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Province to examine SDH cash concerns provide the Ministry with a clear understanding of the overall capital plans Outgoing Sydenham put forward by the AlliDistrict Hospital board ance and a sense of the chair Jeff Wesley is hailing more immediate needs. a decision by the province We look forward to conto take a first-hand look at tinued progress on this the facility as great news. file.” Wesley said it was a “a Wesley met with officials from the Ontario Minis- step forward as the mintry of Health in May to istry will come to Walladiscuss the future of the ceburg and do an evaluation. This campus and is good, as provide in- “(This is) a step forwe will get put from ward as the ministry some claria Wallace- will come to Wallacety on where burg point burg and do an evaluwe stand.” of view. The SDH As a re- ation. This is good, as sult of that we will get some clarity board did not take m e e t i n g , on where we stand.” part in a reW e s l e y - Jeff Wesley cent mergreceived notification from Mi- er in which the Public chelle-Ann Hylton that General Hospital (PGH) “the Ministry is keen and St. Joseph’s Hospion assessing the state of tal (SJH), merged their the facility and getting a boards. Wesley said he sees better sense of the (Chatham-Kent Health) Al- merging the SDH board liance’s overall capital only when the Wallaceplans. As such, officials burg and Walpole Island from the capital branch First Nations communiwill visit the area over the ties believe they have a firm commitment from course of the summer.” Hylton notes that “while the Chatham-Kent Health this does not change the Alliance to the future viastatus of the hospital’s ap- bility of SDH. Continued on page 2 plication, it will serve to
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Chathamites pack RibFest Estimated 30,000-plus attend annual summer food party
tell us,” he said of the estimated attendance to the event. “It’s the highest it’s been so far.” Hillier and his Family Shows Canada Good food and good weather combined to pack Tecumseh Park on the group took over RibFest from the Roweekend, as the annual Chatham Rib- tary Club three years ago. He’s been in the summer food festival business Fest served up a healthy dose of both. Cold beverages and a solid lineup of for more than 25 years. He puts on the London and Windsor RibFests, plus a entertainment never hurts either. Doug Hillier, the man behind RibFest, handful of other summer events in the had hoped for a decent weekend. But London area. He said the London RibFest is the he got more than he bargained for, estimating between 30,000 and 50,000 biggest in the nation, and is where the people took in RibFest between Friday craze all began. Since Hillier took over the Chatham afternoon and Sunday evening. “We can only go by what our vendors event, he has shifted the focus to food from music. In the past, the Rotary Club brought in such acts as April Wine and Kim Mitchell as headline entertainment. The setup for the weekFamily owned business serving end still had entertainment in the band shell, but Chatham-Kent for over 45 years! organizers have moved We offer quality work for affordable prices the rib companies to the - for all your home improvement needs. east side of the park, closer to the stage. “Licensed Builder Contractor” Hillier called the food “Free Estimates” area “the kitchen. Phone 519-692-3897 or visit us at “Every party at your www.stoverconstruction.ca house ends up in the kitchen,” he explained. “Now, the music isn’t the By Bruce Corcoran bruce@chathamvoice.com
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star; the food is the star. Food, we put all our marketing into that.” He described the feedback from the public as “excellent. We haven’t got a negative one yet.” That’s not the same at the other events he puts on. “Sometimes people say the ribs are too much money, but we don’t get that here. We seem to get that in London,” he said. “We like seeing the happy Chathamites. We really
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like this place.” Hillier said he especially enjoys the ambiance of Tecumseh Park, noting a passing boat Sunday brought back memories. “I used to come to this park 26 years ago and have my lunch here once a week. (On Sunday) I saw that boat go by and it added to the charm of using this park,” he said. “Here in Chatham, we very much enjoy the layers of this park.”
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much the area needs the health care provided at the campus,” he said in an interview after the meeting. “What we’re looking for is some sort of assurance that our views and needs are being adequately expressed.” Calls to CKHA President and CEO Colin Patey were not returned.
