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By Jim Blake jim@chathamvoice.com

The next step in creation of a $50 million Chinese-Canadian agricultural innovation fund will be on the agenda when Chatham-Kent Mayor Randy Hope and Economic Development Director Michael Burton head off to China Thursday.

Hope said the 11-day trip will include stops in four cities, and is a mix of new opportunities and open files.

“Some of the requests for meetings have come from our contacts as well as leads provided by officials who have visited here,” he said.

Burton said he discussed the idea of the fund (which would be the first of its kind in Canada) while in China last fall and received favourable response.

“It’s $25 million from Canadian investors and the same amount from private investors in China backed by the government,” he said. “It is an agriculturally focused venture capitol project aimed at funding leading edge innovative technology.”

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Mason McEachren, 10, displays a model of a farm he made for the 14th Annual Chatham-Kent Toy Show & Sale, held at the John D. Bradley Convention Centre on Sunday. Event organizer Carl Sterling said this year was extremely successful, with an estimate of 1,500 admissions sold as well as the many vendors who displayed their items, which included various farm toys, antique cars, books and comics. All proceeds from the event benefit the C-K 4-H Farm Toy Club and Outreach for Hunger.

Controversy stalks Everlast Group

By Jim Blake jim@chathamvoice.com

The idle Boardwalk on Thames development in downtown Chatham isn’t the first Everlast project

to find itself in controversy.

A similar $75 million project in the Halton Hills community of Georgetown was in the planning process for nearly a de-

cade without construction taking place.

The 12-acre Barber Mill site that went through various development plans before being abandoned has recently been

listed for sale at a price of $5 million.

Adam Farr, Halton Hills’ manager of development review, said development of the property had been complex due to heritage

and brownfield issues.

He said the original development plan had been changed and “the applicant has ceased activity” on the property.

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Work stopped in Georgetown too

drew the plan three years later following objections from residents and plans by the municipality to designate the property a heritage site.

According to municipal officials quoted at the time, the designation was designed to protect buildings on the property from further deterioration while Everlast waited to begin the project.

Everlast’s Victor Boutin wrote a letter to the municipality in which he was highly critical of its planning procedures.

The correspondence was noted in the Georgetown Independent Free Press Jan. 26, 2010 edition.

Boutin wrote a two-page www customwindow on ca letter to the community’s planning director Bruce MacLean, expressing frustration over the process. Boutin also gave notice to consultants that their services were no longer required.

“My company has a 30year history of successful projects. Opportunity is knocking on Georgetown’s door – will Georgetown open the door to this opportunity, or let it go somewhere else?” Boutin wrote.

His letter listed a half-dozen Reader's Choice frustrations that included requests for costly reports,

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The property, which is adjacent to the Credit River, was home to a paper mill that was founded in the mid-1800s. That business eventually relocated and the site was occupied by several other enterprises until it became vacant in the mid 1980s.

Everlast had planned to develop a 44-unit hotel, 50,000 sq. ft. commercial space and a 14-storey 240-unit condominium project in 2004, but with-

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“How can I continue this project when those requesting the reports are unable to properly review them? I’ve paid to have the reports completed, but I refuse to pay to have the reports reviewed as well. If you ask for reports, it is your responsibility to have the ability, competency and manpower to review them,” he said, according to the newspaper article.

The story continued: “Developer studies are peer-reviewed, MacLean said, so that town planners can maintain an arm’s length view on any proposal – and to provide assurance to the public they are not merely regurgitating the developers’ consultants’ viewpoints.

It’s a normal procedure to ask developers to pay for 100% of the costs of a peer-review report and the town was attempting to be conciliatory by halving the bill with Boutin, he said.”

In 2011, Everlast said buildings on the property had deteriorated beyond repair and requested demolition.

In July of 2013, demolition of buildings on the site took place.

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Work on Boardwalk on Thames has stopped on King Street in Chatham, with developer Victor Boutin blaming union involvement. His Everlast company also ran into problems in Georgetown, where a development eventually had to be demolished.

per’s website at http://www. theifp.ca/.

Independent Free Press news editor Cynthia Gamble told The Chatham Voice she had spoken with Boutin by phone, but never in person.

“I got the impression that if there was an obstacle, he

threatened and/or stopped the project until the obstacle was removed, then move forward until the next obstacle, then stop until that obstacle was removed,” she wrote in an e-mail.

Victor Boutin did not respond to requests for an interview.

Multiple projects up for discussion in China

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Hope said it’s important to have a local connection.

“We know our area best, and knowing the kind of agricultural talent we have here, there is a real opportunity,” he said. “Good things happen when you put ideas and money together.”

Burton said development of the fund is exciting but cautioned that it is in the “very early stages.”

Of more immediate nature, Burton said, is work on open

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files involving agriculture and other interests, including the possibility of locating a fertilizer plant in the municipality.

“Every business deal in China takes two to three times the amount of time it would in Canada,” Burton said. “We have a file we have been working on for two years. It’s a $20 million private investment that will net 50 jobs. I’d like to say we’re close to an announcement, but ‘close’ is a relative

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term.”

He said some of the ideas already under way are “revolutionary. They say there are no new ideas, well I’ve seen them.”

Burton said Shanghai, Liyang, Dalian City and Beijing are on the itinerary.

