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Riding high at age 85 No one knew what to expect when 85-year-old Beth Young climbed up on Mia, a 19-year-old mare at TJ Stables.

They didn’t have long to wait.

With a “let’s go” and a small nudge from Beth’s legs, the pair were off at a gallop and as they rounded the bend and headed back to the surprised onlookers, Beth let out a yell and waved her cowboy hat in the air.

“Take it easy,” someone said. “I don’t know how to do easy,” she grinned before heading out for another lap.

For the lifelong horsewoman, getting a chance to ride again was a dream come true, one made possible through the recreation program at the Dresden Residence where she lives.

“It was great,” she said.

“I just loved it.”

TJ Stables owner Terry Jenkins said, “That will be me in 30 years. She is absolutely amazing.”

For Beth, riding has been a way of life since she was a little girl growing up in Parry Sound.

“I used to skip school when I was little to sneak off and ride somewhere,” she said. “I was terrible.

I used to get a spanking

when my dad got home and I got the strap from the teachers. I’d rather go riding than go to school.

Mother finally said to dad ‘you have to get that girl a horse’.”

She spent her free time at a neighbor’s who had a stable.

“He had six horses. I kept going over there and he’d say ‘go away little girl you don’t belong here’. He finally let me start cleaning the stalls and when he had someone who wanted a solo ride he would let me go out sometimes. I showed the people how to ride so they weren’t bouncing all over.”

When she finally got her own horse, the family couldn’t afford a saddle until sometime later.

“I learned to ride bareback,” she said. “I was always able to feel the horse so much better and of course you have to learn to hold on.”

She eventually got a saddle and spent hours painting parts of it silver.

“I wanted to look like (cowboy movie star) Gene Autry.”

One of her favorites’ as a youngster was a horse named Firecracker that she raised from a baby.

“He was hard to break,” she said. “He was a little devil.

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Rider shows off lifelong passion for horses Continued from page 1

“If someone asked me for a ride on him, I had a little trick.

I’d tickle him under the belly and he’d go up on his hind legs and they’d say ‘I guess not’.”

She was so horse-crazy she’d even make horses out of snow in the winter.

“I’d make these big snow horses and sit up on them and pretend to ride,” she said. “My mother would have to bring blankets out for me to sit on because I’d be out there so long.

One time someone called the police because we weren’t allowed to have horses in town.

A policeman came to the door and mother said, ‘yes we had a horse and it was in the back yard’. I can still hear his laugh when he went around back and saw it was made of snow.

Beth’s daughter Bonnie Lou Cook said the snow horse tradition continued in Leamington when she and her brother were little.

“We had snow horses and people thought they were real until they took a longer look,” she said. “Both my brother and myself were riding by the time we were five.”

Beth and her husband moved to Arizona more than 35 years

ago for health reasons.

“I drove and we took our two horses,” she said. “We looked around, found a place for sale with a nice little barn and a pasture and bought it. When he passed away I stayed there.”

A frequent rider in the Superstition Mountains, Beth said she never worried about becoming lost.

“I didn’t know where I was going but I always knew that the horse knew the way back home.

I’d look at my watch, and tell him I guess we better go back home and he’d turn around and head home. I didn’t even have to touch him.”

While in Arizona, she bought and trained horses and was a competitive barrel racer, leading to a run-in with her husband.

“He sold my colt,” she said. “I loved that little horse, he could really go and oh how he could cut the barrels. I was so angry with my husband I didn’t say boo to him for I don’t know how long.”

An accomplished trick rider, Bonnie Lou said her mother could grab a hat off the ground in full gallop, jump from side to side while riding and mount her horses from behind.

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Beth Wilson, 85, on Mia, a 19-year-old mare at TJ Stables. Wilson, a lifelong horsewoman, let loose and took off at a gallop, ecstatic to be on a horse once again.

Three years ago, the family convinced Beth to sell her property in Arizona and return to Ontario.

“I miss owning horses,” she said. “I’ve had so many I’ve loved over the years. I had one named Twinkletoes who would

walk with his legs up high, his head high and his tail up. They all have their own personalities, just like people.”

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Chatham hospital boards seek end to alliance

By Jim Blake jim@chathamvoice.com

Two months after they suspended governance of the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance, the two Chatham hospital boards want to terminate the agreement which ties them to the Sydenham District Hospital.

“It’s time,” said acting Public General Hospital board chair Jane Havens Friday. “It is exceedingly clear that there are issues that we are no longer able to resolve and no longer able to negotiate or mediate.”

Despite Havens assertion in a media release that the Wallaceburg group had been notified, SDH board chair Sheldon Parsons said Friday he hadn’t received anything.

“I’ve heard (of it) from the media but I did not receive a copy of it so I’m limited in what I can say or do.”

He admitted there had been discussion of a possible split but the process had been labeled confidential.

“We’ve been honouring that; we believe they’ve breached that confidence by releasing it publically.

We don’t know what to expect.

We’ve always expressed our preference to discuss issues at the board table but we’ve been met with obstructionism. They don’t want to meet, discuss or resolve the issues.”

Havens says since the actual document relating to the split wasn’t released, no confidentiality was breached.

