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The 17-page booklet, entitled Land Rights: A Global Solution for the Six Nations of the Grand River, details a new approach to resolution, one that focuses on co-operation over conflict.

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rantford resident Tyrell Piovesan just wanted a normal life.

The 25-year-old worked hard and enjoyed spending his free time with friends.

On Saturday, Piovesan was enjoying an afternoon of tubing on the Grand River with a friend and his younger brother when lightning struck. Piovesan was killed.

He would have turned 26 years old on Aug. 1.

Kelly Hagan was emotional on Sunday as she described Piovesan, who she dated for more than a year.

“He’d always go help people if they needed anything,” Hagan said. “He never asked for anything and he worked hard. He just wanted a normal life. Even though we were only together for a year, I had the best time with him.”

Piovesan’s mother, Glenna Young, was out of town visiting family when she received a phone call from Brantford police. At first, Young didn’t believe her son was gone and thought the call was a prank.

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Sydenham United goes green Sydenham Street United Church is leading the pack when it comes to becoming more energy efficient. The church is the first in the area to install solar panels on its roof as part of the OPA’s Feed-in Tariff program. And church leaders are hoping other faith-based institutions will follow their lead.

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Brantford’s Jeff McAllister claimed the $1.5 million top prize in the Heart and Stroke Foundation Lottery on Tuesday. McAllister is pictured with daughters Sondra, left, and Olivia, right, receiving the big cheque from Heart and Stroke Foundation area manager Jan Heron. Read about Brantford’s newest millionaire on Page 8 inside this week’s Brant News.

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Canada on Tuesday.

Sandwiched between Vancouver, which ranked eighth, and Halifax, which ranked 10th, violent crime and total crime in the Brantford census metropolitan area increased slightly from 2008.

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rantford, Six Nations and the County of Brant ranked ninth in Canada on the crime severity index for 2009, according to numbers released by Statistics

Perhaps the most shocking information for local residents in the Statistics Canada numbers is that Brant is now ranked first in auto thefts per capita across the nation, taking the title from Winnipeg.

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The Nationals are set to play the Federation of International Lacrosse world indoor lacrosse championships in the Czech Republic in 2011.

Powless said Nationals’ officials are working on ensuring the team will be permitted to travel. He said he doesn’t know what he will do if the passports are rejected again.

“I think we’ll just wait and see,” Powless said.

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The Iroquois are a member nation in the Federation of International Lacrosse, just like Canada and the U.S. are considered member nations.

“We just want to be recognized as a sovereign nation,” Powless said. “People have been traveling on these passports for 30 years. The people of Six Nations and a lot of historians are trying to get their minds around it.

We can fight wars for (them) but we can’t come into (their) country.”

Iroquois Nationals team members could have sought Canadian or American passports, Powless said, but

the decision to use Haudenosaunee passports was deliberate.

“If we were to use Canada or U.S. passports, we would be playing for them,” Powless said.

Powless said the team was to play its first game last Thursday, but, as players prepared to board their plane in New York, the team was stopped.

“England said they weren’t going to accept our passports unless the U.S. said they would let us back into the country,” Powless said. “The U.S. said okay, but England changed its mind.”

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Young said she misses her son dearly.

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“I took the officer’s badge number and then called the police station,” Young said.

“I couldn’t believe it. (Tyrell) had a kind, big heart.”

Piovesan, his best friend, Paul Watson, and younger brother, Cordell, had just passed under the Lorne Bridge on inner tubes when the weather turned ugly, Young said. The three were three feet from the shore and trying to get out of the water when lightning struck nearby.

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Piovesan ashore and administered CPR while a passerby called 911, Young said. Attempts at reviving Piovesan were unsuccessful.

Piovesan was later taken by ambulance to Brantford General Hospital and pronounced dead.

Piovesan attended Agnes Hodge and Ryerson Heights schools, as well as Brantford Collegiate Institute.

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Calnan stands behind accusations against city Mayoral candidate claims city going broke, hiding information

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ity councillor and mayoral candidate James Calnan has kicked off his election campaign advertising with damning accusations against the City of Brantford.

In a full-page advertisement purchased in the Brant News, Calnan implied that the city is going broke and said city officials are controlling information that should be made public.

“If there is information that goes against the reality they are presenting – if there is information that is politically embarrassing – they don’t want it made public,” Calnan said during an interview.

Asked for an example, Calnan cited the cost of Six Nations land claims litigation.

“When the city solicitor reports on the cost, it’s a confidential report, so it is against the law for me to release the numbers,” Calnan said. “But why is it confidential? Because the city solicitor says it is?”

Calnan said the amount of money spent on lawsuits associated with land claims should be public information because they are paid for with public money.

“I know the legal advice should be confidential,” he said. “I am talking about the bill.”

Calnan said he also ran into trouble when asking questions about a 2004 land deal in the city.

Asked why he is the only councillor waving red flags,

Calnan said his colleagues might think they are doing the right thing.

“But there are certain realities they don’t seem to want to know,” Calnan said.

“Council has wilfully chosen to limit its own access to information in some cases, like whether the First Nations task force reports to council.”

The city’s First Nations task force does not report to council.

In his full-page advertisement, Calnan wrote: “Right now, our city is on the fast track to being broke.” When asked about the statement, Calnan produced documents collected during his years as a city councillor, including the city’s strategic financial plan, 2010 budget overview and notes from a 2005 council retreat.

Calnan said the city’s expenses have increased 7.7 per cent each year since 1996 and that assessment growth, after trending upwards for several years, has dropped from a high of $4.3 million in 2007 to $1.5 million in 2009.

“Our expenses are going beyond our means,” Calnan said. “That is the definition of going broke.”

But the city manager, mayor and chair of the finance committee paint a much different picture.

“Municipal finance and tax policy decision making is a very complex issue, which can be easily misunderstood,” city manager John Brown said. “Unlike the federal and provincial governments, municipalities are not allowed to budget for or run deficits in their operating budgets.”

City councillor and mayoral candidate James Calnan claims the city is going broke and hiding information from the public.

Photo by Sean Allen, Brant News Brown said the rise in expenses is based on many factors, including downloading, provincial legislation and inflation, costs that “would be similar across most, if not all, other municipalities in Ontario.”

When it comes to assessment growth, Brown said, while the city saw a drop of 65 per cent from 2007 to 2009, net assessment growth from 2008 to 2010 still exceeds growth from 1999 to 2004.

Pointing to the most recent assessment of the city’s financial health from Standard & Poor’s, Mayor Mike Hancock questioned Calnan’s comments.

“It’s quite incomprehensible to write something like that when the facts are right in front of you,” Hancock said.

Hancock noted that, in December 2009, S&P assigned Brantford its second highest credit score, partly because of the city’s extremely low

debt-burden compared to other municipalities.

Brown provided current numbers on the city’s debt showing that it is nowhere near its borrowing limit.

“The total debt (both issued and committed) is $104.3 million,” Brown said.

“With the council adopted seven per cent debt limit, the remaining available debt room is approximately $20 million.”

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Coun. Greg Martin said Calnan is playing politics.

“He is entitled to his opinion no matter how wrong he is,” Martin said. “(Saying we are broke) is off-thewall lunacy that he thinks will translate into votes for mayor.”

Calnan said, beyond the problem of shrinking revenue and rising expenses, the city has pending lawsuits that will come home to roost.

Specifically, Calnan said the city has no money to pay for a $10 million lawsuit brought forward by Kingspan Insulated Panels, which is suing over a failed development in the city’s northwest.

Martin said Calnan is assuming the city is going to lose the lawsuits.

“We are in a good position on all of them,” Martin said. “(Kingspan) is certainly not going to get the full $10 million. I’m not worried about the lawsuits at all.”

While some may see his comments as “off-the-wall lunacy,” Calnan said his fellow councillors are avoiding hard reality.

“I don’t know why they would deny the reality that is in front of them,” he said.

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Brant ranked ninth in national crime severity index Paige Desmon BRANT NEWS

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rantford, Six Nations and the County of Brant ranked ninth in Canada on the crime severity index for 2009, according to numbers released by Statistics Canada on Tuesday.

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Vancouver, which ranked eighth, and Halifax, which ranked 10th, violent crime and total crime in the Brantford census metropolitan area increased slightly from 2008.

Perhaps the most shocking information for local residents in the Statistics Canada numbers is that Brant is now ranked first in auto thefts per capita across the nation, taking the title from Winnipeg.

“It’s been a problem,” said Larry Kings, vice-chair of the police services board.

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and has been working with Six Nations police and the county (OPP) to deal with the problem.”

Insp. Kent Pottruff of the Brantford police said, while citizens need not be alarmed by the city’s ninth-place ranking, Brantford does have its share of violent crime.

“Certainly we do have violent crime and any amount of violent crime is unacceptable,” Pottruff said. “We have big-city problems.”

Crimes used to measure the index include violent crimes such as homicide, sexual assault and robbery, as well as break-ins, vehicle thefts, impaired driving, drug offences, extortion, firearms offences and criminal harassment.

Pottruff said the Brant area may be ranking high because of increased reporting of crimes.

“We do our best to encourage people to report crimes so that we know what’s going on,” Pottruff said.

“It is a double-edged sword because, when you do that, your stats go up. The more enforcement we do and the more charges we lay, the more it’s going to affect our stats.”

Pottruff said that during the past few years Brantford police have done significant public outreach to promote reporting of crimes, especially auto theft and domestic violence.

Pottruff said citizens should keep in mind that the crime rate is applied per capita, so larger cities such as Toronto may rate lower because they are so densely populated.

Coun. John Bradford, who sits on the city’s violence, crime and weapons task force, said Brantford’s rating does not disturb him.

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If anything, I’d rather look at (ninth place) as a positive thing.”

According to Brantford police statistics, there were two charges laid for murder in 2009 and one this year.

There were 91 sexual offences and 433 other assaults in 2009, compared to 76 sexual offence charges and 427 other assaults up until May this year.

Drug and narcotic charges came in at 174 charges in 2009 and sat at 172 up until May this year.

Coun. Mark Littell, chair of the police services board, said he has confidence in Brantford police and their ability to keep city residents safe.

“I have every confidence in our police services,” Littell said. “I believe that our communities are safe communities.”

Across the country, the crime rate fell three per cent last year, more than 17 per cent lower than a decade ago, according to the statistics released Tuesday.

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A severe thunderstorm hit Brantford and the County of Brant on Saturday. At left, storm clouds move toward the city. At centre, a car plows through a pool of water on the Brantford Southern Access Road. At right, Adam Fisher and his daughter, Desiree Fisher, 6, look over a flooded parking lot at Price Chopper on Market Street South.

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flooded, forcing motorists to drive through deep puddles.

The storm also caused a power outage on one side of Colborne Street that lasted for much of the afternoon.