“We have to hustle, “ Hope said. “We have lots to tell potential business partners but if we’re not there telling them what we have, someone else will be.”

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News

Target misfires on Canadian stores Company to pull back into the United States, files for credit protection in Canada

By Bruce Corcoran bruce@chathamvoice.com

News that Target is closing its Canadian stores sent a chill through the air Thursday to rival the winter wind blowing across the region.

The company announced it is closing all 133 of its Canadian stores, including the one in Thames Lea Plaza in Chatham, leaving 17,600 employees out of work.

Target officials said by e-mail that closing dates for specific stores have not yet been finalized, but all will likely be closed in the next 16-20 weeks.

Dean Bradley, president of Brad-Lea Meadows, which owns the plaza and leases the space to Target, said he knew the company was having difficulties in the Canadian market, but didn’t think the reaction would be to back out of the country.

“It’s been in the news for quite a while about their struggles,” he said. “But the fact they pulled the plug like that is a big surprise.”

Target had lost more than $1.5 billion in its time in Canada. A statement from Target’s head office was blunt.

“After a thorough review of our Canadian performance and careful consideration of the implications of all options, we were unable to find a realistic scenario that would get Target Canada to profitability until at least 2021,” the U.S. parent company’s CEO Brian Cornell said in a release Thursday.

Bradley said he’s particularly sorry for the staff at the local Target.

Thames Lea Plaza is also

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The Chatham Target is one of 133 Canadian Target stores the parent company says will be closing in the coming weeks. Target lost billions in its expansion bid into Canada, which began less than two years ago. A company spokesperson said he expects all Canadian stores will be closed inside 20 weeks.

poised to lose Staples, which is relocating beside Future Shop on St. Clair Street in the coming weeks.

Bradley added he’s already putting feelers out for potential new tenants.

“We’re working on and have some interest from a number of parties.

There’s a lot of work and elbow grease involved,” he said.

Bradley said he doesn’t expect to hear from Target any time soon.

“If they’re going into receivership, it is going to be a fairly long process,” he said. “For the time being, they’re continuing to operate. That’s a positive.”

Brad-Lea Meadows revamped the plaza extensively prior to Target opening in mid-July of 2013. Target started opening stores in Canada in March of 2013 and

C-K Crime Stoppers celebrates successes The Chatham Voice

Chatham-Kent Crime Stoppers released their historic figures recently as part of their annual report.

Since the group’s inception in 1987, C-K Crime Stoppers have received nearly 24,000 calls, which have led to nearly 6,000 arrests and in excess of 14,000 charges laid. More

than 10,000 cases have been cleared, thanks to Crime Stoppers in Chatham-Kent.

As well, nearly $10 million in property has been recovered over that span, as well as $85 million in drugs seized.

The Crime Stoppers board thanks tipsters, the media and the police for contributing to the success.

very aggressively opened store after store that year.

Bradley said he dealt mostly with the real estate department of Target out of Minneapolis and said they were very professional and “very good to deal with.

“But it’s almost like as soon as their operational side took over, the problems developed,” he added. “I think the fundamental problem lies with their supply chain and inventory. They just

couldn’t get their act together. It’s pretty dramatic for them to have crashed and burned so fast.”

Such problems included getting the stock to the stores and onto the shelves in a timely manner.

The Chatham Target store was just one of many in the chain that suffered from delays in receiving stock. Too often, store shelves were bare.

Stacie Formosa is a pe-

riodic Target shopper in Chatham. The Chatham Voice caught up to her outside the retail outlet Thursday morning. She said she enjoys shopping at the store, particularly for the REDcard deals.

“It’s always really nice and clean too. I’ll miss it,” she said.

Another customer, who didn’t want to be identified, said she showed up Thursday after hearing Target was ceasing Canadian operations to see if

there were any deals. She admitted she wasn’t a big fan of Target, as too often items she sought were not in stock.

Stuart McFadden, deputy director of economic development for the municipality, hopes another company will pick up at least some of the pieces.

“Hopefully someone else will see it as an opportunity and open up under another banner. It’s happened many times before,” he said.

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Cold has big impact on seniors Lower core body temperature and poor circulation two factors

By Bruce Corcoran bruce@chathamvoice.com

Chatham-Kent experienced a couple of cold blasts of winter recently, prompting the municipality’s top health official to issue cold weather alerts.

Such alerts are called when Environment Canada predicts the mercury

to dip to -15C or lower, without wind chill; issues a wind chill warning for outdoor activity; or predicts extreme weather conditions, such as an ice storm or a blizzard.

Cold snaps deliver the increased potential for people to suffer frostbite or hypothermia. Dr. David Colby, medical offi-

to frostbite and hypotherriorate a little bit as you option,” he added. get older. The peripheral In the case of hypother- mia, Colby said a bigger circulation mia, Col- danger to seniors is ice.

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He stressed his health either afflicing the viction, Colby, chilling effect.” tim to hos- concerns span all age groups, adding there are who admits - Dr. David Colby pital. he is “one “But if simply some increased birthday away” from be- someone’s awake and just dangers to people as they ing classified as a senior feels very, very cold, they get older.

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Mayor moves forward You have to give Mayor Randy Hope some credit.