The request from PGH and St. Joseph’s boards would require approval of the Erie St. Clair Lo-

cal Health Integration Network, (LHIN), however, regardless of the LHIN decision, Havens said there will be no “kissing and making up.”

Shannon Sasseville, spokesman for the LHIN, said that group has no comment on the matter and refused to even acknowledge if the LHIN had received a request to dissolve the Alliance or if there was precedent to do so.

Havens said the SDH board has “gone rogue” and is harming the reputation of the Alliance.

She said the move is the only way to end the “circus” surrounding the split in which the CKHA, its CEO and members of its medical staff have come under criticism.

The Alliance plan to close Wallaceburg’s emergency department and replace it with a part-time walk-in clinic with no physician on site has been at the heart of the controversy.

“We have no time frame in mind but we’d like to have it happen as soon as possible,” she said. “These things take time and cost a lot of money.

Lawyers are the ones that benefit here.”

The SJH and PGH boards notified SDH in April they were suspending governance over their differences.

Havens said it’s “pretty dangerous ground” for members of the board to criticize decisions made by CEO Colin Patey and the vision expressed by medical staff.

“We’re so lucky to have him in this community,” she said.

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Acting PGH chair Jane Havens says “it’s time” to dissolve the tri-board Alliance Agreement for oversight of the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance.

The SDH board is preparing a skewered in the media, it’s not livery.

“We have relationships with all plan for a $10 million medical acceptable. He doesn’t deserve hospitals in the area,” she said. centre with integrated services it, how hard he works.”

Parsons said he would expect from a number of community She said the boards would fulfill their governance responsi- to see a “close working relation- partners and a 24/7 emergency bilities on a separate basis until ship” between Chatham and room.

Wallaceburg.

The PGH and St. Joseph’s the province resolves the issue.

“We would expect access to boards last month announced “Business will get done,” she specialists and services in Cha- plans for a similar health care said.

Havens said the split between tham in the same manner Cha- centre with no traditional emerthe Chatham and Wallaceburg tham works with larger centres gency services.

The LHIN refused comment boards has widened significant- in London and Windsor,” he on those proposals as well. ly in the past three years after said. an ill-fated attempt to work out a new governance model.

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CKHA actions under the microscope

vestigation into data and staff or the public. methods used by the CKHA “In light of recent statements to justify its position regard- made about the quality of care at the CKHA Sydenham Issues concerning the way ing closing the ER. “We raised questions about campus, it is unfortunate that in which the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance conducted the data and statistics which this official recognition by its handling of the Sydenham remain unanswered by the your ministry should have District Hospital emergency CKHA leadership,” said gone unnoticed,” he wrote.

McNaughton said prior to issue are raising concerns fed- board chair Sheldon Parsons.

Parsons said claims by the question period, he spoke erally and provincially.

Lambton-Kent-Essex MP CKHA that it has “robust” with Hoskins regarding the Bev Shipley has asked the discussions with physicians suspension of governance by province to put a hold on aren’t borne out by a confi- the Chatham boards of the Chatham-Kent Health Alli- dential survey done with ER CKHA, personnel changes at the Erie-St. Clair Local Health ance plans to pull out of the physicians.

He said “feed- Integration Network and othAlliance agreeback from phy- er issues. ment with Wal- “We raised questions sicians indicat“Minister Hoskins is up to laceburg. about the data and ed that some speed on what’s been hapShipley, Fristatistics which remain were fearful pening in this area,” he said. day, directed for their job se- “He doesn’t have a formal a personal let- unanswered by the curity and re- update but the issue remains ter to Ontario CKHA leadership.” prisals should important.”

Health Minister - Sheldon Parsons they particiMcNaughton also noted in Eric Hoskins saying the CKHA’s plan to pate in the consultation” but his letter, “I take comfort in pull out of the Alliance “ap- those who did respond raised your several assurances that pears to be the immediate enough concern about the there is no plan to close the SDH Emerculmination of aggressive process that it gency Departand hostile decisions, to the requires some- “In light of recent detriment of the healthcare one from out- statements made about ment and that you agree that needs of my constituents, side the CKHA the quality of care at a twenty-four which have been precipitated or SDH boards hour - seven by the Board and CKHA se- to review the the CKHA Sydenham campus, it is unfortudays a week, nior administrative staff over situation.

“We requested nate that this official fully functionthe past couple of months.” al emergency The MP is asking Hoskins to assistance from recognition by your department in review the issue and believes the CKHA in ministry should have Wa l l a c e b u r g the “health and wellbeing of reaching out to must be kept Wallaceburg, Walpole Island ER physicians gone unnoticed.” open.”

First Nation and area resi- which was not - MPP Monte McNaughton McNaughton dents are profoundly com- provided, the promised by the actions of the CKHA staff was not permit- joined his federal counterpart ted to take part but what we MP Bev Shipley in reading CKHA.” He asks the minister to “pro- did receive was of enough the letter in the legislature.

“This is a subject that needs hibit the CKHA from any concern that we think an outaction which would compro- side group needs to look at to be on the record as much as possible,” he said. “We need mise the health of my con- this entire procedure.”

