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Radio jock retires after 44 years on air
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One of the most familiar voices in Chatham-Kent went silent Friday as veteran local broadcaster George Brooks walked away from the radio booth. Brooks retired after 44 years in the business, the last 39 of which were spent in his hometown of Chatham. Brooks, who turns 65 in June, said he was hoping to retire at some point this year, but an opportunity came up sooner than expected. He said he received the offer April 8, two days before stepping out the door. The Chatham Voice caught up with Brooks in the broadcast booth of CKUE on Friday before his last on-air shift. He looked over at one wall, commenting on a rack of CDs, now viewed as an antiquated system of music storage. Radio stations today play music stored on computers, which is a long way from where Brooks started.
His career began in 1971 at CKAR 630, a country station that happens to be at the same point on the AM dial as Chatham’s CFCO. “I was spinning 45 RPM singles and 33-1/3 RPM albums then,” George recalled. Even during his evening shifts at the Central Ontario station, his hometown signal would still reach out to him. “I would go off the air at 1 a.m. You’d hear CFCO waft in after that. It just goes a long way,” he said, citing the low point on the dial and the “skip” effect AM radio signals can experience at night. After a year and a half spinning country tunes late at night, Brooks shifted east to Peterborough, playing rock ’n’ roll for CHEX under a new name. “I was an evening rock jock. I was ‘Gary’ Brooks – they didn’t like ‘George’ – on Liftlock Rock,” he said. That gig lasted for about a year and a half.
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DJ signs off after 39 years on local radio to CFCO,” he said, adding the dream wasn’t his alone. “My mother was so proud of the fact I was on the air. She’d tell everyone that was me.” Brooks was a mainstay on CFCO until the format change to country about seven years ago, moving to CKSY for a half decade before donning the headphones for CKUE under it’s “LITE FM” program-
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When Brooks tired of all the evening work, Huntsville beckoned. A morning slot had opened up, and Brooks jumped at the opportunity. But Chatham’s signal strength was ultimately stronger, and in 1976, Brooks came home to work on CFCO. “It was a dream come true. I grew up listening
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was this huge star and I worked at a little radio station,” Brooks said. “He was just a very nice man.” Radio jocks are often tasked with doing live remotes, as well as off-site promotions. Brooks recalled his strangest – and “Before I moved into Residence on the most WKRP-like Thames I was lonely, now my activities are – moment came social: Tai Chi, Cards, Wii Bowling... in the heart of there is never a dull moment.” Chatham. “I was dressed Call to book a furnished up as a big chicken, handguest suite today! ing out flyers • Wonderful Accommodations • 24 Hour Emergency Response for an early bird • Marvelous Healthy Meals • Weekly Housekeeping & Laundry sale,” he said. • Unique Care Services • Friendly Caring Staff “I’m not sure if • Social Activities • Furnished Suites & Complimentary Stays Available I surprised or scared a woman, www.myretirementliving.ca but this little, old
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lady fell on the sidewalk. As I bent over to see if she needed help, I realized this must have been quite the site – a giant chicken standing over this little woman.” Office pranks are another fact of radio life. Brooks said during the days of rip-and-read newscasts where news personnel would tear their stories off the printer and stack them to read them in a predetermined order on the air. Pranks included stapling together all the pages except the top one so the news anchor wouldn’t realize the issue until they’d already stared reading the news, or opening the booth door during a newscast and lighting the script on fire. “We used to try to crack
up the news guy,” Brooks explained with a devilish grin. What the future holds for the cancer survivor is not being anchored to one thing in particular. He has no roadmap yet set for the coming days and weeks, but expects that will change soon enough. “I have no really big plans. I will take it easy for a bit,” he said. “I love working in the yard and I like fishing. But I might find I want to do something part time or do some more volunteering. I can sort of do what I want.” Sitting at home twiddling his thumbs won’t be an option. “You’ve got to have some reason to get up every day,” he said. “I will certainly be doing that.”
