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And the digging continues...

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Construction on St. Clair Street in Chatham is well underway again. Municipal officials say it will likely be until the end of June before it’s finished. See story on page 2.

C-K preps for plant options

Municipality issues request for proposals to help with marketing options

By Jim Blake jim@chathamvoice.com

Chatham-Kent is taking a critical step in looking for a potential location of a fertilizer plant that could result in 400 jobs.

Chatham-Kent Director of Planning Services

Ralph Pugliese said the municipality is seeking an RFP (request for proposal) for a firm to develop a market assessment for a natural gas-based chemical processing facility.

In addition to the market assessment, the proj-

ect involves “identifying suitable locations, recommending appropriate planning policies and conducting environmental assessments and related work required to establish the principle of land use for the introduction of natural-gas-based

chemical processing and related uses, including nitrogen-based fertilizer production, but excluding petroleum-based products.”

The RFP also states that the completed project will include “a positioning statement that would

allow the Municipality of Chatham-Kent to present a strong business case to potential investors and funding organizations.”

Pugliese said the work is a necessary step before the municipality can determine whether a fertilizer plant should be lo-

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News Wanna go for a splash in the park?

Construction to continue through June

Bricks, concrete, pieces of old rail ties discovered during remediation Mary Beth Corcoran/The Chatham Voice

Indian Creek in Chatham overflowed its banks May 15 after extensive rain fell on Chatham-Kent. The wet weather has slowed the planting season and construction on St. Clair Street in Chatham.

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see a huge transformation.”

The plan for St. Clair was for deep remediation of the road base. That means digging Chatham commuters and St. Clair Street down to put in a consistent fill.

“Generally it’s about three feet we’ve dug business owners may feel like they are living down. In a few areas, we’ve gone a little deepthe movie “Groundhog Day.” er to make sure there’s a decent Like Bill Murray’s character, structure for the road,” Cavacas they wake up day after day to “Everybody has been the same thing – construction pretty appreciative and said.

Down that deep, crews have that seemingly never ends on as a whole realize we found a variety of materials, inSt. Clair between McNaughhave to get this done. cluding bits of old railway ties ton and Grand avenues. After going through three months of We want to make sure from the rail line that once went right down the middle of St. roadwork last fall and plodding the final product is the Clair Street. through a long, cold winter, best it can be.”

Much of the subsurface is April delivered the road crews - C-K’s Nelson Cavacas crumbling concrete, Cavacas once again. said. That has to be removed.

And they will likely be there for “A good part of it has a concrete base. A small another five weeks, according to Nelson Cavacas, municipal manager of infrastructure and section had brick instead near Amelia (Street), he said. “In that area, we found a few remnants development engineering.

While it may seem never-ending to some, he of the old rail ties, but no actual steel rails.”

Cavacas said the mixed material is being resaid there is a light at the end of the tunnel.

“We’ve been progressing reasonably well. placed with a consistent granular fill. It makes But we have had weather that’s kind of for a smoother road surface on top.

“A concrete base can become a problem. The pushed them back a bit,” Cavacas said. “We are still on target for completion for no later (concrete) panels can start to rock on you and than the end of June. In the next month, we’ll can create cracking that can continue up to the surface,” he said.

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Legal groups help start SRC legal process Regional centre compensation more complicated than anticipated

these institutions has access people than we expected inito this compensation,” said tially that are in that category Petricone, who expects that a so we’re going to have to sort Some former residents of the total of 1,000 former residents that out,” she said. “And the Southwestern Regional Cen- of SRC and Rideau may ap- other part of it is the stories that we’re hearing are dreadtre, along with family mem- ply for compensation.

The number is expected to ful – a lot of suffering went on bers and support workers learned more about the com- be higher for Huronia, which there and, hopefully, this will pensation process at a work- was a larger facility and also help some people to feel that operated longer than the oth- it has been acknowledged as shop on May 14. er two. having been wrong.”

ApproximateThe settleIf money is left over after the ly 60 people “They (forms) are not ment also in- class members at each facilturned out for cludes the es- ity have been compensated the session that simple to fill out and tates of former and legal fees have been paid, was held at the the subject matter is residents who Ontario will invest up to $7.7 Country View difficult; trying to reGolf Course. member horrible things lived at the SRC million in programs that benThe ARCH that happened to you is during the peri- efit people with a developod covered by mental disability.

Disability Law The applications must be Centre and the not an easy process for the settlement, but who also completed by Aug. 5.

Chatham-Kent any of us.”