Last week, Lamb- transparency in delivery of all stituents relative to services provided by SDH” until oper- ton-Kent-Essex MPP Monte government services, includational funding is restored to McNaughton sent his own ing health care.”

He said the recent provallow it to proceed with an al- letter to Hoskins about the ternative plan for health care CKHA’s lack of comment on ince-wide referendum on delivery and issues regarding praise for SDH emergency health care spending in which services. more than 94,000 Ontarians asset division are completed.

McNaughton called it “un- participated further strengthIn other developments, the SDH board of directors is fortunate” that congratula- ens his opinion that it’s time seeking an independent in- tions were never passed on to for a change in structure.

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River of hope at Dragon Boat festival

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Hundreds of dragon boat enthusiasts from as far away as Dubuque, Iowa converged in downtown Wallaceburg Saturday morning for the 15th annual Sydenham Challenge Dragon Boat Festival.

Organizer and event co-founder Brian Armitage said some 30 teams of more than 20 members came out for fun, camaraderie and to raise funds for the local Breast Buddies team and the Chatham-Kent United Way. “There are a lot of breast cancer survivors among the paddlers as well as friends, family and supporters,” he said. “Some take the compe-

tition aspect more seriously than others but for everyone, the real purpose is to show that they’re not going to be beaten by cancer.”

Armitage has a personal stake in the event as his wife was diagnosed with breast cancer several years ago.

“We learned that the paddling action was very therapeutic and it was about that time that dragon boat races began popping up around North America.

“We’re self-sustaining due to a tremendous group of volunteers who work very hard to ensure the participants are treated well and we remember the reason we’re here,” he said.

More than 40 races were held but the event came to a

standstill for the traditional breast cancer flower ceremony in which flowers, often carnations, are tossed into the water to remember those who have been claimed by the disease.

The event’s A division was won by the Bolting Turtles who defeated Hope floats by a less than a two-tenths of a second over the Sydenham River mooring basis course.

North River Line defeated Pink’s Nipples & Ripples in the B final while Bethel Buddies won over Inclusion Rules in the C flight. Southwest Dragons took the title in the D division over Le buzz de St.-Michel.

Preliminary figures show the event raised more than $18,000.

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End the violence Last week’s commemoration of the murder of Theresa Vince and the staging of the seventh annual Walk a Mile in Her Shoes event demonstrate how far we’ve come as a society and how far we still have to go.

It was 20 years ago this month that Vince was a victim in a murder-suicide by her work supervisor who had been sexually harassing her.

Her death shocked not only this community, but also the province.

It helped provide the impetus to treat workplace harassment as an issue in the Ontario Occupational Health and Safety Act. Unfortunately, it took the deaths of other women including Windsor nurse Lori Dupont, killed by a doctor and Brenda Healey of Newmarket before sexual harassment became recognized as a workplace danger earlier this year.

To those on the front lines including the staff at the Chatham-Kent Sexual Assault Crisis Centre, the incremental victories may seem like water dripping on a rock but over time, those droplets will wear a hole in the stone and eventually through it.

It has been a slow and laborious process, but it’s well worth the effort.

For 30 years now, the Chatham-Kent Women’s Centre has been a beacon to those who attempt to leave abusive relationships.

When it was founded, with the help of the Ursuline Sisters of Chatham, domestic violence was something not spoken about.

Police were often reluctant to become involved and victims were either blamed or told that it was part of a normal relationship.

Slowly, the stigma of abuse shifted from the person being abused to the individual actually doing the abuse.

Western society is finally coming to grips with the fact that it is infinitely more fair, right, just and human to deal in an open manner with problems than it is to hide them.

It is unfortunate and uncomfortable to come face to face with such tragedies but it is unconscionable to ignore them.

The best way to help prevent harassment and abuse is to confront it.

We applaud those who do.

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Research needed before decision Sir: After reading many articles in the paper this week regarding the plan to merge the firefighting and paramedic services, the thought has crossed my mind that many (council members) are most likely, unaware of the intricate workings of these occupations and what they entail on a daily basis.

Perhaps, before sitting in chamber and making decisions on peoples’ livelihoods and careers, I ask that you consider ‘walking in their shoes’ for a day.

May I suggest that every councillor, and Mr. Hope, take a day and spend it

respectively with the paramedics and firefighters to see how each operates and what the job exactly entails and if, in fact and reality, it even makes sense to combine the two.

Please do not just look at numbers and dollars where lives are involved.

We are not some big city entity to control and turn into a ‘modern model’ reflecting United States mentality.

We are a small community that is very country and family oriented and we take great pride in that.

Many want to come here

to raise their children and get away from the ‘big city’ fast pace and coldness it incorporates.

If, Mr. Stuebing is quoting the U.S. as a model, then perhaps we need to look at New York City, which is targeted for terrorist attacks a lot.

If they do not combine their paramedics and firefighters, should we even be entertaining the thought?

Your vote will be affecting the most vulnerable of our cherished community, the disabled, the ill, the mentally challenged, the elderly and the children.

What Mr. Stuebing is

proposing, in essence, is to tell these paramedics, and firefighters, they have misunderstood in choosing the career they did.

