Kitchener Citizen - West Edition - October 2013

By Carrie DeBrone

When Paula Mahoney was 13 years old, she

was hit by a car while riding her bicycle. After being in a coma for over five weeks she woke up, but her life was never the same.

The accident left her with a brain injury. She grew up and had a child. Every day was a struggle to hold a job and to make a life for herself and her son.

“It was really hard. I was working and I was a hockey mom. When I was 38 I had a breakdown. I think it was all just too much for me,” she said.

“I was angry at everything.”Six years ago she found the

Opportunity Centre, which offers programs to adults with brain injuries run by the Brain Injury Association of Waterloo-Wellington and

Traverse Independence, a not-for-profit organization that provides support to people with acquired brain injuries and physical disabilities.

For ten years, the organi-zations ran their programs from three buildings located at a plaza at 607 King St. W. in Kitchener. On September 24, they celebrated the opening of the new Opportunity Centre at 450 Westheights Drive, Driftwood Plaza, in Kitchener, where all the centre’s programs are now operating under one roof.

“I was so angry before, but now I’m better. I like it here. I’ve made a lot of friends and found a lot of support. I learned to play the guitar and I’m in a band,” Mahoney said, adding that she also volunteers with the centre’s music and food bank programs.

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The Brain Injury Association of Waterloo-Wellington (BIAWW) and Traverse Independence’s (TI) new facility called the Opportunity Centre officially opened September 24 with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The centre is located at 450 Westheights Drive in Kitchener (in Driftwood Plaza). From left: brain injury survivor Mike Cameron, Waterloo Region Chair Ken Seiling, Kitchener councillor Bil Ioannidis, BIAWW President Doug Wetheral, TI Board President Brandee Faulds, Waterloo Wellington LHIN Tony Lemon, survivor Ken Fletcher (cutting ribbon), TI CEO Toby Harris, Kitchener Centre MP Stephen Woodworth, survivor and volunteer Jean Williams.

Opportunity Centre Executive Director Patti Lehman and Past President of the Brain Injury Association of Waterloo-Wellington Jean Taylor stand in front of a quilt hanging in the recently-opened Opportunity Centre, that symbolizes the coming together of the two organizations that provide programs there for brain injury survivors.

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Meeting on local airport’s flight path changes set for November 7 at the council chambers

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A proposal to change the flight path of planes tak-

ing off from runway 26 at the Region of Waterloo Interna-tional Airport appears to be on a collision course with residents.

A meeting of the airport’s Noise Management Committee to discuss the results of an information session held September 24 at the airport on proposed changes to its flight path, will take place Thursday, November 7 at 5pm in the Region of Waterloo council chambers.

The meeting is open to the public and it is expected there will be several delegations. The Region of Waterloo International Airport General Manager Chris Wood said the region will be contacting those who signed up to be kept informed about further meetings, about the November 7 meeting.

People planning to speak as a delegation must register with the region, preferably by noon on October 31 - a week before the meeting.

The new flight plan calls for planes taking off from runway 26, which faces west, to follow a consistent path southeast of the 401 to a fixed target point called “Kitch-Fix”. Only after the plane crosses that point will it be allowed to proceed on its charted course, increasing in altitude and turning toward

the direction it needs to go. Currently planes follow a path southwest of the 401 to Kitch-Fix before beginning their destination routes.

Under the new plan, planes will also be required to keep closer to the ground for a longer time after take off until they get to Kitch-Fix in an effort to keep the noise closer to the airport. Planes are now required to fly at least 600 feet above ground in take-off, but the new proposal would allow them to fly at about 500 feet off the ground.

The noise management committee meeting was originally scheduled for October 10 when members were going to vote on whether to ask regional council to approve the plan and forward a request to Transport Canada to adopt the new flight path. However, Wood said it was decided to postpone that meeting until November 7 to give more time to consider the comments gathered from the public at the information session, and to make sure all regional councillors are informed about the study and the changes proposed.

The September information session drew residents who are not only concerned about the proposal to change the flight path from southwest Kitchener to over Cambridge and Blair, but they are also very concerned with the way the information has so far been presented to the public.

Many of the 160 people, mainly from Cambridge and Blair, who attended the session at the airport, were frustrated by the open house format used.

“This is very badly organized. There are only three guys here to listen to us,” said Ann VanNorman from Blair.

“People are standing in line waiting to talk with someone and you can’t get close enough to hear if your question has already been asked,” she said.

“We need to know what the future plan for the airport is, before we make any changes to the flight plan. It’s an ill-considered plan,” she said, adding that it does not take into account the fact that the proposed path will fly over a large student population at Conestoga College that will continue to expand. She said she is also worried about what the changes may mean for wildlife along the Grand River and at the Rare Charitable Research Reserve, a 900-acre nature reserve on Blair Road in Cambridge.

“We already have an increase in noise from the 401. We don’t need more noise,” VanNorman said.

Another resident noted that

there were many people at the information session wandering around trying to find a place to sit and write their comments on sheets that were handed out. There were a few seats available, but no tables for writing were provided, and some people were sitting on the airport’s baggage return track while they filled out their comment cards.

All modifications to airport flight paths must be approved by Transport Canada. The local airport does not have the authority to make flight path changes. The open house was intended to collect comments from residents that are being used by the noise management committee and regional council to consider whether the Region of Waterloo should ask Transport Canada to make the changes.

Airport general manager Chris Wood said an average of six planes a day take off from runway 26. The take-off direction varies with wind direction, but usually half the planes take off towards Guelph when the wind is not favourable for over-Kitchener takeoffs.

The region received 101 noise complaints last year and many were from residents in Kitchener’s Hidden Valley area and Edgewater Estates (located along the Grand River across from the airport).

Because of the complaints, the region’s noise management committee completed a study on noise levels in February 2013. The study looked at noise levels over 70 decibels.

The study concluded that if the flight plan is changed to have planes pass over Cambridge and Blair before heading on their destination routes, 812 fewer properties would be affected by noise. The study, however, did not take into consideration a proposal for a 900-home development in the Limerick Road area that would be under the new flight path.

Kitchener resident Paul Szever said he believes the new condensed flight path will greatly increase noise for the homes under that path and will add miles to some of the flights.

“We’re supposed to be thinking about how to conserve energy and be efficient and green and this plan is not,“ he said.

Wood said staff reviewed all the comments received at the information session and that the majority of complaints expressed concern that the new flight path will create more noise for them.

“I know people don’t want to move the noise. We’ve heard what the public is thinking,” Wood said.

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These days she rides an e-bike to wherever she needs to go, and works part time in Waterloo.

“This centre is a place where I can come to help other people. It gives me a sense of value,” she said.

“I think my son is proud of me and I am going to be a grandma soon.”

She is currently writing a book about her life.

Mahoney’s story is just one of many successes unfolding with the help of the programs offered at the new centre.

Each year the centre provides educational, recreational, creative, lunch and leisure programs and activities for about 300 people.

Brain injury survivor Dietlind Stager, who was injured in a car accident in 2000, volunteers with the centre’s glass program, where clients and volunteers

create over 6,000 pieces of glass jewellery and Christmas ornaments, which are then sold in the local community to raise money for BIA programs.

Stager also helps promote the centre’s Lidz on Kidz, a child educational program that promotes wearing helmets while biking and participating in other sports.

“It’s a place that I can come to be with people who went through the same thing as me,” Stager said.

“We’re all in one location now and everybody’s together. The move gave us more space and allowed us to get some of the things on our wish list like a new kitchen and larger program rooms,” said Executive Director Patti Lehman.

“The Brain Injury Association of Waterloo-Wellington has done a fantastic job of becoming a very strong

presence in this community, “ said Ruth Wilcock, Executive Director of the Brain Injury Association of Ontario.

“It would be great if every association in Ontario could run a program like this,” she said, adding that it’s survivor-driven programs are its strongest asset, and it is viewed as a role model across the province.

“Survivors of brain injuries often lose their community, their jobs, their friends and sometimes their families. I think this is a place where they feel like productive members of the community again. They feel safe and they get support from each other. A lot of people find themselves here,” she said.

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the Opportunity Centre and its programs visit www.biaww.com or call 519-579-5300.

Sierra Code, 5, of Kitchener enjoys a ride at the Fundraising Carnival that was held at the Sunrise Shopping Centre October 3 to 6. Procceeds from the Carnival go to the Women’s Crisis Services of Waterloo Region. Photo by Helen Hall


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By CARRIE DEBRONE

If you have a good idea for a project that will help the environment you may be

able to get a grant from the City of Kitchener.The deadline for the city’s Community

Environmental Improvement Grants (CEIG) has been extended to October 27, 2013.

The city has $5,000 to give out to community groups that are working on, or have a new idea for, projects that will help promote stewardship and community involvement in caring for our environment.

“It would be great to get more interest in the grant program from neighbourhood associations, community groups or school-based organizations, like an environmental club,” said Kitchener’s Senior Environmental Planner Barbara Steiner.

“Any of these types of organizations might have, or know of a project that we can help them with,” Steiner said.

“If they see something about their environment in their community that needs attention, and they’d like to improve it, they should apply for a grant.”

The CEIG program was created to foster a sense of environmental stewardship throughout Kitchener. It helps organizations, associations or non-profit groups working towards building a cleaner, healthier more environmentally sustainable city.

As expected, past CEIG projects have included park, woodland and stream clean ups and plantings to improve natural areas, but over the years it has funded many other original ideas.

The Olde Berlin Towne Neighbourhood Association received $1,000 for its Boulevards in Bloom project, St. Mary’s Catholic Church received $1,500 for its garden and St. Teresa

Catholic School received $1,500 to help develop an outdoor classroom. C E I G ’ s have also helped to fund Seedy Saturday a project of the Kitchener Master Gardeners, an outdoor learning area for Our Place Family Resource and Early Years Centre, a recycling project at the Courtland Shelley Community Centre and the development of a website and portal project by Community Renewable Energy Waterloo (CREW).

Steiner said the grants are intended to provide seed money for projects that will encourage people to adopt a stewardship role towards their environment and invest their time to maintain an active future role in the project.

“It could be that a parent’s association might have a goal to discourage idling in a drop-off zone and needs some funding to help with the capital costs of putting a plan into action at the school. Or it could be that an organization is planning a unique community event to celebrate Earth Day and needs funds for that,” Steiner said.

She added that, in past years, funds have also been used to encourage environmental stewardship around energy use with one grant being used to develop an information kit for homeowners that provided ideas about how to reduce home energy use.

For details on the grant program and to get an application form go to the city’s website www.kitchener.ca and follow the link to grants. Applicants must submit a completed CEIG application form on or before Sunday, October 27, 2013 by email to [email protected] or mail to the City of Kitchener, Senior Environmental Planner, 6th Floor, 200 King St. W. PO Box 1118, Kitchener ON. N2G 4G7 or for more information call 519-741-2200 x7293.

COMMUNITY, NEIGHBOURHOOD GROUPS ENCOURAGED TO APPLY

Deadline for environmental project grants extended to October 27

WHERE’S WALDORainy weather didn’t dampen the spirits of the 9th Waterloo Scouts who helped build Little Libraries boxes at the Word on the Street Festival in Kitchener on September 21. They also had fun looking for Waldo. From left: Hunter Ibbotson, Maxx Vera, and Aislinn Panchaud with Waldo hiding behind them.

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By Helen Hall

The Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission has submitted its fi-

nal report, which adds a new fifth riding to Waterloo Region for the next federal election scheduled for 2015.

The number of seats in the House of Commons allocated to Ontario has been increased from 106 to 121 based on a census conducted in 2011. The commission looks at the federal boundaries every 10 years.

The new Kitchener South - Hespeler Riding is made up of the south end of Kitchener and the old Hespeler portion of Cambridge. It is bounded by Fischer-Hallman Road in the west, New Dundee Road and the 401 highway in the south, Townline Road in the east, and a jagged line that is made up of Kossuth Road, Fountain St. N., Zeller Dr., Fairway Rd. N. and follows the Expressway until it meets up with Fischer-Hallman in the north.

In addition to including South Kitchener and part of Cambridge, the new riding also includes a small portion of Kitchener in the east made up of the Chicopee neighbourhood and going south towards Freeport Hospital. This area was previously part of Kitchener-Centre and is bounded by the Conestoga Parkway in the west, the Grand River in the south, Zeller Drive in the east, and Fairway Rd. N. in the north.

The remaining four Waterloo Region ridings have been altered to help divide the population more evenly between ridings. The average riding size was set to be 106,000.

Kitchener - Conestoga Riding: This riding previously included three town-ships and the south part of Kitchener. It loses Kitchener South to the new Kitchener South - Hespeler riding, but picks up residents in the Forest Heights and Victoria South part of West Kitchener. These residents living in an area bounded by the Conestoga Parkway, Fischer-Hallman Rd., University Ave. and Trussler Road used to be part of the Kitchener- Centre riding.

Kitchener - Centre Riding: This riding trims its population by giving part of its west Kitchener area to Kitchener-Conestoga and some of its east Kitchener boundary to Kitchener South - Hespeler. It picks up some voters from north of Victoria Street N. and bounded by the Conestoga Parkway on the east, that used to vote with Waterloo in the old Kitchener-Waterloo Riding.

Waterloo Riding: This riding is the City of Waterloo and a small portion of Kitchener, which includes Bridgeport, north of the Canadian National Railway tracks and northeast of the Conestoga Parkway.

Cambridge Riding: This riding includes part of Cambridge and North Dumfries Township. It loses Cambridge’s former Hespeler portion located north of the 401 highway to the new riding of Kitchener South - Hespeler.