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Collector car auction testing Chatham waters By Bruce Corcoran bruce@chathamvoice.com
Chatham-Kent loves its classic car shows, and now Dan Spendick wants to see if it will embrace the opportunity to buy and sell such four-wheeled gems. Spendick, who runs Collector Car Productions, is bringing a collector auction to the John D. Bradley Convention Centre July
18. “It’s a brand new sale for us. We produce the Toronto auction. We’ve been doing that for 26 years now. It’s the largest classic car auction in Canada,” he said. The plan is to auction off between 50 and 60 classics and collectibles, he said of the Chatham event. As of late last week, they had close to 50 vehicles lined
up to be sold. Spendick said the convention centre can hold about 65 vehicles in the main hall, so if they end up going past that number, it would mean some of the cars would have to be parked outside and brought in when it was time to auction them off. “We hope to see between 50 and 60 cars for auction. Anything north of that
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will be a bonus,” he said. “We are not looking to set any world records. We’re just doing a nice one-day sale to start off and test the waters.” Most of the cars for sale at this point are from Windsor to Toronto, he said. They include such gems as a 1936 Ford cabriolet, a ’61 ’Vette, ’70 Challenger convertible, a ’76 Trans Am, and even a 2007 Crown Victoria which is decaled to look like a Washington, D.C. squad car. Spendick said it was used in the upcoming movie “Pixels.” His favourite vehicle in the auction to date is a 1940 Ford Coupe. “I’ve been in the business most of my life and I’ve
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never seen a nicer one,” he said. Spendick’s choice is definitely a classic. But the term may not apply to every vehicle in the auction. “Everybody has their own definition of a classic. Twenty-five years old is probably the most common benchmark,” he said. “There is no cut and dried definition. A collector car, however, can be something that is brand new.” Spendick pointed to the Challenger Hellcat or the open-wheeled Plymouth Prowler roadster as late-model vehicles that attract collectors. “We try to maintain a broad range of cars to serve everybody’s interest,” he said. Spendick said the plan is to draw buyers and sellers from across the region, and even outside of the province. “We hope to attract peo-
ple from all over. We have had calls from Michigan. We might have some U.S. buyers by the sounds of it,” he said. “We have a big client base around the GTA (Greater Toronto Area). A lot of them said they are coming out, not as sellers but as buyers.” Spendick said he wants to see interest from the Chatham-Kent populace. “I’m really anxious to find out if the local people – both from the selling and buying standpoint – are interested in something like this,” he said. “This area is known as the classic car capital of Canada. There are cruise nights, car shows, all kinds of activity for people, but no auctions. Maybe Chatham’s ready for a classic car auction.” To see a full list of cars for sale, and to learn more about the auction, visit ccpauctions.com.