It would be like telling an Obstetrician he now has to do Neurosurgery or be an Orthopedic Surgeon! How absurd. So is this proposal C. Please consider tabling this proposal at least until you have personally researched and have spent the time with these brave men and women. It would be the responsible and considerate thing to do.

Editor’s note: This letter is addressed to Gary Conn, chief of the Chatham-Kent Police Service Sir: I’m not even sure where to begin as I write my response on my experience the past 12 weeks as a participant in the Chatham-Kent Citizens Police Academy. First and foremost, Chief Conn, you have a wonderful group of passionate, confident, enlightening staff that support you.

Each of these people were open, understanding, patient and educational on informing us as to what their job is within the department. I was amazed at how many departments and services that the CKPS has.

One person that I want to mention as a very humble human being is Brian French. He is so grounded and calming as

a front-line responder. I feel he is certainly the right man for a job so challenging.

I have heard how difficult it is to find employment within our police department. I truly understand Chief Conn as you have the best of the best in my opinion.

Kudos to you!

Last but not least, our two wonderful officers that worked so diligently

each week to deliver this unbelievable program, Ken Lauzon and Shawn Mungar. Wow! These guys are amazing and I hope you realize what these men do each and every day. They are wonderful officers who are truly admired.

My sincerest thanks for this incredable opportunity.

Lynn Parker-Larsen Chatham-Kent

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Comparing apples to oranges in health care Sir: I once again find it very interesting to read the letter to the editor in The Chatham Voice dated May 26 from Jane Havens, Chair of the Public General Hospital Board in response to my rantings to every local media outlet on the local health care issue which supports the closure of the Sydenham Campus ER. I’m not really sure she understands my uninformed, uneducated statements and claims, so I will try to help her out a bit, if I can.

Unlike Blenheim, Ridgetown, Tilbury, Erieau and apparently most of Essex County we have an Emergency Department already in our Wallaceburg community. None

of the communities you mention are having any of their access to emergency room care changed. None of them are being told that they have to drive further to get to an emergency department before their loved ones can start to receive care in a hospital environment. How does the fact that other communities have to drive or have a significant amount of time to get to an emergency room make it wrong for us to have ours?

As to your question, “Is the death rate higher for those residents living in Blenheim, Ridgetown, Tilbury and Erieau,” in all likelihood if they had access to closer emergen-

cy room care their death rate could be lower. Unfortunately these are statistics we will never have as they do not have emergency room care right within their communities to make this comparison.

Most people make choices as to where they wish to live being fully aware of the health care services for their area.

The residents in our Wallaceburg, Walpole Island, South St. Clair and area chose to build a hospital in 1959 because we wanted to have our health care, especially our emergency room health care closer, something none of the communities you have mentioned chose

to do.

So why are you trying to compare them to our situation here?

They are not being asked to change anything in relation to how they receive emergency care when needed. But yet we are and you see it wrong for us to question the Capital Plan?

The co-ordinated effort you refer to between ambulances, fire and hospitals that makes sure someone who is experiencing an emergency gets to the very best place for care has been in place and continues to work well in Chatham-Kent. How does closing the Sydenham Campus ER improve this

excellent co-ordinated care which is already in place?

I stand by my statement, “The closure of the Sydenham Campus ER would represent a significant reduction in emergency health care access to over 20,000 citizens no matter how you try to package it.” If you close the Sydenham Campus ER and tell me to drive 22 kilometres to the next available emergency room for my health care,

the editorial pages “flyer wrap’. We used to figure 75% of the paper should comprise advertising and the rest would be editorial space.

That used to be the norm but now things are changing in the newspaper business, Paul Godfrey, the CEO of Postmedia, whose dailies reach 6.3 million Canadian readers (including Chathamites) every week, has recently said the old revenue model of 75% advertising and 25% editorial is no longer

sustainable.

As far as Godfrey is concerned, today’s newspaper industry requires closer to a 50/50 split between advertising and circulation revenue. If readers want more “compelling content” he said, “they will pay more.”

It is interesting to note that Postmedia employed approximately 5,600 people when Godfrey took over in 2010, but has since shed more than a third of its workforce and currently employs about 3,500

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you have reduced my access.

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We should extend our gratitude and best wishes to the small team who own and operate it.

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71st annual Kinsmen Fair opens Thursday

By Jim Blake jim@chathamvoice.com

A Chatham tradition dating back to 1945 will return once again this week as the 71st edition of the Kinsmen Fair takes place Thursday through Sunday.

The Fair Opens at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday, June 9 and runs until Sunday, June 12.

For 11 years, Chatham Kinsmen have been keeping alive the tradition of the Jaycee Fair that started at the close of the Second World War.

The smells, sounds and excitement of the midway with its rides, cotton candy floss and candy apples will be there to remind you of the smells & sounds of a country fair.

The only spring fair in the area will once again feature Carter Shows famous rides including the latest model of the Polar Bear Express.

The model is called Super Himalaya and it can take up to 44 people each time.

Friday night, there will be Classic Champion Wrestling starting at 6:30 p.m. sponsored by Car-

ter Shows with a number of top matches on the card including Todd “The Law” verses Derek Wylde and Caleb Stills versus Aiden Prince.