On a day cold enough to make a teenager pull his pants all the way up, the mayor met with two dozen of his contemporaries at the John D. Bradley Convention Centre (and, no, the D doesn’t stand for deficit) to plot strategy aimed at uniting the tag end of the province as a force to be reckoned with.

He could have been forgiven if he had just pulled the covers over his head and took a mental health day. The morning’s news confirmed that Target was pulling out of Chatham as part of its Canada-wide retreat back into the Excited States of America, the municipality had just been checked into the boards by news that the Plymouth Whalers chose to move to Flint, Mich., and the frozen in time Boardwalk on Thames project remained, well, frozen in time.

Instead, the mayor seemed genuinely exited about the possibility that his South Shores initiative was gaining some traction.

The aim of the meeting was to establish initiatives on a number of economic and social fronts. The idea is twofold – to gather the resources and ideas of the region and to leverage that knowledge to draw attention of senior levels of government.

With provincial and federal budget work underway and a federal election set for this year, the time is ripe for a united voice.

Lacking provincial clout and federal ministerial presence, the region needs to lobby as long and loud as it can for recognition and funding, if for no other reason than the fact every other jurisdiction is too.

This is the first step and it’s a welcome and needed one. The only guarantee is that if we don’t ask, we won’t get.

By the end of the session, there was plenty of information to be prepared, and, metaphorically, plenty of sticks to be sharpened.

A story posted on chathamvoice.com later that day even broke the news that the Whalers had plenty of good things to say about C-K, even if the team isn’t coming. There have been worse days.

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 2015

Opinion

C-K must alter its taxation mindset

Sir: In response to Mayor Hope’s comments in the Jan. 8 Chatham Voice, “Hope says C-K has bright future,” I believe his thinking is impractical.

Regardless who was mayor, criticism is inevitable. A solid formula creating an economy requires more than surface thinking and has to be based on circumstances, that is, current business/ recreational and general investment market, all of which is dependent on and are influenced by global, national and local economy.

The mayor touts new investment as the best way to offset taxes. It’s one way, depending on the circumstances. A comparable is increasing immigration to a country that has lost its natural growth and sustainability.

Adding more bodies, regardless of where they are from, more often than not can only add to a financial burden. Immigration can be wonderful but only in a growing self-sustaining nation, where each new body can become an

ingredient to increase a municipal or national net product, based on our ability to produce within our nation and advantage a level of international and global trade.

Chatham-Kent is not a growing community, but it can be. We have lost about 9,000 in population and a proportionate loss of industry, retail business and subsequently consumer purchasing strength. Our income per single parent household is only $26,000 annually.

Spending the time, resources and money to go out after new business, especially with every other community competing and having many things to offer, is not impossible but highly impractical when placed first over creating a less-expensive community that subsequently would increase our local disposable income to subsequently feed our local retailers, creating a stronger retail environment which creates jobs producing community growth.

Waiting for the sudden influx of new revenues to be pulled out of the hat is a gamble, while, in the meantime taxes and C-K municipal costs keep rising with services being cut. We’re losing more income than we can replace through our wishful investment thinking. Our operational and financial landscape is not attractive to investors.

Qualified investors, as our company always did, looked at a pattern of growth and operational sustainability before investing. C-K simply falls too short to attract the new investment money so badly needed.

Focusing on our in-house spending and investment prioritization is key. Preparing to and spending up to $100 million allows us to never get our heads above the water line.

New assessment is coming from tax increases.

Increasing our per capita value that would increase disposable income that would support our retail growth is imperative. C-K

was prepared to build a $50-million OHL arena.

We invested $20 million in an industrial park, $12 million in a convention centre, $4 million to $6 million since 2006 in a CSX rail line, $20 million in a master trails plan (although some provincial money was involved there); losing about $4.2 million annually with Riverview Gardens; $1.2 million donation to St. Clair College without sureties; $3 million overall Tecumseh Park upgrade.

All borrowed with high annual interest costs.

Most of these pie-in-thesky investments, had we not invested, we would be able to come in with zero tax increases with money remaining for reserves for infrastructure.

Political thinking seems to be about ego and building personal portfolios. Such thinking is not a good investment.

As far as C-K’s bright future, someone forgot to pay their high electricity bill.

John Cryderman Chatham

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Two-dozen mayors join forces in Chatham

of Strathroy Caradoc, said the key to the effort would be in its unification.

“There are issues which are of More than 40 government officials, including 24 mayors, more importance to some comgathered in Chatham Thurs- munities and lesser to others, day, working to find common but we can’t let that sideline Jim Blake/The Chatham Voice us. Once we deground and a velop a strategy, Chatham Kent Mayor Randy Hope shows some of the ideas developed during the first meeting of the South unified voice. The “It’s time we got towe have to see Shores Mayors of Ontario, held last Thursday in Chatham. effort is hoped to gether and raised the it through as a allow the munici- issues jointly because group.” tics.” pality to shout as there is strength in January 27, 2015 John Grace, a Chatham-Kent Chief one to lobby selongtime mem- Administrative Officer nior government numbers.” ber of Goderich Don Shropshire said to strengthen ev- - Mayor Randy Hope town council, municipal staff memerything from inattended, representing the bers would compile the frastructure to economy The gathering represented Southwestern Economic Alli- information from Monthe first meeting of the South ance, a nine-year old group that day’s session and dispromotes regional economic tribute it to members for Shores Mayors of Ontario. further evaluation.