These changes will keep residents of the Region of Waterloo voting in five separate ridings all located within the region.

The Kitchener South - Hespeler riding currently has no representative so it will have no incumbent in the next election.

Kitchener-Conestoga MP Harold Albrecht was glad to see the final report keep Waterloo Region together. One of the previous ideas was to split up the region by abolishing the Kitchener-Conestoga riding, and hav-ing those residents vote federally in the neighbouring municipalities of Wellington and Perth.

“Having five ridings is an excellent result for Waterloo Region,” he said.

Now that his riding’s future is secure, Albrecht says he “fully intends” to run again in Kitchener-Conestoga.

With the new boundaries, the size of his riding will be reduced to about 94,000 residents, below the proposed average size of 106,000. However, because it includes the west side of Fischer-Hallman Road, which has several new suburban neighbourhoods under construction, he said its population will rise quickly to catch up with the other ridings.


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NEW FEDERAL RIDINGSThe new federal electoral boundaries for Waterloo Region are bordered in green. The new Kitchener South - Hespeler Riding is shaded in green. Map courtesy of the Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission.


PROVINCIAL ISSUES by John Milloy, MPP for Kitchener-Centre

Season’s GreetingsWishing you a Happy,Healthy New Year

John MilloyMPP - Kitchener Centre(519) 579-5460

John’s Constituency Office1770 King. St. E, Unit 6C

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Despite progress, youth unemployment remains too high in this province. That is why our gov-

ernment is making a strong commitment to assist youth with several programs being introduced this year, in-cluding: the Youth Employment Fund; Impact - A Social Enterprise Strategy for Ontario; and Studio Y- Ontario’s Social Impact and Leadership Academy.

Youth Employment FundOntario is helping young people in Waterloo Region get

job skills and experience with a new Youth Employment Fund that helps employers offer four to six month job training placements for young people seeking work.

The province will provide up to $7,800 to cover a range of supports and services for each eligible young worker under the fund. That includes up to $6,800 to help cover wages and training costs, and up to $1,000 to help young workers pay for job-related costs like tools and transportation to work. The fund was announced in the 2013 Budget as part of the new Ontario Youth Jobs Strategy. The strategy will help more young people find jobs or start their own businesses, and ensure that employers can find the skilled workers they need to grow their businesses.

For more information, please visit Employment Ontario at: www.tcu.gov.on.ca/eng/employmentontario/youthfund.

Impact – A Social Enterprise Strategy for OntarioOur government has also launched a new plan that will

help social enterprises start and grow their businesses while supporting the creation of 1,600 new jobs in the sector. Impact – A Social Enterprise Strategy for Ontario is the province’s plan to become the number one jurisdiction in North America for businesses that have a positive social, cultural, or environmental impact while generating revenue.

This program will support social entrepreneurs and attract investors by focusing on four key areas:

• Connecting, co-ordinating and communicating information to, and about, social entrepreneurs, including exploring new ways to help create ‘hybrid’ corporations that reinvest profits in a social purpose.

• Building the social enterprise brand by increasing awareness of the sector using tools like an interactive web portal where social entrepreneurs could meet and connect with investors and access services.

• Creating a vibrant social finance marketplace through various initiatives, including exploring the launch

of a new $4 million Social Enterprise Demonstration Fund to support early-stage social enterprises.

• Delivering other innovative supports such as a pilot program to help social enterprises be part of procurements related to the 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games.

The strategy builds on previous action taken by our government to develop and grow the sector, including the creation of an Office for Social Enterprise that partners with the private, not-for-profit and public sectors to co-ordinate and expand the tools available to social entrepreneurs. Supporting businesses with positive social, cultural and environmental impacts is part of the government’s plan to create a strong business climate and invest in people. For more information please visit http://www.svx.ca/. To read the Strategy, please see the following link, http://www.ontario.ca/business-and-economy/impact-social-enterprise-agenda-ontario

Studio Y: Ontario’s Social Impact and Leadership Academy

Ontario is helping promising young leaders gain the knowledge, skills, experience and support they need to make positive social changes in their communities and across the province. Last month, the Honourable Teresa Piruzza, Minister of Children and Youth Services, announced the province is supporting MaRS Discovery District in delivering a new innovative program; Studio Y: Ontario’s Social Impact and Leadership Academy.

The nine-month program will include intensive training and mentoring for up to 25 youth, aged 18 to 29, to build and refine their leadership, social innovation and entrepreneurial skills. The curriculum will be focused on helping participants become social entrepreneurs, change agents or civic leaders — turning their bright ideas into new businesses or solutions to challenges facing their communities. Preparing Ontario’s youth to take on leadership roles that spur social and economic enhancements, supports the government’s efforts to invest in people and create a strong business climate; two of the three pillars of the government’s economic plan for jobs and growth.

Applications open October 1, 2013 and can be found at http://studioy.marsdd.com/. The first group of young people will begin the program in January 2014.

Helping young people find jobs is part of the Ontario government’s plan to build a fair and prosperous society, and help people in their everyday lives.

PARLIAMENTARY REPORTby Stephen Woodworth MP for Kitchener-Centre

With Thanksgiving just days away, here is some news about which we can be thank-

ful but which is not well known. We often hear about negative aspects of Canada’s economic out-look which involve household debt, net worth, stu-dent debt and retirement savings. However I want to point out some hidden statistics.

Although the ratio of household debt to disposable income did reach an all time high in the spring of 2013 of 165.6%, that is not the whole story. Debt numbers are higher because people are buying houses and the cost of the mortgages is included in the ratio, not the change in an individual’s overall net equity as the owner of a home.

Although only the liabilities are reported, statistics about both assets and liabilities are available. For example, while Canadians have approximately $1.75 trillion dollars in liabilities it is rarely reported that households in Canada have roughly $9 trillion in assets. After subtracting these two figures and dividing by the number of Canadians, you will find that Canadians net worth is approximately $207,300 which (after being adjusted for inflation) has doubled in the last twenty years!

Last month, I wrote about student debt, focusing on back to school issues. We frequently hear concerns that tuition rates and student debt rates are rising. We are told, for example, that Canada now has the fifth highest post secondary school tuition rates in the OECD. What we don’t hear is that between 2000 and 2010, the population aged 18-21 increased by 12% whereas post-secondary enrollment increased by 38%. This indicates that a greater percentage of Canadian youth are getting

educated and we should be thankful for that!Headlines warn that many baby boomers are

not ready to retire, and their retirement savings are insufficient. However I am pleased to say that Canadians actually have $7.1 trillion in net worth retirement savings. We are preparing more and more for our retirement. The Government of Canada provides excellent incentives for youth to start thinking long term as well with tax free savings account initiatives and other measures.

We need to have a keen eye when reading economic news and look for the hidden numbers. The level of wealth in Canada is high, the number of people living below the low income cut-off is declining, and incomes are recovering from the 2008-09 recession. The percentage of students getting a higher level of education is increasing. Data establishing these features of our economy is available from the same sources from which negative news emanates.

We should, especially at Thanksgiving, always keep in mind those in need among us. We should remain concerned about economic challenges. Nonetheless, a balanced view reflecting the fact that we’re on the right track is important.

Members of Parliament will be back in Ottawa after Thanksgiving to continue working on important economic measures. The Speech from the Throne delivered by our Governor General will no doubt review accomplishments to date and outline the work ahead. I hope to update you on that with another Parliamentary Report in November!

My family and I wish you a Happy Thanksgiving, Kitchener Centre!

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As a relatively new arrival in Kitchener I've been exploring thephotographic arts opportunities here and first impressions are veryencouraging. It's just not just in the tech side of quality that the communityshould be judged. A thriving Arts community usually does well. This cannot always be measured in the financial spectrum as the living standardexpectations of artists are remarkably low.

We don't want that two bedroom house within convenient drivingdistance to the golf course or mall. Speaking as one of those underfundedindependent art producers i'll tell you I've lived in some very badconditions just to be close to my working environment. An example beingwhen living in my various illegal Toronto warehouse studios many yearsbefore they were condoized.

There are basically two reasons for artists to be in an area. A slightlycompact arts community with low rents and the availability of galleries orvenues to showcase the art produced. I have noticed that there is a vibranttheatre network here that none the less is going through hard times. Themusic scene is really good with a solid choice of local talent that is wellpublicized by a few local free publications. Radio generally follows thestandard corprock but the University of Waterloo has an outstandingcommunity station.

The huge pool of university students to draw from for a vocal audiencewith some disposable cash helps in keeping the cities vibrant andenthusiastic. The number of professional artists is still small enough so thatthey know one another.

We are quickly seeing astounding growth in the digital imagingindustry. Fortunately, as a photographer who has been working in digital

for years it helps me integrate my own work into video, 3D, web,advertising, etc. So I think, personally, the opportunities in Kitchener arebetter than Toronto. An example being the cable TV (Rogers) that worksvery hard to involve the regions schools and artisians in locally producedprogramming.

Let's not forget that Kitchener/Waterloo was voted the most intelligentcity and speaking as a newcomer it is very evident that the level ofprofessionalism is visibly high here. People waste little time and thewelcome i've received in presenting my own portfolio to various galleriesand companies has been warm and enthusiastic. A very nice event heldin town is the quarterly parties at the KW regional art gallery. Mellowpeople who enjoy art meet each other with cool jazz and some ambientdub from the djs.

With the projected growth of the regions artists in all mediums I havefound there are many dynamic, specifically targeted plans, by themunicipal government in particular, to foster a (relatively) largecommunity investment in development towards artist integration. I was

very impressed by the Arts office at City Hall and with how they providedme with information about what was going on here. Those people in turnhave offered their own advice and contacts, so again two thumbs up forthe level of support they give each other.

Yes, there are already many photographers doing the normalphotographic needs of the region, but the opportunity to work withemerging image companies like web designers, animation houses, softwareproducers, locally based video firms, electronic images for broadcastersetc.is growing as the manufacturing base has declined. The liveentertainment industries, local graphic designers and most especially theemerging gallery system bodes well for business opportunities, even in thisdownturn.

Kitchener is projected to be growing by a conservative estimate of100,000 people over the next 20 years and plans call for a big investmentin conversions of existing warehouse buildings into studio style live workspace. Technically the manufacturing base has down- turned and left a lotof empty buildings.

If out of those numbers there are 10 percent artists in all media thatactually work at their art all of us are going to need some of this space tobuild up our community. Artists, being artists though, do not like to betold how to do things. The local government is working hard to reach thatlevel where they can integrate the needs of the artistic communityseamlessly into their development plans.

Many studies have shown time and again how efficient an Arts basedcommunity can be. A planning group called The Prosperity Councilspecifically calls for a huge investment for artists and art based businessesto encourage them to choose Kitchener as a place to work. This is the firsttime I have found a directed approach to our niche, but very valuablesegment of society. If even fifty percent of the plans get done it is still anattractive place to build a career.

Our image production is now all pixels and with the recentannouncement of a new 5 million dollar Federal grant to establish amassive digital media centre in the downtown core, it offers unexcelledopportunities to work with some of the leading edge image systems in theworld. In fact there are plans to make Kitchener a regionalcommunications hub and that leads into the possibility of thousands of newuses for my photos.

There is a very good internet system here and if you would like moreinfo just go to the net and most community plans are available. The nextthree years will establish this region of one of the "Silicon Valley" inspiredexamples of a thriving gateway of new ideas and I feel very fortunate tobe able to establish myself here with so many other creative artists.

Letter to the editor

Just what makes Kitchener so good at Arts development?

&RANTS ravesTHE KITCHENER CITIZEN OPINION PAGE

Dear Carrie Debrone,I was pleased to get your Kitchener Citizen (east edition) and found it

quite informative and I thank you for it.I just read your short article regarding the natural gas rates going down

for residential customers.You write that Kitchener Utilities have a 2,100 cubic meter average use

annually for its residential customers. I still have an imperial gas meter,which shows the consumption in cubic feet. I have never been able to readthat meter and as for that matter, even the meter readers seem to have aproblem with it as well. Why else would the city issue a bill in the amountof $452?

My January bill had been $222.16. February, $295.79, there I already satup and took notice, but then excused it by, the winter being especially harsh.However, when I received my March bill, I knew that something was verywrong. I called the Utility Office and was asked to take a piece of paperand a pen and read the meter myself. To this request I replied that I did notknow how to read the imperial meter and aside from that, it wasn't my job.The lady I talked to was very nice and agreed to send somebody out to do

another reading and also promised to call me back once this was done. Itwas the very next day that I received her call telling me that the new amountowing was now $200.10, a mere difference of $251.90. I only wonder howoften the meter had been misread in the past.

My neighbours on either side have metric meters and I had previouslyasked if I could get one that I would be able to read. The answer to thatconsisted of a flat NO.

The city had pre-authorized withdrawal privileges for 2004/005 whichthey bungled up so badly that I revoked that privilege. I did ask that officeto please send me a paper trail for my records which I never received nordid I get an answer to my request and, of course, one can forget about anapology.

I realize that it is up to your discretion to publish or not to publish myletter. However if you decide to print it I would like to warn my fellow"Kitchenerites" to be extra "vigilant" every time that Utility Bill arrives.

Respectfully,Ingrid E. Merkel

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On April 5, the Kitchener Public Library and our Region’s Public Health Department launched ‘Make Walking Part

of Your Life’. One week prior to its launch, politicians, Regional and Library employees were encouraged to participate in a con-test to see who could walk the most steps in one week.

To count steps, participants had to wear a pedometer. Wouldn’t you know it, the CEO’s of both the Library and the Region walked the most with well over 100,000 steps. Now we know their jobs won’t let them sit down.