On Saturday evening, there is a Teenage Madness Special which only costs $15.00 to ride all evening from 8:00 p.m. till 11:00 p.m.

Saturday and Sunday there is a petting zoo with farm and exotic animals on display and pony rides for a small fee.

On Saturday there is a Karate Competition happening in Memorial Arena

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If someone doesn’t want to take part in the poker run, but wishes to still be part of the fun and to enjoy a meal, cost is $15.

“Most of the money is used for vetting the animals that come through our program,” she said.

“And to fund our Purple Leash campaign.”

That campaign is a form of support for people and pets who have suffered from domestic violence.

“They found that women often won’t leave their home if the pets are to be left behind, because the pets are next to be picked on,” Durocher said.

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It’s time to hustle your tails out on the trail for the second annual Tails on the Trail poker run.

The event, which is a fundraiser for C-K Animal Rescue, takes place June 11 headquartered at Comfort & Soul Restaurant on Talbot Trail in Cedar Springs.

There is a scattered start.

Registration runs between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.

Comfort & Soul’s Alecia Durocher, one of the event organizers, said the poker run will take participants on a loop of Chatham-Kent to five different stops where they’ll receive a playing card.

The team with the best hand – and the one with the worst – will win cash prizes.

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Tree program continues to sprout

By Jim Blake jim@chathamvoice.com

Parts of Chatham-Kent got a lot greener this year thanks to the efforts of the Lower Thames Valley Conservation Authority (LTVCA).

The LTVCA wrapped up its Greening Partnership program last week as it planted the last of nearly 130,000 trees in more than two-dozen locations across the municipality.

Greg Van Every, environmental project co-ordinator with the Authority, had anticipated a strong year but demand outstripped even his most optimistic predictions.

“We used to plant about 60,000 to 65,000 each year.

Last year we were over 80,000 and we expected we would reach 100,000 based on our open house in March,” he said.

Amanda Blain, a land stewardship technician with the LTVCA, and one of five people on the planting crew, said it’s been a good season.

“I was concerned a little bit because we had so many more trees to plant but the weather cooperat-

ed,” she said.

Tree-planting sites vary in size from a few hundred trees to 35,000 at one site.

“We’re able to plant about 5,000 per day,” she said.

The LTVCA plants primarily native Carolinian trees but at a recent project near Thamesville, eight acres of Jack Pine were planted.

“There is a growth of Jack Pine in Michigan near the border and it’s the only kind of tree where the Kirtland Warbler nests,” she said.

Van Every said the decision to plant Jack Pine was on a plot of land willed to the LTVCA by a longtime supporter.

“Randall VanWagner (Manager of Conservation Lands and Services) deserves the credit for that decision,” he said. “It will be an added bonus if the warbler nests here.”

Van Every said at a maximum of $3 per tree (including planting) the program is a tremendous value for landowners.

In a previous interview with the Voice, he said planting trees benefits everyone.

“To a farmer, the key financial reason to plant windbreaks is soil quality. The trees slow down

the wind and shelter the soil. It doesn’t allow the land to dry out as fast and provides more moisture

for the land during the growing season,” he said.

“From an environmental perspective, trees enrich the air and water quality in a region.”

“Trees product oxygen and help purify the air,” he added. “Roots in the soil slow down run off into our lakes and rivers, providing more balance.”

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Rain doesn’t hamper Walk-a-Mile

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Mother Nature may not have been on their side, but officials of the Chatham Kent Women’s Centre are labelling the seventh annual Walk a Mile in Her Shoes event a success.

For the second year in a row, the walk was held indoors at the Downtown Chatham Centre due to rain. Sixty-eight walkers participated in the event, which raises both funds and awareness of violence against women.

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tals are in, we maybe have raised $25,000, an increase from last year.”

Smith said support for the 32bed facility is strong. “When you look back a few years, there were people who didn’t think a shelter was needed,” she said. “Now the community is aware of the importance of making sure women have a place of safety in times of crisis.”

Walkers donned red high heels and circled the mall three times, surrounded by crowds of cheering onlookers.

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Tropical barbecue serves 700 kids Bruce Corcoran/The Chatham Voice

About 700 students from John McGregor Secondary School and Indian Creek Public School enjoyed a tropical barbecue last week, and helped raise funds to help the people of Fort McMurray, Alta. in the process. Organized by the JMSS’ Me to We program, students ate burgers and hotdogs, all donated by Schinkels’ Gourmet Meats, and cooled off with a Tropical Chill treat.

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Abuse and acts of violence against seniors are serous human rights infringements, which afflict all societies through-out the world. On World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, you’re invited to show you care about ending this scourge and to work towards its eradication.

The abuse of seniors can come in many different forms. Whether we’re talking about physical violence, psychological or emotional violence, sexual abuse, neglect or financial abuse, all are reprehensible acts which must be punished. And let’s not deceive ourselves: violence against seniors is present in all levels of society, rich or poor, rural or urban. Abuse can occur in any relationship where there is a bond of trust or of authority between the aggressor and the victim. The aggressor is usually a member of the family, a spouse, a child, a brother or a sister, but could also be a neighbour or an employee of the establishment where the victim lives.