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THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 2015
News Forum will review ward boundaries
By Bruce Corcoran bruce@chathamvoice.com
When council hosts a forum on ward boundaries at its April 20 meeting, chances are no one will be leaning forward in his or her seat more than Derek Robertson. In 2011, the Chatham councillor put forward a motion to alter the ward landscape in the municipality. It was voted down. And now council and the community will hear from Andrew Sancton, a political science professor at the University of Western Ontario, on the idea of altering Chatham-Kent’s ward structure so each ward is made up of similar numbers of citizens. “I will be interested in hearing his presentation and asking some very pointed questions,” Robertson said. It’s part of a CK Community Development Forum and will be hosted by Bill Weaver, who represented North Kent on council for more than a decade. He said ward boundaries and the size of council will be part of the discussion. Sancton is looking forward to the forum. “Chatham-Kent is unique among Canadian municipalities in that it contains so many distinct communities,” he said in a media release. “Nevertheless, the principle of representation-by-population must be paramount in municipal government. The current C-K system has been in place since 1998. Since then, federal and provincial electoral boundaries in Ontario have been redrawn twice. Some kind of change is unavoidable.” That mindset is what will have Robertson on the edge of his seat. He hopes to see council move ahead with making changes during this term of office. “Ultimately, I would like to see the governance
structure of this municipality be somewhere from eight to 10 wards with one councillor per ward,” Robertson said. Chatham-Kent has 17 councillors and a mayor. Some wards have two councillors, some three, while Chatham has six. Robertson said he’s curious to see how the rest of council reacts to the forum, and wonders what could happen if the municipality doesn’t reshape its structure to be better aligned for representation by population. “What I want to hear is if council chooses to not take action, I want to hear what the repercussions are at the OMB (Ontario Municipal Board) should the issue be challenged,” he said. Robertson didn’t rule out being the person who takes the matter to the OMB either. “I might consider being the one to challenge it to the OMB, but let’s not put the cart in front of the horse. Let’s see what this council has to say,” he said. While Robertson said there are a lot of fresh faces around the council table and believes many are open minded, he wonders how the matter will ultimately be handled. To him, keeping things as they are is not an option. “The status quo is just a way for people to sit around and protect their seats,” he said. One seat that isn’t protected is Robertson’s. He told The Chatham Voice he has no plans on running in 2018. “I wanted to come in and be something of a catalyst for change. I think I’ve been that,” the two-term councillor said. “My motivation in terms of all the work I’ve done on council is for the betterment of this community.” The community forum takes place at 6 p.m. in council chambers.
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John Knapp of Knapp’s Farm Service spent part of Friday afternoon shining up his display at the 33rd annual Chatham-Kent Home and Garden Show. Organizers say about 5,000 people attended the show at the John D. Bradley Convention Centre, which had more than 120 exhibitors showcasing items.
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C-K Cyber Pack off to St. Louis for robotics event
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They may be fresh faces, but the members of a local robotics team are heading to St. Louis next week for international competition. The Chatham-Kent Cyber Pack will be in St. Louis April 22-25 competing at the FIRST Robotics world championships. The squad – made up of high school students from Chatham-Kent Secondary School, Ursuline College Chatham, and Lambton-Kent Com-
posite School – operates out of the Thames campus of St. Clair College. The team recently took part in a regional FIRST Robotics event in Windsor, where 48 teams comprised of more than 1,000 kids, competed. The Cyber Pack took rookie of the year honours and earned the chance to compete in St. Louis. According to James Thompson of the Cyber Pack, the team needed to raise $15,000 to go to St. Louis, and did so through community support in less than a week.
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The members of the Chatham-Kent Cyber Pack robotics team will head to St. Louis next week to compete in a world event.
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Wednesday brought a different police line up of sorts to Chatham, as officers lined up to donate blood. In the Uniforms Unite to Save Lives Campaign, off-duty police officers, firefighters, and EMS personnel showed up in uniform and rolled up their sleeves to donate at the Chatham blood donor clinic. Const. Doug Cowell was one of them. “We see it at work every day,” he said off the need for blood. “Donating doesn’t cost you anything except for time.” Maureen MacFarlane, territory manager for Canadian Blood Services, said a typical donation will take about an hour from the time a person registers to the time he or she gets juice and cookies at the end. It can take a little longer when a clinic is busier, however. Cowell said there will always be a need.