The newly minted group came co-operation.

Mayor Hope said alHe said one of his group’s together at the John D. Bradley Convention Centre at the be- goals is to make this part of On- though the effort needs tario an “intelligent region” in to be thorough, it must hest of mayor Randy Hope.

“In talking with various may- terms of technology, including also be timely.

“We have senior level ors across this part of the prov- connectivity.

ABC Life Literacy Canada is encouraging “We have parts of the region budgets under preparaince, I kept hearing the same Canadian families to have “15 Minutes issues over and over again,” he which are still more than a de- tion and a federal elecof Fun” learning together. Learning can said. “It’s time we got together cade behind in Internet con- tion at some point this happen at any time. Practising literacy and raised the issues jointly be- nectivity,” he said. “We need year,” he said. “We need together every day has tremendous beneto make ourselves heard growth right across the speccause there is strength in numfits for both children and parents. Here are some great ways to get started: trum, including from fibre op- now.” bers.”

Attendees from London, • Read a “wake up” story in the morning (after reading your bedtime story the night before).

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January 30 January 31 structure, the environment, the • Tell knock-knock jokes together while doing the dishes. auto industry, agriculture and • Create a story with your family: take turns writing one sentence at a time, then read the the relationship municipalities JOHNNY CASH TRIBUTE BAND whole story aloud when you’re done.

(5) PAIR DINNER have with federal and provin• Write a review of a book you read together as a family. Send it to the author through cial levels of government. email or snail mail. $ Hope said the name was his PM •Organize a book swap at your school or with your friends. way of bringing additional at• Track your trip to school, the park, and the grocery store on a map. tention to the issues.

Find a different route to take to each place.

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2 new docs come to C-K CKHA recruitment effort paying dividends across board

tive, we are probably in a better state than we were a number of years ago. But we don’t know how many Chatham-Kent has a pair of new orphaned patients (those without doctors, and one of them is taking family doctors) there are in Chatham-Kent. The ministry (of health) new patients.

Drs. Glen and Briana Providence doesn’t share those numbers,” she came to the municipality in Decem- said.

Vavoulis said there ber. are still openings and He is a hospital- “Sometimes our needs for family pracist with the Chatitioners, particularly tham-Kent Health biggest hurdle with in Ridgetown with the Alliance and she is a physician recruitment Family Health Team. family practitioner, is making sure the The Chatham-Kent setting up shop with spouse or partner has Health Alliance is also the Chatham-Kent adequate employstill actively recruiting Family Health Team ment.” doctors for the emerin Dresden. gency departments, Briana is accept- - Fannie Vavoulis internal medicine, ing patients through Healthcare connect at 1-800-445- and other specialty areas, she added.

Vavoulis said there are several de1822.

Originally from the Toronto area, partments at the CKHA that have a the Providences went to Saba Uni- full compliment of doctors, such as versity Medical School in the Ca- anesthesiology and pediatrics.

“We’re definitely in a good predicribbean before moving to Ohio to complete their residency training ament. Our focus now is the ER and and then to Pennsylvania to begin making sure everyone has a family doctor,” she said. practising.

Getting doctors here is one matter.

They moved to Chatham-Kent for Keeping them is another. Vavoulis family reasons.

“It is important for us to be close said the alliance has been pretty sucto our family. We have friends who cessful with both.

“We’ve been fortunate on the retenlive in the Chatham-Kent area who practice medicine and we decided tion side as well. There’s still work to explore the opportunities,” Briana to be done,” she said. “The physisaid in a media release. “After sev- cians are here, but it doesn’t mean eral site visits and much discussion, they will be here forever. We want to my husband and I decided it was a make sure it (doctors leaving C-K) great fit for our medical practice and doesn’t happen.”

Vavoulis said the recruitment efour young family.”

Fannie Vavoulis, who heads up fort also looks long term, as it plans physician recruitment in C-K, said around future retirements to help with the Providences, everything minimize the chances of a doctor retiring, leaving his or fell into place. her patients without “They had a lo- “It’s not the time to cal connection here. celebrate our success- a replacement family physician.

A friend, and that She believes the infriend’s father, prac- es. We need to now crease in enrolment tise (medicine) here,” focus on the five-toat medical schools she said. “They did seven-year plan to their homework and make sure we don’t get has helped fill the were looking for a back into that shortage void here in Chatham-Kent, and elsesmaller community. where. The family They have two young situation.” medicine residency children. We always - Fannie Vavoulis program from the say this is a great place to raise a family. We have all University of Western Ontario also helps the CKHA bring in young the amenities.”

Another bonus in the case of the doctors, as they complete their resProvidences is that both husband idencies here, with some opting to and wife are doctors with work stay on after they graduate med school. readily available for them.

“But it’s not the time to celebrate “Sometimes our biggest hurdle with physician recruitment is mak- our successes. We need to now foing sure the spouse or partner has cus on the five-to-seven-year plan adequate employment,” Vavoulis to make sure we don’t get back into that shortage situation,” she said. said.

Vavoulis said the recruitment effort “There will always be a need for recruitment. There will always be a has really paid off in recent years.

“From a family physician perspec- need for physicians.”

