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Meet the ‘Bigfoot of China’ Ryan Burden The Chronicle

Sightings of the mythical Bigfoot and Loch Ness monster have been a source of mystery and wonder for years. With thousands of new species discovered each year, it isn’t irrational to believe such species could exist in the depths of oceans or jungles. At one point in time, the elusive giant panda was considered the Bigfoot of China. The beast was so wellhidden in the dense bamboo forests of China that Chinese trackers spent over 60 years trying to find the legendary creature. The trackers had their doubts about the fabled animal.

After all, the notion of a chubby black and white spotted bear that lazes around the forest eating a mostly herbivorous diet seemed insane at the time.

The giant panda’s rarity was likely influenced by the species’ decreasing population. Giant pandas are currently classified as an endangered species. The species has been poached for decades for its soft fur, and its continued habitat loss and low birthrate has allowed the great panda’s numbers to dwindle.

Rapid expansion in China has caused the natural habitat of the giant panda to disappear almost entirely, forcing the pandas to travel into the mountains for refuge. Although many animal activists insist that keeping pandas behind bars is cruel, in order to avoid having to explain to our children what pandas were, the habitat of pandas must be allowed time to

Photo courtesy of Ken Ardill

NATIONAL PANDA-MIC: Da Mao enjoying his last moments of relaxtion by chomping a shoot of bamboo in his outdoor exhibit at the Toronto Zoo before his journey into parenthood. heal and regrow. The Toronto Zoo is one of many organizations that support the habitat reproduction for pandas.

Very recently, the Toronto Zoo acquired the first giant pandas to venture to Canada,

Er Shun and Da Mao. The duo arrived from China in 2013 and will live at the Toronto Zoo until 2018. Staff from Toronto Zoo tweeted that Er Shun gave birth to two healthy cubs on October 13th. An extremely ad-

vanced care unit equipped with incubators had been set up at the zoo in anticipation of the births.

The Toronto Zoo employs a reproductive physiologist working with pandas to help

promote fertility and increase birth rates. News of the panda cubs was met by roars of excitement from both the zoo staff and the bears.

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Surrounded

by Otters Oshawa Generals firstround pick Jack Studnicka chases down the puck while surrounded by several Erie Otters at the start of the third period of an Ontario Hockey League game at the General Motors Centre Oct. 16. The Generals lost the game 7-4.

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Oshawa goes Conservative Carrie for the win again

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Sachin Bahal The Chronicle

Voters of Oshawa chose to “stay blue” for the next four years as Colin Carrie continues to be the Member of Parliament for Oshawa despite national results being a Liberal majority government.

It was a close race for the three main parties in Oshawa. The Conservatives got 38 per cent of the votes while the NDP’s Mary Fowler got 32 per cent and Tito-Dante Marimpietri of the Liberals got 27 per cent.

Supporters of Carrie gathered at Riley’s pub in downtown Oshawa on election night.

Carrie thanked his family and volunteers for all their help and support. He especially thanked Laurie Doucet who helped run Carrie’s campaign.

Doucet has been on Carrie’s campaign team since he was first elected as MP in 2004. He also helped with his 2006 campaign. This year’s campaign was the third time that hehas helped Carrie with his cam-

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TAKES A SLICE: Colin Carrie, Oshawa’s MP, during his victory speech at Riley’s Pub. paign.

Carrie says, “To be a Member of Parliament, you can’t do it on your own, you need so many people to support you.

We spent literally thousands of hours knocking on doors, all of the people who helped me canvas, to put signs up, who helped me raise money, I couldn’t have done it without you.”

During that night, both Fowler and Marimpietri visited Carrie to congratulate him on his victory. Fowler said to Carrie that she is looking forward to four years from now.

Carrie says that this election’s campaign was longer than past years.

“So it was more doors, more resources required, we had

great volunteers, I got to tell you that the commitment of my team was phenomenal, so I’m just so pleased that I had the team behind me like the support of my family and also the support of my community going forward,” Carrie says.

He is looking forward to seeing how he can serve Oshawa over the next four years.

Liberal Marimpietri ends race in third place Ryan Burden The Chronicle

The small gathering of 20 or so Liberal supporters at the Oshawa Italian Recreation Club (OIRC) were faced with a double-edged sword on election night, they were thrilled that Justin Trudeau won a majority government, but disappointed that Oshawa candidate TitoDante Marimpietri was unsuccessful.

The crowd was still relatively lively due to a Blue Jays win and a major victory from Prime Minister-elect Trudeau.

Although most of Canada opted for “Real Change” with 184 of 338 seats, Marimpietri placed third in the Oshawa riding with 16,601, or 27 per cent of the votes. NDP candidate Mary Fowler had 19,356 votes, or 32 per cent, and Conservative candidate Colin Carrie was re-elected with 23,179 votes, 38 per cent of the total 60,732.

Marimpietri was missing from most of the night at the OIRC. Many supporters asked his father, Tito Marimpietri, where his son was, but Tito

Fowler’s close run

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FINAL TALLY: The final votes in the Oshawa and Whitby riding. Across Canada, results show the Liberal party dominated this election even though they lost in Oshawa. said he hadn’t heard from his son all evening. Marimpietri’s father entertained the crowd of Liberal supporters with complimentary pizza, espresso, and deli sandwiches.

The supporters were a mix of disappointed, angry, sad, and hopeful for Oshawa’s future.

“They’re so stupid, they don’t know what they’re voting for,” Liberal supporter Maria Buggea said. “Oshawa is just going to stay the way it is.”

Marimpietri has lived his entire life in the city of Oshawa.

He is a proud member of the community and has spent over

a decade as an Oshawa and Regional Councillor.

“Politics has been in his blood since he was a little boy,” Tito Marimpietri said. “He was born and raised in Oshawa.”

If Marimpietri had won, his father says he would have been the voice to the government Oshawa needs.

“He would be the voice from Oshawa to Ottawa, not Ottawa to Oshawa,” he explains.

“There’s a big difference. His priority was to bring jobs back.”

Marimpietri says his son will continue to be a core member of Oshawa’s community, and will not give up on his goals of improving Oshawa and making the city the best it can be for its residents.

“Oshawa, in the last 10 years, has lost a lost of manufacturing jobs,” the elder Marimpietri says, “our goal is to bring them back.”

Oshawa has been known to vote Conservative and occasionally NDP in the past, so the results aren’t surprising. It was predicted that the Liberals would finish in third in Oshawa.

Candidate Mary Fowler had words of encouragement for the next election despite her loss in this year’s vote. The Oshawa local riding was a close race until the very end. The Liberals the Conservatives and Fowler’s NDP were neck and neck for most of the night until the Conservatives pulled ahead, with the Liberals falling into third.