Petricone expects it will then died after Dec. Legal Clinic are - Ivana Petricone take a few months for those 29, 2008. helping people As the process unfolds, Pet- who quality to receive the who were harmed at the centre apply for financial com- ricone has learned that ap- compensation.

For more info, people can plying for a deceased person pensation.

“People will need support is more complicated than she call ARCH at 1-866-482-2724 or the Chatham-Kent Legal for this; they’ll need to fill first thought.

“There are probably more Clinic at 519-351-6771. out these forms,” said Ivana Petricone, executive director of ARCH. “They’re not simple to fill out and the subject matter is difficult; trying to remember horrible things that happened to you is not an easy process for any of us.”

The Ontario Superior Court Dr. Jennifer Newman approved a settlement agreeBSc, D.C. ment that gave access to com(519) 360-9276 pensation to former residents at the SRC who suffered harm while living there between 1963 and 2008.

The SRC was a provincial Dr. Stewart McDiarmid residential facility for people BHSc, D.C. with developmental disabili519-359-7057 ties. The province closed it in 2008.

In addition to the SRC, set• Chiropractic Care • tlements were also approved for former residents of the • Medical Acupuncture • Huronia and Rideau Region• Laser • al Centres.

• Manual and instrument assisted The government is setting soft tissue therapy • aside $12 million for people • Musculoskeletal Injuries • harmed at the SRC, $35 mil• Pregnancy Care • lion at Huronia, and close to • WSIB and MVA Claims • $21 million for Rideau.

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Conspicuous by its absence, Chatham-Kent was not at the table when the province recently served up funding for 60 food projects across Ontario.

The projects received support through the Local Food Fund, which is a three-year program with funding up to $10 million per year.

According to a news release, the fund is part of the Ontario government’s broader local food strategy to promote the good things that are grown, harvested and made across the province.

The projects that received funding were from the first two intakes of applications.

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Several more intakes are taking place at twomonth intervals from now through the end of June 2015.

To help ensure that some Chatham-Kent projects get consideration, Kim Cooper, agricultural specialist with the municipality, has put the word out about the funding.

Since reaching out to his contacts, Cooper has heard that some are interested in applying, while a few others are in the queue for the next intake that ends on June 30.

“Half a dozen approached me about some ideas and to talk about whether it would be a fit,” said Cooper.

He has offered to arrange meetings between potential applicants and officials

with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food.

“It’s always good to bounce things off some of the government people who actually know a little more what it’s all about,” he said. “So we work very closely with OMAF on that and other things as well.”

While Chatham-Kent may have been shut out in the first round, there will be an indirect benefit coming from a few provincial farm groups that did get the nod.

For example, the Ontario Greenhouse Vegetable Growers, based in Leamington, received more than $500,000 for two projects.

One project that received $200,000 will promote the year-round availability of greenhouse cucumbers

through in-store sampling programs, point-of-sales materials, broadcast and billboard advertising, and social media campaigns.

Another $360,000 is earmarked for a promotional campaign to raise consumer awareness of the great variety of home-grown vegetables available at the beginning of the season.

Also of note, the Ontario Tender Fruit Producers’ Marketing Board will receive $300,000 for a marketing campaign to promote local fruit through online contests, advertising and in-store sampling.

Funding will also support networking events for retailers, growers and marketers to discuss new ideas to promote local food.

Chemical processing plant assessment requested

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Pugliese said part of the process involves public consultation.

“Our aim is to be as transparent as possible,” he said.

“We want residents to be fully informed so we can gather input.”

The RFP closes June 11 after which qualifying bids will be assessed. Although the RFP states that respondents “should propose an aggressive, but realistic schedule,”

Pugliese said the exact timing of the work has to be negotiated.

Michael Burton, Chatham-Kent’s director of economic development, said although he is aware of the RFP, it isn’t necessarily tied to any particular firm.

Burton said, during his recent trip to China, Chatham-Kent officials had high-level meetings with two multi-billion-dollar firms from that nation, as

well as a Canadian investor.

“I’m hopeful that we will have a return visit within the next few weeks and we will continue to pursue a variety of opportunities,” he said.

In December of last year, council received a report from the economic development department which pegged construction of a fertilizer plant at $1 billion or more and new tax revenue from such a plant at $2-$3 million annually.

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CKHA honors Martin for compassion

By Bruce Corcoran bruce@chathamvoice.com

Dorothy Martin is very proud of her job as a diabetes educator with the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance, one she’s been doing for 15 years. But the CKHA is also very proud of her, and recently gave her the Compassionate Caregiver Award of Distinction.

Willi Kirenko, vice-president and chief nursing executive with the CKHA said Martin is very deserving of the award.