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Thursday, January 22, 2015 • Wallaceburg Blood Donor Clinic. UAW Hall, 88 Elm St. South, Wallaceburg. 2:30pm-7:30pm.

• iPad - iOS8 Tips and Tricks. FREE workshop at Ridgetown Branch of the CKPL from 2:00pm4:00pm and the Blenheim branch from 6:00pm8:00pm. Space is limited. Register by calling your local branch or cktechtrain@chatham-kent.ca • Preschool Family Storytime, 10:00am at the Chatham branch of the CKPL. Children ages 3 or 4 years and parents/caregivers are invited to join us.

Friday, January 23, 2015 • Meal at Branch 628 Royal Canadian Legion, William & Colborne St., Chatham at 5:30pm to 7:00pm. Choice of meat loaf, roast beef or fish & chips for $8.00. One meat draw. Everyone welcome.

Saturday, January 24, 2015 • Recycled Readers, 10:00am at the Chatham branch of the CKPL. Adults are invited to join us for fun and discussion while discovering what is new or classic in the world of children’s literature.

• Meat draw at Branch 628 Royal Canadian Legion, William & Colborne St., Chatham from 4:30pm6:00pm, followed by a dance from 6:15pm to 11:00pm with Tim McLean. Everyone welcome.

Monday, January 26, 2015 • Tilbury Blood Donor Clinic. Tilbury Arena, 49 Bond Avenue, Tilbury. 1:00pm-7:00pm.

• Tales for 2’s at the Chatham Branch of the CKPL at 10:00am. Children ages 24-36 months and parents / caregivers are invited to join us for an hour program of rhymes, rhythm instruments, songs and stories. A simple snack of juice and cookies will be served at the end of each session.

Registration is not required. Please call the Children’s Room at 519-354-2940 ext. 246 for further information.

Tuesday, January 27, 2015 • Chatham-Kent Children’s Services is hosting an Info Night for anyone interested in learning more about becoming an adoptive or foster parent.

7:00pm, 495 Grand Ave. W., Chatham. Register by calling 519-358-4694.

• Mother Goose at the Chatham Branch of the CKPL at 10:00am. Children ages 0-24 months and parents / caregivers are invited to join us for an hour program of rhymes, rhythm instruments and lullabies. Registration is not required.

Please bring a blanket each week. Telephone the Children’s Room at 519-354-2940 ext. 246 for further information.

• Family Literacy Day at the Chatham Branch of the CKPL at 6:00pm. Drop-in for 15 Minutes of Fun! Family fun will include a ‘make and take’, scavenger hunt, and sensory activities. Registration is not required. Please call the Children’s Room at 519-354-2940 ext.246 for info.

• Shuffleboard, Pool and Darts at Branch 628 Royal Canadian Legion, William & Colborne St., Chatham starting at 6:30pm. Everyone Welcome.

Thursday, January 29, 2015 • Preschool Family Storytime, 10:00am at the Chatham branch of the CKPL. Children ages 3 or 4 years and parents/caregivers are invited to join us.

Friday, January 30, 2015 • Pasta and Meatball supper from 5:00pm7:00pm. Spirit and Life Centre, 184 Wellington St. West, Chatham. Adults $10.00. Children 10 and under $5.00. Children under 5 free. Tickets available at the Parish office at 205 Tweedsmuir Ave. West, Chatham.

• Chatham City Singles Dance at the Moose Lodge, 850 Richmond St. from 8:00pm-12:30pm featuring DJ Dave from London. Admission $8.00 (Ladies half price until 10) Cash Bar. Dress code in effect.

• Meal at Branch 628 Royal Canadian Legion, William & Colborne St., Chatham from 5:30pm to 7:00pm with choice of Liver & Onions, roast beef or fish and chips for $8.00. One meat draw.

Everyone welcome.

• Free PA Day program features Mad Science “Dry Ice Capades” - as well as crafts, exercise, games, music and stories. Snacks and lunch provided. Program is for ages 4-12. Early registration advisable as space is limited. Registration can be done by either calling First Reformed Church, 632 Lacroix St., Chatham. at (519) 354-8257 or by email: 1strefrm@ ciaccess.com.

Saturday, January 31, 2015 • Chatham-Kent Shop Local is hosting a Home Based Business & Small Business Job Fair from 9:00am2:00pm at the John D. Bradley Convention Centre, 565 Richmond St., Chatham. See Home Based Business and Small Business Fair Facebook page for more info.

• Meat draw at Branch 628 Royal Canadian Legion, William & Colborne St., Chatham from 4:30-6:00pm, followed by a dance from 6:15pm to 11:00pm with Odessey. Everyone Welcome.

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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.

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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.

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 2015

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Winter wonderland

’Burg water plan on hold until March

the recommendation from Stantec Consulting, afWallaceburg Coun. Jeff Wesley says ter which it will which citizens objecting to closing Wallace- examine burg’s water treatment plant have course of action to won a temporary victory with news take.

The move has that the matter is being deferred.

