with any new matress set plus “pick up” and save another $25 top quality - low prices. 18 years in business. Also house-wares, footwear, toys, baby items, linens, mov-ies, CDs and much much more! FREE insoles with all new rubber boots. Nearly new centre, 5116 Ament Line Linwood, Tues-Fri 10-5, Sat 9-3. 519-698-0088.
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S H O E S , S H O E S , SHOES. Over 1000 qual-ity used pair of shoes on sale. Buy one pair at reg-ular price, get the second pair of equal or lesser value at 1/2 price. Limited time sale. Plus, much, much more. Nearly New Center, 5116 Ament Line, Linwood. 519-698-0088.
Wheat coloured chair and ottoman; 16CF chest freezer 20yrs old, clean working condition, B.O. 519-669-2977.
FARM & RURAL FOR SALE
Hay For Sale - 4X5 round bales, no rain, stored inside. 519-698-2167.
PETS
Collie / Husky Pup-pies, $85.00. Call 519-698-1176.
Megamutts Dog Train-ing - Spring classes begin May 1. Six weeks of obe-dience and agility. $125. Pre register. Call Holly Teahen 519-669-8167. www.megamutts.com
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Keen Standardbred and crossbred horses 519-638-3945.
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B u y i n g C e n t u r y Old Brick farmhouses, schools, churches, etc. for wrecking and brick salvage. Ross Lumley (519)383-2024; wrecking people’s homes (49 last year) all over southwest-ern Ontario since 1969.
COINS WANTEDPrivate collector seeking Canadian coins. Will pay cash for all coins. Please call 519-846-0379.
AUTOMOTIVE
1996 Pontiac Sunfire, 4 door, auto, 260,000kms. Good condition. Will sell certified, 519-699-5582.
2002 Dodge Dakota Quad Sport 4X2. 4.7L V-8, fully loaded, extra clean truck, all power options including box liner, alum. road wheels, must see truck. 52,329 kms. Silver/gray int. $18,900. Voisin Chrysler 519-669-2831.
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36 Memorial Ave. 2 bedroom plus large stor-age room apartment for May 1st, only $725 plus utilities. Call 519-744-3711.
Available June 1. Three bedroom, 2 bath home in Linwood. Deck overlook-ing large lot. $900/mth plus utilities. Call Bill 519-698-2323, or Jayme 519-501-2405.
Elmira - Large 1 bed-room. $495.00 + hydro. No smoking or pets. May 1st. 519-669-5431.
Moorefield - Large One bedroom fully furnished apartments, laundry fa-cilities, parking, electric heat, cable TV. No pets, adult building. References. $695.00 inclusive. First & last. 519-638-3013.
Newly Renovated, large two bedroom apart-ment near downtown Wellesley. Upper and low-er balcony, gas fireplace, lower level laundry and storage room, 2 car park-ing. $850/mth + hydro. Call 519-656-3098 days, 519-656-3574 evenings.
Outdoor Storage Unit for rent. 960 sq. ft. $400.00 + gst per month. Easy ac-cess, ideal for contractor etc. For further information call Lee at 519-725-2644 or 1-888-843-9929.
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Open House Saturday April 21, 2-5pm, 43 Simp-son St. E. Alma. Orchard garden greenhouse large shed, spacious bunga-low, walk-out basement, 3+1 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, walk-in cooler, 2 car ga-rage, large 2 level deck, $339,900. 519-846-2662.
Drayton Area Coun-try property 1300 sq.ft. Bungalow on .40 acre. Attached garage, large deck, good well, new septic 16’x32’ insulated work shop, $239,000, 519-638-9989.
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TRADES & SERVICES
Income Tax Complet-ed. Woolwich Community Services has trained vol-unteers available to com-plete your income tax re-turn. This service is offered free of charge to people with limited income. To find out if you qualify drop by or call Woolwich Commu-nity Services at 73 Arthur St. S. Elmira 519-669-5139.
Lawn Rolling. Reason-able rates. 519-669-3924.