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Charge of police neglect to be determined Aug. 6 in Covemaeker case
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A decision on whether three Chatham Kent Police Service members are guilty of neglect of duty will be handed down Aug. 6. Retired OPP Superintendent Robert Fitches concluded a two-day hearing Friday under the Police Services Act into the investigation of a June 2012 assault of a Thamesville man. Joseph Covemaeker was left unrecognizable by an attack by as many as three assailants in the early morning hours of his birthday at a Thamesville residence. He received a concussion, a broken nose, other broken sinus bones, cuts, bruises and a boot print on his back, according to his father, retired OPP constable Albert Covemaeker. One man was charged in the assault, but the Crown Attorney’s office didn’t proceed with the case due to lack of likelihood of a conviction. The hearing came about as
the result of the victim’s father who took the matter to thenCKPS Chief Dennis Poole a month after the investigation. Brian Farmer, representing the CKPS, told the hearing that Albert Covemaeker went to Poole after hearing rumours that someone had paid to have the charges not proceed. That wasn’t the case, however, a lack of communication about the incident led Covemaeker to contact the Office of the Independent Police Review Director (OIPRD). That agency, which is responsible for dealing with public complaints about the police, recommended that the CKPS proceed with a hearing. Farmer told the hearing the investigation by Const. Kelly Helbin was flawed and suffered from a lack of supervision by Staff Sgt. Keith Myers and Sgt. Steve Misik. He said Helbin’s notes failed to meet CKPS standards and key witnesses, including two who might have participated in the attack, weren’t contact-
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ed. Donald said Helbin has adHe said the incomplete re- mitted her notes could have port should been better, but have raised red “We need to make said it was the flags with Hel- sure that the police first time she had bin’s superviinvestigated an uphold their standards, assault. He said sors who didn’t throughouly re- not just for Joe but for her conduct was view her infor- anyone else who is a performance ismation as is their a victim. We should sue but in no way r e s p o n s i b i l i t y expect more than what was neglectful. under the Police He said her suhappened here.” Services Act. perior officers Given the poor - Albert Covemaeker were ready to investigation, he help had they said the Crown could find no known it was required. evidence there was basis for an Albert Covemaeker told the assault charge. hearing that if not for a homeDefence counsel Glen Donald owner intervening in the atsaid although the investigation tack, it is quite possible his wasn’t perfect, it didn’t fall to son could have been killed in the level of neglect, which he which there would have been termed a “very serious charge” under the Police Services Act. He questioned what he called the “evolving” testimony of one of the key witnesses and said Helbin had every right to consider that individual a “dead end.”
“no lack of supervision and support” for the officer. Farmer said the incident points to a “systemic failure” within the CKPS which must be addressed and noted a chain of e-mails which included Inspector Jeff Littlewood and Chief Poole indicated concerns about the investigation which were never satisfactorily resolved. After the hearing, Albert Covemaeker and his wife Mary (Joe’s mother) said they were happy with the fact that they got to tell their story. “We need to make sure that the police uphold their standards, not just for Joe but for anyone else who is a victim,” he said. “We should expect more than what happened here.”
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Busy times in C-K When it comes to how to spend a summer weekend in Chatham-Kent, the most difficult part of the decision is deciding what not to do. We’re fest-obsessed locally with Retro Fest, RibFest, a bicycle fest, the Thamesville Threshing Fest, the Blenheim Cherry Fest, blues fests, Fire Fest and some others. Do you like cars? In addition to Retrofest we have classic car shows in Blenheim, Wallaceburg, Mitchell’s Bay and the granddaddy of them all, the Bothwell Old Autos car show with more than 1,100 vehicles last year. If it’s music you want, the Boot Hill Jamboree near Bothwell, or the Shrewsbury Ribs and Blues Fest are the places to be, and the summer concert series in Wheatley is always a hit. For a different experience, Ridgetown is hosting Art in the Park and Erieau holds Art on the Boulevard. To learn more about native culture, visit the Walpole Island or Moraviantown Pow Wows. Antique boats galore ring the downtown-mooring basin in Wallaceburg for WAMBO. Want to show off your pet? The annual Pet and Hobby Parade in Dresden is the place to be. Is zipping around a midway ride your thing? The Kinsmen Fair was the place to be. Canada Day skies were lit up over Blenheim, Erieau, Wallaceburg and Tilbury and are planned to return to Chatham next year. To revisit our agricultural heritage, there is no finer way to spend a day than at the 140th annual Dresden Exhibition, complete with horse racing. Want to learn more about the area’s rich black heritage? Visit the north Buxton Homecoming. These events all have a few things in common. They’re almost all volunteer-driven activities with scores of community-minded individuals who make them work. Many of them help local community groups such as those in Mitchell’s Bay and Shrewsbury, service clubs such as the Optimists in Blenheim, The Knights of Columbus and others in Wallaceburg, The Kinsmen in Dresden and so on. Those groups in turn help many more activities. That’s the way we do things around here and we should be proud of it.