Autumn is an excellent time to walk along our woodland trails, tree-lined streets, and heritage neighbourhoods. Health studies recognize that experiencing nature reduces stress. Walking lowers cholesterol and blood pressure. It improves muscle tone and controls weight.

If you are curious about the number of steps you walk in a day,

our Kitchener libraries have a Pedometer kit waiting for you to borrow for three weeks. Each kit contains a pedometer, a map with GRT bus routes, walking and cycling trails, and a booklet with tips for a safe walk.

Plan your walk. Stay motivated by looking for different routes. Wear a pedometer. You will find, as I have, that wearing a pedometer to check your steps becomes part of your daily apparel.

Did you know that 10,000 steps a day is a way to reduce your diabetes factor? Sounds a little bit like the old saying, ‘An apple a day, keeps the doctor away’. Healthy choices to think about.

Best wishes on your autumn walks. Make walking part of your life!

Jean HaalboomWaterloo Regional Councillor

They’re doing it again, the Region of Waterloo that is.About a day ago I received a five page letter from the

Region of Waterloo International Airport. As I read through the correspondence, it quickly became evident that something was amiss. Now I am no aviation specialist so deciphering the information was a little taxing. It has been a long time since I studied vectors, graphs, decibel levels, charts and maps, but I did my best to understand what they were saying. We (mostly my wife) even went further and researched the subject a little more in depth. What follows, is my layman’s interpretation of the issue and the consequences it will have for Cambridge.

The airport (Region) is proposing to move a designated 3 dimensional point in the sky called the “Kitch-Fix” from somewhere southwest of the 401 to a new point southeast of the 401. In layman language that means from Kitchener to Cambridge. The point in the sky would now reside over the 401 and the Grand River.

They state, “This will pull the noise towards the east”….Cambridge. They will also allow planes to fly approximately 500ft above the ground, 100ft lower than the current regulation of 600ft above the ground.

In the noise level created by the aircraft section of their letter they say “some aircraft noise can interfere with conversation”. They also state that “residential properties are the most sensitive to aircraft noise.”

As I noted above we did some more research. It seems the residents of Hidden Valley Estates (built in 2003) in Kitchener, complained about aircraft noise enough to have a noise study completed. An article from the Record, Friday September 13

states, “The proposal, years in the making and now under public review, follows noise complaints from the affluent Hidden Valley subdivision in south Kitchener.

“A small number of homeowners were quite vocal,” Wood said.

I ponder the effect of this change on Blair, the rare lands and Langdon Hall. As most residents of this region are aware, Blair and more importantly the rare research reserve is host to a large number of rare flora and fauna. Bald eagles that started to come here in the nineties to winter now live here year round. Osprey nest every summer above the Fountain St. Bridge at the Grand River. Countless numbers of waterfowl including Blue Herons thrive here. Thousands of people from the region and the rest of the world come here to enjoy the tranquility and oneness with nature and marvel at the largest urban green space in Canada. Langdon Hall Hotel, voted best hotel in Canada, twice, is where people come to relax and enjoy the serenity.

Has the effect on all of that been studied? I think not. When the airport expands, and it will, how much more noise will Cambridge be subjected to?

It seems to me this is another case of the region dumping on Cambridge, akin to the Franklin Street roundabouts, the bio solids plant and dare I say the LRT, which we will pay for but never see here. I hope Cambridge residents can be as vocal in stopping the “Kitch-fix/Camb-screw” as the small number of homeowners in Hidden Valley.

Scott WilsonCambridge

Kitchener-Conestoga MPP Michael Harris’ legislative bill to clarify the Labour Relations Act would have exempted

municipalities and school boards from being included in the def-inition of construction employers.

Bill 73 was not passed and thus Kitchener-Waterloo taxpayers will continue to pay for the practice of uncompetitive tendering.

Catherine Fife, MPP for Kitchener–Waterloo voted along her NDP party lines and against the best interests of Kitchener-Waterloo residents and local businesses.

The serious concern is that once a public sector employer becomes unionized the municipality and school board must contract out all construction projects to companies organized by a specific union –‘closed tendering’.

Bill 73 was endorsed by local municipalities because of the well documented increased cost of projects in closed tendering cases. It is estimated that projects cost 40% more when closed tendering vs. open

tendering is in place.This concern is very real in Waterloo Region. In December 2012,

two regional workers building a garden shed in Wilmot Township on a Saturday applied to join the Carpenters’ Union. Waterloo Region is fighting the Carpenters’ certification bid at the labour board right now.

Waterloo Region is headed toward steep increased costs for municipal construction projects. Closed tendering will shut out the ability for our local construction businesses to compete for publicly funded work, and handcuff municipalities from getting best possible price for taxpayers through an open and fair tendering process.

Bill 73 is a bill that was in the best interests of Ontarians and Kitchener-Waterloo residents – US -- the taxpayers.

Tracey WeilerKitchener

* * *Tracey Weiler is the Ontario Progressive Conservative candidate for

the riding ot Kitchener-Waterloo.

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If you could, would you drink the water in Victoria

Park Lake?The latest exhibit at

THEMUSEUM called Surface Tension: The Future of Water gives you the opportunity to do so and to think about how you feel about water.

“The water we drink ties us into our local ecosystem,” says Ireland’s Daithi O’Reilly, who is showing the exhibit which originated at the Science Gallery at Trinity College in Dublin. The exhibit was curated by Ralph Borland, Michael John Gorman, Bruce Misstear, and Jane Withers.

Surface Tension brings together the work of 35 artists, designers, engineers and scientists who explore the future of water. Their installations look at water’s role in politics and economics, and discusses ways it’s gathered, cleaned and distributed, as well as how it is used and misused.

O’Reilly said humans have a “fascination with water” and that, in addition to being used in traditional ways for things like drinking and manufacturing, it is also used for cultural and religious traditions and rituals.

“We must respect our relationship with water,” he said.

Some installations look at

ways we could use less water, from new ways to clean our bodies without using water, to new ways of dispensing it in an udderlike container with the belief that if people had to work harder for their water,

they would use less.The exhibit also looks at

the political aspect of fresh water - a resource that we have often considered as free and disposable, but in the future as its availability decreases, may

become highly valuable.It also shows the beauty of

water through an installation called Event Horizon which captures a whirlpool in a jar and another called Bit.Fall which has twinkling water droplet words dropping from the ceiling to the floor.

This exhibit looks at water

issues from around the world, but if you are interested in local water issues, you can attend a speaker series on October 27 called Water Dialogues: Local Water Issues.

Speakers will give present-ations on local water issues and then open the floor for discussion.


Above left: An installation called Event Horizon captures a vortex in a bell jar and its whirlpool spirals in perpetual motion. At right, Daithi O’Reilly pours a glass of filtered water that originated in Victoria Park Lake. A Tim Horton’s cup can be seen floating in the water taken from the lake in the tank at the top of the photo.

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Surface Tension looks at the uncertain future of water

Region of Waterloo is striving to conserve drinking waterSpeaker: Steve Gombos, Manager, Water Efficiency, Region of

Waterloo, Water Services DivisionThe Region of Waterloo is one of the largest municipalities in Canada

to rely so heavily on groundwater supplies for its drinking water. To prevent or delay the need to find new sources of water, the Region has delivered leading water efficiency and water conservation programs since 1974.

Walking on Ice: Protecting our Winter Safety and Water QualitySpeaker: Leanne Lobe, Supervisor, Source Water Protection

Programs, Region of Waterloo, Water Services Division Have you ever been concerned about the amount of salt used in the

winter – too much or too little? Have you ever considered where all that salt goes? Leanne Lobe will share simple, yet effective tools to improve your winter safety while using less salt and keeping our water clean!

The Grand River Adventure: Tales from a river, source to mouthSpeaker: Derek Lippert, Quiet Nature Ltd.For the past two years, Derek and his work colleague JP Bartle have

paddled the entire Grand River in an effort to raise awareness of the river’s importance while raising funds for tree planting throughout the watershed. On these journeys, the two adventurers experience the river where it begins its life as a 15 ft wide stream, tumbles through rapids and gorges, works its way through the heart of our cities and towns, and cuts through forest and farmland, on route to Lake Erie.

The Grand: Our FutureGRCA representative Dave SchultzThe talk will focus on the 21st century challenges to our water

resources – population growth, intensive agriculture, and climate change – and outline what water managers from the GRCA, municipalities, the provincial government, federal government and other agencies are doing about it.

Tickets are free with admission. Purchase a Water Dialogues Pass for access to each presentation without having to pay admission each time. For more information visit www.themuseum.ca.

Stephen Woodworth, Your Voice in Ottawa Member of Parliament For questions about the Government of Canada, I’m here to help! 300 Victoria Street North, Kitchener 519-741-2001 www.stephenwoodworth.ca

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Politicians at the provincial and federal levels are usually busy battling each other and their parties at every chance they get.

But the Kitchener-Waterloo riding’s Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal presentation has apparently brought out the cooperative spirit.

In a rare showing that politicians can cooperate and work with each other, Liberal MPP of Kitchener Centre John Milloy, former Conservative MPP of Kitchener Waterloo Elizabeth Witmer and newly elected New Democrat MPP of Kitchener Waterloo Catherine Fife, will all be present at the medal presentation ceremony for the Kitchener Waterloo riding recipients to be held January 16 at Kitchener City Hall.

Milloy was asked to give out the medals on behalf of Elizabeth Witmer after she left provincial politics. He decided instead to wait until after the by-election, allowing the opportunity to whom ever was elected to present the medals in their own riding.

The commemorative medal, created to mark the 2012 celebration of the 60th anniversary of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s accession to the Throne as Queen of Canada, is in recognition of those who, like Her Majesty, have dedicated themselves to

service to their fellow citizens, their community and their country.

Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee medals will be presented January 16 to the following Kitchener-Waterloo riding recipients:

Chandrika AnjariaChandrika Anjaria has been

a tireless volunteer within the community. The focus of her community work has been empathy and compassion for others. An employee for the University of Waterloo’s Information Systems and Technology Department, Chandrika also served as past chair of UW’s United Way Campaign. She has also presided as co-chair of three local hospital walkathons, and is the chair of the Earthquakes, Cyclone and Tsunami relief fund. Chandrika is a member of the India Canada Association, past chair of several cultural festivals and a founding member of Club 55. In 1997, Chandrika was honoured as one of Kitchener-Waterloo Oktoberfest’s Women of the Year.

Ariarani AriaratnamAriarani is the founder and

former Executive Director of Focus for Ethnic Women in KW. Active in supporting women and children, Ariarani served the KW YWCA locally and internationally. She has also served on the Immigration

and Refugee Board of Canada. Ariarani is passionate in helping newcomers understand, integrate and become fully active members of our community. She is a member of the board of the South Asian Seniors Association of Waterloo Region. A recipient of the Citation for Citizenship Award from the Government of Canada, Ariarani also received the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal in 2002 for her outstanding work in promoting the rights of immigrant and visible minority women.

Ronald BeaudreauRonald Beaudreau served as an

Air Cadet, Leading Aircraftman in the reserve Air Force and as a Radar Operator in the regular service. He is a member and past president of the 404 K-W Wing RCAFA of the Air-Force Association of Canada. He also assisted in starting the Out of the Cold program in Kitchener-Waterloo and has been a youth counsellor for boys aged 6-18 for the past 45 years.

Marjorie Carroll-NelsonMarjorie Carroll-Nelson was

elected the first female Mayor of Waterloo in 1977, and remained in this role until 1988. As a nurse and as a public servant, she was an outstanding choice to chair the K-W Hospital Foundation from 1989-1992. A devoted volunteer and fundraiser, Marjorie’s efforts resulted in a remodelled childbirth centre at Grand River Hospital, renamed the Marjorie Carroll Childbirth Centre in her honour.

Connie DeckertConnie Deckert successfully

ran Motivair Canada Ltd., a local auto company for 35 years. The company was sold in 2008 and she changed careers. Connie is now a member of the LPGA Teaching and Club Professionals, as well as the Canadian Golf Teachers Federation. She is a member of the Canadian Association of Women Executives & Entrepreneurs. Connie is also a recipient of the Women Of Waterloo Region (WOW) Award, as well as a graduate of Leadership Waterloo Region. She is a member of the Kitchener-Waterloo Chapter of Zonta International and the K-W Business Women’s Association. She is a board member of the KW Symphony and Executive Women’s Golf Association.

Jim ErbJim Erb has been associated with

Erb and Good Family Funeral Home for 43 years. He is known for his commitment to serving Waterloo as a city councillor from 1980-1988, and is remembered as getting the most votes of any Waterloo candidate in three consecutive municipal elections. Jim has been a member of the Kitchener Conestoga Rotary Club for 28 years where he has chaired their annual Turkey Drive in support of House of Friendship. Jim has served on the board of directors of Kitchener-Waterloo Community Foundation, KidsAbility Foundation, Shalom Counselling Services and is a past President of Kitchener Waterloo Council of Churches. He was a founding member of Habitat for Humanity, the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, founding Chair of the Wellesley Apple Butter and Cheese Festival, past chair of the

Ontario Board of Services and was recognized at the Mayor’s Dinner for the Working Centre in 2011. He is a member of Erb Street Mennonite Church in Waterloo and has been active in various inter-faith initiatives in the community

David GrahamIn his contributions to our

community, David Graham has worked diligently as a past Chair of the Board at St. Mary’s General Hospital, the 1990 Ontario Summer Games, Leadership Waterloo Region, K-W United Way, Rotary Club of Kitchener, and the Canadian Red Cross K-W Branch. Currently, David serves on the boards of the St. Joseph’s Health System. In recognition of his service, David was awarded the K-W Citizen of the Year in 1990, the Waterloo Award, the Canada 125th Anniversary medal and the Queen Elizabeth Silver and Golden Jubilee Medals.