Fowler made her appearance at Whiskey John’s in Oshawa late in the night when the final results were posted. The Conservatives won the Oshawa riding with 23,179 votes, with Fowler not behind at 19,356 and the Liberals with 16,601 votes.

“I am proud of our campaign,” said Fowler. “We have something to work for and get excited about next time.”

With the help from their supporters and volunteers, they were able to claim second place behind the Conservatives with only a 3,823-vote difference. “We have a legion of people who are willing to help,” said Fowler.

Fowler isn’t a newcomer to the election process.

She has worked on NDP campaigns before and helped out with politics in her Oshawa municipality.

Fowler teaches Grade 3 French Immersion at Julie Payette Public School in Whitby. She also sits on the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario and is the chair for the ETFO Durham’s environmental committee.

There was a surprising number of youth at the event, making up almost half of the attendees. “I’m happy with the young voter involvement,” said Fowler.

If she could turn the clock back and change anything about her campaign, Fowler wouldn’t have done anything different. “ I have a ridiculously amazing campaign manager,” said Fowler. “We look forward to keep building our campaign and we’re happy to see Oshawa engaged and knowing they will choose to change in the future.”

Despite the loss, the NDP remained positive throughout the night.

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Celina captures Whitby vote

Tabitha Reddekop The Chronicle

Celina Caesar-Chavannes, Whitby’s new MP, wants to make Whitby a better place to live by partnering with Durham College and UOIT. The partnerships would make Whitby greener and more technologically advanced and help give young people a chance to use the skills in their field, she said during her victory speech on the night of the federal election.

“We have the talent and potential to lead the economic growth of Durham region,” she said. “My vision has Whitby as the centre of excellence.”

She hopes with Justin Trudeau at the helm, all of Canada will become a leader in health, science and technology.

“Let’s not continue to follow the rest of the world in our discoveries and advancements,” she said.

Caesar-Chavannes became

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ELECTION DAY: Liberal supporters celebrate Celina Caesar-Chavannes’ win. the Whitby MP on Oct 19. “As the good book says, there is a time to sow and a time to reap.

Whitby, it is time to reap the harvest!”

Caesar-Chavannes shouted among the cheers and table thumping of her Team

Celina supporters at the Tap and Tankard bar, where she celebrated her win.

Despite her confidence at the podium, she says she had no idea if she would win or not.

“I was so nervous last night, I

Christine Elliott.

Nieuwstraten says that the overall response from the public was very positive; especially towards Pat Perkins so much so that he thought she would win.

“She had a good reputation as the former mayor of Whitby,” he says. Perkins served two terms as the Mayor for Whitby from 2006 to 2014.

Nieuwstraten has been a resident of Durham for 50 years; he arrived to Canada from the Netherlands. Nieuwstraten has worked for various campaigns over the past six years.

He says when there was a campaign on he’s was campaigning door-to-door, working fulltime, six days of the week.

For this election he spent three hours of each day campaigning by phone. “The cancer is bothering me quite a bit, I don’t let it get in my way. I’m a religious man, ” he said.

Nieuwstraten says that he also participates in other community events when he’s not

out persuading voters, and always finds ways to keep busy.

“I’m out travelling, spending my children’s inheritance,” he says. Nieuwstraten says that he misses going door-to-door to interact with people, but admits that it has certain challenges, “I’ve been told to ‘F-off’ before, I’ve been solicited,” he says.

He says that when he interacts with people who have opposing political views, it’s important that he respects their views and doesn’t spend time getting into arguments. “I’m campaigning, I need to do as much as I can so I don’t argue,” he says.

Nieuwstraten’s wife, Pat Nieuwstraten has also been involved with the campaign, distributing flyers and catering food for the campaigners.

She arrived with her husband during the campaign party setting up the food displays and standing by supporters waiting on the election results.

“She supports me 100 per cent, we’re a pretty close team,” he says.

was nervous this morning, I was nervous on twitter,” she said. One of the reasons she was worried about the results was because of the past byelection she lost to Pat Perkins in 2014. “From the by-election,

people would say, ‘Oh you have it,’ but I didn’t have it. It just kinda sets you up to be a bit more cautious.”

She said she anxiously watched the results to see if she was going to win. “I didn’t count anybody out. The NDP were strong. I knew the Conservatives were strong,” she said.

Even with her doubt, she won, despite the riding having a history of being Conservative.

The last Liberal MP for the area was elected in 2004.

Caesar-Chavannes believes so many Canadians chose to vote Liberal this election because they wanted a change.

“I think we really need this (change) right now,” she says.

“We now have a federal partner who is motivated to work with provincial and municipal leaders to make it happen.” Caesar-Chavannes said her team would bring about change as soon as possible. “The work starts tomorrow, we don’t sleep,” she says. “We have a long road ahead of us.”

Campaigning through cancer 292 votes = success Marina Tyszkiewicz The Chronicle

The federal election means more than just big numbers, and handing out posters- for someone like Hank Nieuwstraten it’s a passion.

So much so that Nieuwstraten didn’t let prostate cancer get in the way of his efforts.

Nieuwstraten is on the board of directors he was hoping to have Whitby’s Conservative candidate Pat Perkins re-elected.

Two years ago he was diagnosed with prostate cancer.

“I’ve got one of the most aggressive types of cancer, I’ve had major surgery,” he says.

Nieuwstraten had surgery 16 months ago and is preparing to undergo radiation treatment.

“I love campaigning it comes so natural, it’s my way of serving the country,” says Nieuwstraten.

He has thus far participated in four federal and three provincial elections, formerly representing Jim Flaherty and

Cameron Popwell The Chronicle

Jon O’Connor went into the federal election hoping to change the democratic process by using social media as a platform to open communications between candidates and citizens. O’Connor ran as an independent candidate in the October 19th election in Whitby. Though O’Connor ended the evening with only 292 votes, he considered his role in the election a success.

A 15-year resident of Whitby, O’Connor is a former member of the Canadian armed forces, and writer. He went into the election with the hope of taking the concerns of his fellow citizens to Parliament, in an effort to make them heard to whomever might win the federal vote. O’Connor expressed a strong belief in using his campaign to work at a new method of gathering and

representing the concerns by using dedicated social media in hopes of better connecting candidates and those they are running to represent.

Though he did not expect a victory in the election, O’Connor did express that he felt support from Whitby as he approached voters whenever he went door-to-door, saying, “every vote matters.

If I get 22 votes, that’s 22 victories. No independent does that well without some major reputation going in.”