Looking to have your house cleaned? Don’t know who to call? This ad says it all. Competi-tive rates, with a personal touch. New clients receive 30% off their first clean. Call 519-669-8017.
GARAGE SALES
Fabric Sale Wallen-stein line 86, 7221. Fri-day April 27, 7 a.m. - 8 p.m., Saturday April 28, 7 a.m. - 3 p.m. Frocks and Fabrics.
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Fundraiser Garage Sale. Line 86, 7218 Wallen-stein. Friday April 27, 7:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. Saturday April 28, 7:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Bag sale on childrens clothes, Saturday 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Childrens items, variety of misc. items Bar-beque, fresh baked goods. Living books display. Pro-ceeds to Lighthouse Min-istries International Ghana West Africa.
Garage Sale - Rain or Shine! Brand new items, hardly used items. Qual-ity and clean. Floradale Rd. #1681 beside Elmira Golf Course. Thursday April 26, 10 a.m. - Sat. April 28.
Garage Sale - Satur-day, April 21, 8 a.m. - 3 p.m. 29 Grosbeak Rd., Elmira.
Garage Sale - St. Te-resa of Avila Church Hall, 19 Flamingo Dr., Elmira. Friday April 27, 4 - 8 p.m. & Saturday April 28, 7 a.m. - noon.
Garage Sale. Saturday April 28, 7 a.m. 24 Killdeer Rd. Elmira. Baby clothes, outdoor climber, toys, household. Like new desk, truck storage box. Rain date May 5.
Moving Sale. Furniture, recliner, desks, house-hold items, Honda engine, kitchen ware, much more. 2366 Floradale Rd. April 28, 8a.m.
Multi Family Garage Sale. Childrens items & clothing, houshold items and lots of dresses. April 27 & 28, Friday 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday 7 a.m. to 12 noon. Shantz Place Wallenstein.
Garage Sale Season. It is definitely time to clean out and clean up with a Garage Sale.
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Community Information PageTEL: 519-669-1647 or 519-664-2613 PLAN/ENG: 519-669-8706 FAX: 519-669-1820
AFTER HOURS EMERGENCY: 519-575-4504
P.O. BOX 158, 69 ARTHUR ST. S.ELMIRA, ONTARIO N3B 2Z6WEBSITE: www.woolwich.ca
THE TOWNSHIP OF WOOLWICH"Proudly remembering our past;
confidently embracing our future."
The purpose of the proposed By-law is to require fencing around pools, hot tubs and ponds that are used and maintained for swimming or recreational purposes, which are capable of having water at least 94 centimetres (37 inches) in depth. The By-law will require all new and existing pools, hot tubs and ponds maintained for swimming or recreational purposes in the Township of Woolwich, to comply with the fencing guidelines specified in the By-law. Generally, the requirements are for a 1.52 metre (5 feet) high non-climbable board or chain link fence for pools and ponds, and lockable tight fitting covers for hot tubs. Existing pools, ponds and hot tubs will be given a phase in period to comply with the regulations.
A copy of the proposed By-law is available from the Township of Woolwich office, 69 Arthur Street South, Elmira. Please attend the public meeting to raise any concerns or comments you may have with the proposed fencing By-law. Written comments should be received no later than Monday, May 7, 2007, and sent to the attention of:
Jeremy Vink69 Arthur Street South Box 158
Elmira Ontario, N3B 2Z6
If you have any questions or comments about the proposed by-law, please contact Jeremy Vink, at 519-669-8706 or 519-664-2613 (ext. 246).
NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETINGFENCING OF SWIMMING POOLS, PONDS AND HOT TUBS
The Township of Woolwich will hold a public meeting to discuss the proposed Pool Fence By-law on:Tuesday, May 15, 2007, at 7:00 p.m.
in the Council Chambers of the Township Offices,69 Arthur Street South, Elmira.
Tuesday, April 24, 20074:30 – 6:30 p.m.
Council ChambersMunicipal Office69 Arthur St. S.
Elmira
For the purpose of public view-ing of schematic drawings of the following:
i. Administration Buildingii. Woolwich Township Arena – Dressing Room Addition
The public is invited to view the schematic drawings for these two projects and provide comment.