“I received word that the PUC been widely crit(Public Utilities Commission) will icized in WallaceJeff Wesley not be discussing the matter until burg, with local March,” he said. “I’m happy that environmentalists it’s being pushed back so everyone from the group WATCH (Wallaceburg Advisory Team has time to look at the for a Cleaner Habitat), matter, but this issue “I’m happy that it’s business groups and is far from settled.” others opposed. More The possibility of being pushed back so than 100 people have closing the Wallace- everyone has time to contacted the PUC burg plant and build- look at the matter, but and Stantec Consulting a pipeline to con- this issue is far from ing, authors of the nect the community settled.” study, with their conwith Chatham’s Lake - Coun. Jeff Wesley Darlene Smith/The Chatham Voice cerns.

Erie supply was to During last week’s frigid weather, Chatham-Kent residents A petition on change. have been discussed woke Wednesday morning to one of winter’s beautiful feaorg has generated nearly 500 signaat the PUC meeting Jan. 15. tures – hoar frost. Hoar frost forms when white ice crystals Andrew Galloway, an engineering tures and Wesley said the numbers develop and attach to objects such as branches and wires technologist with the PUC, said last to date are only the tip of the iceberg. on cold, clear nights.

“I have yet to find even one person week the commission would review who has told me they’d rather drink Lake Erie water,” he said. “I have had all kinds of people say Chatham Kent is going to do exactly what it wants so why bother. There’s no doubt that suppression is keeping the numbers down.”

That sentiment was echoed by Henrie Timmers of Wallaceburg, and tell businesses you deal with how much you like reading stories who said the attitude by officials at about your community. a public input meeting in November was condescending.

Subscribe to the ONLY independent – locally owned “Despite calling it a public input meeting, it was anything but,” he print and online news source in Chatham. said. “We were told what to like, To say thanks we will be giving what to think and that there wasn’t Help us make sure what you read supports and anything we could do about it.” all of those who purchase a Timmers said he received a “rubcontributes to your community. voluntary subscription 1 free berstamped” response to the conhappy ad and 1 free word ad to cerns voiced to Stantec and the PUC. • News decisions are made locally be used in our classified section!

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about what he called “major flaws” in the process, which, if not corrected, “will involve the entire council and Municipality of Chatham-Kent.

He said PUC staff in attendance at the November meeting told people in the audience “you might as well go home as this is a done deal.

“I’m outraged that this is what passes for public consultation,” he said. “It’s improper and demeans the process.”

He said he has asked three times that the Walpole Island First Nation (WFIN) be consulted since they draw from the same water source, are friends and neighbours of the community and there could be aboriginal title issues involved.

“They may have some input into a solution that works for both of our communities,” he said. “I was told repeatedly that WIFN had been consulted. After the public meeting I met with the Chief of WIFN and he was very clear that they had not been consulted.”

Wesley said the PUC has a long way to go to establish any type of credibility with the Wallaceburg community.

In his letter to council and the PUC, Wesley said three things have to happen before the matter can be properly considered.

• Complete a full, proper, open public consultation meeting where all of the options are on the table (in advance), and local citizens and business leaders can get their questions answered. The members of the PUC should attend to listen and learn and they should also review all of the submissions made by the public on this matter.

• A full consultation between WIFN and the C-K PUC (including Commissioners) must be held.

• A meeting must be held with WATCH (one is being scheduled) and their concerns discussed and addressed.

“This issue has been handled about as poorly as any issue I’ve encountered,” Wesley said. “They’ve picked the wrong community if they expect Wallaceburg residents to sit by and be treated like this.”

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Life

Life on the other side of the camera As a journalist, I’ve spent more than my share of time asking questions and covering meetings.

But now as a business owner, I find more and more I’m answering questions and taking active part in gatherings.

Last week, I was in front of the camera speaking about the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance’s Diagnostic Imaging Equipment Renewal Campaign.

They’re seeking $6.9 million in donations to replace aging imaging equipment, including X-ray and ultrasound machines.

In the past year, I’ve been in there getting X-rays done on the hip I have to get replaced, as well as a cortisone shot into the same hip. Both times, my experiences there were awesome.

I wrote columns detailing the visits, and as a result, the Foundation of CKHA folks asked if I’d answer a few questions on camera for a video they’re preparing.

On Friday, I did just that.

What’s sad is the fluoroscope the radiologist used while painlessly jabbing a rather large needle into my hip in October was on the fritz last week.

Good thing I’m still three months away from my next shot.

So much machinery is quite dated at the hospital. And since the province doesn’t really fully fund health care, the health alliance needs help funding equipment.

Up-to-date equipment lures health-care professionals to hospitals.

Dr. Victor Varma, the radiologist who gave me the cortisone injection, said a big reason he chose to come here a decade ago was the CT scanner in Chatham, which was state of the art at the time.

The scanner has received a workout over the past 10 years, and technology has advanced a great deal since then.

Varma said today’s machines are 20 times faster, quick enough to scan a human heart between beats.

A day before my Q&A, I spent the afternoon with about 20 other folks offering feedback and ideas as a consulting firm works on developing a municipal energy plan for

Bruce Corcoran Chatham-Kent.

The goals outlined were pretty broad based, so the effort Thursday was to offer goals, discuss issues and best practices within the municipality.

It was an interesting effort, with a diverse group of stakeholders. There were municipal officials on hand, Entegrus personnel, and local business people.

It was a bit weird being involved, rather than reporting on the meeting. I had several people comment they would be interested in reading my story, but as I wasn’t taking notes, instead offering opinion, there will be no story.