The Brantford fire department responded to 11 calls in a period of two and a half hours.

Sgt. Steven Sumsion, with the Brantford police, said there was a high number of calls to police during the

storm.

“It was extremely busy,” he said. “There were cars flooding out in intersections and people calling about their streets flooding.”

The parking lot at Price Chopper on Icomm Drive was one of the hardest hit areas, with about half of the lot filling with a foot of water, which remained for several hours after the storm had passed at about 6 p.m.

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“We’re going to have three demolition teams going,” AIM demolition services manager Tony D’Angelo said.

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“They are going to meet in the middle,” D’Angelo said.

A third team will start working on the eastern most building, 151 Colborne St., and work toward the walkway.

“We’ll be doing it by hand at first because it’s so close to Grand River Hall,” D’Angelo said. “We do that to make sure no bricks go flying in

the wrong direction.”

Crews have also taken down a building in the centre of the stretch, at 115 Colborne St., on the east side of the Art Stanbridge Walkway. D’Angelo said the reason for that is to get the walkway opened to the public as soon as possible by removing the buildings on either side of it.

“That might be another two weeks,” he said.

D’Angelo said the demolition is a couple of days ahead of schedule and plans are to start work on slope stabilization soon.

“In six or seven working days, we hope to start trucking in the granular material and compacting it,” he said.

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document recently published by Six Nations elected council combines more than 20 years of research and sets out a “global solution” to land claims, according to one of the authors.

A 17-page booklet entitled Land Rights: A Global Solution for the Six Nations of the Grand River details a new approach to resolution, according to Phil Monture of the Six Nations land rights and resources office.

“Canada’s specific claims policy as it stands is a failure,” Monture said. “We’re looking at a new process for negotiations. Unless we step up to the plate with a new approach, nothing’s going to get resolved.”

Monture said the gist of the new approach is that there are ways to work together and share resources until land claims are resolved.

Monture said nothing has been resolved during negotiations with Canada over the past four years. According to the new document, the failure lies in the process.

“Six Nations is seeking a special House of Commons or Senate study on the large specific land claims process,” the book reads.

Other initiatives sought include increasing Six Nations’ land base, honouring entitlements promised in the 1784 Haldimand Treaty and partnership and resource sharing agreements with corporations, interest groups and Ontario.

Brant MP Phil McColeman said he has discussed the approach with elected council and is currently trying to organize a meeting with Haldimand Tract MPs at Six Nations to educate federal

officials about what Six Nations is proposing.

“I’m working with Chief (Bill) Montour and his councillors trying to set up a meeting on Six Nations,” McColeman said. “What I’ve committed to do is to bring (the document) to as many MPs as I can.”

McColeman said representatives of elected council and the lands office made two presentations in Ottawa to share information before Parliament’s summer break.

Six Nations elected council has not been the only governing body involved in seeking a resolution to land claims in recent years. The

“We’re looking at a new process for negotiations. Unless we step up to the plate with a new approach, nothing’s going to get resolved.”

Phil Monture of the Six Nations land rights and resources office Haudenosaunee Confederacy chiefs, Six Nations’ traditional government, have also been at the negotiating table, taking the lead in talks with the federal and provincial governments.

Aaron Detlor, spokesperson for the Confederacy chiefs, said they have not endorsed the elected council document. While the global approach seems open to resource sharing, Detlor said the Confederacy’s goal is the return of land.

“We’re not certain who the authors of the document are,” Detlor said. “The chiefs remain committed to discussions which are directed toward a resolution. It is

important to distinguish that the approach of the (Confederacy) chiefs to date has been about return of land.”

Elected band council Chief Bill Montour and council are seeking a settlement that provides for the perpetual care and maintenance of the community.

“What we want is a global settlement that sticks to the spirit and the intent of the Haldimand Treaty,” Montour said. “Meaning that the Six Nations and their posterity would benefit from the Six Nations Haldimand Tract lands forever.”

Land claim protests in Brantford have been heated during the past few years and Monture said he hopes a new way of negotiating will help address some of the anger Six Nations peoples are feeling.

“Our people are frustrated and that’s what happens when the anger takes over,” Monture said. “People here said enough is enough.”

Monture said the document is currently being distributed and a community meeting to hear feedback will be held on Aug.18 at the Six Nations Community Hall beginning at 7 p.m.

On March 7, 1995, elected council filed a statement of claim against Canada and Ontario regarding the handling of Six Nations’ property before and after Confederation.

The suit seeks an accounting of all money and property under the 1784 Haldimand Treaty.

In 2004, the litigation was placed in abeyance by the elected council of the day in the hope that exploratory discussions with Canada would prove successful.

On April 27, 2009, elected council gave notice to Canada and Ontario that the 1995 litigation would be taken out of abeyance as of Aug. 4, 2009.

In May, elected council announced it was taking back control of land claims negotiations from the Confederacy.

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t can tower up to five meters high, but the giant hogweed’s height isn’t the only stunning part about the plant.

Contact with giant hogweed, which was introduced to Canada from Europe, can cause severe skin irritation and even blindness.

Luckily for Brant residents, the plant hasn’t been confirmed here, said Dennis Wale, City of Brantford foreman of horticulture and turf.

“We haven’t found any yet,” Wale said. “But we have had a couple of people call in.”

While the giant hogweed has not been confirmed in Brant, the Grand River Conservation Authority has been monitoring and controlling the plant at five different sites in southern Ontario for the past few years.

“We have found it on some

of our properties, although not in Brantford yet,” said Dave Schultz of the Grand River Conservation Authority.

Giant hogweed has been discovered on GRCA property in Bellwood Lake, Cambridge, Guelph, Kitchener and St. Jacob’s.

Brantford parks and recreation staff are trained to identify giant hogweed and survey for it when completing trail maintenance, Wale said.

The plant, characterized by its height, thick and hollow stems and maroon specked stalk, can cause extreme irritation, Schultz said.

“There’s a sap in the plant and if you get that sap on your skin it makes your skin incredibly sensitive to sunlight,” Schultz said. “Your skin will be burning and will start to blister.”

In severe cases, blindness can occur. The plant is not harmful to animals, only humans.

Schultz said the GRCA has received several calls from residents about possible giant hogweed sightings.

Wale said the weed was introduced to North America as a garden plant.

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A Giant hogweed has been discovered in nearby communities, but officials say the dangerous plant is not in Brant yet.

Submitted photo “The way it was introduced was as an ornamental plant,” Wale said. “Because it’s so huge, it was brought in as a flower and a garden plant.”

The leaves of the hogweed can be as large as one metre across with three large, deep-cut leaflets. It flowers white from June to August and is a member of the carrot family.

The weed grows in wet areas, along roadsides, in vacant lots and on stream and river banks.

Wale said the Angelica

plant is commonly mistaken for giant hogweed, but warns that members of the public should call parks and recreation if they suspect they have found giant hogweed.

“It is important to stay away from it,” Wale said. “If people think they’ve been exposed to it they should wash immediately.”

It is also important to stay out of the sun if contact is suspected.

Anyone suspecting they have seen giant hogweed in the city should call 519-7561500.

last-minute decision to buy into the Heart and Stroke Lottery resulted in a big payoff for a Brantford man.

Jeff McAllister found out on Tuesday he had won the lottery’s grand prize of $1.5 million.

“It’s still sinking in,” McAllister said after being presented with an oversized cheque, flowers, cake and stuffed money bags by Heart and Stroke Foundation representatives. “I think it’s going to take a while.”

McAllister purchased the $100 winning ticket online just before the lottery closed.

“Last year, I won a coffeemaker and a blender, so I didn’t think I would buy another ticket this year,” McAllister said. “I figured my luck had run out. But it’s what the Heart and Stoke Foundation is all about that I thought I have to keep supporting.”

McAllister doesn’t anticipate the win will change his life in any way and will continue with plans to take over his father’s business, Cornell Construction, where he has worked since 1981.

“My first priority is my kids’ education,” he said.

“Other than that I have no idea. I don’t foresee a lot of change.”

McAllister’s daughters, Olivia, 17, and Sondra, 15, were the first to learn of the win after McAllister received a call from Susan Hey of Global News.

“There were a lot of tears of joy and hugs,” said Olivia, who is starting her first year at Western University in September.

McAllister and girlfriend, Nancy General, who has four children between the ages of 20 to 14, plan to take the family on vacation.

This is the second time within a year that a Brantford resident has won a major prize in the Heart and Stroke Lottery.

In March, Paul Parsons and Jim Curry split about $95,000.

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Guelph before deciding on an increase.

Adding fees for the use of equipment by vendors is also a suggestion to raise revenue at the market, but the Millard review finds a $10 fee proposed in the business plan to be “somewhat arbitrary.”

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Swan believes part of breaking even will rest on the market’s ability to attract new vendors to its outside space.

“We would need some bylaws changed,” Swan said.

“An outside chip wagon is one idea, but we want some permanent vendors outside that can be there all week long.”

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ness plan and a key point in the review is whether reducing overhead allocations is possible. The overhead charges were introduced by the city in 2008 to reflect city staff resources and time that was being spent overseeing operations at the market.

“While the farmers’ market may see these allocations as arbitrary, the support provided by the city for the continuing operations of these entities does cost money,” the review said.

Look for a story about the business plan for golf operations next week.

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asco Canada’s decision to consolidate its operations means Brantford will lose 102 jobs next year.

The company has announced it will close its Bosworth Court facility, overlooking Wayne Gretzky Parkway, sometime in 2011

and move 102 jobs to St. Thomas.

Masco purchased an empty truck plant in St. Thomas about three months ago and announced it would be combining its London and St. Thomas operations at the location.

The announcement that the company’s Brantford distribution warehouse would also move came last week.

“The consolidation of the three sites will enable the facilities to work more closely together and better utilize resources,” a company news release said. “(It) demon-

strates Masco’s commitment to maintaining its manufacturing and distribution operations in Canada.”

Company spokeswoman Kathleen Vokes said no decision has been made about whether Brantford workers will be offered a transfer.

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n independent review of the Brantford Farmers’ Market plan for financial freedom suggests a chance at success, but with several “ifs” involved.

Coun. Richard Carpenter proposed a motion last year that asked for business plans from the Brantford Municipal Airport, Brantford Farmers’ Market and city golf operations, with the goal of making all three entities financially independent.

All three operations are currently propped up by taxpayers, to the tune of almost $700,000 in 2009. The farmers’ market accounted for a little more than $60,000 of that money.

The three business plans were presented at budget meetings and referred to a third-party review. A financial auditor from Millard,

Rouse and Rosebrugh went over the plans and offered comment on the viability of each operation.

The Farmers’ Market Association prepared a plan that would see a hike in stall rentals, fees for equipment use, an increase in outdoor vendors and a reworking of overhead charges from the city.