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Some 400 people ate food, bought products and listened to local farmers at the A Taste of Woolwich festival in St. Ja-cobs this week.
The inaugural event saw many of the community’s farmers and res-taurants come out to share the pros of buying local products as well as the problems surrounding the food-production industry at the Woolwich Com-munity Centre in St. Jacobs Apr. 16.
“What people re-ally enjoyed was
Farmers, visitors enjoy their first Taste of Woolwich
the opportunity to meet local farm-ers, to be able to purchase some of the local produce and also to hear what the issues were,” said Joy Finney of part-ner group Wool-wich Community
Health Centre.The input from
producers detailed the challenges, but in a constructive way. Participants got a sense of how they can help, she added.
Apple farmer Steve Martin gave a keynote speech, bringing to light many issues facing farmers in today’s big-box grocery store industry. A panel discussion opened the room up to questions and discussion.
While visitors were enjoying lec-tures and debate, it was an opportu-nity for vendors to
strut their stuff.“One thing that
we as farmers sometimes forget – we concentrate on the growing and the sale of it, but we forget about the marketing of it. That’s a very important thing that we have to start working on,” said Christine Ab-erle, panellist and farmer.
For organiz-ers, welcoming a receptive crowd to the first-time event puts in mo-tion plans for next year.
An exit survey revealed most visitors were from Elmira, St. Jacobs or the immediate surrounding ar-eas. Most came in family groups. All those who were surveyed said they enjoyed the event and would come again next year.
And although a few minor things did not go as planned the event has only received positive feedback.
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THAT’S FRESH Paul Stadt of Heidelberg enjoys a raw-carrot-and-beet salad at A Taste of Woolwich Apr. 16.
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THE TOWNSHIP OF WOOLWICH"Proudly remembering our past;
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Community Clean-up DayWhen: Sat. April 21st 8:30 am until noon
Where: Several locations throughout Woolwich TownshipHosted by Township of Woolwich Environmental
Enhancement Committee (TWEEC) And Tim Horton’sPlease call Bev Baechler at 519-669-1647 X 274
or Mark Bauman 519-664-3318 for a location near you
Tree Planting | When: Sat. April 21st
Where: Snyder’s Flats, BloomingdalePlease call Inga Rinne at 519-742-8750 for more info
VOLUNTEERS ARE INVITED TO HELP AT THE FOLLOWING EVENTS!
Saturday, April 21, 2007 7:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
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ST. JACOBS ARENAANNUAL GARAGE SALE
Tuesday May 15, 20077:00 p.m.
Township Council Chambers69 Arthur Street South, Elmira
Regarding
1231 Shantz Station Road Inc. (Zone Change 6/2007) and
Doetrail Incorporated (Official Plan Amendment 2/2007 and Zone Change 7/2007)
The Township of Woolwich will hold a Public Meeting, under Sections 17 and 34 of the Planning Act, to consider the following Official Plan Amendment and Zone Change applications. No decisions will be made at this meeting; its purpose is to provide additional information to the public and agencies and to receive comments and information from them.
1231 Shantz Station Road Inc. (Zone Change 6/2007)The Township has received a Zone Change application from 1231 Shantz Station Road Inc. for the property located at 1039 Shantz Station Road and 1123 Shantz Station Road (see Map 1). The property is designated Rural Land Use in the Township’s Official Plan and is zoned Agri-cultural (A).
The purpose of the application is to amend the Agricultural zoning to allow a topsoil operation as a permitted use accessory to the existing sod farm. The property is approximately 49 hectares in area and contains a single family dwelling.
Doetrail Incorporated (Official Plan Amendment 2/2007 and Zone Change 7/2007)The Township has received Official Plan Amendment and Zone Change applications from Doetrail Incorporated for the property located at 244 Arthur Street South, Elmira (see Map 2). The property is designated Residential and Ancillary Use in the Township’s Official Plan and is zoned Residential One-Unit Low Density (R-2).