“She deserves to be recognized. She’s an amazing person,” Kirenko said.

“This awards is for a compassionate caregiver, and she is the epitome. Truly her warm and thoughtful way of caring for patients, and the way she adjusts how she interacts with them according to their need and age, she is the whole package.”

Martin will tell you oth-

ers merit the recognition.

“I could name any number of people here who are more deserving than I am,” she said. “I am very proud, very honoured to be recognized on that level.

“We get thank yous from our patients every day. That’s always been enough, but this was a special treat.”

The registered nurse first started with the hospital 32 years ago. But she’s particularly proud of her time as a diabetes educator.

“I get to work with all ages of the population, young and old, and young women with diabetes induced during pregnancy,” she said.

Of particular interest to her are the 65-70 children in Chatham-Kent who have diabetes.

“They are very brave young children. They take four injections each day or use an insulin pump,”

she said. “And they have to check their blood sugar all the time. They’re little troopers.”

While diabetes is controllable, Martin said having to maintain such a constant vigilance can be draining on an individual.

“Having diabetes can really drag a person down at times. Nobody deals with it 100% all the time. They try to maintain the quality of their life and do the things they need to do to control it,” she said, “Every time food enters your mouth, you think about it.

Every time injections are due. It never leaves you.

The people who have it are just amazing in how they cope.

“We’re just their cheerleaders.”

But instead of pompoms, Martin’s cheerleading tools include a cell phone and computer.

“It’s not unusual to get calls in the night, or e-mails, or

Contributed image

Dorothy Martin stands with the Royal Copenhagen figurine that was donated to the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance in 2008 by Sharon Blok-Andersen, in appreciation of care provided to a loved one. Martin recently received the Compassionate Caregiver Award of Distinction from the alliance, handed out during nursing week.

texts,” she said. “It’s just part of the job. It’s the love of the job.”

Kirenko said Martin’s passion for the position

shines through.

“The quiet way in which she goes about her work and the concern she has for communities such as

Walpole Island and the special needs of the residents there, she truly has their best interests in mind.”

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The Chatham-Kent Health Alliance (CKHA) named Willi Kirenko the new vice-president and chief nursing executive (VP/CNE) and Sarah Padfield as chief operating officer (COO) this week.

After acting as Interim VP/CNE since late 2013 and following an internal process, Kirenko takes on her new role, effective immediately.

She is a nurse practitioner with

certificates in primary health care and adult care. She holds a Master of Nursing degree from the University of Toronto, is a member of the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario and the Canadian College of Health Leaders.

In her tenure at CKHA, she has demonstrated her commitment to patient safety and the delivery of quality patient care, said Michele Lawton, a hospital spokesperson.

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NOTICE OF NOISE BY-LAW EXEMPTION REQUEST The Municipality of Chatham-Kent has received a request from MacDonald Applicators Ltd. for an exemption under Schedule 2, Clause 5 of the Chatham-Kent Noise By-law 41-2004. The request is to allow recoating and rehabilitation of the Chatham water tower, located at 661 Irwin Street, Chatham. The noise exemption is being requested from May 26, 2014 to June 30, 2014.

Citizens wishing for more information, or wishing to file an objection to the exemption are asked to call Paul Lacina, C.B.O., Director, Building & Enforcement Services at 519-360-1998 ext 3242.

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Jail needs private assistance We understand and share Chatham Coun. Doug Sulman’s wish to see the former Chatham Jail preserved, but it will take more than his hoped-for support from council to make anything happen.

Next week Sulman will seek council’s support to have the buidling preserved and maintained by the province.

It’s not that the building isn’t deserving of preservation. It pre-dates Confederation by nearly 20 years and Canada’s second prime minister, Alexander Mackenzie, had a hand in its construction.

The fact is that although the building’s address is 17 Seventh St., its future sits at the intersection of good intentions and empty bank accounts.

The province is broke and has been for years. The next provincial government will likely be elected largely on the public’s belief it can handle that fiscal mess, making funding scarce.

We haven’t had a provincial cabinet minister here for decades, so it’s safe to assume we aren’t on the radar much at Queen’s Park.

There is a well-established protocol for buildings deemed redundant by the province, the likely fate of the jail and courthouse.

Eventually, the building may be offered to Chatham-Kent – which isn’t in the mess the province is – but is hardly in a position to fork over who-knowswhat for the 164-year-old structure, let alone maintain it.

With Sulman’s history of fiscal conservatism, he certainly won’t expect Chatham-Kent to pick up the tab.

Council must adopt a broad outlook and start searching for creative ways to help the private sector take a role in the jail’s future.