“It’s just such a valuable give to give. There’s always a shortage,” Cowell said. “You try to lead by example and give back.” For Cowell, and his wife, Renee, also a police officer, giving blood is indeed a form of payback. Their late daughter Bailey was born with a heart defect and required a transplant. She received that transplant when she was only nine days old. Bailey lived for just five weeks and needed 140 units of blood during her short life. “Our goal each year is to replace what she used in a month,” Cowell said. “We received support from complete strangers. I want to pay that back.” MacFarlane said the need for donations of units of blood is constant. “Blood has a shelf life,” she explained. Cancer patients are the No. 1 users of blood, and individually can go through up to five units a week, MacFarlane said. For someone in a car accident, the need could reach
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Const. Doug Cowell donates at the Canadian Blood Services clinic April 8 at the Spirit and Life Centre in Chatham. It was Cowell’s 34th time giving blood.
the 50-unit mark. Despite the need, only a fraction of the population opts to donate. “Less than 4% of the population donates blood,” MacFarlane said. “Anyone aged 17 and older can come out and donate.”
A person can donate blood once every 56 days, she added. MacFarlane offers encouragement to anyone
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Change in the wind While municipal officials and (hopefully) members of the public examine municipal ward boundaries next Monday, we hope they also keep an open mind toward other potential changes in the way we elect our local representatives. The hour-long session before council will examine whether ward boundaries and the number of councillors that were put in place by provincial mandate in 1998 remain relevant. Chatham-Kent was created by a provincial appointee after local officials couldn’t come up with a compromise on local government reform. Territorial issues aside, local officials at the time weren’t given all the facts to change representation since the Mike Harris government was still in the process of writing the “Common Sense Revolution.” At least this time, citizens will have the opportunity to participate in a democratic rather than an autocratic process. While we’re at it, we need to take the time to consider dropping the “first past the post” election model which has resulted in the re-election of councillors and mayors with only a fraction of public support. It has been decades since we’ve had a mayor who garnered more than half of the vote. In last fall’s election, Mayor Hope received 28% of 42% who voted (in effect less than 12% of eligible voters voted for him). That speaks more about a flawed system than it does the merits of the mayor. Even though for the first time in years (thanks in part of a Chatham Voice-United Way campaign) voter turnout increased, we still have too few people taking part. One reason for voter apathy is that “the same people will get in anyway.” Under the ranked system, voters rank the candidates in order of preference, (first, second, third, etc.). Any candidate who gets more than 50% of first-place votes is elected. If no one has majority of first-place votes, there is a runoff. The candidate that got the fewest first-place votes is knocked out of the race and the second choices of that person’s supporters are added to the totals of the remaining hopefuls. The runoff continues until one candidate has a majority of votes and is declared the winner. It ensures that office holders have the backing of at least half of all voters. The system is gathering more momentum, and where it has been implemented it has brought in new life. Toronto Mayor John Tory is in favour of it and Premier Kathleen Wynne is favouring discussion of the matter through a private members bill.
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THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 2015
Opinion
Even scientists back creationism Sir: I thoroughly enjoyed reading Bill Elders’ letter to the editor, “In defense of creationism” in the March 26 Chatham Voice. He pointed out that the theory of evolution is just that, “a theory, an idea, an assumption that has not yet been proven.” I would like to quote from an eminent world-renowned zoologist Pierre Grasse in support of that point. This quote is taken from his work, “Evolution of Living Organisms.” “If one considers the great number of simultaneous, timely mutations satisfying existing needs involved in their genesis, one cannot fail to be confounded by so much harmony, so many lucky
