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It’s not an unusual sentiment for one spouse to say of another that they “saved my life.” But when Tom Heath says it, the phrase takes on a very literal meaning.

Tom and his wife, Helen, were vacationing earlier this month when Tom went into cardiac arrest near Madison, Wis. For the next 25 minutes, his life hung in the balance.

“We had pulled into a rest stop and I was about to take over driving from Tom,” Helen said. “I looked over at him and it was obvious he was in medical distress. I knew I had to do CPR, but I couldn’t do it until I got him out of the car.”

As Helen began to move her six-foot-plus husband, a couple in the car next to them noticed something was wrong.

“I gave the woman my cell phone and asked her to call 911. I started CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) right away,” Helen said.

As a crowd gathered, the woman asked if anyone else knew CPR. A nurse came forward to help. Helen and the nurse alternated chest compression and breathing into Tom’s airway.

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Volunteers, from left, Aaren Laprise, Elizabeth Sterling and Hannah Daudlin stand inside the Chatham Railroad Museum on Saturday.

More than 250 visitors came out to the carriage on McLean Street for the 25th annual William Glassco Railroad Fun Day. Named after one of the late museum’s founders, the free event offered a chance to learn about railroad safety, have your face painted, and it served as a reminder to visitors just how much railroad life has changed. Summer curator Erika Broadbent encourages the community to stop by for a visit before the museum closes for the season after Saturday.

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“Time didn’t have any meaning to me,” Helen said. “It was 20 to 25 minutes before police and EMS arrived and took over, but it seemed like a moment in time.”

After police applied automated external defibrillators, Tom was rushed by ambulance to the University of Wisconsin Hospital in Madison and actually woke up en route.

“I went from feeling dizzy and passing out to waking up in the ambulance,” Tom said.

“Doctors were amazed that I woke up. At the hospital I was told they were prepping an ice bath to cool me down to prevent brain damage.’

For the next five days, Tom remained in hospital while his situation stabilized. He was then flown by medical jet to London, Ont., and taken to

hospital where an implantable cardioverter defibrillator was placed in his chest.

He’s at home now with orders to rest for the next two months, but in much better shape.

“Helen’s always been a hero to me, but now even more,” he said. “All of the medical personnel have said I’m alive because of the CPR. She saved my life, no question about it.

She doesn’t like the spotlight, but this time there is no doubt she deserves it.”

Helen said her enduring memories are of the couple (John and Erin) who was next to them at the rest centre, the nurse who helped, and all of the medical and emergency personnel.

“I had no idea where I was going in Madison, so John drove me there and Erin followed,” she said. “Erin said she felt so helpless at the scene because she didn’t know CPR. She did a lot in my eyes, but she told me she’s enrolling in a CPR course because she didn’t want to ever feel helpless like that again.”

Helen is also grateful that as a long-time staff

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And then there were four – as in the number of people who are running for mayor in Chatham-Kent this fall.

Jeff Bultje is the latest person to come forward.

He filed his papers Monday morning.

Bultje joins Marjorie Crew, Reno Lachapelle and John Willatt as the people who have announced they are seeking the top seat in council chambers.

Four council candidates filed their nomination papers last week, and one early this week.

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day to seek re-election in South Kent. He joins four others who have filed in South Kent, Ward 2.

Sheldon Parsons, incumbent for Wallaceburg, Ward 5, announced Aug. 15 he will seek re-election.

Parsons and two others have come forward to run in Ward 5 to date.

On Aug. 14, Marc Reid and incumbent Joe Fass announced they’re running in North Kent, Ward 4, joining Leon Leclair, another incumbent.

In Chatham, Matthew McReynolds became the 16th person to announce his intentions to run for one of the six Chatham council seats.

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 2014

Open-air fitness

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Outdoor fitness equipment installed in Kingston Park

By Bruce Corcoran bruce@chathamvoice.com

Kingston Park has its splash pad, walking trails, multiple play sets for the kids, toboggan hill, picnic areas, and more.

But now the “more” includes outdoor fitness equipment.

Deb Veccia, supervisor of parks in Chatham, said the equipment is going in as a partnership between the municipality and the Chatham-Kent Public Health Unit. The health unit is covering the cost of the apparatus, while the municipality pays for the surfacing below and around it.