The conversion of the former Chatham Armoury adjacent to Tecumseh Park is a blueprint of how to do things properly.

Ironically, that may mean letting go of the facility to to make it possible for someone in the private sector to transition the building for future use.

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THURSDAY, MAY 22, 2014

Opinion

Low taxes a misguided policy Sir: Some candidates in the upcoming municipal election will tell you that they will keep taxes low to help out low-income families – unemployed or underemployed. This is a misguided policy. Here’s why: Property tax restraint benefits the 85% of households that are not needy. The residential tax charges for 2014 will total nearly $87 million, so of a 1% tax cut, about $130,000 will reach those in need, and nearly $740,000 will go to those who don`t need it.

The benefit of tax restraint (1% increase instead of 2%) pays off five times as much for the owner of a $500,000 property as it does for a $100,000 property. So whom are you trying to help?

Our unemployment rate is about 10%. It’s

much higher among young people.

Nobody knows what the underemployment rate is (people who were earning $25 per hour in manufacturing, who now earn $15 per hour in a call centre) but let’s guestimate it at another 10%. So tax restraint is aimed at helping about 20% of our working-age residents.

Many unemployed and underemployed aren’t property owners.

They are renters, or (for youth) live with their parents, or are homeless.

Property tax restraint doesn`t benefit them.

So a reasonable assumption might be that property tax restraint benefits the 15% of households that need help.

The picture gets worse.

Tax rates for all other types of property are

based on residential rates, so that when residential rates are held down by 1%, so are commercial, industrial, and agricultural rates.

The total tax levy for all property classes in 2014 is more than $137 million, so a 1% tax restraint would total in excess of $1.3 million. Of that, less than 10% ($130,000) of the tax restraint would reach those homeowners in need.

Renters, boarders, liveat-home youth and the homeless would not be helped at all.

So Mr. and Ms. Municipal Councillor and Candidate for Council, if your true aim is to help those hurting in this difficult economy, please don’t try to do it with tax cuts that benefit 90% of taxpayers who don’t need the help and don’t reach many

non-property-owners who do need the help.

So what’s the alternative? The 2014 tax increase approved was 1.61%. A further increase of 1% would have brought it to 2.61%, a not-unreasonable level equalled or exceeded by many other Ontario municipalities.

That would have provided more than $1.3 million to direct to the benefit of Chatham-Kent citizens in need of help, 10 times the benefit they would get from a 1% tax reduction.

That could go into jobs programs, geared-toincome housing, food subsidies, low-cost transportation programs (e.g. enhanced transit services) – options limited only by your imagination.

John Sigurjonsson Chatham

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Business Cleaning up in the pet business

By Mary Beth Corcoran mary@chathamvoice.com

After being released from the

Canadian Armed Forces in 2013 and unable to find stable employment, Chatham resident Bob Artelle came up with

Not being able to clean ones his own way of making a living end result of the service within – one that helps others as well. the name. So Clean Paws was kitty litter box, or clean up one Founder of Clean Paws, Ar- born,” Artelle said. “There are dogs waste from the yard, or telle provides a yard and litter programs out there but not not being able to pick up that cleaning service to people with many programs help those heavy kitty litter or pet food pets who have a hard time who need it, with their pets. from the store or not being able cleaning up the feces, such as I not only find this unfair but to take ones pet to the groomers or vet should not stop someone the chronically ill, disabled or unjust.”

Artelle heard a story from from caring for a pet. seniors.

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Artelle is constantly changing “I started getting the word taking care of the waste and what he is offering his clients out by walking house to house carrying pet supplies.

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THURSDAY, MAY 22, 2014

News

C-K planner changes focus time, Chatham-Kent’s master planner doesn’t have a plan.

Ralph Pugliese, the municipality’s director of planning

services is retiring May 30, but doesn’t quite know what’s next.

“I’ve worked my whole life, so it’s going to take some time for For the first time in a long me to adjust to not having to be somewhere at a specific time,” he said.

“In the short-term, the NOTICE OF NOISE BY-LAW EXEMPTION REQUEST sun will be high and I hope the fish will be bitThe Municipality of Chatham-Kent has received a request by the ing.”

Ministry of Transportation for an exemption under Schedule 2, Even after 30 plus years Clause 5 of the Chatham-Kent Noise By-law 41-2004. The request on the job (he started with Kent County in is to allow for construction equipment if necessary, overnight and 1983), it’s clear he hasn’t on weekends when traffic volumes are lowest from August 2014 to lost his zest for what to December 2014. The construction will take place on Highway 40 to some may seem like a rehabilitate from North Limits of Chatham to South Limits of Wallaless-than-exciting topic. ceburg, Detail Design and Class Environmental Assessment, GWP “I’ve been lucky to 3121-10-00. have been involved in planning,” he said. “We touch every single facet Citizens wishing for more information, or wishing to file an objection of someone’s day-to-day to the exemption are asked to call Paul Lacina, C.B.O., Director, life in the community.