The purpose of the applications is to change the Official Plan designation from Residential and Ancillary Use to Service Commercial within the Arthur Street Service Commercial Policy Area and to rezone the property from R-2 to Service Commercial (C-7) with site specific provisions to allow a food store and personal services. The
NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING owner proposes to develop a parking lot that will service the ‘No Frills’ food store located on the adjacent property at 232 Arthur Street South. The pro-posed changes will correspond with the existing designation and zoning of the No Frills property. The existing dwelling on the property is proposed to be removed.
Please Note:
Official Plan Amendment
If you wish to be notified of the adoption of the proposed Official Plan Amendments, you must make a written request to John Scarfone, Senior Planner, Township of Woolwich, Engineering and Planning Services, Box 158, 69 Arthur Street South, Elmira, Ontario N3B 2Z6.
If a person or public body that files a notice of appeal of a decision of the Council of the Regional Municipality of Waterloo in respect of the proposed Official Plan Amendment, does not make oral submissions at a public meeting or make written submissions to the Council of the Township of Woolwich before the proposed Official Plan Amendment is adopted, the Ontario Municipal Board may dismiss all or part of the appeal.
Zoning AmendmentIf a person or public body that files an appeal of a decision of the Council of the Township of Woolwich in respect of the proposed zoning by-law does not make oral submissions at a public meeting or make written submissions to the Council of the Township of Woolwich before the proposed zoning by-law amendments are adopted, the Ontario Municipal Board may dismiss all or part of the appeal.
Additional information pertaining to these planning applications is available for review at the Township of Woolwich Municipal Office between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday to Friday, or by contacting Engineering and Planning staff at 519-669-8706.
If you cannot attend the meeting, you can express your concerns/comments about the proposed change in writing to the Township of Woolwich. Any comments received on or before May 8, 2007 (Note that this date is before the public meeting) will be included in a report prepared by Engineering and Planning Services and presented at the Public Meeting. Any comments received after the Public Meeting, but prior to Council making a decision on the applications, will also be considered.
If you wish to be notified of additional Township public meetings or Township staff reports regarding these applications you must make a written request to Engineering and Planning Services at the Township of Woolwich at the address shown at the top of this advertisement.
The Council meeting originally scheduled for May 8, 2007 will be held on May 1, 2007 immediately following the Committee of the Whole meeting
which starts at 6 p.m..If you have any questions please call 519-669-1647 ext. 243 or 239.
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Q. You’re in a small elevator when the guy next to you suddenly breaks the sound barrier--twice. Yow! Two sonic booms just a few feet away from you. What gives?A. He just coughed
and sneezed loudly. Ah well, maybe the high-speed air coughed out through his trachea and up-per bronchi will be just what he needs to unloose any excess mucous, says Jearl Walker in The Flying Circus of Physics. This is accomplished by breathing in a lot of air, trap-
ping it behind a closed glottis (narrowed opening in the larynx), and increasing the pressure by contracting the lungs, partially collapsing the trachea and upper bron-chi to narrow the pathway. Then the air is expelled by suddenly reopening the glottis. The airflow quickly becomes turbulent, sending sound waves into the air and the lung tissue. At first the vocal folds in the larynx produce no sound, held wide apart so as not to obstruct the airflow, but toward the end of the cough they do. “I calculate the airspeed during this explosive rush reach-es or even exceeds the speed of sound, and thus a mild shock wave (or sonic boom) comes up from the throat. People with supersonic coughs or sneezes are rarely ap-preciated on elevators.”
Q. How did Earth’s flowering plants eventually blossom into us? The original “flower power.”A. Nice-looking and nice-smelling flowers lured in-
sects into pollination, fostering a wide array of vegeta-tion that benefitted primates, says botanist William C. Burger in University of Chicago Magazine. Originally insectivores, primates climbed trees to get bugs and as a result developed long arms for reaching. Flower-ing plants like avocados – “the richest fleshy fruit in the plant world” – helped draw monkeys into eating fruits, aiding development of bending wrists and fin-gers for examining the food. Their eyes moved for-ward for binocular vision to jump from tree to tree, flattening the face, meaning primates could no longer see behind them to ward off predators. Group living became imperative, encouraging cooperation and so-cialization. Grasslands expanded, enticing primates out of the
forest and into savannahs where herbivores easily grazed. Here too were ready meats for beefing up mother’s milk with proteins and nutrients, in turn nourishing bigger infant brains that over time flowered into US. Oh, what a bouquet!