coincidences due entirely to omnipotent chance. “What scientist would venture to estimate the chances of such a cascade, such an avalanche, of co-ordinated and mutually adjusted chance occurrences? The odds are infinitesimal. “There is no law against daydreaming, but science must not indulge it.” Please not that Grasse does not fall into either of the two categories – Christian or stupid – yet was well aware of the many problems the Darwinian theory of evolution presents, and made the effort to point them out in his prolific writings. Indeed, there are many more of his quota-
tions that could be cited. Now, for two quotes from Dr. John C. Lennox, professor of mathematics at the University of Oxford, and Fellow in mathematics and the philosophy of science at Green Templeton College. These quotes are from his book, “God’s Undertaker, Has Science Buried God?” “I submit that, far from science having buried God, not only do the results of science point towards his existence, but the scientific enterprise itself is validated by his existence. Inevitably, of course, not only those of us who do science, but all of us, have to choose the presupposition with
which we start. There are not many options, essentially just two. Either human intelligence ultimately owes its origin to mindless matter or there is a Creator. It is strange that some people claim that it is their intelligence that leads them to prefer the first to the second.” To which I might add that it doesn’t take much mental acuity to decide that the vast universe, with all of its stunning beauty, design and staggering complexity, did not come about by random chance from some indiscriminate source of mindless matters, but was deliberately created by God for a purpose. Heidi Lavoie Chatham
Sir: The Canadian Cancer Society would like to thank each and every one of its many dedicated volunteers in Chatham-Kent. Volunteers are integral to the Canadian Cancer Society, who without their dedication, energy and tireless efforts would not be able to meet our goals
to eradicate cancer and improve the quality of life for people living with cancer. Society volunteers are working in all capacities across Ontario to help ease the burden of cancer - from raising funds for life-saving cancer research
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Bursting at the seams in Blenheim
Blenheim and Community Senior Citizens Group The club has raised about half In a classic case of filling a of the $800,000 needed for the need, the Blenheim and Com- new building that will be built munity Senior Centre is pre- within sight of the current loparing to break ground for a cation, on Marlborough Street. The 7,500-sq.-ft. building will new building five times its curhave a main floor rent size. with a lounge, ofThe club’s mem- “We just need the fice, kitchen and bership has been room. There is so a large hall that growing by leaps much more our memcan be divided and bounds and has now topped bers want, but we don’t into three smaller rooms. the 350 mark, a have the space.” An elevator will 20% increase in a - Peter Shillington take members short time. “We just need the room,” said and guests to the basement Peter Shillington, a co-chair which will be set up for shufof the new building project. fleboard, darts, billiards, cards “There is so much more our and other activities. A key feature is that the buildmembers want, but we don’t ing will have its own generator. have the space.” “If we have a power outage, The current facility at 90 Catherine St. was purchased in 1980 we can use the centre as an and has housed the group for emergency shelter,” Shillinga quarter century but has out- ton said. “We will have showers and room for several hunlived its usefulness. Co-chair Ron White said dred people to stay for a short when the group holds its pop- time.” White and Shillington said ular chicken or perch dinners it has to have two sittings just to they are in the process of accessing government funding accommodate the crowd. The group was formed as the under a variety of programs. “Every study shows that “New Horizon Club” at the Blenheim Legion Hall. At the keeping active is a key factor time the Kiwanis club spon- in maintaining health.” Shillington said. “Our centre is an sored it. Treasurer Ina Aby said in 1981 important place for people to the name was changed to the gather.” By Jim Blake jim@chathamvoice.com
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Safety Village aims to expand By Bruce Corcoran bruce@chathamvoice.com
The Chatham-Kent Children’s Safety Village (CKCSV) is looking to expand its programs, and it’s kicking off an awareness campaign with a cute
commercial. Young Brianna Corbin, 7, is the main character in a video advertisement for the CKCSV promoting electrical safety in the home. In the video, her “dad,” played by Sam Shoebot-
tom, uses a knife to try to get his bread out of a toaster. He received a shocking dose of reality. Gary Patterson, board president at the CKCSV, said the safety village opted to “take the light-
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Brianna Corbin, 7, is the central figure in a video commercial for the Chatham-Kent Children’s Safety Village.