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been touched by what we do had so many people who were here.” passionate about their commuPugliese has seen planning nities. At times I felt like I was evolve from the basics to an ex- in a fistfight and I didn’t know ercise that is part science, part if I’d won or lost,” he joked. “I sociology and part crystal ball knew we were both bleeding.” gazing.

It was out of those “When I started with meetings and others the county, we dealt that Chatham-Kent’s mostly with severancCommunity Strategic es,” he said. “We bePlan, as well as its Ofgan working on offificial Plan and Comprecial plans and policies hensive Zoning Bylaw, shortly after that.” eventually emerged.

As provincial regula“There was a lot of tions changed, so did dedication and a lot the role of the county of work involved that planning department, Ralph Pugliese never went on the eventually evolving to clock,” he said. playing a key role in the amalPugliese is proud of the comgamation of 23 municipalities munity strategic planning proto form Chatham-Kent in 1998. cess that took place in 2001/02.

“The challenge of incorporat“We had 350 people on coming all of the zoning and plan- mittees which brought forth ning issues with various levels recommendations we could inof sophistication and needs corporate into the plan.” “ Continued on page 9 was enormous,” he said. “We

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Pugliese proud of C-K’s accomplishments

Continued from page 8

It was invaluable information,” he said.

The community involvement aspect in planning is near to Pugliese’ heart. “People think of planning as a dry subject, but the more they know, the more they realize so much of it rests

on them and what they want. If you think of the community as your home, which it is, you want input in how it looks and what it contains. It’s what we do.”

The focus of planning has changed during the course of Pugliese’ career. “When I started, the emphasis was on con-

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Chatham-Kent Director of Planning Serices Ralph Puglies is retiring this month after a 31-year career as a planner in Chatham-Kent. Here checks out a report with administrative assistant Janice Lally.

trolling growth and making sure everything was done in a proper manner. The focus now is on sustainability. We need to make sure what we do today is sustainable in the future – socially, economically and environmentally.”

A big part of that is taking a more global approach to planning.

“We can’t just be concerned with Chatham-Kent,” he said.

“We have to be aware of where we fit into the provincial, national and international community. Technology is changing rapidly and that impacts everything from transportation to zoning to development.”

Whereas an entrepreneur three decades ago may have required a large site with industrially scaled water and power access, the same person today is as likely to need a building with access to advanced communications and housing availability for scores of upscale technology professionals.

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As for his retirement, Pugliese said he will miss his co-workers.

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As for himself, he said, “I’d like to think I was part of a team that contributed to making our community a better place. That’s enough for me.”

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Life

Farm to school Nutrition program focuses on freshness of local food

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Kids are eating more local fruits and vegetables thanks to Chatham-Kent’s first Farm to

John N. Given students Donavan and Marcus Lambkin enjoy a healthy snack of local fruits and vegetables that was delivered to their school through an innovative program.The area’s first Farm to School nutrition program provides locally grown, fresh fruits and vegetables to eight participating schools. Also pictured is the boys’ mother, Della Lambkin, a volunteer with the Chatham-Kent Student Nutrition Program.

on March 31, delivers locally grown fruits and vegetables to 1,700 children at eight Change what you eat; participating schools. change how you feel!

Eight farmers are providing apples, peppers mini-cucumbers, cherry tomatoes and dehydrated sweet potato chips to students four days per week.

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It has also has turned out to be a good deal for the program.

“We’re finding that by bulk buying and dealing locally that we’re getting good pricing,” said Lewis. “I think we’re working on about 17 cents per snack here.”

Organizers are pleased with the success of the program as it crosses the halfway mark.

“We found they will eat more when they’re with their peers than they will at home,” said Lewis of the students’ response. “And they are going home and asking the parents for some of these products they’re getting at school.”

The program partners, including the Chatham-Kent Public Health Unit and the Victorian Order of Nurses, are planning to expand the program.

Lewis said there is support for the next three years.

“We want to evolve some kind of central ordering system so that our volunteers at our schools can also take advantage of that and they can order online for what they want for the children in their schools,” she said.

A number of participants, including the farmers, teachers, parents and students, will be asked to evaluate the program after the trial-run ends in June.

Aside from the pilot project, the C-K Nutrition Program provides healthy meals and snacks to more than 50 local schools.