“The plan … can succeed if they are able to increase rents, attract new tenants and reduce overhead allocations,” the Millard report said. “If, however, overhead allocations cannot be reduced significantly or revenues fall short of expectations, the goal of self-sufficiency may not be reached.”

Gord Swan, head of the market vendors’ association, said the proposed 24 per cent rent increase is spread over four years and has already been agreed to by vendors.

“I’ve had no negative comments from any vendors,” Swan said.

The review acknowledges the need for a rental fee increase, but questions whether the increase is appropriate. It suggests a comparative analysis of farmers’ markets in Cambridge, Kitchener and

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Coun. John Bradford said the costs are far from arbitrary.

“If we didn’t have the city performing these functions, then (the farmers’ market) would have to pay someone else to do it,” Bradford said.

“And I suspect they would be paid a lot more.”

Swan said he doesn’t debate the need for overhead charges, just the amount they are being allocated.

“They’ve suggested it’s close to $41,000,” he said. “We think it can be streamlined closer to $15,000.”

More than the airport and golf operations, Carpenter feels the farmers’ market is best positioned to be viable if the city were to stop funneling in taxpayer dollars.

“The market is already on its way to financial independence,” he said. “It’s the closest of the three.”

The business plans for all three operations are being reviewed by staff with the intention of presenting city council with options, but chair of the finance committee Coun. Greg Martin suggests any decision is likely going to be made by the next council, after the Oct. 25 municipal election.

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anked fourth in the world, the Iroquois Nationals were hoping to bring home a medal from the World Lacrosse Championships, currently underway in Manchester, England.

That won’t be happening this year – and that fact has nothing to do with the performance of the 23-member team.

Fact is, the players never had a chance thanks to a flap over passport and visa requirements.

The Iroquois are a member nation in the Federation of International Lacrosse, just like Canada and the U.S. are considered member nations. For decades, Iroquois Nationals players – who come from both Canada and the U.S. – travelled to the tournament using Haudenosaunee passports issued by the Iroquois Confederacy. Not this year.

Initially, the U.S. State Department refused to accept the Iroquois passport, saying the document lacked proper security features. Just when it looked like the team would be grounded, the State Department granted a one-time waiver for players to travel. That was good news for team members – some of whom hail from Six Nations – but they soon faced another setback: the British government wouldn’t recognize the Iroquois passports. Much of the official concern over the documents was due to increased security requirements in our post-9-11 world.

While bureaucrats and politicians haggled over the passport issue, members of the Nationals were stuck in New York City waiting for permission to board a flight to England.

After missing its first games of the tournament and seeing little hope of being allowed to travel, the team decided to pull the plug and bowed out of the championships on Saturday.

That decision was surely a blow to players, who worked hard to get to the tournament and take great pride in representing their nation on the world stage, playing a game their ancestors helped create. But even for world-class athletes, some things are more important than sport.

For the Nationals players, standing firm on the passport issue was a matter of principle. Yes, acquiring a Canadian or U.S. passport would have allowed them to compete, but doing so would be giving away part of something they see as more important: their nation’s sovereignty and cultural identity.

Whether or not you agree with that position, the players’ defence of their culture is admirable.

In Iroquois culture, lacrosse is known as “the creator’s game,” representing a joining point where people of different political and religious beliefs can come together. Sadly, the Iroquois Nationals won’t be a part of that coming together at the world championships this year. But perhaps the firm stand of players, who insisted they would only travel on a Haudenosaunee passport, will one day lead to what they see as a larger victory: a greater recognition of their nation and clarity about its place in the international community.

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Graphic abortion protests meant to instill compassion for unborn RE: Show the Truth antiabortion demonstrations in Brantford.

The 1988 Supreme Court of Canada decision that nullified the 1969 law on abortion continues to haunt our nation. We have no law to prevent abortion even into the ninth month of pregnancy. Furthermore, what does this say to impressionable young women about using abortion as a contraceptive measure?

In the ruling: “all seven justices explicitly recognized the legitimate interest of the state in protecting the life of the fetus/unborn child.” Yet, our politicians – for the most part – are promoting their self-deceiving mantra of having “social peace on abortion” and have closed the door of debate on this issue.

Does this make sense when nearly 100,000 human beings are killed annually through

abortion? Abortion is the No. 1 cause of death in Canada today, not cancer, nor heart disease, as Statistics Canada would have us believe.

How is it that neither Parliament or the courts have corrected the obvious injustice against the unborn as formerly described? Isn’t it in part because abortions are hidden behind the walls of a hospital, or take place within mothers’ wombs, out of the view of the natural eye?

Herein is the rationale for Show the Truth demonstrations. Canadians need to recognize the horror of what abortion does to tiny, innocent, voiceless, defenceless human beings. This is the reality, the awful truth, which our secularized culture is not facing up to.

Show the Truth demonstrators are concerned about children seeing graphic pictures of abortion, as well as people who experience

sorrow from past experiences that the images bring to mind.

As regrettable as such incidents are, they pale in comparison to the annihilation of children in their mothers’ wombs and their right to life that is being denied.

Human beings need to develop a sympathetic heart toward those who are disadvantaged in our society.

Show the Truth demonstrations attempt to instill compassion for the plight of the unborn in Canada. In a loving way, parents can foster this as a positive character trait in their children with an honest, age-appropriate explanation about abortion (and the tragic disrespect for human life in our nation at present).

How can some parents not see that the aborted unborn were no less children than their own? Reactions of anger, which are projected onto children by parents

who object to the demonstrations, are what should be curtailed.

When a woman commits an abortion, it mortally affects another human being, which inherently precludes considering it as a private choice and makes it a public concern.

Would it really be better to “sweep the issue under the rug” in order to have a clear conscience – for a time – after an abortion is committed? More people should inform themselves about the testimony of Silent No More Awareness Campaign speakers, who reveal the sense of relief women experience once they recognize the lies presented by abortion promoters for what they are and seek healing from abortion’s devastating effects on a woman’s emotional and spiritual well-being.

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wo downtown businesses are pulling up anchor and relocating in other parts of Brant.

Hurryprint Imaging Centre wanted to stay in Brantford’s core, but owner Don Froome said the pros of a move to Cainsville won out in the end.

“I even looked around the downtown to find a location so we could stay here,” Froome said.

The print and copy centre

will be moving from its current location, at 54 Dalhousie St., to 134 Shaver Rd. in the County of Brant by September.

Froome said Hurryprint purchased the county property about two years ago and has been operating as a satellite facility at the location.

“We had been wrestling with the decision since we acquired the building in Cainsville,” Froome said.

“We knew we could move into one location to offer more.”

Froome said Hurryprint will miss downtown walk-in business.

“We are hoping people still come out to find us in Cainsville,” he said. “We have tons of parking now.”

Hurryprint has been at its downtown location since 1996, but has operated in the community since 1879.

For The Colour Shoppe owner Gord Payne, the decision to leave 205 Colborne St. was much easier.

“We are looking to increase our business and we can’t do that downtown,” Payne said. “The retail down here isn’t what it used to be and the convenience factor is not there with the parking.”

Payne’s uncle, Tom, opened The Colour Shoppe in 1975. The store will close downtown for the final time on July 29 and re-open after the long weekend at 41 Morton Ave. E. Payne said the move isn’t as sentimental for him as some might think.

“I’ve only been here 11 years and it’s just my third year owning the business,” Payne said. “I’d like to thank our steady customers, but it’s time to move on to bigger, better things.”

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ounty of Brant Coun. Kevin Hodge is changing his focus when it comes to public service.

The Ward 4 councillor has decided not to run for re-election in the Oct. 25 municipal vote. Instead, he will re-dedicate himself to one of his passions: the volunteer fire department in Burford. “(Council) still interests me, but at the end of the day I can’t do everything,” Hodge said. “I really enjoy the fire hall and I’ve had to back off on it.”

The 38-year-old married and took over a cash crop operation shortly before being elected to his first term Kevin Hodge on council in 2006.

Trying to build the business, spend time with his wife, continue with firefighting and dedicate himself to council has been too much, Hodge said.

“If I’d known then what I know now, I might not have run,” Hodge said. “I wish I

could take another run at it, but it’s better I focus on my business.”

The youngest member of county council, Hodge said there is always the possibility he could run again in the future. He said the job of councillor seems to be more manageable for retired or semi-retired residents, who can dedicate the time to the job.

“I’m just gearing up and a lot of the others are either semi-retired or retired,” Hodge said.

“Your time is the public’s time, so you’ve got to be willing to use your personal time.”

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ince the death of her 17-year-old son, Ciaran Milmine, Carol Fagan has asked herself one question everyday.

“It’s really hard to go on everyday thinking: ‘Why?’” Fagan said.

Fagan’s son and 18-yearold Shawn McLaughlin died Sept. 26 when they were struck by an SUV outside a house party on Burtch Road.

The two were students at Assumption College.

Two other teens, Kelly Myers-Gordon and Kristynn Harrot, both 17, were injured in the accident.

At about 1 a.m. the teens were standing near parked vehicles on the side of Burtch Road when they were struck by an SUV driven by a 17-year-old Six Nations resident, who now faces 14 charges, including two counts of criminal negligence causing death.

Police said alcohol was a factor in the accident.

The pain is still fresh for

Carol Fagan Fagan, who talked to her son often about being safe. She even said he couldn’t get his G2 driver’s license until she felt he was mature enough to handle the responsibility.

“I spoke to Ciaran all the time about it,” Fagan said.

“These kids can’t keep saying: ‘Well, I didn’t know any better.’ He wanted to get a driver’s license and I said: ‘No, not until I feel you’re mature enough.’”

After Ciaran was killed, Fagan decided she needed to do something and the first annual Fight Against Impaired Driving Memorial Walk was born. The memorial walk will be held on Sept.

26 in Harmony Square in

memory of those killed as a result of impaired driving.

Fagan said she wants the event to be inclusive.

“It’s for everybody who has lost somebody due to impaired driving,” she said. “It seems like (drunk driving deaths) are happening more and more. It’s like the message is not getting out.”

With help from Victim Services of Brant, Ontario Students Against Impaired Driving, Brant United Way, Laurier Brantford and the Brant-Brantford Impaired Driving Committee, the event will raise funds for community education.

“The money is staying in our community, for our kids,” Fagan said.

Fagan is hoping youth in Brant will learn from her tragic loss.

“You should never take life for granted,” Fagan said.

“Make the best of every day.”

A silent auction will be held to raise funds in addition to money donated in pledges.

Pledge sheets for the walk, which begins at 3 p.m. on Sept. 26, are currently available at Brant News and Victim Services of Brant and will be available at local high schools when school resumes after summer break.