He added that, though he did not support any party or candidate, he believed that a Conservative candidate was the most likely to win the Whitby riding. When asked if he would consider running again in the next federal election, O’Connor responded, “We’re considering it. I think there’s a lot that needs to be done to address Whitby’s concerns, so we’ll see how they [Chavannes] will do.”

Kelly campaign was ‘tremendous experience’ despite loss Mariah Pardy The Chronicle

Whitby’s NDP candidate, Ryan Kelly, lost in the federal election to the Liberal candidate, Celina Caesar-Chavannes, by 22,104 votes October 19. But although the voting polls may be closed and the winner of the

2015 federal election has been announced, this does not mean the passion and high hopes of opposing voters and candidates has been lost.

“It’s such a tremendous experience to be a candidate, to stand behind all of the progressive ideas that the party stands for,” said Kelly. “It’s something

I have been excited about for many years.”

A supporter of Kelly and his campaign is Whitby resident, James Booth.

“I have been voting NDP for 20 years,” said Booth. “I am a unionist and I believe that they’re [NDP] the best party that represents labour.”

Booth has stood by the NDP for a number of years and has taken a tremendous amount of his free time to volunteer for the party’s campaign.

The work involved putting up signs and working on the NDP website in support of Kelly’s campaign.

Booth believes that Kelly

supports a number of the same issues that are important to Booth and his family such as standing for strong social programs and improving the youth unemployment rate in Whitby.

As an NDP supporter, Booth stands by the NDP’s plan to balance budgets and invest in social programs.

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Creating truck lanes could make driving safer Let’s take all the transport trucks and just put them somewhere else. No, seriously… what if it were possible?

Imagine this, no rocks flying into your windshield, no more stopped traffic, and most importantly, fewer accidents in which cars are mangled by oversized vehicles. This happens more often than one might realize. In fact, in early October a 20-vehicle collision on Highway 401 near Ajax left two children and two adults dead because a truck failed to stop.

Within the past month, two fatal car accidents involving transport trucks occurred on the same segment of Highway 401. The most recent collision involved 20 vehicles. Multiple people were killed in the collisions including two young children. However, the truck drivers involved in each crash managed to walk away unscathed, thanks to their multi-thousand pound trucks.

Even at high speeds, car accidents can be non-fatal.

However, mixed vehiclwe collisions are almost always fatal because of a difference in

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weight and size. It’s no shock the truck drivers survive these horrific events; imagine smashing a vase against a boulder.

There is no way the boulder would crumble. The fact is that commuter vehicles are not fit to drive alongside transport trucks.

Transport trucks can weigh up to 80,000 pounds, or almost 36,300 kilograms. That makes them fit in the weight class of car crushers, bull dozers and fire trucks. Regular cars usually weigh between 3,000 and 4,000 pounds, or around 1,300 and 1,800 kilograms. The weight difference is about eight full grown African elephants against one full grown cow.

If both vehicles were driving about 100 km/h and needed to brake quickly in a construction area, the car would be able to fully stop in roughly 100 metres, while the truck would stop in 160 metres.

In the recent collisions, the car that was in front of the truck was able to stop in time.

The truck was not. In Ajax, the truck was unable to stop in the area of construction between Brock Road and Salem Road.

What followed was a chain reaction. Like a line of dominos, one vehicle crushed the next under the force of the truck, resulting in four deaths and uncountable injuries.

According to a study conducted by Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, 96 per cent of the fatalities in collisions between a large truck and a car result in the occupants of the car dying. That means there is about a four per cent chance for drivers to survive a collision with a truck, and 24 of 25 victims will not survive the crash.

The same study showed that over 4,000 people are killed and nearly 100,000 are injured in large truck crashes annually, costing society almost $100 billion per year. It can be estimated that each fatal collision costs society about $25 million, but the lives lost in these collisions are valuable beyond measure.

The notion of banishing transport trucks from major highways may be ridiculous for now. Our economy relies on these vehicles for transporting almost everything we use in everyday life. Today, 90 per cent of all goods in value are trans-

ported by transport trucks. But what if separating transport trucks from pedestrian vehicles was truly possible? Some alternatives to our current system could be secluding trucks to one lane, or building a truckonly section on the highway.

In fact, these alternatives have already been suggested by Resources for the Future. The group claimed drivers would be safer if a single truck-only toll lane for the highway was introduced.This idea was introduced almost seven years ago.

Perhaps it is time we revisited the idea. A truck-only lane with separate exits and entrances could be extremely beneficial for safety, congestion and the economy. Separating trucks and cars would save a lot of lives, given the 96 per cent fatality rate shown in the study.

It would reduce congestion, creating a maintainable pace for pedestrian vehicles in their section and a pace for trucks in theirs. Furthermore, it would increase efficiency of truck deliveries by reducing congestion on highways.

These are not short-term plans, but they are ideas of how

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As long as there are transport trucks, and as long as there are drivers not competent enough to operate them, we will continue to lose billions of dollars and thousands of innocent lives on the roads.

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The art of competitive dance Taylor Prest Competitive dancing is an art form in which dancers rehearse and train their routines before going out to competitions.

You can watch competitive dancing on the two hit television series Dance Moms and Dance Moms: Miami.

The shows demonstrate what the life of a young dancer is and how stressful it can be.

But, as with most of what is on TV, not all things shown are true.

Dancing can be stressful but what is displayed on the TV screen has nothing to do what dancing is truly about.

While TV shows like Dance Moms and Dance Moms: Miami draw attention to the competitive dance world, competitive dance is not all about winning.

Unlike what is seen on TV, Competitive dancers experience having fun, creating family type bonds, travelling and experiencing new cities, and of course being able to play different roles and routines.

Dance Moms airs on TLC and Lifetime. Its plot is dedicated to a specific competition team in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. The team only has a few days to rehearse dances before going out to compete.

If they do not win overall or first, the coach, Abby Lee Miller, shouts, screams, and pushes her students until they receive a suitable ranking.

She sees it as a sport rather than a fun extracurricular activity for children.

The show displays children

crying due to stress, mothers fighting for their child to become number one, and the brutal schedules dancers must face to perfect their routines.

Each dance receives a medallion listed from low to highest.

The rankings are Bronze, Silver Gold, Platinum, Diamond, and Emerald.

Abby Lee’s Dance Company has never won less than third place, though being at the top is priority for this team.

The routines that receive lower than first, overall, and sometimes second, do not appear on air and are edited out of the episode.

The show became successful for the sole purpose of drama like any scripted soap opera on TV. This doesn’t make what appears on TV true, but it does make it look believable for the audience watching.