Total price for the project is about $50,000.

The equipment, located near the middle of the park, could be available for use by the public as early as later this week.

Veccia said there is really no reason to sit still at Kingston Park.

“This came out of an initiative driven by the health unit to try to promote healthy, active families. They approached us last year,” she said. “This fits nicely into the overall theme of Kingston Park – ‘Move, Splash, Explore.’ This is part of the

‘Move.’”

The equipment is designed in three pods. There’s one for cardio/aerobic workouts, another for strength, and one for balance. There is a mix of equipment for adults and children, Veccia said.

And it’s high-tech.

“Each piece of equipment is smartphone ready. If you put your smartphone in it, it will keep track of your fitness progress,” she said.

There are also QR codes on the equipment, so people can scan the codes and access videos on how to properly use the apparatus.

The devices are stainless steel, Veccia said, so they are very low maintenance, and there are no external moving parts. The equipment is manufactured by a company called Norwell.

“The equipment is out of Europe. It is just now breaking into the North American market,” she said.

Its functionality and style fit Kingston Park, she said, alluding to the park’s motto for the former, and pointing to the steel playground equipment for the latter.

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As for the surface below the equipment, she said it is Rubaroc, a compound made of recycled rubber.

“It gives them a nice, soft surface to use and to walk on. It’s low maintenance for us; it’s very neat and tidy,” she said.

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 2014

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Residents irked over speeders

Speeding down secondary roadways continues to be a problem in Chatham.

Residents on Woods Street are tired of all the speeding and burnouts taking place on their street.

Mary Galloway said it is at times like a racetrack out there.

“They’ve been flying up

and down here. We have a lot of children on the street,’” she said.

Galloway isn’t alone in her thoughts.

Longtime Woods Street resident Art Barnes described the speeding problem as “brutal.

“It usually goes on all day. It’s a thoroughfare,” he said of the street.

Galloway and Barnes said there are times when

drivers will slow down, just to screech off again.

“Kids have been doing burnouts down the street,” Barnes said.

“I’ll be on the porch.

They’ll just gun it and smile at me,” Galloway said.

Another Woods Street resident, Jason Pelkey, said it’s not just young drivers in little souped-up cars either.

“Sometimes a motorcycle goes by so fast you’re not sure what it was,” he said.

The residents complained to police. When The Chatham Voice visited the street to talk to residents, a police cruiser pulled up and the officer asked the citizens how traffic flow was that evening. During our time on site, flow was conservative.

The police had beefed up

their presence on the street and it appeared to have an impact.

The residents are hopeful this will help keep the speeds down, but they would like to see a fourway stop go in at Montgomery Drive, a small side street that links Woods Street to Sandys Street to the east. They say a lot of children cross Woods Street there to go to the various schools in the area.

“A lot of people will turn down this street to avoid the light on Sandys Street,” Galloway said of the traffic signal at Sandys and Fielder Avenue, only a couple of car lengths south of where Montgomery links up with Sandys.

“There is no school crossing down here (on Woods Street).

“Someone’s going to get hurt. It will be a sad day if a child gets killed on this street.”

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“There was some time sensitivity to the decision making,” said South Kent Coun. Art Stirling.

“They’re still very much in negotiation mode.”

McFadden said the meeting was fruitful, as staff received some guidance from the elected overseers.

Stirling expects the matter to come back to council either in open session or in an open special meeting in early September.

Council privately ponders rail line

Municipal staff and council members aren’t saying much about the Aug. 13 closed session of council.

Council met to receive an update on negotiations to sell the former CSX Rail line that runs from Chatham to just north of Wallaceburg. The municipality purchased the line last fall, in partnership with CP, which has salvage rights for the steel rails if a buyer isn’t found.

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Baldoon Golf Course could wind up as farmland

By Jim Blake jim@chathamvoice.com

Jack Adamson has been a member of the Baldoon Golf Club for 55 years and he’s been in charge of the senior men’s league for the past 24. All of that may end this fall with the planned closure of the Wallaceburg-area course.

“It’s a damned shame, but I don’t think anything can be done about it,” he said Friday as he headed out for a round.