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Wild ride at Western Festival Recently returned from a 10-day stint working in the Gulf of Mexico, Brantford resident John Theurer expressed his frustration.

“There are dead birds everywhere because they ingest the oil when they try to preen their feathers,” he said.“ And it smells awful.”

Crews from Theurer’s company, Ground Force Environmental Inc., are on rotating shifts to help supervise clean-up of the massive British Petroleum oil spill.

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he Ontario Catholic School Trustees Association and the Brant-HaldimandNorfolk Catholic District School Board want a controversial candidate declared ineligible for nomination in the municipal election because they say he is not Catholic.

Peter Jones is running for Catholic school board trustee on a platform to abolish separate school boards in Ontario. Jones believes it is a violation of human rights to have publicly funded religious education and that amalgamating public and Catholic boards makes sense.

A letter sent to the city clerk’s office through lawyers for the OCSTA and the BHNCDSB contains a list of reasons why they believe Jones is not Roman Catholic.

“Based on comments that Mr. Jones has made, there is reason to believe that he may not be eligible to run,” said Kevin Kobus, executive director of the OCSTA.

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ydenham Street United Church is leading the pack when it comes to becoming more energy efficient.

The church is the first in the area to install solar panels on its roof as part of the Ontario Power Authority’s Feed-in Tariff program.

Installation of the 52 solar panels began last week.

“We hope this will be an inspiration and a model for other faith-based institutions,” said church minister Rev. Barry Pridham.

Through the program, the church owns and operates the panels but feeds energy into the OPA’s grid. Sydenham will receive about $1,000 per month from the power it sells to the OPA. That extra $1,000 will allow the church to continue to participate in the mission trips and charitable work

it does on a regular basis, said Donald Wood, property chairman of the church.

“We won’t have to pump money into the building,” Wood said. “We can use the money for what really matters.”

In the fall, Sydenham plans on hosting a seminar called Greening Sacred Spaces, for other faith-based institutions, members of the community and anyone who wishes to join, about the church’s experience installing and maintaining the solar panels.

“That’s what the gospel is all about: sharing the good news,” Pridham said.

The $77,000 project was made possible by a $50,000 anonymous donation to the church and a low-interest loan from the United Church of Canada. Pridham and Wood expect to pay off the loan through profits from the solar panels within four years.

“It won’t be costing the

church anything,” Wood said.

Once the panels are installed, Sydenham United’s website will include a section dedicated to how much energy the church is generating and how much money it has made.

The panels aren’t the only way the church is making strides to become more green. It has two committees committed to greening efforts.

The green committee and the energy efficiency committee have inspired building upgrades, like a better insulated roof and tighter fitting windows, composting and recycling and behavioural changes, like turning off lights and turning down the thermostat in the winter. “(The committees) are really good at thinking outside the box and challenging us all to get serious about the environment,” Pridham said.

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rant County SPCA officer Brandon James is asking people to imagine sitting in a car during the recent heat and humidity in the city with the windows rolled up and a fur coat on.

James said animals should never be left in vehicles and the message is doubly impor-

tant considering the recent heat wave.

“Definitely leave dogs at home,” James said. “Not even for a second would I bring them out. Even just leaving them in the car to run into the grocery store could endanger them immensely.”

James said the SPCA has recently dealt with a few incidents involving animals left in cars. There have also been several calls about pets being left outside, he said.

“The calls have been through the roof as far as dogs being left outside,” he said. “The shade is not even enough (to keep them cool).

The water in their dishes heats up. If they can’t escape the humidity, you’re asking for some trouble.”

James said exposing a dog to extreme temperatures is a provincial offence. Anyone who sees an animal left in a vehicle unattended is asked to call the SPCA at 519-756-6620.

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Holding the event at Tranquility Hall gives the public an opportunity to explore the “waterwise” garden featured on the hall’s front lawn and get ideas for their own yards, Bowman said.

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Inside the hall, more than 100 varieties of flowers and vegetables were on display.

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She went to school in Toronto, but has lived in Brantford for the last three years. Following her trip to volunteer at an orphanage in Nairobi, Kenya, Martinez saw the need for more orphanages in the African nation.

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“The orphanage I worked in had 120 children. They’re over capacity, so there is a huge need.”

Through sponsorship and fundraising, Friends Vision purchased land in Naivasha and will begin building this weekend. The group will also climb Mount Kilimanjaro to raise awareness of its cause.

Martinez will be in Kenya for three weeks and expects the build to take about one year.

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Martinez held one last fundraiser before her trip, the African Night Fundraiser, at the Great North Bar and Grill on Saturday night.

The 27-year-old is travelling to Naivasha, Kenya, where she will meet 14 people from other parts of the world and begin building an orphanage.

The new orphanage is an initiative of Martinez’s organization, Friends Vision, which she helped form after a trip to Kenya to work in an orphanage in 2008.

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That all changed when she joined the Brantford Garden Club.

“I thought I’d join the garden club and meet people,” Huhtala said.

More than meet people, Huhtala made lifelong friends.

“We share our successes and disappointments,” she said.

On Sunday, Huhtala and the club celebrated the Brantford Garden Club’s 158th annual summer flower show and plant sale at Tranquility Hall, where plant lovers came together to purchase and display plants, as well as learn about gardening.

Wendy Bowman has been a member of the club for more than 10 years.

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The 22-year-old teacher is here from Madrid, Spain, for a month, leading a group of 40 students from the European country through a Canadian organization called Canada Link.

Canada Link seeks out students from Spain, Germany, and France to spend a month in Brantford, Kitchener-Waterloo, Cambridge or Guelph to learn English and get a feel for Canada’s culture.

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Sixteen-year-old David Bazaga said he’s loved every part of the trip, but the experience of learning English is what stands out the most.

“Speaking and living with my host family is good,” he said. “It’s a good chance to increase my English and learn what English is really like.”

For Sala, the best part of her trip so far was right here in Brantford.

“I love the (International) Villages Festival,” she said.

“It’s so great because you show everyone who is living here. That’s so great. It’s like a big summer camp with people from all over the world.”

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The students spend weekday mornings attending English language classes at Laurier Brantford and spend their afternoons doing various activities, like canoeing down the Grand River, bowling at Echo Bowl and visiting the Bell Homestead.

“The activities they do really show them the way we live here,” Flores said. “It also gives Brantford a good reputation because once the kids go back they speak highly of the city. They love it here.”

Day trips are planned once a week to places like Canada’s Wonderland, Port Stanley Beach, Niagara Falls and Toronto.

Evenings and weekends are spent with host families, who have volunteered their time and homes to visiting students.

Barb Melara and her husband have been hosting Spanish students every summer for the past four years.

“We really look forward to July when the Spanish kids will come,” Melara said.

“It helps get you out of just thinking about your own life and your own small piece of the world.”

To give their host guest, Javier Aragon, 16, an even greater taste of Canada, they hold family barbecues or go on trips to other communities.

The students arrived just before Canada Day and were able to take part in the city’s celebrations. They were also here when Spain won its first ever world cup, watching the game at Boston Pizza.

“They were so happy,” Sala said of the students. “They screamed and went outside

ive local chapters of the Optimist Club joined forces on Saturday to raise money for the County of Brant’s new twin pad arena.

The Scotland, Paris, Brant-Lyn, Mount Pleasant and Burford Optimist clubs came together to host a “wing ding” and silent auction at Scotland’s Optimist Park in support of the county’s new twin pad, currently under construction on Rest Acres Road.

About 500 tickets were sold for the event, which featured more than 40 auction items, a chicken wing dinner and DJ. The five local Optimist clubs had never teamed up in similar fashion, but

Brant-Lyn member Larry Crawley said the twin pad was a worthy cause.

“Our slogan is ‘friend to youth,’” Crawley said. “A lot of kids in the area are going to be using it, so it’s a good cause for us.”

The fundraiser ran from 4 p.m. to 1 a.m., with people coming out despite severe thunderstorms that hit Brantford and the county on Saturday.

Julia Wheeler attended the fundraiser with a group of 30 family members and friends.

“We all have kids that are interested in hockey,” she said. “We know ice time is at a premium and having another facility gives more opportunities for the kids.”

The new arena is estimated to cost $22.5 million. The clubs were hoping to raise $10,000.

Emma Vilaca, left, Marissa Wheeler, Noelle Shaw, Callie Shaw and Emma Dutka check out silent auction items.

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rantford bodybuilder Joan Kenney has a passion for the feeling she gets from lifting weights to exertion.

The 41-year-old has always been active and about three years ago she started lifting weights and toning her body as she prepared for her first female bodybuilding competition.

She weighed 155 pounds before her first competition.

Now, when in competition mode, she sits at 120 pounds of lean muscle.

“To get on stage and win a competition, you have to

drop your body water and drop those extra pounds,” she said.

After just three years of competing, Kenney is headed to the 2010 Canadian Bodybuilding Championships, being held in Saskatoon on August 14.

Kenney had a difficult task qualifying for the national competition. In order to advance from provincials, she had to win her division and then beat the winners of each of the other divisions.

Kenney competed in the middle-weight class and won overall at provincials in London on May 24, beating out the winners of both the light and heavyweight classes.

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gressing her status in the sport, Kenney is working as hard as ever to prepare herself for the tough competition ahead.

“I’m confident, but I’m also (nervous),” she said. “I can only do what I can do.

It’s going to be a hard competition, but I know if I don’t do well, it’s because they’re the top competitors.”

Kenney got into bodybuilding after teaching aerobics, dance and gymnastics. She did some casual weight lifting and found she not only enjoyed it, but was seeing results.

“I started noticing abnormal muscles, more than a normal female would have,” she said. “I liked that feeling of lifting until my muscles

failed and getting that hard pump.”

She translated her love of the “pump” into a career in personal training and said while bodybuilding competitions are a strain on the body, it’s the benefits and the confidence she gets that excite her.

To maintain her body, Kenney typically does about an hour of resistance training, four days a week, and an hour and a half of cardio, seven days a week.

But it isn’t just her physique that gets judged, posing plays a big part in the scoring at bodybuilding competitions.

“You have to contract everything from your toes up to pose correctly. It takes

so much energy. When you come off stage, you feel like you want to be sick.”

The Canadian Bodybuilding Championships is an extremely important event for Kenney, as it is the only event in Canada which qualifies competitors for International Federation of Bodybuilders pro-card status, allowing them to compete in prestigious events with big prize money.

Whether on stage competing, in the gym working out or in a client’s house helping them improve their own health, Kenney has a simple mantra.

“Everybody can learn something everyday,” she said. “Everybody can improve everyday.”

The Brantford Red Sox played an important game at Arnold Anderson Stadium Wednesday. A win against the Barrie Baycats would send them to a first-place pennant in the Intercounty Baseball League.