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Q. It was the first time he could remem-ber having such totally pictureless dreams, his “crying dreams” he called them, going on and on with nothing happening except a profound sobbing. Then he would awaken puzzled. The dreams recurred, without giv-ing him a clue, until ...A. This actually happened to one of the column
coauthors. Then their father died at age 75, and soon thereafter the crying dreams stopped. The dreamer had been close to dad, whose heart attack at age 72 underscored his increasing fragility. Apparently the dreams had been a form of preparatory grieving for the father during his obvious decline. Perhaps for the son to actually picture his ill father dying in a dream would have been too traumatic, so his subconscious just stuck to the coming tearfulness of the farewell. Then once the grief process had run its course, the enigmatic dreams suddenly ended.
Q. True or False: Given the 90% accuracy of a polygraph, people who are innocent should have few qualms about taking a “lie detector” test.A. The actual percentage of those falsely accused
by the machine can be much higher than the ap-parent 10%, say Jeffrey Bennett and William Briggs in Using and Understanding Mathematics. Suppose the government gives the test to 1,000 applicants for sensitive security jobs, and 990 of these people tell the truth, 10 lie. Now of the 10 liars, 9 fail the test, 1 passes. Of the 990 who tell the truth, the polygraph correctly identifies 90%, meaning that 10% x 990 = 99 truthtell-ers fail the test. So the total failing is 9 + 99 = 108, of which only 9 actually lied. The other 99/108, or 91.7%, who failed the test were in fact falsely accused of lying! Numbers of course will vary case to case, but this is an “astounding result.” ANSWER: Definitely false. There should be qualms aplenty!
Q. Bet you didn’t know that the “jook” in jukebox is African-American slang for “dance,” that sunglasses date back to 15th-century China where judges wanted to con-ceal their expressions, that if Jell-O is hooked up to an EEG it registers movements virtually identical to human brain waves, that famed cook Julia Child did intelligence work for the O.S.S. during World War II, and that X’s for kisses goes back to ancient days when non-writing signers just marked an “X,” then gave it a kiss to show sincerity. A. Now you know, thanks to David Hoffman’s book
Who Knew? Things You Didn’t Know About Things You Know Well.
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7. Scientifically, an object or thing8. Informal term for mother10. Expresses position11. Not old12. Part of vitamin B complex - formula C6H12O613. Equivalent to 2000 pounds (US)14. Opposite of off15. Pleasing to the eye16. Attached to many chairs18. Fruit of the ficus tree23. Mist27. Has a function29. “So to speak” (three words)30. White plaster used on wall surfaces31. Card game is to bet against the dealer33. Substitute for butter35. Citizen of the country north of Singapore36. A negative41. Indonesian tourist destination42. Female monsters of popular folklore44. 3.14159265358979323846...46. Teardrop-shaped Indian bread47. Twirl49. Having to do with a barber or barbering50. Fixed gaze53. An adult castrated bull54. These in time are said to save nine each56. Verbally attacking in unpleasant manner57. Written work for academic consideration58. Snakelike freshwater fish59. Conferences to exchange ideas.60. Kings of kings.62. This Tiger thinks Frosted Flakes are Grrreat!65. Australian song ‘Waltzing ____’66. Any natural number68. Objective form of “I”70. Trendy clothing store72. Short lived cultural trend76. A witty remark80. Slang for a small tobacco product81. Consumed food83. Non-human primate84. Person who turns someone in87. In the direction of88. Hospital room where surgery is performed90. Connects a noun with preceding word91. Me and you make __
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BIRTH NOTICE
CASTELLANOS — It’s a Grandson!Ruth Josephs, Elmira, thanks God for the safe, if early, arrival of Miguel on November 2, 2006. He is the first child of Miriam (Josephs) and Jairo Castellanos, Mississauga. Delighted aunts and uncle are Lorna (Toronto), Charles (Mississauga), and Sarah (Elmira) Josephs. Nu-merous other relatives and friends are equally enthused.