er side” in creating this commercial. It depicts Corbin preaching safety while her bumbling father gets zapped in the background. Check out the video here: https://youtu.be/A7oxGXFRlrA It illustrates the need for all ages to be more safety cognizant. Patterson said the village wants to be the central piece in such education. “We want to become the safety hub of Chatham-Kent, not just for children. We want to encompass everything,” he said, including home and workplace safety. Patterson said the village was underutilized with the old format. Students in grades 1, 4 and 6 would visit the village to learn about everyday safety. But under the new format, beginning in September, the village will offer education for students in grades 1 through 8 – and beyond. “We had to make changes to our format. We are rebranding,” he said. “We were running programs for only 18 weeks out of the year. This building was underutilized. Now we will have 32 weeks of
programming. We’ll have a larger impact on more people.” Corbin’s commercial is part of that rebranding. Patterson said a private donor paid Maverick Media to produce the ad. Rick Walker of Maverick said the commercial will air on CTV2, the CBC and will be prevalent on various social media platforms. Corbin, a Grade 2 student at McNaughton Avenue Public School, said she enjoyed being part of the commercial, and believes safety education is important for children and adults. She recalled being at the village last year and learning about electrical safety. Corbin’s favourite part of the commercial was being able to see the finished product. She added she took a while to get all her lines down pat. Corbin said kids need to remind their parents about doing things safely. “Sometimes parents do things wrong and they just do what they learned when they were younger,” she said. Thanks to safety education for children, Patter-
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son said kids today often do pass on their safety tips to their parents, including such items as having a fire exit plan in the home, and not texting while driving. The safety village is partnered with local police, fire and EMS, as well as a number of local businesses, and has added the OPP to the mix. Patterson said some of the education that will be provided to older students is that of social safety, such as anti-bullying and life skills. Adult programs will include slip-and-fall prevention, as well as crime prevention. School programming at the village ends at 1:30 p.m., Patterson said. He’d like to see adult programs, especially for seniors, begin shortly thereafter. Plans are to also offer evening programs for people who work during the day. Every program comes with an expense. Patterson said the safety village receives no government funding and the quest is on to raise money to fuel the safety hub concept, including using GoFundMe.com.
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What’s your worst road in C-K? By Bruce Corcoran bruce@chathamvoice.com
April showers bring more than May flowers; they also bring the CAA’s annual Worst Roads competition. It was a long, cold winter. We suffered, and our streets have as well. Caroline Grech, a government relations specialist with CAA, said our harsh winter has been merciless on Ontario roads. “It was the coldest February on record,” she said. “And changes in temperature can cause significant damage to roads.” At this time of year, good luck finding a street without a pothole problem. The CAA encourages the public to take part in its annual survey of beat-up roads in the province by visiting CAAworstroads.com, following the instructions and voting for the worst road in your community. Ontario municipalities are responsible for about 140,000
km of roads. Here in Chatham-Kent, there are nearly 3,500 km of roads – the equivalent of driving from here to Edmonton. Chatham-Kent has a number of roads in the top 100 currently, including Forhan Street and Dufferin Avenue in Wallaceburg, as well as King, Lacroix and Richmond streets and Grand and Victoria avenues in Chatham. At the end of the month-long campaign, CAA will announce the top 10 worst roads in the province, Grech said. New this year will be a top five list of crappy roads in seven regions of Ontario. Grech said the CAA will use the information to lobby local government to make improvements. “We also meet with the politicians and cities and towns where those streets pop up on the list. So if your street gets on the list, we will actively come and meet, find out the plan and
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CAA’s Caroline Grech stands at the corner of Lacroix and Richmond streets in Chatham. Both streets are trending in the CAA’s annual Worst Roads voting.
communicate that plan to the public,” she said. Grech said getting into the top 10 can force municipalities to take notice of infrastructure issues. “The significance of getting on the list is awareness,” she said. “It raises awareness with municipalities and the public about prioritizing that particular street (for repairs). Often, municipalities might have that street as a priority, but
this gives them further incentive to get that road fixed.” Potholes are a safety issue. “It’s not safe for anyone to have pothole-ridden roads – for cyclists, pedestrians, transit rid-
ers or drivers. It does significant damage to your car as well,” Grech said. “People swerve and can cause accidents. It’s important to have proper infrastructure across the province.”