A loss would force them to take on the Toronto Maple Leafs on Friday in a playoff for the pennant. Brant News videographer Eric Lloyd was at the home of the Red Sox Wednesday to capture the excitement.

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Remembering Rick Bullas About 100 people gathered at the Brantford Golf and Country Club Tuesday to honour the memory of Rick Bullas, an avid golfer and founding member of the Rotary Club of Brantford Sunshine. A golf tournament was held to raise funds for Bullas’ dream of building a seniors’ facility in Brantford.

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The Harlequins hosted the university side at George Jones Fields, in a fast and physical encounter with a side that has previously produced such rugby notables as English captains Phil de Glanville and Will Carling.

Harlequins coach Dave Knowles said he had expected a tough game from the Durham boys and that it had been beneficial development for his Canadian crew to tackle a team from the motherland of rugby.

“This is something we need more of. That was good rugby,” Knowles said. “They were what I expected. They were excellent in the tackles.

We had a hard time bringing them down.

“We were slow to start.

The second half was a totally different story.”

The first half saw both teams probing, testing each other’s defences and getting some opportunities out wide.

The Harlequins had the best chance at scoring in the first, with fly half Steve Piatek chip kicking the ball ahead and regathering it himself before offloading to winger Peter Jokic for a nice break down the sideline.

Regardless of both team’s efforts, the scores were locked 0-0 at half time.

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The ‘Quins first try came when winger Marcus Mitchell broke down the left-hand side of the field, fending off four would-be tacklers before scoring in the corner. Piatek kicked the conversion and the home team led 7-0.

Ten minutes later Mitchell was at it again, this time after Rory McDonell drew one defender before sending a wide pass to his winger who ran in an easy five points. Piatek’s radar was good again and the Harlequins led 14-0.

Durham finished the game with a small morale booster after Rob Milady scored after a long period of phase play by the visitors.

The conversion attempt was unsuccessful.

Fergus King, team manager of the university side, said the Harlequins had given his team a strong test of their skills at the end of a three-week tour of North America.

“They’re a very good side,” he said. “They’re young and fit. The best part of their game is they have a back three that work together.”

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A taste of British soccer skills

Young soccer players practice their skills under the instruction of Gary Millner during the Brantford City Soccer Club’s Challenger Sports British Soccer Camp. The camp ran last week and wrapped up on Friday at John Wright soccer fields.

Photo by Mike Machado, Brant News

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welve Special Olympics athletes from Brantford and the County of Brant have returned from nationals with quite a haul.

In total, the local contingent returned from the 2010 National Summer Games in London with seven gold, eight silver and 11 bronze medals.

The national games, which act as a qualifier for the Special Olympics World Summer Games, featured 1,400 athletes competing in eight different sports.

Ted Baxter, father of

Brantford Special Olympics athlete Reisha Baxter, said the opening ceremony at TD Waterhouse Stadium was one memorable moment in a week of highlights.

“The opening ceremonies were pretty amazing,” he said. “It was very inspiring.”

The Special Olympics movement began 46 years ago by Dr. Frank Hayden of London, Ontario.

Dr. Hayden believed that people with intellectual disabilities would benefit greatly from competitive sports.

Brantford’s athletic achievements at this year’s nationals included Reisha Baxter (silver in 100m,

200m, 400m, gold in 4x100m relay), Nicole Brown (gold 400m and standing long jump), Luke Brown (silver in standing long jump and bronze in 400m), David Hutcheon (bronze in 1500m, 3000m, 5000m), Richard Ward (bronze in 800m and long jump), Johanna Young (gold in 400m and silver in 200m), Christine Wilson (gold in 4x400m relay), Ken Ronson (gold 100m freestyle, silver 4x100m, bronze 200m freestyle), Steven Slezak (gold 25m freestyle, bronze in 100m freestyle), Betty Farr (silver in deadlift), Christine Doctor (bronze in five-pin bowling) and Colleen Vale (bronze in 10-pin bowling).

Civic centre renovations behind TOM KENNEDY BRANT NEWS

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t appears Brantford’s ice users will once again be stuck with just three rinks for the start of the 2010-2011 season.

Renovations at the Brantford and District Civic Centre are behind schedule, with the original projected completion date of Sept. 7 being pushed back to at least mid-October.

Eric Burke, manager of arenas and fields in Brantford, said the renovations were behind schedule due to the quantity of infrastructure projects underway in the area.

“A lot of it is because of the amount of infrastructure money that went out,” he said. “The equipment companies are very busy.”

The $3-million makeover was funded jointly by the federal, provincial and munici-

pal governments.

Burke said he expected the civic centre to be out of action for the first six weeks of the upcoming seasons, meaning teams like the junior B Golden Eagles, senior A Brantford Blast and the Brantford Church Hockey League house league will be without a home.

“Obviously everybody’s a little disappointed,” Burke said. “It’s another challenge, but I’m sure we’ll get through it.”

While his organization won’t be directly affected by the missing ice at the civic centre, Dale Park of the Brantford Minor Hockey Association expected a ripple effect as groups had to be shuffled to the Wayne Gretzky Sports Centre or Lions Park.

“We will work through it,” Parker said. “We had three ice surfaces last year and we worked through it. The ice

users will come together.”

Parker and the other users will gather at the civic centre auditorium today at 5 p.m. to discuss the best options for the beginning of the season.

While Parker was disappointed with the news, he said he wasn’t surprised and that he expected it to all work out in the end.

“I’m not surprised. Look at the county’s twin pad, they were saying September and now we’re hearing it won’t be ready until November,” he said. “There’s a light at the end of the tunnel. It’s just a little muddy right now.”

The renovations include redoing the concrete floor, replacing the boards and glass and installing a new compressor, boiler and condenser to provide better ice more efficiently.

“It will be a better ice surface, because it’s more of a mechanical rebuild.”

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t took some time, but the Brantford Braves have worked out the kinks.

The Braves have been working hard at practice and it showed at Arnold Anderson Stadium on Thursday as they forced a 4-3 win over the Stratford Indians.

While the Indians entered the game with a record of 1413 in the Junior Inter-County Baseball League, the Braves have had a difficult year with

seven wins and 18 losses.

Braves coach Shawn Boyle said his team had committed to bettering themselves and it had paid off at bat and in the field.

“The bats were going, finally,” Boyle said. “We played well tonight. The bats were heating up and our practice is starting to pay off. There were a lot less errors tonight.”

The Braves utilized Colin Buckboroug to start on the mound. The 21-year-old has played with the Intercounty Baseball League’s Brantford

Brantford Braves Cal Pasinek tries to tag out a member of the Stratford Indians during a Junior Inter-County Baseball League game.

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Red Sox throughout the 2010 season.

They also had to rely on backup catcher Iggy Villalobos, who usually plays short stop, as regular Kaiden Bowers was suffering from a pulled muscle in his torso.

Stratford had a quiet first six innings, with Buckboroug keeping them in control.

Meanwhile the Braves got off to a good start, with Andrew Holtz batting in Zach Byron in his first at bat in the bottom of the first.

By the end of the third, the Braves were up 4-0, a lead

they were able to maintain despite a minor collapse late in the game.

The hiccups happened in the seventh, as heavy rain started to fall, with Indians Adam Carter walked by Buckborough, Ryan Thorn hit by a pitch and then Don Smith forcing an infield error, sending the two runners home.

Buckboroug was then replaced by Riley Bohar, who allowed one run when Smith was batted in by Chad Gray.

The gap had been closed to 4-3, but Bohar and his team were able to hold out.

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Jess Elsdon, right, of the Brantford Black Eye Boxing Club fights Jenna Nixon at Knights of Columbus on Friday.

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rantford’s Black Eye Boxing Club has finished an historic amateur card with five wins from eight local fights.

The eighth annual Friday Night Fights Under Lights featured a record eight local fighters, something coach Bill Williams has never seen in Brantford since bringing his talents to the city in 1968.

Headlining the show was young-gun John Mercante, a 220-pound 23-year-old with a bright future ahead of him in the sport.

“John and I are going up to London to spar with the former cruiserweight champion Frank White to see how he goes,” Williams said. “We’re not rushing it, but we’re hoping he’ll go pro in May next year.”

Mercante fought Bobby Sullivan in a four-round main event at the amateur card, beating him by decision.

While Williams doesn’t want to get ahead of himself, he said Mercante has the ability and the drive to become a professional boxer.

“I think in Canada he can make some real noise,” Williams said. “He’s only 23, he’s

strong as a bull, this is what he wants to do and his cardio is through the roof.”

More than 500 people packed into the enclosed yard behind Knights of Columbus on Catherine Avenue last Friday to watch the amateur fight night and spur on the Brantford contingent.

On top of hosting a card with more local fighters than he’d ever seen in Brantford, Williams was happy with the record his crew tallied.

“We had a chance to win them all I thought,” he said.

“But five from eight is good.”

Also fighting on behalf of the Brantford boxing club, Jess Elsdon (154 pounds) defeated Jenna Nixon of Hanover in a decision.

John Murtland (160 pounds) beat Kyle Millette of London by decision.

Craig Hudson (250 pounds) knocked out Todd Christie of Toronto and Shawn Tooke (200 pounds) defeated Pat Newbegining of Hanover in a unanimous decision.

Brantford’s three losses came to Darren Fletcher (165 pounds), who lost a split decision to Lee Thibeault of London. Jassem Jassem (150 pounds) lost to Ryan Calhoun of London by decision and Sal Jassem (155 pounds) lost to John Patsidiotis of Toronto by decision.

he Brantford Galaxy SC survived 90 minutes of soccer against FC Hamilton Croatia on Sunday, only to allow them back into the game in injury time.

With less than seven minutes remaining in the Canadian Soccer League game at Lions Park, the Galaxy had a 3-2 lead before being forced to play the rest of the game with 10 men on the field and eventually end in a 3-3 tie.

But it wasn’t due to a penalty and subsequent red card that the Galaxy were down a man.

Late in the game, Galaxy player Zach Tait was accidentally kicked in the head by a Hamilton Croatia player

and had to leave the field with a suspected concussion.

The Galaxy had used all of their five substitutions at that point and so had to play at a disadvantage.

Galaxy assistant coach Trever Guy said his team had fought hard to the end of the game, but if they were at full strength the outcome may have been different.

“The lads fought pretty hard to the end, but with 10 guys out there you never know what’s going to happen,” he said.

On top of the Galaxy being down a man, regular goaltender Ante Domjanovic had to leave the game early in the second half, after he suffered a lower-body injury while kicking the ball.

While backup goaltender Kyle Bissonette made some crucial saves during his time

in net, the favoured Domjanovic could have been the difference maker.

“We had a bit less experience in there,” Guy said.

“But Kyle works with Ante quite a bit at training so he’s coming along.”