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THURSDAY, MAY 22, 2014

Life

I can’t hear you – literally

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Jessica Blair, an early childhood educator, puts in her earplugs as part of Hard of Hearing Day. On May 15, a group of local folks experienced a simulation of what it’s like to experience hearing loss.

On May 15, I took part in the Canadian ing in the manufacturing sector for years had Hearing Society’s Hard of Hearing Day to him wearing earplugs every day. He said you get a feel for what it is like for someone who quickly adapt your communication skills and has suffered hearing loss. It was a quieting senses to pick up on other things, such as experience, to say the least. reading another person’s lips.

The CHS, along with the Accessibility ComI was slow to do so. Even an hour later in mittee of Chatham-Kent, organized the event the office, some of the women were asking as part of Speech and Hearing Awareness if I was looking at lips now, but I found I Month. was still staring into eyes. That As soon as I put my plugs in changed by the two-hour mark. that morning at the society’s Lips became my focal point Thames Street offices, my day during conversations as I tried changed. to make out as much as I could.

The best way to get a feel for For me, the hardest person to what folks who have difficulty hear in the office was the only hearing go through is to grab a other guy, my business partner, snorkel and hop in a swimming Jim Blake. It seemed much easiBruce Corcoran pool. Hold yourself underwater er to hear higher pitches. and just hover there.

But just walking back to the Listen to your breathing. Listen to how evoffice was an experience. Because internal erything inside of you seems amplified. And body sounds are amplified, I could hear every how everything outside of you is muffled. footstep. I felt like Godzilla stomping through That’s exactly how my day with limited Tokyo even though I was plodding across a hearing began. Suddenly, I could really hear parking lot. every breath I took, while outside sounds, And I could literally hear the slight limp I including conversations, were much quieter, have in my step due to my arthritic hip. My as if they took place in another room. left foot landed: heel, then toe. But my right Jessica Blair, an early childhood educator at one kind of rolled through, landing on the Ecole Sainte-Marie in Chatham, also took part heel, and then rolling along the outside of the in the day. She said it was a difficult adjustsole of the shoe until I pushed off with my ment once the earplugs went in. toes for the next step.

“It was weird. You can hear everything inOdd. side of you, but very little outside,” she said.

Back at the office, I shared my observations Considering her day is typically spent with the folks. My participation on the day around scores of energetic youngsters, perhas a personal impact, as Fatima, our circuhaps it was a calming experience. lation boss, is much younger than I am, but There were Timbits at the CHS, and anothhas suffered a hearing loss. Most everything I er of the Hard of Hearing Day participants, was experiencing was something she said she Logix’s Brian Gallagher, offered them up after goes through every day because she wears a saying chewing was louder with the plugs in. hearing aid.

He wasn’t kidding. Nibbling a soft, squishy Fatima said she’s used to hearing every Timbit sounded like I was chewing on a mix chew and nibble as she eats. A relative of hers of crispy lettuce and potato chips. who also suffered hearing loss takes his hearMy 10:30 a.m. banana snack sounded like ing aid out to eat, because the noises drive a pile driver at work in a swamp. Just plain him nuts. I could see that. weird.

I thought I’d be speaking louder. But the Mayor Randy Hope, also a participant, and I folks in the office said it was just the opposite. left at the same time. He said his time workI was quieter than usual (and I think they likely sent the Canadian Hearing Society flowers for this special treat).

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She said it was just like living with her dad when he would take out his hearing aid.

At the office, I found myself withdrawing from my usual office banter, as it was easier to pull away than to make the effort to take part. I can only wonder how a person who lives like this 24/7 handles things.

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A century of service for Dresden IODE celebrates its 100th year in Dresden, and looks to the future

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For 100 years, the Dresden Chapter of the IODE has lived up to its motto of “We Live in Deeds,” and it shows no sign of stopping on the eve of its centennial.

The group of more than two-dozen Dresden-area women has plans to donate some $10,000 to local schools, the town library, local history and a renovation of the cenotaph this year.

The Catherine McVean Chapter (founded as the Sydenham Chapter) of what was formally known at the time as the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire, came into being on Oct., 1914.

Chapter treasurer and 40-year-plus member Lynda Weese has been doing plenty of research into the organization’s history as part of the centennial celebrations.

England had declared war on Germany two months earlier and the IODE was preparing to do its part on the home front.

“The first four years of our existence, we raised nearly $12,000, mainly Jim Blake/The Chatham Voice through tea-room fund- The Dresden Cenotaph is the most visible remainder of how the Cathraisers,” she said. “That’s erine McVean Chapter of the IODE has influenced the community. the equivalent of more than a quarter of a million said.