“I don’t blame Jim (owner Jim Hawryluk), but it doesn’t make me any happier about it.”

Adamson, now 87, has been a longtime supporter of the club that he said means much more to the town than just a golf course.

“We’re losing a lot of things,” he said. “I feel like we’ve lost the hospital, we lost all kinds of industry, but this course has been with us through thick and thin.”

Wallaceburg area farmer Scott Kilbride, who plans to turn it back into farmland, has purchased the 96-acre course. The property must undergo severance and zoning procedures.

Adamson said the course was “kind of adopted” by the town.

Although it has been privately owned, it wasn’t unusual to see volunteers helping out in years gone by.

“When they put in the back nine (holes) about 20 years ago, I was one of a group of people who helped plant trees there,” he said. “It was “our” course and there were a lot of good

times here.

Founded in 1930 in the depths of the Great Depression, by a group of Wallaceburg professionals, the nine-hole course even featured a small motel and a pool for a number of years.

“It was quite the place in its day,” Adamson said.

He said he’s had offers to move the seniors’ league to another local course, but Baldoon was central to the north Kent and south Lambton members, “Time will tell,” he said. “At this point I’m not sure what will happen.”

The Hawryluk family has owned the course for 13 years.

It was owned and managed by current owner Jim’s son Mike, who died unexpectedly at age 39 in 2009.

“Mike ‘s death was tragic in so many ways,” he said. “There’s no way to tell what might have happened if he hadn’t left us.”

Jim said the financial crunch for golf courses began in 2007.

“We’ve never really recovered from that. Our membership was 300 and now it’s half of that.”

He said he feels badly that the course will become farmland, but noted that he’s tried to sell it for several years without success.

“Everyone’s sad that it’s being closed, but we couldn’t sell it even though we came close a number of times. The golf business is a tough one right now.”

The course was listed at $3.5 million in 2011 and 18 months later the asking price was $1.75 million. Neither Hawryluk nor Kilbride would disclose the

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The Baldoon Golf Club, a fixture just west of Wallaceburg since the 1930s, could soon be tilled under. Scott Kilbride, left, is purchasing the property from Jim Hawryluk, centre. Meanwhile, Melissa Gaylard, right plans to continue running a restaurant and banquet facility on site.

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Kilbride, who currently farms “We plan to remain true to the 700 acres of corn, wheat and Baldoon heritage and the name soybeans, said he isn’t certain of the restaurant will likely exactly what crop he will plant. have Baldoon in it,” she said.

“I expect this will be some of “We’ve developed a strong the best land I own, but I haven’t finalized a plan for it yet.”

He said he wants to be environmentally conscious in developing the property.

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Food, and food for thought As the old saying goes, “it’s not bragging if you can do it,” and when it comes to agriculture, we’ve got plenty of bragging to do.

The third annual C-K table event will be held Sept.

7, and provides a chance for local agricultural products to take centre stage.

The event features a professionally prepared meal using only local ingredients, and booths of Chatham-Kent’s finest products for sale.

Agriculture has been a pillar of the local economy, and its importance should only grow as the emphasis on food quality increases. At a time when employment is outsourced overseas in the blink of an eye, no one can outsource land and climate. It is vitally important that we recognize that, celebrate it and take steps to protect it.

That’s one of the event’s goals. Proceeds from the dinner are used to fund www.growingchefsontario. ca, which aims in uniting chefs, growers, educators and the community in developing food education.

You can learn more about the event at cktable.ca

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It will be interesting to see if the next Chatham-Kent council re-examines the option of Ontario Provincial Policing as a way to reduce expenses in the wake of a new OPP cost model being rolled out for 2015.

Preliminary estimates that some Essex County municipalities using the OPP will see a reduction, but until a majority of new council members decide they should actually look at the issue, we won’t know if anything could be saved here.

Earlier this year Chatham-Kent council adopted the “we know what we know” approach and didn’t want to even hear discussion about the subject.

Meanwhile, an exploratory effort by some Lambton County municipalities to use Chatham-Kent Police Service instead of the OPP has been abandoned.

Brooke-Alvinston Mayor Don McGugan said savings couldn’t be found but was glad his municipality looked into it since, as municipal leaders, “we need to look at all the options.”