Owen LackenbauerOwen Lackenbauer began his

career of service to the community by enlisting in the Canadian Army, serving from 1953-1965 and in the Army Reserve from 1972-1985. In 1969, he co-founded KW’s Oktoberfest which continues to thrive to this day. As a past President of Kitchener Oktoberfest, Lions Club, K-W Untied Way, Kitchener Chamber of Commerce, K-W Community Foundation, and Westmount Golf & Country Club, 1979 K-W Citizen of the Year, and a Paul Harris Fellow (Rotary International in 1995), Owen’s contributions to our community have been profound. He is past Honorary Colonel of the Royal Highland Fusiliers of Canada, Waterloo Region’s reserve infantry regiment.

John LynchJohn Lynch, a long-time

Rotarian, was 1981-1982 President of the Rotary Club of Waterloo and is a Paul Harris Fellow. His contributing involvement with KidsAbility spans over three decades. He was President 1991-1993 during the raising of $8 million for construction of the current treatment centre. From 1996-2002, he was President of KidsAbility Foundation, which currently raises in excess of $1 million dollars annually. He helped bring the 1986 Brier Canadian Men’s Curling Championship to Kitchener-Waterloo. He was also treasurer for Campaign K-W, which raised $27 million for expanded services at Grand River Hospital. A Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario, he isa retired partner of KPMG, where he initiated the writing of Roots: History of KPMG in Waterloo Region. In 2011, he received the Waterloo Award, the City of Waterloo’s highest civic honour.

Joan McKinnonJoan McKinnon spent twelve

years in public service as City of Waterloo and Region of Waterloo Councillor and Mayor of Waterloo from 1997-2000. She was the founding Chair of Community Safety and Crime Prevention Council and a member of such Boards as Wilfrid Laurier University, University of Waterloo and the AGO. Joan

has demonstrated a lifetime of community service through her involvement volunteering with the Girl Guides of Canada, summer camp for disabled children, the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, the K-W Symphony, the Grand River Conservation Authority and St. Mary’s Hospital. In 1985 she was named Oktoberfest Woman of the Year and she has also received the Ontario Volunteer Service Award for her outstanding work in the Region.

George SimGeorge Sim’s faith, his loyal

dedication to his friends and family, his caring heart and his delight in storytelling are an inspiration. During the Second World War, George was a member of the Royal Electrical Mechanical Engineers, serving the Ontario Tank Regiment, Oshawa in Europe. His experience during the war inspired him to become ordained in the United Church, and to serve as a Chaplin for the Waterloo Legion for 40 years. George has devoted his life to serving his fellow veterans; listening to their stories and helping to heal their suffering. A kind soul, George is known to offer a hug and story to all and enjoys playing the harmonica.

Rosemary SmithRosemary Smith is a visionary

leader in our community who has served as mentor to many. Since 2001, Rosemary has been the CEO of the Kitchener-Waterloo Community Foundation. She has also had leadership roles with many organizations, such as Chair of the Greater Kitchener Waterloo Chamber of Commerce, Cambridge Chamber of Commerce and has served on many boards such as the K-W YWCA, K-W Big Brothers, and the Prosperity Council of Waterloo Region Resources Task Force. Rosemary has also been a member of the United Way, Cambridge Women in Networking, K-W Women in Networking, Leadership Waterloo Region, Zonta Club of Kitchener-Waterloo, Waterloo Region Immigrant Employment Network and Opportunities Waterloo Region. Rosemary has also had the honour of being recognized as a Woman of Distinction in the area of business by the Cambridge YWCA and named as Kitchener-Waterloo’s Citizen of the Year for 2009.

Lynne WoolstencroftSince moving to Waterloo in

1970 Lynne Woolstencroft’s belief in community-building expressed itself in public service and involvement in many organizations. She held elected positions (City of Waterloo Councillor, Region of Waterloo Councillor, Mayor of Waterloo, Waterloo County Board of Education school trustee, with three years as Chair). She served on numerous boards (K-W Social Planning Council, Waterloo Public Library, Grand River Conservation Authority, and Waterloo Regional Police Service).

She was President of the Association of Large School Boards in Ontario. Her commitment to the environment led Waterloo to receive numerous awards, including the Greenest City in Ontario from TVO.

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The 11th annual Doors Open Waterloo Re-gion, held September 21, attracted 13, 873

visitors,For those who love old buildings, are interested

in architecture, or are just plain curious, Doors Open Waterloo Region celebrated local architecture past and present by opening 42 heritage and modern buildings for public tours.

Many of the buildings had never been open to - or are rarely viewed by - the public.

While Doors Open Waterloo Region is known for featuring heritage architecture, there is also always a selection of modern architecture. This year eleven of the 42 sites fit into the 2013 theme – Waterloo Region Modern.

Built in the last 55 years, the modern sites included the Mike and Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre, the Waterloo Region Courthouse, OpenText, the University of Waterloo Student Design Centre, the Waterloo Regional Police Service North Division,

the Conestoga Engineering and Information Technology Campus, North House, The Clay and Glass Museum, The Centre In The Square, Highland Baptist Church, and the Islamic Centre of Cambridge.

The 31 other participating sites included many first-time participants and some popular sites from past events. Buildings from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuies were featured, and visitors got a chance to go behind-the-scenes.

A part of a province-wide program, Doors Open Waterloo Region is a local event of Doors Open Ontario, an initiative of the Ontario Heritage Foundation to celebrate community heritage.

Doors Open events take place in communities across Ontario.

For information call 519-747-5139 or e-mail [email protected], follow Doors Open on Twitter @DoorsOpenWR or join the Doors Open Waterloo Region Facebook page.





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Proceeds to The Chord Spinners Chorus, and their favourite Charity The National Service Dogs.

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Margaret Pachnik says 2013 has turned out to be a “lucky year” for Ziggy’s Cycle

and Sport.Pachnik owns the business on King Street

West in downtown Kitchener that recently won the 2013 Independent Bicycle Retailer of the Year award from the Bicycle Trade Association of Canada (BTAC) at its annual ExpoCycle trade show in Montreal.

“We were so happy,” Pachnik said. “We never expected it.”

The Independent Bicycle Retailer of the Year award recognizes bicycle retailers that have shown commitment and innovation in encouraging cycling in their community.

“All of our employees are thrilled and energized,” Pachnik said. She said the store has a great staff that works as a team and they all have “a passion for cycling and promoting a healthy lifestyle.”

“We have a great cycling community here,” she said of Kitchener. “And the most satisfying aspect of our job is connecting with the community.”

There are five full-time staff at Ziggy’s and five to six part-time employees.

Ziggy’s works with the community on the Bike2Work Challenge, along with many local fundraising rides such

as the Tour de Hans, Canadian Cancer Society Great Ride ‘n’ Stride, and the Ride to Conquer Cancer.

“Independent bicycle retailers in Canada make significant contributions to their com-munities in the way of cycling advocacy, rider safety, sponsoring local athletes, and their support of worthy causes,” said Bill Yetman, Executive Director of BTAC.

“Ziggy’s is a prime example of a retailer doing great work in their community and we’re happy to recognize their work with this award.”

The BTAC Primes (awards) are named after a traditional class of cycling prize given for accomplishment within a stage or lap of a race. They are divided into four distinct categories: Independent Bicycle Retailer of the Year, Outstanding work by a Local Cycling Association, Achievement by a Municipal/Regional Government, and Contribution by a Political Leader.

Ziggy’s was nominated for the award by the City of Kitchener, which organizes a Bike2Work Challenge that Ziggy’s has sponsored for the past two years.

The Bike2Work Challenge provides Kitchener residents with an opportunity to try commuting to work by bicycle. In 2013, Ziggy’s donated 16 bicycles, valued at approximately $1000 each, to the contestants in the challenge. For the month of June they were required to commute to work on the bicycle, recording the mileage and contributing to a blog about the experience.

Ziggy’s donated the bikes as well and provided training to the participants about how to care for the bike and make repairs, like fixing a flat tire.

To read more about this year’s Bike2Work participants visit the website http://bike2work2013.blogspot.ca.

Ziggy’s Cycle and Sport wins national award forthe Independent Bicycle Retailer of the Year

Staff of Ziggy’s Cycle and Sport with the Independent Bicycle of the Year award are, from left: Nicho-las Abbott, Zoltan Pop, Marta Generoux, Margaret Pachnik (owner) and Michael White.

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Next editionNovember 7, 2013

By Karolyn Fournier

As the cooler temperatures arrive and the leaves start to change colours, home own-

ers start thinking about cleaning up the yard and preparing the garden for winter. Don’t be too anxious, in my opinion it’s still a wee bit early for pruning and chopping back perennials and shrubs. The November edition of the Citizen will provide you with a guideline of what you should and can do in your garden before the snow flies.

One of the most asked questions this time of year is when to prune hydrangea. The answer is “it depends”. There are six main types of hydrangea shrubs in our gardens and it is imperative you know which type you have before you take a pair of pruners to its branches.

If you haven’t kept the plant tag to identify the species, or specific type of hydrangea, here are some generalizations to help you identify which type you have. The danger of pruning at the wrong time of year may mean you are cutting off buds that have already formed during a specific time of growth.

Annabelle or Smooth – Hydrangea arborescens: Large globes of densely packed flowers, typically white, but in the case of Invincibelle® Spirit, pink. These flower on new wood (current season’s growth), usually in late summer. These may be pruned in very late fall (after blooming) or early spring. However, if you are happy with the size of the shrub, pruning is not necessary unless there are dead or diseased branches.

Panicle or Pee-Gee – Hydrangea paniculata: Large, cone shaped clusters of flowers that may start out lime-green and change colour as

the blooms age. These also bloom on growth created in the current season so prune, if desired or necessary in late fall or early spring, as with H. arborescens. Limelight and Pinky Winky™ are some other brand names for this variety you may recognize.

Oak leaf – Hydrangea quercifollia: Identified by lobed leaves that turn red with age and white flowers that bloom in the summer on old wood. If you prune these in spring or late fall, you are removing the buds and it will not bloom that year. These should not be pruned. Flower buds on old growth may be damaged by sudden freezes in spring or by animals chewing on the stems.

Climbing – Hydrangea petiolaris: Like the oak leaf, it blooms on old wood. If pruned, it will not flower that year.

Big Leaf, Mophead, Lacecap or Florist’s – Hydrangea macrophylla: This hydrangea can bloom in colours ranging from blue to purple depending on the pH (acidity or alkalinity) of the soil. This is another hydrangea that requires the spring, fall & winter to produce flowers in summer. Pruning will remove flower buds.

Mountain – Hydrangea serrata: Lacy flowers with limited flower colour change. Blooms develop on old wood. Avoid pruning.

Pruning is required if the shrub has grown too large, has spent flowers or has damaged or diseased limbs. Prune for its health versus its blooms for that year. If you are pruning, the general rule of thumb is never to remove more than one third of the plant.

Happy Gardening!* * *

Karolyn Fournier is the Retail Manager at Colour Paradise Greenhouses in Mannheim.

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In October...• Drop by and pick up fresh herbs for your Thanksgiving dinner• Watch for us talking about herbs on “At Home with Chef D” on Rogers 20

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Ontario is now allowing drivers to renew their li-

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Ontario drivers need to renew their licences every five years. Now, eligible drivers who renew online at ServiceOntario.ca/DriversLicence will be able to use their existing licence photos for an additional five-year renewal cycle, meaning they will only need to renew in person every ten years.

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In collaboration with the Cardiac Care Network of

Ontario and the Waterloo Wel-lington Local Health Inte-gra-tion Network, St. Mary’s Gen-eral Hospital has announced plans for a pilot project to ex-plore the feasibility of large scale remote monitoring for pacemaker patients.

If successful, St. Mary’s will be the first hospital in Ontario to broadly offer pacemaker patients remote monitoring as an option.

“St. Mary’s is proud of its cardiac excellence and we are always looking for new and innovative technologies that can improve patient care,” says Don Shilton, President at St. Mary’s. “After extensive research and discussions with industry and government part-ners, we recently determined that remote monitoring tech-nology has evolved in Canada to the point where it can now be a safe, viable and highly beneficial option for many pacemaker patients in our

community.”“If this pilot is successful,

our pacemaker patients will be the first in Ontario to benefit from this newly-available technology. We look forward to initiating the pilot early in 2014 so we can assess its potential for wide scale utilization across the Waterloo Wellington LHIN,” continued Mr. Shilton.

It is anticipated that the pilot project will allow many patients to visit a setting closer to home where the remote monitoring equipment will be located. Initially, only patients with Medtronic pacemakers will be eligible, but the goal is to extend this service to patients with pacemakers from other device manufacturers as the project progresses and the technology continues to evolve. In this pilot project, the patient will use a one touch universal Medtronic Carelink Express® monitor at the remote site to read their Medtronic pacemaker. Performance and diagnostic data from their pacemaker will be transmitted via the Medtronic CareLink® network to clinicians at St. Mary’s. If potential concerns are identified, the patient will

be contacted for a follow up appointment at St. Mary’s.

While the long term goal is to offer this technology in several locations across the Waterloo Wellington LHIN, the first installation of the pilot project will be for patients in the Guelph area with the intention of engaging eligible patients whose pacemaker care was recently transferred to St. Mary’s. Evaluation criteria will measure and monitor the success of the first pilot site, and this data will help to formulate the feasibility of a broader roll out of CareLink Express, including more patients and remote monitoring systems from other pacemaker companies.