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ALC hosts Fitness Expo Bruce Corcoran/The Chatham Voice

Hundreds of local residents showed up on Saturday for the “In Touch” Fitness Expo at the Active Lifestyle Centre on Merrit Avenue in Chatham. Coinciding with National Fitness Day, the event showcased the various fitness programs offered at the ALC, including the Zumba shown here, where Chatham-Kent Essex MPP Rick Nicholls even joined in at one point. As well, various vendors discussed their health and fitness classes, products and services to those in attendance.

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Students, staff and parents at King George Public School in Chatham showed their big hearts Monday, raising funds for the Canadian Red Cross and the victims of the fire that devastated the community of Fort McMurray, Alta.

According to Grade 1 teacher Shawne Wilton, the primary, junior and intermediate

students took turns running fundraisers to help out the cause. Over $800 was made with the primary grade’s bake sale, $300 with the junior grades selling tickets to chew gum, sit with friends and listen to music and another $300 was collected by the Firefighters versus Grade 8’s baseball game.

“It started like a seed and blossomed into all this money we are donating to the Cana-

dian Red Cross,” Wilton told students during a recent assembly. “Doesn’t it feel good to help others?”

“We teach kids about community and to look after each other and everyone pulled together; students, staff and parents were all bringing something in,” Wilton added.

“We’re a small school (329 students) and to see how much everyone pulled together really warms my heart.”

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Upwards of 330 Grade 5 kids from the St. Clair Catholic District School Board took part in the 11th annual Ultimate Frisbee Day Friday. Members of the Ursuline College Chatham Ultimate team coached the kids on the nuances of the game, and then supervised the students in action at the fields by the courthouse.

Public Utilities Commission for the Municipality of Chatham-Kent Class Environmental Assessment Study Oxley Drive / Sandys Street Sewage Pumping Station No. 11 & NW Quadrant Areas A & B NOTICE OF PUBLIC INFORMATION CENTRE Background In May 2012, the Public Utilities Commission for the Municipality of Chatham-Kent (Chatham-Kent PUC) completed an update to its Water and Wastewater Master Plan, which recommended a new trunk sewer and pumping station in the north area of Chatham-Kent tom address future development and alleviate current restrictions associated with the existing internal collection system. Chatham-Kent PUC currently owns and operates Sewage Pumping Station (SPS) No. 11, located at the intersection of Oxley Drive and Sandys Street (shown in the adjacent map). SPS No.11 was installed 40 years ago as a temporary measure to accommodate the needs of the surrounding area. Two proposed development areas, identified as Northwest Quadrant Areas A and B, will eventually increase wastewater generation in the area.

SPS No.11 is near capacity and is at the end of its service life, requiring frequent maintenance that is disruptive to operation and maintenance staff and the surrounding community. Proposed development of the Northwest Quadrant Areas A and B cannot be adequately serviced by the existing sanitary servicing infrastructure in the area. The existing capacity limitations with SPS No.11 will affect the ability of Chatham-Kent PUC to provide adequate sanitary servicing within this area of Chatham’s urban boundary. An adequate sanitary servicing strategy is required to handle current and projected wastewater flows in the area.

Class EA Study for the Oxley Drive/Sandys Street SPS No. 11 & NW Quadrant Areas A & B Chatham-Kent PUC is undertaking a Class Environmental Assessment (Class EA) study to identify and evaluate alternate sanitary servicing solutions for the northwest area, including NW Quadrant Areas A and B, and alleviate the capacity limitations and maintenance challenges associated with SPS No.11. This project also provides an opportunity for Chatham-Kent PUC to explore alternatives to improve the sanitary servicing infrastructure in this area of Chatham.

This Class EA study is being conducted according to the requirements of a Schedule B project of the Municipal Class Environmental Assessment document (Municipal Engineers Association, October 2000 as amended in 2007, 2011 & 2015). The Class EA process includes identification and evaluation of alternative solutions, assessment of the anticipated effects on the natural, social and economic environments, and identification of measures to reduce or eliminate any adverse effects.

Your Opinion Matters Public consultation is a key component of the Class EA process. A Public Information Centre (PIC) will be held on: Date: Thursday, June 16th, 2016 Time: 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm Location: Church of the Salvation Army, 46 Orangewood Boulevard, Chatham The purpose of the PIC is to allow interested persons to learn more about the project, present the results of the evaluation of sanitary servicing alternative solutions, introduce the preliminary preferred solution, the next steps in the study and obtain your feedback. You are encouraged to attend the PIC and provide comments so that they may be included in the study. Comments received through the course of the study will be considered in finalizing the preferred sanitary servicing solution for the study area, as well as identification of mitigation measures.