Apparently open minds don’t necessarily lead to open wallets, something which might be noted locally.

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Opinion

Rondeau a shadow of its former self Sir: I remember my first time going to Rondeau Park. It was 1952 and I was just a small boy. I was so excited!

My grandfather had a cottage on the bay side since the 1930s.

I remember walking on these old water-soaked boards to the bay, with reeds and cattails on either side. The water was so clear that you could see all the underwater creatures swimming about.

Back at the cottage, my

grandfather was busy tending to the rock garden that he had set up, and my aunts were busy making fresh treats for supper.

As I grew older, I spent many summer holidays there; fishing, hiking, swimming and riding horses. It was a beehive of activity, and the shelters were filled to capacity every weekend. There were full campgrounds, people just having an ice

cream cone and going for a stroll on the big dock, people playing mini golf, and some riding bikes built for two. I loved it!

It was also great for Kent County.

Now it’s just sad. Most activities are no longer available and you have to pay almost $20 just to take a stroll in the park. This in turn is keeping the people away.

The government seems

to want the park to return to only trees and wildlife.

Why shouldn’t we be able to enjoy the park the way I remember enjoying it in my childhood? This just seems like a waste, not to let future generations enjoy it the way we have in the past.

How have things gone so wrong? Was it poor voting choices? I would like to know!

John Gordon Chatham

Pedestrians, cyclists battle for sidewalk space Sir: In answer to Frank Doyle’s letter in the July 30 edition of The Chatham Voice, how great to have freedom of speech and the press in this great country. So I’m sorry, Frank Doyle, if letters to the editor seem like there’s a war on the streets. Right on. There is.

It’s not that simple when you say, “If something is bigger than you, and moves faster and

comes at you, move out of the way.”

I have nearly been knocked down three times.

One of these times I did jump out of the way.

Two cyclists were on a sidewalk, two abreast. I thought they were going on the grass shoulder.

Being over 80, I should not be expected to jump out of their way.

The other time, I was coming off a bus out-

side St. Andrew’s Retirement. A bike was speeding along Park Street that nearly hit me. Another time, I was just going to get off a bus at St. Clair Street and Grand Avenue going north when a bike was zooming down the sidewalk on St. Clair. If the bus driver had not called, “Watch the bike,” and I had moved off that bus at that moment, there

sure would have been the cyclist or me hurt – or both.

I have this to say: It’s against the law for adults to ride on the sidewalk, so it seems to me that laws are being broken.

Walking from Charteris Street to Park Street, I counted eight bikes on a sidewalk. No wonder there’s war on the streets.

Ruth Draper Chatham

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Woman ‘grows’ her own butterflies Douglas releases them into the wild to help bolster numbers

Linda and husband Patrick believe the decline in butterflies is in part due to the use of neonics, a type of agriculThe backyard of a north Chatural chemical that has been tham home became a little bit linked to widespread honeymore beautiful recently with bee deaths. the release of nine butterflies, The black swallowtail butcourtesy of a Chatham woman terflies eat only parsley, while who’s made their propagation a monarchs eat milkweed. joyful hobby.

While raising swallowtails Linda Douglas has been raising Linda purchased some parsley monarch and black swallowtail The monarch butterfly at a grocer only to see half of butterflies for the past three years in response to a marked decline in the the group she fed die shortly after eating it.

“I washed it but I obviously couldn’t get the colourful insects.

She’s released more than 200 into the wild chemical off the plant,” she said. “It’s never and has an 80% survival rate from egg to happened with the parsley I grow here.”

Douglas has planted milkweed and other adulthood. In the wild, the survival rate is butterfly-friendly plants in her backyard and 1-2%.

“I’ve always loved butterflies but I have she keeps meticulous records on each insect.

“I keep the records because I like to, but anybeen seeing fewer and fewer of them,” she said. “This year we’ve seen even less than one who likes butterflies can put the plants in their yard and attract them,” she said. ever before.”

Earlier this year, the provincial government Douglas’ foray into “growing butterflies,” as she calls it, happened when she found a took milkweed off the noxious weed list, alcaterpillar while pulling parsley from her lowing it to be planted. Several municipalities have begun planting it due to the fact that backyard garden.