Home of the dollars in today’s currenIronically, the cenotaph, cy. And that was at five located at the corner $2 Watch cents for a cup of tea.” of George and Queen Battery Members knitted socks, streets, became the object staged entertainment and of a battle between the - Installed!

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Members Legion after the Second even collected animal World War. bones (used to help make Batteries for just about everything!

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IODE lives in deeds

Continued from Page 13

Records of the discussion are lost in the mists of time, however, history does record the cenotaph is located exactly where it was first placed in 1923.

As part of the cenotaph work, the names of six service members from the First World War and one from the Second World War will be added.

Weese said records of the IODE indicate that inside the monument is a box containing information about those who served in The Great War. Incomplete information isn’t limited to those who served. Weese is trying to track down the names of the original members.

Most of the 35 who signed originally did so under

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their husbands’ names.

“At the time, it wasn’t unusual for someone to be known as Mrs. John such and such,” she said. “We’d like to be able to list them by their names in our updated history.”

The community service aspect of the IODE goes far beyond efforts during wartime.

The group has donated more than $57,000 for the Trillium Trail project and $43,000 in the health care Tree of Tribute campaign.

In addition to the $2,500 being spent on the cenotaph, the group has donated more than $1,600 for wireless microphones, literacy programs and trees for Dresden’s elementary and secondary schools.

The library has received

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• Composting Workshop at the Chatham Branch of the Chatham-Kent Public Library from 10:00am-noon. The speaker will be Steve Parr, a community member with a passion for composting and many years of experience in the conservation field. Pre-registration is required, please call Chatham Branch at 519-354-2940. For more info please contact Arlene Maris, 519-354-2940 ext.233.

• Meat draw at Branch 628 Royal Canadian Legion, William & Colborne St., Chatham from 4:30-6:00pm, followed by a dance from 7:00pm-11:00pm with Man Power. Everyone Welcome.

Monday, May 26, 2014 • iPad - iOS7 Tips and Tricks Workshop. The Chatham-Kent Public Library, in partnership with Ontario Works, will be offering FREE workshops at CKPL branches throughout Chatham-Kent in May. In this workshop you will learn touch gestures that unlock previously unseen features.

Please register to join us at the Ridgetown-Branch from 2:00-4:00pm. Space is limited. Please call or email cktechtrain@chatham-kent.ca.

• Card Party at Christ Church Anglican Hall, Dresden. 7:30pm. Prizes, Dutch auction & lunch. $3.00. Sponsored by Fairport Rebekah Lodge, Dresden.

• Join Pauline Moss at ARTspace for a day of one and two-point perspective drawing! The ARTcamp runs from 10:00am-3:00pm. Cost of the workshop is $60+HST for Culture Vulture members, $75+HST for non-members. Price includes materials as well as lunch. To register for this course, please visit ARTspace or call 519.352.1064.

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Twins grow together through athletics

By Ian Kennedy cksn.ca

Jana and Logan Kucera have been together since birth.

In fact, the Grade 9 Chatham-Kent Secondary School students, and identical twins, were born two and a half hours apart, which is likely the longest these budding athletes have been separated.

With this binding biological link, it only makes sense the duo also has a unique connection on the field and court. In fact, Jana and Logan have played on every team together since they could run and carry a ball or racket.

In the past several seasons, the twins have played for the Chatham-Kent Wildcats basketball, Strathroy Spirit basketball, Chatham Golden Eagles softball, Chatham Strikers soccer, and several Chatham-Kent Secondary School sports teams.

After being together since

birth, playing on every team together just seems natural.

“It’s what we are used to,” Jana, who was a first-team city all-star for CKSS’ junior girls’ basketball team this season, and was also the first born of the twins. “We both love to compete and we know we have each other’s support.”

“It’s something that seems natural to us,” added Logan.

“We both love sports so we have always played together.”

Although most of their teammates can tell Jana and Logan apart, their competition, and often coaches, struggle to differentiate the two.

“We are used to it and it doesn’t bother us,” the twin’s both agreed about the confusion regarding who’s who on the playing field. “We just keep playing.”

Perhaps the confusion stems from their appearance, or the

fact they play similar styles and positions on most teams, or perhaps it’s the fact they’re always side by side, supporting each other, and pushing the other to be better.

“We talk to each other during the games to figure out how to correct something. We both want to contribute to the team and be the best we can be,” said Jana.

That desire to contribute and improve, however, can sometimes lead to sisterly clashes. According to Logan, who was a second-team Kent All-Star this year in both basketball and volleyball at CKSS, they both benefit from the other’s push.