We talked energy conservation, renewable options, greenhouse gas reduction, you name it. It was a productive whiteboard session. I don’t envy the folks who will have to crunch all the suggestions.

Of frozen Eggs

This past Monday was supposed to be the darkest day emotionally for folks in the Northern Hemisphere. The third Monday in January, in the middle of winter, when your Christmas bills start to hit you has been dubbed Blue Monday by some.

For me, I suffered Blue Friday last week. Why? Because I went to barbecue chicken and our Big Green Egg was frozen shut. The gaskets had absorbed a lot of water during the previous warm spell and then froze tight. Had I tried to pry it open, I’d have pulled off the gasket, or worse.

In conversation with Sensei Jeff, I learned one of his Eggs was frozen too. He suggested filling an empty soup can with lump charcoal, lighting it, and then dropping it into the Egg through the top.

So late Saturday morning, I grabbed a soup can, filled and lit it, pulled off the Egg’s rain cap and lowered it with a wire through the opening.

I let that get to work

warming the inside of the barbecue while I pulled down all our outside Christmas decorations (yes, we tend to cling to Christmas).

After giving the can of coal a little more help with the propane weed torch, the Egg relented!

Happy times for the Corcorans.

I cleaned out the barbecue, restocked the

coal and lit it. At first, I thought I’d just run it for a while to dry out the gaskets, but decided to grab the chicken and peppers I’d wanted to put on the night before.

Saturday dinner at our house took place mid-afternoon, and no one was complaining.

I was the next day, however, when the rain started falling again. It

dashed my plans for a mac and cheese casserole with pulled pork (in the freezer from an earlier barbecue effort) on the Egg. It also had me worried that as the temperatures sank below zero, our Egg would once again freeze shut.

But another friend and fellow Egger, Greg, from Union Gas, suggested slipping a paint stir stick

between the Egg’s lid and base. It keeps the two halves far enough apart that the Egg won’t freeze up.

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Sports

Whalers’ exec clears C-K air

C-K ‘excellent candidate’ for team: Vellucci

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Plymouth Whalers Governor Mike Vellucci said Thursday Chatham-Kent officials were extremely co-operative in discussing the potential move of the OHL team to the community despite the fact that the deal couldn’t be completed.

The Whalers’ potential move to Chatham ended Tuesday when it was announced owner Peter Karmanos had sold the Ontario Hockey League team to Rolf Nilson of IMS USA Inc. Nilson plans to move the franchise to the Perani Arena that he owns in Flint, Mich.

The OHL will discuss the move early next month.

Earlier this week Karmanos had told CTV News that Chatham-Kent officials, “like politicians everywhere, aren’t able to react fast enough” to get a deal completed.

Vellucci said the comments

weren’t meant as a sign of disrespect to Chatham but are more a reflection of the reality of government versus private enterprise.

“I had a great relationship with the mayor and I’ve been to Chatham a number of times over the last year and a half,” he said. “We knew where we were with the timing issue, and they knew where they were.”

Vellucci said any belief that the team was using Chatham as a bargaining chip to secure another deal is unfounded.

“Business moves extremely fast,” he said. “The sale of the team took place over the past two and a half weeks.

We knew we couldn’t make a commitment to Chatham if they couldn’t make a commitment for an arena. We understand why they couldn’t and I hope and believe they understand the situation we were in.”

Vellucci said he believes Chatham is an excellent can-

didate for an OHL franchise once it resolves the issue of an arena.

“If Chatham finds itself in a position to secure an OHL franchise in the future, I’m sure it will thrive,” he said.

“If I didn’t think Chatham was viable and a great hockey town, I wouldn’t have spent so much time and energy investigating it.”

Mayor Randy Hope said it’s clear the community needs to upgrade its arena if it hopes to land an OHL team, but it’s not clear how that will happen.

“We are looking at spending tens of millions of dollars for a facility of this type. We have to look at the overall economic health of the community and what we can realistically accomplish in terms of funding,” he said.

“If we could work on a public-private partnership or find other sources of funding, it would make things much more clear.”

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Sports

’Burg sports hall dinner approaches Dinner also a fundraiser for local charities

By Jim Blake jim@chathamvoice.com

When fans gather to honour local legends at the 34th annual Wallaceburg Sports Hall of fame dinner Jan. 31, not only will they be recognizing excellence in athletics, but they’ll be helping their community as well.

Local causes from Sydenham District Hospital to sports organizations right across the community have been beneficiaries of more than $200,000 in funding raised and donated by the group. Annual scholarships are also awarded to athletes pursuing higher education.

“We celebrate the past and current achievements, but also to plant the seeds for the future,” said hall of fame committee member Bob Ricciotti. “We’ve been able to help all kinds of sports groups because people support us.”

“The Wallaceburg Sports Hall of fame has been around for 34 years and during the course of that we’ve donated $20,000 to the community, typically to local athletes and teams, but also to groups such as Community Living,” Chris Baertsoen, chairman of the hall, said.

The event, which attracts several hundred people, will be held at the UAW hall in Wallaceburg and features as its guest speaker Canadian golfer and sportscaster Ian Leggatt. In addition to wins on the PGA and Nationwide tours, Leggatt is a three-time member of Canada’s World Cup golfing team.