This initiative has the potential to offer many patient benefits, including fewer trips to hospital for pacemaker checkups, reduced time required for device follow-up, and increased patient satisfaction. There are also potential benefits to the health care system, such as increased efficiency in the St. Mary’s pacemaker clinic and stronger support for community partners/providers.

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Ever wanted to taste pemmican, pur-ple fingerling potatoes or varieties

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Here’s your chance. The Waterloo Region Museum will host a Forgotten Foods Symposium on Saturday, Oct. 26 from 9am to 4pm.

There is growing public interest in learning how to grow, cook and preserve foods as our ancestors did. Knowledge about those skills was once widespread, because, even only a few generations ago, everyone was farming.

Today, because of lifestyle and technological changes, fewer and fewer people know about food production, preparation and preservation.

The Forgotten Food Symposium is aiming to change that.

“Food is a very good device for bringing people into a conversation about who we are as a people. It cuts across all boundaries. Everyone can relate to food,” said Bob Wildfong, Horticultural Interpreter at the Waterloo Region Museum and organizer of the symposium.

“It’s really important that we step back and understand our food system and how it works. It is so fundamental to living and we can’t become complacent about food or take it for granted,” Wildfong said.

The symposium will explore foods and heritage plants that were common in gardens and homes in the past, and features workshops, guest speakers and a lunch that will feature forgotten foods.

Wildfong said that in recent years, as people have become further separated from the sources of their food, there has been a resurgence of interest in traditional food and local culinary traditions.

“We just don’t cook the same way

as our grandparents did, and for many people that creates a fascination with real, basic ingredients, slow food, local food, and many modern food movements that are trying to recapture something that feels lost,” he said.

The symposium will open with Fiona Lucas speaking about familiar and forgotten foods of the 1960s and 70s when in Canada garlic was socially unacceptable, margarine was touted as modern, the food processor was a recent invention and the jellied salad was king.

Today’s food choices are still influenced by the way people shopped, cooked, entertained and planned kitchens 40 years ago.

Participants will then have the chance to attend workshops on a variety of topics including: bread making, forgotten First Nations natural remedies, a heritage apple tasting, canning, a behind the scenes tour of the museum’s collection, food preservation by drying, salting pickling and fermenting, lost drink recipes from the turn of the century and seven ways of looking at a cookbook.

The symposium will close with speaker Carolyn Blackstock, who decided to use the 1906 Berlin Cook Book every day in 2012, and to keep a record of the attempt in an online blog. She succeeded in bringing a forgotten cook book to life, and will share some of her discoveries in this presentation.

The symposium costs $50. To register call 519-748-1914 or visit www.waterlooregionmuseum.com to download the Forgotten Food Symposium registration form.

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The Heritage Greens Lawn Bowling Club held it’s final tournament on Sunday, Septemer 29. The Fall Bowl was sponsored by Richard Bruton of TD Wealth Man-agement Group. From left: Bruton, who also played in the tournament, presented the winning trophy to the team of Jonathan Blake (Lead), Connie Steinman (Skip), and Kathy Robertson (Vice).

Heritage Greens Lawn Bowling Club took 3rd prize in the Georgina Bellamy Women’s Open Triples Tournament on September 17. Carolyn Cooke, right, was Skip, Ellen Edwards, middle, was Vice and Donna Bauman was Lead.

Winners of My Computer Guy Dave Tournament Sunday, September 15 are, from left: David Milne (Sponsor), Sandra Scand (Lead), Colin Thomson (Skip), Bev Hitchman (Vice).


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Canadian Men’s Curling Champion Brad Jacobs

of Sault Ste. Marie will cel-ebrate Thanksgiving in Kitch-ener-Waterloo this year.

“We’re thrilled to have Brad Jacobs participate in our annual Thanksgiving Oktoberfest Parade,” said Cynthia Roth Chair of the 2013 Capital One Road to the Roar Organizing Committee.

“Brad is the top men’s curler in the Province, and one of the best in Canada, and we expect him to be one of the favourites to win the Capital One Road to the Roar when it is held in Kitchener next month”.

Jacobs and his team from Northern Ontario, which includes Third Ryan Fry, Second E.J. Harnden and Lead Ryan Harnden, together with Coach Tom Coulterman won the Tim Hortons Brier last spring in their sixth trip to the national championship. The team followed up their success by finishing second at the Ford World Curling Championships in Victoria B.C. the following month.

In the parade, Jacobs will be joined by his wife Shawna - whom he married this past summer. Jacobs will also have with him the Brier Tankard,

considered to be one of the most famous trophies in Canadian sport.

“Brad will be part of an elite field of curlers in Kitchener that will battle one another for the final two men’s and women’s spots in the Roar of the Rings that will decide who represents Canada in the sport of Curling at the Olympic Games next February in Russia. To have the journey to Olympic Gold start here in Kitchener for possibly two of our champions

is wonderful,” said Roth.Brad is 28 years old. He has

been curling since he was 10. He is an Account Manager with Royal Bank, and his team will be one of 12 men’s teams and 12 women’s teams competing in the Capital One Road to the Roar.

Among the teams competing are former Wilfrid Laurier University Alumni John Morris (formerly the Third for Alberta’s Kevin Martin) and Laura Crocker. Morris is presently curling out of Kelowna, B.C. while Crocker is curling in Edmonton, Alberta. Also taking part in the pre-olympic curling trials is Guelph’s Bob Rumfeldt, Jake Higgs of Harriston, former Olympic Gold medallist Brad Gushue of St. John’s, Newfoundland, Cheryl Bernard and Shannon Kleibrink from Calgary, Alberta and Kelly Scott from Kelowna, B.C.

Visit www.curling.ca/2013roadtotheroar-en/ to see all of the competing teams as well as the Draw schedule. To purchase tickets, visit www.theaud.ca. The Capital One Road to the Roar will be held at the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium Complex Novem-ber 5 through 10.

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Canadian champion Brad Jacobs bringing Brier trophy to the Oktoberfest parade

The Brier Tankard Photo courtesy of the Canadian Curling Association.


notes from city hall

Office: 519-741-2784 Residence: 519-498-9056 [email protected]: www.scottdavey.info

As Kitchener’s finance chair,I’d like to detail my pride in

staff and council for bringing what Ibelieve to be the best budget thus

far in our term. You probably haven’theard or read much about the 2013budget because, to be frank,“KITCHENER DELIVERSRESPONSIBLE BUDGET” isn’t exactlyheadline news.

I was elected more than two yearsago on a platform of efficiency andfiscal responsibility; borne of therealization of strained taxpayers anda stagnating economy.

With that in mind, back in May Isuggested we conduct arepresentative survey of residents to

determine affordability ofservices. Staff implemented thesurvey with expediency and theresults came back as suspected. Itis best summarized as maintenanceof services with tax increases nogreater than inflation.

At the time of the survey, inflationwas projected to be 2-2.5 per cent;little did we know it would dropsharply in the latter half of the yearsettling at 1.4 per cent.

Still, with significant work fromstaff and council, we managed to

bring in a budget at 1.39 per cent —the lowest increase of the tri-cities,and among the lowest in Ontario.

My pride in reaching this figurestems from the fact that it wasaccomplished without beingregressive. We made a $500,000payment to debt, dedicated$800,000 to major parks (includingKiwanis Park), $1.65 million totrails, and $320,000 to replacetrees affected by the emerald ashborer. In short, we’re strongerfiscally and still managed to makeKitchener a little bit better. n

Office: 519-741-2779 Residence: [email protected]

The final budget was ratified inJanuary, setting Kitchener’s

tax rate at 1.39 per cent. Throughpublic input, research surveys and

the interactive website, this is whatcitizens told us they could manage.No significant cuts were made toservices such as community centres,snowplowing, and grass cutting;however, one significant reductionthat council made affected our firedepartment. Their budget wasreduced by $480,000 to account forthe retirement of four firefighters;two fire prevention officers havealready retired. This reduction waspresented by senior staff as a viableoption to limit the potential increaseto the fire budget. Even after the

reduction, the overall budget for thedepartment will still go up in 2013.

I understand how the public mayperceive these cuts; I respect thework our firefighters do. It takes aspecial people to do these jobs and Iknow that the communityappreciates this essential service.The reality of the fire departmentbudget is that it has gone up 31.3per cent over the past six years dueto increases in salary, and theopening of an additional fire station.

Salaries are often decided througharbitration. These decisions have

caused unsustainable salary levelsat the municipal level and, if theycontinue, cities could experience anunstable financial position. Citiesneed to send a clear message to theprovince that these methods are notsustainable and taxpayers don’thave limitless funds to pay theseincreases through their taxes.

Everywhere we see efforts toreduce spending, we must lead byexample at the city. Please contactme with your questions orconcerns.n

For the first time in 10 years, Ivoted in favour of the tax

budget, which resulted in anincrease of 1.39 per cent; slightlylower than the annual increase inthe inflation rate. This was

accomplished without cutting anyintegral services.

The most contentious issue wasreducing four firefighters in the firedepartment through attrition. Thisresulted in annual savings of$480,000. I supported this,requesting staff investigate ways toprovide this essential service in amanner that we can afford now andin the future. No action will be takenuntil thorough studies are carriedout, which clearly result in nocomprise to the safety of our citizensand risk to our properties.

Although the increase in taxes isat a reasonable level, I wasextremely disappointed in theincrease constituents will be facingthrough other essential services:water and sewer rates areincreasing by 4.75 per cent. I hadput forward a limiting increase ofthree per cent, but received supportfrom only three councillors. Ourutilities are in a strong financialposition and could withstand givingour consumers a slight reprieve. Inthe last 10 years, the inflation ratehas increased by about 20 per cent.

During this same period, water andsewer rates have increased 199 percent and 293 per cent respectively.

Users of our recreational serviceswill again be facing a further threeper cent increase in fees foractivities such as swimming andskating. Hydro rates are alsoincreasing and many will faceincreases over the next four yearsdue to the change in propertyassessment values. The taxincrease was reasonable, but we fellconsiderably short in other essentialservices provided to our citizens. n

The main branch of KitchenerPublic Library on Queen Street

is open during construction, and ifyou have not seen the progression ofthe new 25,000-square-foot

addition, you will be pleased with thenew space and its changes once itopens this spring. Improvements willthen begin on the original building.For more information on programsand services at all the KPL locations,check out their wonderful andinteractive website www.kpl.org.

The new underground parking atthe main branch library is open andconstruction will be completedsometime this spring on the otherparking garage to the east of thelibrary. And yes, a great public spaceis planned above these parking

garages; your input will be requestedsoon.

KW Art GalleryLooking for something creative for

you or your family to do? Take a tripto see the great exhibits at the KWArt Gallery and find out about theircool art programs there for kids,teens and adults at www.kwag.ca.Let the inner artist out to play andcheck out the wonderful art that is inyour very own backyard at Centre InThe Square!

40 km/hour school zonesLastly, I am moving that the City of

Kitchener consider a pilot program todetermine the effectiveness of areduced speed limit of 40 km/h onelementary school frontages in the2013/2014 school year.

A staff report will come to thecommunity and infrastructureservices committee on April 8. Weneed to develop a culture that sayspedestrians first, especially littleones!

Keep in touch with your great ideasor concerns at [email protected] or519-741-2786. n

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Family Day is only a few daysaway, so if you are stilllooking for something fun

to do on Feb. 18, I suggest checkingout Mayor Zehr’s Movie Morning, insupport of the Multiple SclerosisSociety of Canada. Doors open at 8a.m. and movies begin between8:45 and 9:15 a.m., at EmpireTheatre on Gateway Park Drive.

There are great movies to choosefrom this year, including The Lorax;Ice Age: Continental Drift;Madagascar 3: Europe’s MostWanted; Transformers: Dark Sideof the Moon and The HungerGames.

The morning is sure to offersomething for everyone! There willbe Lucky Looney draws, great doorprizes, face painting and visits fromOnkle Hans and Miss Oktoberfest.For more details on this event, visitwww.mayorsmoviemorning.com.

Although March Break is stillweeks away, it’s time to startthinking about what your childrenwill be doing with their newfoundfreedom. Will they be visiting withtheir grandparents, spending theweek at home with family, or visitingfriends?

Another great option is MarchBreak Camp at the BreithauptCentre, running from 9 a.m.-4:30p.m. daily with additional supervisedhours available. Children in JK tograde six will spend the weekplaying games both indoors andoutdoors, making new friends, andgoing for a daily swim. For moredetails and to register, visitwww.kitchener.ca, keyword search“camp.”

On April 12, I will host the annualState of the City Address. Thisbreakfast event provides anopportunity for me to share insightssurrounding the 2013 budget, theprogress and planning of citywideprojects, upcoming initiativesaffecting our community, and manyother issues affecting the citizensand businesses of Kitchener, andour entire region.

This charitable event is open to allmembers of the public, with netproceeds from ticket sales donatedto the Kitchener and WaterlooCommunity Foundation. For moreinformation on this, and past Stateof the City addresses, visitwww.kitchener.ca, keyword search“state of the city.” I hope to see youthere!

Lorraine Ave. Road DietLorraine Ave. recently

underwent what’s known as a “road diet” to improve safety and aesthetics, while also adding

cycling lanes and clearly defined parking. The aim was to achieve this without impeding the flow of traffic. The work took place in tandem with road resurfacing which included reducing the poorly utilized four-lanes to two, but including new turning lanes to ensure an unrestricted flow of traffic. Now that the work has completed, I find it a dramatic improvement. In addition to being safer and bicycle-friendly, Lorraine now feels more like a side-street or crescent versus the

previous boulevard-feel. I hope the local residents are enjoying the change.