The game was a physical and well-matched affair, with five yellow cards handed out in total, three to Hamilton and two to Brantford.

The Galaxy got off the mark 10 minutes into the game, with ever-present threat Drazen Vukovic making a break down the left of the field, drawing Hamilton goalkeeper Cameron McKay and crossing to Ranko Golijanin who buried the ball into the net off his head.

Hamilton Croatia answered five minutes later when Preston Corporal

Brantford Galaxy player Ranko Golijanin leaps over FC Hamilton Croatia’s goalkeeper Cameron McKay during a Canadian Soccer League game at Lions Park last Sunday.

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forced his way through the midfield and was met by Domjanovic who made an initial diving save but deflected the ball back onto the boot of Corporal who didn’t miss the second time.

The Galaxy led 2-1 at halftime, following another impressive show by Vukovic, who again broke down the left but this time held the ball and sent a missile of a shot past McKay and into the top right of the net.

Twenty minutes into the second, Bissonette had his first real test when Hamilton’s Aidan O’Keefe was sent down the field and easily beat the Brantford goalie to tie the score 2-2.

While Hamilton Croatia relied on some long, probing passes down field to try to get their strikers into space, the Galaxy focused on midfield attack, working a lot of passes.

With less than 10 minutes left in regular time, Galaxy defender Patrick Gerhardt took a corner kick and combined with Marsalis Beckford’s head for their team’s third and final goal.

However, it was shortly after the goal that Galaxy defender Tait received the kick to the head and was eventually helped from the field with two minutes of regular time and five minutes of injury time to play.

With a minute and a half left in injury time, Hamilton’s Corporal drew Bissonette, crossed to Jerko Grubisic to score the equalizer.

With the tie, the Galaxy first-division team sits in fifth in the standings with 5-3-3. Their next home game is August 15 against the North York Astros at Lions Park at 7 p.m.

From the bench: Galaxy players Drazen Vukovic and Miodrag Anjelkoviv spent the last week training with Major League Soccer team Toronto FC. The pair will play an exhibition game with TFC on Wednesday at BMO Field in Toronto against the Bolton Wanderers.

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The Ascot Royals guitarist Joey Vinegar checks out his accommodations for a weekend fundraiser, while keyboardist Ben Chauveau and singer Jimmy Chauveau provide encouragement. Photo by Mike Machado, Brant News

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t started out as a dare, but The Ascot Royals’ guitarist Joey Vinegar will spend an undetermined amount of time in a small windowless trailer to help raise money for the band’s upcoming eastern Canadian tour.

“They offered me a couple of cold beverages and that won me over,” Vinegar said.

Vinegar will take to the trailer this Sunday as part

of a fundraiser barbecue the rock, funk and soul band is hosting at Two Doors Down.

The band, which also includes lead singer Jimmy Chauveau, Jesse Gilroy on bass, Scott Cunningham on drums and Ben Chauveau on keyboards, hopes to raise enough money to purchase their own trailer to bring on tour this summer.

The band’s current trailer – the one Vinegar will be climbing into – is rented from a friend and has seen a few mishaps, including the back wheels falling off in

Moncton, N.B. Vinegar will head into the trailer at 2 p.m. and will only be allowed a cooler filled with cold beverages, a stereo, a megaphone, a chamber pot and a fan.

“I used to live in a basement apartment and it was small, so this will be a breeze,” Vinegar said.

Testing the trailer for the first time on Monday, Vinegar had to duck his head as he climbed into the four-by-eight foot space, but quickly found a spot at the back where he could be quite

comfortable.

“It’s not bad,” he said from inside.

Mid-afternoon heat could make things a bit difficult on Sunday, but Vinegar and the band are hoping he can stay in the trailer for several hours.

While Vinegar is suffering in the trailer, a party will take place featuring artists like Sean LeSage, Max Wray of Hamilton, Steve Murphy, Mark Wilson, Rich Halley and Tim Turvey.

“If he only lasts an hour or two, we’ll just have the party after,” Ben Chauveau said.

“It’s just going to be a party afternoon.”

“With some random guy locked in a trailer,” Vinegar added.

Those attending on Sunday can sponsor Vinegar in increments of $1, $2, $5 or $10 for each hour he spends in the trailer, or by flat rate.

Regardless of how much money is raised, The Ascot Royals will head out on tour July 29.

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The tour moves on to Ottawa in August before travelling across New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland.

“The people out east are the friendliest people in the world,” Chauveau said. “(Touring) is so much fun because for three weeks you only have to worry about when you get there, what time you play and where you’re sleeping.”

The performances will include a mix of new and old songs, as well as a few covers.

“Expect a party,” Chauveau said.

For more information about The Ascot Royals, visit www.myspace.com/theascotroyals or www.facebook.

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After achieving charitable status in May, the organization can now focus on providing more artistic opportunities for the Brantford community.

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Jackowetz’s contribution to a growing collection of art inspired by the south side is an artistic streetscape print set that shows all 40 Colborne Street buildings as they were prior to demolition.

“I was the only one who had done something before the decision was made to tear them down,” he said.

“When council made it their No. 1 priority, I had a feeling something was going to change.”

At the Station Coffee House and Gallery at the

Brantford train station, over two dozen paintings hang on the walls as part of a current exhibit that displays different interpretations of the south side of Colborne Street.

Owners Mike and Linda Tutt requested the show from the Brant Visual Artists Guild.

“It’s a very personal issue for us,” Linda said. “We are kind of on the outskirts, but we still consider ourselves a part of the downtown.”

Mike Tutt was the owner of Purdy’s Pub on the south

side and lived there for a time, as well.

“This show is attracting a lot of people,” he said. “More so than normal.”

Linda said the paintings reflect many different perspectives. “Some (artists) painted what they remembered, some painted how it is now and some painted what they would like to see happen,” she said.

The coffee house plans to leave the exhibit up throughout the summer. The paintings are all for sale and a lot of them have been selling.

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the Arts Block now has the opportunity to expand its services.

Borenstein said the Arts Block is looking at the potential of expanding its space, which is currently located at 80 Dalhousie St. “That would allow us to do a few things,” he said. “One, have larger events. Our current space can accommodate a maximum of 100 people and it’s pretty crowded. We’d also like to see if there is an opportunity to provide artist studio space for more classes.”

In the future, the Arts Block would also like to expand its services to include a

small recording studio.

“There are segments of the community that I think are under serviced,” he said.

“There are a lot of young people in Brantford who don’t necessarily have the opportunity to experiment with art. And there’s also the seniors segment and everyone in between.”

In the past year, the Arts Block ran 68 events, had 180 people attend classes, 100 people attend workshops and more than 2,200 children participate in school outreach programs. The organization also held 12 exhibits featuring 69 artists and sold

more than $6,000 worth of artwork in its gift shop.

Achieving charitable status can normally take up to two years, Borenstein said, but the Arts Block’s application was accepted within six months.

“I think it’s very encouraging,” Borenstein said. “I think it speaks to the quality of the application. Some people would be surprised to know that (Josh Bean, executive director of the Arts Block) is really respected outside of Brantford. People outside of the city see the Arts Block as a very significant achievement.”

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wo Laurier Brantford professors are experimenting with a different style of presenting research.

Health studies professors Kate Rossiter and Rebecca Godderis will present their research-based play Abide With Me: A Story of Two Pandemics on Friday and Saturday in the Brantford General Hospital chapel.

“I think it’s a really important way of getting research to the community,” Rossiter said. “What we are doing is very different, but we think it’s important to try different forms of research that might

communicate better with the wider community.”

A Brant Theatre Workshops production, the play follows the life of Helen Hargrove, a grandmother from Brantford who finds herself in the hospital after a bad fall during the onset of a pandemic.

During the play, Helen revisits her childhood memories of growing up during the Spanish flu outbreak of 1918.

The purpose of the play is to examine the ethical tensions that arise during pandemics, like the recent H1N1 outbreak and SARS outbreak in 2003.

“The goal with this play is not to provide easy answers, it’s to ask hard questions,”

Rossiter said. “Our hope is by asking hard questions our audience will have time to reflect on how we want to respond to hard decisions when (future pandemics) are happening,” The professors hope to eventually perform their play outside of Brantford and will hold a feedback session following this weekend’s performances.

Two evening performances will be held at 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. A matinee performance will be held on Saturday at 2 p.m.

Admission is by donation.

Proceeds from the play will support the music therapy program at the Brantford General Hospital.

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Ellen Stortini, left, and Hugh Sutherland perform in the ICHTHYS Theatre production of The Canterbury Tales.

Photo by Mike Machado, Brant News of entertainment and fun,” said Lorna Stratton, artistic director for the theatre company.

The pilgrims will sit among the crowd during a family-style feast that includes home-cooked chicken, potatoes, corn on the cob, coleslaw and rolls, as well as a variety of fruit and cakes for dessert.

The stories take on a modern twist, with the Wife

of Bath wearing three-inch stilettos and a red hat (a la the Red Hat Society) and the Pardoner taking on the role of a “slick” televangelist.

“The stories are surprisingly modern in terms of their relevance because they’re talking about people’s foibles,” Stratton said.

“So we’ve modernized it in the sense that we’re wearing contemporary clothing.”

The characters will

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he summer of 2010 will likely be remembered most for the spurts of sweltering heat it offered communities like Brant.

From a musical standpoint, however, it is likely to be remembered for the spurts of major hip-hop releases that heated up the album charts.

Over the next two weeks, this column will endeavour to get you more familiar with some of these releases, starting with two from the genre’s heavyweights.

Artist: Drake Album: Thank Me Later Label: Cash Money/Universal Motown Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

Drake is a recent addition to hip-hop’s heavyweight division, so a bit of back story might help add perspective for those unfamiliar with the 23-year-old superstar.

Born and bred in Toronto, the one-time Degrassi: The Next Generation cast member created a buzz as an MC with his first two “mixtape” releases in 2006 and 2007.

That buzz grew so strong that his third mixtape was rereleased as the So Far Gone EP in 2009, attracting the likes of Lebron James to his release party in Toronto.

Even before starring in a Sprite commercial, Drake was invited onstage to perform his song Successful in the middle of Jay-Z’s concert at the Air Canada Centre this

past October.

Drake’s first full-length recording is on Lil’ Wayne’s record label and it entered the Billboard charts at No. 1. Thank Me Later is full of tracks created with the formula of Drake’s easy-to-follow rhyming flow and heavy dips into smooth R&B laced with 808 beats. The resulting sound can hook in everybody from hardcore hip-hoppers to Top 40 popsters.

Adding to the initial “Drizzay” allure are lyrics dealing with overnight success, relating to people in his previous life and offering transparency rather than the customary thuggish front.