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More questions than answers Editor’s note: This letter is addressed to municipal council. Sir: Please explain the following from the June 22 meeting: • It was argued that amortization of the loan taken to finance the Bradley Centre is not an operating cost. Whaaat? The history of convention centres is that once they are fully amortized they require major refurbishment amounting to rebuilding, or are simply demolished. How much did we get for the Kinsmen Auditorium? By the end of the amortization period the building housing the Bradley Centre will be the approximate age the Kinsmen Auditorium was and can be expected to have that same negative market value. That being the case, the $640,000 annual amortization is truly an operating cost to be fully charged to the center and the true total
annual cost exceeds $1 million. • Three floors of the Holiday Inn Express aren’t habitable, so we can’t accommodate large conventions. Whaaat? Was that the deal when the Centre was planned? Can it be corrected? Do we provide shuttles to the inns at Bloomfield and Richmond, and to the Retro-Suites? • There aren’t enough good places to eat in Chatham to handle large conventions. Whaaat? There’s a row of decent places to eat, including one of the highest rated restaurants in Southwestern Ontario, right across Keil Drive from the Centre. Trouble is there’s five lanes of traffic to cross and no crosswalks or pedestrian islands. For other dining farther away, how about a shuttle? Do we provide guests with lists and maps to the Thai, Indi-
an, Japanese, Portuguese, Italian, Chinese, Mexican, steak house and fine Canadian dining options available? If in fact there is a shortage of accommodation and dining options, does that mean that Chatham is too small for a convention centre like the Bradley and we should convert parts of it to other uses? • A 2% annual inflationary tax increase is all that can be afforded for the next three years. Whaaat? If that’s the rate of inflation, workers will generally be getting that much income increase. Even those depending on CPP and OAS will get inflationary increases. So the inflationary tax increase is no increase at all in terms of percentage of taxpayers’ total income; and the tax report clearly shows that it isn’t enough to maintain municipal
services to citizens. • A format for strategic planning for 2016 might be available in July, but if not in August. Whaaat? Council is into almost weekly non-strategy meetings starting in mid-September. A decent strategy planning program will require several long, tough council meetings, followed by a lot of staff work to convert the outcomes to business plans and convert the business plans to budgets. Ideally that should be preceded by surveys and focus groups with stakeholders (front-line staff and citizens). If done seriously, the result will be major changes in municipal action priorities and related budgets. That all can’t be done in a few days at the end of August, and citizens deserve that the process; it should not be short-changed. John Sigurjonsson Chatham
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Keep an eye on Chatham’s cenotaph downtown Sir: I just felt I had to reply about the letters to the editor written in the July 2 Chatham Voice. First, the letter by John Willatt. It all sounds nice to have a nice City Square, market, etc. But can you imagine how much that property at Fourth and Wellington streets would cost to purchase from Dan Warrener and Victor Boutin as you suggest, plus moving the cenotaph to that location? More people in Chatham have expressed their opinions – leave it where it is. On Nov. 11, 90-year-old-plus veterans right now don’t have too far to march, and Korean vets are pretty well
over 80 years of age. At present, we don’t have to block any streets for the march. Maybe it isn’t respectful for people to make a U-turn around it – better that than to have it pretty well out of sight to be vandalized. The second letter written by Stephen Beecroft – you have said it all and how right you are. There must be a solution to U-turns around the cenotaph. It would be cheaper to have a police patrol there through most daylight hours.
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Bus to seniors’ fair appreciated Sir: CK Transit does care! Kudos to you, Jarrod and Joel, for making it possible so I could attend the recent Senior Fair in Blenheim. The bus you provided had just gone through a wash and was spotless. But it was a disappointment to you because you had expected a couple of bus loads. As it turned out, thereSP_Chatham_4.5x7.714_061715.pdf was only myself and a gentleman that took advantage
of the free ride to attend the Senior Fair. It wasn’t for lack of knowledge; there were posters in every bus (for weeks). Perhaps next year will be better. Please do not give up on us seniors – we definitely need your generosity. Thanks again.