Dance students learn how to manage time efficiently. Lasting friendships can be made and social connections formed.

Losing weight is another benefit and it also could help with the eating habits of children from working out to eating healthier snacks.

Dancing gives children a chance to express their creativity socially with friends and during school. Dance gives dancers the knowledge to follow rules and follow-up with skills later in life. It improves muscle tone, corrects posture, increase balance, and overall cardiovascular health.

Dance can become stressful due to balancing with school and homework but the amount that is shown on the series and the abuse these children face verbally isn’t what real competition is about.

Preferring a dancer to another, shouting at them until

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DANCE: While some may view dancing as a hobby, it can also be a way of life for some people. Competitive dancing is portrayed much differently on television than in real life. corrections are made, and verbally abusing a child for what their parents have done isn’t competitive dancing. These are acts displayed for entertainment.

True competition is about fairness, fun, being on time, and being devoted.

An article on a dance centric blog wrote that dancers could improve their social and communications skills, learn how to work as part of a team, make new friends, and helps with anxiety surrounding new people or places.

If you want to learn, want to succeed and have fun doing

so then there is nothing else needed.

Being a dancer makes many happy memories and creates opportunities that aren’t properly shown on TV. Dancing is about creativity and acquiring new skills, not about placing overall to please one person.

For children dealing with self-esteem issues, dance can boost confidence.

EduDance, a dance magazine, says lessons can give students positive attitudes and explore their own self-expression.

Mentally or physically impaired children can be given an

opportunity to deal with emotional problems through dance and can help aid them socially, physically, and mentally.

A positive extracurricular activity such as dance shouldn’t be shown in such a negative light on TV. With all the benefits it brings physically, mentally, and socially it’s safe to say the competitive dance world is a great way to extend your social circle.

Acquiring new skills and becoming confident while doing so is the main purpose of dance, being able to express who you truly are as an artist and as a person.

High voter turnout for Durham in election Reba Pennell The Chronicle

Voter turnout in the 2015 federal election increased across the country, as well as in the Oshawa and Whitby ridings.

More than 68 per cent of voters across Canada voted in the election that saw Justin Trudeau become Prime Minister of Canada.

That is up from the 2011 election when 61 per cent voted, according to Elections Canada.

The 2008 election saw an

all-time low of numbers at just over 58 per cent.

This federal election saw the highest voter turnout in the country since 1993 when over 68 per cent of voters voted. The highest voter turnout ever was in 1958 when almost 80 per cent of voters cast ballots.

The Whitby riding had a voter turnout above the national number at a staggering 69.75 per cent.

The Conservative party has had a strong hold in the Whitby riding since 2006.

A byelection was held in

2014 after the death of Jim Flaherty. Conservative Pat Perkins, won the election with 49 per cent of votes. Liberal candidate Celina CaeasarChavannes garnered 40 per cent of the votes.

Voter turnout for the byelection was much lower than the federal election, with only 32 per cent of voters voting.

This election proved to be much different though, with Chavannes gaining over 44 per cent of votes in Whitby.

The Conservative party held the Whitby riding for almost 10 years. Perkins trailed Cha-

vannes by only 2.4 per cent of the votes.

The Oshawa riding was below the national numbers with only 63 per cent of voters voting. That is over 60,000 voters. This is an increase from the 2011 election when just over 50,000 people voted.

The Oshawa riding remained in Conservative power despite the Liberal government gaining a majority.

Colin Carrie was re-elected, earning 38 per cent of the over 60,000 votes.

This is a drop from the 2011 election, however, when Car-

rie gained just over 51 per cent of the votes.

Mary Fowler, NDP candidate for Oshawa, gained 32 per cent of votes, a decrease from the 2011 election when the NDP candidate, Chris Buckley, held 37 per cent of the votes.

While the Liberal party came in third for both of the elections, the increase in votes is prominent.

Liberal candidate TitoDante Marimpietri gained about 20 per cent more votes than the seven per cent of votes in the 2011 election.

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Bargain shopping for high-end fashion Mariah Pardy The Chronicle

The colourful racks of clothing and shelves of high fashion shoes at Play It Again Val make the perfect combination for new fall attire. Well, newer to those who make the purchase.

It’s hard to believe that someone else wore these chic looks. Play It Again Val and other consignment stores like Mulberry Bush and It’s Worth Repeating, create a more convenient way for customers to shop for fashionable and affordable clothing in their nearby plaza.

Dianne Hanko owns the shop Play It Again Val, which is located in Ajax. Hanko says consignment stores, as opposed to retail, create more of a selection of items in a more organized manner with cheaper prices.

Shopping at your local consignment shop not the only makes you feel refreshed, it helps your local community.

Most consignment shops take the time to donate what they do not sell. What you donate gets passed along to those in need.

So what makes a consignment shop different from a thrift store? Consignment stores make sure their clothing is fashionable and have good quality. Thrift stores take what they get.

“We pick through the clothes ahead of time,” says Hanko.

Play It Again Val also donates to a number of charities like Sick Kids Hospital.

According to durhamregion. com, Durham alone has 25 consignment shops of their own for local residents of the region.

These range from bridal consignment, women’s, men’s and kid’s consignment.

These shops have quality clothing for affordable prices. If you don’t live close to a mall or shopping centre, take to your local strip mall or plaza. You might find a fashion gem.

Whether it is a trip to Play It Again Val, Mulberry Bush, or It’s Worth Repeating, you will find your fashionable fall look in no time. You might even be able to walk there and pick a stylish new outfit with only 20 dollars in your pocket.

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ENTERING THE DRAGON’S DEN: A Dragon himself, Bruce Croxon spoke at the UOIT Homecoming to students and alumni about investing and being an entrepreneur.

Alumni get a glimpse of the Dragon’s Den David Conti The Chronicle

Most Canadians will recognize Bruce Croxon from Dragon’s Den, an entrepreneurial show in which he and other judges would view potential products and services, and determine if it was worth it to invest their time and money in said product or service.

Since his Dragon’s Den days, Croxon co-owns and runs Round13, an investment group searching for the breakout potential. Perhaps a university was the best place for him to go speak.

Croxon visited UOIT on Saturday, as part of the school’s homecoming event, and spoke to alumni, current students, and community members. As the co-founder of Lavalife in 1988 (which he would sell for over $100 million) Croxon

knows just about everything there is to know about business and being an entrepreneur.

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You’ve got to find the issue, find what’s wrong, and build your product or service around how to solve that problem.

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He spoke for about an hour, touching on a range of subjects, from how to find the right product to get behind, to how to find the right-minded people for your idea, and what to expect when meeting with a potential investor.