Loose leaf collectionAs the leaves begin to turn, I’ve

already had some inquiries about leaf collection. It’s important to note that the city has different rules about leaf collection depending on how your particular street has been zoned (the zoning is determined by how densely forested your area is). To find out more detailed information about options for leaf disposal,

including whether you are eligible for curbside collection, please call (519) 741-2345 or visit www.kitchener.ca , keyword search: “leaf collection”. Also note that leaf drop-off sites, located in neighbourhoods across the city, are open seven days a week during daylight hours until the end of November. The nine leaf drop-off locations include: Schaeffer Park on Bloomingdale Road and the Kitchener Auditorium on Ottawa Street, north entrance.

LEAF COLLECTIONKitchener is divided into different

leaf collection zones depending on how heavily forested a particular

community is. Each zone has a different leaf collection date and rules about how leaves can be collected. To find out about options in your area, call our Corporate Contact Centre at (519) 741-2345 or visit www.kitchener.ca, keyword search “leaf collection”. Leaves can also be left at drop-off sites around the city including: Hofstetter Park at 40 Hofstetter Avenue and the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium at the North entrance. The sites are open during daylight hours until the end of November.

TRAFFIC ON FAIRWAY ROADBack a few months ago,

Kitchener Council supported my motion calling on the Region of Waterloo to investigate speed issues on Fairway Road. Recently, we heard back from the region, and quite frankly the response was not satisfactory from a neighbourhood safety point of view. As a result, we will be doing two things to try and address the concerns I continue to hear from residents about this regional road.

First, in consultation with Pope

John Paul II school, our staff will be relocating a crossing guard from Fairway and Lackner and placing a second one at Lackner and Pebblecreek to create safer crossing conditions there for school children. Second, I will be working with Mayor Zehr and the other Kitchener regional councillors to see how we can get the region to more proactively address some of these regional road concerns in a more effective way. Please stay tuned for future updates on this neighbourhood issue.

Last year, city council decided to add new washrooms at Victoria Park. This was necessary because the washrooms at the Boathouse location needed to be kept for the exclusive

use of patrons of the Boathouse. I had hoped that arrangements could have been made to add additional washrooms at this central location without infringing on the Boathouse patrons. Apparently, this was not possible.

At this same time a new matching Federal grant became available. As a result, $400,000 became available for this project; ($200,000 from the Federal government and $200,000 from the municipality). In reality, it amounted to $400,000 of taxpayers monies for a washroom. Many homes

in our community are worth much less than this amount.

Recently tenders were received for this project with the lowest tender having a price of $565,000; $165,000 or 41% greater than had been budgeted. I and four other councillors voted against accepting the tender. The mayor and four other members of council voted in favour of moving forward with a $565,000 project. The motion was lost on the tie vote and accordingly the tender was not accepted. Because of time constraints, it is likely that we will not

have the advantage of the Federal grant.

I firmly believe that when a project is 41% greater than expected it is time to rethink the complete project and make whatever changes are necessary so as to live within our budget and ultimately within our means. Being unable to take advantage of the grant monies is similar to not being able to take advantage of a fabulous “sale price” if we have insufficient funds available. We have all encountered this problem on numerous occasions in maintaining our individual homes.

Downtown Incentive Plans

Transparency and accountability is vitally important to helping council make decisions, especially

when delegations speak to matters at council. Staff brings forward a wide variety of reports and issues before council for review. Hearing from the public helps us to understand a broader view on how council decisions impact our residents.

This is why I was so pleased that regional council’s motion to reduce the delegation speaking time from 10 to 5 minutes was defeated. However, I was disappointed that 7 members of regional council,

which included Mayor Zehr, supported this motion.

The City of Kitchener procedural by-law continues to allow the 5 minute time frame for delegations. I feel this is a very short time to address a particular issue, especially when one is passionate about a subject and possibly nervous or uncomfortable speaking in public.

When we impose what I feel are unfair time constraints on our delegations, I worry that the

message portrayed to the public is that we are not willing to hear, and don’t value what you have to say.

I want to encourage you as citizens to speak at the Council and Committee of the Whole meetings and let us know what you are concerned about! In council’s process of decision making, I hope you understand that it is of importance and value to hear from you on city matters, whether as a delegation or by contacting your elected municipal council directly.

Many things can bring a community together and strengthen ties between neighbours. This includes opportunities to start community gardens, hold street parties or

create artistic events. I am proud to say that Ward 10 has registered the most events of this kind with the City of Kitchener’s Festival of Neighbourhoods program since I began my term of council in 2010.

I would like to invite you to the free Festival of Neighbourhoods celebration in City Hall’s Rotunda on Sunday, October 20 from 1-3pm for food, fun and a chance to win the $10,000 neighbourhood improvement grant. Remember, one neighbourhood event representative must be present to win!

To register your activity for the 2013-2014 Festival of Neighbourhoods, it must take place between October 1, 2013 and September 30, 2014. Register soon, as early bird prize draws are held in January, May and August.

Being part of a neighbourhood family means that there are times when issues of concern arise. To help with these times, I feel the city’s role is to facilitate in providing information, education, and answers, as well as working with you to find creative solutions where possible.

To do this, I have organized three such neighbourhood meetings in the past, providing an opportunity for residents to be heard, get answers and develop an action plan. Some solutions provided in these meetings have included the use of the city’s free speed monitoring unit that can be used up to 7 days, police involvement including speed enforcement, by-law patrol, plus provision of city contacts specific to resident needs.

I would be glad to help your area out with either a celebration or to hold a meeting to share common concerns.

Finding beauty in nature, and also finding beauty in the garbage that mars nature link the two exhibits at the city hall art galleries for the month of October.

Rotunda Gallery: Tammy Ratcliff uses intaglio (a printing process in which the image is engraved or etched into a metal plate or cylinder so that it lies below the non-printing area), monotype prints and mixed media works in her October exhibit, the paper garden, to explore the strength and beauty of the natural world, and also draw attention to the the imperfections and impermanence of all living things.

“The ‘perfect’ asymmetry in nature, the odd shaped spaces between branches or the awkward curl of one petal on a flower is where my curiosity takes root,” the artist says of her work. “The process and materials are as important to my work as the subject matter, and it is my love of printmaking and working with fine washi (Japanese paper) that informs how I work.”

Ratcliff studied printmaking at BealArt in London, Ontario. She lives in Guelph with her family and works full time in her studio amongst the diverse artistic community in the Trafalgar Building. Her work has shown extensively in group and solo shows, most recently at Renann Isaacs Contemporary Art in Guelph, AWOL Gallery in Toronto for Printopolis and with Open Studio for Art Toronto. Her work is included in numerous private, public and corporate collections.

Berlin Tower ARTSPACE: For the month of October, artist-in-residence Susan Coolen continues to update her collection of items of litter from the local urban environment as part of the fall exhibit of The LITTER-ARTI Project. Drop by to see the ongoing percolating process of this thematic residency project through new video, installations and book works.

The exhibit includes overviews of various LITTER-ARTI sub-projects, including ‘The Snowball Effect’, which has had public and community involvement during the first half of the residency, and various art events where Coolen presented information about her project and exhibited litter art installations.

Visit her LITTER-ARTI installation at the regional public landfill tour day on Saturday, Oct. 26 from 9:30 a.m.–2:30 p.m. at the Waterloo Waste Management site (enter and park at Gate #3, 1001 Erb St. W., Waterloo). Call to reserve a spot on the site tour: 519-883-5100 x8449 or email [email protected].

Paper Garden explores fascination with natural world


Ihope you have been enjoyingthe summer so far. If you are

looking for an exciting destination to

visit with your family, you may wantto check out the Huron Natural Area(HNA) located at 801 Trillium Dr. Notonly is it Kitchener’s largest park, itis also home to some significantwetlands and species. Withkilometres of trails and boardwalks,there is truly something foreveryone.

The park also offers lots ofeducational experiences, includingan upcoming presentation and walkentitled All About Bats, happeningAug. 24 from 8-10 p.m. You mustregister in advance to participate.

If bats aren’t your thing, you maybe interested in an event calledGanödagwёhda:’ dosgёhgёhö:de’ – village close by thestream, which is a chance to learnabout the rich archaeologicalheritage of the area. This is a drop-inevent on Sept. 21 from 1-4 p.m.Please visit www.kitchener.ca,keyword search “HNA” for moreinformation and to register.

Every year I look forward to theWilliamsburg Community Festival.This year the event will be takingplace on Sunday, Sept. 8 from 11-4

p.m. at Max Becker Commons.While the details are still beingfinalized, you can expect lots ofgreat games, food, activities andentertainment for the whole family.Everyone is invited and I hope to seeyou there!

I want to leave you with a finalthought on fire safety. If you have apropane BBQ, please rememberthat the canisters have a shelf life.Propane cylinders must beinspected and re-certified orreplaced every 10 years. Enjoy therest of your summer! n

notes from city hall

The beautiful weather hasbrought to light someresident concerns regarding

our newest major city park —

McLennan Park. Some key featureslike the large splash pad, dog parkand the walking trail are very wellattended. The number of peopleusing these amenities, plus somevery hot weather, has made itevident that more shaded areas andseating are needed in key areasaround the park. As this is still anewer park, trees have not reachedmaturity to provide sufficient shade,and planting more trees at this timewould not solve the issueimmediately for the same reasons.So, I have been working with our

parks staff, who are investigatingsome options.

Another inconvenience that I’msure has hampered the enjoymentof McLennan Park has been theclosure of the main bathroomfacility. This has been due to somesanitary and structural issues thatare taking longer than anticipated toaddress. As a temporary measure,portable washrooms have beenmade available. Understandably thisis not the desired alternative. I askyou for your patience until theappropriate repairs can be made.

This year, my wife and I took greatpleasure cruising the streets ofWard 6 in order to nominatedeserving properties for theKitchener in Bloom awards to beheld on Sept. 12. Many of you areproud homeowners, taking the timeto beautify your properties. I wantedto make certain that those of youwho go above and beyond would beacknowledged for your efforts inbeautifying your front yards. I amvery happy to say I was able to sendin more than 200 nominations forresidents in Ward 6. n

Iam pleased the city recentlyinstalled sharrows as a pilot

project along King Street fromMadison Avenue to Francis Street in

the downtown core, allowing cycliststo occupy an entire lane, similar to amotorist. Kitchener also has manymarked bike lanes.

In my recent travels to Chicago,Vancouver and Ottawa, I observedone-way and two-way bike lanes ondowntown streets. Some of thesebike lanes are marked with elephantfeet (extra-wide crosswalks, showingthat bikes are permitted to rideacross using the green section astheir travel lane) and are separatedby either planter boxes, collapsibleplastic bollards or raised curbs to

separate the bike riders from themotorists. I also noticed sharrows onthe curb lanes of four lane streets inChicago, which allow motorists topass any cyclists in the passing laneif they are not travelling at the speedlimit.

I have also checked out bike laneson trails and dedicated bike lanes todetermine if there are any gatesbefore approaching a publicroadway. Having biked in StanleyPark and the waterfront inVancouver and Toronto, I have yet todiscover any gates at road crossings.

In fact, Stanley Park has extensiveone-way bike trails and only one gateto separate bicyclists frompedestrians using the local beach.

Well-marked directions, bike speedlimits and separated pedestrian orbike paths are well designed asnoted on numerous park billboards.The Vancouver parks departmentalso provides an extensive BikeVancouver route map and guide.While we have made great strideswith our cycling strategy inKitchener, there is clearly room togrow. n

The summer of 2013 hasbeen terrible for weeds inKitchener. It began when

Region of Waterloo decided to

eliminate the roadside grass cuttingbudget as a cost-saving measure.The region contracts out the serviceto the city but when the moneydisappeared, the city had no choicebut to stop maintaining roadsidegrass.

Wisely, after receiving a lot ofpushback from Kitchener and othermunicipalities, the region reinstatedthe money but unfortunately, amaintenance backlog had beencreated. This backlog, combinedwith an unusually rainy spring andOntario’s pesticide ban, created the

perfect storm for weeds. Recently, I met with city staff to

see how this issue could beaddressed. It is important to notethat grass maintenance iscompleted on a three-week cycle byroutes. The trim crew performs basictrim maintenance on cul-de-sacs,park frontages and aroundplaygrounds and park furniture.Larger mowers cut the main areasof the parks. Staff have alsoinformed me that the maintenancecycles will tighten up as we return tothe drier weather of July and August.

Another solution would be to allowsome areas to be naturalized. Citystaff would work in consultation withresidents to locate appropriateareas that might be beneficial toreturn to a natural state, like valleylands and meadows.

In addition, I am in the process ofdrafting a motion to bring beforecouncil that would seek to increasethe amount of maintenanceperformed on city land. I certainlysympathize with residents who arerightly proud of our community andwant to keep it looking its best.n

Office: 519-741-2783Email:[email protected]: @bilioannidis

Office: 519-741-2798Email:frank.etherington@kitchener.

Got a complaint...who yougonna call? Your complaint-

buster councillor, of course.

Lately, in the hot, stickysummertime, I have been hummingthat Ghostbusters ditty whilehandling legitimate beefs aboutbass-thumping music, high weeds,geese droppings and dying trees.

And that’s why — amid complaintcalls — it’s a relief to receive positivecomments from people delightedabout a city-backed program toreintroduce rental boats to VictoriaPark.

As councillor, I have neverexperienced such a refreshing flow

of complimentary responses about acity project. It’s been great to seethe way residents have embracedthe efforts by Canoeing the Grand toreturn boats to the downtown park.