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Hiking, walking, strolling, C-K has it for you By Jim Blake jim@chathamvoice.com
Taking a page from the “if you build it, they will come” philosophy, the Chatham-Kent Trails Council and the municipality are embarking on a public information drive to inform local residents about the number of walking trails in the community. Dianne Flook, chair of the Chatham-Kent Trails Committee, said there are more than 40 trails across Chatham-Kent, encompassing something for every walker. “We have urban trails, trails which go through woodlands, wetlands, parks and just about anything you could think of,” she said. “You could
walk a different trail every day for a month and not duplicate your walk.” A Chatham-Kent Trail map booklet has been published this year by the municipality and is available at every municipal service centre and library. In co-operative efforts with the local school boards, elementary school students took home copies earlier this year. The booklet is also available online at chatham-kent.ca/trails The booklet contains a page for each trail with a map and information with the length, width, surface, running slope and cross slope. “Walking is the one of the cheapest, most simple and effective ways of keeping yourself fit,”
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Wells completes his third journey, raises $8,000-plus
By Jim Blake jim@chathamvoice.com
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Don Wells can now take some time to rest up after completing his third Journey of Hope recently, despite suffering a broken leg in May.
Don Wells may be tired, sore, limping and one year older, but he’s happy he was able to complete his third Journey of Hope recently. The Wallaceburg area resident managed to walk a portion of his 160-kilometre journey from Port Lambton to Windsor, wrapping up the fundraising and awareness effort on his 66th birthday.
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He broke his right leg in late May, a month before he embarked on the walk, but still managed to collect more than $8,000 in donations to the Canadian Cancer Society for childhood leukemia. “If I hadn’t been laid up for a month, I think we would have made $12,000,” he said. “I don’t have the figure for what people donated online to the Cancer Society, but I know we ended up with more than last year.” Wells, who has prostate cancer, credited his crew with helping along the way and walking when he couldn’t. “I already know I’m in trouble with my surgeon in London for doing any walking but I think he’ll forgive me.” Last year, Wells undertook a 2,100-kilometre E-Bike journey from Wallaceburg to Kingston to Owen Sound and back home to benefit breast and prostrate cancer. He raised more than $5,000, but believes the awareness factor had a value several times that amount. Wells’ journey began in Port Lambton June 22. He travelled through Walpole Island, Wallaceburg, Dresden, Chatham and Windsor (at the Brentwood Recovery Home) and ended at the Windsor Tunnel. Brentwood has special meaning to Wells, as it was at that facility he found sobriety more than 30 years ago. He said it’s too soon to tell if he will undertake another journey, but whatever life holds, he won’t be idle. “I need to rest for a while and get everything stabilized,” he said. “When I’m feeling better there will be something for me to do. There are lots of issues out there.”
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Snakebite gets into the blood Band releases first CD, continues to pile up music awards By Jim Blake jim@chathamvoice.com
Marty Marsh has spent years writing, arranging and vocalizing songs in his mind, on paper and in the studio – just don’t ask him to sing them in public. The primary songwriter for the emerging country band Snakebite can’t sing and he’s not bashful about it. “I’ll record myself, hear how it sounds in my head and then play it back and go wow, that is seriously off key,” he laughed. Luckily Marsh is in with the right bunch of fellows as his band mates take his songs and make them popular – so much in fact that the band recently released its first CD, My Road.