He explained at length the impact of technology and the internet, and how it makes it

easier and more difficult to start a business or launch a product.

“You’ve got to find the issue, find what’s wrong, and build your product or service around how to solve that problem,” says Croxon. “The technology today means as soon as you’ve come up with a great idea, somebody else has also come up with that same idea.”

After enjoying the homecoming festivities and taking a tour of UOIT’s Automotive Centre of Excellence (ACE), Croxon was able to view young student-entrepreneurs business ideas and provide feedback.

This was a great chance for these young business men and women to expand their contacts and gain some special expertise. Croxon was welcomed with cheers from the crowd, and stayed afterwards to take photos and sign autographs for spectators.

Dr. Tim McTiernan will keep his position as President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) for another four years as the Board of Governors of the university renewed his contract. His first term began on July 1st, 2011 and his second term will begin on July 1st 2016 and last until 2020.

During his first term, Dr. McTiernan says it provided an opportunity for UOIT to work closely with Durham College on a number of initiatives including building out academic pathways more fully and organize services between schools.

Dr. McTiernan says that the relationship with Durham College can help students come to college and go on from college to university or vice-versa. He says it provides a “broad menu of opportunities” for students in the Durham Region.

With the two institutions working together, it can help the community economi-

cally, socially and culturally as the region grows and the communities within grow as well, says Dr. McTiernan.

Dr. McTiernan says that one of the main focuses of his second term will be to look at ways to build, strengthen and solidify the relationship with Durham College.

“It really is the case that the two institutes together are more than one plus one equals two, its one plus one equals two plus, plus, plus,” says Dr. McTiernan.

Dr. McTiernan is the third president of UOIT after Dr. Ronald Bordessa who held the position from 2006 to 2011 and Dr. Gary Polonsky who was the first president of UOIT from 2002 to 2006. Before Dr. McTiernan became UOIT’s president, he was the Assistant VicePresident of Government, Institutional and Community Relations at the University of Toronto (U of T) from January 2010 until June 2011.

Before that, he was the Assistant Vice-President of Research and Executive Director of the Innovations Group at U of T from 2006-2009.

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KEEPING HIS SEAT: Dr. Tim McTiernan starts his second term July 1st, 2016.

An interview with a criminal UOIT professor develops a new technique for DRPS Alex Ross The Chronicle

A professor at UOIT has been working with local police services to implement a new way to interview suspects. The new method has been developed with a different strategy than traditional interview technique and Dr. Joseph Eastwood has teamed up with DRPS to integrate the new method.

Dr. Eastwood is a professor of forensic psychology at the

University of Ontario Institute of Technology and he has been working with the DRPS to bring a new method of interviewing suspects to the region.

He has been working with fellow UOIT professor Dr. Brent Snook who brought what is known as the PEACE method to Canada from the United Kingdom.

The PEACE method consists of five steps, planning and preparation, engage and explains, account, closure and

evaluation. The purpose of the method is to switch over to a more information gathering technique instead of trying to get the suspect to confess.

According to Dr. Eastwood there have been other regions around that have adopted the method into their local police services such as Niagara, Hamilton, Halton Region, Peel Region and even Vancouver.

Dr. Eastwood held a conference in Niagara in February 2015 to teach forensic detectives about the PEACE method and he trained them how to correctly use it. Dr. Eastwood went back to Niagara to sit in on a conference of one of the detectives he taught.

Lisa Isherwood, an officer

with Niagara Regional Police Service, held a training conference of her own for the NRPS officers and Dr. Eastwood attended to take a look on her progress.

“She [Isherwood] came and took the training and was very excited about it and started her own training in Niagara last year,” says Dr. Eastwood.

According to Dr. Eastwood the aforementioned regions have been very involved with the new training and specifically the Niagara and Peel regions have been doing “a ton of PEACE training.”

However, it has only been local regions that have taken his advice and no federal police services. The Ontario Provin-

cial Police have not taken his training, but they have adopted the PEACE method and are using their own people to train the officers.

“The RCMP in particular tends to their own thing and they have good people there and they tend to everything in house,” said Dr. Eastwood.

For the most part this method has only been taken up by the United Kingdom and then brought over to Canada through Newfoundland and has recently made its way across the country.

The PEACE method is based on more information gathering to get evidence to prove guilt instead of trying to get the suspect to confess.

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The rise of the machines Sandhya Visvanathan The Chronicle

Computers, tablets, smartphones and e-books allow fast, easy and inexpensive access to information resources. These resources engage students through interactivity and make it easy to process, analyze and share information of all kinds.

While integrating technology into the classroom may have many advantages, there have been many conflicting studies that question the use of technology in the class. As students are exposed to more technology, education has changed and there isn’t enough concrete evidence that introducing technology to the classroom has a net positive affect.

Technology has been in the classroom for almost two decades now. In 1997, President Clinton put out an urgent call to put in technology in American elementary school classrooms.

The reason was to make sure that the competitiveness of the future citizens of the country did not suffer in the global market. But even the Science and Technology Committee, struck

by Clinton, stated that technology was to be introduced in a staggered manner to ensure that proper research had been conducted.

Another aspect of using technology in the classroom is the huge costs that come with it.

The initial capital to set up the infrastructure to handle such a large amount of hardware can be very difficult for some municipalities. Such infrastructure costs must also be maintained. For example, a $250,000,000 proposal to equip the students in the Broward County, Florida, with laptops was shelved because the school was spending over $100,000 for fixing the keyboards and the monitors of the 6000 laptops leased for four pilot schools.

Such expenditure is too costly and as a result prohibitive for schools. Policies like “bring your own device” helps to alleviate some of the pressure from schools.

But this kind of program will be tough for the students who can’t afford it. It is certain that technology is an integral part of everyday life. But the question still remains as to whether or not it is an effective medium to educate the new generation.

Understanding how to use technology is important, but so is analytical and logical thinking. schools have to evaluate all the pros and cons before issuing laptops and tablets.

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Trade in heavy texts for real-life learning Alyssa Bugg The Chronicle

It’s a routine every new postsecondary school student endures, pay tuition, register for courses and, according to the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada, pay upwards of $1,000 on textbooks per year. Between the cost, weight and the knowledge that classes will be filled with reading a textbook bound for the bookshelf, this may have many students wishing for another way.

Co-ops and work placements are teaching strategies which allow students the opportunity to get away from the textbooks and apply their knowledge in real world and workplace environments. These are just two examples of experiential learning.

Experiential learning is a teaching strategy that gets students out of the classroom and away from lecture-based teaching. Teaching methods such as experiential and active learning are becoming more common in post-secondary institutions.