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BAST, RobertPassed away peacefully, on Friday, April 13, 2007 at the Stratford Gen-eral Hospital. He resided at Knollcrest Lodge in Milverton and was born in Wellesley township 78 years ago.
BURROWS, Robert “Bob”On Thursday, April 12, 2007, at St. Mary’s General Hospital. Bob Bur-rows in his 76th year, of Elmira.
DUENCH, Alvin H.Passed away peacefully, at Sunnyside Home, Kitchener, on Wednesday, April 18, 2007, at the age of 94 years. Alvin was born in Wellesley township.
LICHTY, Jacob S.Passed into his eternal home, on Wednesday, April 11, 2007, at the KW Health Centre. Jacob and his late wife Eva operated a natural Food Store in Wellesley, retiring in 1996.
MULHOLLAND, Lloyd EdwardPassed away peacefully, on Wednes-day, April 11, 2007, at St. Mary’s General Hospital, in his 83rd year.Local relatives are parents Mamie and Charles Mulholland of Elmira.
ROPP, EmanuelPassed away peacefully, on Saturday, April 14, 2007 at Nith View Home in New Hamburg. Emanuel resided at RR1, Wellesley.
Arts week at EDSS
GETTING DOWN Singer Daniel Bossenberry and bass player David Campbell of lo-cal band Wilberforce covered a few favourite tunes to close out an arts assembly at Elmira District Secondary School Apr. 16.
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HALL-STOLLTammy and Maik are proud to an-nounce the safe arrival of their baby girl. Cassidy Alexandra born Good Friday April 6, 2007. Weighing 8 lbs, 2oz. Proud grandparents are Dolly and Jim Hall of Conestoga and Dieter and Elke Stoll of Kitchener.Special thanks to the doctors and nurses on the 4th floor of Grand River Hospital. Insured.
It’s a Girl!
ENGAGEMENT
STROBEL-STRAUSBev and Don Strobel are very happy to an-nounce the engage-ment of their daugh-ter, Tania, to Todd, son of Mary and Jim Straus.The Wedding will take place June 23, 2007. The Stag & Doe will be held on June 23, 2007 at the CAW Hall in Kitchener. Tickets available at the door.
IN MEMORIAM
STROH, LUKEIn loving memory of a special grandson, who passed away, April 25, 1996.11 years ago you left us. Your memory is dear to us today as the hour you passed away.Forever remembered and always loved by Mom and Dad, brother Skye, aunt Dianne & uncle Bri-an, uncle Scott and aunt Michel, and two cousins Cody and Jesse, grandpar-ents Irene Hamilton and the late Ken Hamilton.
Stag & Doe for Chrissie Schill
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STAG & DOE
THANK YOU
Thank you to the Elmira Community,When Sharon and I chose to make our home in Elmi-ra we knew this was a special place.
Words cannot express our sincere gratitude to the many friends, neighbours, Woolwich Minor Hockey Assoc., parents, players, the teachers and students of John Mahood school for their care, concern and support.
To all the special people who helped care for our boys, all the food brought, during Sharon’s illness and continuing support and many acts of kindness since Sharon’s passing, you gave us strength.
Thank you to Dreisinger Funeral Home, for their as-sistance at this sad time. Thank you to Pastor Richard Frey, at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, for the officiating and to the ladies providing the luncheon following the service. A special thank you to the pallbearers for honouring Sharon.
Thank you to everyone for the many beautiful floral tributes, cards and donations. We deeply appreciate your friendship, love generosity and support.
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“The fi rst year is a learning experi-ence. I’m sure next year will be bigger as everyone said they would return and if everyone brings one friend we’d have twice as many. I’m not sure we could accommodate,” said WCHC’s Heidi Wagner.
The success of the event has organizers not only counting how many visitors to expect next year, but planning to invite more business representatives to sell products and offer up free taste tests.