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Child’s illness alters weekend plans We had plans to attend the third annual Shrewsbury Maple Syrup Festival on the weekend, and hit the Home & Garden Show, but a bout of the stomach flu for our daughter nixed that concept. Instead, it was another weekend close to the home. But at least the weather allowed us to escape from the shell of our home. Warm sunshine, light winds – it definitely seemed like spring. And my Monday morning aches also confirmed it – the result of some spring yard work. We got the pond opened, hot tub drained, cleaned and refilled and some leaves picked up around the house. As we opened the pond Sunday, I received a pleasant surprise. One of the koi survived. It looked lonely, despite the fact goldfish surrounded it. I did, however, find a dead shubunkin. They’re about the size of goldfish, but are generally black, white and orange. Nice fish. Not so nice when floating upside down. And when I opened up the skimmer, I found a graveyard. I think there was one fish in there, and maybe a frog. They had been in there for a long time, likely shortly after we closed the pond for the winter. As we cleaned that mess out, the smell was pretty atrocious. Mary had to leave the area, and wondered how I could stand it. It smelled like a hot afternoon at a fish market. It could be worse. It could have smelled like vomit (my wife had to deal with that on Friday with our kid). But we got the fish goo cleaned
Bruce Corcoran out and fired up the pump. Once the weather warms, we’ll look at adding a few more fish, at least one of which will be a koi. The pond was the Sunday main task. Saturday was the hot tub. The water in the tub had been there since late fall. A long, cold winter meant we used it, but not as often as I had expected. When we purchased the hot tub used, it came with a siphon device for draining. Very simple and very effective. It has about four feet of clear plastic pipe with some kind of float device in the middle, and it’s attached to about 10 feet of flexible hose. It’s all about two
inches in diameter. To drain the tub, I just set the hose where I want the water to flow, take the plastic section, submerge the open end in the tub and pump it up and down until the water begins to flow. I usually just leave the plastic piece lying in the bottom of the hot tub, with the open end in the lowest section of the tub. But I also use it as a vacuum of sorts, sucking up the little bits of stuff that invariably wind up in the bottom of your hot tub. This thing takes maybe 20 minutes to drain the tub down to less than an inch of water at the very bottom. I hosed off the sides after I gave them a good scrubbing, so the amount of original water left in the tub was minimal. Refilling takes so much longer. Then again, there’s about 950 litres of water in there. And then there was the heating of the water. At this time of the year, tap water is darned cold. The tub temperature
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It turns out one koi survived the cold winter in Bruce’s pond. Six of its buddies, however, did not.
reading when I turned it back on last Saturday was 46 F. By Sunday mid-morning, it had climbed to 67 F, and was up to temperature – about 98 F – by Monday morning. Naturally with such great
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What are Ticks and How Are Ticks Transmitted to Dogs?
1. Ticks are an external parasite that feed on the blood of host animals such as our canines. The brown dog tick (Rhipicephalus sanguineus) and the American dog tick (Dermacentor variabilis), examples of ticks that commonly affect dogs, require three feedings to complete their life cycles.
How are Ticks Transmitted to Dogs?
Ticks are most active from Spring through late fall and live in tall brush and grass, where they may attach to dogs roaming through their habitat. They climb onto the host and embed their head in the host and feed. These parasites prefer to stay close the head, neck, feet and ear area. In severe infestations, however, they can be found anywhere on a dog’s body. But dogs who live in warm climates and certain wooded areas where ticks are particularly prominent, might be more prone due to increased exposure. This is why preventative medications are becoming more popular due to increasing tick populations. Ticks transmit several different diseases such as Lyme, ehrlichiosis, and anaplasmosis, and can also put your pet at risk of blood loss, anemia, tick paralysis, and skin irritation and/or infection in addition to the above illnesses listed.