According to their book Promoting Active Learning: Strategies for the College Classroom, writers Meyers and Jones say active learning “provides opportunities for students to meaningfully talk and listen, write, read, and reflect on the content, ideas, issues, and concerns of an academic subject.”

A 2014 Council of Ontario Universities report says that in the near future more than 60 per cent of undergraduates will take part in co-op or experiential learning. When it comes to teaching content, be it active or experiential, the teacher’s imagination is the limit.

Julie Walker, a professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies, believes her classes are more successful when she brings active learning into her lesson plans. From the time

she began her career teaching Operations Management and IT courses, Walker has always strived to get away from the textbook, using videos and discussions to promote a dialogue within the classroom. She plans her lessons so she isn’t giving a lecture at students, but speaking with them and getting them outside to create connections.

“I just think sometimes we get so caught up in what we have to teach that we forget what it is [like] to sit there as a student,” Walker said.

Walker’s approach aligns with an article written for the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which shows substantial evidence that the incorporation or replacement of lectures with active learning strategies improves learning and knowledge retention. This has post-secondary institutions on the hunt for alternate methods to better engage students and enhance the way students learn. Graduates of programs with active and experiential learning are at a big advantage. According to Statistics Canada’s 2013 National Graduation Survey, post-secondary students who participate in co-ops, work placements and experiential learning are earning more than their peers, finding work in higher paid positions, with a lower unemployment rate after graduation.

According to Walker, you don’t navigate life with a textbook in hand, so why use a textbook when learning about life in the classroom? Throughout the summer, Walker taught her first-of-four new General Education (GNED) courses, which she handcrafted to function without the use of a conventional textbook. With this, Walker uses alternate materials, such as a scientific novel, a “For Dummies” book and an e-text with embedded links to pro-

mote engagement. She also uses resources such as Google Maps for interactivity within her ge-

ography classroom. The information age has changed the way students learn. We have infi-

nite knowledge literally at our fingertips, which has rendered textbook learning obsolete.

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Apple festival celebrates its 26th year

Bowmanville event attracts thousands Sean Heeger The Chronicle

The weather was unseasonably cold, but that didn’t stop thousands of people from coming out to celebrate the annual Bowmanville Apple Festival and Craft Sale held in the historic downtown Bowmanville area.

Oct. 17 marked the 26th anniversary of the event that welcomes local orchards and businesses out to showcase their products and mingle with people who love apples and other things the festival has to offer.

“I’ve been here for 18 years and it definitely was not this size, it has been expanding every year,” said Irene Allin of Allin’s Orchard. “This year they’ve added a lot of food trucks that I’ve never seen before so it’s getting bigger, there’s something for everyone.”

Among the dozens of tents and local businesses that were set up for the event was the Watson Farms booth, a staple at the apple festival.

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I’ve been here for 18 years and it definitely was not this size, it has been expanding every year.

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Long lines of people waited to get in and try some of the many apples that their farm produces. And if you couldn’t make it into their booth there were many other tents selling the orchard’s apples with their own special twist.

“The candy apples you see at the tents down the road are all made with our apples, and I believe even Knox Christian School makes their famous apple fritters with our apples,” said Tami Watson.

While the festivities were contained to King Street, locations within close proximity took advantage of the chance to make some money, too.

One such place was Central Public School, which rented out its parking lot to people visiting the festival for $5 per vehicle.

The parking lot was packed all day long and all the money raised went to the school for future initiatives.

This year’s festival was also

about more than apples, as the federal candidates for the three major parties had booths set up handing out sweets and meeting the people as they walked past.

Erin O’Toole, the Conservative Member of Parliament who has attended the event for the past four years, didn’t think politics would take precedence over the apples.

“It’s really close to the election and obviously some people

are stopping by to ask questions and get clarification on the issues,” said O’Toole, “but most people are just here for the apple crisp, it’s fantastic and people have put the election out of their minds for a day to come here with their families and have some fun.”

Corinna Traill of the Liberal party also said it was less about the politics and more about the festivities.

“Whether I was running or

not I would be here to support my community, I grew up here and no matter what, the apple festival is something I love to come to,” said Traill.

NDP candidate Derek Spence, however, was the most political of all spending his time discussing with anyone who would stop, about the problems with the current government and what the NDP would do to change things.

“I see all the problems

around the community, the issues that the current government has caused all of us, so instead of sitting around complaining about it I decided to get involved,” said Spence.

But no one short of Taylor Swift could have taken the limelight from the crunchy and sweet star of the festival, as the apple was still front and centre and being enjoyed by everyone who walked down that long stretch of Bowmanville road.

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Pregnant Panda-monium Mexi-delicioso Marina Tyszkiewicz The Chronicle

Continued from page 1 This is a truly astounding achievement, as female pandas are only receptive to males for a maximum of 72 hours per year.Without pandas kept in captivity, the species may not have made the recovery it has.

In 2003, 164 giant pandas were reported to be in captivity.

In 2013, the number of captive pandas more than doubled with a population of 375. About 1864 pandas were reported to be living in the wild in 2013, which is an increase of 268 since 2003, and a staggering increase of 864 since 1995.

The reason for the rising population is simple: people care. People want to see pandas in the future, and so the world has made an effort to rebuild their homes.

A research team at the zoo will be conducting research to aid reproductive studies during their time with Er Shun and Da Mao until the two pack their bags and continue their world tour at the Calgary Zoo in 2018.

It is currently unknown where the cubs will go, but it is very likely they will stay with their parents.It is becoming

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PANDA LOVE: Er Shun eating in her enclosure on the hottest day of the year. less likely that we will have to say goodbye to pandas forever due to hard work on a global scale.

However, it is not impossible. It is important that organizations like the Toronto Zoo

continue their efforts to protect this beloved animal, and for people to realize destroying an animal’s environment will eventually destroy the animal.

After all, extinction is a very long time.

Jesus Corona arrived to Canada twenty-five years ago with the dream of opening an authentic Mexican style restaurant. Since arriving to Canada, he’s been able to make his Canadian dream come true, more than once.

Mexico Lindo is a family run Mexican restaurant and a second home to Corona and his wife of 25 years Belkis Marrero.

Corona has been working in the restaurant business for 30 years, and he owns two authentic Mexican style restaurant’s with a second location in Bowmanville called Lindo Mexico. He owned and operated three other locations across the GTA, which he eventually sold to his siblings. Mexico Lindo is open seven days a week and Corona says he spends most of his time at the restaurant where he is happy to be working alongside his wife, their two children and his devoted staff who have become as close to him as family. “I like to be here all the time, I enjoy what I do,” he says. The recipes used throughout his restaurant

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MEXICO LINDO: Jesus Corona and Belkis Marrero. chain stem from Corona’s childhood, after having been taught to cook at the age of six when his mother of seven children died.“I learned from my grandmother when I was young,” he says. Corona says that his grandmother was the one who taught him how to survive.