“I took it off the plant but went back later it attracts monarch butterflies.

Linda has written the premier to support and got it, put it in a jar and went online to a ban on neonics. The province is currently see what it was,” she said.

It turned out to be a black swallowtail, one studying use of the chemicals and is looking of nearly two-dozen varieties of butterfly that at possible restrictions by 2015.

“There is lots of evidence that these chemiare found locally.

Since then, she has converted a spare room cals are harmful to a number of species. They in her home where she keeps butterflies as shouldn’t be in use unless we’re certain the they go through the various stages from egg good outweighs the harm,” she said. to caterpillar through chrysalis.

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Life

Don’t renege on democracy

The Oct. 27 municipal election is more than two months away. Over the next nine or so weeks, you are going to read a great deal in The Chatham Voice about us urging you to be sure to get out and cast your ballot.

As I type this, there are 47 people who have come forward to seek a seat on council or one of our school boards. And there will be more.

We have four people vying for mayor so far, 34 running for 17 council seats, and nine more looking to become school board trustees.

I thank them all for their commitment to our municipality, our communities and our children.

Certainly, not all will win come Oct. 27, but they have illustrated how much they care about their communities by putting their names forward to seek public office.

It’s no simple task. If you win, you essentially take on a part-time job – some would say a spot on council is much more than parttime, actually. You answer to basically everyone you see on the street, in the coffee shop, at the grocery store, at a restaurant when you are out to dinner with your family, or at the beach.

Bruce Corcoran It’s a tall task to be a local politician.

And then there is the electorate – you and I, the people who have the power to decide who will represent us in local government for the next four years. In 2010, voter turnout across Ontario was just over 49%, and a disgraceful sub-40% in Chatham-Kent.

Six out of every 10 eligible Chatham-Kent voters didn’t exercise their democratic right.

We at The Voice want to see that number creep higher.

Surely we can have the majority – 50% plus one – head to the polls this time around.

Or are so many of you so content with the way things are run around here, or so contemptuous of the people who take the time and effort to run for office, that you either don’t feel the need to vote, or rather just don’t want to do so?

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Yard-sale etiquette

My daughter and I went out briefly hunting for deals Saturday morning, moving from yard sale to yard sale.

I didn’t expect much, as we got off to a late start (in yard-sale mode, 9:30 a.m. is late), so I wasn’t surprised when the only thing we came home with was a clock radio for her room.

What we did encounter at most every stop were poor parking habits. This plagues yard sales everywhere.

People pull up and park, oblivious to which side of the street allows parking and which side prohibits it.

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After a Union Gas contractor explained the details and income eligibility criteria for the utility’s home weatherization program, Judith filled out an application, photocopied her Notice of Assessment from last year’s tax return and mailed it in.

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Life Lilly donation brightens parks

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Municipal gardens throughout Chatham-Kent will be a little prettier thanks to the donation of 100 daylilies by Cathy and Giles Boynowski of Dreamy Daylilies. Linda McBrayne of the Chatham-Kent Horticultural Department said the lilies are a variety of colours. Here, summer student Morgan Medd plants some at Collins Park in Chatham.

Parking bylaws do apply Continued from page 9

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 2014

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Local lads taking skills to France When you’re 6,000 kilometres from home, a connection

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to where you come from is a good thing. As Dresden’s Wes Cunningham, and Wallaceburg’s Jamie Vanderveeken look out across the ice next season in France, where they will play professional hockey in Ligue Magnus, the country’s top league, they’ll see that connection in each other.

Cunningham and Vanderveeken, who both played professionally in North America last season, signed in July with the Rouen Dragons and Amiens Gothics respectively in France for the 2014-2015 season. Although both, who grew up only 10 minutes from each other and played minor hockey against one another are far from home, each has played in Europe before, and are excited for the culture shock that awaits.