Airy synth-filled atmospheres are strewn throughout Thank Me Later’s 14 tracks, solidifying a laid-back aura. It is spread pretty thick in spots, though, as the syrupy beat of cuts like Shut It Down won’t help the album fill a dance floor any time soon. Still, Drake’s mic skills maintain the spotlight and, even when trading rhymes with the likes of Lil’ Wayne and Jay-Z on a debut album, he proves he can play with the big boys.

Artist: Eminem Album: Recovery Label: Aftermath Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

Eminem is a mainstay in hip-hop’s heavyweight division and likely needs no back story at this point. However, his latest offering seems to be an attempt at writing a “fresh-start” chapter.

Fans who haven’t already heard Recovery shouldn’t fret, though. Em’s acrobatic rhyming skills remain the star of the show, delivered with the same relentless cadence and middle-finger angst that hasn’t let up since his 1999 major-label debut.

Tracks like So Bad find the 8 Mile man sounding right at home rhyming in the swells of Dr. Dre’s smooth waves of slow snap beats. But it is Recovery’s changes in backdrop and focus that are particularly noteworthy in many of the 17 new tracks.

Take for instance the confessional candour displayed in Talkin’ 2 Myself, where Eminem thanks his fans for their patience and raps brutally honest lines like: “It’s difficult, them last two albums didn’t count. Encore,

I was on drugs. Relapse, I was flushin’ ‘em out.”

Space Bound, with its acoustic guitar inflected beats is the closest thing to a slow love jam Em has ever released and guest vocals from Pink and Rihanna add a settling influence elsewhere.

Two tracks are dedicated to Em’s continuing struggle dealing with the death of his best friend, Proof, including the poignant Going Through Changes, aptly complemented with samples of that classic Black Sabbath chorus.

Even if songs about white trash parties and Haddaway’s “What Is Love?” samples may roll a few eyes, tracks like the anthemic thump of Not Afraid help Recovery win out. It is another rallying cry for the downtrodden and Slim Shady’s sincerity is palpable.

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aking a slight detour from their pilgrimage to Canterbury, the Wife of Bath, the Pardoner, the Yeoman and the Nun’s Priest will be making a stop at Wesley United Church Hall this weekend.

The characters from Geoffrey Chaucer’s famed 14th century narrative The Canterbury Tales will be part of a dinner theatre performance by ICHTHYS Theatre Productions on July 24 and 25.

In an interactive, modernized version of Chaucer’s masterwork – which means no Middle English – the audience will tag along with the pilgrims as they make a stop at a local inn to rest and refuel.

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mingle with the audience throughout the evening while stories are being presented.

The audience is invited to play along, too.

During the Wife of Bath’s tale about a knight whose task it is to discover what women want, he ventures into the crowd to ask the audience’s opinion.

At the end of the night, the audience will be brought into the story once more to vote for the tale they liked best.

“It’s very much interactive,” Stratton said.

The meal will be provided by Friendship House of Brant, a Christian outreach centre that provides before and after-school programs for youth, a food bank and clothing closet.

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bank and children’s programs.

“I think it’s just wonderful that (ICHTHYS) thought of us and it is exciting that we can all work together as a big team,” said Carol Owen, program co-ordinator for Friendship House. “We’re trying to be a helping hand

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he Bell Homestead will celebrate its 100th anniversary this weekend with three days of themed events.

The 100th anniversary celebrations kick off on Friday from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. with the official launch of the new book, My Dear Aleck: The Selected Letters of the Bell Family, 1863-1867.

On Saturday at 1 p.m., the Historic Sites and Monument Board of Canada will commemorate sculptor Walter Seymour Allward at Bell Memorial Park. At 5 p.m. on Saturday, the Homestead will host a prime rib dinner at the Market Square Business Centre, followed by a musical performance at the Sanderson Centre.

Tickets to the event are $50 each and can be purchased through the Sanderson Centre box office at 519-758-8090.

A service will take place at Farringdon Independent Church at 10:30 a.m. on Sunday, followed by an old fashioned picnic at 11:30 a.m., which includes a performance of the play Winning Mabel at 1 p.m.

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n Brantford Navy Club JULy 23: Bert’s Karaoke, 9 p.m.

JULy 25: Sunday afternoon matinee featuring Bruce Hare, 2 p.m.

n The Station Coffee House and Gallery JULy 23: Terry Sumsion, 7:30 p.m., $15

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n Harmony Square JULy 28: Children’s Theatre Series, 7 p.m.

n Brantford General Hospital chapel JULy 23: Abide With Me: A Story of Two Pandemics, July 23, 7:30 p.m., July 24, 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Admission by donation. Plays July 23 and July 24.

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enny Kring spent 14 years confined to a wheelchair after Multiple Sclerosis robbed her of her mobility.

Today, she walks in her house unassisted and only uses a cane to steady herself when out in public.

“I walk with a cane for the simple reason that my balance is bad when I walk on uneven ground,” she said.

On Monday morning, Kring was participating in her twice weekly tai chi session at the Taoist

Tai Chi Society Brantford Branch.

She credits the gentle movements of tai chi with getting her out of her wheelchair and back on her feet.

Accredited tai chi instructor Doreen Horsnell, 88, has seen many success stories like Kring’s during the past 16 years. Included among the people in her Monday senior lesson was a person who previously had a heart attack, someone recovering from hip surgery and another with serious foot problems who is preparing for surgery.

Horsnell also battled back after severe arthritis throughout her body did its

best to slow her down.

“I wouldn’t be moving the way I’m moving today if it wasn’t for tai chi,” she said.

“The movements are soft and gentle and it does wonders for muscles, ligaments, tendons and bones. Tai chi exercises the whole spine and it alleviates my pain.”

Tai chi is said to massage the body from the inside out.

“It massages all of your internal organs and can help with most any ailment,” Horsnell said.

In addition to helping reduce anxiety, improve balance, flexibility, muscle strength and sleep, as well as lower blood pressure,

the gentle movements of tai chi are purported to relieve chronic pain, increase energy and agility.

“Tai chi improved my balance and it has improved my memory,” Kring said. “It’s done wonderful things for me. I was so frustrated with the wheelchair.

I was in a wheelchair since

Eight years later, Kring was able to give her wheelchair to the MS Society.

“Around 1991 I got out of it totally and I plan on staying out of it,” she said.

Joann MacLachlan began tai chi about six years ago.

“I’m a couch potato. I wanted something gentle that I could do until they carry me out,” MacLachlan said. “With tai chi, there is no impact. They are all very smooth and gentle movements. There is no throwing any muscles, no sudden moves and you’re not hitting the floor hard.

It’s a moving meditation because you really have to focus on what you are doing.”

Taoist tai chi consists of 108 moves that, when done together, take about 20 minutes to complete. People of any age or fitness level can easily master the exercise, which originated in ancient China as a martial art form.

Moy Lin-shin, founder of the International Taoist Tai Chi Society, opened the first Canadian branch of the organization in Toronto in 1970.

It is now practiced worldwide.

“If I travel, I can go to classes and do the exact same thing as we are doing here,” MacLachlan said.

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Area rugs add comfort and style If you have a vinyl floor, be sure you are not using a rubber-backed carpet. Even with no stain warranties, over time you will still get yellowing underneath from the rubber as it ages. Colour can co-ordinate the room and pattern can add interest.

Bathrooms are treated in the same form as kitchens, but texture can be bumped up in this room. It is nice to stand on a cozy cotton matt or shag matt when performing your daily grooming.

Bathroom carpets endure a degree of humidity changes and bacteria, so pay attention to cleaning instructions.

Entry ways are notorious for requiring mats. They should be large enough to

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he hard surface trend in flooring continues, as does the desire to add a little softness and warmth.

Area rugs are an instant way to liven up a room. Selecting your rug depends on where it is going.

Kitchens should have area rugs that can be easily cleaned. If the odd spill or soiling occurs, they can go in the washing machine and come out looking just like new.

enter easily and stay on the surface, as not to defeat their purpose. These carpets get the worst wear and tear in the home and will be ex-

posed to dirt, moisture and grit. Select a high-wearing carpet. If a patterned carpet is selected, it can often hide stains from dirty footwear.

or shifting without one.

Be sure your carpet is an appropriate size. There is nothing worse than a rug that basically gets swallowed up by your coffee table or one that completely covers the lovely hardwood you just had installed.

For dining rooms, you need to consider the size of the carpet when your table is extended to its fullest size.

Also think about the push back of the chairs. You need to have at least two feet of space around the table in order for the chair to not slide off the carpet. Select a carpet that you can easily vacuum.

Introduce your home to a little area rug impact today.

Living rooms and family rooms can be instantly impacted by an area rug. There are so many colours, sizes and patterns, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re sure to find the right one for your space and budget. They add texture into a room or make a focal point if the carpet has pattern. They can divide two rooms into distinct areas and easily be moved if you choose to re-arrange the furniture. They are also easily replaced if you are redecorating. You can even use an area rug as wall decor.

If you are putting a carpet down, you should use an accompanying underlay. This prevents carpet drifting, buckling or marking of the flooring underneath. There are even underlays for lying carpet on top of carpet. You would really notice buckling

Pamela deVries is a certified interior decorator and owner of ingenious interiors, www.ingeniousinteriors.ca.

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Impress your guests with homemade gnocchi John Murna ghan BRANT NEWS

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have been on a kick when it comes to pasta and recently made homemade gnocchi with a friend.

Gnocchi are small potato and flour dumplings served in either a marinara or cream sauce.

You can find fresh or frozen gnocchi in the grocery store, but there is nothing quite so sublime as making your own. It is also a great way to spend the afternoon

with a friend and a bottle of wine.

Gnocchi is a pretty straightforward dish to make. I suggest making lots and freezing it so you have it on hand for the next time company comes over for dinner.

I promise your guests will marvel at these little dumplings, which will only seem better when you tell the tale of slaving for hours making them.

n About 1/2 a cup of grated Parmagiano Reggiano cheese

Method: • Put potatoes whole in salted boiling water. When skins begin to split, remove and allow to cool on a cutting board. When potatoes are cool enough to handle, remove skins and place potatoes through a ricer.

• Add the egg, cheeses and flour. Use a fork to incorporate all the ingredients. You should have a slightly tacky

Ingredients: n 4 medium sized russet potatoes n 1 1/2 cups of all-purpose flour n 1 cup of ricotta cheese n 1 egg

dough.

• Scoop up palm sized portions and begin rolling on a floured surface. You want to roll these out into

cords about half an inch in diameter. (This is where the assistance comes in handy.)

• When cords are rolled out, cut them into little pieces about three quarters of an inch long and then gently score each with the back of a fork.

• Place the gnocchi on a floured cookie sheet. When done, you can take what you need if eating right away and place cookie sheet in freezer.