That company is also donating $1from every boat rental to a park-maintenance fund.

Everywhere I go, people tell methey like seeing boats back on thelake after a 20-year hiatus. Many ofthe comments come from residentswho remember spending enjoyablesummer weekends boating on the

lake during past decades.I recently met one resident in a

neighbourhood grocery store who,as a young man, used to rent boatsfrom the city in the park. He lovedseeing the program return andcommented that, years ago, it cost$3 to rent a boat. He’s amazed that,decades later, it’s still possible torent a boat for $5 per half hour foreach person.n

Office: 519-741-2300Email: [email protected]

What does yourneighbourhood mean toyou? This is the

question that is being asked ofresidents as part of the 20thanniversary of Kitchener’s Festivalof Neighbourhoods.

Typically, residents would host acommunity event and register theirevent to be entered into a randomdraw for a $10,000 capitalimprovement grant to be used intheir neighbourhood.

Since this year marks the 20thanniversary of Kitchener’s Festival ofNeighbourhoods, we thought wewould add even more excitement tothis already outstanding event andcreated the Mayor’s Challenge. It’ssimple; all you have to do is tell mewhat your neighbourhood means toyou. Maybe you want to share a storyabout the memories you have ofgrowing up in your neighbourhood,the impact that one specialneighbour made in your life, or thehistory of your entire neighbourhood.There is no right or wrong answer;just share what your communitymeans to YOU!

You can tell me about yourneighbourhood in any way that youchoose. Write a story or essay of 500words or less; draw, paint or create apicture on an 8.5x11 inch page;create an audio recording of fiveminutes or less, or film a video offive minutes or less.

Please submit your entry to SarahFitzPatrick, executive assistant to themayor, via email,[email protected] or bymail, 200 King St. W., Kitchener, ONN2G 4G7. Submissions must bereceived no later than 3 p.m. onSept. 30.

But now the big question – whatdo you win? Since this is the Mayor’sChallenge after all, the winner andhis/her neighbours will have theopportunity to take me on a walkingtour of your neighbourhood. You canshow me your favourite spots, chatabout topics that are of interest toyou or share your vision of how yousee your neighbourhood in thefuture.

If you have questions or needmore information, please contactJanice Ouellette at 519-741-2200x7227 [email protected].

I look forward to reviewing all ofthe entries and will see one luckywinner this fall! n

Office: 519-741-2793 Cell: 226-748-3109 Email: [email protected]: @paulsinghward6

Office: 519-741-2796 Residence: 519-57Email: [email protected]

Office: 519-741-2791 [email protected]: @gallowaykelly

Dear Ward 5 Residents,Have you heard about the United

Nations’ International Day of the Girl Child? Since 2011, the day has

been a great way to shine a spotlight on challenges that girls from all over the globe continue to face. From bullying and family violence to educational barriers and child marriage, many young women are bravely standing up to injustice. I find their stories inspirational and I am happy to support initiatives that bring awareness to this important cause. This year’s theme for International Day of the Girl Child is: Innovating for Girl’s Education. It’s a well-known fact that investing in girls’ education is an extremely effective tool to

combat poverty.Last year, I was proud to host a

walk in recognition of International Day of the Girl Child. This year I am hosting a screening at City Hall of the film Girl Rising. Girl Rising is a moving documentary that chronicles the lives of nine extraordinary girls from nine different countries. The film also features narration from Academy Award winners like Meryl Streep and Cate Blanchett. More information about the film can be found at www.girlrising.com.

If you want to join me in recognizing

International Day of the Girl Child, please attend a free, public screening at 9 am, 2 pm or 6:30 pm on October 17. Everyone is welcome and we will accommodate high school teachers who want to bring their classes. Note there is a PG 13 rating for this film. The film will be screened in council chambers on the second floor of city hall. Seating is limited, so please RSVP to Amy Carroll at [email protected] or 519-741-2300 ext. 7768 by October 14. I look forward to seeing you there!

On September 19, I, along with Councillor Yvonne Fernandes attended the second reading of Private Member’s Bill 73, tabled

by Michael Harris, MPP. Bill 73: Fair and Open Tendering Act pertains to labour relations for certain public sector employers in the construction industry. I supported this resolution as the City of Kitchener is handcuffed by the current legislation which does not permit all eligible non-union masonry contractors to bid for a City of Kitchener tender project.

Unfortunately, Michael Harris’ Bill was defeated. I noted while listening to the debate in the public

gallery Conservative Michael Harris made strong arguments supporting the municipalities’ interests. How-ever, NDP MPP Catherine Fife spoke against the bill and I found her position weak. Also, Liberal MPP John Milloy did not attend the debate but only appeared at the vote. It is unfortunate and disappointing that these two members representing our region were not interested in supporting Kitchener Council’s resolution as part of Bill 73.

Unfortunately, with the defeat of the bill, I will not be able to pass on to you, the taxpayer, any potential savings. For this to have happened, Bill 73 would need to have been supported when it came before the provincial legislature. It is important that all contractors have the right to bid on taxpayer-funded infrastructure projects. A trans-parent, competitive, open and fair tender process that gets the highest quality work at the best possible price is a benefit to the taxpayers.

Dear Neighbours,I am excited to tell you about

a motion that I recently brought

before city council. The motion sought to increase staff and citizen identification of areas of under-used land that could be naturalized. Naturalization has two benefits for the city. First, it is a greener approach to land management. Grass requires intensive watering and the city is working hard to conserve and protect water resources where possible. Second, naturalized areas do not require the same level of maintenance from city staff, resulting in cost saving.

The motion, which was carried, is aligned with both the official principles of the city’s Park Master Plan which states “the City of Kitchener is committed to protecting the natural environment through greening and naturalization initiatives and policies” and the city’s Efficient and Effective Government document contains the strategic direction to “maximize value through cost effective service delivery”.

Cost saving and going green are two things that you have told me

are important to you. If you have other ideas about ways that we can streamline services or improve our quality of life in Kitchener, I am always open to hearing them. Your feedback is valuable to me and I encourage you to stay in touch. Do you have a twitter account? Make sure to follow me at @bilioannidis for the latest updates on our ward and city. I can also be reached by email at: [email protected] or by phone at: (519) 741-2783. I look forward to hearing from you!

Public washrooms for Victoria Park are in limbo after four councillors — John Gazzola, Zyg Janecki, Yvonne Fernandes and

Scott Davey — rejected appeals to reconsider a construction tender.

By dumping washroom plans at David and Jubilee, their opposition may have also helped torpedo the future of The Boathouse bar-restaurant. A priority for prospective Boathouse operators is to have separate washrooms built in order to eliminate a situation where customers share toilets with the public.

Opposition also means Kitchener risks kissing goodbye to $200,000 offered by the federal government

toward the $565,000 cost of the washrooms. That price tag can be measured against two other washrooms built several years ago in other Kitchener parks that, by today’s prices, would cost between $555,000 and $586,000.

Now, taxpayers are paying for the time and expense involved in having staff scramble to cope with a near-impossible task — create washrooms with heritage standards for under $400,000.

My ongoing support for the project has partly to do with the fact that

numerous people attended public meetings where they said they want washrooms located at this site. And while I share concern about costs, I support the need to construct a quality building in what is a beautiful heritage park where $10.35 million was spent to upgrade the lake and Boathouse exterior.

Despite the opposition, I will continue to push for park washrooms while seeking ways to safeguard that federal grant.

Dear Residents,Emerald Ash Borer-Public MeetingWork has been ongoing to counter

the effects of the Emerald Ash

Borer (EAB) infestation in the City of Kitchener. Staff have completed an inventory assessment of our ash trees to determine which trees could be saved with an injection treatment and which required removal. Removal of these identified trees will have a significant impact in our ward, which is the reason I feel it necessary to have further communication with those of you who are directly affected. To facilitate this I have organized a resident input and informational meeting with our operational staff.

The WARD 6 PUBLIC INFORMA-

TION SESSION will take place on October 16 from 7:00– 8:30pm in Room 1 of Country Hills Community Centre, located at 100 Rittenhouse Rd. A short presentation by staff will begin at 7:15pm to talk about boulevard tree removal, funding and timelines, followed by a question and answer period with staff. If you are unable to attend this meeting, the information presented will be posted on the city’s website www.kitchener.ca (search “urban forest”). I look forward to seeing you at this meeting to hear your questions and concerns.

Kitchener in BloomI had a great time this year touring

Ward 6 for worthy residential and business properties to nominate for Kitchener in Bloom. I’m proud to announce that Ward 6 had the highest number of nominations. My sincere thanks and appreciation to those of you who have displayed your pride of ownership through the dedication, love and tender care you give to maintaining and beautifying your properties. Your efforts then impact the community’s level of civic pride and help to create a more welcoming Ward 6.

When you think of economic development and city building, foreign direct investment may not be the first thing that comes to mind, however, it is critical to our local economy. Foreign direct investment refers to a direct investment into production or a business by an individual or company located in another country, either buying a company in the target country or by expanding operations of an existing business in that country.

I recently returned from a joint foreign direct investment trade mission to Germany and the Netherlands, organized by Canada’s Technology Triangle (CTT). Those on the mission included Mayor Halloran, Mayor Craig, economic development staff from the three cities, as well as staff from CTT – together we formed Team Waterloo Region. Our objective was to pursue new, targeted leads in the food and advanced manufacturing sector; conduct follow-up visits to companies that had taken part in earlier trade missions; and meet with numerous city officials and senior Canadian trade officers to gain insight into the host country’s economic situation and potential business opportunities.

I feel strongly about the importance of these trade missions, seeing firsthand the many benefits to Kitchener and our entire Region. And, although these missions are centered partially around the tech sector, they also have strong ties to manufacturing. As an example, following our previous trade mission to Germany at least two local companies have seen expansions in their manufacturing facilities.

In keeping with this growth and development of the manufacturing sector, I participated in the Mayors’ Dialogue on Manufacturing, in September, organized by the Waterloo, Wellington, Dufferin Workplace Training Board. They noted that the manufacturing sector needs to have an even greater way of connecting with each other beyond our virtual Manufacturing Innovation Network. To that extent, several organizations will be working together to consider a body similar to Communitech that can advocate for the manufacturing industry.

This is an important time for the manufacturing sector; one that will, no doubt, see many changes in the years ahead. I look forward to continuing to support and grow this sector.

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By Carrie DeBrone

Tim Simpson and Aura Hertzog of Kitch-ener, two of the very few people in Ontario

who make chocolate from scratch, will be offer-ing their silky product at the 13th annual Fred-erick Art Walk on Saturday, November 9 from 10am to 5pm.

You can meet the couple at their home at 24 Pequegnat Ave. in Kitchener during the Frederick Art Walk when participants can enjoy the beauty of a fall day and pleasure of exquisite artworks, in a setting of grand maple trees and century-old homes.

This is the second year the chocolate makers have participated in the Frederick Art Walk.

“It’s a busy day and good exposure for our businesses,” said Simpson, who opened the Ambrosia Pastry Co. one year ago after selling their previous business The Golden Hearth Bakery at the corner of King and Cedar Streets across from the Kitchener Market.

The Ambrosia Pastry Co. opened in a small 350-square-foot commercial kitchen in Waterloo with the intent to produce pastries for sale with a sideline offering of chocolate products.

But Simpson, a pastry chef who also teaches pastry making at George Brown College in Toronto, said the chocolate products they produce have became so popular they are now the main focus of the business. Using different kinds of cocoa beans from all over the world, they husk, roast and process them to create many different chocolate products. Currently Ambrosia Pastry Co. sells its chocolate to restaurants, catering companies, cafes and specialty food shops locally and across Canada.

“It’s great to have a product that has a long shelf life compared to pastries. We can offer our own unique chocolate recipes. It’s always fun to make and the possibilities are never ending,” Simpson said.

The business also offers pop-up pastry sales to customers who can purchase products such as chocolate bars, goat cheese tarts and cookies on line at ambrosiapastry.com

This year, the 2 km Frederick Art Walk tour

and art sale through the Central Frederick Neighbourhood of Kitchener that spans north and south of Frederick Street between Lancaster and Edna, will offer the work of 55 artists who will open their homes in the downtown neighbourhood to visitors.

Offerings will include fabric art, paintings, chocolate, photography, pottery, wood art, stained glass art, sewing crafts, tile work, jewellery, and more to suit all tastes and budgets.

Children from the neighbourhood also get together and create one-of-a-kind arts and crafts to sell, giving the profits to a charity of their choice. Last year, they raised over $200 for Kidsability.

You can find a description of the artists and more information about the event online at www.frederickartwalk.org. Brochures can be picked up from different locations around the area or at 230 Frederick Street.


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Entering its seventh year, the 2013 Grand River Film Festival (GRFF) kicks off October 22 at

Empire Theatres, 135 Gateway Park Drive, Kitch-ener at 7:30 with Bill Cunningham, NY, a 2010 pro-file of the noted and extraordinarily cheerful veteran New York City fashion photographer.

Also opening at the same time and place is the Street Style Exhibition curated by Cambridge’s newest cultural organization the Fashion History Museum and students from Conestoga College’s Visual Merchandising Program.

To celebrate this event, GRFF is hosting a Street Style photo contest. Fashionistas are invited to submit a photo of their favourite Street Style in Waterloo Region to win tickets to the opening night festivities.

This year’s film festival will premiere six regional films.

“We are so excited to bring fantastic new films to our community, some of which are hot off the heels of TIFF!” There is a great mix of both Canadian and international films, documentaries and narratives,” said Executive Director Tamara Louks.

Festival highlights include Canadian director Jason DaSilva’s ‘When I Walk’ a personal, ambitious and genuine view of a life that takes nothing for granted.