“A lot of them were aware of the Buy Local map, but now they could put a face to some of the places and the fact that you could talk to the people, they really liked that,” added Wagner.
Helping wash down some of the hard-hitting issues were various venders and chefs passing out treats.
Morsels of shredded pork and sweet onion jam on dried apple slices, ladles of creamy butternut squash soup, mini spoons adorned with cinnamon honey, bushels of shiny red apples, plates of raw-carrot-and-beet salad, pints of cherry tomatoes and cups of coleslaw represented samples of local produce and cuisine.
“One of the key things that we’d like to do next year is to really reach out … to reach out to some of the local busi-nesses that maybe have cafeterias in their business,” said Finney.
At this point it’s uncertain whether organizers will seek another venue to accommodate more vendors and visitors or extend the three-hour event over more days.
Taste: Putting a face on food
APRIL 21Woolwich Community Clean-up Day – Woolwich Township Environmental En-
hancement Committee. Join others in Woolwich to help beautify your community; 8:30 a.m. to noon. Call Bev about where to meet; 519-669-1647. ext. 274 or 519-664-2613, ext. 274.
Live Concert by Savage Blue with Riffer Madness – Lions Club of Elmira. Benefi t concert for Campaign SightFirst Two, licensed. Elmira Lions Hall. Tickets $10 in advance, $12 at the door; 519-588-3522.
Spring Feather Party – Knights of Columbus, Maryhill. Evening of chances on hams, turkeys, BBQ hamburgers, BBQ steaks, groceries, penny table, cash door prizes, crown and anchor; Bridgeport Rod and Gun Club, 1229 Beitz Rd., RR1 Bre-slau, at 2 p.m. Robert Lehman, 519-836-8271, Gerry Brohman, 519-745-0188.
APRIL 22Annual Walk for Kindness – Woolwich Interfaith Counselling Centre. Pledge
sheets are available at the W.I.C.C. offi ce or phone 519-669-8314. Meet at St. James Lutheran Church, Elmira at 2 p.m. All are welcome.
Spring Family Fun Day (all ages) – Homer Watson House & Gallery. Create your own beautiful garden sculpture in this workshop. Fun for the whole family. 1754 Old Mill Rd., Kitchener, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.; $5/ family, free for gallery members; 519-748-4377.
Stand by Me! – Trinity United Church. A celebration of African-American song creatively exploring the historical roots of African-American spirituals and Black gospel music; Trinity United Church, Arthur Street; 3 p.m. ; $10 per person; $25 maximum per family.
APRIL 24Fish Fry Dinner by Howells Fish of Wiarton – Calvary United Church.Takeout
available. 4:30–7:30 p.m. Adults $12.50; children 12 and under $6.50; preschool-ers – free. Advanced tickets only; 519-669-5912, 519-664-2675, 519-664-2311.
Clean Waterways / Tree Planting – Woolwich Healthy Communities; 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. 876 Sandy Hills Rd., Floradale. Contact Barb, 519-669-3961.
APRIL 25Clean Waterways / Tree Planting – Woolwich Healthy Communities. 9 a.m. to
3:30 p.m. 876 Sandy hills Road, Floradale. Contact Barb, 519-669-3961.
APRIL 27Clean Waterways / Tree Planting – Woolwich Healthy Communities. 9 a.m. to
3:30 p.m. 876 Sandy hills Road, Floradale. Contact Barb, 519-669-3961.
H.U.G.S. Program – Woolwich Healthy Communities. Topic: stay active moms – exercise suggestions for moms to do at home; 9:15-11:15 a.m. Child care be-gins at 9:30 a.m. 10 Parkside Dr., St. Jacobs, 519-664-3794.
Ham & scallop potato dinner with all the trimmings – Royal Canadian Legion, Elmira. Downstairs at 6 p.m.
APRIL 26Learn to manage osteoarthritis – Woolwich Community Health Centre. Apr. 26
and May 3, 1-3 p.m.; 10 Parkside Dr., St. Jacobs. Call the Arthritis Society, 519-743-4141, to register.