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• Fun darts at the Chatham Legion, William & Colborne St., Chatham, starting at 7:30pm. Thursday, April 23, 2015 • Meadow Park Chatham Spaghetti Dinner Fundraiser for Outreach for Hunger. 110 Sandys St., Chatham. Call Lydia 519-351-1330 for details and tickets. Entertainment: Jeremy Smith. Friday, April 24, 2015 • Meal and darts at the Chatham Legion, William & Colborne St., Chatham. Dinner 5:30pm-7:00pm. Choice of liver & onions, roast beef or fish & chips for $8.00. One meat draw. Open darts 7:30pm. Saturday, April 25, 2015 • Enjoy Kim’s Fried Chicken Dinner with all the fixings, $12. 4:00pm-6:00pm at the W.I.S.H. Centre, 177 King St. E., eat-in or take-out. Advance tickets only. Last day for tickets April 21. Proceeds for Taylor Park & Orville Wright Pool. Contact the W.I.S.H. Centre at 519-354-5248. • Indoor Yard Sale at Holy Trinity Church, Victoria & Selkirk St. 9:00am-11:30am. • Chatham Blood donor clinic at Chatham Polish Canadian Club, 281 Inshes Ave., Chatham from 9:00am-noon. New donors and walk ins welcome. • Meat draw and dance at the Chatham Legion, William & Colborne St., Chatham. Meat draw from 4:00pm-6:00pm. Dance from 4:00pm10:00pm featuring Tim McLean. • 12th Annual OSPCA Furball Fete from 5:30pm-10:00pm at Country View Golf Course. Dinner & Silent Auction. Tickets are $40 each and can be purchased from the OSPCA Kent County Branch at 405 Park Ave. East. Doors open at 5:30pm, dinner at 6:00pm. For more info call 519-354-1713. • 2nd Raid Our Closets - clothing resale. Numerous Vendors on site. Free admission. Door prizes. 9:00am-noon. 953 Charing Cross Rd inside T-Bones Grill House. Sunday, April 26, 2015 • Spring Concert at St. Paul’s Congregational Church, 450 Park Ave. West, Chatham. Music for Organ, Piano and Choir to honour Ron Kingham. Free will offering to establish a Kiwanis Musical Festival Award. 519-354-0789. 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. Toastmasters is a place where you develop and grow - both personally and professionally. Meetings are a learn-by-doing workshop in which participants hone their speaking and leadership skills in a no-pressure atmosphere. Guests are always welcome. Join the Chatham-Kent Toastmasters at GreenField Ethanol, 275 Bloomfield Road on Mondays from 6:30 – 8:00pm. Royal Canadian Air Cadets 294 (Kinsmen) Squadron is looking for new members. If you are between 12 and 18 years of age and have an interest in aviation, camping or just meeting new friends we invite you to visit us any Monday at 6:30 pm at the Chatham Armoury 280 Bloomfield Rd in Chatham. You can also contact us at 519-352-7090. Submit your coming events to bruce@chathamvoice.com or michelle@chathamvoice.com
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Council honours Hockeyville effort By Aaron Hall Contributing Writer
The volunteers responsible for organizing the Kraft Hockeyville initiative were recognized by council Monday night. Evelyn Bish, director of community development, said the event brought great national recognition to Chatham-Kent. “Hockey is a part of our cultural identity and our own community spirit,” she said. Bish said the group did an amazing job rallying the community and pulling together the “Bash At The Barn” event when the final announcement was made. Mayor Randy Hope said he was especially impressed with the hard work and dedication by Chatham Maroons “Superfan” Chad Peterson during the process. “When Chad first came and met with me about this, I said it has to be driven by the community and support or it won’t be successful,” Hope
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A number of notices of motion were brought forward at Monday’s council meeting. Mayor Randy Hope is looking at hiring a consultant to look into council compensation. He said it has been a number of years since it has been reviewed. Chatham Coun. Brock McGregor is looking for staff to investigate a social media strategy for Chatham-Kent, along with looking into other options to improve the communication strategy overall. West Kent Coun. Mark Authier is bringing forward a motion for staff to investigate increasing the fine for garbage dumping. South Kent Coun. Trevor Thompson is looking to bring forward a motion to investigate efficient methods to run the municipality.
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Local TEDx organizers say they have their finalized list of speakers for this month’s event. The second TEDX Chatham-Kent follows on the heels of the inaugural event last year, and it was a tough act to follow, according to organizer John Lyons. “After last year’s success, the pressure was on to create an event that would be just as engaging and inspiring … and I think we’ve done just that,” he said in a media release. “We have an incredibly diverse line-up this year, including adventurer Jennifer Pate, who led an all female sailing crew on an expedition across the Atlantic; Jason Hall, whose Slow Roll Detroit was featured in a recent Apple iPad commercial; and personal finance blogger Kerry Taylor, a.k.a. The Squawkfox.” TEDx organizer Fannie Vavoulis thinks they’ve succeeded with a strong follow up list of speakers. “This year’s line-up is amazing,” she said in a media release. “We put a call out for speakers and were blown away by the calibre of applicants. We are so proud of this year’s line up and know people will really find the day enjoyable and inspiring.” TEDx C-K runs from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. April 23 at the John D. Bradley Convention Centre. To order tickets or to see the full speaker line up, visit tedxchathamkent.com.
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