“I had a great experience my first time overseas and when this opportunity came about it was one I couldn’t really turn down,” says Vanderveeken, who was sixth among league

scoring for defenseman with “Anytime you go to a dif41-points for the Central Hock- ferent country you have to ey League’s Brampton Beast adapt,” says Cunningham, a last season. former ECHL all-star, who had “I think that 26-points with my experience “I figured why not try EuBakersfield last over there be- rope again while I’m young season. “It will fore will defibe different nitely help me enough to experience the and knowing adapt a little culture and have the oppor- there is a laneasier, but it’s tunity to get paid for it. I figguage barrier a new coun- ured I’d try another country it will be tough try and dif- and another league, and just for a while. “ ferent culture Being Caso I will just see what happens..” nadian, and have an open - Wes Cunningham having a basic mind and enknowledge of joy the experience,” contin- French from school is definitely ued Vanderveeken, who split an asset for both athletes, but the 2011-2012 season between both know they still have room teams in Italy and England. to improve in their French lan“I had a great experience in guage skills.

North America and played for “My French will definitely 5 years here,” explained Cun- need some brushing up,” said ningham, who was an assistant Vanderveeken with a laugh, captain of the ECHL’s Baskers- “but from what I hear most lofield Condors last season about cals in the area know some Enhis decision to leave North glish.”

America. “I figured why not try “I know a little French, and Europe again while I’m young my wife knows more than I do, enough to experience the cul- so it won’t be as bad as going to ture and have the opportunity Norway,” explained Cunningto get paid for it. I figured I’d ham, referencing his last stint try another country and an- overseas. other league, and just see what Based on that prior experience, happens.”

Cunningham knows language Cunningham, who played won’t be the only change, but professionally in Norway in the style of hockey will also be 2012-2013, says he’s also pre- different.

Continued on page 13 pared for the culture change.

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•Meat draw at Branch 628 Royal Canadian Legion, William & Colborne St., Chatham from 4:30pm-6:00pm followed by a dance at 6:30pm-10:30pm featuring Tim McLean.

Friday, August 22, 2014 • Friday Evening Dance in the clubroom at Branch 28 Legion, 304 St. Clair St., Chatham. Starts at 7:00pm. $2.00 per person or donations of fresh canned and boxed goods to be donated to Outreach for Hunger. This evening featuring Richard St. Denis.

Sunday, August 31, 2014 • Two Creeks Concert Series featuring Winterline. The bluegrass band keeps winning awards. A great final blast to our 2014 season. 6:30pm. 21638 1 Kent Road, one kilometre north of the village of Wheatley, Ontario. www.twocreeks.ca.

• “The Lego Movie” in Kingston Park from 7:00pm-10:30pm. FREE! Interactive playground featuring CKRecreation equipment, crafts, photobooth and lots of free snow cones and kettle corn!

Saturday, August 23, 2014 • Voice of Triumph Ministries Barbeque at 4:00pm. 135 Queen St. Face painting, bring a friend. Sausage on a bun $2.50, with pop $3.00. Burger on a bun $3.00, with pop $4.00.

• Come join us in the clubroom for our Saturday Afternoon Dance from 4:00pm-8:00pm featuring Barker & Friends. Branch 28 Legion, 304 St. Clair St., Chatham.

•Meat draw at Branch 628 Royal Canadian Legion, William & Colborne St., Chatham from 4:30pm-6:00pm followed by a dance at 6:30pm-10:30pm featuring Man Power.

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Wallaceburg’s Jamie Vanderveeken, shown here with the Brampton Beast, is heading across the pond to play pro hockey in France this season. So too is Dresden’s Wes Cunningham.

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“It’s a little different, we learned French in Although they’re filled with well wishes grade school so hopefully that will help. I now, and will always hold the connection of know the hockey is a little different as well. It home, it will be game on for these two when will take time to adjust to big ice and the style the puck drops this September in France. of play, but after a few weeks, you adapt to • Ian Kennedy is the owner/editor of the Chathe style and learn, and it all becomes normal tham-Kent Sports Network. For more on the local again.” sports scene, please check out his website at With culture and language gaps ahead, the www.cksn.ca. new French connection, the one Cunningham and Vanderveeken will feel when they see each other 2015 European River Cruises across the ice as opponents, will be a reassuring one for these athletes Scenic Tours, Viking River Cruises, Avalon, who will play an ocean away from Uniworld and AMA Waterways. home.