Recorded in Cambridge with noted Canadian producer Scott McQuaig, the ten songs on the CD reflect Marsh’s life during the past several years. “I didn’t intend for that to happen but when I played some tracks for a friend that’s what he noticed,” he said. Honours and awards are beginning to pile up for the band, recently named Artist of the Month by the Country Music Association of Ontario. The band has been together ten years in one form or another, having been formed by guitarist Marsh and lead singer Paul Lowry, both from Bothwell. London rock bassist James Vermue, joined two years later and the band “went through 13
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The local boys in the band SnakeBite have recently released their first CD.
drummers” before Shawn Tasker joined along with guitarist Eric Demuynck in 2013. “The band has really clicked for the past two years,” Marsh said. “The guys really bring out the best in each other.” Named London’s “Best country band” in 2014, the group has played more than 200 shows in the last two years. While honing its sound, the band covered material from Blake Shelton, Luke Bryan and Florida Georgia Line. The debut single from My Road, “All Night Long” has reached number 81 on Canadian Country Radio charts. Performing from Windsor to Sudbury playing everything from clubs, fall fairs, tractor pulls and country-themed weddings have strengthened
the group. Snakebike has played alongside country music stars such as Shelton, Lonestar, Jason McCoy, Kentucky Headhunters, Jo-Dee Messina, and Jason Blaine. “You can learn a lot from watching that caliber of talent,” Marsh said. “Our goal is to get the audience in a good mood and leave them wanting more.” The sky’s the limit for the band’s style of rock and roll country with four-part harmony. “We love to perform and we love the rush that comes from a good performance,” Marsh said. “It can be hard work but in the end, it’s worth every minute.” The group will be playing a performance at the St. Clair College Capitol Theatre Oct. 17.
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Friday, July 17, 2015 • Movie Night with Terry featuring the film Terry - a story of the Marathon of Hope that started April 12, 1980 and ended with the news that cancer returned on September 1, 1980. Come and share this event with us to mark the 35th Anniversary of the date Terry Fox was closest to Chatham-Kent(London). chathamterryfoxrun@ gmail.com. • Meal and fun darts at The Chatham Legion, William & Colborne St., Chatham. Dinner 5:30pm-7:00pm with choice of chicken and ribs, roast beef or fish and chips for $8.00. One meat draw. Everyone Welcome. Saturday, July 18, 2015 • St. Clair River Run. This certified race presented by CF Industries, is a chip-timed 10km run and 5km walk/run following the shore of the St. Clair River through the villages of Sombra and Port Lambton. Register www.stclairriverrun.ca. All proceeds to the maintenance of the St. Clair River Trail.
Quite the food weekend in C-K Now that was a great weekend in Chatham-Kent. The weather was perfect for RibFest. I slid over there Friday for an early bird’s view of the event. I was just one of more than 30,000 people to take in the great food and good times over the course of the weekend. The ribbers were just getting warmed up. They win awards for the quality of their food, but for showmanship as well. Boss Hogg’s Cole Beadle was busy flipping ribs over the flames, and pouring sauce on them from a ridiculous height, but he was saving his vocal chords for the weekend, when the hawking began in earnest. He, his teammates, and his competitors were indeed busy, as “the kitchen” – the area in front of the ribbers where people lined up for the succulent ribs, as dubbed by organizer Doug Hillier – filled up on the weekend.
Bruce Corcoran And they say there’s nothing to do in Chatham-Kent. Beadle treated me to a sample of Boss Hogg’s ribs. I’ve only made ribs on my Big Green Egg once so far, and, if I could somehow match the Boss Hogg flavour – which earned top choice from the judges on the weekend – I’d be a very happy man. I also ran into the one and only Jorge Gonzalez at RibFest. He runs Gonzalez Authentic Latin Food, the food truck usually located in front of the Downtown Chatham Centre.