He is currently the director of golf at the Summit Golf and Country Club in Richmond Hill. He is also the head golf analyst at Sportsnet 590 the Fan on radio and Sportsnet TV. The real stars of the evening are the recipients of the annual awards and those who are inducted into the hall of fame.

Taylor McArthur has been selected as the athlete of the year for his outstanding track career at the University of Windsor. He was a member of the Lancers 4x800 metre men’s relay team that broke a 19-year-old Canadian record.

He was also member of the gold medal team at the Canadian Interuniversity Games in Edmonton.

He would earn another gold medal as the 4x800 metre men’s relay team took top spot at the Ontario Univer-

sity Athletics Track and Field Championships.

In 2013 he won a silver medal in the men’s 4x800 meBill Davis tre relay at the Ontario University Championships. He also played for the Wallaceburg Sting Men’s soccer team for the past three seasons.

Dave Gough of the Courier Press has been named builder of the year for his work reporting on the Wallaceburg sports scene. In addition, Gough is a carded baseball umpire, a junior football coach and is a regular curler.

The coach of the year Fred Maxim award is being given to Jason Fox for his success in lacrosse coaching. He guided the Wallaceburg Griffins Intermediate C boys Lacrosse team to an Ontario championship and helped coach the Intermediate girls lacrosse team that won a silver medal in the Ontario championships.

Lacrosse s t a r s J o r d o n Durston and Joel Shepley are sharing a special achievem e n t award for Andy Johnston their outstanding seasons.

Durston averaged four points per game in a season split between the Wallaceburg Jr. B Red Devils and the Six Nations Jr. A team that eventually won the Minto Cup as Canadian Lacrosse Championships.

Shepley’s season followed the same route as he began in Wallaceburg and joined Six Nations where he scored six points in the Minto Cup. The hall of fame class is headed by the 1960/61 Wallaceburg District High School senior boys’ volleyball team which went undefeated through its regular season, the district tournament and the WOSSA provincial cham-

pionships.

It was Wallaceburg’s fifth consecutive district championship.

Bill Davis is being inducted into the hall for a four-decade career in the field in elementary and secondary school coaching in basketball, volleyball and track and field.

Davis’ teams won numerous Kent and SWOSSA titles.

Bob DeKoning has been named to the hall’s builder category for six decades of involvement in curling and golf in Wallaceburg. DeKoning, a life member at the Sydenham Community Curling Club, has been an avid curler and has served in virtually every capacity on the club’s executive.

A former youth baseball coach, DeKoning was also active in Ducks Unlimited and a number of environmental groups.

The female athlete to be inducted this year is Wendy Ursel, an accomplished high school athlete in soccer, volleyball and field hockey.

Her post educational athletic career included participating in baseball, lacrosse, hockey, curling and ringette as a player and official.

Andy Johnston is being inducted into the hall as male athlete. Johnston was an outstanding baseball pitcher and hockey goaltender for more than two decades.

Johnston won provincial baseball championships in Chatham and Port Lambton and three as a member of the Wallaceburg Warriors. He also played for the London Majors of the Inter County Baseball League.

He played hockey for the Wallaceburg Lakers Jr. C team and the Wallaceburg Capitols senior hockey club.

He was a founding board member of the Wallaceburg Senior Sports Association.

A noted sports journalist for the Wallaceburg News, Courier Press and Chatham Daily News, Johnston died at age 44 in 2001. The baseball field at Kinsmen Park was renamed Andy Johnston field.

Fred Maxim, a veteran hockey, baseball and football player and longtime football referee, is this year’s honourary chairman.

Tickets for the Hall of Fame dinner and induction ceremony are $65 and are available from Kim Murray Insurance, Hall of Fame committee members or The Chatham Voice.

Special to The Chatham Voice

The 1960/61 Wallaceburg District High School senior boys’ volleyball team which went undefeated through its regular season, the district tournament and the WOSSA provincial championships, is being inducted into the Wallaceburg Sports Hall of Fame this month.

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Dr. Victor Varma, left, staff radiologist and co-chair of the CKHA Diagnostic Imaging Equipment Renewal Campaign; and Michele Grzebien-Huckson, right, executive director of the Foundation of CKHA, accept a $10,000 donation from Dr. Bruce Warwick to the campaign.

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Local resident Dr. Bruce Warwick recently donated $10,000 to the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance’s Diagnostic Imaging Equipment Renewal Campaign.

“We are very grateful to Dr. Warwick for this immensely generous donation to the CKHA DI Equipment Renewal Campaign,” says Michele Grzebien-Huckson, executive director of the Foundation of CKHA, said in a media release.

When asked why he decided to donate, Warwick replied, “It is a good cause and I am happy to be able to contribute to this important campaign for our local hospitals.”

C-K Shoppers give to VON

Chatham-Kent Shoppers Drug Mart stores donated more than $8,700 to the local VON Jan. 14.

The funds were collected in recent months through the chain’s Tree of Life campaign, where customers could purchase a paper leaf for the tree, thereby donating to the campaign.

Jon Jewell of the VON said the organization would be unable to operate without the help of charitable donations such as what Shoppers has done.

The money is specifically earmarked for the VON’s prenatal care program.

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Members of the Chatham-Kent Harley Owners’ Group (HOG) raised more than $3,300 in recent months, through barbecues, draws, show ‘n’ shines and other fundraisers.

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