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Tuesday, August 26, 2014 • The Kent Federation of Agriculture (KFA) is hosting their Regional meeting. All Chatham-Kent OFA members are invited. The meeting will take place at Roesch Meats and more in Kent Bridge at 5:30pm. Pre-registration is required for the meal. For more information or to pre-register please contact the KFA at 519-674-1500 x63595 or kfa@ uoguelph.ca.

• Join us at the Chatham branch of the Chatham-Kent Public Library at 2:00pm to watch Back to the Future III. Donation at the door • Meat draw at Branch 628 Royal Canadian Legion, William and Colborne St., Chatham from 4:30-6:30pm, followed by a dance from 6:30pm-10:30pm featuring Man Power.

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Wednesday, August 27, 2014 • Moms, Pops and Tots Workshop. Newcomers and Immigrants: Come and learn about the requirements to apply for childcare subsidy from 10:00am-11:30am @ Adult Language and Learning. 48 5th St. For more info contact 519-354-7424.

Thursday, August 28, 2014 • Shuffleboard, pool and darts at Branch 628 Royal Canadian Legion, William and Colborne St., Chatham, starting at 6:30pm. Everyone Welcome.

Friday, August 29, 2014 • The Chatham Branch of the CKPL, Children’s Room invites children to enjoy Mad Science! Limited tickets for this free program available at 1:00pm. Start time is 2:00pm.

Please call the Children’s Room at 519-3542940 ext.247 for further information.

Saturday, August 30, 2014 • Come join us in the clubroom for our Saturday Afternoon Dance from 4:00pm8:00pm featuring Richard St. Denis. Branch 28 Legion, 304 St. Clair St., Chatham.

• The 3rd Annual Maple City Mile run in support of our local Heart & Stroke office.

This even is OPEN TO ALL runners and not runners alike. Participants can run or walk in honour of a Heart and Stroke survivor or victim while wearing a special race bib. The MCM run offers a 5K run/walk, 10K and a 10 mile run. The event starts and finishes at the Kinsmen Arena starting at 8:30am. To register please visit www.maplecitymile.com.

Saturday, September 6, 2014 • Household Hazardous Waste Day at the Chatham Public Works Garage. 25 Creek Rd., Chatham. 8:00am-3:00pm.

• Kick for a Cause Soccer Tournament.

10:00am-7:00pm at the Mini Pitches (Soccer Fields by YMCA) 101 Court House Lane.

Co-ed team of 5+ goalie (12 players max) $240/team. BBQ, kids activities, games and family fun. Top 3 team awards, raffles & prizes. To register your team contact Crystal Almeida at 519-436-6630 or crystalal@ chatham-kent.ca CHAP Volunteer DRIVERS Needed for Chatham-Kent. CHAP helps Seniors live independently at home! Drive seniors to appointments, groceries, banking, etc. in Chatham-Kent. Contact Marjorie for further info CHAP 519-354-6221 ext. 241.

Chatham-Kent Metal Detecting Club Meetings - Last Thursday of the Month, 7:00pm at Evangel Community Church, 76 Sandy St., enter at the back door.

Guests Welcome.

VON Volunteer Visiting opportunities Available call Jan 519-352-4462 ext. 5227 Eureka! TD Summer Reading Club 2014 presents Walk-a-Story. Drop by the Children’s room of the Chatham-Kent Public Library, to get started on a one-hour interactive family story walk in downtown Chatham during regular library hours. All ages. Registration not required. Running until Sat., August 30th.

Researching Your Family Tree This Summer?

Don’t forget that the Kent Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society is open over the summer and has a fantastic collection of resources, open to the public, on the 2nd floor of the Chatham Public Library Tuesday - Saturday 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm www.ogs.on.ca/kent The Chatham Anglican Community is sponsoring a community fundraiser for Chatham-Kent Hospice in the form of a Fish Fry Dinner on September 12 at Holy Trinity Anglican Church, at the corner of Victoria Ave. and Selkirk Ave. Tickets for the dinner are available in advance only for 3 seatings - 4:30, 5:30 and 6:30pm and are $20 each. There is a chicken finger dinner available for the same price, and kids under 12 eat free. Take outs are also available. For more information or to purchase tickets, please call 519-354-1072 Tues.-Thurs. from 8:30am-1:00pm during office hours.

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