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• Mitchell’s Bay 4th Annual Antique Car, Truck, Motorcycle and Tractor Show (Pre-1995) 11am-5pm Mitchell’s Bay Park, Mitchell’s Bay, Ontario. Vendors, food concession, bouncy castle and more. Admission is free! Only $10 to register your vehicle. Great fun for the entire family! For more info www.mitchellsbay. org. • East Side Pride Annual Golf Tournament, 10:00am at Countryview Golf Course. Fun for all - men’s and ladie’s prizes! $65 per person. Includes 18 holes, cart and BBQ (Hamburgers/ Dogs and side dishes). Shot gun start. Scramble. Register at mcrew@eastsidepride.ca. • Yard sale at Zion Christian Church. 820 Park Ave. West, Chatham. Early morning. • Meat draw and dance at The Chatham Legion, William & Colborne St., Chatham. Meat draw from 4:00pm-6:00pm, dance from 4:00pm10:0pm featuring Allen James. Sunday, July 19, 2015 • Dresden Christian Ministerial Association presents Sunday Evening in the Park at 7:00pm with Jeff Vercauteren & Tim Nishimura at Jackson Park Dresden. What do chalk, mud, pool noodles, snakes and ladders, sandpaper and Minecraft all have in common? They are all part of CKPL’s Totally Terrific Tuesdays! Join us each Tuesday at 6:00 pm all summer long in the Chatham Branch, Children’s Room for fun! All ages are welcome and no registration is required. Come and see what fabulous activities are waiting for you! Submit your coming events to bruce@chathamvoice.com or michelle@chathamvoice.com
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Simply a meatlover’s paradise Continued from page 12
But Jorge also hits special events in the region, including RibFest and the London International Food Festival. He loves to cook, and the passion flows through into his food. I got a taste of the pork and beef he was cooking. Great bark on the outside, nice and moist on the inside, with great flavour throughout (as usual). So I went to RibFest for some photographs and left with a full belly. Win, win. Such great barbecued food Friday was sandwiched between some home cooking. We did up a couple of pork tenderloins Thursday, with baked potatoes and grilled peppers. The first tenderloin was done with a light Dijon mustard coating and Swamp Venom rub, while the second had Worchester sauce and Pineapple Head seasoning. The Swamp Venom is a traditional
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pork seasoning with a little bit of heat, while the Pineapple Head is slightly sweeter and carries only a little zing. Both turned out amazing. I couldn’t tell you which tenderloin tasted better. But I can say the flavours were very different. The tenderloins also showed me how much our daughter pays attention. She loves what comes off the Big Green Egg at home. When she looked at the tenderloins after I’d cut a slice off each end, she said exactly what I was thinking: “Nice smoke rings!” A smoke ring is literally a ring around the meat created during low-andslow cooking as wood smoke reacts with the meat. It’s sought after for presentation purposes, but for me I look at it as a sign of flavour penetration too. So with tenderloin Thursday, ribs Friday, and leftover tenderloin Saturday, I followed up
with a brisket on Sunday. My wife and I drove over to Buis Beef just outside Chatham last week, and looked into fridges and freezers loaded with beef cuts of all kinds. We had never done a brisket before, and purchased a small four pounder to see what we could do. We used a liberal amount of coffee rub on the meat, letting it work its way into the brisket overnight Saturday. Sunday morning, on it went at a low 235 F. Once it hit 160 F, we pulled the meat off and wrapped it in tinfoil, adding about six ounces of a coffee, garlic, barbecue sauce concoction my wife made, and put it back on the grill. I had planned to cook the brisket to about 200 F, but an impromptu deck party in the backyard of friends Chad and Charlene left me impatient. The brisket had stalled at 170 F – passed the point where the meat was cooked, but not to where
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Jorge Gonzales of Gonzalez Authentic Latin Food shows off beef and pork he cooked up for RibFest.
I wanted it to go (generally, when you cook meat low and slow, the closer you get to 190-200 F, the more tender the meat). After a quick chat with Sensei Jeff, I decided to
pull the brisket off the Egg, wrap it up and join the party three hours late. It was awesome! Great flavour and quite tender. It was perfect for sandwiches, but I also cut
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Tammy Craeymeersch, the 1991 Threshing Festival Queen, waves to the crowd during the parade to open the 40th version of the festival Friday night.
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