APRIL 28Fun run/walk/bike along the Kissing Bridge Trailway – Woolwich Trails Group.
Join us for a 5 to 15 km fun run/walk. Meet in the Observer parking lot at 20 Arthur St. N. at 9 a.m. Brad, 519-669-9067 or Corinne, 519-669-8399.
Chicken BBQ – Gale Presbyterian Church. BBQ boneless chicken breast, baked potato, salads, dessert, beverage, breads, $12 per adult. Call 519-669-2852 for tickets. Takeout tickets call 519-669-8217 or 519-669-2852. Advance tickets only.
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Featuring 400 perfor-mances by more than 150 young performers from elementary and se-nior schools across the region, the weeklong festival will call Wood-side Bible Fellowship on Barnswallow Drive
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More than just a chance to make music, the festi-val is a boon for young musicians, said co-chair Murray Haight.
“One [reason] is for young musicians to have the opportunity to perform; the second is that it does is help to improve confi dence; be-ing able to present your materials in front of an audience … is good for character develop-ment.”
Students will also learn by having their material evaluated by profession-als.
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All performances will be held at Woodside Bible Fellowship from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. There will be a few eve-ning classes for the more senior performers.
In addition to having their performances ad-judicated, participants will receive plaques and certifi cates; scholarships
will be awarded to the top performers in each class. The latter will also be eligible to perform in a festival wrap-up con-cert at Woodside at 2 p.m. on Apr. 28.
With more than 400 performances scheduled for the week long event, getting people signed up was no problem, said spokesperson Erin Cof-fey.
“There are some very motivated students that are performing up to 10 items, which is quite a large undertaking. They’ve got to be very motivated and disci-plined to participate that much,” she said.
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for BBDO Toronto2 Bloor St. West, Toronto, Ontario
phone 416.413.7495fax 416.944.7883
T: 10.25 in
T: 15 in
Black + PMS 185 (red) or NAA 0AA0 or CMYK 100Y + 100M or AdLitho 75FOR SPOT COLOUR: USE MAGENTA PLATE
V IS IT YOUR NE IGHBOURHOOD CHRYSLER , JEEP®, DODGE RETA ILER OR DA IMLERCHRYSLER .CA Wise customers read the fine print: * These limited time offers apply to retail deliveries for personal use only on selected new and unused models. All offers exclude freight ($1,300), license, insurance, registration, any retailer administration fees, $50 PPSA and applicable taxes. Retailer trade may be necessary. Offers are subject to change without notice. See retailer for specific details and conditions. * Price includes $350 Bonus Cash Rebate under the Canada’s Choice Program. If customer chooses the Mopar Accessories rebate or the Esso Gas Card the price is $16,238. For complete details on the Canada’s choice program visit Dodge.
ca. Purchase prices apply only to 2007 Caravan (25T) models. Price excludes freight ($1,300), license, insurance, registration, any retailer administration fees and applicable taxes. Retailer order/trade may be necessary. See retailer for specific pricing details and conditions. Retailers are free to set individual prices. ‡ Based on U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) scoring system for 2007 model year Dodge Caravan. Δ Based on 2007 Fuel Consumption Guide ratings published by Natural Resources Canada. Your actual fuel consumption may vary. Whichever comes first. Some conditions apply. See your retailer for details and conditions. ® Jeep is a registered trademark of DaimlerChrysler Corporation.
LIMITED
QUANTITIES
AVAILABLE
HURRY! OFFER ENDS APRIL 30TH
2007 DODGE CARAVAN CANADA VALUE PACKAGE• 3.3L V6 engine • Automatic transmission • Air conditioning • 7 Passenger seating
• Dual sliding passenger doors• AM/FM stereo with CD player & 4 speakers • Easy Out Roller Seat • Child seat anchor system • Sentry Key engine immobilizer
NHTSA 5 Star Front Impact‡
Fuel consumption rating: City: 12.0L/100 km (24 mpg)ΔHwy: 8.2L/100 km (34 mpg)Δ
$15,888*
The Final Countdown. When They’re Gone, They’re Gone.