Corona takes pride in his cuisine creations saying that he only buys quality meats that are never frozen and makes everything himself, including his own salsa and tortilla chips. Corona says the most important thing he’s learned to value since getting into the business is his customers, making sure they get an authentic taste of Mexican food and friendly family service.

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DC students help those who need a prom dress Mariah Pardy The Chronicle

It might not be prom season yet, but there is always a time to lend a helping hand to those in need. Students at DC-UOIT who have said goodbye to their prom and semi-formal days have a chance to part ways with their dresses for a good cause.

Students in the Special Events Planning program at Durham College are hosting a donation

drive next month called Project Prom. Project Prom is an event that accepts the donations of previously-owned dresses from those who have already experienced their prom days or from those who are looking to get rid of any formal dress.

These donations provide dresses for less fortunate girls who wish to attend their prom, but may not be able to afford the high expenses. Taylor Felix, a second year student at

the Centre for Food, is one of the hosts for the event and says this is the first time that the program has hosted an event like Project Prom.

“Our inspiration is the girls in the community and we wanted to do a girl empowerment project,” says Felix.

“Project Prom is a way to give back and help the less fortunate in our community.”Felix says that the Special Events program group will be teaming

up with the Durham Regional Police, who just earlier this year held an event called Gowns for Girls, which was the same idea as Project Prom. The Special Events Plannig program has collected a number of prizes for this initial event.

All you have to do to be entered is donate a dress to the Project Prom Donation Drive.

The more dresses you donate, the more entries you will have to qualify for prizes.“You get a

chance to win with each dress you donate. We are currently looking into getting more prizes, but our main prize right now is Oshawa Generals tickets,” says Felix.To donate, the Project Prom Donation Drive can be found on November 25th at the DC Whitby Campus across from Tim Hortons and on November 26th at the DC Oshawa campus across from the computer commons, both from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

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PAUL BRANDT: The country singer is on a road trip through Canada where he shows his Canadian pride in 22 cities, including Oshawa.

Little bit of country in everyone Taylor Waines The Chronicle

In a road-trip across Canada, country artists Dean Brody and Paul Brandt return to their roots stopping in 22 cities, including Oshawa.

Fans waited in the cold at the GM Centre two hours before headliners Brody and Brandt took the stage.

When the gates opened around 6 p.m. on October 17th, the venue filled with cowboy hats and cowboy boots.

Though some of the concert attendees were only as old as Brandt’s first album released in ‘96, the crowd was equally filled with many who listened to him since the release of his first album, back when his luscious locks reached his shoulders.

Balloons fell into the audience near the beginning of the show before Calgary grown Brandt took the stage.

Brandt sang a range of songs from his first single My Heart Has a History to his latest single I’m an Open Road. The audience took a walk through Brandt’s many years in country, reminding them of why Brandt is known as the most decorated Canadian male in country music history.

Taking ‘selfie’s’ with many fans and even doing a shout out to a couple he had received a tweet from; Brandt spent most of the show interacting with his audience and including them in his performance.

The centre filled with roars and applause every time Brandt

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DEAN BRODY: Brody brings down the house at the GM Centre in Oshawa. hit his famous low notes, and the crowd grew louder when the large inflatable rubber ducky took side stage for his cover of Convoy.

However, the biggest highlight of his performance was the encore, when Brandt came out sporting an Oshawa Generals jersey singing Alberta Bound.

Following Brandt, fellow Canadian artist, Dean Brody from Jaffrey, B.C., came out in jeans and a T-shirt and of course a cowboy hat. Brody brought the small-town out of every man and woman there by singing People Know You by Your First Name.

Introducing his band there was a strong presence of closeness visible between the members.

The performance included every instrument ranging from ukulele to fiddle. With Brody’s performance of It’s Friday and Mountain Man the crowd grew wild, singing along to every word.

However, the atmosphere changed when he sang Brothers as the crowd swayed along with lighters in hand, Brody ended the song with an amazing guitar solo. For his encore, Brody took the crowd by surprise singing Dwight Yoakam’s Guitars and Cadillacs.

Finishing off his Canadian performance in red and white lighting Brody belted out Canadian Girls, which was followed by an intro to O’Canada.

The biggest draw to this concert was definitely having homegrown artists on the stage. The Canadian pride was present in the songs, the crowd, and the flag that stood beside the stage.

Both Brandt and Brody knew how to keep the crowd involved and rowdy. Whether it was releasing balloons from the ceiling, shaking hands or asking for the crowd to sing along, the artists provided the opportunity for the audience to do

more than just watch.

The concert left many cowboys believing they too could be a Nashville star, or maybe it was the liquor…Regardless, the artists did the three things every successful country star must do to the crowd: get them rowdy, pull at their heartstrings, and leave them wanting more.

If the sold out show didn’t give it away then the smiles, drunken singing cowboys, or giddy girls were testaments to the amazing performance of both stars.

All together the Road Trip Tour succeeded in leaving many audience members feeling proud to be Canadian.

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Creating unique pieces of art Art can be made out of anything

Tabitha Reddekop The Chronicle

Needles, thread and wool might not be the first things that come to mind when it comes to art supplies but these are the tools of fibre artists.

These tools were used to create the intricately woven pieces on display at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery and Annual Fibre Art Show in Oshawa next month.

The gallery is displaying the work of five Durham Region artists whose work will also be part of the 13th Annual Fibre Art Show (AFAS.) The event brings fibre artists from across Ontario together to show off their work on Nov 12-14 at the Centennial Albert Church in Oshawa.

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I am doing it more for a purpose than playing around with fabric.

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Marilyn Whitbread, the coordinator of the AFAS and an artist participating in the display, says she wants people to

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FIBRE ART: Rosemary Oliver, Durham Region fibre artist, with a turtle from her piece called Turtles of Ontario, which brings awareness to Ontario’s endangered turtles. see the art as more than a craft.

“It’s sometimes thought as a craft but some pieces are definitely pieces of art,” she says.

“It’s not a quilt show.”

She says even though they use less traditional tools in their pieces they still use the same concepts of contrast, colour and perspective.

“A fibre artist will have possibly, paper, paints and dyes,” she says. “But they will also have a needle and thread, use ribbon, wool and silk to form

something together.”

This combination lets artists create complex works of art that aren’t just flat but are also like sculptures.