Wait until gnocchi are frozen

before storing in a bag or container or you will end up with a big doughy mass. To cook gnocchi, boil until they rise to surface of the water and remove quickly.

• For a sauce, I like to use a gorgonzola cream sauce. However, I used St. Agur, which is similar to Gorgonzola. You can find either of these at your local cheese shop. Use about 250 ml of 18 per cent cream and put on medium heat in a pan. When cream starts to bubble, place cheese in and continue stirring until sauce thickens.

• Drop gnocchi in and keep stirring. Add salt and pepper to taste. Serve in pasta bowls and garnish with a couple of basil leaves.

And don’t forget to give kudos to the friend who helped you. Thanks again Krysta!

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Making a difference in Mozambique

Mouth Matters Dorion on Dentistry...

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t 23, Jennifer Middleton’s life was on the wrong track.

She was hanging out with the wrong crowd and saw no doors opening for her future.

That was until 2006, when one big door opened.

The Brantford resident was invited to the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards, a week-long personal development seminar for 19 to 25 year olds offered through Rotary Clubs in Ontario and Western New York.

“It 150 per cent changed my life,” Middleton said.

“If I didn’t go, I wouldn’t be where I am today.”

The seminar challenged Middleton, now 26, to make a difference.

And she did.

That week, she and friend Matt Pomeroy of Burlington created Let Kids Be Kids, a charitable organization dedicated to building a centre for children who have lost their parents to AIDS in Gondola, Mozambique.

“Young people are forced into adulthood to take care of their families when their parents die (of AIDS),” Pomeroy said. “That’s where Let Kids Be Kids was born. Kids are forced to become adults, but the centre is a safe haven

After Hours Urgent Dental Care

Fortunately, in Brant County, if you should find yourself or someone in your family suffering with a true dental emergency there are ways to access care after hours.

The first thing you should do is call your own dental office.

Some dentists have extended office hours into the evening

The on-call dentist may attend to you in the emergency room and provide preliminary treatment there, or they may arrange to see you in their office. The treatment provided by the on-call dentist is meant to relieve pain, infection, control bleeding or to provide stabilization of damaged or dislodged teeth.

Patients are then referred back to their family dentist for follow-up care and definitive treatment. If you do not have a dentist, and the on-call dentist is accepting new patients, you may choose to continue your care with that dentist.

A common misconception is that emergency dental care is covered by OHIP if provided

If you should find yourself or someone in your family suffering with a true dental emergency there are ways to access care after hours. and on weekends. Others may have after hours access numbers so they can respond to emergencies for their own patients.

If you are unable to reach your own dentist or do not have a dentist, the County has an on-call service in which several dentists from our community participate. Access to this service is provided through either the emergency department at the BGH or through the walk-in clinics.

When seen by an emergency physician you may receive treatment then and there in the form of antibiotics and/or pain medication if that is appropriate. If the problem requires the immediate attention of a dentist, the doctor will page the dentist on call.

where they can come and people can look after them.

It’s like a day camp for the kids.”

Within a year, the pair had raised $15,000, enough to start work on the centre.

Four years later, Middleton is heading to Gondola to witness her success.

This will be her second, but

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SPCA Pet of the Week

in the hospital. Unfortunately this is not the case and you will be responsible for the fees incurred for treatment rendered either through your dental benefits plan, or personally if you don’t have a plan.

Of course the best way to deal with a dental emergency is to prevent it from happening in the first place. The use of proper protective gear during contact sports, seeing your dentist for regular check ups and dealing with potential problems early can all go a long way to prevent the aggravation of sitting for hours in a busy emergency room with an ice pack on your face at 2 o’clock in the morning.

Derek This week’s Pet of the Week is a Male Boxer/Shepherd named Derek. This 1 year old was brought in as a stray Derek is a bit shy at first, but becomes very cuddly and is very intelligent. He is also very active, making him perfect for families with children.

Rae Dorian, DDS

Busy weekend at South Brant Legion South Brant Legion has a weekend full of events planned, beginning on Friday with a fish and chips and bingo night, taking place from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. On Saturday, the legion will host a dance featuring Crystal Creek from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.

Sunday will feature an allyou-can-eat breakfast from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The legion is located on Old Highway 24 between Mount Pleasant and Oakland.

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most important, trip to the small African community.

Middleton and Pomeroy will spend a month in Gondola beginning Aug. 15 to oversee the final stages of building the centre and visit with children in the community.

They’ll also be bringing along $700 to purchase essential supplies and clothing from a local distributor to help support the community’s economy.

“You know when you get that tingly feeling inside and you know you’re doing something right? That’s why I’m doing it,” Middleton said.

“Our money can go so far in Mozambique. You don’t realize it until you take the trip yourself how good we have it. I’m looking forward to going back because it will be another reality check.”

Middleton and Pomeroy will make two documentary films during their month in Gondola. One to capture the

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Gondola community and the progression of the Let Kids Be Kids project and a second highlighting African culture and the Rotary Club’s international youth programs.

Both videos will be circulated online and presented to Rotary Clubs in district 7090, which covers Ontario and Western New York.

To help raise money for their trip, Middleton and Pomeroy will be holding a comedy night fundraiser at Club 54 in Burlington. Tickets are $10.

They are also selling three spots for the Dale Carnegie Course, donated by the Dale Carnegie Business Group.

The eight-week business leadership course is valued at $1,500 and can be taken in Burlington or Toronto.

For more information, or to purchase tickets to the fundraiser or a spot in the Dale Carnegie Course, e-mail pomeroy_matt@hotmail.com or call 905-407-3461.

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If you are interested in meeting Derek please contact the Brant County SPCA at www.brantcountyspca.com.

Yours for better dental care,

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rue dental emergencies arise from time to time and can include severe dental pain, rapid swelling, significant post operative bleeding or injuries to the mouth and teeth. Any of these situations require timely intervention and should be treated right away.

However, when an emergency arises after hours or on a weekend, many people are unsure of how to find someone to help.

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A Kiwanis Club of ParisBrant meeting taking place

on Wednesday, July 28, will feature guest speaker Shannon Kyles, founder of the website www.ontarioarchitecture.com, speaking about regency architecture.

The meeting takes place at the County of Brant Public Library, Paris branch, beginning at 6 p.m. Call 519-4423458 or 519-448-4243 for more information.

Church yard sale St. John’s Church, located at 150 Colborne St., will host a yard sale from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, July 31.

The sale includes household items, linens, small appliances, chairs and student items. All proceeds will go to the church.

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Judy Rich, right, of Enterprise Brant, consults with Sherry Short of Personal Balance.

Sara McLellan, Judy Rich, Michael Kirby and Cynthia Swanson look over business planning information at Enterprise Brant.

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indy Swanson joined Enterprise Brant 16 years ago and she still looks forward to going to work every day.

Thanks to Enterprise Brant, hundreds of local residents are feeling the same type of job satisfaction.

“I look around the community and realize that we have touched a lot of businesses,” said Swanson, Enterprise Brant’s general manager. “I

still get excited about it.”

Since incorporating in 1988, Enterprise Brant, a federally funded Community Futures Development program, has helped 836 clients on the self-employment benefits program start 757 new businesses. Today, 520 of those companies are still open and operating, employing about 1,028 people.

Brantford resident Yvonne Shortt was one of those clients.

After losing her job in financial services due to downsizing, Shortt wanted to open a used furniture store similar to one she had

previously operated in Scotland. With the help of the Enterprise Brant administered Ontario Self-Employment Assistance Program, she launched Just Like New on Colborne Street.

The program enables budding entrepreneurs to collect employment insurance during the first months of self-employment. They also receive ongoing counselling and monitoring to ensure their goals are met and their plans are successful.

“I had that guaranteed income, but, with the people at Enterprise Brant, I had

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someone who could give me answers to my questions,” she said. “There are always things that you come up against with a small business. Without their help, I wouldn’t have been able to make a go of it.”

The guidance and advice received from Enterprise Brant professionals are as valuable as the funding the corporation provides, said Brian Sullivan, of Sullivan Bay Sportswear. He was able to open his promotional products business with the help of Enterprise Brant.

“They tell you what you

need to know and how to build a business plan,” he said. “They are much more than just a source of funding.”

Developing a sound business plan helps ensure a business is viable, Swanson said.

“If you are going into business for yourself, the biggest thing is to have a plan,” she said. “Everyone who works here has been self-employed.

They know things don’t always go the way you want them to. You have to think about the what ifs.”

Enterprise Brant helps entrepreneurs develop their business plans in a variety of ways, either through oneon-one consultations, with a business plan creator on its website or through business seminar series.

In addition to helping with job creation, Enterprise Brant has assisted 645 new and existing businesses with over $16 million in loans over the past 21 years.

“We’ve done loans for many reasons, from purchasing a piece of equipment to helping with a down payment on a building, for working capital or extending their credit,” Swanson said.

“What we are interested in is job maintenance and creation. If a small business is going to close because of cash-flow problems and will put people out of work, that’s what we look at.”

Another 231 special community development projects, like the Brantford Arts Block, Harmony Square and Personal Computer Museum, have also benefited from over $3.5 million in grant monies.

“That all falls into community development, which is part of our mandate,” Swanson said. “It ends up having a cumulative effect over the years because a lot of these people then end up contributing back to us as well as to the business community.

It’s a good thing about what we do. It makes the job very rewarding.”

Small businesses and entrepreneurs are also able to make use of Enterprise Brant’s many resources, including laptop computer rentals, on-site computer use, photocopying, trade fair booth rentals and the use of its board room, all free of charge.

For more information visit www.enterprisebrant.com.

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Piovesan, Tyrell Lee

t Brantford on Saturday, July 17, 2010 in his 26th year, Ty Piovesan, loving son of Glenna Young and her husband Tom and the late Mario “Rocky” Piovesan. Much loved brother of Becky and her husband Phil Schuyler, Cory and Brodell Piovesan. Dear step-brother of Lisa and Ryan Young. Loving grandson of John and Beverley Stecko, Betty Piovesan and the late Mario Piovesan. Loving boyfriend of Kelly Hagan. Will be lovingly remembered by his many aunts, uncles and cousins and will be sadly missed by Scuzzy and Molly.

Tyrell Piovesan was a former employee of Noble, where he worked for 4 years. Friends will be received at the McCLEISTER FUNERAL HOME, 495 Park Road North, Brantford on Wednesday 2 – 4 & 7 – 9 p.m.

Funeral Service at Farringdon Independent Church, 287 Mt. Pleasant Road, Brantford on Thursday at 2:00 p.m. Interment at a later date. If wished, memorial donations to Princess Margaret Hospital for Ovarian Cancer or the Weekend Walk to End Women’s Cancer gratefully appreciated. McCleister (519) 758-1553 www.mccleisterfuneralhome.ca

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