Contact Us If you are unable to attend, we would still like to hear from you. Please contact either the project team members listed below if you have questions or comments, wish to obtain more information on the project, or would like to be included on the Project Contact List: Mike Elliott, P.Eng. Adam Sullo, P. Eng. Consultant Project Manager Director, Engineering and Transportation CIMA+ Municipality of Chatham-Kent 101 Frederick Street, Suite 900 315 King Street West Kitchener, Ontario, N2H 6R2 Chatham, Ontario, N7M 5K8 Telephone: 519-360-1998 Telephone: 519-772-2299 Ext. 6210 Email: adam.sullo@chatham-kent.ca Email: mike.elliott@cima.ca

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C-K Cycling Festival set for June 18

By Raquel Sa Special to The Voice

The third annual Chatham-Kent Cycling Festival hosted by the Children’s Treatment Centre Foundation is taking place on June 18 at Memorial Arena.

The cycling festival is a celebration of fun that promotes fitness and cycling safety in the community, while helping raise money for the Children’s Treatment Centre’s “Freedom Riders” Adapted Bicycle Program.

This program provides specialized bikes, 10 of which have already been purchased, for children with special needs so that all children, of all abilities, can enjoy the excitement of riding.

Funds from last year’s Cycling Festival have been put towards hosting a weeklong iCan Bike Camp to begin on July 11 at St. Clair College. The camp is geared to teaching children with special needs how to independently ride a two-wheel bicycle.

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cluded more than 250 cyclists, with more to be expected this year from out of town who look forward to joining the distance rides.

Recreational and experienced riders will tour the rich farmland of South Kent and the scenic shores of Lake Erie on a loop.

There are many ways to be involved with the Festival besides cycling, such as sponsoring an adapted bike, becoming a vendor and promoting your business, or volunteering.

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The family fun rides, 2km and 6km, are a minimum donation of $5 per registrant starting at 11 a.m.

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Sports

Pickleball quite the ‘racket’

Snowbirds bring new sport here from Florida is played on a badminton sized court with a perforated ball.

Salisbury first heard of it Canadian snowbirds usually go south to escape and tried it when he was a snow shoveling and harsh high school tennis coach.

“Most of the people play winters, but some of them have become involved in doubles,” he said. “It has a “racket” – so many in less stress on the joints but fact that they’re becoming you still get the aerobic benefits.” organized.

Mumbi Mooney, who The “racket” is actually a racquet sport called pick- has played in Florida for leball, now enjoyed by the past two winters, said more than 100 local resi- at first she wasn’t interested. dents.

“I first thought, it looks The sport is becoming so popular that last month to easy, it’s for old people,” she some playsaid with ers formed “Most of the people a laugh. the Cha- play doubles. It has it’s tham-Kent less stress on the joints “But extremely Pickleball but you still get the challenging, Club in the fast paced hope of aerobic benefits.” and requires s p re a d i n g - Jay Salisbury good handthe word eye co-coorand bringing organization to the dination.”

Ron Rush, a veteran sport.

Jay Salisbury, one of the racquetball player, also fledgling group’s direc- learned about the sport tors said the sport has qui- in Florida and attended a etly sprung up across the clinic there.

“There aren’t any racquet municipality.

“It’s being played at the ball courts around any WISH Centre, the health more so I’m playing pickplex at St. Clair College, at leball and enjoying it.”

Lorie Cooper said she’s the YMCA, in Tilbury, in Ridgetown, Blenheim and played for three years in probably other places as Florida.

“I love the community well,” he said.

Pickleball combines ele- of it,” she said. “I use it ments of badminton, ten- instead of a workout, and nis, and table tennis, and more and more young

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Peggy Hope, left, and Anne Leung were among more than 20 pickleball players taking part in a session at the WISH Centre recently. The sport is growing in popularity as snowbirds bring it back from Florida where is is a major activity.

people are getting into it.”

Mike Hope, too, was a skeptic.

“I thought, ‘I’m not going to play that’,” he said.

“A couple of years ago, my wife started playing. I still wouldn’t try it but we had a fun day in the park and I took a lesson. Now we play a couple of times a week at the WISH Centre and every day when we’re down south.”

The directors hope to begin discussing the pos-

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“You can get into the sport for less than $100,” he said. We think it’s going to grow. Once we have a better idea of what we’re able to do as a group, we might have a membership drive.”

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Friday, June 10, 2016 • Ernie Miller will perform at 2:00pm in the West Lounge at Meadow Park, 110 Sandy St., Chatham • Meal and darts at The Chatham Legion, William & Colborne St., Chatham. Dinner is from 5:30pm to 7:00pm. Choice of chicken and ribs, roast beef or fish and chips for $9.00. One meat draw. Fun darts at 7:30pm.

• Kent Branch OGS monthly meeting from 7:00pm-8:30pm at the McKinlay Reception Centre, 463 St. Clair St., Chatham. Free to the public. This month Jim and Lisa Gilbert take us back in time and tell us of interesting local people our ancestors may have met.

Saturday, June 11, 2016 • Saturday at 7 at St. Andrew’s. Best of Brass Concert, featuring the 30 piece Five Lakes Silver Band from Metro Detroit. St. Andrew’s United Church, Chatham. 7:00pm. Free will offering ($10 suggested). Doors open at 6:30pm. www. standrewschatham.org.

• Meat draw and dance at The Chatham Legion, William & Colborne St., Chatham. Meat draw from 4:00pm-6:00pm.

Dance from 4:30pm-9:30pm featuring Barker & Allen.