Sherry Brown, a visitor to the gallery, is impressed by the display.

“It’s just the talent and the awe of the time it takes to makes these,” she says, looking around.

Most pieces take at least three months to make.

Like any art, self-expression

plays a big role in creation.

“We all have the need to create, right from the little child playing in the sand and creates his own little sandcastle,” Whitbread says.

“We all have that desire within us.”

She says that’s something we lose, as we got older and get too busy with life.

“We are mostly retired, this group and we are ready to now go back and pursue that creative part.”

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She is inspired by the environment and has been using her art to raise awareness for environmental issues.

“I am doing it more for a purpose than playing around with fabric,” she says with a laugh.

Her 3D display called, Turtles of Ontario, features the eight kinds Ontario turtles carefully made out of paper-mache, fabric, paint and embroidery.

The piece took her six months to create.

A fibre artist will have possibly, paper, paints and dyes... but they will also have a needle and thread, use ribbon, wool and silk to form something together.

Marilyn Whitbread

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MARILYN WHITBREAD: Co-ordinator of the Annual Fibre Art Show and a local artist participating in the display. She is standing in front of her favourite piece on display called Ganaraska Highlands, which is a silk screen portraying a fall scene.

In her favourite piece, Ganaraska Highlands, she used silk to make a woven screen of a brilliant coloured blue, green, yellow and red fall scene.

She completed it by using actual leaves pressed against silk to create unique foliage.

“The sun just comes through it and the birch trees throw shadows,” she says. “It’s just as if you are out in the woods.

It’s the most peaceful spot in the world.”

Whitbread says the fibre concept is not only beautiful but can be used to send a message. Rosemary Oliver, another artist from the exhibit, says she likes to mix art and science.

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She says she made it because seven out of the eight turtles in the display are endangered.

“I thought if I could raise awareness using my artistic skill, I would be doing more than producing art to hang on a wall!”

Turtles of Ontario was part of last year’s display at the AFAS but she promises she has even more exciting things planned for this year’s show.

“I can’t let the cat out of the bag but there’s a lot of really fabulous stuff,” she says revealing it involves a bicycle tire.

All five artists from the McLaughlin exhibit will have works in the upcoming AFAS.

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DC-UOIT Home Sports Schedule Tues. Oct. 27 Basketball - DC Men vs Seneca, 8 p.m.; DC Women vs Seneca, 6 p.m.

Thurs. Oct. 29 Volleyball - DC Men vs George Brown, 8 p.m.; DC Women vs George Brown 6 p.m.

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Durham graduate goes Global Reba Pennell

When Canwest sold its assets to Shaw the sports department was reinstated and Leth was able to cover sports again.

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Lets flashback to 1994: Rob Leth was a student at Durham College, enrolled in the Journalism program. He didn’t know what he wanted to do going into college but that quickly changed.

Fast forward 21 years and Leth is now the sports anchor for Global Toronto. But that didn’t come easy. It came with hard work and as Leth likes to put it, a little luck.

“It’s a hard business to get into. You do have to get lucky here and there,” Leth says.

Leth worked for Rogers TV in Oshawa from 1991-2001 as the part-time sports anchor and then at Rogers in Richmond Hill from 2001-2003 as the full time sports anchor. He then went to work for Global Toronto in 2003.

His big break happened when he covered the Toronto Board of Trade Golf Tournament in Woodbridge in 2002 and Global Sports had people there. Leth was carrying his camera around and walked up to the Global sports anchor at the time Jim Tatti. Leth asked Tatti if he would look at his demo, which he did and told Leth to give him a call.

Leth joined the Global team as a sports videographer and weekend sports desk anchor.

He has always worked in sports

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Rob Leth

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MAKING IT BIG: Durham College Journalism alumnus Rob Leth returns to school to talk about his career. because that was his passion.

When he went to Durham College he was the sports editor for

The Chronicle.

As much as he loved sports, Leth has also spent time cov-

ering the news after Canwest went bankrupt and the whole sports department was cut.

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As sports anchor Leth has covered many different events.

This includes the 2014 Winter Classic in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the Toronto Blue Jays spring training in 2013 and the 2012 Grey Cup in Toronto.

Leth has met many famous people including auto racer Mario Andretti, swimsuit model Elle Macpherson, WWE wrestlers Matt and Jeff Hardy and hockey legend Wayne Gretzky.

But the one person who stands out to Leth is when he met former Toronto Maple Leafs captain Mats Sundin.

“Mats Sundin was the player that I idolized growing up and to meet him in person when I first started in the business, he was such a class act. Some guys that you love and adore, you meet them face to face and they’re jerks. Which is disappointing but he’s a class act,” Leth says.

UOIT men’s golf team can’t leave the rough Team shoots plus 43 at provincials, fails to qualify for national championships Michael Fletcher The Chronicle

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MAKING PAR: UOIT golfer Riley Prentice lines up a shot on the green during the OUA tournament in Oshawa.

The UOIT Ridgebacks’ men’s golf team fell just short of a national championship berth finishing in eighth place at the OUA provincial championships at the Oshawa Golf and Curling Club.

The University of Waterloo Warriors finished in first place shooting plus-13 over two rounds, the University of

Toronto Varsity Blues finished second shooting plus-32 and the Queen’s University Golden Gaels finished third shooting plus-34.

“We had a good first round and we felt like we could meet our goal of a top five finish,” says Ridgebacks assistant coach Jamie Loverock.

The Ridgebacks started the second round seven strokes out of fifth place. A top five finish in the provincial championships held on October 19th-20th would have secured the Ridgebacks a spot in the national championships. But they finished the tournament three shots out of fifth place at plus-43.

MacKenzie Dasti (Oshawa, Ont.) finished the tournament tied for eighth place shooting seven over par over the two rounds and was the only Ridgeback to finish inside the top ten.

James Krantz (Oshawa, Ont.) was second on the team finishing the tournament in a tie for 17th with a score of nine over par.

Krantz won the Queen’s University Invitational and had three more top 15 finishes to start the season.

Riley Prentice (Oshawa, Ont.) finished in a tie for 39th, Nicklaus Dirk (London, Ont.) finished in a tie for 48th and Ben Kennedy (Uxbridge, Ont.) finished the tournament tied for 55th.

The Ridgebacks’ performance was not good enough to finish within the top five like they had liked but Krantz says the team met its goals.

“We played well as a team this season and we tried to bring that play into this tournament.”

“We might not have made it to the national championships but we should all be proud with how we played this season,” says Krantz.

This tournament not only signals the end of the golf season for the Ridgebacks but it means it is the last time four of the team’s starters will suit up for the Ridgebacks.

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