“Because we are so competitive, we sometimes point out each other’s flaws or mistakes,” said Logan. “It doesn’t always make the other person happy but it makes us play smarter and stronger.”

an football player with the Western Mustangs. A CCI grad, Krete later played with Toronto and Saskatchewan in the CFL. Finally in the athlete – modern division is Thiesen, a JMSS graduate, who was the first Chatham volleyball player to make Ontario’s provincial team, first Chatham female to play Division I volleyball with the University of Pittsburgh, and the first local to play professional volleyball.

In the athlete – legend category, Jamie Jefferson, Ron Johnston, Brian Lancaster, and Eddie Wright were announced as candidates.

Jefferson was one of the areas first successful boxers, winning tournaments across the region, including nine Ontario titles at various levels.

Johnston, who passed away in 2013, was a multi-sport athlete, most acclaimed as a softball pitcher.

Lancaster was a legendary hydroplane racer, while Eddie Wright was one of Chatham’s top football and baseball players. Wright has been honoured by the Chatham-Kent

Black Historical Society, and most notably was a star hockey player for the Chatham Jr. Maroons, before moving on to an NCAA hockey scholarship with Boston University.

The Builders, including Ron Coristine, Ed Coyne, Jim Maynard, and Art Provost, is another category filled with deserving candidates.

Each has made various contributions to local high schools and clubs, has been integral in developing Chatham-Kent’s sports programs, including for this year’s nominees, local hockey, softball, badminton, bowling, football, track and field, and officiating programs.

Finally in the team category, the 1977-78 Chatham Royals hockey, 1986-87 Moose Lodge Major Pee Wee hockey, 1987 McDonald’s Pee Wee baseball, and 1989-90 CKSS Boys’ volleyball teams are nominated.

The winning candidates will be inducted into the Hall of Fame at the Annual Dinner, which is scheduled for Sept.

11. Banquet tickets go on sale on Aug. 1 and will be available from all members of the board of directors.

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2014 sports HoF candidates unveiled

By Ian Kennedy cksn.ca

The Chatham Sports Hall of Fame has named its nominees for the 2014 Induction class, and will now go to work selecting the winning inductees for the Annual Dinner and Ceremony to be held Sept. 11.

The Chatham Sports Hall of Fame will honour one selection from the athlete – modern, athlete – legend, builder, and team categories.

In the athlete – modern category, Courtney Babcock, Juli Elders, Derek Krete, and Marcia Thiesen are the four nominees.

Babcock, a former CCI student, was an eight time All-American runner at the University of Michigan before winning multiple Canadian National Championships, and representing Canada at numerous international events, including the 2004 Olympic Games.

Elders, an accomplished track and field athlete, graduated from JMSS, before attending the University of Manitoba, and also representing Canada multiple times.

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Jana, left, and Logan Kucera after helping their CKSS Badminton team win the Kent Junior Championship. The twins played as doubles partners.

Sisters fuel each other Continued from page 16

That mutual drive, according to their parents Rick and Donna, who can also be found cheering on their son, Lee, another multi-sport athlete, has really sparked the girls to improve over recent years.

“They learn from each other’s mistakes and motivate one another to raise their level of play,” said Donna, a CKSS coach and teacher.

Although they give their opponents double trouble, standing side by side on the court or on the field, the twins give their parents double enjoyment watching them compete together.

“It might sound cliché, but we have had double the pleasure watching them compete and grow together in all of their sports,” said Donna Kucera. “Watching their instinctive play confirms what we have always heard about the twin connection.”

Even though they’re together from morning to night, Rick and Donna have also made sure the twins, nicknamed J-Lo by other parents, and often distinguishable only by their numbers to opponents, have made sure Jana and Logan are also growing up as individuals.

“Despite being members on the same teams, they have also grown as individuals, which is important to us and them in life,” said their parents.

“It has always been a priority to ensure they develop as individuals.

While they look alike, enjoy each other’s company, like the same style of clothes, study together and socialize with the same friends and teammates, their personalities are different. We try to make sure we address their individual needs as athletes and as people.”

Despite their individually, the duo will always be connected. That’s just the way they want it. From knowing

how the other thinks, to knowing where they will be on the court or field, Jana and Logan not only benefit from playing together, they couldn’t imagine life any other way.

“We can’t imagine life in sport without each other,” the twins agreed. “We motivate each other to get better and we are stronger competitors because there is always someone in our ear telling us how many points or goals she got or how far she threw. The best part is that we have always had someone to share the challenges of sport, and the successes.”

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