• Glad Tidings Community Church, Blenheim (next to the Golf Course) is having an indoor yard sale/vendor sale/bake sale from 9:00am-1:00pm.

Sunday, June 12, 2016 • Bingo at BR.243 Royal Canadian Legion, Ridgetown. Sponsored by the Legion Ladies Auxiliary from 2:00pm-4:00pm.

Entry fee is $10, includes 4 cards. Jackpot $200.

• Essex County Ramblers will be at Two Creeks Conservation Area, just north of Wheatly at 6:30pm. Come out for an evening of old time music. An audience favourite.

• 60th Anniversary Service of St. Paul’s Anglican Church, Chatham at 9:30am. 18 Dolsen Road. Reception to follow in the parish hall. Come celebrate with us!

• Memorial Service, Owen Community Cemetery, Owen Rd., Chatham-Kent.

1:30pm. Please bring your lawnchair.

Monday, June 13, 2016 • Welcome Don & Bonnie performing at 1:30pm in the Main Dining room at Meadow Park, 110 Sandy St., Chatham.

• Senior Euchre at The Chatham Legion, William & Colborne St., Chatham at 1:00pm.

• Join the Blenheim Hort Society on a wonderful trail walk in Blenheim. The Flook Trail. Meet in the visitor’s parking lot of the Harwich-Raleigh School on Chatham St South in Blenheim at 6:30pm.

Tuesday, June 14, 2016 • The Torrence Sisters will entertain at 2:00pm in the West Lounge at Meadow Park, 110 Sandy St., Chatham

Put pork on your fork!

OK, this is for you folks who have been politely nudging me to write more about my barbecuing.

Seven pounds of pork loin!

In recent weeks, I’ve done burgers, hot dogs and chicken, but realized I had to get back into the bigger, better cooks.

It started with the most recent chicken effort. A nice bit of seasoning and a bag of Caesar salad, combined with some wraps make for a simple, fast meal, but is an upgrade from the everyday.

I then moved onto salmon last week, doing the maple syrup, soy sauce and garlic glaze. Well, Mary did the glaze. Instead of cooking it on a griddle, I tried it on indirect, with the salmon on a grill.

Our daughter Brenna, the biggest salmon fan in the house, loved it. Because it wasn’t cooked on the griddle, the bottom was not crisped, something my wife didn’t like about it.

Bruce Corcoran Back to the griddle next time.

Best option for everyone, myself included.

Through those recent cookings, I’ve had that big piece of pork in the fridge (don’t worry, the best before date was for this coming weekend). I snagged it at an awesome price, for starters.

But how to cook such a hunk of meat? That was my question.

Naturally, my first thought was to smoke it over low heat. But since it is a relatively lean cut of pork, I went the indirect roasting method.

Continued on page 17

• Open Euchre at 1:00pm at The Chatham Legion, William & Colborne St., Chatham.

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• Meadow Park’s Annual Family Council BBQ and Old Car Show at 5:00pm at Meadow Park, 110 Sandy St., Chatham.

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Seven pounds of succulent pork loin only took a little over 90 minutes on the barbecue.

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Low and slow not always best cooking method Continued from page 16

I’m still learning about the various cooking processes.

While I’m sure the pork loin would have been fine had we smoked it, it seems that process is best suited for fatter cuts of meat. The fat breaks down and helps keep the meat moist during the long, slow cook.

Leaner cuts tend to dry out more quickly.

Now, with the Big Green Egg, I am fortunate, as it’s a very forgiving cooking device.

Meat tends to really stay moist in the ceramic cooker. But I still wanted to keep it as moist as possible.

So after some event coverage for the paper Saturday (whoever says there is nothing to do in Chatham-Kent should just talk to any newspaper staffer working on a weekend), I pulled out the pork loin. I had given it a thin coating of mustard and then a nice crust of Dizzy Dust seasoning.

As the meat warmed up a bit, I fired up the Egg and set the temperature for 350 F. I had never used our Digi-Q temperature regulator for a roasting effort before, so I worried a bit about the fan keeping enough airflow. Then again, I just opened up the top vent a bit more and the temperature was fine.

I anticipated upwards of a three-hour-plus cook time,

but in just over 90 minutes, the pork was done to 145 F internal.

Because we tented it in aluminum foil and let it rest for a bit, next time I will pull the

meat off at 140 F. It’s recommended pork is cooked to 145 F, but the extra five degrees easily come after you pull a piece of meat off the barbecue that has an outside tempera-

ture of 350 F, you tent it to keep in the heat, and let it rest.

Regardless, it was delicious.

We had it the first night with various salads. The second night, I sliced it thinner and

put it on a bun with some cheese and barbecue sauce, with more salad on the side.

I now wish I’d picked up half a dozen of the pork loins at the $1.98 a pound price. Duh.

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HOT HANDS…Tyler Borth drove three winners on the day at Dresden Raceway to take the dash lead early in this campaign with 5 wins. Andy Moore and Alex Lilley are tied for second with three wins each.

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THEY LOVE DRESDEN…VICTORYS PEANUT and PJ LUCKY LASS are undefeated at Dresden Raceway this year as both are 2-0 at the local half mile oval.

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