Winner of the Best Canadian Feature Documentary at 2013 Hot Docs, DaSilva turns the camera on himself and openly shares his struggle with multiple sclerosis, a disease that has no cure.

From the UK, the 2013 film Good Vibrations will please music fans and radicals alike. Based on the real life story of Terri Hooley, the man who opened a record store in 1970’s Belfast and became the unlikely leader of a motley group of kids and punks who join him on a mission to create a new community.

As in previous years, GRFF will present the SHORT Shorts Screening & Awards Night and networking party on Wednesday, October 23, 2013, 7pm at the Princess Twin Cinemas in uptown Waterloo. Nine filmmakers from Waterloo Region and across Canada will compete for bragging rights and top prizes, including the Audience Choice Award.

New for 2013, GRFF is launching its educational outreach program Cin-E-merge. Combining cinema, education and emerging film artists, Cin-E-merge aims to create opportunities for students to network with and learn from local film industry professionals.

For more information about the GRFF and the event schedule, visit www.grff.ca. Phone: 519-221-0172, Email: [email protected] or Join us on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/GRANDRIVERFILM

Grand River Festival shows regional films

Chocolate maker Tim Simpson stands in front of a bowl of raw cocoa beans and his completed slab of freshly made Mexican chocolate. He and his wife, Aura Hertzog of Kitchener, are two of the very few people in the province producing chocolate from scratch, taking it from bean to bar.

By CatHy Farwell

In November 2009, seven members of the Artist Cri-

tique Group exhibited their art-work in the loading dock hall-way of the old Boehmer Box factory in Kitchener.

The show name “BOX” was chosen to reference that place of origin and the many artistic connotations of the word ‘box’ - the paint box, camera, computer, toolbox, thinking outside of the box and more.

A huge success, this art show and sale evolved to become a regional event in 2010 and has continued to grow each year since. Last year BOX displayed the juried work of 24 local artists, and was enjoyed by over 1650 visitors.

The BOX event is very different from most traditional art shows. Audience enjoyment and arts education is an important part in the planning for this event. The BOX show takes a unique approach to the business of helping and promoting local artists and is a springboard, resource and support system for both emerging and established artists. BOX helps to connect artists from across the Region, and to raise the level of excellence of art produced and appreciated in our part of the province.

BOX is designed and run by artists for artists, is not for profit and depends on the generosity of many sponsors, donors, and community partners.

Awarded “Best New Event or Festival” at the Arts Awards Waterloo 2012, BOX 13 is growing again.

In September a panel of art experts selected 33 artists from Kitchener, Cambridge, Waterloo, Elmira, and New Hamburg to display about 260 original paintings, drawings, photographs, mixed media works and sculptures at the

show, which will take place in a large industrial building at 41A Ardelt Place in Kitchener, behind Double R Steel.

The VenueBOX moves each year to a

different historic building in this region, offering visitors a chance to visit interesting buildings rarely open to the public. The history of the building is researched and becomes the basis for the much-loved BOX History Talk.

The venue at 41A Ardelt Place was originally home to Ardelt Industries of Canada, a subsidiary of the giant Fried Krupp industrial empire in Germany. Built in 1955 by Rudolph Ardelt, the company produced heavy steel machinery, including cranes, bridges, hoists and mining equipment. Among its larger contracts, Ardelt did work for the St. Lawrence Seaway, Trans-Canada Highway and Blind River Uranium mines.

History TalkAdvanced manufacturing

and the skills associated with it will be the topic for the BOX 13 History Talk on November 16 from 11:30am to 12:45pm.

Hosted by radio and television personality Mike Farwell, panelists from education and industry will look at developments in our region. The adjacent Double R Steel, an example of an industry successfully adapting to change, will offer free public tours following this Talk.

Art TalkThe BOX 13 Art Talk

happens on Sunday, November 17, from 11:30am to 12:45pm. Beyond BOX, hosted by Suzanne Luke, Curator of the Robert Langen Gallery, will focus on sharing insight into various avenues for artists interested in venturing outside of our community to pursue other arts related opportunities. Topics covered will include

artist participation in larger or cross border art fairs, acquiring gallery representation, and the advantages of joining artist- run centers or collectives. Representatives from Toronto, Guelph, London and beyond will participate on this panel.

BOX Talk guests can pre-order a $5 gourmet BOX lunch to be delivered to the venue to enjoy during the Talks. Guests are invited to stay on to enjoy the art afterwards and chat with the BOX artists. BOX Talks are free and open to the public. Doors open for both BOX Talks at 11:00 am.

2013 Charitable PartnerEach year BOX partners

with a different charitable organization and a percentage of sales from the event will be donated by the participating artists to the charity partner. The Independent Living Centre of Waterloo Region (ILCWR) is the BOX 13 Charity Partner. This organization provides programs and services for people with disabilities to help them live full, fulfilling and independent lives in the community. Through advocacy, education and hands-on support, ILCWR removes barriers and strives to make Waterloo Region a leader in accessibility.

* * *BOX 13 is open to the

public on November 16 and 17 from 1 to 4pm. BOX has free admission and parking, and is accessible by arrangement. The participating artists are present for the entire event, eager to explain and talk about their work with visitors of all ages.

Visit www.boxartshow.ca for more event information and to pre-order a $5 Gourmet BOX lunch in October to be delivered to the venue for your enjoyment during the BOX 13 Talks.

For more show information contact Cathy Farwell, BOX

Art General Organizer, [email protected] 519-504-3277. Twitter: @BOXArtshow FB: www.facebook.com/BoxArtShowSale

* * *Cathy Farwell is a mixed

media artist and Founder/General Organizer of the BOX Art Show & Sale. Farwell’s copper artwork is presently on display at Homer Watson House & Gallery through November 17.


SAT NOV 9 2013

10 - 5

frederickartwalk.org

Join us on a walking tour through Kitchener’s Central

Frederick Neighbourhood.

Over 60 local Artisans invite you to this one day event to view and

purchase original works.

BOX 13 Art Show & Sale - November 15 to 17 in Kitchener

Above: Bill Schwarz - Coalie 2013 38” x 44” - Oil on linen

Right: Amy Ferrari - Blossoming CreativiTree, 2013 - 36 inches tall X 30 inches wide X 2 inches

deep - Acrylic on Canvas

Raegan Little – Untitled #3 - Photograph, 2013 24 1/2 by 33 ½” - Printed on cold pressed 100% cotton watercolour paper


THIS MONTH’S READING:The Virgin Cureby Ami McKay

REVIEWED BY:Chris Schnarr, Manager,

Grand River Stanley ParkCommunity Library

For more great reading ideas, visit www.kpl.org and click on the “Books and More” tabWant to share your own review of your favourite read? The library’s online catalogue enables library card holders to writea review for any item in the collection. Simply click on the “Add Review” tab for your selected book, and write away!

WHAT WE’RE READING

My life held great promise, I was sure of it,but finding my way there was another

matter altogether. This historical tale beginsin the rat-infested misery of lower Manhat-tan in 1871. Moth, a streetwise twelve yearold girl, living in poverty, is sold by her gypsymother to live as Mrs. Wentworth’s servant.Jealous of her young beauty, the cruel Mrs.Wentworth abuses Moth.

Desperate, Moth finds her way to theBowery, another place filled with threat andgrief. Still hoping for a better life, Mothjoins other young girls at Miss Everett’shigh-end brothel, an establishment special-izing in virgins. Moth feels the brothel is aplace that offers her prospects and a chanceat a life she’s never known. She finds friend-ship here and meets Dr. Sadie, a progressivefemale physician. Dr. Sadie counsels Mothabout protecting her virtue and urges her toconsider another path in life.

Still, Moth is determined to be in charge

of her fate. Given the harsh experiences ofher young life so far, Moth understands thather independent spirit will face risk and con-sequence, at times dire. Our strong heroineexemplifies what it takes to survive evenwhen one’s choices are meager from the be-ginning. The novel affirms that our destinyis the one we make for ourselves.

Through the voice of Moth, McKay revealswhat life was like for thousands of childrenliving on the streets of New York more than140 years ago. Included in the book are lushdetails, period advertisement and fascinatingpieces of history, all which make the differentsettings quite tangible for the reader. We cansense the desperation of the poor as well asthe opulence of the upper class.

The Virgin Cure is the second novel writ-ten by Ami McKay, the acclaimed Canadianwriter of The Birth House. Copies are avail-able at Kitchener Public Library in tradi-tional book and audiobook format.

A monthly column featuring great reads as suggested and reviewedby librarians from the Kitchener Public Library. Follow along eachmonth and discover your next great read!


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ELORA FESTIVAL SINGERS FALL AND WINTER CONCERTS – on Oct. 27 the Elora Festival Singers will be joined by organist Michael Bloss, an international performer and music educator, to reflect on the autumnal harvest with nine glorious choral works. The aptly titled Nine Lessons and Carols for Harvest is a program of stirring song accompanied by thoughtful text. Taking the form of poetic readings, the lessons derived from the works of T.S Elliot, Keats and Thomas Traherne mingle with scriptural extracts expertly voiced by Canon Robert Hulse. Program highlights include pieces by Dvorak, Elgar, Mendelsohn and Finnish composer, Jussi Chydenius. Tickets can be purchased by calling 519-846-0331 or visiting The Elora Festival & Singers online at www.elorafestival.com

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FREDERICK ART WALK – Saturday Nov. 9, 2013 10am –

5pm. The Frederick Art Walk is a 2 km walking tour through one of Kitchener’s oldest neighbourhoods. Participants can enjoy the beauty of a fall day and pleasure of exquisite artworks, in a setting of grand maple trees and century-old homes. The Art Walk features an amazing array of works including fabric art, paintings, chocolate, photography, pottery, stained glass art, sewing crafts, tile work, and jewellery. We also have rewards for “Art Walkers” via our Passport Program. The tour begins in the vicinity of Frederick and Chestnut Streets. Visit www.frederickwalk.org for more information on the homes and artists.

KW CENTRAL ART WALK - 2013 Studio Tour and sale on Sat. Oct. 19 from 10am to 5pm and Sunday Oct. 20 from 12noon to 5pm. Yearly studio tour and sale in the beautiful Kitchener neighbourhoods bounded by Belmont Ave., Victoria, Weber, and Union streets. Come visit, and get a chance to see artists in their own studios, displaying fine art, jewellery, paintings, food, photography, pottery, glass, collage and fibre arts. For more information visit www.centralartwalk.ca

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Franklin St N, Kitchener. Come and see our fabulous selection of Craft Items, Nearly New Table, Knitting Table, Raffle Table, Bake Table, Preserves, Jams, Christmas Cookies & Cake, Candy, Chicken & Beef Meat Pies. Lunch Room. Everyone invited – Bring your friends!

CHRISTMAS TEA & MARKETPLACE, Saturday November 9th, 2013 10:00am to 3:00pm - Foundation Christian School in Winterbourne presents its 8th annual Winterbourne Wonderland Christmas Tea & Marketplace. Enjoy a country Christmas in our Tea room with home-made soups, scones, cookies and baked goods, and visit our famous basket room. 35+ vendors. Free Admission. Door prizes! 28 Katherine St. S. Winterbourne (519) 664-0110. Visit foundationchristianschool.ca . Email: [email protected]

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Those who can offer their time for even one night a month are welcome. For more information, e-mail [email protected]

HANDICRAFT SALE - Saturday November 16th, 9am-2pm, Fairview Mennonite Home, 515 Langs Drive, Cambridge. Lots of Crafts, Decorations, Gift items, Stocking stuffers, Wearables, Wreaths, Woodworking, Baby Quilts and much more! Featuring: Santa’s Sweet Shop, Fresh Baking, Tea Room, Lunch, Preserves and a Used Book Sale. www.fairviewmh.com (519) 653-5719. No Admission Charge, Everyone is Welcome!

OKTOBERFISH - Sunday October 27, 2013 - Waterloo Inn, 475 King Street West Waterloo. Doors open at 8am, auction starts at 10am sharp. Huge 38 class show.

Returning this year...SALTWATER FRAG SWAP. This event is for fresh and saltwater enthusiasts of all skill levels. Don’t miss the area’s largest auction and fish show held only once a year. A great place to see different fish in the show, purchase supplies and fish at a discount from the auction, and ask questions from “a-fish-ionados”! Hosted by the area’s aquarium club, Kitchener-Waterloo Aquarium Society (KWAS).

HOMER WATSON HOUSE & GALLERY’S FALL EXHIBITION – on now until Nov. 17, 2013, at 1754 Old Mill Road, Kitchener, featuring the original and highly gifted artists Nicole Waddick with the exhibition titled Strata based on the rolling grasslands of Southeastern Saskatchewan; Cathy Farwell’s body of work titled Relative Distance inspired by her recent trip to New Zealand; and Kathryn Bemrose courtesy of De Luca Fine Art Gallery, exhibition titled “The Above Series” includes a series of large scale oil paintings that were inspired by the artist having observed car tracks in the snow viewed from her second floor window. Admission $5. Members of the public are invited to attend an Artist Talk Event on Saturday, October 19, 2013 from 1-3pm. For more information call 519-748-4377.

SO YOU THINK YOU CAN SING G&S! Waterloo Regional Gilbert & Sullivan Society is hosting a music competition for nonprofessional soloists on Saturday, October 26, 2013 Two Categories: Youth (age 15-18) & Adult (19 & over) Cash prizes for each group: (1st $500, 2nd $300, 3rd $200) For more information and to register by September 30, 2013 Email: [email protected] or call 519-650-4246

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Kitchener Citizen - West Edition - October 2013